Cardiff City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales.
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Cardiff City set about adopting a more professional approach, signing several players with Football League experience, including brothers John and George Burton and Billy Hardy.
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Cardiff City received the ball from Ernie Curtis and hurried a tame shot toward the goal; Dan Lewis, the Arsenal goalkeeper, allowed the shot to slip through his grasp and knocked the ball into the net with his elbow.
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Cardiff City was unable to turn the team's fortunes around; they finished the season at the bottom of the table, and had to apply for re-election to the league.
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Cardiff City remained in the Third Division South until the Football League was suspended following the outbreak of World War II.
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Cardiff City returned to the top tier of English football for the first time in 23 years and stayed there for five seasons.
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Cardiff City were continuously in the lower two divisions of the Football League between 1985 and 1993.
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Shortly after taking over, he controversially pledged to get the entire Welsh nation to support Cardiff City by renaming the club "The Cardiff City Celts" and changing the club colours to green, red and white.
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Cardiff City took the side to the League Cup final for the first time in the club's history during his first season.
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Cardiff City has a large catchment area from which to draw its supporter base.
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The opening of the Cardiff City Stadium led to average attendances reaching 20,000 fans, culminating with highs of between 28,000 and 31,000 during two seasons in the Premier League.
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In 2012, Cardiff City controversially changed their home kit colours from the traditional blue, white and yellow to red and black, the first time the club had not worn blue as its primary colour since 1908.
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In March 2015, Cardiff City announced a new crest which would feature the Bluebird predominantly with a Chinese dragon replacing the standard Welsh dragon.
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The player who has won the most caps as a Cardiff City player is Aron Gunnarsson, who won 62 caps for Iceland during his spell with the club.
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