1931–32 Cardiff City F.C. season

Cardiff City

1931–32 season
Chairman	Walter Riden
Manager	Fred Stewart
Division Three South	9th
FA Cup	Third round
Welsh Cup	Sixth round
Top goalscorer	League: Jimmy McCambridge (26) All: Jimmy McCambridge (28)
Highest home attendance	13,515 (v Luton Town, 26 December 1931)
Lowest home attendance	3,491 (v QPR, 14 November 1931)
Average home league attendance	7,684
Home colours
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The 1931–32 season was the 31st season of competitive football played by Cardiff City F.C. It was the team's first season in the Third Division South of the Football League since being relegated from the Second Division during the previous season.

Background

Cardiff City played the 1931–32 season in the Third Division South of the Football League. It was the team's first season in the bottom tier of the Football League since they had joined the organisation for the 1920–21 season. The side had suffered relegation from the Second Division during the 1930–31 season after finishing bottom of the league.^[1]

Following a second relegation in three years,^[1] the club released a number of players. The most prominent of these were long-serving trio Fred Keenor, Len Davies and Harry Wake.^[2] Albert Keating was also due to be released following a doctor's report on a knee injury he had sustained,^[3] but was eventually retained for the campaign. Stewart made several new signings for the season, with Peter Ronan, Stan Holt, Owen McNally and Harry O'Neill all arriving ahead of the new campaign.^[4]

Third Division South

Cardiff began the season with a 1–0 defeat to Northampton Town on 29 August 1932 with Stewart handing debuts to four players. One of the debutants, O'Neill scored Cardiff's first goal of the campaign in the following match, a 1–1 draw against Brighton & Hove Albion two days later. Walter Robbins, the previous season's top goalscorer, netted his first goals of the campaign with a hat-trick during a 5–1 victory over Reading to open September; Jimmy McCambridge and Leslie Jones were also on the scoresheet as Cardiff recorded their first win.^[4]

Partial league table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv	Pts
7	Exeter City	42	20	7	15	77	62	1.242	47
8	Brighton & Hove Albion	42	17	12	13	73	58	1.259	46
9	Cardiff City	42	19	8	15	87	73	1.192	46
10	Norwich City	42	17	12	13	76	67	1.134	46
11	Watford	42	19	8	15	81	79	1.025	46

Results by round

Fixtures and results

Third Division South

FA Cup

Welsh Cup

References

Specific

Bibliography

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• Crooks, John (1992). Cardiff City Football Club: Official History of the Bluebirds. Yore Publications. ISBN 0-9513321-8-X.
• Hayes, Dean (2006), The Who's Who of Cardiff City, Breedon Books, ISBN 978-1-85983-462-6
• Lloyd, Grahame (1999), C'mon City! A Hundred Years of the Bluebirds, Seren Books, ISBN 1854112716
• Saunders, Christian (2013), From the Ashes – The Real Story of Cardiff City Football Club, Llygad Gwalch Cyf, ISBN 9781845242138
• Shepherd, Richard (2002). The Definitive: Cardiff City F.C. Nottingham: SoccerData Publications. ISBN 1-899468-17-X.
• Shepherd, Richard (2007). The Cardiff City Miscellany. Pitch Publishing. ISBN 1-9054110-4-9.