Ranking The 5 Biggest Rivals Of Norwich City
Sports won’t be the same without rivalries. Rivalries spice up things a bit and make the games more interesting. Even in football, we get to see a lot of rivalries between the clubs. The matches between two rival clubs are full of an electrifying atmosphere. In this article, we will have a look at some of the biggest rivals of Norwich City.
The 2019 study, which was named ‘The League of Love And Hate’, was carried out with tens of thousands of football fans responding to it, to find out the biggest rivals of England’s top clubs. Here are the five biggest rivals of Norwich City from that list.
5. Middlesbrough
Twenty-three per cent of Norwich City fans voted Middlesbrough as their rivals. However, Middlesbrough fans do not see Norwich in their top five rivals. The clubs have met 57 times, with Norwich winning 22 games, compared to Middlesbrough’s 21.
4. Leeds United
Thirty-three per cent of Norwich Fans consider Leeds to be a rival. The dislike is not mutual as Leeds fans do not consider Norwich among the top five rivals. The clubs have met 60 times, with Norwich winning 20 games in comparison to Leeds’ 24.
3. Wolves
Forty per cent of Norwich fans consider Wolves to be a rival. Wolves fans do not Norwich among a top-five rival. Norwich City does not have a very good record against the Wolves, which may have resulted in Norwich fans seeing Wolves as a rival. Norwich only won 14 of the 63 games played between the two, while Wolves have won 32 of them.
2. Colchester United
Forty per cent of Norwich fans consider Colchester United to be a rival, a club currently playing in League Two. The dislike is mutual as 6% of Colchester fans also consider Norwich to be a rival. The clubs last met in 2010, a League One match which Norwich won by five goals to nil. Overall the clubs have met 26 times, and Norwich have won 10 of those games, losing 9 times.
1. Ipswich Town
Seventy per cent of Norwich fans voted Ipswich Town to be their biggest rivals. While 81% of Ipswich fans consider Norwich to be their biggest rivals.
Norwich City and Ipswich Town have been rivals for a very long time. Their rivalry goes back as far as 1939 when the derby was first played. Matches played between the two are termed East Anglian Derby. It is one of the fiercest rivalries in England.
Forty-three miles separate the two football clubs, and it is a rivalry deeply rooted between the only two professional clubs in Norfolk and Suffolk. A lack of professional clubs in the East Anglia region intensifies the hatred between the clubs’ fans.