Chances are in favor of Norwich City before the battle for survival of the Premier League | Norwich City News

The current season is not over yet, but one already wonders if Norwich City can ensure its survival in the Premier League.

The winners of the Daniel Farke promotion go to Aston Villa, knowing that one point would allow them to win the championship trophy, even if nothing less than a victory for Sheffield United in Stoke and City will be champion whatever the result at Villa Park.

It is worth while the Canaries make a last effort to close the campaign in style, eight of the last 10 winners of the title having retained their status as a leading player.

Even better than that, the last five teams to win the trophy – Wolves, Newcastle, Burnley, Bournemouth and Leicester – all started and became established Premier League clubs.

Big Wolves won the league title last season and will finish in the first half of the Premier League Photo: Nick Potts / PA

In contrast, six of the last 10 winners of the play-off have come down.

That includes the Canaries, who have seen both sides of the medal in the last ten years, run for finalists in 2011 and have two comfortable mid-table finals before falling in 2014, as well as playoff successes. 2015 with immediate relegation the following season.

Fulham was the winner of the final of last season and has already crossed the trap. Cardiff is almost certain to join him. He is four points behind and a visit to Manchester United on the last day.

While fans of the Canaries will study the mistakes made in these clubs this summer, it is difficult to make a comparison with the wolves who spend a lot, who are on track to rank seventh and whose owners billionaires have ambitions of Champions League.

Fulham has qualified for the play-offs but has been relegated to the Premier League after a season Photo: Nigel French / PA

Assuming Cardiff drops, this will mean that 11 of the 30 teams promoted in the last 10 seasons have come down from the championship, leaving a decent survival rate of 63%.

In fact, only two of these 30 teams finished the lowest in their first year in the big career: QPR in 2015 and Cardiff in 2014.

Or of course, you can just do what Leicester did from 2014: win the championship, finish 14th in the top flight, win the Premier League trophy in your second season, and narrowly miss a semifinal of the Champions League goals defeats at Atletico Madrid in the third season. Easy.

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Over the past decade, the three new teams have not stayed together and only twice have survived the promoted trio: Newcastle, Brighton and Huddersfield last season and QPR, Norwich and Swansea in 2012.

And despite the remarkable history of the current staff of the municipal team, which has been promoted in a context of heavy financial cuts, the club is preparing for its fifth season of Premier League nine.

This will be the 26th season of Canary Island history, the first in 1972-73, giving the noble campaign status of only three seasons in 23 seasons, until relegation in 1995.

The wolves will only become the third team promoted in the last 10 seasons to finish in the first half, currently heading for seventh, after Birmingham finished ninth in 2011 and Newcastle tenth last season.

While the ambitions of joining this exclusive club are far from being a priority at this turning point in City history, the last decade shows that promoted clubs retaining their elite status among the big boys are perfectly possible. they manage to maintain their momentum.

RECENT SEASONS

• 2018-19

Wolves – 7th?

Cardiff – 18th? REL

Fulham – 19th? REL

• 2017-18

Newcastle – 10th

Brighton – 15th

Huddersfield – 16th

• 2016-17

Burnley – 16th

Middlesbrough – 19th REL

Hull – 18th REL

• 2015-16

Bournemouth – 16th

Watford – 13th

NORWICH – 19th REL

• 2014-15

Leicester – 14th

Burnley – 19th REL

QPR – 20th REL

• 2013-14

Cardiff – 20th REL

Hull – 16th

C Palace – 11th

• 2012-13

Reading – 19th REL

Southampton – 14th

West Ham – 10th

• 2011-12

QPR – 17th

NORWICH – 12th

Swansea – 11th

• 2010-11

Newcastle – 12th

West Brom – 11th

Blackpool – 19th REL

• 2009-10

Wolves – 16th

Birmingham – 9th

Burnley – 18th REL