List of Cardiff City F.C. records and statistics
# Name Fee Paid by Date
1 Gary Medel £10m Inter Milan 9 August 2014
2 Steven Caulker £8.5m Queens Park Rangers 22 July 2014
3 Jordon Mutch £6m Queens Park Rangers 5 August 2014
4 Michael Chopra £5m Sunderland 13 July 2007
5 Roger Johnson £5m Birmingham City 25 June 2009
6 Aaron Ramsey £4.8m Arsenal 13 June 2008
7 Robert Earnshaw £4m West Bromwich Albion 30 August 2004
8 Cameron Jerome £4m Birmingham City 31 May 2006
9 Andreas Cornelius £3m Copenhagen 31 January 2014
10 Glenn Loovens £2.5m Celtic 16 August 2008
Transfers -- Record transfer fees received
Cardiff City 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 11 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. 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. The list encompasses the major honours won by Cardiff City, records set by the club, its managers and players, and details of its performance in European competition. The player records section itemises the club's leading goalscorers and those who have made most appearances in first-team competitions.