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Stats & Data

Norwich City Football Club plc

The club was founded in 1902 by a group of friends led Robert Webster and Joseph Cowper . Home games are played at Carrow Road (Capacity: 26,034)) Norwich have won the League Cup twice, in 1962 and 1985. It also claims the title of ‘world’s oldest fans song’ (“On the Ball City”) which was written in the 1890s and adapted for Norwich City on the club’s formation. Norwich City F.C. is a public limited company that, in 2003, comprised approximately 8,000 individual shareholdings. Since purchasing their shares from Geoffrey Watling, Delia Smith and husband Michael Wynn-Jones have been joint majority shareholders.

Turnover and pre-tax profit figures are in millions.

Year
Turnover
Pre-tax profit
Wages / Turnover ratio (%)
Employees

2007/08

Year
Turnover
Pre-tax profit
Wages / Turnover ratio (%)
Employees

2007/08

18.960

-2.772

71.7

210

2006/07

23.771

0.627

60.4

208

2005/06

24.737

3.065

62.1

214

2004/05

37.425

9.166

45.2

201

2003/04

13.928

-3.265

87.5

185

2002/03

12.965

-4.681

77.1

170

2001/02

15.271

0.440

54.2

167

2000/01

9.391

0.976

86.4

162

1999/00

7.696

-0.754

88.7

143

1998/99

6.236

-2.966

91.6

109

1997/98

6.910

0.600

65.5

96

1996/97

6.271

-1.176

61.1

90

1995/96

6.530

0.224

 

106

1994/95

7.855

1.111

 

 

1993/94

9.477

0.863