The Norwich Devils are a British

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team based in

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, Norfolk.

Overview

The Devils most recently fielded a team Division 2 East of the

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(BAFACL). The roster is mainly local players and they are currently on a recruitment campaign with the team having successfully completed its associate year in 2017. Since then the team rose from division 2 to the Division 1 South Final in 2023 losing out to

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28-6. However since then the team has been through a dip, dropping down to Division 2 after struggling in 2024 with an 0-8 season and entering a rebuilding phase in the hope of fighting back to Division 1. The team was formed in 1984 and began league play in 1986. The Devils won their first, and to date only, National Championship later that decade in 1989, beating arch rivals the

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in the final by a score of 18–9. The Devils have made the playoffs 12 times since that national title and have won the National Division 2 Title twice since 2000, in 2002 & 2007. The Norwich Devils Currently train and play their home games at Thorpe St Andrews High school in the east of Norwich. In Recent years they have also partaken in a preseason Game hosted at the RAF Lakenheath Air Force Base against Northants Knights known as Liberty Bowl.

Rivalries

The Norwich Devils hold a hotly contested rivalry with Suffolk-based

with the games between these two always being fiercely contested games. This rivalry spans across any sport in which Norwich and Ipswich teams contest with these two teams being no different with both teams always putting out their best to ensure bragging rights and in some cases division titles can be won for another year. In the past they have both played each other in championship matchups. The first of these was in 1989,where the Devils triumphed 18-9 in the British National Gridiron League Division 1 national championship. They then faced each other again in 2001 in the British Senior League Division 2 Championship where the Cardinals won 47-15. These two teams will on again face each other in 2025 both being placed in the SFC 2 East conference after not facing each other for 2 years due to Norwich's stint in Division however the last time these 2 teams played was the 15th May 2022 in which the

won 8-12 which was Norwich's only loss in the regular season that year.

Norwich Devils Hall of Fame

Senior team season records

Award winners

2010

*Team

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– Nathan Evans (OL/DL) *Offensive MVP – Heith Johnson (QB) *Defensive MVP – Simon Harbottle (DB) *Most Improved Player – Ben Stockwell (DL) *Lineman of the Year – Stephen Charman (OL) *

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of the Year – Adam Whitbourn (TE) *Coaches Player of the Year – Wayne Diggines (DB)

2023

* Team MVP – Jason Lewis (DB) * Offensive MVP – Raymond Seymour (QB) * Defensive MVP – James Harrod (LB) * Special Teams MVP – Jason Lewis (DB) * Coaches Player of the Year – Tim Johnson (OL) * Players Player of the Year – Seth Shipley (LB) * Most Improved Player of the year – Wayne Diggines (DB) * Rookie of the Year – James Warne (DL) * Lineman of the Year – Mason Hodds * Darkness Award – Neil Skoyles (OL) * Richard Green Award – Mason Wilson ( Team Photographer)

Coaching staff

* Head Coach — * Offensive Coordinator — * Defensive Coordinator — * Special Teams Coordinator —

References

External links

Official site

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