Cardiff City Football Club are a Welsh professional football club based in Cardiff, Wales. Nickname is The Bluebirds had establish on 1899 as Riverside A.F.C. The club competes in the English football pyramid and is currently playing in the Football League Championship. Cardiff City is the best supported football club in Wales. The Stadium is Cardiff city stadium capacity 26,828 seats.
Cardiff City Football Club unveiled the 2011-2012 home football shirt as supplied by Puma. The football shirt this year adorns the Malaysia slogan, which will be carried on the front of shirt, along with smaller versions on the back of the shirt and the shorts. They are also pleased to include the popular yellow and white stripes at the top of the shirt, while also presenting a classic looking football shirt.
The ties with Malaysia are by now well known to all, with the esteemed investors and board members now a major driving force in the progress of the club. The bond continues to strengthen between Cardiff City and MALAYSIA, be that with their links to the 1Malaysia campaign aiming for unity within diverse cultures in the country, along with ever improving football connections via the start of the 1Malaysia Cardiff City Grassroots Academy in Kuala Lumpur.
The first football shirt club used a chocolate brown and gold checkered shirt. Since the club became known as Cardiff City Football Club in 1908 their Home Color have consisted of a blue shirt and white or blue shorts and socks. However for the first nine years black socks were used. In 1919 Cardiff reverted to blue socks with a white hoop. In 1926 Cardiff used a turquoise blue with a white collar, until 1930 when the darker blue was re-introduced. In 1936 the club adopted white sleeves proven popular by Arsenal. For the next 20 years the club rarely changed their football shirt, just swapping between white and blue sleeves.
Cardiff City chief executive Gethin Jenkins spoke of the unique bond, saying, “The club had some very attractive shirt sponsorship options to link up with a number of commercial partners and brands in the UK and abroad, but after speaking with our investors and knowing the commitment from Vincent Tan and TG, we knew that the best way to highlight our affinity with Malaysia was to wear the message with pride on our kits this season.