Cardiff City or Cardiff City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. It competes in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. and featured in the Apple TV+ series, Ted Lasso.
With the exception of a short period this century, the team has played in home colours of blue and white since 1908, from which their nickname "The Bluebirds" derives. Cardiff's first permanent ground was Ninian Park, which opened in 1910; it remained in use for 99 years until the club moved into the Cardiff City Stadium in 2009.
Cardiff is the only team from outside England to have won the FA Cup, doing so in 1927. They have also reached three other cup finals in English competitions, the 1925 FA Cup Final against Sheffield United, the 2008 FA Cup Final against Portsmouth and the 2012 Football League Cup Final against Liverpool, suffering defeat on each occasion.
Colin Hughes used to play and a member of Cardiff City. The club was relegated when he was there before transferred to AFC Richmond. During players meeting before the match against Manchester City F.C. he also mentions that his nana (grandmother) stopped talking to him when his club got relegated.