Cardiff City F.C. in European football

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These are Cardiff City Football Club matches in Europe. Cardiff have only entered one European Competition as of 2021, 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

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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

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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)
  AaB 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

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

Semi-finals

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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

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By competition

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Competition Pld W D L GF GA GD
Cup Winners' Cup 49 16 14 19 67 61 6
Friendlies 44 26 9 9 106 71 35
Algarve Cup 2 2 0 0 3 1 2
VansDirect Trophy 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Total 96 44 24 28 176 133 43

By Country

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Country Pld W D L GF GA GD Win%
  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

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^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

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