Norwich City F.C.
Norwich City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk. The club plays in the Championship, the second division of English football. 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. Norwich have won the League Cup twice, in 1962 and 1985. Club participates 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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Norwich City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk. The club plays in the Championship, the second division of English football. 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. 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. Their highest ever league finish came in 1992–93 when they finished third in the Premier League. Club participates in characteristic yellow and green kits and are nicknamed The Canaries after the history of breeding the birds in the area. 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 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 moved to The Nest, a disused chalk pit, in 1908 and moved to Carrow road in 1935. The inaugural match, on 31 August 1935 against West Ham United, ended in a 4–3 victory for the home team and set a new record attendance of 29,779.
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. In 1962 Ron Ashman guided Norwich to their first trophy, defeating Rochdale 4–0 on aggregate in League Cup final. In 1971–72 under manager Ron Saunders, Norwich reached the First Division final of the English football for the first time. They made their first appearance at Wembley Stadium in 1973, losing 1–0 to Aston Villa to Manchester City in the A League League Cup. In 1974, the board of directors kept faith in Bond and kept the faith in the directors, but departed in 1974 after he had been succeeded by John Bond. In 1980, Bond departed to Manchester United, but the club came to a two-0 victory over Aston Villa in the FA Cup final at Wembley again in the autumn of the same year. In 1982, Bond left the club and was succeeded by Peterborough United manager John Rutter. The following season saw the club reach the semi-final of theFA Cup as a Third Division side, defeating two First Division sides on the way: Tottenham Hotspur and Matt Busby’s Manchester United. In 1984, Norwich came to second place in the league after winning the division in the second round of the competition. The next season saw promotion back to First Division and another visit to Wembley League Cup, this time in the Autumn League League final.
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