The 2015–16 season was Norwich City's return to the Premier League after gaining promotion via the play-offs in the previous season, in their 113th year in existence. This season Norwich City participated in the Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup. The season covered the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016.

Transfers

Transfers in Date from Position Nationality Name From Fee 27 May 2015 CM Graham Dorrans West Bromwich Albion £3,000,000 1 July 2015 DM Youssouf Mulumbu West Bromwich Albion Free transfer 29 July 2015 LW Robbie Brady Hull City £7,000,000 1 August 2015 GK Jake Kean Blackburn Rovers Free transfer 1 January 2016 LW Matt Jarvis West Ham United £2,500,000 8 January 2016 DF Ivo Pinto GNK Dinamo Zagreb Undisclosed 15 January 2016 MF Ben Godfrey York City Undisclosed 18 January 2016 CB Timm Klose VfL Wolfsburg Undisclosed 19 January 2016 CF Steven Naismith Everton £8,500,000

Total spending: £21,000,000

Transfers out Date from Position Nationality Name To Fee 1 July 2015 CF Luciano Becchio Belgrano Free transfer 1 July 2015 GK Mark Bunn Aston Villa Free transfer 1 July 2015 CB Kyle Callan-McFadden Orlando City B Free Transfer 1 July 2015 CB Carlos Cuéllar UD Almería Free Transfer 1 July 2015 LB Javier Garrido Las Palmas Free Transfer 1 July 2015 LM Sam Kelly Port Vale FC Free Transfer 1 July 2015 CM Cameron McGeehan Luton Town Undisclosed 31 July 2015 CB Ignasi Miquel Ponferradina Mutual Consent 1 September 2015 CM Bradley Johnson Derby County £7,000,000 5 January 2016 RW Elliott Bennett Blackburn Rovers Undisclosed 11 January 2016 ST Lewis Grabban AFC Bournemouth £8,000,000 22 January 2016 ST Gary Hooper Sheffield Wednesday Undisclosed

Total spending: £15,000,000

Loans in Date from Position Nationality Name From Date until 29 July 2015 RB Andre Wisdom Liverpool End of season 1 September 2015 LW Matt Jarvis West Ham United End of season 1 September 2015 CF Dieumerci Mbokani Dynamo Kyiv End of season 30 January 2016 CF Patrick Bamford Chelsea End of season

Loans out Date from Position Nationality Name To Date until 6 July 2015 GK Remi Matthews Burton Albion 2 January 2016 15 July 2015 ST Carlton Morris Hamilton Academical 1 January 2016 14 August 2015 ST Jacob Murphy Coventry City End of season 21 August 2015 LW Josh Murphy Milton Keynes Dons End of season 27 August 2015 CB Michael Turner Sheffield Wednesday End of season 31 August 2015 CF Ricky van Wolfswinkel Real Betis End of season 1 September 2015 CM Tony Andreu Rotherham United 2 January 2016 1 September 2015 CM Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe Rotherham United 29 September 2015 11 September 2015 DM Louis Thompson Swindon Town 18 December 2015 29 October 2015 RB Cameron Norman Woking End of season 21 January 2016 CB Harry Toffolo Peterborough United End of season 21 January 2016 GK Remi Matthews Doncaster Rovers End of season 24 March 2016 ST Kyle Lafferty Birmingham City End of season

Competitions

Pre-season friendlies On 6 June 2015, Norwich City announced they would host West Ham United to mark Carrow Road's 80th anniversary. This fixture was the first ever played at Carrow Road; Norwich won the game 4–3. Two days later, the Canaries announced their pre-season schedule. Norwich City announced on 6 July 2015, that they would be playing FC Augsburg and Maccabi Haifa in a pre-season training camp in Germany and Austria.

Premier League

League table

Results by matchday

Results summary

Matches The Premier League fixture list was released on 17 June 2015. Norwich's first game was at home to Crystal Palace.

FA Cup Norwich City entered the competition in the third round and were drawn at home to Manchester City.

League Cup Norwich City entered the competition in the second round and were given an away trip to Rotherham United. The third round draw was made on 25 August 2015 live on Sky Sports by Charlie Nicholas and Phil Thompson. Norwich City drew West Bromwich Albion at home.

Statistics

Appearances, goals and cards Sources: Players with no appearances not included in the list.

Player Premier League FA Cup League Cup Total Discipline Starts Sub Goals Starts Sub Goals Starts Sub Goals Starts Sub Goals 1 GK John Ruddy 27 0 0 1 0 0 – – – 28 0 0 0 0 2 RB Steven Whittaker 8 0 1 – – – 0 1 0 8 1 1 1 1 3 RB Andre Wisdom 9 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 13 1 0 1 0 5 CB Russell Martin 30 0 3 1 0 0 – – – 31 0 3 5 1 6 CB Sébastien Bassong 30 2 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 34 2 2 5 0 7 CAM Steven Naismith 11 2 1 – – – – – – 11 2 1 2 0 8 CM Jonny Howson 33 3 3 1 0 0 1 1 1 35 4 4 7 0 9 ST Dieumerci Mbokani 15 13 7 – – – 1 0 0 16 13 7 0 0 10 ST Cameron Jerome 19 15 3 1 0 0 – – – 20 15 3 2 0 11 ST Patrick Bamford 2 5 0 – – – – – – 2 5 0 0 0 12 MF Robbie Brady 34 2 3 – – – – – – 34 2 3 3 0 13 GK Declan Rudd 11 0 0 – – – 3 0 0 13 0 0 2 0 14 CAM Wes Hoolahan 25 5 4 – – – 1 1 0 26 6 4 1 0 16 LM Matt Jarvis 11 7 1 – – – 1 1 1 12 8 2 0 0 17 CB Timm Klose 10 0 1 – – – – – – 10 0 1 3 0 18 MF Graham Dorrans 14 7 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 16 9 0 3 0 20 MF Anthony Andreu – – – – – – 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 21 MF Youssouf Mulumbu 5 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 6 2 0 2 0 22 RM Nathan Redmond 24 11 6 0 1 0 1 0 0 25 12 6 0 0 23 LB Martin Olsson 20 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 22 4 1 2 0 24 CB Ryan Bennett 20 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 23 2 0 7 0 25 RB Ivo Pinto 9 1 0 – – – – – – 9 1 0 0 0 27 CDM Alexander Tettey 23 0 2 – – – – – – 23 0 2 10 0 28 CM Gary O'Neil 19 8 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 21 9 0 7 1 32 MF Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe 3 7 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 5 8 0 2 0 Players out on loan: 19 ST style="text-align:left; | Kyle Lafferty | 0 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 1 | 0 || 3 || 1 || 0 || 0

| 15 || DF || style="text-align:left;" | Harry Toffolo | – || – || – || – || – || – || 1|| 0 || 0 | 1 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 |- | 29 || ST || style="text-align:left;" | Ricky van Wolfswinkel | – || – || – || – || – || – || 1 || 0 || 1 | 1 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 0 |- | colspan="18" style="background:#dcdcdc; text-align:left;"| Players now not at club:'' 4 CM Bradley Johnson 1 3 0 – – – 1 0 0 2 3 0 1 0 7 ST Lewis Grabban 3 3 1 – – – 2 0 0 5 3 1 0 0 11 ST Gary Hooper 0 2 0 – – – – – – 0 2 0 0 0 17 RM Elliott Bennett – – – – – – 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0

Goalscorers Rank Player Premier League FA Cup League Cup Total 1 ST Dieumerci Mbokani 7 0 0 7 2 MF Nathan Redmond 6 0 0 6 3 CAM Wes Hoolahan 4 0 0 4 MF Jonny Howson 3 0 1 4 5 DF Russell Martin 3 0 0 3 ST Cameron Jerome 3 0 0 3 LM/LB Robbie Brady 3 0 0 3 8 CM Alexander Tettey 2 0 0 2 CB Sébastien Bassong 1 0 1 2 LM Matt Jarvis 1 0 1 2 11 RB Steven Whittaker 1 0 0 1 ST Lewis Grabban 1 0 0 1 CAM Steven Naismith 1 0 0 1 CB Timm Klose 1 0 0 1 LB Martin Olsson 1 0 0 1 ST Kyle Lafferty 0 0 1 1 ST Ricky van Wolfswinkel 0 0 1 1 Own goals 1 0 1 2Totals 39 0 6 45

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