Norwich
City Football
Club
Norwich City Football Club is an English
professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk.
The club currently plays in the Championship, the
second tier of English football, having been relegated
from the Premier League in 2016. They were first
promoted to the top flight in 1972. Norwich have won
the League Cup twice, in 1962 and 1985. The club has
never won the top flight, but finished third in 1993.
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 134 times since 1902. The fans'
song "On the Ball, City" is regarded as being the
oldest football song in the world which is still in
use. The club plays in characteristic yellow and green
kits and are nicknamed The Canaries after the history
of breeding the birds in the area.
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story
Norwich City F.C. was formed following a meeting at
the Criterion Cafe 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 for
the 1902–03 season, but following a FA Commission, the
club was ousted from the amateur game in 1905, deemed
a professional organisation.
Later that year Norwich were elected to play in the
Southern League and with increasing crowds, they were
forced to leave Newmarket Road in 1908, moving to The
Nest, a disused chalk pit. The club's original
nickname was the Citizens, although this was
superseded by 1907 by the more familiar Canaries after
the club's chairman (who was a keen breeder of
canaries) dubbed his boys 'The Canaries' and changing
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.
The club was officially reformed on 15 February 1919 –
a key figure in the events was Charles Frederick
Watling, future Lord Mayor of Norwich and the father
of future club chairman, Geoffrey Watling. When, in
May 1920, the Football League formed a third Division,
Norwich joined the Third Division for the following
season.
Their first 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. The following
decade proved more successful for the club 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.
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
top flight for the first time since 1995. For much of
the 2004–05 season however, the club struggled and,
despite beating Manchester United 2–0 towards the end
of the season, a last day 6–0 defeat away to Fulham
condemned them to relegation. The club finished in
ninth place in The Championship in the 2005–06
seasonand, as results in the 2006–07 season went
against City, manager Nigel Worthington was sacked in
October 2006, directly after a 4–1 defeat by Burnley.
On 16 October 2006,
Norwich revealed 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 with his fellow Scot, 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, Grant left the club by "mutual
consent" on 9 October 2007. On 30 October 2007, former
Newcastle United manager Glenn Roeder 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.
On 14 January 2009 it was announced that Roeder had
been relieved of his first team duties after 60 games
in charge, and just 20 victories. A week later, Bryan
Gunn 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.Following their
relegation, their first game of the season resulted in
a shock 7–1 home defeat against East Anglian rivals
Colchester United. This was the club's heaviest ever
home defeat, succeeding a record that had stood since
1946. Two fans entered the pitch and ripped up their
season tickets after just 22 minutes when the team
were already 4–0 down,and Gunn was sacked six days
later.
On 18 August 2009, Paul Lambert 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 behind QPR and completing the first
back-to-back promotions from the 3rd tier to the1st
since Manchester City in 2000.
The club finished in 12th place in their first season
back in the Premier League. Manager Paul 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. The 2012–13
season started poorly with a 5–0 defeat to Fulham and
a bad run of form that was followed by a club record
unbeaten run in the Premier League.
A 1–0 home defeat to Luton Town on 26 January 2013
resulted in Norwich becoming the first English
top-flight team to lose a FA Cup tie to a non-league
side in 24 years. Norwich secured their third year in
the Premier League with consecutive victories
in the last two games of the season, to finish 11th in
the league.
However they were relegated back to the Championship
after finishing 18th in the 2013–14 season. After a
mediocre first half of the 2014–15 season, Neil Adams
resigned which paved the way for the appointment of
then Hamilton Academical manager Alex Neilin January
2015. The appointment reinvigorated Norwich's season
and after narrowly missing out on automatic
promotion back to the Premier League, victory in the
2015 Championship playoff final secured an immediate
return to the top division of English football. This
was only temporary relief, however, as at the end of
the next season they were relegated again to play
season 2016/17 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,
which included five consecutive defeats, and saw the
team slide to as low as twelfth in the table. On 10
March 2017, Alex Neil was sacked by the club , with
first team coach Alan Irvine placed in caretaker
charge for the remainder of the season, which saw the
club finish eighth in the Championship. On 25 May
2017, the club appointed German coach Daniel Farke as
head coach, becoming the first foreign head coach of
the club in its 114-year history.
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Stadium
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. 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 capacity was proving
insufficient 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 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 advertisement painted on its roof, visible
only from the air. 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 ground.
Floodlights were erected at the ground in 1956 whose
£9,000 costs nearly sent the club into bankruptcy but
the success in the 1959 FA Cup secured the financial
status of the club and allowed for a cover 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.
1963 saw the record attendance for Carrow Road, with a
crowd of 43,984 for a 6th round FA Cup match against
Leicester City,
but in the wake of the Ibrox disaster in 1971, safety
licences were required by clubs which resulted in the
capacity being drastically reduced to around 20,000. A
two-tier terrace was built at the River End and soon
after 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 in 1989 and
the subsequent outcome of the Taylor Report in 1990,
the stadium was converted to all-seater with the
corners being filled. Today, Carrow Road is an
all-seater stadium, with a capacity of just over
27,000.
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Statistics and records
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 top scorer over a career – 122 between 1948 and
1955. Mark Bowen holds the club record for most
international caps, with 35 for Wales.
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
introduction of regulations enforcing all-seater
stadiums, it is unlikely that this record will be
beaten in the foreseeable future.
The highest transfer fee received for a Norwich player
is £10 million, from Southampton for Nathan Redmond in
June 2016, while the most spent by the club on a player was the
signing of Ricky van Wolfswinkel for £8.5 million (€10
million) from Sporting Lisbon. This transfer fee was then equaled by
the signing of Steven Naismith from Everton in January
2016.
The club's highest league finish was third in the FA
Premier League in 1992–93. The 2015–16 season was
Norwich's 25th 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
British side to beat Bayern Munich in the Olympic
Stadium.
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Honours
Friendship Trophy Each time they meet, Norwich and
Sunderland contest the Friendship Trophy, an honour
dating back to the camaraderie forged between fans of
the two clubs at the time of the 1985 League Cup final
that they contested. Sunderland are the current
holders having beaten Norwich 3–0 at Carrow Road on 16
April 2016 in the 2015-16 Premier League.
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Norwich City’s new management structure may not
work, says Ipswich Town chief Ian Milne
Ipswich Town managing director Ian Milne doesn’t
believe in the new management structure at Norwich
City. In the wake of Jez Moxey’s departure as chief
executive, the Canaries restructured their business,
appointing Steve Stone as managing director to work
alongside Stuart Webber, who arrived from
Huddersfield.
New head coach Daniel Farke will report directly into
Webber but Milne isn’t about to adopt the Canaries
template at the other side of the A140. Milne believes
there should only be one leader taking decisions on
the football operations and still thinks he has the
right man in Mick McCarthy to bring success back to
Portman Road.
“It’s interesting what’s going on at Norwich,” said
Milne, whose main responsibilities surround off-field
matters.
“They’ve gone for a sporting director and a head
coach, but I think there can only be one captain of
the ship the manager.
“They are trying that route and it’s clearly worked at
some clubs, but not at the majority.
“We’re going to see more younger, foreign managers,
like the (David) Wagners, but we believe in what we
are doing here. We think it works well and it’s proven
to have worked well in the not too distant past.
“Good managers do not grow on trees. We see that with
so many of the managerial appointments that haven’t
worked for clubs.”
McCarthy oversees everything at Portman Road with
‘director of football, Dave Bowman overseeing the
scouting operation. Many Blues fans were calling for
McCarthy to go this summer after the club’s
16th-placed finish. The former Republic of Ireland
boss said back in January that he would consider his
popularity levels among supporters before
committing to the final year of his contract.
“I don’t think that was a good time for him,” said
Milne. “He was getting a lot of criticism, but we’ve
moved on and he’ll come back refreshed.”Asked if the
club had considered potential McCarthy replacements
during that period of uncertainty, Milne replied: “I
don’t think it came to that. Mick and (owner) Marcus
(Evans) were talking the whole time. I think Mick made
a lot of those comments after matches when emotions
were incredibly high.”
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Norwich City: Steven Naismith determined to
stay and impress new boss Daniel Farke
Steven Naismith is aiming to impress new Norwich City
head coach Daniel Farke and has no plans to leave
Carrow Road before the end of his contract.The
Scotland striker does envisage a return to the
domestic scene in his homeland - but not in the near
future.
Naismith was not an automatic first choice after
Norwich dropped down to the Championship in England.
"They changed the manager and, looking forward, it's
going to be really exciting," said the 30-year-old.
Naismith moved to Carrow Road from Everton in January
2016, but he was unable to help prevent Alex Neil's
Canaries being relegated and fell out of favour under
his fellow Scot.
After Neil was sacked in March, the striker was a more
regular starter as Norwich ended the season with
another Scotsman, Alan Irvine, in interim
charge.Naismith realises more game-time will again be
his goal under former Borussia Dortmund reserve-team
coach Farke.
"That's a factor," he said. "As you get older, it's
all about routine and playing, so that's when you do
need to think about playing more."I've got two years
left of my contract there, I still think I can
contribute massively and help the club get to where
they want to be, and we'll see how it goes in
pre-season."
Naismith has worked under a number of managers in his
career and hopes Farke will have a similar impact on
him as Roberto Martinez did at Everton."You've got a
new manager, a German, so it's something new for me,"
he said. "I'm hoping to learn lots from him.
"Growing up, I had a lot of British-based managers
who gave me my fundamental learning skills for what
I've got and the type of player I am."I had Martinez -
that was the total opposite - and he gave me a whole
new dimension on how to play the game."I loved that
and now, hopefully with the new manager, I'll learn
much more.
"The club has had a shake-up and no player at the club
is safe - and that's probably a good situation for the
club in terms of moving forward."Farke has already
added Marley Watkins, the former Inverness Caledonian
Thistle winger, from Barnsley to his forward options,
but Naismith has no thoughts of being squeezed out at
Carrow Road.
"I signed expecting to see out my contract and that's
what I think I'll be doing," said the Scot, who scored
seven times in 32 appearances in the 2016-17
season."I'll go down for pre-season. Obviously, when
any new manager comes in, that can change if you're
not in his plans.
"I'm going back to work as hard as I can, show my
worth and hopefully he accepts me and wants me to be a
big part of his squad."Naismith's former club,
Rangers, are embarking on a reshaping of their squad
under new manager Pedro Caixinha, but Naismith does
not see himself returning to Scotland just yet.
"I think I will come back to Scotland at some point
to play, to finish off hopefully, and I'll assess my
options when that day
comes, but I don't like to think too far in front," he
added.
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