Cardiff City F.C. in European football

These are Cardiff City Football Club matches in Europe. Cardiff have only entered one European Competition as of 2010, which is the European Cup Winners' Cup. Their first European match was in 1964 against Esbjerg fB which they drew 0-0 at the Blue Water Arena in Esbjerg. The farthest that Cardiff advanced to was the 1967-68 semi-finals. As of 2008 Cardiff have had multiple games in friendly games held in Portugal as part of a pre-season friendly tour, which are also included in the list along with home game friendlies against foreign clubs.

Earlier tours included ones in 1924 when Cardiff played Sparta Prague (twice), Borussia, SV Hamburg and First Vienna and 1928 saw a tour to Denmark where Aarhus, Aalborg and Odense Comb were the opponents. Games were played in Ireland against an Ulster XI and Derry City in May 1950. In 1961 a tour to Ireland saw games against Shamrock Rovers and Waterford, whilst in 1964 Juventus, AS Roma and Latina were the opponents in Italy. In 1968 Cardiff toured Australia and New Zealand playing 14 matches over 6 weeks. 1969 saw a tour to Mauritius and Zambia playing three times against each country. Later tours have included a pre-season tour to Denmark in August 1979 and one to Scotland in 1980.

Home friendlies have included defeats against Moscow Dynamo in 1945 by 10-1, ADO The Hague in 1970, and wins over Lugano in September 1959, Kickers Offenbach in 1962, FC Schalke 04 in 1971 with the game against SV Werder Bremen in 1969 being a draw. The 1960-61 season saw home friendly wins over Grasshoppers Zurich, which was also the Ninian Park Floodlight Opening game on 5 October, and FC Biel, and a loss to VfL Osnabruck.

Competitive Matches

  Win   Draw   Loss   Upcoming fixture

Season Competition Round Opposition Results
1st Leg 2nd Leg Aggregate
1964-65 Cup Winners' Cup First Round Esbjerg fB 0-0 (A) 1-0 (H) 1-0
Second Round Sporting Clube de Portugal 2-1 (A) 0-0 (H) 2-1
Quarter-Finals Real Zaragoza 2-2 (A) 0-1 (H) 2-3
1965-66 Cup Winners' Cup First Round Standard Liège 1-2 (H) 0-1 (A) 1-3
1967-68 Cup Winners' Cup First Round Shamrock Rovers 1-1 (A) 2-0 (H) 3-1
Second Round NAC Breda 1-1 (A) 4-1 (H) 5-2
Quarter-Finals FC Torpedo Moscow 1-0 (H) 0-1 (A) 1-1^1
Semi-Finals Hamburger SV 1-1 (A) 2-3 (H) 3-4
1968-69 Cup Winners' Cup First Round FC Porto 2-2 (H) 1-2 (A) 3-4
1969-70 Cup Winners' Cup First Round Mjøndalen IF 7-1 (A) 5-1 (H) 12-2
Second Round Göztepe 0-3 (A) 1-0 (H) 1-3
1970-71 Cup Winners' Cup First Round Pezoporikos Larnaca 8-0 (H) 0-0 (A) 8-0
Second Round FC Nantes Atlantique 5-1 (H) 2-1 (A) 7-1
Quarter-Finals Real Madrid 1-0 (H) 0-2 (A) 1-2
1971-72 Cup Winners' Cup First Round Dynamo Berlin 1-1 (A) 1-1 (H) 2-2^2
1973-74 Cup Winners' Cup First Round Sporting Clube de Portugal 0-0 (H) 1-2 (A) 1-2
1974-75 Cup Winners' Cup First Round Ferencvárosi TC 0-2 (A) 1-4 (H) 1-6
1976-77 Cup Winners' Cup Qualifying Round Servette FC 1-0 (H) 1-2 (A) 2-2 ^3
First Round FC Dinamo Tbilisi 1-0 (H) 0-3 (A) 1-3
1977-78 Cup Winners' Cup First Round Austria Memphis 0-0 (H) 0-1 (A) 0-1
1988-89 Cup Winners' Cup First Round Derry City 0-0 (A) 4-0 (H) 4-0
Second Round AGF Aarhus 1-2 (A) 0-4 (H) 1-6
1992-93 Cup Winners' Cup First Round VfB Admira Wacker Mödling 1-1 (H) 0-2 (A) 1-3
1993-94 Cup Winners' Cup First Round Standard Liège 2-5 (A) 1-3 (H) 3-8

Friendlies

  Win   Draw   Loss   Upcoming fixture

Season Competition Round Opposition Results
1st Leg 2nd Leg Aggregate
1923-24 Friendly Sparta Prague 2-3 (Away)
Sparta Prague 3-2 (Away)
First Vienna 2-0 (Away)
Borussia 2-0 (Away)
Hamburger SV 2-2 (Away)
1927-28 Friendly Aarhus 2-0 (Away)
Aalborg 4-0 (Away)
Odense Comb 4-1 (Away)
1937-38 Friendly Racing Club de Lens 3-1 (Away)
1945-46 Friendly Moscow Dynamo 1-10 (Ninian Park)
1949-50 Friendly Ulster X1 3-0 (Away)
Derry City 2-0 (Away)
1950-51 Friendly Festival Of Britain Match Eindhoven 2-2 (Ninian Park)
1958-59 Friendly Esbjerg fB 4-0 (Away)
1959-60 Friendly Lugano 1-0 (Ninian Park)
1960-61 Friendly Ninian Park Floodlight Opening Grasshoppers Zurich 2-2 (Ninian Park)
FC Biel-Bienne 3-0 (Ninian Park)
VfL Osnabruck 1-2 (Ninian Park)
Shamrock Rovers 2-2 (Away)
Waterford 5-1 (Away)
1961-62 Friendly Anglo French Friendship Cup Racing Club Lensois 4-2 (Away)
Kickers Offenbach 2-0 (Ninian Park)
Anglo French Friendship Cup Racing Club Lensois 2-0 (Ninian Park)
1963-64 Friendly Juventus 3-3 (Away)
Roma 1-4 (Away)
Latina 3-4 (Away)
1965-66 Friendly Toulon 3-3 (Away)
1969-70 Friendly SV Werder Bremen 2-2 (Ninian Park)
1970-71 Friendly ADO Den Haag 2-3 (Ninian Park)
1973-74 Friendly FC Schalke 04 5-3 (Ninian Park)
1979-80 Friendly Fredrickshaven 2-0 (Away)
Brovst 4-0 (Away)
Thisted 1-1 (Away)
Norresundby 5-0 (Away)
Gothenburg 3-2 (Ninian Park)
2007-08 Friendly Vitoria de Setubal 1-0 (Estádio do Bonfim)
FC Twente 1-0 (Ninian Park)
2008-09 Vitoria de Setubal 1-1 (Estádio do Bonfim)
Algarve Cup Semi-Final Vitória de Guimarães 2-1 (Estádio D. Afonso Henriques)
Final Celtic 1-0 (N)
VansDirect Trophy Final Ajax 0-0 (N)
2009-10 Friendly Fátima 1-0 (Estádio Municipal de Fátima)
Valencia 0-2 (Cardiff City Stadium)
2010-11 Friendly Portimonense 0-3
Deportivo La Coruña 0-1 (Cardiff City Stadium)
2013-14 Friendly Chievo 1-0 (Cardiff City Stadium)
Athletic Bilbao 2-1 (Cardiff City Stadium)
2014-15 Friendly 1860 München 3-2 (Kirchbichl, Austria)
Teuta Durrës 3-0 (Kirchbichl, Austria)
Amkar Perm 0-3 (Kössen, Austria)
VfL Wolfsburg 3-3 (Cardiff City Stadium)
2015-16 Friendly Ironi Kiryat Shmona 2-0 (Putten, Netherlands)
Sparta Rotterdam 1-0 (Behind Closed Doors, Netherlands)
2016-17 Friendly Rot Weiss Ahlen (Abandoned) (Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia)
FC St. Pauli 2-1 (Osnabrück, Lower Saxony)
VfL Osnabrück 3-0 (Osnabrück, Lower Saxony)
VfL Bochum 1-1 (Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia)

Finals

Year Competition Opposing Team Score Venue
2008 Algarve Cup Celtic 1-0 Estádio Algarve, Algarve
2008 VansDirect Trophy Ajax 0-0 (Shared)

Semi-finals

Year Competition Opposing Team Score Where the Final was Other Semi-finalists
1968 Cup Winners' Cup Hamburger SV 3–4 on aggregate Two Legged Games AC Milan
Bayern Munich

Overall Record

By competition

CompetitionPldWDLGFGAGD
Cup Winners' Cup 4916141967616
Friendlies 4426991067135
Algarve Cup 2200312
VansDirect Trophy 1010000
Total 9644242817613343

By Country

CountryPldWDLGFGAGDWin%
 Austria 4 0 2 2 1 4 −3 000.00
 Belgium 4 0 0 4 4 11 −7 000.00
 Cyprus 2 1 1 0 8 0 +8 050.00
 Denmark 4 1 1 2 2 6 −4 025.00
 East Germany 2 0 2 0 2 2 +0 000.00
 France 2 2 0 0 7 1 +6 100.00
 Germany 2 0 1 1 3 4 −1 000.00
 Hungary 2 0 0 2 1 6 −5 000.00
 Ireland 4 2 2 0 7 1 +6 050.00
 Italy 1 1 0 0 1 0 +1 100.00
 Netherlands 4 2 2 0 6 2 +4 050.00
 Norway 2 2 0 0 12 2 +10 100.00
 Portugal 11 4 4 3 11 12 −1 036.36
 Scotland 1 1 0 0 1 0 +1 100.00
 Soviet Union 5 3 0 2 3 4 −1 060.00
 Spain 6 1 1 4 3 8 −5 016.67
  Switzerland 2 1 0 1 2 2 +0 050.00
 Turkey 2 1 0 1 1 3 −2 050.00

Notes and references

^1 Cardiff won 1-0 in the play-off round against FC Torpedo Moscow.
^2 Cardiff lost on in a Penalty Shootout against Dynamo Berlin.
^3 Cardiff beat Servette FC on away goals.

References

  • Crooks, John (1986). Cardiff City Chronology 1920-86. John Crooks. ISBN 0-9511984-0-8.
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