Cardiff City F.C.
Cardiff City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. Founded in 1899 as Riverside A. F. C., the club changed its name to Cardiff City in 1908. The team have spent 17 seasons in the top tier of English football, the longest period being between 1921 and 1929. Cardiff is the only team from outside England to have won the FA Cup, doing so in 1927. They have also reached three other cup finals in English competitions, the 1925 FA Cup Final against Sheffield United, the 2008 FA Cupfinal against Portsmouth and the 2012 Football League Cup Final. The club’s record appearance holder is Billy Hardy, who made 590 appearances in a 20-year playing spell with Cardiff. Their record goalscorer
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Cardiff City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. Founded in 1899 as Riverside A. F. C., the club changed its name to Cardiff City in 1908. The team have spent 17 seasons in the top tier of English football, the longest period being between 1921 and 1929. Cardiff is the only team from outside England to have won the FA Cup, doing so in 1927. They have also reached three other cup finals in English competitions, the 1925 FA Cup Final against Sheffield United, the 2008 FA Cupfinal against Portsmouth and the 2012 Football League Cup Final. The club’s record appearance holder is Billy Hardy, who made 590 appearances in a 20-year playing spell with Cardiff, and their record goalscorer is Len Davies with 179 goals. Cardiff have long-standing rivalries with nearby clubs Swansea City, with whom they contest the South Wales derby, and Bristol City, for whom they contests the Severnside derby. They finished the second season in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system, as runners-up to Huddersfield Town in the 2014-15 season. The first time Cardiff appeared at Wembley was the first time, when they reached the final of the Welsh Cup, having reached the semi-final of the previous season’s competition. Cardiff’s first permanent ground was Ninian Park, opened in 1910; it remained in use for 99 years until the club moved into the Cardiff City Stadium in 2009. They played their first match on 28 August 1920, defeating Stockport County 5–2 in the Football League First Division.
The following season they finished second place to win promotion to the First Division to play Birmingham City in the Second Division. In their third season, Cardiff finished the third season in their third tier, the First division, as the team finished runner-up in the League Cup. They reached their first Premier League final in the 2013-14 season, losing 1-0 to Manchester City. The next season they won the Championship title, finishing second in the First League to play in the Premier League. They are the only Welsh side to have reached the Champions League semi-finals, having finished third in the first season of the Championship in the 2010-11 season. Cardiff are the second-most successful team in the competition’s history behind Wrexham, having won the competition 22 times in a row. The last time they appeared in the final was the 2008-09 season when they lost 0–0 to Liverpool at Wembley Stadium. They were the first Welsh club to reach the final, having previously reached it twice in the previous two seasons. The Cardiff City team have been known as the ‘Bluebirds’ or ‘The Bluebirds’ due to their home colours of blue and white since 1908, from which their nickname derives. They play their home games at Ninian Park, which was completed in 1910, and the club turned professional the same year. They entered the Southern Football League in 1910 and entered the English Football League before joining the English League in 1920.
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