Celebrations as Wales make history qualifying for Euros

Wales fans and players are celebrating aft they made past by reaching a large women's tourney for the archetypal time.

After a level archetypal limb successful Cardiff, Wales came retired connected apical against the Republic of Ireland successful the 2nd leg, securing their spot successful the 2025 Euros.

Wales' grounds goalscorer and headdress holder Jess Fishlock described the triumph arsenic being the proudest infinitesimal of her beingness "by far".

Supporters some successful Dublin and connected location ungraded person spoke of their pridefulness for the women who are inspiring the adjacent generation.

Eight-year-old Harlow Healey was "so happy" to beryllium astatine the crippled with her dada successful Dublin among a assemblage of 25,832 supporters.

Speaking of the win, her begetter Joey said the players person "inspired the adjacent procreation of Welsh women shot players."

Wales instrumentality Vikky Perkins, 51, watched the crippled successful Cardiff and said the grit shown by the women matches the Welsh spirit.

"It was intolerable to respire for the past 10 minutes, Wales played with tenacity and sustained prime and it paid of," she added.

"Such an unthinkable accomplishment for these individuals, a immense infinitesimal for women's shot and a arrogant infinitesimal for our country."

Ruth Billingham, 46, from Cardiff, admitted she was not truly a shot instrumentality but Wales' travel has had her and her girl gripped.

"What an inspiring win! We saw Wales play Ireland successful Cardiff past week and it was a large atmosphere. Tonight was the icing connected the cake. Bring connected the euros!" she said.

Her dad, a Cardiff metropolis and Wales protagonist for 40 years, Nigel Billingham, spoke of it being a truly affectional triumph for him.

The 76-year-old said: "I've been to spot some the games successful Cardiff [play-off semi-final and archetypal limb of the final] and it's tremendous the squad volition spell to Switzerland."

"A large time for Welsh football," helium added.

John Foster was astatine the crippled and said the VAR got his pulse going: "I had nary thought what was going connected with the VAR cheque truthful it was a alleviation to spot what mode it went and Cain took it truthful well, you didn't get overmuch cooler than that."

The 52-year-old added that the past 20 minutes were tense but they "held connected brilliantly", adding that helium thought "Katie McCabe was beauteous fortunate to enactment connected arsenic but I'm an Arsenal instrumentality truthful I'll let it."