Wales were unable to defend their title in the 1920–21 season.

Although, despite
losing 2–1 to Scotland in the opening game, a goalless draw with England and a 2–1
victory over Ireland did secure the side the runners-up spot.[47] With club sides
in Wales attracting record crowds, the national team often found itself losing out
to the domestic game in terms of spectators. The victory over Ireland came on the
same day Cardiff City hosted South Shields in the Football League Second Division;
only 11,000 attended the national side's match in Swansea while more than 30,000
attended Cardiff's fixture.[51] Disappointing results between 1922 and 1923
prompted a revamp of the team for the 1923–24 British Home Championship. One of the
debutants in the team was Swansea Town's Willie Davies who scored in a 2–0 victory
over Scotland in the opening game. Davies added a further goal again in Wales'
second match, a 2–1 victory over England with Ted Vizard scoring the winning goal.
A final win over Ireland, via a Moses Russell penalty, secured the title for Wales
having beaten all three sides in the same tournament for the first time.[52] The
success was partly attributed to the team's star players being released to play,
but the change was short-lived. Six players withdrew from the squad for the opening
match of the 1924–25 tournament, a 3–1 defeat to Scotland. Wales' success did
prompt England to agree to a Saturday fixture in Wales for the first time; Fred
Keenor scored for Wales but the side fell to a 2–1 defeat.[53] Only a goalless draw
with Ireland stopped Wales finishing last, a year after winning the tournament.[47]

Squad withdrawals continued to be a problem for the Welsh side. When Wales were
left short for the visit of Scotland in the 1925–26 Championship, Ted Robbins
called up debutant Jack Lewis after following him to a train station in Newport
where he was due to travel to Birmingham to play for Cardiff City.[54] Defeats to
Scotland and Ireland followed and Robbins was again forced to make a late addition
for the final match against England: John Pullen had been travelling to London with
Moses Russell and was persuaded to join up to win his first cap, alongside Charlie
Jones.[54] Wales went on to win the match 3–1.[47] Wales recorded a third
championship win of the decade during the 1927–28 tournament, despite starting the
competition poorly: they conceded two goals in the first half against Scotland
before Ernie Curtis and an own goal by Jimmy Gibson salvaged a point. Wales
defeated England 2–1 before travelling to Belfast to play Ireland in the final
match. The game was tied at 1–1 until Wilf Lewis secured the win for Wales by
charging both the ball and opposition goalkeeper into the net. When Ireland
defeated Scotland two weeks later, Wales were officially confirmed as winners.[55]

In 1929, the FAW received an invitation to tour Canada and selected a 20-man squad
for the trip.[55] Wales played 15 matches against regional teams in a little over a
month on the tour, winning them all.[56] Len Davies proved prolific during the
tour, scoring seven of his side's goals in an 8–0 victory over Lower Mainland.[55]
Wales returned to one of the worst British Home Championship campaigns in their
history. After suffering a 4–2 defeat to Scotland in the opening match, Wales
endured a 6–0 defeat to England in their second fixture.[57] The tournament ended
with a severely depleted Wales side succumbing to a 7–0 defeat to Ireland in which
Joe Bambrick scored six of his side's goals,[58] the most any player has scored in
a single match against Wales.[57] The national side's poor results at the end of
the 1920s were partly blamed on the deterioration of Welsh club sides. By the end
of the decade, Cardiff City had been relegated to the Second Division, Aberdare
Athletic had dropped out of the Football League and both Newport County and Merthyr
Town had survived re-elections to avoid the same fate.[57]