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Derby County F.C.

Derby County
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Formed	1884
Stadium	Pride Park Stadium, Derby (capacity: 33,597)
League	Football League First Division
Home kit	Black and white
Away kit	Royal blue and white
Shirt sponsor	Marston's Pedigree
Manager	George Burley
Nickname	The Rams
Mascot	Rammie (a ram)

Derby County F.C. is an English football club, currently playing in the Football League First Division.

Table of contents

1 History 2 Famous Players 3 Brian Clough 4 Honours 5 Club Records 6 Managers 7 Season-by-Season 8 External Links

History

The club was formed in 1884 as an offshoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club. The Rams, as Derby County are known, were founding members of the Football League when it was launched in 1888, but did not win the League's First Division (then the highest achievement in English football) until the 1971-1972 season. That success was repeated in 1974-1975.

Derby County have appeared in four FA Cup finals (1898, 1899, 1903 and 1946) but were only successful in the 1946 final, when they beat Charlton Athletic F.C 4-1.

That lack of success in the FA Cup—Derby also regularly lost at the semi-final stage—gave rise to a superstition that the club was subject to a gypsy curse, supposedly because of gypsy anger that the Baseball Ground was built on a gypsy camping ground. Prior to the 1946 final, Derby County players went so far as to ask the gypsies to lift the curse.

Derby County's homeground was the Racecourse Ground from 1884-1895. They then moved to the Baseball Ground and stayed until 1997, when they moved to Pride Park Stadium.

Derby were relegated from the FA Premier League in 2002. They have, like many teams in their position, had to endure the loss of highly-paid stars and rebuild with a younger team, including players like Tom Huddlestone and Lee Grant.

Famous Players

Many consider the greatest Rams player to have been Steve Bloomer, one of the most prolific scorers in the history of English football who appeared for Derby either side of the First World War. Other notable players include the FA Cup winning forward line of Peter Doherty, Jackie Stamps and Raich Carter. In the modern era players such as Roy McFarland, Archie Gemmil, Colin Todd, Kevin Hector and Dave Mackay played in the championship winning sides. More recently, England goalkeeper Peter Shilton played for the Rams.

Brian Clough

However, there is no question that the outstanding figure to be associated with Derby County is Brian Clough, Derby's manager from 1967 until 1973. After leading Derby to the championship in 1972 (in partnership with assistant manager Peter Taylor) he left under controversial circumstances and after brief tenures at Brighton and Hove Albion F.C and Leeds United F.C Clough joined Nottingham Forest F.C where he went on to win a First Division championship and two European Cups.

Honours

• Football League, 1971-1972, 1974-1975
• FA Cup, 1945-1946
• Charity Shield, 1975-1976
• Texaco Cup, 1971-1972
• Watney Cup, 1970-1971

Club Records

• Record Victory: 12-0 (at home to Finn Harps, UEFA Cup, First Round, First Leg, September 15th 1976)
• Record Defeat: 11-2 (away to Everton, FA Cup, First Round, January 18th 1890)
• Record Attendance: 41,826 (against Tottenham Hotspur, Football League First Division, September 20th 1969)
• Record Goal-Scorer: Steve Bloomer (292 league goals)
• Record Appearances: Kevin Hector (486 matches)

Managers

• Harry Newbould (1896-1906)
• Jimmy Methven (1906-1922)
• Cecil Potter (1922-1925)
• George Joeby (1925-1941)
• Ted Manger (1944-1946)
• Stuart McMillan (1946-1953)
• Jack Barker (1953-1955)
• Harry Storer (1955-1962)
• Tim Ward (1962-1967)
• Brian Clough (1967-1973)
• Dave Mackay (1973-1976)
• Colin Murphey (1976-1977)
• Tommy Docherty (1977-1979)
• Colin Addison (1979-1982)
• John Newman (1982)
• Peter Taylor (1982-1984)
• Roy McFarland (1984)
• Arthur Cox (1984-1993)
• Roy McFarland (1993-1995)
• Jim Smith (1995-2001)
• Colin Todd (2001-2002)
• John Gregory (2002-2003)
• George Burley (2003-)

Season-by-Season

The table below chronicles the achievements of Derby County every season, from their formation in 1884 to the present day. Details of Derby's final league position is given (from 1888, when The Football League was founded), along with which round they made it to in both the FA Cup, the League Cup (which began in 1960) and any European competitions that they had qualified for.

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Season	League/Division	League Finishing Position	FA Cup	League Cup	European Cup / Champions League	Fairs Cup / UEFA Cup
1884-1885			1st Round
1885-1886			3st Round
1886-1887			2st Round
1887-1888			4th Round
1888-1889	Football League	10th	2nd Round
1889-1890	Football League	7th	1st Round
1890-1891	Football League	11th	2nd Round
1891-1892	Football League	10th	1st Round
1892-1893	Football League First Division	13th	1st Round
1893-1894	Football League First Division	3rd	Quarter-Finals
1894-1895	Football League First Division	15th	1st Round
1895-1896	Football League First Division	2nd	Semi-Finals
1896-1897	Football League First Division	3rd	Semi-Finals
1897-1898	Football League First Division	10th	Runners-up
1898-1899	Football League First Division	9th	Runners-up
1899-1900	Football League First Division	6th	1st Round
1900-1901	Football League First Division	12th	Quarter-Finals
1901-1902	Football League First Division	12th	Semi-Finals
1902-1903	Football League First Division	9th	Runners-up
1903-1904	Football League First Division	14th	Semi-Finals
1904-1905	Football League First Division	11th	1st Round
1905-1906	Football League First Division	15th	2nd Round
1906-1907	Football League First Division	19th (relegated)	3rd Round
1907-1908	Football League Second Division	6th	1st Round
1908-1909	Football League Second Division	5th	Semi-Finals
1909-1910	Football League Second Division	4th	2nd Round
1910-1911	Football League Second Division	6th	Quarter-Finals
1911-1912	Football League Second Division	1st (promoted)	2nd Round
1912-1913	Football League First Division	7th	1st Round
1913-1914	Football League First Division	20th (relegated)	2nd Round
1914-1915	Football League Second Division	1st (promoted)	1st Round
1915-1916	Suspended due to World War I
1916-1917
1917-1918
1918-1919
1919-1920	Football League First Division	18th	1st Round
1920-1921	Football League First Division	21st (relegated)	2nd Round
1921-1922	Football League Second Division	12th	1st Round
1922-1923	Football League Second Division	14th	5th Round
1923-1924	Football League Second Division	3rd	3rd Round
1924-1925	Football League Second Division	3rd	1st Round
1925-1926	Football League Second Division	2nd (promoted)	4th Round
1926-1927	Football League First Division	12th	4th Round
1927-1928	Football League First Division	4th	4th Round
1928-1929	Football League First Division	6th	4th Round
1929-1930	Football League First Division	2nd	4th Round
1930-1931	Football League First Division	6th	3rd Round
1931-1932	Football League First Division	15th	5th Round
1932-1933	Football League First Division	7th	Semi-Finals
1933-1934	Football League First Division	4th	5th Round
1934-1935	Football League First Division	6th	5th Round
1935-1936	Football League First Division	2nd	Quarter-Finals
1936-1937	Football League First Division	4th	5th Round
1937-1938	Football League First Division	13th	3rd Round
1938-1939	Football League First Division	6th	3rd Round
1939-1940	''Suspended due to World War II
1941-1942
1942-1943
1943-1944
1944-1945
1945-1946	''Suspended due to World War II		Winners
1946-1947	Football League First Division	14th	5th Round
1947-1948	Football League First Division	4th	Semi-Finals
1948-1949	Football League First Division	3rd	Quarter-Finals
1949-1950	Football League First Division	11th	Quarter-Finals
1950-1951	Football League First Division	11th	4th Round
1951-1952	Football League First Division	17th	3rd Round
1952-1953	Football League First Division	22nd (relegated)	3rd Round
1953-1954	Football League Second Division	18th	3rd Round
1954-1955	Football League Second Division	22nd (relegated)	3rd Round
1955-1956	Football League Third Division (North)	2nd	2nd Round
1956-1957	Football League Third Division (North)	1st (promoted)	2nd Round
1957-1958	Football League Second Division	16th	3rd Round
1958-1959	Football League Second Division	7th	3rd Round
1959-1960	Football League Second Division	18th	3rd Round
1960-1961	Football League Second Division	12th	3rd Round	3rd Round
1961-1962	Football League Second Division	16th	4th Round	3rd Round
1962-1963	Football League Second Division	18th	4th Round	3rd Round
1963-1964	Football League Second Division	13th	3rd Round	2nd Round
1964-1965	Football League Second Division	9th	3rd Round	2nd Round
1965-1966	Football League Second Division	8th	3rd Round	3rd Round
1966-1967	Football League Second Division	17th	3rd Round	2nd Round
1967-1968	Football League Second Division	18th	3rd Round	Semi-Finals
1968-1969	Football League Second Division	1st (promoted)	3rd Round	Quarter-Finals
1969-1970	Football League First Division	4th	5th Round	Quarter-Finals
1970-1971	Football League First Division	9th	5th Round	4th Round
1971-1972	Football League First Division	1st (champions)	5th Round	2nd Round
1972-1973	Football League First Division	7th	Quarter-Finals	3rd Round	Semi-Finals
1973-1974	Football League First Division	3rd	4th Round	2nd Round
1974-1975	Football League First Division	1st (champions)	5th Round	3rd Round		3rd Round
1975-1976	Football League First Division	4th	Semi-Finals	3rd Round	2nd Round
1976-1977	Football League First Division	15th	Quarter-Finals	Quarter-Finals		2nd Round
1977-1978	Football League First Division	12th	5th Round	3rd Round
1978-1979	Football League First Division	19th	3rd Round	3rd Round
1979-1980	Football League First Division	21st (relegated)	3rd Round	2nd Round
1980-1981	Football League Second Division	6th	3rd Round	2nd Round
1981-1982	Football League Second Division	16th	3rd Round	2nd Round
1982-1983	Football League Second Division	13th	5th Round	3rd Round
1983-1984	Football League Second Division	20th (relegated)	Quarter-Finals	2nd Round
1984-1985	Football League Third Division	7th	1st Round	2nd Round
1985-1986	Football League Third Division	3rd (promoted)	5th Round	3rd Round
1986-1987	Football League Second Division	1st (promoted)	3rd Round	3rd Round
1987-1988	Football League First Division	15th	3rd Round	2nd Round
1988-1989	Football League First Division	5th	4th Round	3rd Round
1989-1990	Football League First Division	16th	3rd Round	Quarter-Finals
1990-1991	Football League First Division	20th (relegated)	3rd Round	4th Round
1991-1992	Football League Second Division	3rd	4th Round	3rd Round
1992-1993	Football League First Division*	8th	Quarter-Finals	3rd Round
1993-1994	Football League First Division	6th	3rd Round	3rd Round
1994-1995	Football League First Division	9th	3rd Round	4th Round
1995-1996	Football League First Division	2nd (promoted)	3rd Round	3rd Round
1996-1997	FA Premier League	12th	Quarter-Finals	2nd Round
1997-1998	FA Premier League	9th	4th Round	4th Round
1998-1999	FA Premier League	8th	Quarter-Finals	3rd Round
1999-2000	FA Premier League	16th	3rd Round	3rd Round
2000-2001	FA Premier League	17th	4th Round	4th Round
2001-2002	FA Premier League	19th (relegated)	3rd Round	3rd Round
2002-2003	Football League First Division	18th	3rd Round	2nd Round
2003-2004	Football League First Division	Still playing	3rd Round	1st Round
* At the beginning of the 1992-1993 season, the clubs in the Football League First Division broke away to form the FA Premier League; as a result, the Football League's three remaining divisions were renamed: the Second Division (which Derby were playing in) became the First Division, the Third Division became the Second Division and the Fourth Division became the Third Division

External Links

• Official site
• Unofficial site by the Derby Evening Telegraph

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