Story added: 3rd April 2025

Norwich City win two EFL Championship community Awards

Norwich City has been awarded the Championship Community Club of the Season by the EFL in recognition of our community engagement throughout the 2023/2024 season, with full-back Jack Stacey awarded Community Player of the Season.

In 2024, the Norwich City Community Sports Foundation generated a social value of over £63 million and engaged a total of 45,828 unique participants. During the year, the Foundation launched a number of new programmes and services aimed at helping those most in need across Norfolk, East Anglia and beyond.

The Foundation’s newest provisions include ‘MyClub‘, a volunteer programme for Norwich City Fans, ‘Play and Eat‘, an affordable activity and hot meal provision to help those struggling with the cost-of-living crisis, and ‘Healthy Fans‘, a matchday support system for Norwich City and Norwich City Women fans.

On top of this, Norwich City full-back Jack Stacey received recognition of his own, scooping the Championship Community Player of the Season award for his exceptional commitment to volunteering with the Foundation’s pan-disability football team and Realising Potential programme.

Realising Potential is a weekly programme for children and adults with various disabilities and additional needs. Making use of The Nest’s facilities, the group, along with Jack, will play table tennis, table football, pool and make use of the interactive games wall in ‘The Box‘ as a means of light physical activity and socialising. The group will then spend any surplus time out on the 3G pitches, playing small-sided games of football, often led by Jack.

The awards, which celebrate the outstanding work EFL Football Club charities are delivering to their local communities, honoured winners across all three EFL divisions in the categories of Community Player of the Season, Community Club of the Season, and Community Project of the Season. The judging panel included former England Lioness Rachel Brown-Finnis, former EFL footballer-turned Sky Sports pundit Jobi McAnuff, sports journalist Henry Winter and the PFA’s Dave Palmer.

Norwich City now progress into the final three for each award, alongside our League One and Two counterparts, with the overall winner being announced at the EFL Awards on April 27.