Cardiff City Football Club (Welsh: Clwb PÃÆ'ªl-droed Caerdydd Service ) is a professional association football club headquartered in Cardiff , Wales, who compete in the Premier League, the top level of the English soccer league system.
Founded in 1899 as Riverside AFC, the club changed its name to Cardiff City in 1908 and joined the English football league system in 1910, competing in the Southern Football League before joining the Football League in 1920. They were the only club from outside England to have won the FA Cup, did so in 1927. They have also reached three other trophy finals in English competitions, FA Cup Final 1925 against Sheffield United, FA Cup Final 2008 against Portsmouth and Football League Cup Final 2012 against Liverpool, suffering defeat at every opportunity, and have won the Welsh Cup on 22 occasions, making them the second most successful team in the history of the competition behind Wrexham. The team's longest-running period in the English football league is between 1921 and 1929 and they have spent seven seasons at the top since this period, most recently in 2013-14, relegated after one season. After grabbing the 2nd position in the Championship table in 2017-18, the club confirmed the promotion for the 2018-19 season.
Since 1908, the club's house colors have been blue and white, leading to the nickname of The Bluebirds, with the exception of the period between 2012 and 2015 when club owner, Vincent Tan, renamed the club and changed the house's color to red. They returned to their traditional blue in January 2015. Cardiff played their home game at the Cardiff City Stadium, having moved from Ninian Park in 2009, and had long-standing rivalries with clubs nearby Swansea City, known as the derby of South Wales, and Bristol City, known as the Severnside derby.
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Histori
Awal tahun (1899-1920)
The club was founded in 1899 as Riverside A.F.C., following a meeting at Bartley Wilson's home in Cardiff, as a way of keeping players from Riverside Cricket Club together and fit during the winter months. Their first season saw them play a friendly against local teams on their Sophia Gardens ground, but in 1900 they joined Cardiff & District League for their first season of competition. In 1905, Cardiff was granted city status by King Edward VII, and as a result the club submitted a request to South Wales and the Monmouthshire Football Association to change their name to Cardiff City, but the request was rejected for not playing at a high enough level. To counter this they set to join the South Wales Amateur League in 1907 and the following year they were given permission to change the club's name to Cardiff City.
With the club growing bodied, they were forced to deny the opportunity to join the newly formed Second Division of the Southern Football League due to lack of facilities on their Sophia Gardens soil. Over the next two years, Cardiff played a friendly against some of England's top professional teams, including Middlesbrough, Bristol City and Crystal Palace, with matches played in various places in Cardiff and nearby cities. The club finally gained ground to build their own stadium, moved to Ninian Park in 1910, and made its first signing of the following year by acquiring Jack Evans from a Welsh team, Cwmparc.
With new ground in place, Cardiff join the Second Division of the South Football Division, and appoint their first manager at Davy McDougall, who is a player-manager. They went on to finish in fourth place in their first year in the league but the board decided to replace McDougall with Fred Stewart, who had previous managerial experience with Stockport County. Stewart began to adopt a more professional approach, signing several players with the Football League experience, including brothers John and George Burton and Billy Hardy, and led the team for promotion in his second season, winning the Second Division title. They remained in the First Division for the next decade, finishing in the top four on two occasions, although the league was suspended due to the outbreak of World War I between 1915 and 1919. <19> 1920s_success_and_later_decline_.281920.E2.80.931945.29 "> 1920 success and then downhill (1920-1945)
In 1920, the club submitted successful applications to join the Football League and placed into Division II for the 1920-21 season. Stewart brought some players with Football League experience, breaking club transfer records on two occasions to bring Jimmy Gill and then Jimmy Blair from The Wednesday. They played their first game in the Football League on 28 August 1920, beating Stockport County 5-2, and finishing the season in second place to win promotion to the First Division, finishing behind Birmingham City on average goals, and also reaching the Cup semi-final. FA. In their third season at the top-tier, the team finished runners-up to Huddersfield Town due to an average difference of 0.024 goals, drawing their last 0-0 match as club record-breaker Len Davies failed to execute a penalty.
The following season was the first time Cardiff City appeared at Wembley Stadium, reaching their first FA Cup final, losing 1-0 to Sheffield United following goals from England international Fred Tunstall. Although the 1926-27 season was Cardiff's worst performance at the top level of English Football as they had won promotion six previous seasons, ending in 14th place, they reached their second FA Cup final within two years. On St George's Day, April 23, 1927, at Wembley Stadium in London, Cardiff became the only non-English team to win the FA Cup by beating Arsenal 1-0 in the final, Hughie Ferguson scoring the only goal of the game. In the 74th minute, he received a ball from Ernie Curtis and rushed a tame shot towards the Arsenal goal. And Lewis, the Arsenal goalkeeper, appears to collect the ball but, under pressure from forward Len Davies, clumsily allowing the ball to roll his grip. In a further effort to take the ball, Lewis only managed to hit the ball with his elbow into his own net. Captain Fred Keenor received an FA Cup trophy at the end of the match from King George V just seven years after Cardiff City went into the Football League.
The side also won the Welsh Cup in 1927 defeating Rhyl 2-0 and will continue to win the FA Charity Shield after defeating the amateur side of Corinthians 2-1 at Stamford Bridge. However, the club soon entered a decline after their trophies success and were relegated from the First Division in the 1928-29 season, although conceded fewer goals than the other side in the division, and suffered a second relegation two years later, falling into the Southern Third Division for the first time since their join the Football League. During their time in the division, Cardiff recorded their biggest win when beating Thames 9-2 but, after finishing the 1932-33 season in 19th position, manager Fred Stewart submitted his resignation from his post after 22 years in charge of the team. Club founder Bartley Wilson stepped in for Stewart; But the results continued to disappoint, and in March 1934, Ben Watts-Jones was given the opportunity to manage the club he supported as a youngster. However, he was unable to change the team's fate around at the end of the season, which meant Cardiff City were forced to file re-election after finishing the bottom of the division. Watts-Jones remained in charge for three years until he was replaced by Bill Jennings but Cardiff remained in the South Third Division until the Football League was suspended after the outbreak of World War II.
Post-war and European competition (1945-1990)
In their first season since the return of the Football League, Cardiff completed the 1946-47 season as the South Division champions under new manager Billy McCandless and returned to Division II. McCandless left the club shortly after and was replaced by Cyril Spiers who led the team for promotion in the 1951-52 season, returning to the top level of English football for the first time in 23 years. However, despite spending five seasons in the First Division, the team continued to struggle at the bottom of the table and were eventually relegated in 1957. They returned to the First Division for two seasons between 1960 and 1962 before returning to suffer relegation.
During the 1960s, Cardiff began qualifying for European competition for the first time as a result of winning the Welsh Cup. Their first European competition was in the European Cup Winners Cup during the 1964-65 season against Denmark's Esbjerg fB, winning 1-0 on aggregate over two legs, the only goal scored by Peter King. They went on to reach the quarter-finals before being eliminated by Real Zaragoza. Despite their exploits in Europe, the team is still struggling in a league competition under the leadership of Jimmy Scoular, finishing in 20th place in the Second Division. Two years later the team will go to reach the Winners Cup semifinals, the furthest Welsh side who have advanced in European competition, after victories over Shamrock Rovers, NAC Breda and Torpedo Moscow made a tie with Germany's Hamburg team, whose squad contains a number of German international players. After a 1-1 draw in the first leg, just over 43,000 fans performed at Ninian Park to watch Hamburg's 3-2 win. During the 1970-71 season, Cardiff reached the quarter-finals of the Cup Winners Cup where they faced Spanish club Real Madrid. The first leg of the tie was held at Ninian Park where 47,000 fans watched one of Cardiff's most famous wins when Brian Clark headed to give Cardiff a 1-0 win, although they were later knocked out after losing the 2-0 second leg. The team remained in Division II for 19 from 20 seasons between 1962 and 1982, who were relegated to the Third Division for a season during the 1975-76 season.
After going down to the Third Division, Cardiff continued to be in the bottom two divisions of the Football League between 1985 and 1993 when the club appointed several managers in an effort to stabilize the team's performances. They were relegated to the Fourth Division once in the 1985-86 season and, despite returning to the Third Division on two occasions, in 1996 finished in their lowest league position - 22 of 24 in the Third Division. In 1995, Cardiff and other Welsh clubs competing in the English league were banned from the Welsh Cup by the Wales Football Association after pressure from UEFA, who did not want the team to play in two national cup competitions. Their last match in the competition was a 2-1 defeat of Wrexham in the final of 1995.
Foreign investment (2000-present)
In August 2000, Lebanese businessman Sam Hammam bought control of the club. Shortly after taking over, the controversial Hammam promised to get the entire Welsh nation to support Cardiff by renaming the club "The Cardiff Celtic" and changing the club's colors to green, red and white. However, after long talks with senior players and fans, he decided that the best policy was not to change the name of the club; But the club's emblem was redesigned. This new design combines Cardiff City bluebirds in front of St David's Flag; and displays the club's nickname that is superimposed on the top of the emblem. Hammam invested in the team, funding the transfer of several new players who saw Lennie Lawrence guide Cardiff for promotion through a 2nd Division play-off victory in 2003 against Queens Park Rangers, substitute Andy Campbell coming off the bench to score the only goal in extra time and ensure Cardiff returned to Division One after a 18-year hiatus.
The Blue Birds established themselves in Division One but, having failed to get a new stadium plan agreed by the Cardiff Board due to concerns over financial security in 2006, Hammam agreed to a takeover by a consortium led by new chairman Peter Ridsdale and the main developer of the new stadium , Paul Guy. During the takeover, Hamamm was accused of "total greed and self-interest" by the club council and they expressed the shaking costs of having left the club paralyzed by debt. During the 2007-08 season, Cardiff reached the FA Cup semi-final for the first time in 81 years after beating Middlesbrough 2-0 on March 9, 2008. After coming through a semi-final against Barnsley with a 1-0 win at Wembley Stadium on 6 April with a goal from Joe Ledley, they eventually lost 1-0 to Portsmouth in the final.
In May 2010, Datuk Malaysia Tien Ghee took over as chairman of the club, with Vincent Tan also investing and joining the council. The following year, the club appointed Malky Mackay as manager, who took the team to the League Cup final for the first time in club history during his first season. The following season, Cardiff won the 2012-13 Championship title and with it got promoted to the Premier League for the first time, returning to first level for the first time in 52 years. On 18 August 2013, Cardiff played their first Premier League game away to West Ham United, losing 2-0. Cardiff only won three games in the first half of the season and, on December 27, 2013, Mackay was fired by Vincent Tan after the showdown talks and was replaced by Ole Gunnar SolskjÃÆ'Â|r. Despite the changes, Cardiff were relegated to the Championship after a season following a 3-0 defeat of Newcastle United. SolskjÃÆ'Â|r himself was dismissed on September 18, 2014 after a disappointing start to the next Championship season, and was replaced by Leyton Orient manager Russell Slade.
In October 2016, Neil Warnock was named first team manager at Cardiff. Warnock took over the team with second Cardiff under the table after two wins from 11 games, however, Cardiff finished the 2016-17 season 12 after running a good form. The start of the 2017-18 season saw Cardiff break the club record of winning their first three league matches of the season, the first time in the club's 107-year-old professional history. They went on to win promotion to the Premier League after finishing second in the standings.
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Rivalry
Cardiff City's most significant rivalry is with neighbors near Swansea City, known as the South Wales derby, with both sides playing over 100 times in all competitions. Swansea's first competitive fixture after their establishment in 1912 was against Cardiff in the Southern Football League. In April 2006, relations between Cardiff City supporters and Swansea City supporters were compounded after Swansea won the Football League Trophy final against Carlisle United at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. During their celebrations, Swansea players Lee Trundle and Alan Tate swung Welsh flags with anti-Cardiff criticism written on them. In addition to carrying a flag, Trundle is also seen wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Swansea City player peeing on a Cardiff City shirt. The Football Association of Wales (FAW) said the drawing of the game, which took place at the Cardiff Millennium Stadium on April 2, 2006, was "of a very offensive and insulting nature and such behavior is totally unacceptable". Two players in question were arrested by police on suspicion of committing a foul of four general orders, fined £ 2,000, and handed a one-game suspension.
Furthermore, the club has competition with Bristol City, known as Derby Severnside, and to a lesser extent, Bristol Rovers. There is also less competition with Welsh Newport County neighbors due to the proximity of both Welsh cities. However, they have rarely played against each other since the 1980s because Cardiff are in a higher league. In total they have only played 20 football league games with each other. A survey by the Census Football Fans in 2003 saw Swansea, Bristol City and Newport listed as three of Cardiff's main rivals, with Stoke City likening Newport third.
Competition with other clubs, as well as the frustration of their fans in Cardiff's struggle in the 1980s, saw the emergence of a group of hooligans in a club fanbase known as the Soul Crew. The group became famous for their violent clashes with rival supporters and has seen fights between sets of supporters at football matches and other events.
Stadia
Ninian Garden
Cardiff's first field was at the Sophia Gardens recreation park where they played from their establishment in 1899 to 1910 when, due to the lack of facilities on the ground and the increasing amount of support for the club, Bartley Wilson contacted the Bute Estate, which had a large amount of Cardiff at the time, in an attempt to find a suitable land for building the stadium. They finally agreed on a waste disposal area on Sloper Road. The land is a trash tip and requires extensive work to get a playable surface, but with the help of the Cardiff Corporations and volunteers, the work is done. The ground was originally known as Sloper Park but was named after Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart, which was a major force in helping the clubs get the land built, and become Ninian Park. Land hosted the first game on September 1, 1910 with a friendly against Aston Villa, with a kick-off by Lord Crichton-Stuart.
The stadium was built with one stand before another opening in 1928 that could accommodate 18,000 people to replace the Earth's embankment. It hosted its first international match in March 1911 with a Welsh match against Scotland. Toward the end of his lifetime, the ground was eventually replaced by Cardiff Arms Park due to increasing doubts over aging land security. The club's attendance record in the field was 57,893 achieved during the league match against Arsenal on 22 April 1953. The record survived to this day, and is unlikely to be beaten due to the decline in the scale of the reasons throughout the 1970s and 1980s due to security fears, which saw capacity the ground fell to 22,000. In the last years of its use, clubs were forced to seek special dispensations from authorities to keep the remaining territory open as clubs at Championship level or above were given three years to rebuild their base to eradicate standing territory.
Cardiff City Stadium
In June 2009, the club completed the construction of the latest 26,828 seater stadium at the site of the old Cardiff Athletics Stadium which is now being demolished at a cost of  £ 48m. The project requires the rebuilding of an athletic stadium, known as the Cardiff International Sports Stadium, on the opposite side of Leckwith Road in Cardiff.
On September 20, 2007 it was announced that Cardiff Blues rugby clubs will leave their Cardiff Arms Park home to become Cardiff City tenants at the new Leckwith stadium, a controversial movement among rugby club fans. The land was finally given the name "Cardiff City Stadium" and three of the four tribunes would store names used in Ninian Park, Grange End, Canton Stand and Grandstand, and the fourth tribune would be called Ninian Stand. The naming rights of the land are expected to be sold, with clubs hoping to generate up to $ 9 million in revenues by rights, but they remain unsold. Although the pre-season game against Chasetown was played in a field with limited capacity to test the safety features, the stadium officially opened with a friendly against the Celtic Scottish team on July 22, 2009. The first competitive match played on the pitch saw Cardiff clinch a 4-0 Scunthorpe United on August 8, 2009, the opening day of the 2009-10 season.
In August 2014, the expansion plan was completed, increasing the stadium's capacity to 33,316. However, in March 2015, it was announced that the extension of Stand Ninian will be closed for the 2015-16 season due to bad ticket sales, dropping capacity to 27,978.
Color, kit and symbol
Color
When Riverside A.F.C. formed in 1899, the club used a plaid shirt of brown-brown and yellow. After the club's name change to Cardiff City 1908, they adopted a blue shirt and white or blue shorts and socks, although for the first nine years black socks were used. The kit changes during the club's history have included all blue kits, yellow vertical line introduction during the 1970s and alternating blue lines.
In 2012, Cardiff controversially changed the color of their home kit from traditional blue, white and yellow to red and black, the first time the club has not wore blue as its main color since 1910. Its peak also changed to one where Wales dragons were more prominent than bluebirds traditional. The symbol was changed to "the appeal of the 'international market' and was part of the" manor investment plan "inaugurated by chairman Vincent Tan. The change angered fans, who expressed their opposition in news and social media and directly to management and a number of protest marches and demonstrations were held to voice displeasure over the change. Although Tan had previously stated that the club would only return wearing blue clothing if other owners were found, on January 9, 2015, after three seasons playing in red equipment, the club returned their home kit back to blue with a red kit on offer to "unite" the club.
Historical peak
From 1908, Cardiff played an unadorned t-shirt. This changed in 1959, when they played on a shirt with a simple emblem featuring a bluebird image. The following season their shirts had no character, and remained so until 1965, when they played t-shirts with embroidery "Blue Birds". A new symbol, similar to that previously used and again featuring bluebirds, was introduced in 1969. Variations on this symbol remained until the 1980s, when additional features including additional words and motifs were added. Major changes occur in 2012, when owner Vincent Tan tries to change the club's name to extend the club's appeal beyond Wales. This change gives a big advantage on Welsh Dragon, reducing bluebird to minor features. In March 2015, Cardiff announced a new symbol that will mostly feature Bluebird once again with the oriental dragon replacing the standard Welsh dragons.
Manufacturers and sponsors of kit shirts
Player
First team squad
- Starting June 13, 2018
Note: Flags indicate the national team as determined under the FIFA eligibility rules. Players can have more than one non-FIFA citizenship.
- Indicates players will leave the club on July 1 after the end of their contract.
Academy
Cardiff currently manages youth academies, with a number of youth groups from ages seven to eighteen. New players coming through the youth system include Wales international Joe Ledley, Chris Gunter, Aaron Ramsey, Adam Matthews, Darcy Blake and Declan John and, before the youth system was granted academy status, Robert Earnshaw and James Collins.
Ex former player
Backroom staff
Manager history
Recordings
The record for most appearances in all competitions is currently held by Billy Hardy who featured in 590 games for clubs between 1911 and 1932, including in the Southern Football League. Phil Dwyer has made the most appearances in the Football League era, having played in 575 games. Len Davies is the club's top scorer with 179 goals in all competitions. Seven other players, Peter King, Robert Earnshaw, Brian Clark, Carl Dale, Derek Tapscott, Jimmy Gill and John Toshack have also scored 100 or more goals for the club.
Jack Evans became the first Cardiff City player to win an international cap on 13 April 1912 when he represented Wales in a 3-2 defeat of Ireland. The player who has won the most caps as a Cardiff player is Alf Sherwood who won 39 caps for Wales during his spell with the club. The highest transfer fee the club pays for a player is Ã, Â £ 9.5 million for Gary Medel in 2013 from Spanish club Sevilla. A year later, Medel became the most expensive player sold by the club when he joined Inter Milan for £ 10 million.
Cardiff's biggest 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 win over the Thames on 6 February 1932 and their biggest FA Cup victory was an 8-0 victory over Enfield on 28 November 1931.
Awards
The Cardiff City award includes the following:
Second Division/First Division/Championship (Second level)
- Champion: 2012-13
- Runner-up: 1920-21, 1951-52, 1959-60, 2017-18
Third Division (South)/Third Division/Second Division/League One (As third level)
- Champion: 1946-47 (South)
- Runner-up: 1975-76, 1982-83
- Playoff Winner: 2003
Fourth Division/Third Division/League Two (As a fourth level)
- Champion: 1992-93
- Runner-up: 1987-88, 2000-01
- Third Place: 1998-99
FA Cup
- Winner: Ã, - 1927
- Finalists: Ã, - 1925, 2008
FA Charity Shield
- Winner: Ã, - 1927
Football League Cup
- Finalists: Ã, - 2012
Second Division of South Football Division
- Champion: Ã, - 1912-13
Welsh Cup
- Winner: Ã, - 1912, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1956, 1959, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1988 , 1992, 1993
- Finalists: Ã, - 1929, 1939, 1951, 1960, 1994, 1995
FAW Premier Cup
- Pemenang: Â - 2002
- Finalis: Â - 1998, 2000
Sumber
Referensi
Bibliografi
- Shepherd, Richard (2007). The Cardiff City Miscellany . Sussex: Penerbitan Pitch. ISBNÂ 1-905411-04-9.
- Shepherd, Richard (2002), Definitif: Cardiff City FC , Nottingham: Publikasi SoccerData, ISBN 1-899468-17-X
- Hayes, Dean P. (2003). The South Wales Derbies . Manchester: The Parrs Wood Press. ISBNÂ 1-903158-43-5.
- Hayes, Dean (2006), Siapa Siapa Kota Cardiff , Nottingham: Breedon Books, ISBNÂ 1-85983-462-0
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