Norwich City’s badge is a green shield carrying three yellow elements: a canary perched on a football, a castle in the top left corner and a lion beneath it. The canary reflects the club’s long-standing nickname “The Canaries,” itself rooted in the city’s history of canary breeding introduced by Flemish and Dutch migrants and adopted formally by the club in the early 1900s.
The castle and lion are taken directly from Norwich’s coat of arms, where a Norman castle sits above a royal lion to symbolise the city and its medieval links to the English crown.
This combination first appeared in 1972 after a local newspaper competition produced a new crest that fused the civic symbols with the canary-on-ball shirt motif; the 2022 “evolved” version simply redraws the same trio with cleaner lines for the digital era, keeping one of English football’s most distinctive city-and-nickname badges intact.
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About Norwich City — Norwich City is a professional football club from England competing in the EFL Championship. This page provides the primary crest and social media icon (SVG & PNG) with transparent backgrounds for editorial/reference use. For official brand rules, consult the club’s official site. Norwich City crest and related marks are trademarks of their respective owners; high‑quality logo files are provided above on this page.
