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Cardiff City news, match reports, results and fixtures from the Cover Wales desk. Every number from one named provider.

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Sat 10 Oct, 15:00 · Ewood Park, Blackburn · Championship
Blackburn v Cardiff City
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Results and reports

Cardiff City 5-1 Watford · report, ratings and stats
Cardiff City 3-1 Charlton · report, ratings and stats
Bolton 1-0 Cardiff City · report, ratings and stats
Cardiff City 1-1 Stoke City · report, ratings and stats
Portsmouth 2-0 Cardiff City · report, ratings and stats
QPR 2-1 Cardiff City · report, ratings and stats
Cardiff City 2-2 Sheffield United · report, ratings and stats

Cardiff City stories

Cover Wales full-time result card: Cardiff City 5-1 Watford, with verified crests, scorers and API-Football statistics.

The Brief · Cardiff City 5-1 Watford

Cardiff City, Newport County, Swansea City and Wrexham all play on Saturday, and only the 20:00 in Swansea is live on television

Thu 3 Sept, 04:33

Matchday live · Cardiff City

Cardiff City have had more of the ball than any club in the Championship over the first three rounds, and are 22nd with three points from five

Thu 3 Sept, 04:20

The front of Cardiff City Stadium. Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Geograph (geograph.org.uk/photo/1974935) and Wikimedia Commons

Matchday live · Cardiff City

Cardiff City lost £96.2m in five years and owed the owner's side £134.3m. Then Cardiff City issued £42.7m of new shares, and the filings do not name the buyer

Wed 2 Sept, 23:00

Cover picture: Tanatswa Nyakuhwa rendered in the Newport County home kit from the clubs' own photographs, pose changed; not a photograph

Matchday live · Newport County

Nyakuhwa is Newport County's twelfth summer signing, and the winger the manager was still looking for

Wed 2 Sept, 03:45

Cardiff City Stadium from Clos Phil Dwyer. Photo: Daiscog, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Matchday live · Transfers

The window has shut: Wrexham signed two and lost five, Cardiff City signed nobody

Tue 1 Sept, 23:59

Cover picture: Vincent Tan beside a stack of coins, sketch by the desk from a Wikimedia Commons photograph (CC BY-SA), not a photograph

Matchday live · Cardiff City

Cardiff paid its players £29.2m. The whole club earned £25.8m

Mon 31 Aug, 17:26

Illustration: Axel Donczew in Cardiff City blue, with the Cardiff City and Arsenal crests and an arrow running between them

Matchday live · Cardiff City

Cardiff's youngest ever player has chosen Arsenal

Mon 31 Aug, 16:53

Illustration: a Cardiff manager deep in the tactics, sketch by the desk

Matchday live · Cardiff City

Three draws, 28 shots, one goal from open play: Cardiff are doing everything except winning

Sun 30 Aug, 05:12

Cover picture: Krystian Bielik in Cardiff City blue with a stopwatch at 90 minutes, sketch by the desk from a Wikimedia Commons photograph (CC BY-SA), not a photograph

Matchday live · Cardiff City

Signed Wednesday, 90 minutes on Saturday: the numbers behind Bielik's Cardiff debut

Sat 29 Aug, 21:38

The numbers

Club file

Filed match data

Manager: B. Barry-Murphy
Ground: Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff
Last shape: 4-2-3-1

Manager and shape read from the team sheet for Cardiff City v Watford.

The accounts

Companies House

Player wages as a share of turnover

113%

Derived. Player wages divided by turnover, both as the accounts state them.

Turnover: £25.8m
Player wages: £29.2m
Loss before tax: £35.1m

Cardiff City Football Club (Holdings) Limited, company 04044254. Year ended 31 May 2025, filed 26 February 2026.Full record

Summer transfers

Club announcements

In (14)

K. Bielik from West Brom25 Aug · permanent
C. Scanlon from Liverpool14 Aug · loan
J. Moylan from Lincoln4 Aug · permanent
N. Trott from FC Copenhagen30 Jun · permanent
D. Mafico from Yeovil Town29 Jun · loan

and 9 more.

Out (16)

Eli King to Gillingham1 Sept · permanent
L. Giles to Kidderminster Harriers1 Sept · loan
Tanatswa Nyakuhwa to Newport County1 Sept · loan
A. Debono to Penybont31 Aug · loan
K. Etete to Newport County31 Aug · loan

and 11 more.

14 in, 16 out, 1 May to 1 September 2026.Full record

Scorers and assists

Licensed data provider

Goals and assists cover 7 matches with player statistics. Matches without these data are excluded.

Goals

Jack Moylan5
Ollie Tanner1
Cian Ashford1
Perry Ng1
Yousef Salech1

Assists

Ollie Tanner2
Cian Ashford2
Jack Moylan1
Perry Ng1
Yousef Salech1

Full record

Goals against expected goals

Licensed data provider

These totals cover 6 matches with expected-goals data. Matches without these data are excluded.

Scored: 11
Expected: 14.67
Conceded: 8
Expected against: 7.36

Match	Score	xG
at Portsmouth	0-2	1.37
Stoke City	1-1	2.92
at Bolton	0-1	1.79
Charlton	3-1	2.60
Watford	5-1	3.75

Showing the last 5.

Full record

Squad minutes and ratings

Licensed data provider

Player	Pos	Apps	Minutes	Mean rating
Nathan Trott	G	7	630	6.53
Perry Ng	D	7	630	7.15
Alex Robertson	M	7	628	7.34
Gabriel Osho	D	7	622	7.12
Joel Bagan	D	7	621	7.23
Jack Moylan	M	7	586	7.20
Ollie Tanner	M	7	576	7.08
Yousef Salech	F	6	520	6.42

Showing the 8 with the most minutes, of 20.

7 enriched matches. A mean rating is arithmetic on the provider's per match figures.Full record

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Results and reports

Cardiff City stories

Moylan scores twice as Cardiff put five past Watford

Willock returns as Cardiff name the team to face Watford

Cardiff City charity reports wider reach and plans youth jobs hub

Cardiff’s Middlesbrough tickets go on sale Thursday, with adults paying £22

Cardiff’s Blackburn tickets go on sale Tuesday: points, prices and PDF rules

Cian Ashford earns first senior Wales call-up as 20 Bluebirds go international

Swansea stay perfect as Wrexham score seven

Moylan double gives Cardiff first league win against Charlton

Wrexham Women beat Cardiff 4-2 after hosts twice draw level

Ollie Tanner's goal drought reflects Cardiff's wider attacking problem

Cardiff’s first six league games: seven goals from 106 shots

Cardiff City, Newport County, Swansea City and Wrexham all play on Saturday, and only the 20:00 in Swansea is live on television

Cardiff City have had more of the ball than any club in the Championship over the first three rounds, and are 22nd with three points from five

Cardiff City lost £96.2m in five years and owed the owner's side £134.3m. Then Cardiff City issued £42.7m of new shares, and the filings do not name the buyer

Nyakuhwa is Newport County's twelfth summer signing, and the winger the manager was still looking for

The window has shut: Wrexham signed two and lost five, Cardiff City signed nobody

Cardiff paid its players £29.2m. The whole club earned £25.8m

Cardiff's youngest ever player has chosen Arsenal

Three draws, 28 shots, one goal from open play: Cardiff are doing everything except winning

Signed Wednesday, 90 minutes on Saturday: the numbers behind Bielik's Cardiff debut

The numbers

Club file

The accounts

Summer transfers

Scorers and assists

Goals against expected goals

Squad minutes and ratings