Norwich City F.C.
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Full name | Norwich City Football Club | ||
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Nickname(s) | The Canaries, City | ||
Founded | 17 June 1902[1] | ||
Ground | Carrow Road | ||
Capacity | 26,164 | ||
Chairman | Roger Munby | ||
Manager | Peter Grant | ||
League | The Championship | ||
2006–07 | The Championship, 16th | ||
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Norwich City Football Club (also known as The Canaries or City) is an English professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk. Norwich play in the Football League Championship, last appearing in the FA Premier League in 2004–05, having first been promoted to the top flight in 1972. Norwich have won the League Cup twice, in 1962 and 1985.
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.
History
Norwich City F.C. was formed on 17 June 1902[1] by a group of friends following a meeting at the Criterion Cafe in Norwich and played its first competitive match against Harwich & Parkeston, at Newmarket Road on 6 September, 1902.[2] Following an F.A. 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. During the First World War, with football suspended and facing spiralling debts, City went into voluntary liquidation on 10 December, 1917.[3] The club was officially reformed on 15 February, 1919. In May 1920, The Football League formed two regional Third Divisions and Norwich joined the South Division for the following season.[4] Their first league fixture, against Plymouth, 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.[3]
The following decade proved more successful for the club with a club-record victory, 10–2, over Coventry and promotion as champions to the Second Division in the 1933–34 season under the management of Tom Parker.[5] 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, held on 31 August, 1935, against West Ham United, ended in a 4–3 victory to 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 to Carrow Road on October 29, 1938. However, the club was relegated to the Third Division at the end of the season.[6] The league was suspended the following season as a result of the outbreak of the Second World War and did not resume until the 1946–47 season.[3] City finished this and the following season in 21st place,[7][8] the poor results forcing the club to apply for re-election to the league.[9] The club narrowly missed out on promotion under the guidance of manager Norman Low in the early 1950's, but following the return of Tom Parker as manager, Norwich finished bottom of the football league in the 1956–57 season.[10]
The 1958–59 season saw Norwich lose in 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.[9][11] In the 1959–60 season, Norwich were promoted to the Second Division after finishing second to Southampton, and achieved a fourth place finish in the 1960–61 season.[9] In 1962 Ron Ashman guided Norwich to their first trophy, defeating Rochdale 4-0 on aggregate in a two-legged final to win the League Cup.[12]
Sixth place in the league was the closest the club came to promotion to the First Division during the 1960's, but after winning the division in the 1971–72 season under manager Ron Saunders, Norwich City reached the highest level of English football for the first time.[13] They made their first appearance at Wembley Stadium in 1973, losing the League Cup final 1-0 to Tottenham Hotspur.[14] Relegation to the Second Division in 1974 resulted in the resignation of Saunders and the appointment of John Bond.[13] 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.[15] Bond resigned during the 1980–81 season and the club were relegated, but bounced back the following season after finishing third.[16]
The 1984–85 season was of mixed fortunes for the club; under Ken Brown's guidance, they reached the final of the Milk Cup at Wembley Stadium, having defeated Ipswich Town in the semi-final. In the final, they beat Sunderland 1–0, but in the league both Norwich and Sunderland were relegated to the second tier of English football. Norwich were also denied their first foray into Europe with the ban on English clubs after the Heysel Stadium disaster.[17][18] City bounced back to the top flight immediately by winning the Second Division championship in the 1985–86 season.[19] High league placings in the First Division in 1986–87 and 1988–89 would have been enough for UEFA Cup qualification, but the ban on English clubs remained.[18] They also had good cup runs during his period, reaching the FA Cup semi-finals in 1989 and again in 1992.[20][21]
In 1992–93, the inaugural season of the English Premier League, Norwich City led the league for most of the season,[22] before faltering in the final weeks to finish third behind the champions, Manchester United, and Aston Villa.[23] The following season Norwich played in the UEFA Cup for the first time, losing in the third round to Internazionale, but defeating Bayern Munich. Winning 2–1, Norwich are the only English team to beat Bayern Munich in the Olympic Stadium.[24] Mike Walker quit as Norwich City manager in January 1994,[25] to take charge of Everton and was replaced by 36-year-old first team coach John Deehan who lead the club to 12th place in the 1993–94 season in the Premier League.[26] The club were relegated to the First Division the following season.[27] Shortly before relegation, Deehan resigned as manager and his assistant Gary Megson took over until the end of the season.[28] Martin O'Neill, who had taken Wycombe Wanderers from the Conference to the Second Division with successive promotions, was appointed as Norwich City manager in the summer of 1995.[29] He lasted just six months in the job before resigning after a dispute with chairman Robert Chase over money to strengthen the squad.[30] 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.[31] Chase's majority stakeholding was bought by Geoffrey Watling.[32]
English television cook Delia Smith and husband Michael Wynn-Jones took over the majority of Norwich City's shares from Watling in 1996,[32] and Mike Walker was re-appointed as the club's manager.[33] He was unable to repeat the success achieved during his first spell and was sacked two seasons later with Norwich mid-table in the First Division.[34] Nigel Worthington took over as Norwich City manager 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 was fired 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.[35] Worthington avoided the threat of relegation and, the following season, led City to a playoff final at the Millennium Stadium, which Norwich lost against Birmingham City on penalties.[36]
The 2003–04 campaign saw the club win the First Division title, finishing eight points clear of second-placed West Brom F.C. and returned to the top flight for the first time since 1995.[37] For much of the 2004–05 season however, the club struggled and, despite beating Manchester United 2–0 and Newcastle United 2–1 towards the end of the season,[38] a last day 6–0 defeat away to Fulham condemned them to relegation.[39] A mediocre season followed in The Championship as the club finished in 9th despite hopes of bouncing straight back up to the top flight,[40] and as results in the 2006–07 season went against City, the pressure mounted on manager Nigel Worthington, culminating with his sacking on October 1, 2006, directly after a 4–1 defeat at the hands of Championship rivals Burnley.[41] On October 16 2006, Norwich held a press conference to reveal that former City player Peter Grant had left West Ham United to become the new manager,[42] and in February 2007, Grant replaced assistant Doug Livermore with his fellow Scot, Jim Duffy.[43]
Colours and crest
Norwich City's nickname, "The Canaries", has long influenced the team's colours and crest. Originally, the club was nicknamed the Citizens ("Cits" for short), and played in light blue and white halved shirts,[3] although the halves were inconsistent; "the blue was sometimes on the left hand side of the shirt and sometimes on the right."[44] The earliest known recorded link between the club and canaries, comes in an interview recorded in the Eastern Daily Press with 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."[45] "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."[45]
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 C.B. Fry as "humbug" but Bowman and Fry's colleagues in the national press increasingly referred to the team as Canaries.[46]
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'."[47]
While the home colours of yellow and green remain to this day, the away colours have varied since introduction; as of the 2006-07 season, the away kit is white with green trim.[48]
A simple canary badge was first adopted in 1922.[49] The current club badge consists of a canary resting on a football with a stylised version of the City of Norwich arms in the top left corner.[50]. A competition was held to select the badge, with the winning entry designed by local architect Andrew Anderson.
For the club's centenary celebrations in 2002, a special crest was designed. It featured two canaries looking left and right, and a ribbon noting the centenary.[51]
Stadia
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.[52] 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".[53] 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.[54] 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 [by club officials] as 'The eighth wonder of the world'"[55][56] An aerial photograph from August 1935 show three sides of open terracing and a covered stand, with a Colman's Mustard advertisement painted on its roof, visible only from the air.[57] 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.[54]
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 stadium 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".[54] 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 26,034.[58]
Supporters
- See also On The Ball, City, Pride of Anglia and the East Anglian Derby.
While much of the support that the club enjoys is local, there are a number of exiled fan clubs, notably in London and Scandinavia.[59]
The fans' song, On the ball, City, is the oldest football song anywhere in the world still in use today; the song is in fact older than the club itself having probably been penned for Norwich Teachers or Caley's FC in the 1890s and adapted for Norwich City.[45] 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.[45] The chorus is:[60]
Kick off, throw it in, have a little scrimmage,
Keep it low, a splendid rush, bravo, win or die,
On the ball, City, never mind the danger,
Steady on, now’s your chance,
Hurrah! We’ve scored a goal.
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 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', or, informally, as the 'Old Farm Derby', a comic reference to the 'Old Firm Derby' played between Scottish teams Celtic and Rangers.[61] Over the 134 matches played against Ipswich since 1902, Ipswich boasts the better record, having won 45% of the matches to Norwich's 37%.[62][i] Another commonly employed measure for "Pride of Anglia", and one that encompasses all of the East Anglian teams is to dub the side finishing as the highest placed East Anglian team in the Football League as the Pride of Anglia.[63][64]
Ownership
Norwich City F.C. is a public limited company that, in 2003, comprised approximately 8,000 individual shareholdings.[65] Since purchasing their shares from Geoffrey Watling, Delia Smith and husband Michael Wynn-Jones have been joint majority shareholders.[32]
At the 2006–07 Norwich City FC Annual General Meeting (on the 18 January 2007) Smith and Wynn-Jones announced that they would be open to offers to buy their majority stake-holding in the club. However, they made clear that any prospective buyer would have to invest heavily in the squad, with regards to team improving.[66]
The only way we would relinquish our shares is if somebody is going to put money into the football....Only if they put money into the squad - not if they buy our shares, we don't want money. It has to be that there is money for the squad, serious money for the squad.
On the 8 May 2007 the football club announced that Andrew Turner and his wife Sharon had bought out all 5,000 shares belonging to Barry Skipper and had given the club an interest-free loan of £2m. Mr and Mrs Turner are owners and directors of rapidly-expanding personal finance company Central Trust PLC, based in Norwich.
Board members
Position | Name | Nation |
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Chairman | Roger Munby | |
Joint Majority Shareholder | Delia Smith | |
Joint Majority Shareholder | Michael Wynn-Jones | |
Director | Andrew Turner | |
Director | Sharon Turner | |
Director | Michael Foulger | |
Chief Executive | Neil Doncaster |
Statistics and records
Ron Ashman holds the record for Norwich 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), 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.[67]
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 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 an Norwich player is £7.25 million, from West Ham United for Dean Ashton in January 2006, while the most spent by the club on a player was £3.5 million for Robert Earnshaw from West Bromwich Albion in the same month.[68]
The club's highest league finish was third in the FA Premiership in 1992–93.[58] The club has won the League Cup twice (most recently in 1985) and also reached the FA Cup semi-final three times, most recently in 1992.[58] Norwich have taken part in European competition just once, reaching the third round of the UEFA Cup in 1993–94.[22]
Players
Current squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Summer 2007 changes
In
- Jon Otsemobor - Free agent
Out
- Matthieu Louis-Jean - Contract expired and not renewed
- Peter Thorne - Contract expired and not renewed
- Paul McVeigh - Contract expired and not renewed
- Ian Henderson - Contract expired and not renewed
- Andrew Fisk - Contract expired and not renewed
Contract updates
Adam Drury was offered a new four year deal, Dion Dublin a one year deal, and Joe Lewis had also been offered a contract.[70] Gary Doherty, Mark Fotheringham and Matthew Halliday all signed one year contracts.[71]
Notable players
- Past (and present) players who are the subjects of Wikipedia articles can be found here.
During the club's centenary season, a "Hall of Fame" was created, honouring 100 former players chosen by fan vote and a further 10 players were inducted into the Norwich City F.C. Hall of Fame in 2006.
Player of the year
- For a more detailed list of Players of the Year, see Barry Butler Trophy winners.
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Managers
Honours
Norwich City F.C. have won a number of honours, including the following:[73]
Honour | Year(s) |
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Second tier Champions | 1971–72, 1985–86, 2003–04 |
Third tier Champions | 1933–34 |
Third tier Runners Up | 1959–60 |
League Cup Winners | 1961–62, 1984–85 |
League Cup Runners Up | 1972–73, 1974–75 |
Friendship Trophy
Each time they meet, Norwich and Sunderland contest the Friendship Trophy, an honour dating back to 1985; it was inspired by the camaraderie forged between fans of the two clubs at the time of the 1985 League Cup final that they contested.[74] Sunderland are the current holders of the cup, having defeated Norwich 1-0 on 2 December, 2006.[75]
Notes
- i^ : This includes matches played at an amateur level.
- ii^ : Moved to Leicester City after just six months at Carrow Road.
- iii ^ : Caretaker manager.
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Further reading
- Canary Citizens by Mark Davage, John Eastwood, Kevin Platt, published by Jarrold Publishing, (2001), ISBN 0-7117-2020-7
- Norfolk 'n' Good by Kevin Baldwin, published by Goldstone Books, (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 0952207419
External links
- Norwich City F.C. on BBC Sport: Club news – Recent results and fixtures
- NCFC Official Site
- The Pink Un'
- BBC Norfolk's Norwich City Page
- Flown from the Nest
- Capital Canaries - for supporters in the London area
- OTBC - Statistics and results