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Norwich City Football Club ( besides known as The Canaries or The Yellows ) is an english professional football clubhouse 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.

Norwich have won the League Cup twice, in 1962 and 1985. The clubhouse ‘s highest always league complete 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 hundred 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 meeting at the Criterion Café in Norwich on 17 June 1902 and played their foremost competitive match against Harwich & Parkeston, at Newmarket Road on 6 September 1902. [ 4 ] They joined the Norfolk & Suffolk League for the 1902–03 temper, [ 5 ] but following a FA commission, the club was ousted from the amateur game in 1905, as it was deemed a professional constitution. Later that year Norwich were elected to play in the Southern League. With increasing herd, they were forced to leave Newmarket Road in 1908 and moved to The Nest, a disused chalk pit. The baseball club ‘s original nickname was the Citizens, but this was superseded by 1907 by the more conversant Canaries after the club ‘s chair ( who was a bang-up breeder of canaries ) dubbed his boys “ The Canaries ” and changed their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 extermination on 10 December 1917. [ 6 ] The club was formally reformed on 15 February 1919 – a key design 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 one-third Division, Norwich joined the Third Division for the play along season. [ 8 ] Their foremost league fixture, against Plymouth Argyle, on 28 August 1920, ended in a 1–1 draw. The club went on to endure a mediocre decade, finishing no higher than eighth but no lower than 18th. [ 6 ] The follow decade proved more successful for the clubhouse with a club-record victory, 10–2, over Coventry City and promotion 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 golf club considered renovation of the ground, but ultimately decided on a motion to Carrow Road. The inauguration match, on 31 August 1935 against West Ham United, ended in a 4–3 victory for the home team and set a new phonograph record attendance of 29,779. The biggest highlight of the following four seasons was the inflict of King George VI to Carrow Road on 29 October 1938. however the club was relegated to the Third Division at the end of the season. [ 10 ] The league was suspended the following season ascribable to the irregular World War, and did not resume until the 1946–47 temper. [ 6 ] City finished this and the comply season in 21st home, [ 11 ] [ 12 ] the poor results forcing the club to apply for re-election to the league. [ 13 ] The club narrowly missed out on promotion under the guidance of director Norman Low in the early 1950s, but following the render of Tom Parker as coach, Norwich finished buttocks 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 way : Tottenham Hotspur and Matt Busby ‘s Manchester United. [ 13 ] [ 15 ]

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

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

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

delegating to the Second Division in 1974 came after Saunders had departed and been succeeded by John Bond, but the display panel of directors kept religion in Bond and were quickly rewarded. [ 17 ] A highly successful first season go steady promotion back to the First Division and another visit to Wembley, again in the League Cup final, this time losing 1–0 to Aston Villa. [ 19 ]

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

bond departed to Manchester City in fall 1980 and the baseball club were relegated six months late, but bounced back the follow temper after finishing third under Bond ‘s successor Ken Brown. In August 1981, Norwich City striker Justin Fashanu became the first black football player to command a £1millon transfer fee [ 20 ] when he moved to Nottingham Forest. [ 21 ] The 1984–85 season was of mix fortunes for the clubhouse ; under Ken Brown ‘s steering, they reached the final examination of the Football League Cup at Wembley Stadium, having defeated Ipswich Town in the semi-final. In the concluding, 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 suffer relegation in the same season ; something which was not matched until Birmingham City besides suffered delegating the temper they won the League Cup 26 years late. Norwich were besides denied their first foray into Europe with the ban on English clubs after the Heysel Stadium disaster. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] City bounced back to the top flight by winning the Second Division championship in the 1985–86 season. [ 24 ] This was the begin a club-record nine back-to-back seasons in the acme division of English football. [ 25 ] High league place in the First Division in 1988–89 would have been adequate for UEFA Cup qualification, but the ban on English clubs remained. [ 23 ] They besides had adept cup runs during this period, reaching the FA Cup semi-finals in 1989 and again in 1992. [ 26 ] [ 27 ]

early achiever in the Premier League era ( 1992–1995 ) [edit ]

During 1992–93, the inaugural season of the Premier League, Norwich City quickly emerged as surprise title contenders, [ 28 ] before faltering in the final weeks to finish third gear 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 previous summer. [ 29 ] The following season Norwich participated in the UEFA Cup for the first ( and lone ) prison term, losing in the third round to Inter Milan, but defeating Bayern Munich. Winning 2–1, Norwich were the beginning british team to beat Bayern Munich in the Olympic Stadium. [ 30 ] Mike Walker depart as Norwich City coach in January 1994, [ 31 ] to take charge of Everton and was replaced by beginning team coach John Deehan who led the club to 12th locate in the 1993–94 season in the Premier League. [ 32 ] Norwich began the 1994–95 season well, despite the pre-season passing of top scorekeeper Chris Sutton to Blackburn Rovers for a national criminal record £5 million, and by Christmas they were seventh in the league. Norwich then won only one of their final 20 league games and slumped to twentieth invest and relegation, ending a nine-season run in the top flight. [ 33 ]

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

concisely before relegation, Deehan resigned as coach and his assistant Gary Megson took over until the end 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 just six months in the job before resigning after a quarrel with chair Robert Chase over money to strengthen the squad. [ 36 ] soon after, Chase stepped down after protests from supporters, who complained that he kept selling the cabaret ‘s best players and was to blame for their relegation. [ 37 ] Chase ‘s majority stakeholding was bought by Geoffrey Watling. [ 38 ] english television 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 club ‘s director. [ 39 ] He was unable to repeat the success achieved during his first enchantment 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 unsuccessful two years for the club under Bruce Rioch and then Bryan Hamilton. He had been on the coaching staff under Hamilton who resigned with the club 20th in the First Division and in real danger of relegation to the third base grade of English football for the first clock since the 1960s. [ 41 ] Worthington avoided the terror of relegation and, the following season, led City to a playoff concluding at the Millennium Stadium, which Norwich lost against Birmingham City on penalties. [ 42 ]
City players celebrate winning the First Division Championship, 2004

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

The 2003–04 campaign saw the club win the First Division title, finishing eight points clear of second-placed West Bromwich Albion and returned to the acme flight for the first fourth dimension since 1995. [ 43 ] For a lot of the 2004–05 temper, the club struggled and, despite beating Manchester United 2–0 towards the end of the season, [ 44 ] a last day 6–0 defeat away to Fulham condemned them to relegation. [ 45 ] The club finished in ninth place 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 get the better of by Burnley. [ 47 ] On 16 October 2006, Norwich announced that former City player Peter Grant had left West Ham United to become the newly director, [ 48 ] and in February 2007, Grant replaced adjunct Doug Livermore with his colleague Scot, Jim Duffy. [ 49 ] Grant ‘s side struggled for most of the season and made a poor start to the 2007–08 season, with only two wins by mid October ; following a 1–0 get the better of at fellow-strugglers Queens Park Rangers, Grant left the golf club by “ reciprocal consent ” on 9 October 2007. [ 50 ] On 30 October 2007, former Newcastle United director Glenn Roeder was confirmed as Grant ‘s refilling. [ 51 ] Roeder kept Norwich in the Championship with a 3–0 gain over Queens Park Rangers, Norwich ‘s penultimate game 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 cathexis, and equitable 20 victories. [ 52 ] A week by and by, 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 defeat away at already relegated Charlton Athletic. [ 54 ] Following their delegating, their first game of the season resulted in a jolt 7–1 home frustration against East anglian rivals Colchester United. This was the golf club ‘s heaviest ever home plate kill and Gunn was sacked six days later. [ 55 ] On 18 August 2009, Paul Lambert was announced as the newfangled director, leaving his post at Colchester, and nine months later led Norwich to promotion back to the Championship as League One Champions, after a single season in League One. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] The following season saw Norwich promoted to the Premier League, finishing second in the board and completing the first back-to-back promotions from the 3rd grade to the 1st since Manchester City in 2000. [ 58 ] The club finished in 12th position in their first gear season back in the Premier League. however, Lambert resigned within a calendar month of the temper ‘s close to take up the vacant managerial spot at league rivals Aston Villa and was replaced by Chris Hughton. The 2012–13 season started ill but a cabaret phonograph record unbeaten run in the Premier League secured their third base year 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 season and Hughton was sacked. After a mediocre first half of the 2014–15 season, Neil Adams resigned which paved the way for the appointee of then Hamilton Academical coach Alex Neil in January 2015. The appointment reinvigorated Norwich ‘s temper, and victory in the 2015 Championship playoff final examination secured an immediate return to the exceed division of English football. [ 59 ] This was entirely impermanent relief, as at the end of the adjacent season they were relegated again to play the 2016–17 season in the Football League Championship. [ 60 ] The follow season started successfully, with the club sitting crown of the Championship in mid-October. however, a inadequate footrace of shape and results followed and on 10 March 2017, Alex Neil was sacked by the baseball club. [ 61 ] First-team coach Alan Irvine was placed in caretaker mission for the remainder of the season, ultimately finishing in 8th. On 25 May 2017, the club appointed german coach Daniel Farke as fountainhead coach, becoming the first heading passenger car of the club in its 114-year history that was not from the british Isles. [ 62 ] In Farke ‘s first temper, Norwich finished in 14th place. Despite a slowly startle, the following season was far more successful and the team spent most of the season at the top of the table – helped on by top scorekeeper Teemu Pukki. Following a 2–1 acquire over Blackburn Rovers, the club was promoted spinal column to the Premier League after a three-year absence as Championship winners. [ 63 ] however, Norwich were once again relegated back devour to the Championship after good a individual season back in the crown escape, becoming the first gear 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 top escape at the first clock time of asking. [ 65 ] Norwich failed to win a match in their first gear nine games back in Premier League in the 2021-2022 season, with a heavy 7-0 away get the better of to Chelsea their heaviest loss. [ 66 ] On 6 November 2021 despite recording their first Premier League win off at Brentford, Farke was sacked by the club. [ 67 ] [ 68 ] On 14 November 2021, the club appointed erstwhile Walsall, Brentford and Aston Villa director Dean Smith as their raw head coach. [ 2 ]

Colours and badge [edit ]

City of Norwich Coat of Arms Norwich City ‘s nickname, “ The Canaries ”, has long influenced the team ‘s colours and badge originally, the club was nicknamed the Citizens ( “ Cits ” for curtly ), and played in light blue and whiten halve shirts, [ 6 ] although the halves were inconsistent ; “ the gloomy was sometimes on the left-hand side of the shirt and sometimes on the right. ” [ 69 ] The earliest known record liaison between the club and canaries comes in an interview recorded in the eastern Daily Press with the newly appointed director, John Bowman in April 1905. The paper quotes him saying “ Well I knew of the City ‘s being … I have … learn of the canaries. ” [ 70 ] “ This vitamin a far as we can tell is the beginning time that the popular pastime of the day internet explorer … rise … canaries was linked with Norwich City FC … the baseball club still played in blue and white, and would continue to do then for another two seasons. ” [ 70 ] By February 1907, the nickname Canaries had come more into vogue ; thoughts that an FA Cup draw against West Bromwich Albion ( nicknamed “ Throstles ” after a dame ) was “ a bird -singing contest ” were dismissed by the polymath C.B. Fry as “ humbug ” but the national compress increasingly referred to the team as Canaries. [ 71 ] The following season, to match the nickname, City played for the inaugural time in canary delivery ; “ yellow shirts with green collars and cuffs. One newspaper produced the quotation mark ‘The Cits are dead but the Canaries are very a lot alive ‘. ” [ 72 ] While the dwelling color of scandalmongering and green stay to this day, the away colours have varied since initiation. For case, the away kit for the 2012–13 temper was black shirts and shorts. [ 73 ] A childlike canary badge was first adopted in 1922. [ 74 ] The stream club badge consists of a canary stay on a football with a conventionalized adaptation of the City of Norwich arms in the exceed left corner. [ 75 ] For the club ‘s centennial celebrations in 2002, a especial badge was designed, featuring two canaries looking left and right, plus a ribbon noting the centennial. [ 76 ] On 23 November 2021, the club unveiled a new club badge that will officially replace the current badge on all club branding from 17 June 2022 and will appear on golf club shirts from the 2022-23 season. The new badge is a overhaul version of its predecessor that no retentive has black keylines around the badge, vitamin a well as a redesign interpretation of the city ’ s coating of arms that has a much closer resemblance to a lion & Norwich Castle and a redesign canary on a ball that ’ sulfur 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 read attendance of 10,366 against Sheffield Wednesday in a second base orotund FA Cup match in 1908. [ 78 ] Following a quarrel over the conditions of renting the Newmarket Road ground, in 1908 the club moved to a newfangled home plate in a converted disused chalk colliery in Rosary Road which became known as “ The Nest “. [ 79 ] By the 1930s, the background was excessively small for the growing crowd, and in 1935 the club moved to its current home in Carrow Road. [ 80 ] The original stadium, “ the largest construction job in the city since the build of Norwich Castle … was “ miraculously ” built in precisely 82 days … it was referred to [ by club officials ] as ‘The eighth wonder of the world ‘ ” [ 81 ] [ 82 ] An forward pass photograph from August 1935 shows three sides of open terrace and a cover stand, with a Colman ‘s Mustard ad painted on its ceiling, visible only from the air. [ 83 ] Another photograph, taken on a catch day that lapp season, shows that despite the earned run average ‘s circumscribed car possession, a parking area was provided at the land. [ 84 ] Floodlights were erected at the reason in 1956, but their cost of £9,000 about sent the baseball club into bankruptcy. however the success in the 1959 FA Cup secured the fiscal status of the club and allowed a report to be built over the South Stand, which was itself replaced in 2003 when a new 7,000 seat South stand, subsequently renamed the Jarrold Stand, was built in its place. [ 80 ] 1963 saw the record attendance for Carrow Road, with a push of 43,984 for a 6th round off FA Cup match against Leicester City, but in the wake of the Ibrox catastrophe in 1971, base hit licences were required by clubs, and this drastically reduced the grind ‘s capacity to around 20,000. A two-tier terrace 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 fire in 1984 partially destroyed one of the stands, which finally led to its complete destruction and refilling by 1987 of a newly City Stand, which chair Robert Chase described as “ Coming to a football couple within the City Stand is identical much like going to the field – the only remainder being that our stage is covered with supergrass ”. [ 80 ] After the Hillsborough catastrophe 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 capacitance of 27,244. [ 85 ]

Supporters [edit ]

Norwich City fans at the 2015 Play-off final at London ‘s Wembley Stadium While much of the support that the club enjoys is local, there are a count of expatriate 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 ‘ song, On the Ball, City, is the oldest football song in the world still in use today ; the sung is, in fact, older than the cabaret itself having probably been penned for Norwich Teachers or Caley ‘s FC in the 1890s and adapted for Norwich City. [ 70 ] Although the inaugural use of the tune and song is disputed, it had been adopted by 1902 and it remains in habit today in character if not the wholly. [ 70 ] The chorus is : [ 87 ]

Kick off, confuse in, have a little melee,
Keep it depleted, a glorious rush, assassin, win or die ;
On the ball City, never mind the risk,
Steady on, now ‘s your casual,
Hurrah ! We ‘ve scored a goal, City ! City ! City !

Historical league positions of local clubs ; one of the bases for claims to the “ Pride of Anglia “ entitle locally, much is made of the informal title “ Pride of Anglia “. Fans variously claim the title for either winning the East Anglian Derby, finishing highest in the league, having the better current league stead, having the more successful golf club history or for reasons without any apparent coherent footing. The club ‘s independent local equal is Ipswich Town. When Norwich and Ipswich meet it is known as the ‘ East Anglian Derby ‘, or, colloquially, as the ‘Old Farm Derby ‘ – a amusing character to the ‘ Old Firm Derby ‘ act 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, deoxyadenosine monophosphate good as a victorious play-off semitrailer final examination fastness in 2015. [ 89 ] The clubhouse besides maintains a healthy celebrity support with fame cook Delia Smith and comedian Stephen Fry both having moved from being fans of the club 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 mother, 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 class at the historic period of nine, is another fame patron. [ 92 ] [ 93 ] other well-known supporters include Sky Sports donor Simon Thomas, who is Vice-President of the Norwich City Supporters Trust, [ 93 ] [ 94 ] Norfolk-born musician, model and media personality Myleene Klass, fiction writer Philip Pullman, and Labour ex-politician Ed Balls. [ 95 ] [ 96 ] Journalist and broadcaster Sir David Frost besides declared his love for The Canaries during his life. [ 97 ] In March 2018, supporters helped the club promote £5,000,000 through a mini-bond investing system via sports investing platform Tifosy. [ 98 ] The purpose of the mini-bond, called the Canaries Bond [ 99 ] was to raise money to fund newfangled academy facilities at Colney Training Ground for the Norwich City F.C. Under-23s and Academy. [ 100 ]

ownership [edit ]

Norwich City FC is a populace limited company that, in 2003, comprised approximately 8,000 individual shareholdings. [ 101 ] Since purchasing their shares from Geoffrey Watling, Delia Smith and conserve 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 only direction we would relinquish our shares is if person is going to put money into the football … merely 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 squad, serious money for the police squad .

On 8 May 2007 the football clubhouse announced that Andrew and Sharon Turner had bought out all 5,000 shares belonging to erstwhile Board penis, Barry Skipper and had given the baseball club an interest-free lend 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 concern in a takeover of the club, and pledged that he would invest £20m for enhancement of the act squad. On 8 July the EDP reported that Delia Smith and the display panel had invited Peter Cullum for talks. Reports late stated that the talks had been terminated with immediate effect, and no deal 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 trap 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 new 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 record 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 exceed scorer over a career – 122 between 1948 and 1955. Teemu Pukki holds the club record for most external caps, with 87 for Finland. [ 105 ] The club ‘s widest victory margin 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 insertion of regulations enforcing all-seater stadiums, it is improbable that this record will be beaten in the foreseeable future. The highest transfer tip received for a Norwich musician is £33 million from Aston Villa for Emiliano Buendía in June 2021, while the most exhausted by the club on a player was the sign of Milot Rashica for £9.4 million ( €11 million ) from Werder Bremen. The club ‘s highest league finish was third base in the FA Premier League in 1992–93. [ 85 ] The 2019–20 season was Norwich ‘s 26th in the clear 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 rival just once, reaching the third base 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 clubhouse was sponsored by airline Flybe but on 26 April 2008, it was announced that the company was stepping down as the chief sponsor. [ 107 ] On 29 April 2008 it was announced that Aviva which has offices in the city and is the parent company of the erstwhile Norwich Union, would be the new shirt patron, having signed a three-year contract. [ 108 ] In 2009 the cope 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 chief shirt patron. On 26 June 2017, the club announced that Swedish mobile betting caller LeoVegas would take over as their main shirt sponsor for three seasons, starting from the 2017–18 season. [ 110 ] On 7 June 2021, the cabaret announced that asian on-line betting company BK8 Sports would replace Dafabet as their main shirt sponsor, starting from the 2021-22 temper. 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 ad on its social media accounts. [ 111 ] On 25 June 2021, the golf club announced that Lotus Cars would replace BK8 as the club ‘s shirt patronize for the 2021–22 season. [ 112 ]

Players [edit ]

First-team squad [edit ]

As of 30 August 2021[113]

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Out on loan [edit ]

A list of first team players who are out on loanword.
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Development squad [edit ]

luminary players [edit ]

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

During the club ‘s centennial season, a “ Hall of Fame “ was created, honouring 100 early players chosen by fan vote. far 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 list 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 count of honours : [ 120 ]

league [edit ]

Football League Second Division/EFL Championship ( Tier 2 ) [ two ]
Football League Third Division/EFL League One ( 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 current 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 bomber, played by Ricky Tomlinson, rises to prominence as a solution of success as director of Norwich City, having won the ‘Mr Clutch Cup ‘. The celebratory scenes of the open-top bus drive around the city ( right ) were actually shot in St Albans, Hertfordshire, quite than Norwich. In 1972 the Children ‘s Film Foundation released a movie called The Boy Who Turned Yellow about a boy living in London who supports Norwich City. In the movie, he and everyone and everything else on his tube discipline are turned jaundiced. That night he is visited by a yellow extraterrestrial being called Nick, short for electronic, who teaches him all about electricity. The connection to the football clubhouse is used to explain why the boy already has sol many jaundiced 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 love matter to, 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 cabaret ‘s players have progressed from the youth ranks. Norwich City LFC play their home games at Plantation Park, Blofield, Norwich. [ 125 ]

Notes [edit ]

References [edit ]

further read [edit ]

  • Canary Citizens by Mike Davage, John Eastwood, Kevin Platt, published by Jarrold Publishing, (2001), ISBN 0-7117-2020-7
  • Norfolk ‘n’ Good: A Supporter’s View of Norwich City’s Best-ever Season by Kevin Baldwin, published by Yellow Bird Publishing, (1993), ISBN 0-9522074-0-0
  • Second Coming: Supporter’s View of the New Era at Norwich City by Kevin Baldwin, published by Yellow Bird Publishing, (1997), ISBN 0-9522074-1-9
  • Norwich City Miscellany by Edward Couzens-Lake, published by Pitch Publishing, (2010), ISBN 1-905411-70-7
  • Fantasy Football by Edward Couzens-Lake, published by Legends Publishing, (2012), ISBN 978-1906796525
  • Norwich City: Greatest Games by Edward Couzens-Lake, published by Pitch Publishing, (2012), ISBN 978-1908051462

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