Cardiff City
Bottom of the leagueTop
- League position 19th
- Goal difference +1
- Home Record
- Away Record
- Getting Away With It
- Holding Leads
- Comebacks
- Dark Arts Index
- Foul Magnet
- Home & Away Home Above average Away Well below average This season
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Getting Away With It
Well below average
−4.8 pts
avg −0.3 · 21st of 24 · This seasonavg
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Foul Magnet
Well above average
12.8 fouls/game
avg 11.1 · 2nd of 24 · This seasonavg
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Holding Leads
Below average
2.00 pts/game
avg 2.32 · 14th of 24 · This seasonavg
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Dark Arts Index
Below average
1.91 cards/game
avg 2.01 · 17th of 24 · This seasonavg
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Comebacks
Average
0.40 pts/game
avg 0.46 · 10th of 24 · This seasonavg
This season's numbers
- Goals scored 18 =6th highest of 24
- Goals conceded 17 16th lowest of 24
- Clean sheets 0 =22nd highest of 24
- Shots 189 2nd highest of 24
- Shots on target 67 3rd highest of 24
- Share of the shots in their games 53% 8th highest of 24
- Corners won 79 1st highest of 24
- Fouls committed 111 =18th highest of 24
- Fouls suffered 141 2nd highest of 24
- Yellow cards 20 17th highest of 24
- Red cards 1 =3rd highest of 24
- Points dropped from half-time leads 4 =6th highest of 24
Cardiff City and each referee
League games since 2021-22, referees with 3 or more. Records like these are mostly chance: across five seasons, a club's record with a referee in one half of their games tells you nothing about the other half. Which refs are card-happy?
| Referee | P | W-D-L | Pts/g | Cards/g | Ref's usual | Fouls net/g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| O Langford | 13 | 6-3-4 | 1.62 | 1.6 | 1.8 | −2.4 |
| D Webb | 10 | 2-2-6 | 0.80 | 1.7 | 1.6 | +1.8 |
| J Busby | 9 | 3-2-4 | 1.22 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 0.0 |
| J Linington | 9 | 1-1-7 | 0.44 | 2.0 | 2.0 | −0.4 |
| J Smith | 9 | 1-4-4 | 0.78 | 2.0 | 2.0 | −0.1 |
| A Davies | 8 | 2-2-4 | 1.00 | 1.3 | 1.7 | +0.5 |
| D Bond | 8 | 3-1-4 | 1.25 | 2.1 | 2.0 | +0.5 |
| G Ward | 8 | 2-2-4 | 1.00 | 1.6 | 1.9 | +0.8 |
| L Doughty | 8 | 3-2-3 | 1.38 | 2.5 | 2.2 | +0.3 |
| M Donohue | 8 | 2-0-6 | 0.75 | 2.4 | 2.1 | +0.8 |
| J Bell | 7 | 3-2-2 | 1.57 | 2.0 | 1.9 | +2.3 |
| M Salisbury | 7 | 2-0-5 | 0.86 | 1.0 | 1.9 | +1.1 |
| T Bramall | 7 | 0-2-5 | 0.29 | 2.9 | 1.9 | +5.3 |
| A Kitchen | 6 | 3-3-0 | 2.00 | 1.8 | 1.5 | +2.8 |
| J Simpson | 6 | 0-2-4 | 0.33 | 2.2 | 2.0 | +0.2 |
| K Stroud | 6 | 1-1-4 | 0.67 | 2.2 | 2.4 | +0.8 |
| S Allison | 6 | 4-2-0 | 2.33 | 2.2 | 1.9 | −2.3 |
| S Martin | 6 | 1-1-4 | 0.67 | 1.0 | 2.0 | +2.3 |
| A Woolmer | 5 | 2-2-1 | 1.60 | 0.8 | 1.7 | +2.0 |
| D Whitestone | 5 | 2-1-2 | 1.40 | 1.6 | 1.6 | −2.4 |
| R Madley | 5 | 1-1-3 | 0.80 | 1.2 | 2.0 | −0.8 |
| T Nield | 4 | 0-2-2 | 0.50 | 2.0 | 1.8 | +1.0 |
| W Finnie | 4 | 1-1-2 | 1.00 | 1.3 | 1.6 | −1.5 |
| A Backhouse | 3 | 2-1-0 | 2.33 | 2.7 | 2.0 | +4.0 |
| B Speedie | 3 | 2-0-1 | 2.00 | 2.3 | 1.7 | +1.0 |
| D Rock | 3 | 3-0-0 | 3.00 | 1.7 | 2.0 | −1.0 |
| E Bell | 3 | 3-0-0 | 3.00 | 2.7 | 2.1 | −0.3 |
| G Eltringham | 3 | 1-1-1 | 1.33 | 3.0 | 2.0 | −3.0 |
| T Parsons | 3 | 1-1-1 | 1.33 | 2.0 | 2.2 | +0.7 |
| T Reeves | 3 | 1-1-1 | 1.33 | 1.3 | 1.7 | −5.7 |
| T Robinson | 3 | 1-0-2 | 1.00 | 3.3 | 2.2 | +5.3 |
Manager changes
Points per game in the 10 league games before and after. If kept: what clubs on the same run of form averaged when they kept their manager. Does sacking the manager work?
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Omer Riza out · Aaron Ramsey (interim) in 19 Apr 2025 · 23rd at the time
- Before
- 0.90
- After
- 0.67
- If kept
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Erol Bulut out · Omer Riza in 22 Sept 2024 · 24th at the time
- Before
- 0.17
- After
- 1.50
- If kept
- 0.78
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Mark Hudson out · Sabri Lamouchi in 14 Jan 2023 · 21st at the time
- Before
- 1.00
- After
- 1.00
- If kept
- 1.35
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Steve Morison out · Mark Hudson in 18 Sept 2022 · 18th at the time
- Before
- 1.10
- After
- 1.30
- If kept
- 1.29
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Mick McCarthy out · Steve Morison in 23 Oct 2021 · 21st at the time
- Before
- 0.60
- After
- 1.20
- If kept
- 1.09