Norwich City Football Club is an association football club based in Norwich, Norfolk, and was founded in 1902. As of the 2019–20 season, they play in the Premier League. The club's first manager, John Bowman, was appointed in 1905. Since then, 40 men have held the job on a permanent basis.[a] Since 30 May 2024, the position has been held by Johannes Hoff Thorup.
Ken Brown holds the record for most games in charge, with a total of 367 between 1980 and 1987.[1] Excluding caretaker managers, the shortest reigns were those of George Swindin and Jimmy Jewell, who both managed 20 games; Jewell's tenure was ended by the outbreak of the Second World War. Fifteen managers have been named in the Norwich City F.C. Hall of Fame, some of whom were also former players.
The last Norwich manager to win a major trophy was Ken Brown, who won the League Cup with Norwich in 1985. Norwich have never won the FA Cup, but have reached the FA Cup semi-finals three times – most recently in the 1989 and 1992 competitions, but also the 1958–59 FA Cup, when Archie Macaulay managed the then third-tier club to several giant-killing victories before losing a semi-final replay to Luton Town. Norwich reached the top tier of English football for the first time in 1972, under the leadership of Ron Saunders. The highest league finish Norwich have ever achieved was third in the 1992–93 season, under Mike Walker. The following season, he managed Norwich in their only European campaign to date in the UEFA Cup, when they became the only British club to ever defeat Bayern Munich at their home ground, the Olympic Stadium.
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