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Erol Bulut

League Position
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Established
1899 (125 years old)

Sport
Soccer

Venue

Cardiff City Stadium

(33,280 Capacity)

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Location
Cardiff, Wales

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Competitions
English League Championship
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27 Nov Cardiff - QPR
30 Nov Coventry - Cardiff
07 Dec Cardiff - Watford
11 Dec Cardiff - Preston

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09 Nov Cardiff 1 - 3 Blackburn
06 Nov Luton 1 - 0 Cardiff
02 Nov Cardiff 2 - 1 Norwich
26 Oct West Brom 0 - 0 Cardiff
22 Oct Cardiff 2 - 0 Portsmouth


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Cardiff City Football Club is a professional football club based in Cardiff, Wales that competes in the English football league system. The club played in the Premier League for the first time in the 2013–14 season, at the end of which they were relegated. They play their home games at the Cardiff City Stadium, after moving from Ninian Park in 2009.

The club was founded as Riverside A.F.C. in 1899 and is the only club from outside England to have won the FA Cup, which they won in 1927. The club won the Football League Championship title in the 2012–13 season and were promoted to the top flight for the first time in 51 years. This followed two lost national cup finals, the 2008 FA Cup Final against Portsmouth and the 2012 Football League Cup Final against Liverpool, the latter being settled by a penalty shootout.

In 2012, Cardiff City was rebranded by the club's Malaysian owner, Vincent Tan. This included a controversial change of the club's home colours from blue to red.

Riverside A.F.C. was formed in 1899 as a way of keeping players from the Riverside Cricket Club together and in shape during the winter months. Their first season saw them playing friendlies against local sides at their Sophia Gardens ground, but in 1900 they joined the Cardiff & District League for their first competitive season. In 1905 Cardiff was granted city status by King Edward VII, and as a result the club put in a request to change their name to Cardiff City, but the request was turned down as they were deemed to be not playing at a high enough level. To combat this they arranged to join the South Wales Amateur League in 1907 and the following year they were granted permission to change the name of the club to Cardiff City.

Interest in the club began to rise during this time, but they were forced to turn down the opportunity to join the newly formed Southern League Second Division due to the lack of facilities at their Sophia Gardens ground. Over the next two years Cardiff welcomed many of Britain's top sides to Cardiff, including Middlesbrough, Bristol City and Crystal Palace, with the matches being played at various grounds in Cardiff and nearby towns. The club would eventually move into their new ground, Ninian Park, in 1910. The club made its first signing the following year with the acquisition of Jack Evans from fellow Welsh club Cwmparc FC.

With the new ground in place, Cardiff joined the Southern League Second Division, and Bartley Wilson was quick to hire the club's first manager in Davy McDougall, who became player-manager. Their first match was a 2–1 defeat to Aston Villa, in which new signing Evans scored the only Cardiff goal. They went on to finish in fourth place in their first year in the league. They stayed in the division for the next decade, apart from when the league was suspended due to the outbreak of World War I.


Team Members



Reid

Peltier

Paterson

Bogle

Adomah

Connolly

Richards

Ward

Wilson

Hoilett

Bamba

Bennett

Day

Benkovic

Madine

Glatzel

Ojo

Evans

Vassell

Etheridge

Tomlin

Sanderson

Smithies

Osei-Tutu

Davies

Murphy

Morrison

Bacuna

Phillips

Moore

Crew

Vaulks

Bagan
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