Cardiff City FC  is a Welsh football league club, founded ded in 1899, and is the only non-English side to have won any of the three major English competitions. The club was formed  as a way of keeping players from the Riverside Cricket Club together and in shape during the winter months. Named Riverside AFC, they first played  friendlies against other local sides at their Sophia Gardens ground before joining the Cardiff & District League in 1900. In 1905 Cardiff was granted city status by King Edward VII, and as a result the club put in a request to change their name to Cardiff City, but the request was turned down as they were deemed to be not playing at a high enough level. To combat this they arranged to join the South Wales Amateur League in 1907 changing their name to Cardiff City within a year.  In 1910 City moved into their new ground, Ninian Park and joiined the Southern League Second Division where they spentthe next decade. After the First World War Cardiff spent one final season in the Southern League, finishing fourth, before being invited to join the Football League Second Division as the strongest team in Wales. They were promoted to the top flight of English Football at their first attempt and won  won the FA Cup in 1927. During the 1920s they were one of the strongest sides in the English league, finishing runners-up in the top tier duing the 1923/4 season.  Decline was to followed and in  the 1928–29 season Cardiff City were relegated from the First Division. After two seasons in the Second Division  they were once again relegated in 1931 into Division 3 South.  Cardiff City were crowned as champions of Division 3 South and returned to Second Division in 1946–47 season. They finished as runner-up and returned to top level after 23 years in 1951–52 season where they stayed at the top level for five years.

Apart from a brief spell in the top tier at the beginning of the 1960s, Cardiff spent the next four decades in the lower Divisions. In 1975 City dropped into Division Three for a single season and during the Eighties and Nineties by bounced  between Division Two and Four with alarming regulatity culimating in  In 1996 when they were the league's third lowest placed team. The new milleium proved a more fruitfull period with prolonged periods in the second teir of English football . A Football League Second Division playoff triumph in 2003 lifted them into the Football League First Division. In 2008, they once again reached the final of the FA Cup losing 1-0 to Premiership side Portsmouth.  Further disappointment followed at the end of the 2009/10 season when they narrowly missed out on promotion to the Premiership after losing to Blackpool in the play-off. In 2012, Cardiff City was rebranded by the club's Malaysian owner, Vincent Tan. This included Changing the club's home colours (from blue to red) and crest.  Cardiff went on to win the championship title and promotion at the end of the 2012-13 season reaching the top flight of English football for the first time in fifty years. Unfortunately they lasted only one season in the Premiership and, having failed to secure promotion, the club refered to its blue skip in 2014.  They returned to the Premiership under Neil Warnock at the end of the 2017-18 season again for one season. Cardiff City have 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 after a famous run in 1967-68.