Norwich City F.C. is an English football club based in the city of Norwich, Norfolk.  The club was formed following a meeting at the Criterion Cafe in the town on 17 June 1902 by a group of friends. They were admitted to the Norfolk & Suffolk League and played their first competitive match in September 1902. In 1904 an FA Commission suspended the club's officials for breaching the strict amateur regulations of the period by paying for gym facilities, advertising for players, supplying their kit and incurring "excessive travelling expenses." A public meeting was called and on 3 March 1905, and Norwich City officially became a professional club. Within weeks, they were admitted to the Southern League.  With increasing crowds, they were forced to leave Newmarket Road in 1908, moving to The Nest, a disused chalk pit.  On 10 December 1917, with football suspended because of the war, Norwich’s spiraling debts forced the club into voluntary liquidation. The club was officially reformed on 15 February 1919 joining the Southern League and then the newly formed Third Division. The 1920s brought little success but in 1934 the club won the Third Division (South) championship. When League football resumed after World War Two, City had to apply for re-relection in 1947 and 1948 but performances then improved and they were regularly pushing for promotion (apart from a disastrous 1957 season that brought another re-election). The following year they improved sufficiently to be placed in Division Three when the regional divisions were scrapped.   In the 1959–60 season, Norwich were promoted to the Second Division after finishing second to Southampton, and achieved a fourth place finish in the 1960–61 season. In 1962 Ron Ashman guided Norwich to their first trophy, defeating Rochdale 4-0 on aggregate in a two-legged final to win the League Cup.  Sixth place in the league was the closest the club came to promotion to the First Division during the 1960s, but after winning the division in the 1971–72 season under manager Ron Saunders, Norwich City reached the highest level of English football for the first time. City lasted two seasons in the top flight before being relegated but bounced back immediately in 1975. Exactly the same thing occurred in 1981 and 1985 - relegated only to return the following season to the top flight. 

The 1984–85 season brought mixed fortunes for the club; under Ken Brown's guidance they beat Sunderland 1–0 in the final of the Milk Cup but were relegated to the second tier of English football. City bounced back to the top flight immediately by winning the Second Division championship in the 1985–86 season. In 1992–93, the inaugural season of the English Premier League, Norwich City led the league for most of the season, before faltering in the final weeks to finish third behind the champions, Manchester United, and Aston Villa.  The club was relegated at the end of 1995.  They returned briefly in 2004 but were relegated within a year.  A series of mediocre finishes ended with relegation to Division One in 2009 (now the third tier of English football).  They returned to the Championship as divisional champions the following year and secured promotion to the Premier League in 2010/11.  Norwich lasted two seasons before relegation in 2014.  They returned to the Premier League at the first attempt via the play-offs defeating Middlesbrough 2-0 at Wembley. They were relegated after one season and spent the next three seasons in the championship before returning to the top tier after winning the championship title at the end of the 2018-19.  Once again they were relegated after one seaon.