1994–95 Norwich City F.C. season

Norwich City

1994–95 season
Chairman	Robert Chase
Manager	John Deehan (until 9 April) Gary Megson (from 9 April)
Stadium	Carrow Road
Premiership	20th (relegated)
FA Cup	Fifth round
League Cup	Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	Ward (8)
Highest home attendance	21,843 vs Liverpool (29 Apr 1995, Premier League)
Lowest home attendance	8,053 vs Swansea City (21 Sep 1994, League Cup)
Average home league attendance	18,625
← 1993–94 1995–96 →

During the 1994–95 English football season, Norwich City competed in the Premier League.

Season summary

Despite losing striker Chris Sutton to Blackburn Rovers before the start of the season in England's first £5 million transfer, Norwich made a strong start to the season and seemed capable of reproducing their impressive form of the two previous seasons. By Christmas, they stood seventh in the table and looked good bets for a UEFA Cup place.

But then it all went wrong, after an injury to first-choice goalkeeper Bryan Gunn. Their final good result of the season was a 2-1 victory over title challengers Newcastle United on New Year's Eve and after that, the Canaries went into a sudden freefall, won only one of their final 20 league games (a 3-0 home win over Ipswich Town in the East Anglian derby which still kept them in 11th) and plunged into 20th place and relegation after a seven-match losing streak followed by a draw - ending their nine-year tenure in the top flight just two years after they had narrowly missed out on the league title.

Just weeks before the end of the season, manager John Deehan handed in his resignation and vacated the manager's seat to make way for 36-year-old player-coach Gary Megson. Megson in turn quit after failing save Norwich from the drop. The man selected by chairman Robert Chase to revert Norwich's declining fortunes was Martin O'Neill, who had just taken Wycombe Wanderers to the brink of the Division Two play-offs in only their second season in the Football League.

Final league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Blackburn Rovers (C)	42	27	8	7	80	39	+41	89	1995–96 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Manchester United	42	26	10	6	77	28	+49	88	1995–96 UEFA Cup First round
3	Nottingham Forest	42	22	11	9	72	43	+29	77
4	Liverpool	42	21	11	10	65	37	+28	74
5	Leeds United	42	20	13	9	59	38	+21	73
6	Newcastle United	42	20	12	10	67	47	+20	72
7	Tottenham Hotspur	42	16	14	12	66	58	+8	62
8	Queens Park Rangers	42	17	9	16	61	59	+2	60
9	Wimbledon	42	15	11	16	48	65	−17	56
10	Southampton	42	12	18	12	61	63	−2	54
11	Chelsea	42	13	15	14	50	55	−5	54
12	Arsenal	42	13	12	17	52	49	+3	51
13	Sheffield Wednesday	42	13	12	17	49	57	−8	51
14	West Ham United	42	13	11	18	44	48	−4	50
15	Everton	42	11	17	14	44	51	−7	50	1995–96 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup First round ^1
16	Coventry City	42	12	14	16	44	62	−18	50
17	Manchester City	42	12	13	17	53	64	−11	49
18	Aston Villa	42	11	15	16	51	56	−5	48
19	Crystal Palace (R)	42	11	12	19	34	49	−15	45	Relegation to 1995–96 Football League First Division
20	Norwich City (R)	42	10	13	19	37	54	−17	43
21	Leicester City (R)	42	6	11	25	45	80	−35	29
22	Ipswich Town (R)	42	7	6	29	36	93	−57	27

Updated to games played on 14 May 1995.
Source: Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹ Everton qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as FA Cup winners.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results Summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
42	10	13	19	37	54	−17	43	8	8	5	27	21	+6	2	5	14	10	33	−23

Source: Statto

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42
Ground	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	A	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	L	D	W	D	D	W	L	W	W	D	W	L	D	D	L	W	L	W	W	L	L	W	L	L	D	L	D	L	D	D	D	D	L	W	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	D
Position	19	17	10	11	11	10	11	9	8	6	6	8	7	7	8	9	9	9	7	7	7	7	8	9	10	10	10	12	14	13	15	14	15	11	14	14	14	16	20	20	20	20

Source: Statto.com
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Results

Norwich City's score comes first^[1]

Legend

Win

Draw

Loss

FA Premier League

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
20 August 1994	Chelsea	A	0-2	23,098
24 August 1994	Crystal Palace	H	0-0	19,015
27 August 1994	West Ham United	H	1-0	19,110	Robins
31 August 1994	Sheffield Wednesday	A	0-0	25,072
10 September 1994	Arsenal	H	0-0	17,768
19 September 1994	Ipswich Town	A	2-1	17,447	Newman, Bradshaw
24 September 1994	Manchester City	A	0-2	21,031
1 October 1994	Blackburn Rovers	H	2-1	18,145	Bowen, Newsome
8 October 1994	Leeds United	H	2-1	17,390	Robins, Adams
15 October 1994	Aston Villa	A	1-1	22,468	Milligan
22 October 1994	Queens Park Rangers	H	4-2	19,431	Robins, Bowen, Sheron, White (own goal)
30 October 1994	Wimbledon	A	0-1	8,242
2 November 1994	Southampton	A	1-1	12,976	Robins
5 November 1994	Everton	H	0-0	18,377
19 November 1994	Coventry City	A	0-1	11,885
26 November 1994	Leicester City	H	2-1	20,657	Newsome, Sutch
3 December 1994	Manchester United	A	0-1	43,789
10 December 1994	Chelsea	H	3-0	18,246	Ward (2), Cureton
17 December 1994	Crystal Palace	A	1-0	12,252	Ward
26 December 1994	Tottenham Hotspur	H	0-2	21,814
27 December 1994	Nottingham Forest	A	0-1	21,010
31 December 1994	Newcastle United	H	2-1	21,172	Adams, Ward
2 January 1995	Liverpool	A	0-4	34,709
14 January 1995	Wimbledon	H	1-2	18,261	Goss
25 January 1995	Coventry City	H	2-2	14,024	Adams, Ward
4 February 1995	Everton	A	1-2	23,293	Milligan
11 February 1995	Southampton	H	2-2	18,361	Newsome, Ward
22 February 1995	Manchester United	H	0-2	21,824
25 February 1995	Blackburn Rovers	A	0-0	25,579
4 March 1995	Manchester City	H	1-1	16,266	Cureton
8 March 1995	Sheffield Wednesday	H	0-0	13,530
11 March 1995	West Ham United	A	2-2	21,464	Eadie, Ullathorne
15 March 1995	Queens Park Rangers	A	0-2	10,519
20 March 1995	Ipswich Town	H	3-0	17,510	Cureton, Ward, Eadie
1 April 1995	Arsenal	A	1-5	36,942	Cureton
5 April 1995	Leicester City	A	0-1	15,992
8 April 1995	Newcastle United	A	0-3	35,518
12 April 1995	Nottingham Forest	H	0-1	19,005
17 April 1995	Tottenham Hotspur	A	0-1	32,304
29 April 1995	Liverpool	H	1-2	21,843	Ullathorne
6 May 1995	Leeds United	A	1-2	31,982	Ward
14 May 1995	Aston Villa	H	1-1	19,374	Goss

FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	7 January 1995	Grimsby Town	A	1-0	11,198	Crook
R4	28 January 1995	Coventry City	A	0-0	15,101
R4R	8 February 1995	Coventry City	H	3-1 (a.e.t.)	14,673	Sheron (2), Eadie
R5	18 February 1995	Everton	A	0-5	31,616

League Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R2 1st Leg	21 September 1994	Swansea City	H	3-0	8,053	Sheron, Bradshaw (pen), Adams
R2 2nd Leg	4 October 1994	Swansea City	A	0-1 (won 3-1 on agg)	3,568
R3	26 October 1994	Tranmere Rovers	A	1-1	10,232	Polston
R3R	9 November 1994	Tranmere Rovers	H	4-2	13,331	Polston, Prior, Newman, McGreal (own goal)
R4	30 November 1994	Notts County	H	1-0	14,030	Eadie
R5	11 January 1995	Bolton Wanderers	A	0-1	17,029

First-team squad

Squad at end of season^[2][3]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Bryan Gunn 2 DF Mark Bowen (vice-captain) 3 DF Rob Newman 4 MF Ian Crook 5 DF Jon Newsome (captain) 6 MF Neil Adams 7 FW Ashley Ward 8 MF Mike Milligan[4] 9 MF Gary Megson 10 DF John Polston 11 MF Jeremy Goss[5] 12 DF Andy Brownrigg 13 GK Darren Crowfoot 14 DF Spencer Prior 15 DF Daryl Sutch 16 DF Carl Bradshaw

No. Position Player 18 DF Robert Ullathorne 19 MF Andy Johnson[6] 20 MF Darren Eadie 21 MF Keith O'Neill 22 FW Mike Sheron 23 MF Shaun Carey 24 GK Andy Marshall 25 FW Jamie Cureton 26 FW Ade Akinbiyi[7] 27 MF Ali Gibb 28 FW Justin Harrington 29 DF Stacey Kreft 30 MF Jimmy Simpson 31 MF Marcus Oldburyn 32 DF Johnny Wright 33 DF Danny Mills

Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 7 FW Efan Ekoku[8] (to Wimbledon) 12 FW Mark Robins (to Leicester City) 12 DF Ian Culverhouse (to Swindon Town) 13 GK Scott Howie (to Motherwell)

No. Position Player 34 GK Simon Tracey (on loan from Sheffield United) 34 GK Jon Hallworth (on loan from Oldham Athletic) 34 GK Andy Rhodes (on loan from Bolton Wanderers)

Transfers

In

Date	Pos	Name	From	Fee
30 June 1994	DF	Jon Newsome	Leeds United	£1,000,000
28 July 1994	DF	Carl Bradshaw	Sheffield United	£500,000
26 August 1994	FW	Mike Sheron	Manchester City	£1,000,000
8 December 1994	FW	Ashley Ward	Crewe Alexandra	Transfer

Out

Date	Pos	Name	To	Fee
5 July 1994	MF	David Smith	Oxford United	£100,000
13 July 1994	FW	Chris Sutton	Blackburn Rovers	£5,000,000
19 July 1994	DF	Colin Woodthorpe	Aberdeen	£400,000
13 October 1994	GK	Scott Howie	Motherwell	£300,000
14 October 1994	FW	Efan Ekoku	Wimbledon	£900,000
9 December 1994	DF	Ian Culverhouse	Swindon Town	£250,000
16 January 1995	FW	Mark Robins	Leicester City	£1,000,000

Transfers in: £2,500,000

Transfers out: £7,950,000

Total spending: £5,450,000

References

1. http://www.statto.com/football/teams/norwich-city/1994-1995/results
2. http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/eng/1994-1995/faprem/norwich.htm
3. http://www.11v11.com/teams/norwich-city/tab/players/season/1995
4. Milligan was born in Manchester, England, but also qualified to represent the Republic of Ireland internationally and made his international debut for Republic of Ireland in 1992.
5. Goss was born in Oekolia, Cyprus, but qualified to represent Wales internationally.
6. Johnson was born in Bristol, England, but also qualified to represent Wales internationally and would make his international debut for Wales in 1998.
7. Akinbiyi was born in Hackney, England, but also qualified to represent Nigeria internationally through his parents and would make his international debut for Nigeria in November 1999.
8. Ekoku was born in Cheetham Hill, England, but also qualified to represent Nigeria internationally and made his international debut for Nigeria in 1994.