Cardiff City F.C.

Welsh association football club

football club
Cardiff City Football Club ( welshman : Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Caerdydd ) is a master association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. It competes in the Championship, the second grade of the English football league system. Founded in 1899 as Riverside A.F.C., the club changed its name to Cardiff City in 1908 and entered the Southern Football League in 1910 before joining the English Football League in 1920. The team have spent 17 seasons in the top tier of English football, the longest time period being between 1921 and 1929. Their most recent season in the top flight was the 2018–19 Premier League season.

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cardiff is the merely team from outside England to have won the FA Cup, doing therefore in 1927. They have besides reached three other cup finals in English competitions, the 1925 FA Cup Final against Sheffield United, the 2008 FA Cup Final against Portsmouth and the 2012 Football League Cup Final against Liverpool, suffering defeat on each juncture. They have won the Welsh Cup on 22 occasions, making them the second-most successful team in the contest ‘s history behind Wrexham. With the exception of a short-circuit menstruation this hundred, the team have played in home color of blue and white since 1908, from which their nickname “ The Bluebirds ” derives. Cardiff ‘s first permanent labor was Ninian Park, opened in 1910 ; it remained in use for 99 years until the clubhouse moved into the Cardiff City Stadium in 2009. Cardiff have long-standing rivalries with nearby clubs Swansea City, with whom they contest the South Wales bowler hat, and Bristol City, with whom they contest the Severnside bowler hat. The baseball club ‘s record appearance holder is Billy Hardy, who made 590 appearances in a 20-year play spell with Cardiff, and their record goalscorer is Len Davies with 179 goals .

history [edit ]

early on years ( 1899–1920 ) [edit ]

Following a meet at the home of lithographic artist Bartley Wilson in Cardiff, [ 2 ] the club was founded in 1899 as Riverside A.F.C. as a way of keeping players from the Riverside Cricket Club together and in supreme headquarters allied powers europe during the winter months. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In their first gear season, they played friendlies against local sides at their Sophia Gardens grind. In 1900 they joined the Cardiff & District League for their first competitive temper. [ 5 ] When King Edward VII granted Cardiff city condition in 1905, the club put in a request to the South Wales and Monmouthshire Football Association to change their name to Cardiff City. [ 3 ] The request was turned down as they were deemed not to be playing at a high enough level. To enhance their standing, the team arranged to join the South Wales League in 1907. The stick to year they were granted permission to change the name of the cabaret to Cardiff City. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Although growing in stature, the club was forced to turn down the opportunity to join the newly formed Second Division of the Southern Football League due to a miss of facilities at their Sophia Gardens background. Over the following two years, Cardiff played friendlies against some of Britain ‘s peak master sides, including Middlesbrough, Bristol City and Crystal Palace. The matches were played at grounds in Cardiff and nearby towns so as to gauge the grade of public interest in the team. [ 8 ] The club finally secured land to build their own stadium, Ninian Park, which was completed in 1910. The club turned master the same year. They made their first signing the play along year with the acquisition of Jack Evans from chap Welsh side Cwmparc. [ 7 ] With the new grate in place, Cardiff joined the Southern Football League Second Division [ 9 ] and appointed their first director, Davy McDougall, who became player-manager. [ 10 ] They went on to finish in fourthly station in their first base year in the league. The control panel decided to replace McDougall with Fred Stewart, who had previous managerial experience with Stockport County. [ 2 ] He set about adopting a more professional approach, signing several players with Football League have, including brothers John and George Burton and Billy Hardy. Stewart led the team to promotion in his second base season by winning the Second Division claim. They remained in the First Division for the following ten, and finished in the top four on two occasions. [ 7 ] [ 11 ]

1920s achiever and late decline ( 1920–1945 ) [edit ]

In 1920, the club submitted a successful application to join the Football League and were placed into the Second Division for the 1920–21 season. [ 7 ] Stewart brought in respective players with Football League feel, breaking the baseball club ‘s transmit record on two occasions to sign Jimmy Gill and late Jimmy Blair from The Wednesday. They played their foremost match in the Football League on 28 August 1920, defeating Stockport County 5–2. [ 12 ] The side finished the season in second place to win promotion to the First Division. [ 9 ] They finished behind Birmingham City on goal average, and reached the semi-final of the FA Cup. [ 13 ] In their third base season in the top-tier, the team finished runner-up to Huddersfield Town because of a goal average remainder of 0.024. [ 9 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Cardiff drew their final examination match 0–0 as club criminal record goalscorer Len Davies missed a penalty. [ 13 ]
[9] annual table position since Cardiff City joined the Football League The postdate season was the inaugural time Cardiff appeared at Wembley Stadium, having reached their first FA Cup final. [ 9 ] The team lost 1–0 to Sheffield United following a goal from England external Fred Tunstall. [ 13 ] The 1926–27 season, when they finished in 14th position, was Cardiff ‘s worst performance in the top grade of English Football since winning promotion six seasons before. however, they reached their second FA Cup concluding in the space of two years. [ 13 ] On St George ‘s Day, 23 April 1927, at Wembley Stadium in London, Cardiff became the only non-English side to win the FA Cup by defeating Arsenal 1–0 in the final ; [ 15 ] Hughie Ferguson scored the only goal of the game in the 74th moment. He received the ball from Ernie Curtis and hurried a domesticate inject toward the goal ; [ 16 ] Dan Lewis, the Arsenal goalkeeper, allowed the shot to slip through his grok and knocked the ball into the net income with his elbow. [ 17 ] Captain Fred Keenor received the FA Cup trophy at the end of the match from King George V alone seven years after Cardiff City had entered the Football League. [ 13 ] When the team returned to Cardiff the following sidereal day, a herd of around 150,000 people lined the streets to welcome them. [ 18 ] The side besides won the Welsh Cup in 1927, defeating Rhyl 2–0. They went on to win the FA Charity Shield after beating amateur side the Corinthians 2–1 at Stamford Bridge. [ 19 ] [ 13 ] [ 20 ] The club entered a period of decline after their cup success. They were relegated from the First Division in the 1928–29 season, despite conceding fewer goals than any other side in the division. [ 21 ] They suffered a irregular relegation two years late, dropping into the Third Division South for the first fourth dimension since they joined the Football League. [ 9 ] During their first season in the division, Cardiff recorded their biggest-ever win when they beat Thames by a scoreline of 9–2. [ 22 ] They finished the 1932–33 season in 19th position, resulting in coach Fred Stewart tendering his resignation from his post after 22 years in load. [ 13 ] Club collapse Bartley Wilson stepped in to replace Stewart. Results continued to be disappoint, and in March 1934, Ben Watts-Jones was given the opportunity to manage the golf club he had supported as a child. He was unable to turn the team ‘s fortunes around ; they finished the season at the bottom of the table, and had to apply for re-election to the league. [ 2 ] Watts-Jones remained in charge for another three years until Bill Jennings replaced him. cardiff remained in the Third Division South until the Football League was suspended following the outbreak of World War II. [ 9 ] [ 13 ]

Post war and european contest ( 1945–2000 ) [edit ]

In their beginning temper since the resumption of the Football League, under newly coach Billy McCandless, Cardiff finished the 1946–47 season as champions of the Third Division South and returned to the Second Division. [ 23 ] McCandless left the cabaret soon after and was replaced by Cyril Spiers who led the side to promotion in the 1951–52 season. [ 9 ] [ 24 ] Cardiff returned to the top tier of English football for the first base time in 23 years and stayed there for five seasons. [ 13 ] They were relegated after in 1957, after struggling in the bottom one-half of the table for three seasons. [ 24 ] They returned to the First Division for two seasons between 1960 and 1962 before they were again relegated. [ 9 ]
During the 1960s, Cardiff participated in european competition for the inaugural time as a leave of winning the Welsh Cup, which granted reservation to the newly created european Cup Winners Cup. [ 25 ] Their first ever match in european competition was in the tournament during the 1964–65 season against danish side Esbjerg fB. The team won 1–0 on sum over two legs, the only goal being scored by Peter King. [ 26 ] They went on to reach the quarter-finals before being knocked out by real Zaragoza. [ 9 ] Despite their exploits in Europe, the team were still struggling in league competition under the stewardship of Jimmy Scoular, finishing in 20th position in the Second Division. [ 27 ] Two years by and by the team reached the semi-final of the Cup Winners Cup after victories over Shamrock Rovers, NAC Breda, and Torpedo Moscow set up a link with german english Hamburg, [ 9 ] whose police squad contained respective german internationals. This remains the furthest any Welsh side has advanced in european competition. [ 28 ] After a 1–1 puff in the first leg, over 43,000 fans turned out at Ninian Park to watch Hamburg win 3–2. [ 27 ] [ 29 ] During the 1970–71 season, Cardiff reached the quarter-finals of the Cup Winners Cup where they faced spanish side Real Madrid. The first leg of the tie was held at Ninian Park where 47,000 fans watched one of the most significant victories in Cardiff ‘s history when Brian Clark headed in to give Cardiff a 1–0 succeed. [ 6 ] [ 30 ] They were by and by eliminated after losing the irregular leg 2–0. [ 27 ] The team remained in the Second Division for 19 of the 20 seasons between 1962 and 1982, having been relegated to the Third Division for the 1975–76 season. [ 9 ] [ 31 ] Cardiff were continuously in the lower two divisions of the Football League between 1985 and 1993. The club appointed several managers in attempts to turn the team ‘s performances around with restrict success. [ 31 ] They were relegated to the Fourth Division once in the 1985–86 season and, despite returning to the Third Division on two occasions, they finished in their lowest-ever league placement in 1996 —22nd of 24 in Division Three. [ 32 ] In 1995, Cardiff and early Welsh clubs competing in English leagues were banned from entering the Welsh Cup by the Football Association of Wales after imperativeness from UEFA, [ 33 ] who did not want teams playing in two home cup competitions. [ 34 ] Their concluding equal in the competition was a 2–1 frustration to Wrexham in the 1995 final. [ 9 ]

Foreign investment ( 2000–present ) [edit ]

In August 2000, Lebanese businessman Sam Hammam purchased manipulate of the club and replaced Steve Borley as president. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] curtly after taking over, he controversially pledged to get the entire Welsh nation to support Cardiff by renaming the club “ The Cardiff Celts ” and changing the club colours to green, crimson and white. [ 37 ] After drawn-out talks with elder players and fans, he decided the best policy was not to change the name of the baseball club. The club cap was redesigned ; the new design incorporated the Cardiff City fairy bluebird in front of the Flag of Saint David and featured the club ‘s dub superimposed at the top of the crest. [ 38 ] Hammam funded the transfers of respective raw players to the club, and new director Lennie Lawrence guided Cardiff to forwarding when they won the second Division play-off in 2003 against Queens Park Rangers. [ 39 ] Substitute Andy Campbell came off the bench to score the only goal in excess clock time and ensure Cardiff ‘s return to Division One after an 18-year absence. [ 35 ] The baseball club experienced increasing fiscal difficulties over the following few years and plans for a new stadium failed to gain blessing from Cardiff Council because of concerns over fiscal security in 2006. [ 35 ] Hammam then agreed to a coup d’etat by a consortium led by new president Peter Ridsdale and the lead developer of the newly stadium, Paul Guy. [ 40 ] During the 2007–08 temper, Cardiff reached the semi-final of the FA Cup for the first fourth dimension in 81 years after beating Middlesbrough 2–0 on 9 March 2008. [ 35 ] After coming through their semi-final against Barnsley with a 1–0 acquire at Wembley Stadium on 6 April with a finish from Joe Ledley, [ 41 ] they finally lost 1–0 to Portsmouth in the concluding. [ 35 ]
In May 2010, Datuk Chan Tien Ghee took over as club president following a coup d’etat bid by a malaysian consortium ; Vincent Tan besides invested and joined the control panel. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] Tan late became the Cardiff ‘s majority stockholder after buying out respective other directors and acquired round 82 % of the club ‘s shares. [ 44 ] In 2011, the club appointed Malky Mackay as coach. [ 45 ] He took the side to the League Cup concluding for the first time in the baseball club ‘s history during his first season. [ 9 ] The follow season, Cardiff won the 2012–13 Championship title and with it gained promotion to the acme tier of English football for the first gear prison term after 52 years. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] On 18 August 2013, Cardiff played their first always aside Premier League match against West Ham United, losing 2–0. [ 48 ] Cardiff won only three games in the beginning half of the season and, on 27 December 2013, Mackay was sacked by Vincent Tan and replaced by Ole Gunnar Solskjær. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] Despite the transfer in management, Cardiff were relegated to the Championship after a single temper following a 3–0 away kill to Newcastle United. [ 51 ] Solskjær himself was sacked on 18 September 2014 after a disappointing start to the following Championship season, and replaced by Leyton Orient director Russell Slade. [ 52 ] In October 2016, Neil Warnock was appointed first team director of Cardiff. [ 53 ] Warnock took over the team with Cardiff second gear from the bottom of the table after two wins from football team games, and guided the side to a 12th-placed eat up after a good prevail of form. [ 54 ] The begin of the 2017–18 season saw Cardiff break a club read by winning their opening three league games of a season, the inaugural time in the club ‘s 107-year professional history. [ 55 ] They proceeded to clinch forwarding to the Premier League after finishing second in the table. [ 56 ] however, they were relegated back to the Championship after a single season. [ 57 ] Warnock resigned as coach in November 2019 following a poor beginning to the season and was replaced by Neil Harris. [ 58 ] [ 59 ] Harris guided Cardiff to a 5th-placed ending before suffering defeat in the Championship playoff semi-final. [ 60 ] After a political campaign of six directly defeats, Harris was sacked on 21 January 2021. [ 61 ] His refilling, Mick McCarthy, was appointed the stick to day. [ 62 ]

hold [edit ]

Cardiff has a big catchment sphere from which to draw its athletic supporter base. With merely two professional teams ( Swansea City and Newport County ) sharing the South Wales region, the nearest being about 40 miles ( 64 kilometres ) away, the club enjoys considerable documentation from both the city of Cardiff and the surrounding South Wales Valleys. [ 63 ] As a Welsh clubhouse play in the English football league arrangement, national identity is believed to be a major factor in fan accompaniment, and some of the club ‘s matches are considered to be Welsh cross-border rivalries with England. [ 63 ] [ 64 ] During the 1980s, as the club struggled in the lower divisions of English football, crowd dropped to an average of 3,000 per match. An increase in the baseball club ‘s fortunes saw a brace improvement in herd numbers. The modal attendance at home matches rose from 3,594 to 12,522 between 1997 and 2002. [ 65 ] Promotion to the second tier in 2003 brought far increases in numbers. The open of the Cardiff City Stadium led to average attendances reaching 20,000 fans, culminating with highs of between 28,000 and 31,000 during two seasons in the Premier League. [ 66 ] [ 67 ] Despite this increase, the baseball club has frequently been regarded as attracting fewer spectators than similarly placed teams. This has been attributed to respective factors such as the baseball club ‘s controversial change to red shirts between 2012 and 2015—some supporters being perceived as fairweather fans, and a lack of standard atmosphere. [ 66 ] [ 68 ]
Welsh national identity besides contributes to the patron acculturation of the club. “ Men of Harlech “, a song largely made celebrated by the 1964 film Zulu, which depicted a conflict involving a Welsh regiment, [ 69 ] and “ I ‘ll Be There ”, a remove on a miner ‘s song that was popular during the 1926 United Kingdom general hit, are both frequently sung before and during matches. [ 70 ] The Ayatollah, an dissemble involving raising both arms up and down above the head in a chuck gesticulate, has become synonymous with the club and its supporters as a celebratory gesture since its adoption in the early 1990s. [ 71 ] [ 72 ] The action has become popular with Cardiff fans outside football to show back for the club with packer Nathan Cleverly, [ 73 ] Olympic swimmer David Davies and rugby actor Gareth Thomas all having performed the action at some points of their careers. [ 71 ] [ 74 ]

competition [edit ]

Known as the South Wales bowler hat, Cardiff City ‘s most significant competition is with nearby neighbours Swansea City, and over 100 games have been played in all competitions between the sides. Swansea ‘s inaugural competitive pit following their initiation in 1912 was against Cardiff in the Southern Football League. [ 4 ] The competition had been relatively friendly until the 1970s and 1980s. Economic issues, such as the UK miners ‘ rap, competition between the two cities and an increase in football vandalism led to numerous crimson clashes between fans at the matches. One bet on in 1993 was dubbed “ The Battle of Ninian Park ” for its particularly severe violence and resulted in away fans being banned from attending any matches between the sides for four years. [ 75 ] [ 76 ] [ 77 ] Cardiff player Jason Perry described the period as “ the colored, dark days of the bowler hat ”. [ 78 ] When the ban was dropped, “ bubble trips ” were introduced for aside fans who could only attend matches via police-escorted convoys to and from the stadium. [ 75 ] [ 76 ] further political divide between the two cities was caused by the Welsh devolution referendum in 1997 when Cardiff was chosen as the site for the newly created Senedd, despite the majority of the city vote against devolution. [ 76 ] Swansea, which largely voted in favor of devolution, received support for a home naiant pool alternatively. [ 76 ] Alan Curtis, who played for both sides, commented, “ I think Cardiff has constantly been perceived [ … ] to receive any fund is going round. It seems to me that everything gets channelled in that direction ”. [ 75 ] Further afield, the club has a competition with Bristol City, known as the Severnside bowler hat, and to a lesser extent, Bristol Rovers. There is besides a lesser competition with Welsh neighbours Newport County ascribable to the proximity of the two Welsh cities ; they have rarely played against each early since the 1980s due to Cardiff being in higher leagues. In sum they have alone ever played 20 Football League games against each other. A survey by Football Fans Census in 2003 see Swansea, Bristol City and Newport listed as Cardiff ‘s main three rivalries, with Stoke City matching Newport in one-third. [ 79 ] In the 1980s, a bully group known as the Soul Crew emerged from within the club ‘s fanbase. [ 80 ] The group became ill-famed for their violent clashes with rival supporters and bash between sets of supporters at football matches and other events. [ 81 ] [ 82 ]

Stadia [edit ]

Ninian Park [edit ]

The front of Ninian Park in 2005 Cardiff ‘s first grind was at Sophia Gardens amateur parking lot, where the team played from their establish in 1899 until 1910. [ 83 ] With increasing confirm for the club, Bartley Wilson contacted Bute Estate, who owned large amounts of Cardiff at the time, in an attack to find land suitable for building a stadium. They finally agreed on an area of godforsaken ground on Sloper Road. The country was a former rubbish point and needed extensive employment to get a playable surface, but with the aid of Cardiff Corporation and volunteers, the oeuvre was completed. [ 8 ] The original intention was to name the reason Sloper Park, [ 84 ] but Ninian Park was chosen rather after Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart, who was a drive force behind the ground ‘s construction. [ 85 ] The background hosted its beginning meet on 1 September 1910 with a friendly against Aston Villa ; [ 6 ] Lord Crichton-Stuart ceremonially kicked off the game. [ 84 ] The stadium was built with one stand. A second, which replaced an earth embankment and could hold 18,000 people, was opened in 1928. It hosted its first international match in March 1911 with a Welsh match against Scotland. [ 84 ] Towards the end of its life, the ground was replaced for international fixtures by Cardiff Arms Park as doubts mounted over the safety of the aging establish. [ 86 ] The club ‘s read attendance in the ground is 57,893 which was achieved during a league couple against Arsenal on 22 April 1953. [ 87 ] The scaling down of grounds throughout the 1970s and 1980s due to safety fears, which saw the grind capacity fall to 22,000, meant that the record stood until the footing ‘s closure. In its final years of use, the baseball club was forced to seek special dispensation from authorities to keep the remaining standing areas of the reason capable beyond the three-year menstruation given to clubs at Championship level or above to remove them. [ 88 ] [ 89 ]

Cardiff City Stadium [edit ]

Cardiff City Stadium flip in 2010 In June 2009, the club completed structure of a 26,828-seat stadium on the site of the now-demolished honest-to-god Cardiff Athletics Stadium at a cost of £48 million. [ 90 ] [ 91 ] The flat coat was named the “ Cardiff City Stadium ”. Three of the four stands retained the names used at Ninian Park—the Grange End, the Canton Stand and the Grandstand—and the one-fourth stall was named the Ninian Stand. [ 90 ] The background ‘s list rights were expected to be sold, the clubhouse hoping to generate up to £9 million income ; they remain unsold. [ 90 ] Although a pre-season friendly against Chasetown was played at the establish with circumscribed capacity to test condom features, [ 92 ] the stadium was officially opened with a friendly against scottish side Celtic on 22 July 2009. [ 93 ] The first competitive match played at the grind was on 8 August 2009, the open day of the 2009–10 season, as Cardiff won 4–0 over Scunthorpe United. [ 94 ] When it opened, the Cardiff Blues rugby union club left their cardiff Arms Park base to partake the newly stadium with Cardiff City. [ 95 ] The motion proved unpopular among fans of the rugby baseball club, which returned to Cardiff Arms Park in 2012. [ 96 ] A few years after the stadium was built, plans to upgrade and expand the stadium were initiated. The expansion plans were completed in August 2014, and the seat capacity was raised to 33,316. In March 2015, it was announced that the Ninian Stand annex was to be shut for the 2015–16 temper due to poor ticket sales, dropping the capacity to 27,978. [ 97 ] It was reopened the come year due to an increase in demand. [ 98 ]

Colours, kit and peak [edit ]

Colours [edit ]

When Riverside A.F.C. was formed in 1899, the club used a brown and amber checkered shirt. [ 3 ] Following the club ‘s name change to Cardiff City in 1908, they adopted a blue shirt and egg white or blue shorts and socks, although for the first base nine years black socks were used. Kit changes over the club ‘s history have included all bluing kits, the introduction of a yellow erect stripe during the 1970s and alternating blue stripes. [ 38 ] In 2012, Cardiff controversially changed their home kit colors from the traditional blue, white and yellow to red and black, [ 99 ] the first prison term the club had not wear aristocratic as its primary color since 1908. The crest was besides changed to one in which the Welsh Dragon was more big than the traditional bluebird. These changes were made to “ appeal in ‘international markets ‘ ” as part of a “ major investment plan ” unveiled by president Vincent Tan. [ 100 ] The rebranding provoked solid opposition from the fans, who organised protest marches and demonstrations to voice their displeasure at the changes. [ 101 ] [ 102 ] Despite Tan previously stating that the club would only return to wearing blue if another owner was found, on 9 January 2015, after three seasons playing in the crimson kit, the club reverted their home kit back to blue with a crimson aside kit in a wish to “ unite ” the golf club. [ 103 ] [ 104 ]

original airstrip used as Riverside A.F.C. before 1908

Cardiff ‘s original colours from 1908 until the 1920s

Cardiff ‘s lighter amobarbital sodium plunder used between 1926 and 1930

Dark blue shirts returned between 1930 and 1992

Crest history [edit ]

From 1908 Cardiff played in unadorned shirts. This changed in 1959, when they played in shirts with a childlike crown featuring an visualize of a bluebird. The following season their shirts were plain and unadorned and remained so until 1965, when they played in shirts with the word “ Bluebirds ” embroidered. [ 38 ] A new crest, like to the one used previously, and again featuring a fairy bluebird, was introduced in 1969. Variations of this cap have been used over the years. In the 1980s, supernumerary features including words and motifs were added. A major change was made in 2012, when owner Vincent Tan attempted to rebrand the golf club to expand its appeal outside Wales. [ 105 ] This transfer gave bombastic bulge to the Welsh Dragon, reducing the fairy bluebird to a child feature of speech. In March 2015, Cardiff announced a modern peak which would once again feature the Bluebird predominantly with a chinese dragon replacing the standard Welsh dragon. [ 106 ]

Players [edit ]

First-team squad [edit ]

As of 8 August 2021[108][109]

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Out on lend [edit ]

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Under-23 and Academy [edit ]

For more details on this topic and stream academy squads, see Cardiff City F.C. Under-23s and Academy Cardiff runs a youth academy catering to groups from ages seven to eighteen years. [ 110 ] Recent players to come through the young person system include Wales internationals : Joe Ledley, Chris Gunter, Aaron Ramsey, Adam Matthews, Darcy Blake, Declan John, Rabbi Matondo and, [ 111 ] anterior to the youth system being granted academy condition, Robert Earnshaw and James Collins. [ 112 ] [ 113 ]

celebrated former players [edit ]

Backroom staff [edit ]

Position

Name

Manager
Steve Morison

Assistant Manager
Tom Ramasut

First Team Coach
Mark Hudson

Goalkeeper Coach
Andy Dibble

Head of Fitness & Conditioning
Carl Serrant

Football Support Executive
Lee Southernwood

Head of Medical Services
Matthew May

Senior Physiotherapist
James Rowland

First Team Physiotherapist
Chris Lewis

Head of First Team Analysis
Jack Radusin

Senior First Team & Recruitment Analyst
Patrick Deboys

Senior Strength & Conditioning
Mike Beere

Club Doctor
Dr. Len Nokes

Chief Scout
Tim Henderson

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Manager history [edit ]

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Records [edit ]

Cardiff set clubhouse records when buying Gary Medel in 2013 and selling him a year by and by The record for the most appearances in all competitions is presently held by Billy Hardy who appeared in 590 matches for the club between 1911 and 1932, including in the Southern Football League. [ 116 ] Phil Dwyer has made the most appearances in the Football League era, having played in 575 matches. Len Davies is the club ‘s top goalscorer with 179 goals in all competitions. Seven early players, Peter King, Robert Earnshaw, Brian Clark, Carl Dale, Derek Tapscott, Jimmy Gill and John Toshack have besides scored 100 or more goals for the cabaret. [ 117 ] Jack Evans became the first base Cardiff City musician to win an international cap on 13 April 1912 when he represented Wales in a 3–2 frustration of Ireland. The player who has won the most caps as a Cardiff actor is Aron Gunnarsson, who won 62 caps for Iceland during his spell with the club. [ 118 ] [ 119 ] The highest transfer tip the baseball club has paid for a player is £15 million for Emiliano Sala from Nantes in January 2019. [ 120 ] Two days after signing, Sala died in a plane crash in the English Channel. [ 121 ] Gary Medel became the most expensive actor sold by the club when he joined Inter Milan for £10 million in August 2014. [ 122 ] Cardiff ‘s largest victory was a 16–0 victory over Knighton Town in the fifth round of the Welsh Cup in 1962. Their biggest league victory was a 9–2 victory over Thames on 6 February 1932 ; their biggest FA Cup victory was an 8–0 victory over Enfield on 28 November 1931. [ 123 ]

Honours [edit ]

Cardiff City ‘s honours include the following : [ 124 ]

league [edit ]

First Division (As first tier)
Second Division / Championship (As second tier)
Third Division South / Third Division (As third tier)
Fourth Division / Third Division (As fourth tier)
Southern Football League Second Division

cup [edit ]

FA Cup
FA Charity Shield

Champions: 1927

Football League Cup
Welsh Cup
FAW Premier Cup

Sources [edit ]

References [edit ]

bibliography [edit ]

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Shepherd, Richard (2002). The Definitive: Cardiff City F.C. Nottingham: SoccerData Publications. ISBN 1-899468-17-X.
Hayes, Dean P. (2003). The South Wales Derbies. Manchester: The Parrs Wood Press. ISBN 1-903158-43-5.
Hayes, Dean (2006). The Who’s Who of Cardiff City. Nottingham: Breedon Books. ISBN 1-85983-462-0.
Grandin, Terry (2010). Cardiff City 100 Years of Professional Football. Vertical Editions. ISBN 978-1-904091-45-5.