Norwich City Football Club nicknamed The Canaries, is an English
professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk.Norwich are currently
members of the Championship having been promoted from League One as Champions in
the 2009–10 season and will play in the Premier League in 2011–12 having won
automatic promotion from the Championship. 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. 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.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 138 times.
