Adams described the information that Cardiff’s Principality Stadium will host the ladies’s Champions League ultimate in 2029 as a “game-changer” for the nation.
Cardiff Metropolis Stadium hosted the occasion in 2017 in the identical 12 months the lads’s ultimate was performed at Principality Stadium – often known as Nationwide Stadium of Wales for Uefa occasions attributable to sponsorship guidelines.
“It is completely unbelievable, a game-changer for us,” he mentioned.
“You have seen the expansion within the ladies’s sport. Once I first got here into the job, we have been getting perhaps 1,000 folks at Rodney Parade for girls’s video games.
“We received 15,000 at Cardiff Metropolis Stadium on this final marketing campaign, so you possibly can see the expansion and the way rapidly the sport is transferring.”
Adams says younger females seeing function fashions play on the residence of Cardiff Metropolis and Principality Stadium is “simply inspirational for these gamers”.
Wales’ ladies’s facet certified for a significant event for the primary time beneath Rhian Wilkinson as they reached Euro 2025 in Switzerland.
They’re now aiming to safe a spot at a World Cup for the primary time and proceed their 2027 qualification bid with a double header in opposition to Albania in October.
Additional down the road, the 2035 ladies’s World Cup will probably be held in the UK, with England, Northern Eire, Scotland and Wales all attributable to host matches for the worldwide showpiece.
With Wales bidding to qualify and be aggressive on the event in future, FAW chiefs stay decided to strengthen their participant pool.
Regardless of the large progress made in recent times, Adams feels the governing physique nonetheless has loads of work to do.
“Our objective is to create a pathway, which hasn’t been there for girls’s soccer, the place ladies can really play in a expertise system which prepares them to play in event soccer on a constant foundation,” he mentioned.
“I do not suppose we’re there but, personally. I feel what we have achieved within the final three years is unbelievable, with the ladies’ regional programme.
“However now we have to attempt and ensure the ladies graduate out of that system and play within the prime leagues throughout Europe.
“That is what provides you the very best probability of qualifying constantly for main tournaments.”