Gareth Bale - Century of International Appearances


The outstanding Welsh player, who obtained 111 international caps with his National Team, has entered the symbolic but exclusive circle of players with a Century of Caps. He also scored 41 international goals for his National Team and thereby entered the symbolic but exclusive circle of players with Two Score Goals for his national team. All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.


Cap Goals     Date      Venue	        Opponent       Score    Competition

  1	    27- 5-06	Graz    	Trinidad/Tobago	2-1	
  2	     5- 9-06	London  	Brazil  	0-2	
  3  1	 1   7-10-06	Cardiff 	Slovakia	1-5	European Ch. Qual.
  4	 1  11-10-06	Cardiff 	Cyprus  	3-1	European Ch. Qual.
  5	 1  24- 3-07	Dublin  	Ireland 	0-1	European Ch. Qual.
  6  1	 2  28- 3-07	Cardiff 	San Marino	3-0	European Ch. Qual.
  7	 2  22- 8-07	Sofia   	Bulgaria	1-0	
  8	 2   8- 9-07	Cardiff 	Germany 	0-2	European Ch. Qual.
  9	 2  12- 9-07	Trnava  	Slovakia	5-2	European Ch. Qual.
 10	 2  13-10-07	Lefkosia	Cyprus  	1-3	European Ch. Qual.
 11	 2  17-10-07	Serravalle	San Marino	2-1	European Ch. Qual.
 12	 2   6- 9-08	Cardiff 	Azerbaijan	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 13	 2  10- 9-08	Moskva  	Russia  	1-2	World Cup Qualifier
 14	 2  11-10-08	Cardiff 	Liechtenstein	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
 15	 2  15-10-08	Mönchengladbach Germany 	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
 16	 2  19-11-08	Brøndby 	Denmark 	1-0	
 17	 2  11- 2-09	Vila Real	Poland  	0-1	
 18	 2  28- 3-09	Cardiff 	Finland 	0-2	World Cup Qualifier
 19	 2   1- 4-09	Cardiff 	Germany 	0-2	World Cup Qualifier
 20	 2  29- 5-09	Llanelli	Estonia 	1-0 	
 21	 2  10-10-09	Helsinki	Finland 	1-2	World Cup Qualifier
 22	 2  14-10-09	Vaduz   	Liechtenstein	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
 23	 2  14-11-09	Cardiff 	Scotland	3-0	
 24	 2   3- 3-10	Swansea 	Sweden  	0-1	
 25	 2   3- 9-10	Podgorica	Montenegro	0-1	European Ch. Qual.
 26	 2   8-10-10	Cardiff 	Bulgaria	0-1	European Ch. Qual.
 27  1	 3  12-10-10	Basel   	Switzerland	1-4	European Ch. Qual.
 28	 3  10- 8-11	Cardiff 	Australia	1-2	
 29	 3   2- 9-11	Cardiff 	Montenegro	2-1	European Ch. Qual.
 30	 3   6- 9-11	London  	England 	0-1	European Ch. Qual.
 31  1	 4   7-10-11	Swansea 	Switzerland	2-0	European Ch. Qual.
 32  1	 5  11-10-11	Sofia   	Bulgaria	1-0	European Ch. Qual.
 33  1	 6  12-11-11	Cardiff 	Norway  	4-1	
 34	 6  15- 8-12	Cardiff 	Bosnia-Herzeg.	0-2 	
 35	 6   7- 9-12	Cardiff  	Belgium 	0-2	World Cup Qualifier
 36  1	 7  11- 9-12	Novi Sad	Serbia  	1-6	World Cup Qualifier
 37  2	 9  12-10-12	Cardiff 	Scotland	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
 38	 9  16-10-12	Osijek  	Croatia 	0-2	World Cup Qualifier
 39  1	10   6- 2-13	Swansea 	Austria 	2-1	
 40	10  22- 3-13	Glasgow 	Scotland	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
 41  1	11  26- 3-13	Swansea 	Croatia 	1-2	World Cup Qualifier
 42	11  10- 9-13	Cardiff 	Serbia  	0-3	World Cup Qualifier
 43	11  16-11-13	Cardiff 	Finland 	1-1	
 44  1	12   5- 3-14	Cardiff 	Iceland 	3-1	
 45  2	14   9- 9-14	Andorra La V.	Andorra 	2-1	European Ch. Qual.
 46	14  10-10-14	Cardiff 	Bosnia-Herzeg.	0-0	European Ch. Qual.
 47	14  13-10-14	Cardiff 	Cyprus  	2-1	European Ch. Qual.
 48	14  16-11-14	Brussel 	Belgium 	0-0	European Ch. Qual.
 49  2	16  28- 3-15	Haifa   	Israel  	3-0	European Ch. Qual.
 50  1	17  12- 6-15	Cardiff 	Belgium 	1-0	European Ch. Qual.
 51  1	18   3- 9-15	Lefkosia	Cyprus  	1-0	European Ch. Qual.
 52	18   6- 9-15	Cardiff 	Israel  	0-0	European Ch. Qual.
 53	18  10-10-15	Zenica  	Bosnia-Herzeg.	0-2	European Ch. Qual.
 54  1	19  13-10-15	Cardiff 	Andorra 	2-0	European Ch. Qual.
 55	19   5- 6-16	Stockholm	Sweden  	0-3	
 56  1	20  11- 6-16	Bordeaux	Slovakia	2-1	European Champ.
 57  1	21  16- 6-16	Lens    	England 	1-2	European Champ.
 58  1	22  20- 6-16	Toulouse	Russia  	3-0	European Champ.
 59	22  25- 6-16	Paris   	N. Ireland	1-0	European Champ.
 60	22   1- 7-16	Lille   	Belgium 	3-1	European Champ.
 61	22   6- 7-16	Lyon    	Portugal	0-2	European Champ.
 62  2	24   5- 9-16	Cardiff 	Moldova 	4-0	World Cup Qualifier
 63	24   6-10-16	Wien    	Austria 	2-2	World Cup Qualifier
 64  1	25   9-10-16	Cardiff 	Georgia 	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 65  1	26  12-11-16	Cardiff 	Serbia  	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 66	26  24- 3-17	Dublin  	Ireland 	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 67	26   2- 9-17	Cardiff 	Austria 	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 68	26   5- 9-17	Chisinau	Moldova 	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
 69  3	29  22- 3-18	Nanning 	China   	6-0	China Cup
 70	29  26- 3-18	Nanning 	Uruguay 	0-1	China Cup
 71  1	30   6- 9-18	Cardiff 	Ireland 	4-1	UEFA Nations League
 72	30   9- 9-18	Aarhus  	Denmark 	0-2	UEFA Nations League
 73  1	31  16-11-18	Cardiff 	Denmark 	1-2	UEFA Nations League
 74	31  20-11-18	Elbasan 	Albania 	0-1	
 75	31  24- 3-19	Cardiff		Slovakia        1-0	European Ch. Qual.
 76	31   8- 6-19	Osijek		Croatia 	1-2	European Ch. Qual.
 77	31  11- 6-19	Budapest	Hungary 	0-1	European Ch. Qual.
 78  1	32   6- 9-19	Cardiff  	Azerbaijan	2-1	European Ch. Qual.
 79	32   9- 9-19	Cardiff  	Belarus  	1-0	
 80	32  10-10-19	Trnava  	Slovakia	1-1	European Ch. Qual.
 81  1	33  13-10-19	Cardiff  	Croatia 	1-1	European Ch. Qual.
 82	33  16-11-19	Baku    	Azerbaijan	2-0	European Ch. Qual.
 83	33  19-11-19	Cardiff  	Hungary 	2-0	European Ch. Qual.
 84	33   3- 9-20	Helsinki	Finland  	1-0	UEFA Nations League
 85	33   6- 9-20	Cardiff		Bulgaria	1-0	UEFA Nations League
 86	33  15-11-20	Cardiff		Ireland         1-0	UEFA Nations League
 87	33  18-11-20	Cardiff		Finland         3-1	UEFA Nations League
 88	33  24- 3-21	Leuven  	Belgium		1-3	World Cup Qualifier
 89	33  27- 3-21	Cardiff		Mexico	 	1-0	
 90	33  30- 3-21	Cardiff		Czech Republic	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 91	33   2- 6-21	Nice     	France          0-3	
 92	33   5- 6-21	Cardiff 	Albania         0-0
 93	33  12- 6-21	Baki     	Switzerland     1-1	European Champ.
 94	33  16- 6-21	Baki     	Turkey          2-0	European Champ.
 95	33  20- 6-21	Roma    	Italy           0-1	European Champ.
 96	33  26- 6-21	Amsterdam	Denmark         0-4	European Champ. 
 97	33   1- 9-21	Helsinki	Finland 	0-0	
 98  3	36   5- 9-21	Kazan   	Belarus 	3-2	World Cup Qualifier
 99	36   8- 9-21	Cardiff  	Estonia 	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
100	36  13-11-21	Cardiff 	Belarus 	5-1	World Cup Qualifier
101  2	38  24- 3-22	Cardiff 	Austria 	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
102	38  29- 3-22	Cardiff 	Czech Republic	1-1	
103  1  39   5- 6-22	Cardiff 	Ukraine 	1-0 [*] World Cup Qualifier
104	39   8- 6-22	Cardiff 	Netherlands	1-2	UEFA Nations League
105	39  11- 6-22	Cardiff 	Belgium 	1-1	UEFA Nations League
106  1	40  14- 6-22	Rotterdam	Netherlands	2-3	UEFA Nations League
107	40  22- 9-22	Brussel 	Belgium 	1-2	UEFA Nations League
108	40  25- 9-22	Cardiff 	Poland  	0-1	UEFA Nations League
109  1	41  21-11-22	Al-Rayyan	United States	1-1	World Cup
110	41  25-11-22	Al-Rayyan	Iran    	0-2	World Cup
111	41  29-11-22	Al-Rayyan	England 	0-3	World Cup

[*] Welsh goal initially given as own goal by Yarmolenko but afterwards credited to Bale

NB: Gareth Bale came on as a 54th minute replacement for David Vaughan to become
    Wales' youngest ever player, aged 16 years 315 days, beating the record held by
    Lewin Nyatanga, who was 17 years 195 days when he played in a 0-0 draw against
    Paraguay on 1- 3-2006.

Total Record

Matches  Won Draw Lost  For Against  Points  Percentage
   111    51   17   43   137- 125     119       53.60


Types of             Matches  Goals

European Ch. Qualifier	33	14
World Cup Qualifier	29	14
Friendlies		22	 3
UEFA Nations League	12	 3
European Championship	10	 3
World Cup         	 3	 1
Other Tournaments  	 2	 3

Total caps / goals:    111	41


About this document

Prepared and maintained by Roberto Mamrud for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Author: Roberto Mamrud (roberto.mamrud@gmail.com)
Last updated: 21 Jan 2023

(C) Copyright Roberto Mamrud and RSSSF 2019/23
You are free to copy this document in whole or part provided that proper acknowledgement is given to the author. All rights reserved.