Cardiff City F.C.
Cardiff City F.C
Full name
Cardiff City Football Club
Nickname(s)
The Bluebirds
Founded
1899 (as Riverside A.F.C.)
Ground
Cardiff City Stadium
Cardiff
(Capacity: 27,000)
Chairman
Peter Ridsdale
Manager
Dave Jones
League
The Championship
2008–09
The Championship, 7th
All-time top scorer
Len Davies (148)
Home colours
Away colours
Third colours
Current season
Cardiff City Football Club (Welsh: Clwb
Pêl-droed Dinas Caerdydd) is a football team
based in Cardiff, Wales. Cardiff are currently
playing in the Football League Champion-
ship. They play their home games at Ninian
Park.
Cardiff City were founded in 1899 and are
the only non-English side to have won any of
the three major English competitions. They
won the FA Cup in 1927, during a decade
when they were one of the strongest sides in
the English league, finishing runners-up in
1923–24 and also losing 1–0 to Sheffield Un-
ited in the FA Cup Final of 1925. They have
also been regular winners of the Welsh Cup,
and as the winner of the Cup in 1966–67
gained entry to the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup,
reaching the semifinals in 1967–68.[1] They
played in old Football League First Division
periods of 1921–29, 1952–57 and 1960–62.
Their history in recent years has been less
successful but they have made some improve-
ment in the last few seasons. In 1986, they
were relegated to the Fourth Division, and
over the next 14 years slipped into the
league’s basement division three times. In
1996 they were the league’s third lowest
placed team. However, a Football League Se-
cond Division playoff triumph in 2003 lifted
them into the Football League First Division;
as of the 2008–09 season they failed to make
the play-offs for the Premier League on goals
scored to Preston on the final day of the
season.
History
Foundation
Cardiff City was formed in 1899 by Bartley
Wilson as a way of keeping players from the
Riverside Cricket Club together and in shape
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