MATCH THREA " CARDIFF CITY v NORTHAMPTON TOWN " MATCH THREAD

CARDIFF CITY v NORTHAMPTON TOWN
Saturday 25th April, 3pm
Sky Bet League One - Match 45
Cardiff City Stadium 


It’s pay on the day for both sets of fans

Crowd 23,000 plus including 800 Northampton Fans

Cardiff City v Northampton 3pm Tomorrow

You can pay on the day

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About Northampton Town

Northampton are in their third successive season in League One, having been promoted from League Two in 2023.

They finished 19th last season.

They are already relegated and bottom of the league with 35 points from 43 games.

Club Connections

Gabor Gyepes is one player who played for both teams.

He made 15 appearances for Northampton before going on to play 64 league games for us.

The Opposition's Manager

Colin Calderwood was appointed interim manager at Northampton in March, having first managed them in 2003.

He has been promoted twice as a manager, once with Northampton and once with Nottingham Forest.

Opposition Dangerous Players

It's obviously been a very tough season for our opponents so not much to write here.

Tom Eaves and Sam Hoskins have contributed 14 league goals between them.

Referee

Edward Duckworth will take charge of this game.

He has refereed 38 games this season, showing 151 yellow cards - an average of 3.97 per game. He has also shown 7 red cards.

He refereed our 4-0 win at Doncaster in the league and our 3-0 win over Cheltenham in the Carabao Cup.

Head To Head - Last Five Meetings

We have won two of the last five meetings, with them winning three.

We won 3-1 in the away game in November.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Cardiff City: Trott, Kpakio, Lawlor, Osho, Scanlon, Robertson, Turnbull, J Colwill, R Colwill, Robinson, Salech

Northampton Town: Burge, Burroughs, Dyche, Guthrie, Guinness-Walker, McGeehan, Campbell, Fornah, Jacobs, Eaves, Hoskins

Last Game

We won 1-0 at home to Port Vale on Wednesday.

Northampton lost 3-1 at home to Doncaster last Saturday.

Match Odds

Cardiff City - 1/9
Northampton Town - 14/1
Draw - 6/1

Predictions

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For anyone wondering, those odds of 1/9 for us to win is not a typing mistake. That's what it says the odds are right now on FlashScore

3 nil win for the Bluebirds!

Last 2 Remaining Fixtures CCFC :

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Friday 24th April 2026 :


Cardiff have Sold over 20,000 Tickets

Northampton have Sold 740 Tickets

For anyone wondering, those odds of 1/9 for us to win is not a typing mistake. That's what it says the odds are right now on FlashScore

thats got to be the shortest price we have ever been for a league game. I certainly don't remember it being shorter

Looking forward to the match on what should be a sunny day of celebration.
Probable attendance of around 22,000.
Good crowd, but possibly would have been a few thousand more if we needed points from this match to gain the promotion.
I think we will score a few goals to win the match and end our home matches in style.

23,000 plus including 800 Northampton Fans

Cardiff City v Northampton 3pm Tomorrow

You can pay on the day

Let's get 25k tomorrow make it loud the team deserve it it's PARTY TIME FELLOW BLUEBIRDS !!!!!!!

Late to the party, as I’m away and several hours behind and missed all three goals so far, but great to see we’ve made a great start to what could have been a damp squib of an end of season game

Hopefully, we’ll go on to a decent win and the celebrations can start in earnest after the final whistle!

LATEST SCORE: CARDIFF CITY 3 - 0 NORTHAMPTON TOWN (42 mins)
Bluebird scorers: Ollie Tanner (9 mins); Joel Colwill (19 mins); Callum Robinson (37mins)

A great first half from the Bluebirds and it might have been more except for the heroics of the Cobblers keeper!

I’m so pleased for Callum Robinson on getting both a start and a goal

Hopefully, more to come in the second half and the party atmosphere can step up a few more levels

HALF-TIME SCORE: CARDIFF CITY 3 - 0 NORTHAMPTON TOWN (45+7 mins)
Bluebird scorers: Ollie Tanner (9 mins); Joel Colwill (19 mins); Callum Robinson (37mins)

Should be 4 after the ref gave them a free kick for their own player fouling the ref while CR put the ball in the net, awful. Good to see him get one eventually even if it was a complete gift.

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Great picture on a lovely day!

The Bluebirds are having a good day and it’s all building up to the presenations

LATEST SCORE: CARDIFF CITY 4 - 1 NORTHAMPTON TOWN (84 mins)
Bluebird scorers: Ollie Tanner (9 mins, 54 mins); Joel Colwill (19 mins); Callum Robinson (37mins)

A very good, competent win for the Bluebirds today, scoring 5 goals on the way!

Some good performance, particularly for an end of season with both clubs futures already sealed, and credit to new goalkeeper Harry Tryer

Hopefully, a great celebration afterwards and its fancy dress for Mansfield (away) next weekend

CONGRATULATIONS BLUEBIRDS! THIS SEASON HAS BEEN IMMENSE!

FINAL SCORE: CARDIFF CITY 5 - 1 NORTHAMPTON TOWN (84 mins)
Bluebird scorers: Ollie Tanner (9 mins, 54 mins); Joel Colwill (19 mins); Callum Robinson (37mins); Yousef Salech, 85 mins)

Dominant win today! Northampton Town obviously rubbish, but still. Really important to finish the final home match of the season on this kind of note.