The unofficial one-stop shop for Norwich City trivia, doling out
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’s On The Ball pod.
Teemu Pukki is the first player this century to score a hat-trick on his first ever home Premier League appearance.
The last man to do so was Clive Mendonca for Charlton in August 1998.
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Thank you Daniel Farke 🇩🇪
4️⃣ and a half seasons
2️⃣0️⃣8️⃣ games
8️⃣8️⃣ wins
2️⃣8️⃣8️⃣ goals
2️⃣ titles
9️⃣7️⃣ points in 2020/21, a club record
2️⃣ runs of eight wins in a row (out of three in Norwich City's history)
1️⃣1️⃣ academy players given debuts
Norwich City legend
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Teemu Pukki plays his final game for Norwich City today as the club's:
- 4th highest all-time scorer
- Top scorer this century
- Top all-time overseas scorer
A thread of stats on the achievements of an extraordinary goalscorer and
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(Ozan) Kabak breaks Norwich City’s 87-year wait for a palindromic player, since (Joe) Hannah played his final game for the club in 1934🔰
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Norwich City restricted Wolves to just five shots today.
That's the lowest number of attempts on their goal Norwich City have faced in any of their 241 Premier League games this century
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Most goals in the top two tiers of English football since Teemu Pukki's Norwich City debut in August 2018:
Pukki - 60
Salah - 58
Aubameyang, Vardy - 53
Kane - 49
Abraham, Mane - 47
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Teemu Pukki is the first player to score in every game in a run of five consecutive wins for Norwich City for 62 years, since Terry Bly in February 1959
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2020: First club to be relegated from the Premier League five times.
2022: First club to be relegated from the Premier League six times.
Trailblazers 🔥
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Jacob, Josh, James and Jamal.
The four players sold aged 23 or under for a fee of over £10m during the Stuart Webber era.
Their transfers cost Norwich City a total of £2.4m; their sales have raised a total of £57.8m
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Congratulations to Tim Krul who becomes the first goalkeeper in Norwich City's history to keep seven straight league clean sheets in a row 🙌
It's 775 league minutes without conceding for Tim (the previous record, held by Kevin Keelan, was 631 mins)
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Teemu Pukki now has 33 goals and assists combined in the league for 2018/19.
No player has managed more than that in a Championship season for the last five years.
And just a reminder: Teemu still has another eight games to improve on that tally...
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After six matches, 540 minutes of football, 40 days, 25 different players used, 14 opposition goals, 54 shots on goal, 35 corners, 15 offsides and three UK bank holidays...
...Norwich City have scored a goal in a game of football 🥳🔰
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Teemu Pukki is the first player this season to score against last season's top five Premier League teams.
Liverpool ✅
Chelsea ✅
Man City ✅
Arsenal ✅
Tottenham ✅
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One of our own 💚 💛
Todd Cantwell has made more Norwich City appearances (129) than any other Norfolk-born player since Dale Gordon, who was also sold to Rangers in November 1991
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Quite the double act on the road... 🤝
Norwich City goalscorers in their last six away matches:
1. Pukki; Pukki; Buendia
2. Pukki
3. Buendia; Pukki; Pukki
4. Buendia
5. Pukki; Pukki
6. Buendia; Pukki
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Norwich City players since 2010 to score home and away in the same season against Ipswich Town:
Grant Holt (2010/11)
Lewis Grabban (2014/15)
Bali Mumba (2022/23)
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Norwich City's results since 1st January 2019 in Championship games when Mario Vrancic starts:
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Played 26 Won 18 Drawn 8 Lost 0
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Players to have scored against all of the 'Big Six' clubs in the Premier League since the start of the 2019/20 season:
Wilfried Zaha (across 31 matches)
Teemu Pukki (22 matches)
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Players with highest goals + assists total in club football in 2018/19 from the 92 football league clubs:
Teemu Pukki - 30
Sergio Aguero, Neal Maupay, Mo Salah - 27
James Norwood, Raheem Sterling - 26
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Tonight was the 50th Championship game Emi Buendia has started.
Norwich City's record in those matches is Won 36 Drawn 10 Lost 4 Points 118
That's 2.36 points a game, enough for 109 points in a regular 46-game season
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For a bit of perspective.
First game of the 2010s: Gary Waddock's Wycombe at Adams Park; League One
Last game of the 2010s: Jose Mourinho's Tottenham at Carrow Road; Premier League
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Today is the first time Norwich City have been two goals in front at half-time at Carrow Road and still lost for 67 years, since a 2-3 reverse against Newport County in March 1956
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Players from the last eight years to score against all of the previous season's
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2012/13: Marouane Fellaini
2013/14:
2014/15:
2015/16:
2016/17:
2017/18:
2018/19:
2019/20: Teemu Pukki
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Norwich City have beaten three Premier League teams in their last 19 games and all of them have sacked their managers within a week.
75% of Premier League managers fired in 2022 have lost their jobs directly after defeat to the Canaries
The curse strikes again… 👻
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Teemu Pukki drew level with Grant Holt yesterday as Norwich City's record goalscorer this century.
Feels like a good time to analyse the goals of two Canaries legends...
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Players aged under 21 in the top two divisions in England, Spain, Germany, Italy and France to have scored 10+ league goals this season:
- Jude Bellingham
- Jonathan Rowe
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It's two-and-a-half years to the day since Norwich City lost at Carrow Road in the Championship to anyone other than Derby County.
Here are their results in the 37 games since that 1-0 defeat to Stoke on 6th October 2018:
WWWWWDLWDWWWWWDDWDLWWDWDWWWDWWDWWWWDW
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Just a quick reminder...
Cost of Watford's winning goalscorer tonight: £27m
Cost of Norwich City's starting XI tonight: £4.9m
(Figures courtesy of Transfermarkt)
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Only two Norwich City goalkeepers have won penalty shootouts at Carrow Road in the last 50 seasons:
Bryan Gunn - 1990/91 Zenith Data Systems Cup 2nd round v Millwall
Angus Gunn - 2022/23 League Cup 1st round v Birmingham
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Ben Gibson is the only Norwich City centre-back in the last 40 years who hasn't conceded more than a single goal in any of his first seven starts for the club
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What has just happened? 😲
- Biggest away win since February 2019 (Bolton 4-0)
- Biggest win in the Premier League since May 2013 (West Brom 4-0)
- Biggest away win in the Premier League since September 1993 (Everton 5-1)
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Football League managers to have overseen more than one run of eight straight league wins in a single season in the last ten years.
- Pep Guardiola
- Jurgen Klopp
- Brendan Rodgers
- Daniel Farke
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Christos Tzolis is the first Norwich City player to score two and assist two in a single game for the club this century 🔥
Not bad on debut...
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This is the first time Norwich City have won back-to-back away games without conceding since October 2010 under Paul Lambert, and the first time against top-flight opposition since August 1989 under Dave Stringer
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Let's look on the bright side.
Norwich City have moved up four places since Friday night and now occupy their highest position in the football league since 23rd January 2016. Get that party started 🥳 🔰
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Incredible.
That was Norwich City’s biggest league win for 69 years, since an 8-1 win v Shrewsbury in September 1952, and their biggest ever margin of victory in the top two tiers of English football
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All-time Championship goalscoring records from open play:
Ivan Toney: 20 goals; 159 minutes per goal
Teemu Pukki: 47 goals; 145 minutes per goal
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30-year-old Grant Hanley is the first Norwich City player to score on his birthday since Keith Bertschin vs Liverpool on his 28th birthday on 25 August 1984
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Moritz Leitner's 95 completed passes against Newcastle on Saturday is:
- The most of any player in a
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- More than Newcastle's three centre-midfielders (Shelvey, Ki, Hayden) managed between them (84)
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Norwich City's recent Championship record in 3pm Saturday kick-offs is a bit mad.
Their last 30 games:
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W24 D5 L1 😳
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Norwich City top scorers in the club's last four Premier League seasons:
2012/13 - Holt (8)
2013/14 - Hooper/Snodgrass (6)
2015/16 - Mbokani (7)
2019/20 - Pukki (9*)
*With potentially 21 more games still to play
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Jordan Hugill is the first player to score both goals in a 2-0 win for Norwich City since Brighton goalkeeper David Stockdale in April 2017 (and both of those were with his upper body that time too)
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Tonight's goal means Teemu Pukki is the Championship's top scorer since the start of the 2018/19 season with 39 goals.
Just a reminder that he missed an entire year of that spell playing in the Premier League...
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Todd Cantwell (Dereham) is the first Norfolk-born player to play in 100 Norwich City matches for 33 years, since Dale Gordon (Caister-on-Sea) in 1988
Ton up buh
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Fastest Norwich City players to 20 league goals in a season in the last 50 years:
Teemu Pukki (18-19): 28 games
Chris Sutton (93-94): 29
Ted MacDougall (75-76): 31
Grant Holt (09-10): 32
Kevin Drinkell (85-86): 35
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Tonight was the first Premier League point Norwich City have gained from a losing position away from home since Russell Martin scored at Anfield in September 2015
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I'm not saying Carrow Road is more impenetrable than Mordor but...
You could watch the extended cut of all three Lord of the Rings films back-to-back (11 hrs 23 mins) in the time since Norwich City last conceded a first-half goal at Carrow Road (11 hrs 48 mins)
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No. of games taken for the first Norwich City player to reach five goals in Premier League seasons this century:
04/05: 17 (Huckerby)
11/12: 14 (Morison)
12/13: 27 (Holt)
13/14: 18 (Hooper)
15/16: 28 (Redmond)
19/20: 3 (Pukki)
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Since his last-minute free-kick against Sheffield Wednesday in 2018/19, Norwich City have scored eight Championship goals at Carrow Road when Mario Vrancic has been on the pitch.
Vrancic has either scored or assisted all eight of them
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A selected group of recent players with fewer Norwich City assists than Emi Buendia:
- Robert Snodgrass
- James Maddison
- Bradley Johnson
- Alex Pritchard
- Dean Ashton
- Josh Murphy
- Anthony Pilkington
- Robbie Brady
(All have played more games than Emi by the way)
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Most goals in a Championship/Division One season by a player, excluding penalties, since 1993:
Teemu Pukki (18/19) - 29
Shaun Goater (01/02) - 28
Lee Hughes (98/99); Ross McCormack (13/14); Daryl Murphy (14/15) - 26
Just a reminder, he cost £0...
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A Premier League first 🤝
Norwich City's Teemu Pukki and Todd Cantwell are the first pairing in
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Fewest minutes per goal this season for players across the top four English leagues (minimum 10 goals):
Josh Sargent - 89 mins per goal
Erling Haaland - 103
Mohamed Salah - 119
Aleksander Isak - 120
Chris Martin - 121
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Another game, another record 😎
Teemu Pukki is the first ever Norwich City player to score in five straight away games in the top two divisions of English football
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Alex Tettey 🇳🇴
- Only player to be promoted to the top-flight three times with Norwich City
- Most
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- First Norwich City player since Craig Fleming (1997-2006) to make at least 20 appearances in nine consecutive seasons
Canaries legend 👏
Passing numbers tonight were something else:
- 91% completion rate (highest ever under Farke)
- No player had worse than 80%
- Ben Gibson completed 83/85 passes
- Ollie Skipp completed 88/91 passes
- Todd Cantwell had over 100 touches for the first time as a
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Fastest Norwich City players this century to provide more than 15 assists at the club:
Emi Buendia (35 games)
Grant Holt (55)
Darren Huckerby (64)
Wes Hoolahan (65)
Paul McVeigh (70)
Nathan Redmond (83)
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Players in Norwich City's history to score 10+ league goals in five consecutive seasons:
Terry Allcock (1958-1963)
Teemu Pukki (2018-2023)
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Funnily enough I was thinking about this this morning!
It’s the first time Norwich City have won three games in a row with different keepers starting each match since the 2nd, 3rd and 4th games in their history in 1902 (William Sparks, William Jeffries, William Wallace)
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Mario Vrancic 🇧🇦 😍
- The first player to score in all four seasons under Daniel Farke
- Norwich City have never lost in the 13 games in which he's scored (W11 D2)
- His four goals from off the bench have been three winners and a last-minute equaliser
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Teemu Pukki now stands alone at this level.
He's the first Norwich City player ever to score 27 league goals in a season in the top two tiers of English football
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Norwich City players since WWII to score in all of the first three fixtures of a season:
Craig Bellamy - 1998/99
Teemu Pukki - 2019/20
Jonathan Rowe - 2023/24
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Josh Sargent is the first ever Norwich City player from outside the British Isles (and first from anywhere since 1990) to start a World Cup finals match
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THE BEST DEFENCE THIS LEAGUE HAS EVER SEEN 👊
Norwich City last conceded on 13th March, making this the first time ever during a Premier League season, excluding lockdown, that they have gone a month without letting in a goal
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A few season highs today:
- Milot Rashica's 15 crosses the most from a
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- Jacob Sorensen's 7 tackles the most from a NCFC player this season
- Adam Idah the first NCFC player this season to win at least 5 free-kicks and complete 3 dribbles
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Max Aarons assisting Jamal Lewis to score is the first time two Norwich City academy graduates have combined to score a top-flight goal for the club since Daryl Sutch to Rob Ullathorne v Liverpool in April 1995
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Fewest games to reach 50 Championship goals this century:
Teemu Pukki - 75
Dwight Gayle - 84
David Connolly - 87
Kevin Phillips, Jordan Rhodes - 94
Only seven players other than Teemu have scored their first 50 in fewer than 100 games
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Norwich City’s last five games have all been against teams who started the day in 7th or higher in the Championship table.
13 points from a possible 15 😎 🔰
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Norwich City players this century to score more than one goal in a Premier League away game:
Dean Ashton (Palace 2004/05)
Grant Holt (Swansea 2011/12)
Josh Sargent (Watford 2021/22)
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