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Norwich City
Norwich
Full name Norwich City Football Club
Nickname(s) The Canaries
Yellows
Short name NCFC
Founded 17 June 1902
Ground Carrow Road
(Capacity: 27,359)
Owner Flag of United States Norfolk FB Holdings LLC
Manager Flag of Denmark Johannes Hoff Thorup
Current League Championship 
2023–24 Championship, 6th
Website Club home page
Norwich City 2024-25 homeNorwich City 2024-25 awayNorwich City 2024-25 third
Football current event Current season

Norwich City Football Club (also known as The Canaries or City) is an English professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk, that competes in the Championship, the second tier of English football. 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 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 club's highest ever league finish came in 1992–93 when they finished third in the top flight.

The club participates in characteristic yellow and green kits and are nicknamed The Canaries after the history of breeding the birds in the area (said to be introduced around the 16th century by a group of European immigrant weavers in the area known as "The Strangers").

Stadium[]

Main article:Carrow Road

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 [by club officials] 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. 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.

Players[]

First-team squad[]

As of 4 October 2024
No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Flag of Scotland Angus Gunn
3 DF Flag of England Jack Stacey
4 DF Flag of Republic of Ireland Shane Duffy (third-captain)
5 DF Flag of Scotland Grant Hanley (captain)
6 DF Flag of England Callum Doyle (on loan from Manchester City)
7 FW Flag of Spain Borja Sainz
8 MF Flag of England Liam Gibbs
9 FW Flag of United States Josh Sargent
10 FW Flag of England Ashley Barnes
11 MF Flag of Denmark Emiliano Marcondes
12 GK Flag of England George Long
14 DF Flag of England Ben Chrisene
16 MF Flag of Switzerland Christian Fassnacht
17 FW Flag of Croatia Ante Crnac
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 MF Flag of Ghana Forson Amankwah
19 MF Flag of Denmark Jacob Sørensen
20 MF Flag of Tunisia Anis Ben Slimane (on loan from Sheffield United)
21 MF Flag of England Kaide Gordon (on loan from Liverpool)
23 MF Flag of Scotland Kenny McLean (vice-captain)
25 MF Flag of Cuba Onel Hernández
26 MF Flag of Chile Marcelino Núñez
29 MF Flag of Denmark Oscar Schwartau
33 DF Flag of Panama José Córdoba
35 DF Flag of England Kellen Fisher
37 GK Flag of Scotland Archie Mair
40 DF Flag of England Brad Hills
41 MF Flag of Scotland Gabriel Forsyth
50 DF Flag of England Jaden Warner

Out on loan[]

No. Pos. Nation Player
27 FW Flag of England Jonathan Rowe (at Marseille until the end of the season)
38 GK Flag of Wales Daniel Barden (at Swindon Town until the end of the season)
GK Flag of Chile Vicente Reyes (at Cambridge United until the end of the season)

Development squad[]

Main article:Norwich City F.C. Under-23s and Academy

External links[]

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