Norwich City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk.
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14 Facts About Norwich City Football Club
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Since 1935, Norwich City Football Club 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.
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Norwich City Football Club is nicknamed The Canaries after the history of breeding the birds in the area, which is represented in the team's yellow-and-green kits.
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When, in May 1920, the Football League formed a third Division, Norwich joined the Third Division for the following season.
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The following season Norwich City Football Club participated in the UEFA Cup for the first time, losing in the third round to Inter Milan, but defeating Bayern Munich.
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Norwich City Football Club then won only one of their final 20 league games, and slumped to 20th place and relegation, ending a nine-season run in the top flight.
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Norwich City Football Club lasted just six months in the job before resigning after a dispute with chairman Robert Chase over money to strengthen the squad.
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Norwich City Football Club was unable to repeat the success achieved during his first spell and was sacked two seasons later with Norwich mid-table in Division One.
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Norwich City Football Club had been on the coaching staff under Hamilton who resigned 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.
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On 16 October 2006, Norwich announced that former City player Peter Grant had left West Ham United to become the new manager, and in February 2007, Grant replaced assistant Doug Livermore with his fellow Scot, Jim Duffy.
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The following season saw Norwich promoted to the Premier League, finishing second in the table and completing the first back-to-back promotions from the third tier to the first since Manchester City in 2000.
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Norwich City Football Club finished in 12th place in their first season back in the Premier League.
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However, Norwich City Football Club were relegated back to the Championship after just a single season back in the top flight, becoming the first team in Premier League history to be relegated five times from the division.
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Norwich City Football Club maintains a healthy celebrity support with celebrity cook Delia Smith and comedian Stephen Fry both having moved from being fans of the club to running it.
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