Thursday, 7 February 2008

Norwich

Norwich City Football Club (also known as The Canaries) is an English professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk.

Norwich are currently members of the Football League Championship (second tier of the English football pyramid). They were founder members of the Premier League in 1991–92, and played in its first three seasons, returning for one season in 2003–04. They first won promotion to the Football League First Division in 1972, and have played a total of 18 seasons in the top flight, with a longest continuous spell of nine seasons. 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 neighbours Ipswich Town, with whom they have contested the East Anglian Derby 134 times, winning 51 since 1902.

The fans' song On The Ball, City is regarded as being the oldest football song in the English speaking world.

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