Cardiff City v Wrexham: Championship curtain-raiser

Recent meetings favour the hosts

Cardiff have won all three recorded meetings between the sides, the most recent a 2-1 victory in October 2025. The previous two encounters, in March 2002 and November 2001, also went Cardiff's way by 3-2 and 3-1 respectively. Those three fixtures produced 12 goals in total, an average of four per match.

Form lines point in opposite directions

Cardiff won four of their last five recent matches, including a 3-2 win on 8 August and a 4-1 victory on 1 August. Wrexham lost three of their last five, most recently a 0-1 defeat on 7 August, preceded by two further single-goal losses. The visitors' last win came on 25 July, a 3-2 result.

A win for either side would lift them to three points from one match; a draw would leave both on one point. Six clubs have already taken maximum points from their opening fixture, led on goal difference by Queens Park Rangers and Millwall.

Confirmed line-ups

Cardiff City (4-1-4-1): Nathan Trott, Joel Bagan, Gabriel Osho, Calum Scanlon, Perry Ng, Ollie Tanner, Jack Moylan, Chris Willock, Alex Robertson, Cian Ashford, Yousef Salech

Wrexham (3-5-2): Anthony Patterson, Zak Vyner, Callum Doyle, Dominic Hyam, George Thomason, Matty James, Danny Imray, Lewis O'Brien, Oliver Rathbone, Nathan Broadhead, Kieffer Moore

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