Cardiff City F.C.

General

Kit history

Cardiff City
Full name	Cardiff City Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Bluebirds
Founded	1899 (as Riverside A.F.C.)
Ground	Cardiff City Stadium (Capacity: 33,280)
Owner	Vincent Tan
Chairman	Mehmet Dalman
Manager	Omer Riza
Current League	Championship
2023–24	Championship, 12th
Website	Club home page
Current season

Cardiff City Football Club is a Welsh professional football club based in Cardiff that currently competes in the English Championship. The club played in the Championship.

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 the change of the club's home colours and crest.

Players

First-team squad

As of 30 August 2024

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK Ethan Horvath 2 DF Will Fish 3 MF Manolis Siopis 4 DF Dimitrios Goutas 5 DF Jesper Daland 8 MF Joe Ralls (captain) 9 FW Kion Etete 10 MF Aaron Ramsey (vice-captain) 11 MF Callum O'Dowda 12 DF Calum Chambers 14 MF David Turnbull 15 FW Wilfried Kanga (on loan from Hertha Berlin) 16 MF Chris Willock 17 DF Jamilu Collins 18 MF Alex Robertson

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 FW Yakou Méïté 20 FW Anwar El Ghazi 21 GK Jak Alnwick 23 DF Joel Bagan 27 MF Rubin Colwill 32 FW Ollie Tanner 33 DF Ryotaro Tsunoda 35 MF Andy Rinomhota 37 DF Tom Davies 38 DF Perry Ng 39 FW Isaak Davies 41 GK Matthew Turner 45 MF Cian Ashford 47 FW Callum Robinson 49 DF Luey Giles

Out on loan

No. Pos. Nation Player 6 MF Ryan Wintle (on loan to Millwall) 24 MF Eli King (on loan to Stevenage) 25 MF Kieron Evans (on loan to Newport County) 31 DF Malachi Fagan-Walcott (on loan to York City)

No. Pos. Nation Player 34 MF Joel Colwill (on loan to Cheltenham Town) 36 MF Raheem Conte (on loan to Woking) - FW Roko Šimić (on loan to Kortrijk)

Retired numbers

No. Pos. Nation Player 7 MF Peter Whittingham (2007–2017)

Under-23 and Academy

For more details on this topic and current academy squads, see Cardiff City F.C. Under-23s and Academy.

Club alumni

Former players

Main article: Cardiff City F.C. players

Managers

Main article: Cardiff City F.C. managers

Honours

Cardiff City's honours include the following:

Second Division/First Division/Championship (As second tier)

• Champions: 2012–13
• Runners-up: 1920–21, 1951–52, 1959–60, 2017–18

Third Division (South)/Third Division/Second Division/League One (As third tier)

• Champions: 1946–47 (South)
• Runners-up: 1975–76, 1982–83
• Play-off Winners: 2003

Fourth Division/Third Division/League Two (As fourth tier)

• Champions: 1992–93
• Runners-up: 1987–88, 2000–01
• Third Place: 1998–99

FA Cup

• Winners: – 1927
• Finalists: – 1925, 2008

FA Charity Shield

• Winners: – 1927

Football League Cup

• Finalists: – 2012

Southern Football League Second Division

• Champions: – 1912–13

Welsh Cup

• Winners: – 1912, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1956, 1959, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1988, 1992, 1993
• Finalists: – 1929, 1939, 1951, 1960, 1994, 1995

FAW Premier Cup

• Winners: – 2002
• Finalists: – 1998, 2000

External links

• Cardiff City F.C. Official website
• Cardiff City stats at Football Club History Database
• Cardiff City play-off record