Cardiff City F.C. records

This article details records and statistics of Cardiff City Football Club since they joined the Football League in 1920. Cardiff City are a Welsh professional association football club based in Cardiff. The club was founded in 1899 and joined the Football League in 1920 after spending a decade in the Southern League. During their history Cardiff have played in all four professional divisions of the Football League. They currently play in the second tier of the Football League, the Championship.

The list details honors won by the club and individual records set by the players. Any attendance records listed here were achieved at Ninian Park which was specially built for the club in 1910 and is set to be replaced in May 2009. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/6983963.stm "City ground delayed to May 2009"] BBC Retrieved on 20 March, 2008]

Honours

League

*Division 1 runners-up 1923-24
*Division 2 runners-up 1920-21, 1951-52, 1959-60
*Division 2 Play-Off Winners 2002-03
*Division 3(south) Champions 1946-47
*Division 3 Champions 1992-93
*Division 3 runners-up 1975-76, 1982-83
*Division 4 runners-up 1987-88

Cups

*English F.A. Cup winners 1926-27
*English F.A. Cup runners-up 1924-25 , 2007-08
*English F.A. Cup semi-finalists 1920-21
*F.A. Charity Shield Winners 1926-27
*Welsh Cup Winners 1911-12, 1919-20, 1921-22, 1922-23, 1926-27, 1927-28, 1929-30, 1955-56, 1958-59, 1963-64, 1964-65, 1966-67, 1967-68, 1968-69, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1972-73, 1973-74, 1975-76, 1987-88, 1991-92, 1992-93
*European Cup-Winner's Cup semi-finalists 1967-68
*F.A.W Premier Cup Winners 2001-02
*F.A.W Invitation Cup Runners Up 1997-98

Club records

*Highest league finish: 2nd in Division one (now Premiership) 1923-24.
*Best League Cup run: Semi-final 1965-66 [ [http://www.fchd.info/CARDIFFC.HTM Cardiff City] Football Club History Database Retrieved on 27 December, 2007]

Match records

Firsts

*First Football League match: 0-0 vs Clapton Orient, 30 August, 1920 [ [http://www.cardiffcityfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/ClubHistory/0,,10335~61930,00.html "The roaring twenties"] Cardiffcityfc.co.uk Retrieved on 31 March, 2008]
*First FA Cup match: 0-3 Southend United, Qualifying round 1912-1913
*First League cup match: 4-3 vs Middlesbrough, 1960-1961
*First Welsh Cup match: 1-1 vs Chester City, 1911-1912
*First European match: 0-0 vs Esbjerg fB, 1964-1965

Record results

*Record League victory: 9-2 vs. Thames. Third Division South. February 6, 1932
*Record FA Cup victory: 8-0 vs. Enfield F.C.. FA Cup First Round. November 28, 1931
*Record Welsh Cup victory: 16-0 vs. Knighton Town, Welsh Cup Fifth Round, 1961.
*Record defeat: 2-11 vs Sheffield United January 1, 1926

eason records

*Longest stretch of clean sheets: 8, 7 April, 1976 - 21 August 1976 [ [http://www.bluebird-electric.net/bluebirds.htm] Bluebird electric.net Retrieved on 27 December, 2007]
*Most goals in one season: 90, Division three 2000/01

Attendance records

*Record Ground Attendance: 62,634. Wales vs. England. October 17 1959
*Club Record Attendance: 57,893 vs Arsenal, 22 April, 1953

Player appearance records

"See also List of Cardiff City F.C. players"

*Youngest ever player: Aaron Ramsey 16 years 126 days vs Hull City - 28 April, 2007 [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/cardiff_city/6607983.stm "Jones hails record breaker Ramsey"] BBC Sport Retrieved on 27 December, 2007]

Most appearances

"Substitute appearances in brackets"

Progressive scoring record

Jimmy Gill scored twenty goals in Cardiff's first Football league season. This list charts the top scoring season record for the club on the occasions it has been beat or equaled.

European matches

Cardiff City often qualified for the now defunct European Cup Winners Cup by winning the Welsh Cup until UEFA blocked them from using this route in the early 1990s [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/wales/1591517.stm "UEFA rejects Welsh clubs bid"] BBC Sport Retrieved on 20 March, 2008]

"Cardiff City scores are shown first in every match"

;Key
* 1R = First round
* 2R = Second round
* 3R = Third round
* QF = Quarter final
* SF = Semi final
* F = Final

Total european matches

References

*Cite book
title = The Cardiff City Miscellany
first = Richard
last = Shepherd
publisher = Pitch books
year = 2007
isbn= 1-9054-1104-9
*Cite book
title = The Who's Who of Cardiff City
first = Dean
last = Hayes
publisher = Breedon Books
year = 2006
isbn= 1-8598-3462-0
*cite web |url= http://www.fchd.info/CARDIFFC.HTM|title= Football Club History Database - Cardiff City|accessdate=2008-03-20