page_title: List of Cardiff City F.C. records and statistics
section_title: Player appearance records
hierarchical_section_title: List of Cardiff City F.C. records and statistics / Player appearance records
caption_attribution_description: Aaron Ramsey lines up for Wales U21s
context_page_description: Cardiff City Football Club is a Welsh professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. The club was founded in 1899 and initially played in local amateur leagues before joining the English football league system. After spending a decade in the Southern Football League, Cardiff joined the Football League in 1920. Since then, the club has played in all four professional divisions of the Football League, spending 17 seasons in the top tier since its formation. Cardiff have also reached the final of the FA Cup on three occasions, winning the trophy in the 1927 final, and the League Cup once. The team currently play in the second tier of the English league system, the EFL Championship.
  Billy Hardy is the club's record appearance holder having played in 590 first team matches between 1911 and 1931. Phil Dwyer made the most appearances for the club in the Football League with 471. The club's goalscoring record is held by Len Davies who scored 179 times between 1919 and 1931. Davies is one of only eight players to have scored 100 or more goals in the club's history.
context_section_description: Youngest player: Aaron Ramsey – 16 years 126 days vs. Hull City – 28 April 2007
  Oldest player: George Latham – 41 years 1 day vs. Blackburn Rovers – 2 January 1922
caption: Aaron Ramsey is the youngest player in the club's history.
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