Dave Jones has been Cardiff City boss since the summer of 2005
Peter Ridsdale insists Dave Jones will remain Cardiff City boss, despite the club suffering final-day play-off heartbreak at Sheffield Wednesday.
The Bluebirds occupied a Championship play-off place virtually since October but were pipped by Preston North End in the final 16 minutes of the season.
Former Cardiff player David Giles has called for Jones' head but chairman Ridsdale says he is going nowhere.
"Dave Jones is the manager of Cardiff City and will remain so," he said.
Cardiff were challenging for automatic promotion to the Premier League with five games remaining but the Welsh club crumbled under the pressure during their run-in and earned only one point in the final four fixtures.
Cardiff's play-off bid failed by the narrowest of margins as rivals Preston scored one goal more as Jones was left to rue his side's 6-0 hammering at the hands of North End four games ago.
The implosion of Jones' team and their failed play-off attempt has led to calls for Ridsdale to sack the Championship's longest-serving manager.
After 38 years of underachievement, we get to within one goal of reaching the play-offs to compete for promotion to the Premier League and the knives are out for scapegoats
Cardiff City chairman Peter Ridsdale
But Ridsdale released an official statement on Cardiff's website to "kill all the speculation before it goes any further".
"With myself and the board, Dave will spend the summer months learning the lessons from the season just ended," wrote Ridsdale.
"We will take appropriate decisions about the strengths and weaknesses in the playing squad so that we enter next season stronger than we ended this.
"Dave Jones has done an outstanding job since he took over as manager. Has he made mistakes, of course he has, haven't we all?
"The true test, however, is that he has got more things right than wrong."
Jones was appointed Cardiff manager in May 2005 following Lennie Lawrence's departure.
And despite the club being riddled with an estimated debt of £30m, Jones has transformed a struggling Championship side into one that can challenge the division's top sides.
Cardiff have not played among English football's elite since the 1961/1962 season and in the last 20 years the club have languished in the bottom divisions of the Football League.
But Jones was at risk of being a victim of his own success following their Championship play-off heartbreak before Ridsdale's public vote of confidence.
The 52-year-old has worked wonders on a tight budget and Cardiff's success is despite Jones selling the Bluebirds' prized assets to keep the club afloat.
Jones has raked in more than £20m worth of transfer fees by selling players such as Cameron Jerome, Danny Gabbidon, James Collins, Chris Gunter, Glenn Loovens and Aaron Ramsey.
And the former Wolverhampton Wanderers and Southampton boss has wheeled and dealed to sign quality players on the cheap, such as 24-goal top scorer Ross McCormack and highly rated defender Roger Johnson.
Ridsdale added: "After 38 years of underachievement, we get to within one goal of reaching the play-offs to compete for promotion to the Premier League and the knives are out for scapegoats.
"The headlines in the local papers are calling for the manager's head and the emotion of a last-day disappointment leads to some supporters lashing out and calling for change.
"Football clubs have too much change. Only three clubs can get promoted each season.
"1962 was the last time that we were in the top flight and 1971 the last time we narrowly missed out on promotion by one place.
"It is easy to go around firing people but the real decision-makers stand by good people and don't pander to unaccountable pundits in the local press or a small but vocal minority of supporters.
"Since I became chairman of this football club we have fought for survival, against all of the odds we have funded and built a new stadium, we have opened a state-of-the-art training facility, played in our first FA Cup final in 81 years and had our highest league position for 38 years.
"Many of those clubs who have pandered to the voice of change have lived to regret it. We will not fall into that category."
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