THE GROUND
Cardiff City Stadium
Leckwith Road
Cardiff
CF11 8AZ
Cardiff City moved in to their new stadium in 2009.
The ground is a short walk from their old Ninian Park home and will host the UEFA Super Cup Final in August.
The stadium currently holds 28,050 supporters but there is an upgrade underway, scheduled for completion next month.
This will take the capacity up around 33,000 and further development plans could see it rise to around 38,000.
Visiting supporters are usually given a section in the corner or the East Stand and South Stand which can hold around 1,800.
THE TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS
It is around 146 miles from Griffin Park to the Cardiff City Stadium by road.
Anyone travelling from London will find the stadium very easy to access.
There are two main options, the first is to leave the M4 at junction 29 and then take the A48 most of the way to the stadium.
The B4267 then leads to the ground.
Cardiff City FC advise leaving at junction 33 and taking the A4232 and then the B4267 to the stadium.
There is a car park for away fans at the stadium.
The nearest station is Ninian Park but this is closed on match day.
Instead, supporters should travel to Grangetown, which is accessed on Arriva Trains Wales services and is around a mile from the ground.
To reach Grangetown involves getting to Cardiff Central on a First Great Western service from London Paddington or Reading and changing.
Cardiff Central station is around a mile and a half from the stadium.
Cardiff City FC have produced a travel plan that can be seen here.
The Supporters’ Association will be running coaches to every game this season – details of times and prices will be announced in due course.
THE FIXTURES
Brentford will make their first ever visit to the Cardiff City Stadium on Saturday December 20.
The Bees then welcome the Welsh side to Griffin Park on Saturday March 14.
THE RECENT HISTORY
Cardiff City start the season as favourites to win the Sky Bet Championship and head back where they came from.
The Welsh side played in the Premier League last season, their first campaign in the top tier of English football since 1962.
They won The Championship in 2012/13 but could not sustain that form and came back down, finishing bottom of the Premier League in their first year at that level.
It is the first backward step Cardiff have taken for a while.
They climbed out of the fourth tier in 2001 and then won promotion again two years later.
They consistently challenged at the top of end of The Championship, reaching the Play-Offs three years in a row before eventually clinching promotion.
They looked like they would be able to cope with the step up when they lost just two of their first six games but it could not last.
They were in the lower reaches of the table without entering the relegation zone for the first half of the campaign but Malky Mackay was sacked in late December and the Welsh side entered the relegation zone days later.
Ole Gunnar Solskjær was appointed early in 2014 but Cardiff only won three games from December 14 until the end of the season.
Their total of 30 points left them bottom of the Premier League but they will expect to bounce back.
THE MANAGER
Ole Gunnar Solskjær was named as Cardiff City boss on January 2.
The 41-year-old Norwegian is probably best known for his spell as a Manchester United player.
He spent 11 years at Old Trafford and scored 126 goals in 366 games in all competitions.
The most famous of those was the winner in the 1999 Champions League Final when Untied beat Bayern Munich.
Solskjær took over as Manchester United’s reserve team manager when he retired before moving to Molde FK in November 2010.
He won the Norwegian Premier League twice and the Norwegian Cup during his three years at Molde before heading to Wales.
THE TOP SCORER
Fraizer Campbell scored nine goals in all competitions for Cardiff in 2013/14, netting six of them in 37 Premier League appearances.
The 26-year-old joined Cardiff from Sunderland in January 2013 having previously played for Tottenham Hotspur and Hull City on loan from Manchester United, his first club.
The England international scored seven goals in his first half season in Wales but was less prolific in his first season for them at the top level.
Campbell has also played for his country at Under-16, Under-17, Under-18 and Under-21 level.
THE KEY MEN
Cardiff have kept the majority of the squad that represented them in the Premier League in 2013/14, with only a few departures.
Craig Bellamy, who played 23 Premier League games, has retired while Tommy Smith and Simon Lappin, who did not feature, have been released.
City had one other senior player out of contract – Don Cowie, who played 18 games in the Premier League and has been offered a new deal.
Left back Andrew Taylor, who made 18 appearances, has left for Wigan Athletic and Wilfred Zaha has returned to Manchester United at the end of a loan spell but Cardiff arguably look stronger than they did last season.
They have retained key players including goalkeeper David Marshall, who played 37 games in the Premier League, ever-present central defender Steven Caulker, top-scorer Campbell and Jordan Mutch, who scored seven Premier League goals from midfield.
Also remaining are defender Ben Turner, who played 31 games, and midfield playmaker Peter Whittingham, who played 32, along with right back Kévin Théophile-Catherine, and midfield duo Aron Gunnarsson and Craig Noone.
The Welsh side needed to add more goals and have snapped up Manchester United striker Federico Macheda, who scored goals in The Championship last season for Birmingham City and Doncaster Rovers.
They have also signed Reading’s Adam Le Fondre, who scored 15 goals in 2013/14, and 32-year-old Javier Guerra Rodriguez from Real Valladolid.
Also joining Cardiff this summer are Crystal Palace midfield player Kagisho Dikgacoi and Austrian international Guido Bergstaller.
THE FIRST MEETING
January 10 1931, FA Cup Third Round – Brentford 2 Cardiff City 2
Brentford line-up: Nash; Stevenson, Adamson; Lawson, Bain, Salt; Foster, J. Lane, W. Lane, Blakemore, Berry
Brentford goal scorers: Berry, W. Lane
Brentford won the replay 2-1 at Ninian Park
THE LAST MEETING
March 4 2003, Nationwide League Division Two – Brentford 0 Cardiff City 2
Brentford line-up: P. Smith; Smith, Dobson, Sonko, Frampton, Somner; O’Connor (sub Constantine), Hutchinson, J. Smith, Rowlands; McCammon (sub Peters), Vine
Subs (not used): Julian, Marshall, Hughes
Promotion-chasing Cardiff City left Griffin Park with three points thanks to two second half goals.
THE MEMORABLE DAY
January 23 1971, FA Cup Fourth Round – Cardiff City 0 Brentford 2
Brentford line-up: Phillips; Hawley, Bence, Gelson, Renwick; Docherty, Ross, Nelmes, Neilson; Cross, Graham
Sub (not used): Tawse
Brentford goal scorers: Graham, Docherty
Fourth Division Brentford shock Second Division Cardiff City to reach last 16 of FA Cup.
THE ODDS
Sky Bet is offering 7/1 on Cardiff City winning The Championship next season, making them favourites for promotion.
Those who back the Welsh side can get ¼ of the odds if they finish in the top three.
Every bet you make with Sky Bet benefits Brentford FC – click here to see the Championship market.