Cardiff City are a Welsh football team who play in the EFL Championship. They play their home games at the eponymous Cardiff City Stadium, and their nickname is the Bluebirds.
📜 Cardiff City History
The club was founded in 1899 as Riverside AFC by a cricket club of the same name, who needed a sport to keep their players occupied during the off-season over the winter months. After Cardiff was awarded city status by King Edward VII in 1905, the club made a request to the local football association to change their name to Cardiff City; it would eventually be granted 3 years later once the club joined the South Wales League.
Cardiff City joined the Football League in 1920 and gained promotion to the First Division at the first time of asking.
In 1924, the Bluebirds came agonisingly close to winning what would be the only top flight title in their history. They finished the campaign tied on points (57) and goal difference with Huddersfield Town (+27) and had even scored 1 more goal than the Terriers, but goal average – the number of goals scored divided by the number conceded – was used as the tiebreaker at the time. Huddersfield's goal average was better than Cardiff's by 0.024, and so they won the title. As if that weren't painful enough for the Bluebirds, their final game of the season had finished 0-0 after their all-time leading scorer, Len Davies, had missed a penalty.
A pair of FA Cup finals in 1925 and 1927 helped soften the blow somewhat, with Cardiff winning the latter as the only major honour in their history.
The Bluebirds have won the Welsh Cup on many occasions, and in the 1964-65 season their victory propelled them into European competition for the first time as they reached the semifinal of the European Cup Winners Cup.
Cardiff have endured ups and downs in recent times; Vincent Tan's takeover of the club helped propel the team to a League Cup final in 2012 and then promotion to the Premier League the following year, but it was also a turbulent period in which he controversially changed the club's kit from blue to red and the crest from a bluebird to a Welsh dragon.
