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Cardiff City are a Welsh football team based in Cardiff which plays in the Championship, the second tier of the English pyramid.
Cardiff City are famous for having produced some of the most well-known names in modern day British football, including Craig Bellamy, Aaron Ramsey and Robert Earnshaw.
The club has made sporadic appearances in the Premier League in recent years the last time being the 2018/19 season.
Cardiff were FA Cup winners in 1927 and went on to win the Charity Shield in 1927 too. They have finished as FA Cup runners-up in 1924/25 and 2007/08.
In 1899, Riverside A.F.C. (as Cardiff City FC were then called), was formed. Initially, the club was founded to keep the players at Riverside Cricket Club fit during winter, which is the season most associated with soccer, while cricket is predominantly a summer sport.
With the new name change, Cardiff City continued to establish themself as a proper Football League team, building their own ground, Ninian Park, in 1910 and joined the Southern Football League Second Division.
After finishing the 1920/21 season in second place, Cardiff City were promoted to the First Division of the Football League. In their third season after winning promotion, Cardiff City finished as runners-up in the First Division to Huddersfield Town due to an inferior goal average.
In 1926/27, Cardiff City had their worst season since gaining promotion to the First Division as far as league football was concerned. They finished a disappointing 14th in the league.
However, that same season in the FA Cup, it was a totally different story, as Cardiff City once again made the final of the tournament. There, they faced Arsenal at Wembley Stadium on April 23, 1927 (St. George's Day) at Wembley Stadium.
Manager Fred Stewart left his role at the conclusion of the 1932/33 season which saw them finish 19th place, ending his 22-year spell at the club.
Then came a rough period for The Bluebirds. After Stewart resigned, the club had multiple managers who all were unable to turn their fortunes around. For the next season, they started with club founder Bartley Wilson before turning to Ben Watts-Jones.
Cardiff stayed in the Third Division South with Jennings as their manager until World War II brought about the suspension of the Football League in 1939.
Cardiff found a new saviour once again in the form of Cyril Spiers. Under Spiers, the Welsh side gained promotion to the top tier of English football in 1951/52 and then spent five seasons there before dropping down once more.
Cardiff City played European football in the 1960s, winning the Welsh Cup to earn automatic entry into the European Cup Winners' Cup.
Their European debut came during the 1964/65 season as they beat Danish side Esbjerg fB 1-0 on aggregate. Peter King scored the only goal of the tie for Cardiff City.
In 2008, Cardiff enjoyed an astonishing FA Cup run which saw them progress all the way to the final, where they were eventually beaten 1-0 by Portsmouth at Wembley.
In 2011/12, under the guidance of Malky Mackay, Cardiff City reached the final of the League Cup for the first time in their history, but were beaten by Kenny Dalglish's Liverpool.
Cardiff won the Championship in 2012/13, gaining promotion to the Premier League for the first time.
However, their time in the Premier League was short lived. With only three wins in the first half of the season, Cardiff sacked Mackay and replaced him with Ole Gunnar Solksjaer.
In 2016, Cardiff appointed Neil Warnock as head coach, taking over the team that sat second-bottom of the table, with only two wins from 11 games. Warnock managed to guide Cardiff to a 12th-placed finish in that 2016/17 season.
Cardiff City have a large and loyal fanbase, who take pride in the club's history.
Cardiff are one of three Welsh sides that play in the professional tiers of the English Football League system as opposed to the Welsh Football League system.
Cardiff City's main rivals are fellow Welsh club Swansea City, who have also played Premier League football recently and currently compete in the Championship.
The match between the two is called the South Wales derby, and there have been over 110 games between the two sides across all competitions, with Cardiff currently ahead in the most victories.
The rivalry was relatively friendly up until the 1970s and 1980s, and in particular when football hooliganism started to become a bigger threat to the game.
Much of the animosity during the 2013/14 season was linked to the issue of red shirts, while Cardiff City's form and Tan's fallout with Malky Mackay did not help matters.
Planet Sport has picked out a quintet of bets for Saturday’s EFL Championship, League One and Two action.
Planet Sport has picked out six bets across the EFL Championship, League One and League Two for this weekend’s acca.
There’s a full fixture list across the EFL Championship, League One and League Two this weekend and Planet Sport are looking to take full advantage.
After enjoying a well-earned rest during the international break, Rhys Tovey, who runs his AGF football service on Tipstrr, returns with his best bets from each of the top four English divisions.
Planet Sport has compiled a weekend acca made up of selections from the EFL Championship, League One and League Two.
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