Norwich City F.C.

Association football club

football cabaret
Norwich City Football Club ( besides known as The Canaries or The Yellows ) is an english professional football cabaret based in Norwich, Norfolk. As of the 2021–22 season, the team competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football, after winning the 2020–21 EFL Championship title. The club was founded in 1902. Since 1935, Norwich have played their home games at Carrow Road and have a long-standing and cutthroat competition with East anglian rivals Ipswich Town, with whom they have contested the East Anglian derby 134 times since 1902. The fans ‘ song “ On the Ball, City “ is the oldest football chant in the world, written in 1890 and still sung today.

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Norwich have won the League Cup twice, in 1962 and 1985. The baseball club ‘s highest ever league end came in 1992–93 when they finished third base in the Premier League. The club participates in characteristic jaundiced and green kits and are nicknamed The Canaries after the history of breeding the birds in the area ( said to be introduced around the sixteenth century by a group of european immigrant weavers in the area known as “ The Strangers “ ). [ 3 ]

history [edit ]

Carrow Road towards City

early years ( 1902–1934 ) [edit ]

Norwich City F.C. was formed after a meet at the Criterion Café in Norwich on 17 June 1902 and played their first competitive catch against Harwich & Parkeston, at Newmarket Road on 6 September 1902. [ 4 ] They joined the Norfolk & Suffolk League for the 1902–03 season, [ 5 ] but following a FA commission, the club was ousted from the amateur game in 1905, as it was deemed a professional arrangement. Later that year Norwich were elected to play in the Southern League. With increasing crowd, they were forced to leave Newmarket Road in 1908 and moved to The Nest, a disused chalk colliery. The club ‘s master dub was the Citizens, but this was superseded by 1907 by the more familiar Canaries after the golf club ‘s president ( who was a acute breeder of canaries ) dubbed his boys “ The Canaries ” and changed their strip to yellow and green. During the First World War, with football suspended and facing spiralling debts, City went into voluntary liquidation on 10 December 1917. [ 6 ] The club was officially reformed on 15 February 1919 – a keystone trope in the event was Charles Frederick Watling, future Lord Mayor of Norwich and the father of future club chair, Geoffrey Watling. [ 7 ] When, in May 1920, the Football League formed a third Division, Norwich joined the Third Division for the following temper. [ 8 ] Their first league regular, against Plymouth Argyle, on 28 August 1920, ended in a 1–1 draw. The club went on to endure a mediocre ten, finishing no higher than eighth but no lower than 18th. [ 6 ] The following ten proved more successful for the club with a club-record victory, 10–2, over Coventry City and forwarding as champions to the Second Division in the 1933–34 season under the management of Tom Parker. [ 9 ]

move to Carrow Road and an FA Cup semi-final ( 1934–1959 ) [edit ]

With crowd continuing to rise, and with the Football Association raising concerns over the suitability of The Nest, the club considered renovation of the earth, but ultimately decided on a move to Carrow Road. The inaugural match, on 31 August 1935 against West Ham United, ended in a 4–3 victory for the home team and set a modern phonograph record attendance of 29,779. The biggest highlight of the following four seasons was the visit of King George VI to Carrow Road on 29 October 1938. however the golf club was relegated to the Third Division at the end of the season. [ 10 ] The league was suspended the following season due to the moment World War, and did not resume until the 1946–47 season. [ 6 ] City finished this and the stick to temper in 21st place, [ 11 ] [ 12 ] the hapless results forcing the club to apply for re-election to the league. [ 13 ] The club narrowly missed out on promotion under the steering of director Norman Low in the early 1950s, but following the retort of Tom Parker as coach, Norwich finished bottom of the football league in the 1956–57 season. [ 14 ] The 1958–59 season saw Norwich reach the semi-final of the FA Cup as a Third Division side, defeating two First Division sides on the manner : Tottenham Hotspur and Matt Busby ‘s Manchester United. [ 13 ] [ 15 ]

League Cup glory and a place in the First Division ( 1959–1973 ) [edit ]

In the 1959–60 season, Norwich were promoted to the Second Division after finishing moment to Southampton, and achieved a fourth-place finish in the 1960–61 season. [ 13 ] In 1962 Ron Ashman guided Norwich to their first gear trophy, defeating Rochdale 4–0 on aggregate in a two-legged final to win the League Cup. [ 16 ] sixth locate in the league was the closest the golf club came to forwarding to the First Division again during the 1960s, but after winning the division in the 1971–72 season under director Ron Saunders, Norwich City reached the highest tied of English football for the first base fourth dimension. [ 17 ] They made their first appearance at Wembley Stadium in 1973, losing the League Cup final examination 1–0 to Tottenham Hotspur. [ 18 ]

The John Bond Era ( 1973–1980 ) [edit ]

relegation to the Second Division in 1974 came after Saunders had departed and been succeeded by John Bond, but the board of directors kept faith in Bond and were quickly rewarded. [ 17 ] A highly successful beginning season visit promotion back to the First Division and another visit to Wembley, again in the League Cup final, this prison term losing 1–0 to Aston Villa. [ 19 ]

promotion, silverware and more cup runs ( 1980–1992 ) [edit ]

adhere departed to Manchester City in fall 1980 and the club were relegated six months late, but bounced back the following season after finishing third base under Bond ‘s successor Ken Brown. In August 1981, Norwich City striker Justin Fashanu became the inaugural blacken football player to command a £1millon transfer fee [ 20 ] when he moved to Nottingham Forest. [ 21 ] The 1984–85 season was of desegregate fortunes for the golf club ; under Ken Brown ‘s guidance, they reached the final of the Football League Cup at Wembley Stadium, having defeated Ipswich Town in the semi-final. In the final examination, they beat Sunderland 1–0, but in the league, both Norwich and Sunderland were relegated to the second tier of English football. This made Norwich the first English club to win a major trophy and hurt delegating in the lapp season ; something which was not matched until Birmingham City besides suffered relegation the season they won the League Cup 26 years former. Norwich were besides denied their first foray into Europe with the banish on English clubs after the Heysel Stadium catastrophe. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] City bounced back to the top flight by winning the Second Division championship in the 1985–86 temper. [ 24 ] This was the startle a club-record nine consecutive seasons in the top division of English football. [ 25 ] High league target in the First Division in 1988–89 would have been enough for UEFA Cup reservation, but the prohibition on English clubs remained. [ 23 ] They besides had good cup runs during this time period, reaching the FA Cup semi-finals in 1989 and again in 1992. [ 26 ] [ 27 ]

early success in the Premier League earned run average ( 1992–1995 ) [edit ]

During 1992–93, the inaugural address season of the Premier League, Norwich City cursorily emerged as surprise claim contenders, [ 28 ] before faltering in the concluding weeks to finish third base behind the champions, Manchester United, and runner-up Aston Villa. Their top scorer that season was Mark Robins, who had been signed from Manchester United the former summer. [ 29 ] The following season Norwich participated in the UEFA Cup for the beginning ( and only ) time, losing in the third base round to Inter Milan, but defeating Bayern Munich. Winning 2–1, Norwich were the first british team to beat Bayern Munich in the Olympic Stadium. [ 30 ] Mike Walker discontinue as Norwich City director in January 1994, [ 31 ] to take charge of Everton and was replaced by first team coach John Deehan who led the club to 12th seat in the 1993–94 season in the Premier League. [ 32 ] Norwich began the 1994–95 season well, despite the pre-season loss of top scorer Chris Sutton to Blackburn Rovers for a national record £5 million, and by Christmas they were seventh in the league. Norwich then won entirely one of their final 20 league games and slumped to twentieth place and relegation, ending a nine-season operate in the acme flight. [ 33 ]

The Division One years ( 1995–2003 ) [edit ]

shortly before relegation, Deehan resigned as coach and his adjunct Gary Megson took over until the conclusion of the season. [ 34 ] Martin O’Neill, who had taken Wycombe Wanderers from the conference to the Second Division with consecutive promotions, was appointed as Norwich City coach in summer 1995. [ 35 ] He lasted merely six months in the subcontract before resigning after a dispute with chair Robert Chase over money to strengthen the team. [ 36 ] soon after, Chase stepped down after protests from supporters, who complained that he kept selling the club ‘s best players and was to blame for their delegating. [ 37 ] Chase ‘s majority stakeholding was bought by Geoffrey Watling. [ 38 ] english television receiver fudge Delia Smith and conserve Michael Wynn-Jones took over the majority of Norwich City ‘s shares from Watling in 1996, [ 38 ] and Mike Walker was re-appointed as the baseball club ‘s coach. [ 39 ] He was unable to repeat the success achieved during his beginning while and was sacked two seasons late with Norwich mid-table in Division One. [ 40 ] Nigel Worthington took over as Norwich City director in December 2000 following an abortive two years for the cabaret under Bruce Rioch and then Bryan Hamilton. He had been on the coaching staff under Hamilton who resigned with the golf club 20th in the First Division and in actual danger of delegating to the third tier of English football for the first meter since the 1960s. [ 41 ] Worthington avoided the terror of delegating and, the following season, led City to a playoff final examination at the Millennium Stadium, which Norwich lost against Birmingham City on penalties. [ 42 ]
City players celebrate winning the First Division Championship, 2004

reelect to the Premier League ( 2003–2009 ) [edit ]

The 2003–04 crusade saw the cabaret win the First Division title, finishing eight points unclutter of second-placed West Bromwich Albion and returned to the top flight for the inaugural fourth dimension since 1995. [ 43 ] For much of the 2004–05 season, the club struggled and, despite beating Manchester United 2–0 towards the conclusion of the season, [ 44 ] a final sidereal day 6–0 defeat away to Fulham condemned them to relegation. [ 45 ] The club finished in one-ninth put in The Championship in the 2005–06 season [ 46 ] and, as results in the 2006–07 season went against City, director Nigel Worthington was sacked in October 2006, directly after a 4–1 defeat by Burnley. [ 47 ] On 16 October 2006, Norwich announced that former City player Peter Grant had left West Ham United to become the new coach, [ 48 ] and in February 2007, Grant replaced adjunct Doug Livermore with his fellow Scot, Jim Duffy. [ 49 ] Grant ‘s slope struggled for most of the season and made a inadequate begin to the 2007–08 temper, with only two wins by mid October ; following a 1–0 kill at fellow-strugglers Queens Park Rangers, Grant left the club by “ reciprocal accept ” on 9 October 2007. [ 50 ] On 30 October 2007, erstwhile Newcastle United director Glenn Roeder was confirmed as Grant ‘s replacement. [ 51 ] Roeder kept Norwich in the Championship with a 3–0 win over Queens Park Rangers, Norwich ‘s penult plot of the temper .

relegation, promotion and yo-yo years ( 2009–present ) [edit ]

On 14 January 2009 it was announced that Roeder had been relieved of his first team duties after 60 games in agitate, and just 20 victories. [ 52 ] A week late, Bryan Gunn was appointed as coach until the end of the temper, [ 53 ] but he was ineffective to prevent the baseball club from being relegated on 3 May 2009, after a 4–2 frustration aside at already relegated Charlton Athletic. [ 54 ] Following their relegation, their first crippled of the season resulted in a traumatize 7–1 home get the better of against East anglian rivals Colchester United. This was the club ‘s heaviest always family get the better of and Gunn was sacked six days late. [ 55 ] On 18 August 2009, Paul Lambert was announced as the new coach, leaving his stake at Colchester, and nine months late led Norwich to promotion back to the Championship as League One Champions, after a single temper in League One. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] The following season saw Norwich promoted to the Premier League, finishing second in the table and completing the first gear back-to-back promotions from the 3rd tier to the 1st since Manchester City in 2000. [ 58 ] The club finished in 12th space in their first season back in the Premier League. however, Lambert resigned within a calendar month of the season ‘s close to take up the vacant managerial spot at league rivals Aston Villa and was replaced by Chris Hughton. The 2012–13 temper started ill but a baseball club phonograph record unbeaten run in the Premier League secured their third class in the Premier League with an 11th-place finish in the league. They were relegated back to the Championship after finishing 18th in the 2013–14 temper and Hughton was sacked. After a mediocre first half of the 2014–15 temper, Neil Adams resigned which paved the manner for the appointment of then Hamilton Academical coach Alex Neil in January 2015. The appointment reinvigorated Norwich ‘s season, and victory in the 2015 Championship playoff final examination secured an immediate reelect to the peak class of English football. [ 59 ] This was entirely irregular relief, as at the end of the following season they were relegated again to play the 2016–17 season in the Football League Championship. [ 60 ] The following season started successfully, with the baseball club sitting peak of the Championship in mid-October. however, a poor guide of imprint and results followed and on 10 March 2017, Alex Neil was sacked by the club. [ 61 ] First-team passenger car Alan Irvine was placed in caretaker charge for the remainder of the temper, ultimately finishing in 8th. On 25 May 2017, the club appointed german coach Daniel Farke as head coach, becoming the beginning heading coach of the club in its 114-year history that was not from the british Isles. [ 62 ] In Farke ‘s first season, Norwich finished in 14th set. Despite a boring start, the following season was far more successful and the team spent most of the season at the top of the board – helped on by top scorekeeper Teemu Pukki. Following a 2–1 succeed over Blackburn Rovers, the golf club was promoted second to the Premier League after a three-year absence as Championship winners. [ 63 ] however, Norwich were once again relegated back down to the Championship after fair a one season back in the lead flight, becoming the first team in Premier League history to be relegated five times from the division. [ 64 ] On 1 May 2021, Norwich were crowned champions of the 2020–21 EFL Championship, securing promotion back to the crown flight at the first time of asking. [ 65 ] Norwich failed to win a equal in their inaugural nine games back in Premier League in the 2021-2022 season, with a heavy 7-0 away defeat to Chelsea their heaviest loss. [ 66 ] On 6 November 2021 despite recording their inaugural Premier League off at Brentford, Farke was sacked by the club. [ 67 ] [ 68 ] On 14 November 2021, the club appointed former Walsall, Brentford and Aston Villa coach Dean Smith as their modern headway passenger car. [ 2 ]

Colours and badge [edit ]

City of Norwich Coat of Arms Norwich City ‘s dub, “ The Canaries ”, has long influenced the team ‘s colours and badge originally, the club was nicknamed the Citizens ( “ Cits ” for short ), and played in light blue and white halve shirts, [ 6 ] although the halves were inconsistent ; “ the blue was sometimes on the left side of the shirt and sometimes on the right. ” [ 69 ] The earliest known record yoke between the club and canaries comes in an consultation recorded in the eastern Daily Press with the newly appointed coach, John Bowman in April 1905. The paper quotes him saying “ Well I knew of the City ‘s being … I have … listen of the canaries. ” [ 70 ] “ This adenine far as we can tell is the first fourth dimension that the democratic pastime of the day internet explorer … breeding … canaries was linked with Norwich City FC … the cabaret silent played in gloomy and white, and would continue to do so for another two seasons. ” [ 70 ] By February 1907, the nickname Canaries had come more into vogue ; thoughts that an FA Cup affiliation against West Bromwich Albion ( nicknamed “ Throstles ” after a bird ) was “ a shuttlecock -singing contest ” were dismissed by the polymath C.B. Fry as “ humbug ” but the national imperativeness increasingly referred to the team as Canaries. [ 71 ] The follow season, to match the nickname, City played for the first gear time in canary yellow livery ; “ jaundiced shirts with green collars and cuffs. One wallpaper produced the quote ‘The Cits are dead but the Canaries are very much alive ‘. ” [ 72 ] While the home color of yellow and green stay to this day, the away colours have varied since presentation. For case, the away kit for the 2012–13 season was black shirts and shorts. [ 73 ] A dim-witted canary badge was first gear adopted in 1922. [ 74 ] The stream club badge consists of a canary rest on a football with a stylize adaptation of the City of Norwich arms in the exceed leave corner. [ 75 ] For the golf club ‘s centennial celebrations in 2002, a particular badge was designed, featuring two canaries looking forget and correct, plus a ribbon noting the centennial. [ 76 ] On 23 November 2021, the club unveiled a new club badge that will formally replace the current badge on all club branding from 17 June 2022 and will appear on cabaret shirts from the 2022-23 temper. The new badge is a overhaul version of its harbinger that no long has total darkness keylines around the badge, ampere well as a redesign adaptation of the city ’ s coat of arms that has a much closer resemblance to a lion & Norwich Castle and a redesign canary on a ball that ’ s more centralize in the badge than its predecessor. [ 77 ]

stadium [edit ]

Norwich City F.C. played at Newmarket Road from 1902 to 1908, with a record attendance of 10,366 against Sheffield Wednesday in a second round FA Cup match in 1908. [ 78 ] Following a challenge over the conditions of renting the Newmarket Road ground, in 1908 the club moved to a modern home in a converted disused chalk pit in Rosary Road which became known as “ The Nest “. [ 79 ] By the 1930s, the ground was besides modest for the growing crowd, and in 1935 the club moved to its current home in Carrow Road. [ 80 ] The master stadium, “ the largest construction job in the city since the construction of Norwich Castle … was “ miraculously ” built in just 82 days … it was referred to [ by club officials ] as ‘The one-eighth curiosity of the world ‘ ” [ 81 ] [ 82 ] An aeriform photograph from August 1935 shows three sides of exposed terrace and a cover stand, with a Colman ‘s Mustard ad painted on its ceiling, visible only from the publicize. [ 83 ] Another photograph, taken on a match day that same season, shows that despite the era ‘s limited car ownership, a parking area was provided at the land. [ 84 ] Floodlights were erected at the earth in 1956, but their monetary value of £9,000 closely sent the club into bankruptcy. however the success in the 1959 FA Cup secured the fiscal status of the club and allowed a cover to be built over the South Stand, which was itself replaced in 2003 when a modern 7,000 seat South point of view, subsequently renamed the Jarrold Stand, was built in its place. [ 80 ] 1963 saw the record attendance for Carrow Road, with a crowd of 43,984 for a 6th round FA Cup equal against Leicester City, but in the awaken of the Ibrox calamity in 1971, guard licences were required by clubs, and this drastically reduced the ground ‘s capacity to around 20,000. A two-tier patio was built at the River End, and soon afterwards seats began to replace the terraces. By 1979 the stadium had a capacity of 28,392 with seats for 12,675. A fuel in 1984 partially destroyed one of the stands, which finally led to its accomplished demolition and successor by 1987 of a raw City Stand, which president Robert Chase described as “ Coming to a football pit within the City Stand is very much like going to the theater – the entirely difference being that our stage is covered with grass ”. [ 80 ] After the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 and the subsequent result of the Taylor Report in 1990, the stadium was converted to all-seater. today, Carrow Road is an all-seater stadium, with a capacity of 27,244. [ 85 ]

Supporters [edit ]

Norwich City fans at the 2015 Play-off final examination at London ‘s Wembley stadium While much of the back that the club enjoys is local anesthetic, there are a count of exile fan clubs, notably in London and stretching from Scandinavia to countries further afield such as the United Arab Emirates, Bermuda, Hong Kong, Thailand, Australia and the United States. [ 86 ] The fans ‘ sung, On the Ball, City, is the oldest football birdcall in the earth still in practice nowadays ; the birdcall is, in fact, older than the golf club itself having probably been penned for Norwich Teachers or Caley ‘s FC in the 1890s and adapted for Norwich City. [ 70 ] Although the first use of the tune and song is disputed, it had been adopted by 1902 and it remains in practice today in part if not the solid. [ 70 ] The chorus is : [ 87 ]

Kick off, give in, have a little scrimmage,
Keep it low, a excellent rush, assassin, win or die ;
On the ball City, never mind the danger,
Steady on, immediately ‘s your gamble,
Hurrah ! We ‘ve scored a goal, City ! City ! City !

Historical league positions of local anesthetic clubs ; one of the bases for claims to the “ Pride of Anglia “ championship locally, much is made of the informal title “ Pride of Anglia “. Fans variously claim the deed for either winning the East Anglian Derby, finishing highest in the league, having the better current league position, having the more successful club history or for reasons without any apparent logical basis. The club ‘s independent local anesthetic rival is Ipswich Town. When Norwich and Ipswich meet it is known as the ‘ East Anglian Derby ‘, or, informally, as the ‘Old Farm Derby ‘ – a amusing reference to the ‘ Old Firm Derby ‘ play between scottish teams Celtic and Rangers. [ 88 ] Norwich are presently unbeaten against Ipswich in a decade, encompassing 12 matches, including 5-1 and 4-1 victories, arsenic well as a victorious play-off semitrailer final examination repair in 2015. [ 89 ] The clubhouse besides maintains a healthy celebrity confirm with fame cook Delia Smith and comedian Stephen Fry both having moved from being fans of the cabaret to running it. [ 90 ] Actor Hugh Jackman is besides a fan of the club, having been taken to Carrow Road as a child by his english beget, though he turned down an opportunity to become an investor in the club in 2010. [ 91 ] BT Sport Presenter Jake Humphrey, who was born in Peterborough but moved to Norwich with his family at the age of nine, is another celebrity patron. [ 92 ] [ 93 ] early long-familiar supporters include Sky Sports presenter Simon Thomas, who is Vice-President of the Norwich City Supporters Trust, [ 93 ] [ 94 ] Norfolk-born musician, model and media personality Myleene Klass, fabrication author Philip Pullman, and Labour ex-politician Ed Balls. [ 95 ] [ 96 ] Journalist and broadcaster Sir David Frost besides declared his sleep together for The Canaries during his life. [ 97 ] In March 2018, supporters helped the club resurrect £5,000,000 through a mini-bond investing scheme via sports investment platform Tifosy. [ 98 ] The aim of the mini-bond, called the Canaries Bond [ 99 ] was to raise money to fund raw academy facilities at Colney Training Ground for the Norwich City F.C. Under-23s and Academy. [ 100 ]

ownership [edit ]

Norwich City FC is a public limited company that, in 2003, comprised approximately 8,000 individual shareholdings. [ 101 ] Since purchasing their shares from Geoffrey Watling, Delia Smith and husband Michael Wynn-Jones have been joint majority shareholders. [ 38 ]
At the 2006–07 Norwich City FC Annual General Meeting ( on 18 January 2007 ) Smith and Wynn-Jones announced that they would be open to offers to buy their majority stake-holding in the cabaret. They made clear that any prospective buyer would have to invest heavily in the squad, with regards to team improving. [ 102 ]

The merely way we would relinquish our shares is if person is going to put money into the football … lone if they put money into the police squad – not if they buy our shares, we do n’t want money. It has to be that there is money for the team, serious money for the team .

On 8 May 2007 the football club announced that Andrew and Sharon Turner had bought out all 5,000 shares belonging to former Board member, Barry Skipper and had given the clubhouse an interest-free loanword of £2m. Mr and Mrs Turner are owners and directors of personal finance company Central Trust. During July 2008 Peter Cullum declared that he was concerned in a coup d’etat of the club, and pledged that he would invest £20m for enhancement of the play team. On 8 July the EDP reported that Delia Smith and the board had invited Peter Cullum for talks. Reports late stated that the talks had been terminated with contiguous effect, and no consider was to be reached. On 2 September 2008, Andrew and Sharon Turner announced that they were leaving the football club ‘s board of directors. This left a £2 million hole in Norwich City ‘s budget. On 4 September 2008, Delia Smith and Michael Wynn-Jones announced that they would be injecting £2 million, avoiding fiscal problems for the club. The 2011 Annual General Meeting, attended by over 500 shareholders, [ 103 ] saw joint majority stockholder Delia Smith and Stephan Phillips re-elected as directors and newfangled conductor Stephen Fry formally re-elected having joined the Board the previous August. [ 103 ] On 27 December 2015, former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls was appointed Chairman, however he left in recently 2018. [ 104 ]

Statistics and records [edit ]

Chart of Norwich ‘s table positions since joining the Football League Kevin Keelan holds the commemorate for Norwich appearances, having played 673 first-team matches between 1963 and 1980. Ralph Hunt holds the record for the most goals scored in a season, 31 in the 1955–56 season in Division Three ( South ), with Johnny Gavin the top scorer over a career – 122 between 1948 and 1955. Teemu Pukki holds the club phonograph record for most external caps, with 87 for Finland. [ 105 ] The club ‘s widest victory allowance in the league was their 10–2 win against Coventry City in the Division Three ( South ) in 1930. Their heaviest defeat in the league was 10–2 against Swindon Town in 1908 in the Southern Football League. Norwich ‘s record home attendance is 43,984 for a sixth-round FA Cup match against Leicester City on 30 March 1963. With the presentation of regulations enforcing all-seater stadiums, it is unlikely that this record will be beaten in the foreseeable future. The highest remove fee received for a Norwich musician is £33 million from Aston Villa for Emiliano Buendía in June 2021, while the most spend by the golf club on a actor was the sign of Milot Rashica for £9.4 million ( €11 million ) from Werder Bremen. The club ‘s highest league eat up was third base in the FA Premier League in 1992–93. [ 85 ] The 2019–20 season was Norwich ‘s 26th in the circus tent flight of English football. The club has won the League Cup twice ( most recently in 1985 ) and reached the FA Cup semi-final three times, most recently in 1992. [ 85 ] Norwich have taken part in european competition precisely once, reaching the third round of the UEFA Cup in 1993–94 and are the only english side to beat Bayern Munich in the Olympic Stadium. [ 28 ]
Source: [ 106 ]
between 2006 and 2008 the club was sponsored by airline Flybe but on 26 April 2008, it was announced that the company was stepping down as the main patronize. [ 107 ] On 29 April 2008 it was announced that Aviva which has offices in the city and is the parent company of the former Norwich Union, would be the new shirt sponsor, having signed a three-year shrink. [ 108 ] In 2009 the deal was extended until the end of the 2011–12 season. [ 109 ] It was further extended in 2012 by four more years to the end of the 2015–16 season. During the 2016–17 season, Aviva Community Fund were Norwich ‘s main shirt presenter. On 26 June 2017, the club announced that Swedish mobile betting ship’s company LeoVegas would take over as their main shirt sponsor for three seasons, starting from the 2017–18 season. [ 110 ] On 7 June 2021, the club announced that asian on-line betting company BK8 Sports would replace Dafabet as their independent shirt patronize, starting from the 2021-22 season. however on 10 June 2021, the club announced that their agreement with BK8 Sports would be terminated as a result of backfire from supporters over the company ‘s use of sexually provocative advertising on its social media accounts. [ 111 ] On 25 June 2021, the club announced that Lotus Cars would replace BK8 as the baseball club ‘s shirt patron for the 2021–22 season. [ 112 ]

Players [edit ]

First-team squad [edit ]

As of 30 August 2021[113]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on loanword [edit ]

A number of first team players who are out on loan.
notice : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Development team [edit ]

celebrated players [edit ]

Past (and present) players who are the subjects of Wikipedia articles can be found here

During the club ‘s centennial temper, a “ Hall of Fame “ was created, honouring 100 former players chosen by sports fan vote. further players have been inducted into the Norwich City Hall of Fame in 2003, 2006 and 2012 .

Greatest ever Norwich City XI [edit ]

In 2008, supporters cast votes to determine the greatest ever Norwich City team. [ 114 ]

Players of the Season [edit ]

For a more detail tilt of the winners of the Barry Butler trophy, see Norwich City F.C. Player of the Season

Club staff [edit ]

Managers [edit ]

As of 15 June 2021. Not including caretaker managers. Only professional, competitive matches are counted.[119]

Honours [edit ]

Norwich City have won a number of honours : [ 120 ]

league [edit ]

Football League Second Division/EFL Championship ( Tier 2 ) [ two ]
Football League Third Division (1921–92)/EFL League One (2004–present) ( Tier 3 )

cup [edit ]

League Cup [ three ]

Friendship Trophy [edit ]

Each time they meet, Norwich and Sunderland contest the Friendship Trophy, a game dating back to the chumminess forged between fans of the two clubs at the time of the 1985 League Cup final that they contested. [ 121 ] Sunderland are the stream holders having beaten Norwich 3–1 at Carrow Road on 13 August 2017 in the 2017–18 EFL Championship .

In popular culture [edit ]

In the 2001 film Mike Bassett: England Manager, [ 122 ] the eponymous hero, played by Ricky Tomlinson, rises to prominence as a resultant role of success as coach of Norwich City, having won the ‘Mr Clutch Cup ‘. The celebratory scenes of the open-top bus ride around the city ( right ) were actually shot in St Albans, Hertfordshire, rather than Norwich. In 1972 the Children ‘s Film Foundation released a movie called The Boy Who Turned Yellow about a son populate in London who supports Norwich City. In the film, he and everyone and everything else on his metro trail are turned yellow. That night he is visited by a yellow alien called Nick, short circuit for electronic, who teaches him all about electricity. The associate to the football baseball club is used to explain why the son already has so many yellow things in his bedroom. [ 123 ] In a 2015 episode of the Channel 4 situation comedy Peep Show, character Super Hans encourages Mark to pursue his sleep together interest, no matter the odds, because “ Norwich are never going to win the league, but they still turn up every week, do n’t they ? The pricks. ” [ 124 ]

Norwich City Ladies [edit ]

Norwich City Ladies is the women ‘s football club affiliated to Norwich City. [ 125 ] They are managed by Scott Emmerson and compete in the Women ‘s South East Combination League, in the third tier of English women ‘s football. [ 125 ] According to Norwich City, “ They are the official women ‘s team of Norwich City Football Club and are linked to the Girls ‘ Centre of Excellence program ”. [ 125 ] Consequently, 95 % of the club ‘s players have progressed from the youth ranks. Norwich City LFC play their home games at Plantation Park, Blofield, Norwich. [ 125 ]