Norwich City F.C.

Norwich City F.C.

Norwich City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk. Norwich will play in the Premier League in 2011–12, after a six year absence, having finished as runner up in the Championship in 2010–11 and winning automatic promotion.

The club was founded in 1902. They first won promotion to the Football League First Division in 1972, and have played a total of 21 seasons in the top flight, with a longest continuous spell of nine seasons. Norwich have won the League Cup twice, in 1962 and 1985. They were founder members of the Premier League in 1992–93, finishing third in the inaugural season and played in its first three seasons, reaching the UEFA Cup 3rd Round, returning for one season in 2004–05.

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

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