Cardiff City FC

Cardiff City Football Club is a Welsh football club, which plays in the English League, as well as Swansea City AFC. The club was founded in 1899, as Riverside FC, changed to the current name in 1908 and enters the season 2014/15 in the Football League Championship.

The club played its home games until 2009 at Ninian Park, but then moved to the Cardiff City Stadium. The club has since the season 2012/13 are traditional blue club color sacrificed for a red equipment to meet the needs of the main sponsor from Malaysia, who are represented by the businessman Vincent Tan. Who had a color change demanded in return for a new investment. The new logo will also be red and an image of a dragon in Asia because these contain symbols of luck. The fans responded seething

The highest result was achieved in the 1923/24 season, when the club finished second behind Huddersfield Town. Cardiff City in the final of the FA Cup 2008.

In 2010 the Maleisiche mega-miljairdair Tan to power. He pumped millions into the club. In 2012, took out the League Cup final Cardiff, but turned out to be Liverpool FCon penalties too strong. On 16 april 2013 forced the Welsh club for the first time promotion to the Premier League off, exactly 53 years after the last promotion to the highest level.

In the three years since the entrance of Tan, he was often criticized. He changed the logo, first a Blue Bird, a red dragon. He then changed the shirt. Also this was blue, but was red. Tan has plans to the club the Cardiff City Dragons to name a few. This called a lot of resistance at the fans. Cardiff City's nickname is namely The Bluebirds.Tan eventually saw from. At the end of 2013, he fired trainer Malky Mackay and deleted Tan a deal with a top player. Everything was a done deal until he deleted the deal.The proposed purchase was born in the year of the sheep. That could never be. The fans turned their backs on the owner even more.

On January 2, 2014, the Norwegian Ole Gunnar Solskjær appointed former national team-player as a successor of Mackay. He knew the club not to prevent degradation.That followed on Saturday may 3, 2014, when Cardiff was beaten 3-0 at Newcastle United FC. On the same day also relegated Fulham FC from the highest English football Division.



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 * 1.1 Palmares
 * 1.2 in Europe
 * 1.3 Recent final positions
 * 1.4 notable former players
 * 2 Women
 * 2.1 In Europe
 * 3 external links
 * FA Cup
 * Winner: 1927
 * Finalist: 1925, 2008


 * Welsh Cup
 * Winner (22 x): 1912, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1956, 1959, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1988, 1992, 1993


 * League Cup
 * Finalist: 2012


 * FA Community Shield
 * Winner: 1927

===in Europe[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Cardiff City plays since 1964 in European competitions. Below are the competitions and in what seasons the club participated:


 * Uefa Cup Winners ' Cup
 * 1964/65, 1965/66, 1967/68, 1968/69, 1969/70, 1970/71, 1971/72, 1973/74, 1974/75, 1976/77, 1977/78, 1988/89, 1992/93, 1993/94

===Recent final positions<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Notable former players<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Women<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===In Europe<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * Craig Bellamy
 * Len Davies
 * Phil Dwyer
 * Robert Earnshaw
 * Winston Faerber
 * Mark Farrington
 * Trevor Ford
 * Jerrel Hasselbaink
 * Richard Langley
 * Glenn Loovens
 * Craig Noone
 * Quincy Owusu-Abeyie
 * Aaron Ramsey
 * Iwan Redan
 * Alf Sherwood
 * Tony Vidmar
 * Kenny Miller
 * James Collins
 * Cameron Jerome