Experience Glamorgan

Cardiff City Football Club

January 19th, 2007

Sloper Road
Cardiff
CF1 8SX
Main Telephone No: 02920-221001
Ticket Office: 0845 345 1400
http://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/

Cardiff City Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Caerdydd) are a football Team based in Cardiff, currently playing in the Football League Championship. They play their home games at Ninian Park.

Cardiff are the only non-English side to have won any of the three major English competitions. They won the FA Cup in 1927, during a decade when they were one of the strongest sides in the English league. They have also been regular winners of the Welsh Cup, and as the winner of the Cup in 1966-67 gained entry to the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup, reaching the semi-finals in 1967-68.

Significant former managers of Cardiff City include Lennie Lawrence, Bobby Gould , Eddie May, Billy Ayre and Alan Cork. Significant former players include Dean Saunders, John Charles, John Toshack and Robert Earnshaw.

Cardiff City are currently hoping to build a state of the art 30,000 seater stadium on the site of the nearby Leckwith Athletics Stadium. The project also includes a retail park and requires the rebuilding of the existing athletics stadium at another location.

The plan requires the demolition of the existing Leckwith athletics stadium, which the council are insisting the replacement of is built before the start of construction on the new football stadium. This will avoid the city being without a major athletics facility for up to 11 months between the demolition of Leckwith and the building of a new athletics facility nearby.

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