Norwich City Football Club (also known as The Canaries or The Yellows) is an English professional
football club based in
Norwich
Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ...
,
Norfolk
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. The club competes in the
EFL Championship following their relegation from the
Premier League
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in the
2021–22 season. The club was founded in 1902. Since
1935, Norwich have played their home games at
Carrow Road and have a long-standing and fierce rivalry with
East Anglian rivals
Ipswich Town, with whom they have contested the
East Anglian derby
The East Anglian derby is a sobriquet used to describe football matches held between Norwich City and Ipswich Town, the only fully professional football clubs in the neighbouring East Anglian counties of Norfolk and Suffolk respectively. In rec ...
134 times since 1902.
Norwich have won the
League Cup
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twice, in
1962
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and
1985
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. The club's highest ever league finish came in the
1992–93 season when they finished third in the Premier League. Norwich have featured in the
UEFA Cup
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once, in the
1993–94 season, where they were defeated in the third round, but en route became the only English club to
defeat German side
Bayern Munich at the
Olympic Stadium
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in Munich.
The club is nicknamed ''The Canaries'' after the history of breeding the birds in the area, which is represented in the team's yellow-and-green kits. The fans' song "
On the Ball, City
"On The Ball, City" (sometimes abbreviated 'OTBC' in writing) is a football chant sung by fans of Norwich City F.C.
Norwich City Football Club (also known as The Canaries or The Yellows) is an English professional football club based in Nor ...
" is the oldest football chant in the world, written in the 1890s and still sung today.
History
Early years (1902–1934)
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Norwich City F.C. was formed after a meeting at the Criterion Café in Norwich on 17 June 1902 and played their first competitive match, against
Harwich & Parkeston, at
Newmarket Road on 6 September 1902. They joined the
Norfolk & Suffolk League
The Norfolk & Suffolk League was a football league covering the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk in England.
History
The league was established in 1897, starting with six clubs, Beccles Caxton, Great Yarmouth Town, Kirkley, Lowestoft Town, Lynn ...
for the 1902–03 season, but following a
FA commission, the club was ousted from the amateur game in 1905, as it was deemed a professional organisation. Later that year Norwich were elected to play in the
Southern League. With increasing crowds, they were forced to leave Newmarket Road in 1908 and moved to The Nest, a disused chalk pit. The club's original nickname was the Citizens, but this was superseded by 1907 by the Canaries after the club's chairman (who was a keen 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
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on 10 December 1917.
The club was officially reformed on 15 February 1919 – a key figure in the event was Charles Frederick Watling, future lord mayor of Norwich and the father of future club chairman,
Geoffrey Watling
Geoffrey Watling (2 April 1913 – 16 November 2004) was a president and chairman of Norwich City (1957–1973 and 1996).
Life
Watling was born in Norwich on 2 April 1913, and educated locally at the King Edward VI School and the Paston ...
. When
the Football League
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formed a third Division in May 1920, Norwich joined the
Third Division for the following season. Their first league fixture, against
Plymouth Argyle
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, 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.
[ The following decade proved more successful for the club with a club-record victory, 10–2, over ]Coventry City
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. Norwich were promoted as champions to the Second Division
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in the 1933–34 season under the management of Tom Parker.
Move to Carrow Road and an FA Cup semi-final (1934–1959)
With crowds continuing to rise, and with the Football Association raising concerns over the suitability of The Nest, the club considered renovation of the ground, but ultimately decided on a move to Carrow Road. The inaugural match, on 31 August 1935 against West Ham United
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, ended in a 4–3 victory for the home team and set a new record attendance of 29,779. The biggest highlight of the following four seasons was the visit of King George VI
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to Carrow Road on 29 October 1938. However the club was relegated to the Third Division at the end of the season.
The league was suspended the following season due to the Second World War, and did not resume until the 1946–47 season.[ City finished this and the following season in 21st place, the poor results forcing the club to apply for re-election to the league.] The club narrowly missed out on promotion under the guidance of manager Norman Low
Norman Harvey Low (23 March 1914 – 21 May 1994) was a Scottish football player and manager. He was the son of Scottish international footballer, Wilf Low.
A central defender, he played for Newcastle United between 1931 and 1933, before a ...
in the early 1950s, but following the return of Tom Parker as manager, Norwich finished bottom of the football league in the 1956–57 season.
Events off the field were to overshadow the team's performances as the club faced financial difficulties severe enough to render them non-viable. With debts amounting to more than £20,000, the club was rescued by the formation of a new board, chaired by Geoffrey Watling
Geoffrey Watling (2 April 1913 – 16 November 2004) was a president and chairman of Norwich City (1957–1973 and 1996).
Life
Watling was born in Norwich on 2 April 1913, and educated locally at the King Edward VI School and the Paston ...
and the creation of an appeal fund chaired by the Lord Mayor of Norwich, Arthur South, which raised more than £20,000. For these and other services to the club, both men (now deceased) were later honoured by having stands named after them at Carrow Road.
Archie Macaulay
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Playing career
Born in Falkirk, Macaulay started his playing career in junior football a ...
became manager when the club was reformed and he oversaw one of the club's greatest achievements, its run to the semi-final of the 1958–59 FA Cup. Competing as a Third Division side, Norwich defeated two First Division opponents along the way, notably a 3–0 win against the Manchester United
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"Busby Babes
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". City lost the semi-final only after a replay against another First Division side, Luton Town
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.[ The team of 1958–59 – including ]Terry Bly
Terence Geoffrey Bly (22 October 1935 – 24 September 2009) was an English football striker.
Career
He was renowned for his goalscoring prowess, most notably for Norwich City and Peterborough United, scoring a record 54 goals in the latter' ...
who scored seven goals in the run, and Ken Nethercott
Kenneth Walter Samuel Nethercott (22 July 1925 - 14 December 2007) was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Nethercott began his career as an amateur with Cardiff City before signing a professional contract with Norwi ...
who played most of the second half of one match in goal despite a dislocated
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shoulder – is today well represented in the club Hall of Fame. The "59 Cup Run" as it is now known locally, "remains as one of the truly great periods in Norwich City's history". Norwich were the third-ever Third Division team to reach the FA Cup semi-final.
League Cup glory and a place in the First Division (1959–1980)
In the 1959–60 season, Norwich were promoted to the Second Division after finishing second to Southampton
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, and achieved a fourth-place finish in the 1960–61 season.[ In 1962 ]Ron Ashman
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guided Norwich to their first trophy, defeating Rochdale
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4–0 on aggregate in a two-legged final to win the League Cup
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.
Sixth place in the league was the closest the club came to promotion to the First Division again during the 1960s, but after winning the division in the 1971–72 season under manager Ron Saunders
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, Norwich City reached the highest level of English football for the first time. They made their first appearance at Wembley Stadium
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in 1973, losing the League Cup final 1–0 to Tottenham Hotspur.
Relegation to the Second Division in 1974
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came after Saunders had departed and been succeeded by John Bond, but the board of directors kept faith in Bond and were quickly rewarded.[ A highly successful first season saw 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
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.
Promotion, silverware and more cup runs (1980–1992)
Bond departed to Manchester City
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in autumn 1980, and the club were relegated six months later,[ but bounced back the following season after finishing third under Bond's successor Ken Brown. In August 1981, Norwich City striker ]Justin Fashanu
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became the first black footballer to command a £1m transfer fee when he moved to Nottingham Forest
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.
The 1984–85 season was of mixed fortunes for the club; under Brown's guidance, they reached the final
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of the Football League Cup at Wembley Stadium, having defeated Ipswich Town in the semi-final. In the final, they beat Sunderland
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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 also suffered relegation the season they won the League Cup 26 years later.
Norwich were also denied their first foray into Europe with the ban on English clubs after the ]Heysel Stadium disaster
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. City bounced back to the top flight by winning the Second Division championship in the 1985–86 season. This was the start a club-record nine consecutive seasons in the top division of English football. High league placing in the First Division in 1988–89 would have been enough for UEFA Cup qualification, but the ban on English clubs remained.[ They also had good cup runs during this period, reaching the FA Cup semi-finals in 1989 and again in 1992.
]
Early success in the Premier League era (1992–1995)
During 1992–93, the inaugural season of the Premier League, Norwich City quickly emerged as surprise title contenders, before faltering in the final weeks to finish third behind the champions, Manchester United, and runners-up Aston Villa. The following season Norwich participated in the UEFA Cup
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for the first (and only) time, losing in the third round to Inter Milan
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, but defeating Bayern Munich. Winning 2–1, Norwich were the first British team to beat Bayern Munich in the Olympic Stadium
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.
Mike Walker quit as Norwich City manager in January 1994, to take charge of Everton and was replaced by first team coach John Deehan
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who led the club to 12th place in the 1993–94 season in the Premier League. Norwich began the 1994–95 season well, despite the pre-season departure of top scorer Chris Sutton
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to Blackburn Rovers
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for a British record fee of £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 20th place and relegation, ending a nine-season run in the top flight.
The Division One years (1995–2003)
Shortly before relegation, Deehan resigned as manager and his assistant Gary Megson
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He has previously managed Norwich City, Blackpool, Stockport County, Stoke City, West Bromwich Albion, Nottingham Forest, Leicester City, Bolton Wanderers ...
took over until the end of the season. Martin O'Neill
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, who had taken Wycombe Wanderers
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from the Conference to the Second Division with successive promotions, was appointed as Norwich City manager in summer 1995. He lasted just six months in the job before resigning after a dispute with chairman Robert Chase
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over money to strengthen the squad. 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 relegation. Chase's majority stakeholding was bought by Geoffrey Watling.[
English television cook ]Delia Smith
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and husband Michael Wynn-Jones
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Early life
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took over the majority of Norwich City's shares from Watling in 1996, and Mike Walker was re-appointed as the club's manager. He was unable to repeat the success achieved during his first spell and was sacked two seasons later with Norwich mid-table in Division One. Nigel Worthington
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He played a defender and a midfielder, playing his club football for Ballymena United, Notts County, ...
took over as Norwich City manager in December 2000 following an unsuccessful two years for the club under Bruce Rioch
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and then Bryan Hamilton
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. 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 tier of English football for the first time since the 1960s. Worthington avoided the threat of relegation and, the following season, led City to a playoff final at the Millennium Stadium
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, which Norwich lost against Birmingham City
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on penalties
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.
Return to the Premier League (2003–2009)
The 2003–04 campaign saw the club win the First Division title, finishing eight points clear of second-placed West Bromwich Albion
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and returned to the top flight for the first time since 1995. For much of the 2004–05 season, the club struggled and a last day 6–0 defeat away to Fulham
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condemned them to relegation. The club finished in ninth place in The Championship
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in the 2005–06 season and, as results in the 2006–07 season went against City, Worthington was sacked in October 2006, directly after a 4–1 defeat by Burnley
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.
On 16 October 2006, Norwich announced that former City player Peter Grant had left West Ham United to become the new manager, and in February 2007, Grant replaced assistant Doug Livermore
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with his fellow Scot
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, Jim Duffy.
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 defeat at fellow-strugglers Queens Park Rangers
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, Grant left the club by "mutual consent" on 9 October 2007. On 30 October 2007, former Newcastle United
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manager Glenn Roeder
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was confirmed as Grant's replacement.
Roeder kept Norwich in the Championship with a 3–0 win over Queens Park Rangers, Norwich's penultimate game of the season.
Yo-yo years (2009–present)
On 14 January 2009 it was announced that Roeder had been relieved of his first team duties. A week later, former Norwich goalkeeper Bryan Gunn
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was appointed as manager until the end of the season, but he was unable to prevent the club from being relegated on 3 May 2009, after a 4–2 defeat away at already relegated Charlton Athletic
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. Following their relegation, their first game of the season resulted in a shock 7–1 home defeat against East Anglian rivals Colchester United
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. This was the club's heaviest ever home defeat and Gunn was sacked six days later.
On 18 August 2009, Paul Lambert
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was announced as the new manager, 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. The following season saw Norwich promoted to the Premier League, finishing second in the table and completing the first back-to-back promotions from the third tier to the first since Manchester City in 2000.
The club finished in 12th place in their first season back in the Premier League. However, Lambert resigned within a month of the season's close to take up the vacant managerial spot at league rivals Aston Villa and was replaced by Chris Hughton
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. Hughton led Norwich to an 11th-place finish, including a ten-game unbeaten run in the league, but they were relegated back to the Championship after the 2013–14 season. Hughton was sacked to be replaced by former Norwich player Neil Adams.
After a mediocre first half of the 2014–15 season, Adams resigned in January 2015 and then-Hamilton Academical
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manager Alex Neil was appointed as Norwich manager four days later. The appointment reinvigorated Norwich's season, and victory in the 2015 Championship playoff final secured an immediate return to the top division of English football. This was only temporary relief, as at the end of the next season they were relegated again to play the 2016–17 season in the Football League Championship.
The following season started successfully, with the club sitting top of the Championship in mid-October. However, a poor run of form and results followed and on 10 March 2017, Alex Neil was sacked by the club. First-team coach Alan Irvine was placed in caretaker charge for the remainder of the season, ultimately finishing in eighth.
On 25 May 2017, the club appointed German coach Daniel Farke as head coach, becoming the first head coach of the club in its 114-year history that was not from the British Isles
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. In Farke's first season, Norwich finished in 14th place. The following season was far more successful; helped by top scorer Teemu Pukki
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, the club was promoted back to the Premier League after a three-year absence as Championship winners. However, Norwich were once again relegated back to the Championship after just a single season back in the top flight, becoming the first team in Premier League history to be relegated five times from the division. The yo-yo effect
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continued unabated: in May 2021, Norwich were crowned winners of the Championship
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, securing promotion back to the top flight at the first time of asking, but they failed to win a match in their first nine games back in Premier League
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in the 2021–2022 season, and Farke was sacked by the club in November. On 14 November 2021, the club appointed former Walsall
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, Brentford and Aston Villa manager Dean Smith
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as their new head coach. but Norwich completed a record sixth relegation from the Premier League,
Colours and badge
Norwich City's nickname, "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 halved shirts,[ although the halves were inconsistent: the blue was on the left on some shirts, and on the right for others.
The earliest known recorded link between the club and canaries comes in an interview recorded in the '']Eastern Daily Press
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'' with the newly appointed manager, John Bowman in April 1905. The paper quotes him saying "Well I knew of the City's existence... I have... heard of the canaries."[ "This as far as we can tell is the first time that the popular pastime of the day ie... rearing ... canaries was linked with Norwich City FC... the club still played in blue and white, and would continue to do so for another two seasons" wrote one history of the club.][
By February 1907, the nickname ''Canaries'' had come more into vogue; thoughts that an FA Cup tie against West Bromwich Albion (nicknamed "Throstles" after a bird) was "a bird -singing contest" were dismissed by the ]polymath
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C. B. Fry
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as "humbug" but the national press increasingly referred to the team as Canaries. The following season, to match the nickname, City played for the first time in Canary livery; "yellow shirts with green collars and cuffs. One paper produced the quote 'The Cits are dead but the Canaries are very much alive'." While the home colours of yellow and green remain to this day, the away colours have varied since introduction. For example, the away kit for the 2012–13 season was black shirts and shorts.
A simple canary badge was first adopted in 1922. The current club badge consists of a canary resting on a football with a stylised version of the City of Norwich arms
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in the top left corner. For the club's centenary celebrations in 2002, a special badge was designed, featuring two canaries looking left and right, plus a ribbon noting the centenary.
In November 2021, the club unveiled a new club badge that officially replaced the previous badge on all club branding from June 2022 and that would appear on club shirts from the 2022–23 season. It is a modernised version of its predecessor that removed black keylines around the badge, a redesigned version of the city's coat of arms that more closely resembles a lion and Norwich Castle
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, and a redesigned canary on a ball that's more centralised in the badge than its predecessor.
Stadium
Norwich City played at Newmarket Road from 1902 to 1908, with a record attendance of 10,366 against Sheffield Wednesday
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in a second round FA Cup match in 1908. Following a dispute over the conditions of renting the Newmarket Road ground, in 1908 the club moved to a new home in a converted disused chalk pit in Rosary Road which became known as " The Nest".
By the 1930s, the ground was too small for the growing crowds, and in 1935 the club moved to its current home in Carrow Road. The original stadium, "the largest construction job in the city since the building of Norwich Castle... was "miraculously" built in just 82 days... it was referred to y club officials
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as 'The eighth wonder of the world'" An aerial photograph from August 1935 shows three sides of open terracing and a covered stand, with a Colman's Mustard
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advertisement painted on its roof, visible only from the air. Another photograph, taken on a match day that same season, shows that a parking area was provided at the ground.
Floodlights were erected at the ground in 1956, but their cost of £9,000 nearly sent the club into bankruptcy. The success in the 1959 FA Cup secured the financial status of the club and allowed a cover to be built over the South Stand. This was itself replaced in 2003 when a new 7,000 seat South stand was built in its place and subsequently renamed the Jarrold Stand.[
1963 saw the record attendance for Carrow Road, with a crowd of 43,984 for a 6th round FA Cup match against ]Leicester City
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. After the Ibrox disaster in 1971, safety licences were required by clubs and this drastically reduced the ground's capacity to around 20,000. A two-tier terrace was built at the River End, and 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 eventually led to its complete demolition and replacement by 1987 of a new City Stand, which chairman Robert Chase described as "Coming to a football match within the City Stand is very much like going to the theatre – the only difference being that our stage is covered with grass".[ After the ]Hillsborough disaster
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in 1989 and the subsequent outcome of the Taylor Report
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in 1990, the stadium was converted to all-seater. It has a capacity of 27,359.
Supporters
While much of the support that the club enjoys is local, there are a number 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.
The fans' song, ''On the Ball, City
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'', is the oldest football song in the world still in use today; the song is older than the club itself, having probably been penned for Norwich Teachers or Caley's FC in the 1890s and adapted for Norwich City.[ Although the first use of the tune and song is disputed, it had been adopted by 1902 and it remains in use today in part if not the whole.] The chorus is:
Locally, much is made of the informal title "Pride of Anglia
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". Fans variously claim the title 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 main local rival is Ipswich Town. When Norwich and Ipswich meet it is known as the 'East Anglian Derby
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', or, informally, as the 'Old Farm Derby' – a comic reference to the 'Old Firm
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Derby' played between Scottish teams Celtic
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and Rangers. Norwich are currently unbeaten against Ipswich since .
The club also maintains a healthy celebrity support with celebrity cook Delia Smith and comedian Stephen Fry
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both having moved from being fans of the club to running it. Actor Hugh Jackman
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is also 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. BT Sport
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Presenter Jake Humphrey
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, who was born in Peterborough but moved to Norwich with his family at the age of nine, is another celebrity supporter. Other well-known supporters include Sky Sports
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presenter Simon Thomas, who is vice-president of the Norwich City Supporters Trust, Norfolk-born musician, model and media personality Myleene Klass
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, fiction author Philip Pullman
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, and Labour
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ex-politician Ed Balls
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. Journalist and broadcaster Sir David Frost
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also declared his love for The Canaries during his lifetime.
In March 2018, supporters helped the club raise £5m through a mini-bond investment scheme. The purpose of the mini-bond, called the Canaries Bond was to raise money to fund new academy facilities at Colney Training Ground for the Norwich City F.C. Under-23s and Academy
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.
Current ownership
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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 club. They made clear that any prospective buyer would have to invest heavily in the squad, with regards to team improving.
In September 2022, a general meeting of shareholders took place to discuss and voted for Milwaukee Brewers
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owner Mark Attanasio
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to be appointed as a director at the club. Attanasio is expected to buy the 15.9% stake in the club currently owned by Michael Foulger
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Statistics and records
Ashman holds the record for Norwich league appearances, having played 592 first-team matches between 1947 and 1964. Ralph Hunt holds the record for the most goals scored in a season, 31 in the 1955–56 season in Division Three (South)
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, with Johnny Gavin the top scorer over a career – 122 between 1948 and 1955.
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
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in 1908 in the Southern Football League.
Norwich's record home attendance is 43,984 for a sixth-round FA Cup
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match against Leicester City on 30 March 1963. In the wake of the Ibrox stadium disaster in 1971, government regulations resulted in the capacity being drastically reduced to around 20,000.[ After the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 and the subsequent Taylor Report in 1990, the stadium was converted to ]all-seater
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. As of July 2020, the capacity is 27,359.
The highest transfer fee received for a Norwich player is £33 million from Aston Villa for Emiliano Buendía in June 2021, while the most confirmed spent by the club on a player was the signing of Christos Tzolis for £11.0 million from PAOK FC
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in August 2021.
The club's highest league finish was third in the FA Premier League
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in 1992–93.[ The 2021–22 season was Norwich's 27th in the top 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.][ Norwich have taken part in European competition just 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
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Players
First-team squad
Players listed on the First Team page on Norwich City's official website.
Out on loan
A list of first team players who are out on loan.
Development squad
This team is made up of under-23 and academy players and is effectively Norwich City's second-string side, but is limited to three outfield players and one goalkeeper over the age of 23 per game.
In March 2018, the public mini-bond investment scheme mentioned above raised £5,000,000. With this investment, the club installed new pitches at its Category 1 Academy, as well as a new irrigation system, cameras for analysis and floodlights, a new main building, with a gym, classrooms, physios room, changing rooms and offices. A stand was also installed next to the main Academy pitch.
Notable players
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During the club's centenary season, a "Hall of Fame
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" was created, honouring 100 former players chosen by fan vote. Further players have since been inducted into the Norwich City Hall of Fame.
Greatest Ever Norwich City XI (1902–2008)
In 2008, supporters cast votes to determine the greatest ever Norwich City team.
* Kevin Keelan
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(1963–80)
* Ian Culverhouse
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(1985–94)
* Steve Bruce
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(1984–87)
* Duncan Forbes (1968–81)
* Mark Bowen (1987–96)
* Darren Huckerby
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(2003–08)
* Ian Crook
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(1986–97)
* Martin Peters
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(1975–80)
* Darren Eadie
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(1993–99)
* Chris Sutton
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(1991–94)
* Iwan Roberts
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(1997–2004)
Players of the Season
Every year, fans vote for whom they believe to have been the player of the season.
Club staff
Backroom staff
Board of directors
Managers
:''As of 19 September 2022. Not including caretaker managers. Only professional, competitive matches are counted.''
Honours
Norwich City have won a number of honours:
League
Football League Second Division
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/ EFL Championship (Tier 2)
*Winners (5): 1971–72, 1985–86, 2003–04, 2018–19, 2020–21
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(Tier 3)
*Winners (2): 1933–34 (South), 2009–10
Cup
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*Winners (2): 1961–62, 1984–85
European football
Friendship Trophy
Each time they meet, Norwich and Sunderland contest the Friendship Trophy
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, a game dating back to the camaraderie forged between fans of the two clubs at the time of the 1985
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League Cup
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final that they contested. Norwich are the current holders having beaten Sunderland 0–1 at the Stadium of Light
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on 27 August 2022 in the 2022–23 EFL Championship
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In popular culture
In the 2001 film '' Mike Bassett: England Manager'', the eponymous hero, played by Ricky Tomlinson
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, rises to prominence as a result of success as manager of Norwich City, having won the 'Mr Clutch Cup'. The celebratory scenes of the open-top bus ride around the city were actually shot in St Albans
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, Hertfordshire, rather than Norwich.
Norwich City Women
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