The FAW, along with the other three home nations ' associations ( The Football Association, Irish Football Association and Scottish Football Association ), had a permanent seat on the International Football Association Board ( IFAB ) and it was thought that many FIFA members were resentful of this and pressing for the four unions to unite into one combined side for the whole of the United Kingdom.

The league was formed in October 1991 by Alun Evans, Secretary General of the Football Association of Wales ( FAW ), as he believed that the Welsh international football team was under threat from FIFA.

At the time, despite the FAW being a FIFA member it had not previously organised a national league.

In 2012 chief executive Jonathan Ford claimed the FAW had an income of £ 14 million, funded from FIFA, UEFA, grants, sponsorship and TV revenue.

IFAB is made up of representatives from each of the United Kingdom's pioneering football associations — England's Football Association ( The FA ), the Scottish Football Association ( SFA ), the Football Association of Wales ( FAW ) and Northern Ireland's Irish Football Association ( IFA )— and Fédération Internationale de Football Association ( FIFA ), the international governing body for football.

It is controlled by the Football Association of Wales ( FAW ), the governing body for football in Wales, and the third-oldest national football association in the world.

The Football Association of Wales () ( FAW ) is the governing body of association football in Wales.

The board was established on 6 December 1882 when representatives from the Scottish Football Association ( SFA ), the Football Association of Wales ( FAW ) and the Irish Football Association ( IFA ) ( now the governing body in Northern Ireland and not to be confused with the Football Association of Ireland ( FAI ) the governing body in the Republic of Ireland ) were invited to attend a meeting in Manchester by the FA ; previously games between teams from different countries had to agree to which country's rules were used before playing.

In China it is known by two ways: one of them as under the badge as Zotye 2008 and 5008 propelled with a 1. 5-litre engine provided by Mitsubishi ( first series body ); as an unauthorized copy of the car, which caused some controversy, and the FAW badged it as the Huali Terios.

The formation of the League of Wales saw the start of a bitter dispute between the Football Association of Wales ( FAW ) and those non-league clubs who wanted to remain part of the English football league.

To remedy this, the FA, SFA, FAW and the IFA met on 6 December 1882 in Manchester, in order to set forth a common set of rules that could be applied to matches between the UK football associations ' national teams.

In China, the FAW Tianjin joint venture between First Automobile Works and Toyota produces a petrol and electrical version of the Move.

In 2011, Vauxhall signed sponsorship deals with the FA, SFA, FAW and IFA, and stated their desire to see the four home nations play each other in a version of the British Home Championship again.

Before a ball was kicked in 1992 / 93, the FAW requested that the club put up a bond as surety that their floodlights would be erected in time for the commencement of the League Cup competition.

In 1897, when the FAW secretary was charged with fraud, Kenrick returned to guide the association through the crisis.

The one bright spot was Caernarfon's 1 – 0 success over in the FAW Premier Cup.

In the early years of organised football in Wales, football was very much the sport of North Wales rather than the rugby union playing south – the FAW was founded in Ruabon, near Wrexham in 1876, and Wrexham remained the site of the FAW's head office until 1986 ; it was not until 1912 that a southern team, Cardiff City, won the Welsh Cup for the first time.

Their last league game at their old ground was a 1 – 0 win over Shrewsbury Town, with the last game of any sort being a 2 – 1 win against Wrexham in the final of the 2005 FAW Premier Cup.

The FAW Premier Cup was broadcast on BBC Wales.

The tooling was then sold to First AutoWorks ( FAW ), China, where the Maestro was available to the Chinese motoring market in both hatchback and van models.

A new addition to the range was the FAW Lubao CA6410 – a Maestro hatch with a Montego front end.

In 2008 the Maestro Van was relaunched as the Yema SQJ6450 by Sichuan Auto Industry Group Company Ltd who had purchased the tooling from FAW.

Following the failure to qualify Yorath's contract as manager of the national side was not renewed by the FAW and John Toshack, then manager of Real Sociedad, was appointed as a part-time manager.

However, Toshack resigned after just one game – a 3 – 1 defeat to Norway – citing problems with the FAW as his reason for leaving, although he was sure to have been shocked at being booed off the pitch at Ninian Park by the Welsh fans still reeling from the dismissal of Yorath.

However, the FAW stressed it was strongly against the proposal.

Thus, the FAW finally decided that for the Euro 2012 qualifying campaign, Wales would play all of their home ties at either the Cardiff City Stadium or the Liberty Stadium, with the exception of the home tie against England, which was played at the Millenium Stadium.

He faced an FAW hearing about the incident and was found guilty resulting in a two-match touchline ban, which he served in the Championship match against Plymouth Argyle and the third round FA Cup tie against Chasetown.

On 1 July 1958 No. 153 Squadron RAF was renumbered No. 25 Squadron and the squadron flew Meteors until their replacement in 1959 by the Gloster Javelin FAW Mk. 7s.

Sheffield United released Speed from his contract after compensation was paid by the FAW.

Since 2009, Daihatsu withdrew from the China market due to bad performance, and sold the tooling and rights of this car to First Auto Works ( FAW ), who has been their partner in China.

To rub salt in the wounds, the FAW then ejected Alex from the 1998-99 Welsh Cup, after the first round draw had been made, because their level 4 status made them ineligible.

The FAW Premier Cup ( formerly the FAW Invitation Cup ) is a defunct Welsh football cup competition, organised annually by the Football Association of Wales from 1997 to 2008.

Since the FAW excluded clubs playing in English leagues ( including six Welsh clubs ) from playing in the Welsh Cup from 1996 onwards, the FAW needed another competition where the best Welsh teams could compete.

The Wales Under-21 coach Brian Flynn took over from Toshack as caretaker manager with a view to a possible permanent appointment but a 1 – 0 home defeat to Bulgaria and 4 – 1 away loss to Switzerland meant that the FAW passed over Flynn.

They qualified for the 1999-2000 FAW Premier Cup but failed to progress from the group stage.

Although it has a long history, originating from an automobile assembly factory established in Shanghai sometime around World War II, SAIC, unlike domestic rivals FAW Group and Dongfeng Motors, has only recently attained a position of prominence in the Chinese vehicle industry.

* Red Flag, or FAW Hongqi, a luxury limousine made by First Automobile Works in China from the late 1950s

He scored his first and only goal for the first team in an FAW Premier Cup quarter-final match away at Carmarthen Town on 13 February 2007, and was released by the club in May 2007, subsequently retiring from the game to pursue business interests.

He played for Wrexham in the English Football League from 2001-3, and helped the club win the FAW Premier Cup in 2003.

* 1982: FAW Anne Elder Poetry Award, joint winner for Readings from Ecclesiastes

The ' Quins ' were formed in 1935, and came to prominence in the early 1990's becoming the first Cardiff club to progress from ' parks ' football into the Welsh League, through the FAW Pyramid system.