Cardiff City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. It competes in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1899. The team has spent 17 seasons in the top tier of English football, the longest period being between 1921 and 1929. Their most recent season in the top flight was the 2018–19 Premier League season. Cardiff is the only team from outside England to have won the FA Cup, doing so in 1927. They have won the Welsh Cup on 22 occasions, making them the second-most successful team in the competition's history behind Wrexham. The team has played in home colors of blue and white since 1908, from which their nickname "The Bluebirds" derives. Cardiff plays its home matches at Cardiff City Stadium.