History of Norwich City F.C.
History of Norwich City F.C..
The history of Norwich City Football Club stretches back to 1902. Based in Norfolk, England, the association football club spent 15 years as a semi-professional team in the Southern League before admission to The Football League in 1920. For most of the next 50 years, Norwich City F.C. sat in Division Three (South), then the bottom tier. The club made the FA Cup semi-finals in 1959, and won its first major trophy, the League Cup, in 1962. Norwich finally reached the pinnacle of the league structure in 1972, with their first promotion to the top tier. Since then, they have acquired a reputation as a "yo-yo club", with 22 seasons in the top league and 15 in the second tier. During this period the club has a long list of achievements: claiming the League Cup in 1985, reaching the FA Cup semi-finals in 1989 and 1992, finishing fifth, fourth and third in the top division, and beating Bayern Munich in the UEFA Cup.
The history of Norwich City Football Club stretches back to 1902. Based in Norfolk, England, the association football club spent 15 years as a semi-professional team in the Southern League before admission to The Football League in 1920. For most of the next 50 years, Norwich City F.C. sat in Division Three (South), then the bottom tier. The club made the FA Cup semi-finals in 1959, and won its first major trophy, the League Cup, in 1962. Norwich finally reached the pinnacle of the league structure in 1972, with their first promotion to the top tier. Since then, they have acquired a reputation as a "yo-yo club", with 22 seasons in the top league and 15 in the second tier. During this period the club has a long list of achievements: claiming the League Cup in 1985, reaching the FA Cup semi-finals in 1989 and 1992, finishing fifth, fourth and third in the top division, and beating Bayern Munich in the UEFA Cup.
