Norwich Manager Paul Lamber Picture: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd.
Victory against Leicester in FA Cup could net Norwich City £1million
David Freezer
Friday, February 17, 2012
10:26 AM
The magic of a long-awaited FA Cup run has got football fans buzzing ahead of Norwich City’s fifth-round clash with Leicester City tomorrow – and victory could bring the Canaries a cash windfall of more than £1m.
Can Anthony Pilkington inspire Norwich City to success against Leicester? Picture: Paul Chesterton / Focus ImagesWith Paul Lambert’s side defying expectations in the Premier League to look all but safe from relegation with 13 games to go, the FA Cup is suddenly offering a huge chance for the club.
The most famous cup competition in the world is renowned for its cup upsets - and so success against the Championsip’s Foxes is far from guaranteed.
But if Lambert can guide his spirited side to continue their excellent form - winning six and losing just one of their last nine games - then a fairytale season will begin to have a memorable gleam for the club’s supporters.
It would continue to ease pressure on the club’s balance books as well.
Victory tomorrow is worth £180,000 in prize money and £212,000 in television revenue for the next round, equalling a minimum £392,000.
The Canaries then split gate receipts for the match, which is thought to be worth around £250,000 to them, taking the minimum amount to £642,000.
If City were then to get a home draw in the next round that could be worth around £300,000 - but should it be an away tie at a big club such as Arsenal or Liverpool, that figure could be more like £400,000.
With £157,500 already won in prize money in the third and fourth rounds, victory against the Foxes would mean the FA Cup would have boosted the club’s coffers by more than £1m this season.
All figures quoted in this article are taken from an official January 2012 FA report entitled ‘The Financial Impact of the FA Cup’, which contains analysis from financial experts Deloitte.
The report states: “In keeping with 2010/11, should the FA Cup winner be a Premier League or Championship club entering at the third round stage, it will receive a total of £3.4m in prize money.
“In the 2010/11 competition, the two clubs eliminated at the semi-final stage each received £450,000 with the runner-up and winner receiving £1.8m and £2.7m respectively across the semi-final and final matches.
“The competition can provide important financial benefits for participating clubs at all levels of the English football pyramid.
“For example, Manchester City earned £3.4m in prize money and £900,000 in TV payments from winning the competition in 2010/11.”
Of course the excitement and joy that a cup run can bring is priceless for Canaries supporters, particularly after a barren record in the last 20 years that has seen City reach the fifth round just three times since reaching the semi-finals in both 1989 and 1992.
Tickets for the match are on general sale and still available, priced at £25 for adults, £15 for over-65s, £10 for under-16s and £5 for under-12s. See www.canaries.co.uk for further details.
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38 comments
Delia Smith,Benard Matthews,Colemans Mustard,the safety committee and all the Norwich fans who were planning their 6tth round opponents,your boys took one hell of a beating.A tip for you high flying budgies,never forget where you came from and never disrespect and underestimate the opposition.Come on you foxes
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foxal
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Delia Smith,Benard Matthews,Colemans Mustard,the safety committee and all the Norwich fans who were planning their 6tth round opponents,your boys took one hell of a beating.A tip for you high flying budgies,never forget where you came from and never disrespect and underestimate the opposition.Come on you foxes
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foxal
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Delia Smith,Benard Matthews,Colemans Mustard,the safety committee and all the Norwich fans who were planning their 6tth round opponents,your boys took one hell of a beating.A tip for you high flying budgies,never forget where you came from and never disrespect and underestimate the opposition.Come on you foxes
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foxal
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Delia Smith,Benard Matthews,Colemans Mustard,the safety committee and all the Norwich fans who were planning their 6tth round opponents,your boys took one hell of a beating.A tip for you high flying budgies,never forget where you came from and never disrespect and underestimate the opposition.Come on you foxes
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foxal
Saturday, February 18, 2012
That is so true, Crab!
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Mad Brewer
Saturday, February 18, 2012
It's no good, I can't do it. I'll have to continue doing it the proper way - doing it wrong takes too long!
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The Crab
Saturday, February 18, 2012
well I fink arf the trubble is most of them spend 2 much time txting so they've forgotten how 2 spel properly. another problem is that teechers never corected there speling @ school so they never lernt proper. mind you the teechers probly couldnt spel either.
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The Crab
Saturday, February 18, 2012
There is nothing wrong with trying to be intelligible. It`s respectful to the folk reading or listening, surely? Not to try is plain rude. To try and fail is no disgrace.
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Mad Brewer
Friday, February 17, 2012
Leicester should concentrate on sorting out there poor league form,having spent all that money on has been players,get your prioritys right.
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dave123
Friday, February 17, 2012
Dont get carried away its Prem football we want which amounts to lots more than a million! several of the first team will; be rested Saturday for Man U Next week,and Fox stop living in a dream world theres lots of Norwich supporters who will get to see the game who cant always get a ticket,so they come well before Leicester fans who mostly still live in this Gary Lineker fantasy world of years gone by.
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dave123
Friday, February 17, 2012
And whats all this squit with the lingo, are we going upmarket now we're in the Prem? Will we have to learn all the words to 'On The Ball'?
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cutty
Friday, February 17, 2012
We put 7 goals passed them last season in yet another double. So with back to back promotions and a twice thrashing of that blue team down the road, and being 8th, yes 8th in the Prem we're entitled to do a bit of bragging on our local notice board.
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cutty
Friday, February 17, 2012
Portsmouth actually lost money in winning the FA Cup due to bonuses - perhaps that explains why they are in serious financial trouble [as well as not paying their taxes]
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Soglio Star
Friday, February 17, 2012
SJ, to be fair though this is Leicester's cup final. I can understand why so many of their fans would want to come out of the woodwork and see their team up against a glamourous PL team. Realistically I'm sure they know they'll be on a hiding to nothing and just seeing it as 'a good day out' regardless of the inevitable cricket score.
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Lambo is god
Friday, February 17, 2012
Fox said " shame we did'nt draw a team that could get us all in instead a club that didn't want there supporters being outnumbered never mind" So a club with an average attendance of 23192 is going to outnumber a club with an average attendance of 26434? We've got as many season ticket holders as you have home fans, according to those figures and allowing for away fans. Plus your average away following last season was 1968. So how would you propose "outnumbering" us? I know it's a big day out and all that...
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Scott Johnson
Friday, February 17, 2012
Leicester 12th in the Championship with 1.35 points per game and Norwich 8th in the Premiership with 1.40 points per game. Leicester seem to be claiming a "never give up spirit", well in that case, it should be interesting
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Swiss Canary
Friday, February 17, 2012
Also I'm hoping to see Steer make another appearance and Vaughan to start a long side Morison with Holt and Jackson on the bench if we need them. Looking forward to this game, funny what a good cup run can do lol
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ImDrunky
Friday, February 17, 2012
Money-wise, each Premiership position is worth an additional £800k. So if we were to finish 8th vs 17th, that;s £10.4m vs £3.2m. Puts the FA Cup money in the shade really. Whilst all extra money is gratefully accepted, while we are in the PL money-wise the FA Cup is small fry in comparison. It's the prestige that is the big thing in our case right now with the FA Cup this season.
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Lambo is god
Friday, February 17, 2012
Fox, NCFC also have that never quit mentality, obviously I'm hoping for a canaries win, but I acknowledge it will be a hard fought out game.
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ImDrunky
Friday, February 17, 2012
thats all folks see you tomorrow let the best team win that will be leicester foxes never quit
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fox
Friday, February 17, 2012
anyway thats all see you all saturday may the best team win that will be leicester foxes never quit
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fox
Friday, February 17, 2012
Let's not get carried away here, our record, until very recently has been pretty poor against 'lower' league oppositon. As for a 'friendly' game, hmm I'm not sure. It was always pretty nasty against Leicester when I was standing in the Barclay in the 80's, I seem to remember!!
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jharding
Friday, February 17, 2012
We may get £1million if we win against Leicester but if this was at the expense of keeping in the premiership ( by playing more games and getting injuries ) then we would lose much more than we gain
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leslie cater
Friday, February 17, 2012
must do better
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fox
Friday, February 17, 2012
And one s and 2 p's in "disappointed", please, (+ a little punctuationcapital letters wouldn't come amiss. Back to school, fox.
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GW
Friday, February 17, 2012
Just thinking, £1 million, that's more than McCoist offered for Supergrant, I'll bet a) we're glad we didn't accept and b) he's glad he didn't go. We'd never see any of the money and he now has a better chance of playing in Europe.
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DocOhNo
Friday, February 17, 2012
And proper use of the apostrophe!!!
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DocOhNo
Friday, February 17, 2012
My immeadiate neighbour here in Cyprus is a Fox. Friendship will be suspended for 2 hours tomorrow but I have no doubt PL will have told whichever team he sends out that a win is what he wants. Losing doesn't come into his vocabulary. Must be the best manager we've had since Archie McAuly ( another Scot!)
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Bogaz John
Friday, February 17, 2012
My immeadiate neighbour here in Cyprus is a Fox. Friendship will be suspended for 2 hours tomorrow but I have no doubt PL will have told whichever team he sends out that a win is what he wants. Losing doesn't come into his vocabulary. Must be the best manager we've had since Archie McAuly ( another Scot!)
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Bogaz John
Friday, February 17, 2012
There's a literacy test for away fans, being able to spell "their" correctly would be a good start.
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DocOhNo
Friday, February 17, 2012
were full of friendship!!
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fox
Friday, February 17, 2012
So much for the proffered hand of frienship! Never mind, indeed.
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Mad Brewer
Friday, February 17, 2012
I think it has been established that it everyone would prefer that Leicester fans had more tickets, not that I expect that it will make a diffrence to the outcome. Let's move on.
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Swiss Canary
Friday, February 17, 2012
don't bank the million pound just yet will you, there are so many dissapointed leicester fans shame we did'nt draw a team that could get us all in instead a club that didn't want there supporters being outnumbered never mind
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fox
Friday, February 17, 2012
I havent got any chickens? Mind you, if we're going by nicknames you know what Canaries are good at doing!
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Piranha24
Friday, February 17, 2012
Crab has been remembering the "Friendly Final" v Sunderland on another string.1985? Like ImDrunky, I hope this is a friendly occasion too. And that NCFC win, of course! Wise words of warning from Walden! OTBC.
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Mad Brewer
Friday, February 17, 2012
Will be a tough game, But I have a good feeling about this. But hopefully it will just be a friendly and a good game.
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ImDrunky
Friday, February 17, 2012
Don't count your chickens until they have escaped the Foxes
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Jeremy Walden
Friday, February 17, 2012