Cardiff City 1-1 Stoke City: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 8 September 2026

Result

Cardiff City 1-1 Stoke City

Championship · Tuesday 8 September 2026, 18:45 UTC · Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff · half-time 0-1

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Cardiff City 1-1 Stoke City: match report

Cardiff City drew with Stoke City 1-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 8 September 2026 at Cardiff City Stadium. The half-time score was 0-1.

Ben Johnson opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. Cardiff City's goal came from Joel Colwill (63'). Stoke City scored through Ben Johnson (22').

Discipline: Cardiff City received 1 yellow card; Stoke City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 22nd on 3 points from 5 and Stoke City 14th on 6 points from 5. In the current table Cardiff City are 18th on 14 points and Stoke City are 4th on 26 points.

Cardiff City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Stoke City in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Alex Robertson of Cardiff City (8.5), ahead of Chris Willock (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Cardiff City wins, 6 draws and 1 for Stoke City.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 22'Goal · Ben JohnsonStoke City · 0-1
  • 27'Yellow card · Ben WilmotStoke City
  • 45+2'Yellow card · Perry NgCardiff City
  • 63'Goal · Joel ColwillCardiff City · 1-1
  • 81'Yellow card · Luke GrahamStoke City

Form and table

#TeamPWDLGFGAGDPtsForm
4Stoke City148242217+526LWDWW
18Cardiff City133551920-114LWDWL

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Head-to-head

10 meetings: Cardiff City 3, draws 6, Stoke City 1.

Team news

Cardiff City line-up (4-2-3-1)

Nathan Trott, Perry Ng, Krystian Bielik, Gabriel Osho, Joel Bagan, Alex Robertson, Joel Colwill, Ollie Tanner, Jack Moylan, Chris Willock, Yousef Salech

Stoke City line-up (3-5-2)

Viktor Johansson, Ben Wilmot, Maksym Taloverov, Luke Graham, Ben Johnson, Justin Devenny, Djibril Soumaré, Ethan Galbraith, Luca Bombino, George Hirst, Róbert Boženík

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