1993–94 Norwich City F.C. season

Norwich City's achievements in 1992-93 were outstanding - a club-best third-place finish and their first ever European place, all of this achieved with a relatively tight transfer budget and one of the Premiership's smaller fan bases.

Manager Mike Walker's achievements were far from over as the campaign began. They were close behind runaway leaders Manchester United in the title race, but most impressively eliminated Bayern Munich from the UEFA Cup in the second round; in doing so, they became the only English side to beat Bayern on their own soil. The dream came to an end in the third round as the Canaries were eliminated by Inter Milan.

Walker quit the club in January to take over at Everton, and his assistant John Deehan took over. At this point Norwich were 7th and had at least one game in hand on most of their fellow contenders for European qualification.^[1] However, Deehan was unable to keep up the momentum and Norwich slumped to 12th place in the final table, the decline accelerated by a 10-match winless run which was the longest of any Premier League club during the season with the exception of Swindon's 16-match winless start. The record-breaking sale of young striker Chris Sutton to Blackburn Rovers left Norwich with a big hole to fill in their attack, and the only major signing of the close season was midfielder Mike Milligan from Oldham Athletic.

Final league table

Main article: 1993–94 FA Premier League

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
1	Manchester United (C)	42	27	11	4	80	38	+42	92	UEFA Champions League 1994–95 Group stage
2	Blackburn Rovers	42	25	9	8	63	36	+27	84	UEFA Cup 1994–95 First round
3	Newcastle United	42	23	8	11	82	41	+41	77	UEFA Cup 1994–95 First round
4	Arsenal	42	18	17	7	53	28	+25	71	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1994–95 First round¹
5	Leeds United	42	18	16	8	65	39	+26	70
6	Wimbledon	42	18	11	13	56	53	+3	65
7	Sheffield Wednesday	42	16	16	10	76	54	+22	64
8	Liverpool	42	17	9	16	59	55	+4	60
9	Queens Park Rangers	42	16	12	14	62	61	+1	60
10	Aston Villa	42	15	12	15	46	50	−4	57	UEFA Cup 1994–95 First round²
11	Coventry City	42	14	14	14	43	45	−2	56
12	Norwich City	42	12	17	13	65	61	+4	53
13	West Ham United	42	13	13	16	47	58	−11	52
14	Chelsea	42	13	12	17	49	53	−4	51	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1994–95 First round³
15	Tottenham Hotspur	42	11	12	19	54	59	−5	45
16	Manchester City	42	9	18	15	38	49	−11	45
17	Everton	42	12	8	22	42	63	−21	44
18	Southampton	42	12	7	23	49	66	−17	43
19	Ipswich Town	42	9	16	17	35	58	−23	43
20	Sheffield United (R)	42	8	18	16	42	60	−18	42	Relegated to Football League First Division 1994–95
21	Oldham Athletic (R)	42	9	13	20	42	68	−26	40
22	Swindon Town (R)	42	5	15	22	47	100	−53	30

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

¹ Arsenal qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as defending champions

² Aston Villa qualified for the UEFA Cup as League Cup winners

³ Chelsea qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as FA Cup runners-up

P = Games Played; W = Games Won; D = Games Drawn; L = Games Lost; F = Goals For; A = Goals Against; Pts = Points

Results

Norwich City's score comes first^[2]

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

FA Premier League

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
15 August 1993	Manchester United	H	0–2	19,705
18 August 1993	Blackburn Rovers	A	3–2	14,236	Sutton (2), Newman
21 August 1993	Leeds United	A	4–0	32,008	Fox (2), Goss, Sutton
25 August 1993	Ipswich Town	H	1–0	19,189	Goss
28 August 1993	Swindon Town	H	0–0	17,614
1 September 1993	Sheffield Wednesday	A	3–3	25,175	Sutton, Bowen, Ekoku
11 September 1993	Wimbledon	H	0–1	14,851
18 September 1993	Queens Park Rangers	A	2–2	13,359	Eadie, McDonald (own goal)
25 September 1993	Everton	A	5–1	20,531	Ekoku (4), Sutton
2 October 1993	Coventry City	H	1–0	16,239	Fox
16 October 1993	Chelsea	A	2–1	16,923	Fox, Sutton
23 October 1993	West Ham United	H	0–0	20,211
30 October 1993	Arsenal	A	0–0	30,516
6 November 1993	Sheffield United	A	2–1	18,254	Goss, Eadie
20 November 1993	Manchester City	H	1–1	16,626	Fox
27 November 1993	Oldham Athletic	A	1–2	10,198	Sutton
4 December 1993	Manchester United	A	2–2	44,694	Fox (pen), Sutton
13 December 1993	Leeds United	H	2–1	16,586	Sutton, Ekoku
18 December 1993	Ipswich Town	A	1–2	19,498	Bowen
27 December 1993	Tottenham Hotspur	A	3–1	33,130	Sutton (2), Ekoku
29 December 1993	Aston Villa	H	1–2	20,650	Sutton
1 January 1994	Southampton	A	1–0	16,556	Sutton
4 January 1994	Newcastle United	H	1–2	19,564	Bowen
15 January 1994	Chelsea	H	1–1	19,472	Ekoku
24 January 1994	West Ham United	A	3–3	20,738	Sutton (2), Fox
5 February 1994	Liverpool	H	2–2	19,746	Sutton (2)
13 February 1994	Arsenal	H	1–1	17,667	Ekoku
19 February 1994	Swindon Town	A	3–3	15,405	Goss, Sutton, Newman
22 February 1994	Blackburn Rovers	H	2–2	15,193	Sutton (2, 1 pen)
26 February 1994	Sheffield Wednesday	H	1–1	18,311	Sutton
5 March 1994	Wimbledon	A	1–3	7,206	Ekoku
12 March 1994	Queens Park Rangers	H	3–4	16,499	Ekoku (2), Bowen
21 March 1994	Everton	H	3–0	16,432	Culverhouse, Sutton, Bowen
26 March 1994	Coventry City	A	1–2	13,514	Eadie
29 March 1994	Newcastle United	A	0–3	32,216
2 April 1994	Tottenham Hotspur	H	1–2	21,181	Sutton
4 April 1994	Aston Villa	A	0–0	25,416
9 April 1994	Southampton	H	4–5	17,150	Goss, Sutton (2), Robins
16 April 1994	Manchester City	A	1–1	28,010	Ullathorne
23 April 1994	Sheffield United	H	0–1	18,474
30 April 1994	Liverpool	A	1–0	44,339	Goss
7 May 1994	Oldham Athletic	H	1–1	20,394	Ullathorne

FA Cup

Main article: 1993–94 FA Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	8 January 1994	Wycombe Wanderers	A	2–0	7,802	Sutton (2)
R4	30 January 1994	Manchester United	H	0–2	21,060

League Cup

Main article: 1993–94 Football League Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R2 1st leg	22 September 1993	Bradford City	A	1–2	8,988	Fox
R2 2nd leg	6 October 1993	Bradford City	H	3–0 (won 4-2 on agg)	12,787	Ekoku, Fox, Sutton
R3	26 October 1993	Arsenal	A	1–1	24,539	Crook
R3R	10 November 1993	Arsenal	H	0–3	16,319

UEFA Cup

Main article: 1993–94 UEFA Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R1 1st leg	15 September 1993	Vitesse Arnhem	H	3–0	16,818	Ekoku, Goss, Polston
R1 2nd leg	29 September 1993	Vitesse Arnhem	A	0–0 (won 3-0 on agg)	9,133
R2 1st leg	20 October 1993	Bayern Munich	A	2–1	28,500	Goss, Bowen
R2 2nd leg	3 November 1993	Bayern Munich	H	1–1 (won 3-2 on agg)	20,643	Goss
R3 1st leg	24 November 1993	Internazionale Milano	H	0–1	20,805
R3 2nd leg	8 December 1993	Internazionale Milano	A	0–1 (lost 0-2 on agg)	30,000

First-team squad

Squad at end of season^[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	Ian Culverhouse
6	MF	Neil Adams
7	FW	Efan Ekoku^{[notes 1]}
8	DF	Colin Woodthorpe
9	MF	Gary Megson
10	DF	John Polston
11	MF	Jeremy Goss^{[notes 2]}
12	FW	Mark Robins
13	GK	Scott Howie

No.	Position	Player
14	MF	Ruel Fox^{[notes 3]}
15	DF	Daryl Sutch
17	DF	Ian Butterworth (captain)
18	DF	Robert Ullathorne
19	MF	Andy Johnson^{[notes 4]}
20	MF	Darren Eadie
21	MF	David Smith
22	FW	Chris Sutton
23	DF	Deryn Brace
24	GK	Andy Marshall
25	FW	Jamie Cureton
26	FW	Ade Akinbiyi^{[notes 5]}
27	DF	Spencer Prior

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
16		FW	Lee Power^{[notes 6]} (to Bradford City)

No.		Position	Player
28		GK	Mark Walton (to Dundee United)

References

Notes

↑ Ekoku was born in Cheetham Hill, England, but also qualified to represent Nigeria internationally and made his international debut for Nigeria in 1994.
↑ Goss was born in Dhekalia, Cyprus, but also qualified to represent Wales internationally and made his international debut for Wales in 1991.
↑ Fox was born in Ipswich, England, but also qualified to represent Montserrat internationally and would make his international debut for Montserrat in 2004.
↑ Johnson was born in Bristol, England, but also qualified to represent Wales internationally and would make his international debut for Wales in 1998.
↑ 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 1999.
↑ Power was born in Lewisham, England, but also qualified to represent the Republic of Ireland internationally.

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