Derby County F.C.

Association football clubhouse in England

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Derby County Football Club ( ) is a master association football golf club based in Derby, Derbyshire, England. The club competes in the Championship, the second tier of English football. Derby has played its home matches at Pride Park Stadium since 1997.

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luminary for being one of the 12 laminitis members of the Football League in 1888, Derby County is one of only 10 clubs to have competed in every season of the English football league organization, with all but four of those being in the lead two divisions. The golf club was founded in 1884 by William Morley as an outgrowth of Derbyshire County Cricket Club. Its competitive point came in the 1970s when it twice won the First Division and competed in major european competitions on four occasions, reaching the european Cup semi-finals a well as winning respective minor trophies. additionally, the club was a strong force in the interwar years – finishing league runner-up twice in the 1930s – and winning the first post-war FA Cup in 1946. The baseball club ‘s home colours have been black and white since the 1890s. The team gets its dub, The Rams, to show tribute to its links with the First Regiment of Derby Militia, which took a aries as its mascot. additionally, the golf club besides adopted the song “ The Derby Ram “ as its regimental song. [ 2 ] They have a long-standing competition with nearby baseball club Nottingham Forest, with whom they contest the East Midlands bowler hat .

history [edit ]

Chart of mesa positions of Derby County in the Football League

Beginning and early success [edit ]

Derby County F.C. was formed in 1884 as an outgrowth of Derbyshire County Cricket Club in an attempt to give players and supporters a winter interest a well as impregnable the cricket club extra tax income. The original intention was to name the club “ Derbyshire County F.C. ” to highlight the connection, though the Derbyshire FA, formed in 1883, objected on the grounds it was excessively long and therefore would not have been understood by the fans who may mistake it for a Derbyshire FA team. Playing their home matches at the cricket cabaret ‘s Racecourse Ground, 1884–85 saw the baseball club undertake an extensive program of friendly matches, the first of which was a 6–0 kill to Great Lever on 13 September 1884. The baseball club ‘s first competitive match came in the 1885 FA Cup, where they lost 7–0 at home to Walsall Town. arguably the most significant equal in the club ‘s history came in the adopt season ‘s FA Cup, when a 2–0 victory over Aston Villa, already an emerging push in English football, establishing Derby County on the English football map, helping the club to attract better resistance for friendlies and, in 1888, an invitation into the inaugural address Football League. The open sidereal day of the beginning always league season was 8 September 1888, when Derby came from 3–0 down away to Bolton Wanderers to win 6–3, though the club ultimately finished 10th out of 12 teams. In 1891, they absorbed another Derby golf club, Derby Midland, which had been a member of the Midland League, leaving them as Derby ‘s exclusive professional football club. Steve Bloomer, by and large considered to be Derby County ‘s best-ever player, joined the club in 1892. In 1895, the golf club moved to a new stadium, the Baseball Ground ( thus called because it was previously used for baseball ), which became their home for the next 102 years. It was then that the club adopted their immediately traditional home colors of total darkness and white. Although Derby were inconsistent in the league, they finished as runner-up to Aston Villa in 1896, angstrom well as achieved a issue of third-place finishes. They were a strong force in the FA Cup, appearing in three finals in six years around the change by reversal of the twentieth hundred, though lost all three, in 1898 ( 3–1 to Nottingham Forest ), [ 3 ] 1899 ( 4–1 to Sheffield United ) [ 4 ] and 1903 ( 6–0 to Bury ). [ 5 ]

edwardian and interwar earned run average [edit ]

In 1906, Steve Bloomer was sold to Middlesbrough due to fiscal constraints, and Derby subsequently suffered its first ever relegation the following season, [ 6 ] but under Jimmy Methven ‘s management, they re-signed Bloomer and regained their first Division invest in 1911. [ 6 ] In 1914, they were again relegated, but immediately won the second Division to earn promotion, [ 6 ] though World War I meant they had to wait until 1919 to play First Division football again. After two seasons, they were relegated however again in 1921. however, the appointment of George Jobey in 1925 kick-start a successful period for the Rams and, after promotion in 1926, [ 6 ] the club became a formidable force, with high finishes from the belated 1920s and all through the 1930s, [ 6 ] including finishing as runner-up twice .
The Brian Clough and Peter Taylor statue Derby were one of several clubs to close down after the outbreak of World War II but restarted in the early 1940s, in part due to the continuity of Jack Nicholas and Jack Webb. Aided by the recruitment of Raich Carter and Peter Doherty, who had both been stationed in Loughborough during the war, Derby were one step ahead of the opposition when competitive football resumed with the 1946 FA Cup and won their first major trophy with a 4–1 victory over Charlton Athletic. [ 7 ]

Post-war success and worsen [edit ]

The league restarted the following season after a interruption due to World War II and, under the management of Stuart McMillan, deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as doubly breaking the british transfer record to sign Billy Steel and Johnny Morris to replace Carter and Doherty, finished fourth and third base in the 1948 and 1949 seasons respectively, before a firm decline set in and the club was relegated in 1953, after closely 30 years in the acme flight, and again in 1955 to drop to the third tier of English football for the first time in their history. [ 6 ] Harry Storer led Derby back into the second base grade at the second try in 1957, though the club progressed no further over the future ten under either Storer or his successor, former Derby player Tim Ward .

Brian Clough era [edit ]

In 1967, Brian Clough and Peter Taylor took over and led Derby to its greatest glory. Starting at 18th in the Second Division in 1968, Clough and Taylor acquired Alan Hinton, Roy McFarland, and John O’Hare, then clinched the influential sign of Dave Mackay to lead the club to 1st place in 1969, and promotion to the First Division. [ 8 ] Derby went on to finish fourth in 1970, [ 6 ] were banned from competing in Europe due to fiscal irregularities in 1971, and won their first ever Football League Championship in 1972. [ 6 ] Though Derby did not retain their title the come season, they did reach the semi-finals of the european Cup, where they lost to Juventus. Clough ‘s patronize blunt comments against football ‘s establishment finally led to him falling out with the board of directors at the club, and Clough and Taylor left in October 1973. such was their impact on the club that, 37 years former, a 9 foot ( 2.75 metres ) bronze statue of the pair was erected outside Pride Park in memorial of their bequest. [ 9 ]

Success and descent after Clough [edit ]

Despite the passing of Clough and Taylor, Derby ‘s league success was repeated in the 1974–75 season when they won the championship under successor Dave Mackay, who had been a player under Clough when they had returned to the acme escape in 1969. however, Derby ‘s form declined towards the end of the 1970s and they went down to the Second Division in 1980 after a drawstring of managers, including former Manchester United foreman Tommy Docherty, unsettled the club trying desperately to maintain its place at the top of the First Division. Though they challenged well in their first temper, Derby were soon hit hard by rising debts, falling attendances and blue performances. Peter Taylor returned to the Baseball Ground as coach in early 1983 and kept Derby up that season, but he retired a year by and by precisely before Derby ‘s relegation to the Third Division for only the second gear prison term in their history. however, Derby did manage to avoid going out of clientele, and they were soon under the possession of affluent businessman Robert Maxwell . Derby County ‘s erstwhile Baseball Ground memorial by Denis O’Connor

1980s revival and promotion to Premier League [edit ]

After relegation to the Third Division in May 1984, the baseball club appointed Arthur Cox as director. Although they missed out on promotion in Cox ‘s foremost season as coach, they then won back-to-back promotions and were back in the First Division for the 1987–88 season, with attendances besides rising as the cabaret ‘s on-the-field fortunes and fiscal stead improved. The fiscal backing of fresh president Robert Maxwell saw stars such as Peter Shilton, Mark Wright, Dean Saunders, Trevor Hebberd and Ted McMinn brought to the club and they finished fifth in the 1988–89 season. A lack of any further investment from Maxwell promptly led to a decay, culminating in relegation back to the Second Division in 1991. At this clock time, local newspaper businessman Lionel Pickering became the majority stockholder of the club, taking control just ahead Maxwell ‘s end in November 1991. In 1992, Derby County paid £2.5 million for Notts County central defender Craig Short, at the time – and for five years afterwards – the most expensive musician to be signed by a clubhouse outside the exceed flight, and indeed one of the highest fees paid by any English club for a actor at the time. other expensive signings included strikers Tommy Johnson and Marco Gabbiadini. Cox ‘s resignation as director in October 1993 saw the appointment of fabled former player Roy McFarland as coach. Derby reached the final of the Division One playoffs that season, but were beaten by local rivals Leicester City. McFarland was sacked a class later after Derby missed out on the playoffs, and his surrogate was Jim Smith – a coach whose racetrack record at his former clubs included four promotions and an FA Cup semi-final appearance. Although the 1995–96 season started slowly, the sign of sweeper Igor Štimac in the early fall proved pivotal. Smith guided the Rams to a second-place finish and the Premier League, nowadays the top flight of English football. During that season, it was announced Derby would be leaving the Baseball Ground after more than 100 years to move into a raw all-seater stadium, following earlier plans to develop the Baseball Ground as a 26,000-seat stadium. [ 10 ] After finishing in 12th target in their first temper bet on into the acme flight, the club left the Baseball Ground, its home of 102 years, to move into the modern 33,597-seat Pride Park Stadium for the 1997–98 temper. The Baseball Ground was demolished six years late and a memorial was finally erected in memory of its character in Derby city history. [ 11 ]

relegation from clear flight and fiscal crisis [edit ]

The club settled well into its modern home as it recorded back-to-back top 10 finishes for the inaugural clock time since their 1970s bill, before a sudden decline at the call on of the millennium saw three years of fight. Smith resigned to be replaced by former players Colin Todd, who lasted equitable three months, and John Gregory before the Rams were relegated after a six-year stay in the top flight, in 2002. Derby County ‘s relegation saw the club record a dangerous fiscal crisis, which forced them to sell many winder players. Gregory was later suspended from his managerial duties over alleged misbehave and former Ipswich Town boss George Burley was brought in. The club was put into receivership then sold in October 2003 for £3 to a group led by Jeremy Keith. After finishing 20th in the 2003–04 season, a dramatic improvement in the 2004–05 season saw Derby complete fourthly in the Championship, qualifying for a promotion play-off spot, though they lost in the semi-finals to Preston North End. Soon afterwards, Burley resigned citing differences between himself and the display panel. He was replaced by Bolton Wanderers first team coach Phil Brown. In January 2006, Brown was sacked after a poor run of results. Terry Westley, the academy coach at the time, took over first-team duties until the end of the season and saved Derby from delegating .

return to the Premier League and straight back to the championship [edit ]

In April 2006, a consortium of local businessmen led by former vice-chairman Peter Gadsby purchased the club, reducing its debt and returning Pride Park Stadium to the club ‘s ownership in the process. In June 2006, former Preston North End party boss Billy Davies was appointed Derby County ‘s fresh permanent wave director. In his first season, Davies took Derby to the Championship play-offs, where they beat Southampton on penalties in the semi-finals before defeating West Bromwich Albion 1–0 with a second-half Stephen Pearson goal at the new Wembley Stadium to secure a retort to the Premier League and the associated £60 million windfall. [ 12 ] After failing to win any of their opening five matches of the season ( one draw and four consecutive defeats ), Derby scored their beginning victory with a 1-0 win over Newcastle, where Kenny Miller scored the entirely goal of the crippled. [ 13 ] In October 2007, Peter Gadsby stepped toss off ampere president to be replaced by former Hull City owner Adam Pearson, who immediately began searching for investment from abroad. [ 14 ] After a poor start to the season, director Billy Davies left by reciprocal accept in November. [ 15 ] He was succeeded by Paul Jewell, [ 16 ] who failed to save the club as Derby suffered the Premier League ‘s earliest ever relegation, in March, [ 17 ] recorded the Premier League ‘s lowest-ever points total, [ 18 ] and equalled Loughborough ‘s 108-year Football League record of going through an entire season with only one gain, which occurred during the 1899–1900 season when Loughborough finished bottom of the Second Division. In January 2008, Derby was taken over by an external investment group led by General Sports and Entertainment, with Pearson remaining as de facto president. [ 19 ] Derby ‘s equal at home to Sheffield United on 13 September 2008 generated much media coverage as it was approaching a year since Derby ‘s last league succeed, a run which saw the club break the English league read for most matches without a win. just four days short of the anniversary of the 1–0 victory over Newcastle United, Rob Hulse scored against his erstwhile baseball club as Derby ran out 2–1 winners, earning Paul Jewell his first league succeed as Derby bos at his 27th attack. Despite taking the club to the League Cup semi-final, the club ‘s inaugural major cup semi-final since 1976, where Derby lost 4–3 to Manchester United over two legs, Jewell resigned as coach in December 2008 after a run of good two wins in 11 matches. [ 20 ] He was replaced by Nigel Clough, [ 21 ] son of former coach Brian Clough. Nigel Clough led the club to 18th position and safety. After four years of midtable obscurity, Clough was replaced by Steve McClaren in September 2013 ; McClaren led the club to a 3rd-place finish in the 2013–14 season, but lost the play-off final to Queens Park Rangers .

championship struggles and administration [edit ]

The following season local businessman Mel Morris assumed ownership of the golf club. Morris initially oversaw a flat of outgo unprecedented in Derby ‘s history, breaking the club ‘s transfer record four times in his first gear three years, but besides oversaw an equally unprecedented managerial turnover with nine managers in six years from June 2015. In this period the club endured three abortive play-off campaigns, failing in the semi-finals doubly and losing in the 2019 final to Aston Villa ; in May 2021, the club, nowadays managed by Wayne Rooney, narrowly avoid relegation to League One. [ 22 ] Earlier, in October 2020, it was announced that Morris was intending to sell the clubhouse and was actively seeking newly owners. [ 23 ] A electric potential deal with a Middle Eastern-backed company was discontinued in March 2021, after which an agree sale to a spanish businessman, Erik Alonso, [ 24 ] besides fell through after doubts about Alonso ‘s financing emerged, [ 25 ] alongside possible EFL sanctions regarding breaches of fiscal honest play regulations [ 26 ] ( a deduction of nine points remained under consideration in mid-september 2021 ). [ 27 ] On 8 July 2021, the EFL imposed a transfer embargo on the club, [ 28 ] leaving Rooney with a squad of precisely nine contracted senior professionals ; [ 29 ] however, the EFL late relaxed the embargo but said any deals will have rigid wage limits. [ 30 ] Following a long term wound to Colin Kazim-Richards in the early stage of the 2021-22 temper, the baseball club were given limited dispensation by the EFL to bring in veteran defender Phil Jagielka and striker Sam Baldock. [ 31 ] On 17 September 2021, the club ’ s board of directors announced that the club was to go into administration. The EFL confirmed Derby would face a 12-point deduction. [ 32 ] Having invested “ in surfeit of £200m ” in the club, owner Mel Morris apologised to fans and staff about the administration. [ 33 ] Relegated in May 2021, early Championship golf club Wycombe Wanderers considered legal military action against Derby County following the administration announcement. [ 34 ] On 22 September 2021 the club formally went into administration and were deducted 12 points leaving them bed of the Championship, [ 35 ] but the administrators subsequently appealed against the automatic pistol points discount ; [ 36 ] an invoke learn was adjourned on 8 November. [ 37 ] During October and November 2021, former Derby owner Andy Appleby, [ 38 ] US businessman Chris Kirchner [ 39 ] and Sandy and James Easdale [ 40 ] were named as concerned parties as administrators looked for a buyer for the club, planning to shortlist three prefer bidders by the end of 2021. however, a promptly sale was improbable pending discussions with HMRC, and confirmation of the wax extent of Derby ‘s liabilities. [ 38 ] On 16 November 2021, the club had a foster deduction of nine points for breaching EFL account rules, leaving the club on -3, 18 points from guard. A further three-point subtraction, for breaches of EFL profitableness and sustainability rules, was suspended. [ 41 ] On 20 November 2021, Derby and related companies were reported to owe £29.3m to HMRC ; other liabilities included a £20m lend from US investment group MSD Holdings, plus assorted football and deal creditors owed around £15m. [ 42 ] The follow day, administrators said they hoped to identify a favored buyer “ in the following two to three weeks ”, with Kirchner the alone potential buyer to have publicly confirmed his sake. [ 43 ] On 2 December 2021, after press speculation that the club might go into extermination due to the scale of its debts, Rooney insisted this was not an choice. [ 44 ]

Club crest and colours [edit ]

crest [edit ]

Derby County ‘s badge from 1946 Like most old football clubs, Derby County did not initially have any badge displayed on their shirts. Their first badge was introduced in 1924. The badge consisted of a circular shield split into three equally sized sections, representing the club, its fans and the sphere, all containing items traditionally associated with the city of Derby : a Tudor rose and a crown in one department, a dollar in a park in the second and a force ‘s head in the final department. The badge was worn on the players ‘ shirts for good two seasons before they reverted to plain shirts. By 1934, another badge had been introduced. This time it was a traditionally shaped harbor, again with three sections. The buck in the parking lot had been removed and the rose and the crown had been split up and immediately occupied a section each. The ram ‘s drumhead besides remained and was now given the largest department of the shield. The badge never appeared on the players ‘ shirts. The shield was modified in 1946 when the rose and peak were removed and replaced with the letters “ DC ” ( Derby County ) and “ FC ” ( Football Club ) respectively. The badge, right, was featured on to the musician ‘s shirts from its insertion onwards, though the aries ‘s head on its own was used from the recently 1960s ( the wax shield, however, remained the club ‘s official logo ) .
Derby County ‘s badge from 1997 to 2007 A new baseball club badge was introduced in 1971, featuring a more mod design that, with modifications, is still in use. The badge was initially consisted of a conventionalized white ram face left. The badge was first modified slightly in 1979 to include the text “ Derby County FC ” under the random-access memory ( though the aries remained on its own on away kits ). In 1982, the ram turned to expression to the right and the text under it was removed. The crash was surrounded by a wreath of laurel and the text “ centennial 1984–1985 ” was printed underneath for the club ‘s centennial temper. The laurel was removed and the text reading “ Derby County FC ” returned from the adjacent season. In 1993, the force faced left again and the text was removed once more. From 1995, the jam faced right and was enclosed in a diamond, with a gold streamer reading “ Derby County FC ” underneath and the text “ 1884 ” ( the year of the club ‘s basis ) underneath that. The design was changed again in 1997 ( see left ) : the force faced now left and the aureate banner now plainly read “ Derby County ” ; the ball field and year of formation were removed .
Derby County ‘s badge from 2009 to 2013, a version of this badge with gold spare was used from 2007 to 2009. A ten late, in 2007, the badge was modified again with the ram still facing left and the text “ Est. 1884 ” now in the center of a round skeletal system featuring “ Derby County Football Club ” in aureate letter, with the colours being modified to the golf club color of black and white in 2009 ( see crown of page ). In July 2012, the club announced its purpose to show only the iconic ram, now just an outline, on future shirts, preferably than the full baseball club logo. In July 2013, this traditional ram became the clubhouse ‘s full logo again .

Colours [edit ]

Derby County ‘s original colours ( correctly ) were amber, cocoa and blue, though by the 1890s the club had adopted its immediately traditional color of black and white, which are hush in practice nowadays. In the 1970s and 1980s, colours for home matches were white shirts with small amobarbital sodium or red touches ( on the club badge or shirt makers insignia ), blue shorts and socks that were blue, red, white or a combination of the three. [ 45 ] The color of away kits have varied widely, and although they are normally yellow/gold or blue, the color for the away kit for the 2008–09 season was fluorescent green. [ 46 ] The club besides introduced a surprise third kit out in August 2008. like in design to the club ‘s away kit of the 1970s, with blue sky and white stripes and evocative of the Argentina national team clean, the vogue was reintroduce follow feedback from fans who said it was one of their favorite kits from the baseball club ‘s past. [ 47 ]

Club mascot [edit ]

Derby County ‘s mascot, Rammie Derby ‘s mascot is a random-access memory named Rammie, who besides works to maintain the baseball club ‘s links with fans and the East Midlands in general, such as school visits to promote literacy and charity events. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] Rammie in the first place emerged as a more friendly option to the club ‘s traditional links with the british Army and the Mercian Regiment in particular. Rammie was the beginning full-time mascot in british football. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] Rammie ‘s traditional activities include penalty shoot-outs with members of the herd at half-time, with Rammie as goalkeeper, and warming the push up before the match and encouraging the Derby fans during matches. Rammie is a identical popular calculate amongst Rams fans [ 52 ] [ 53 ] and, in 2005, released his first DVD, which features the character reading from Aesop ‘s Fables in the Derbyshire countryside. [ 50 ] shortly thereafter, Rammie was joined by a female equivalent and his baby, named Eweie. however, Eweie did not last identical long at Pride Park, and took a reported “ vacation ” to the United States. She returned from a 10-year exile on 3 October 2015 at a home match against Brentford. [ 54 ]

stadium [edit ]

Pride Park Stadium has been Derby ‘s home since 1997 As an outgrowth of the cricket club, Derby County ‘s first family stadium was the County Cricket Ground, besides known as the Racecourse Ground, where the club played between 1884 and 1895. Although the land itself was good enough to hold the first FA Cup final match outside London, when Blackburn Rovers beat West Bromwich Albion 2–0 in the 1886 FA Cup final replay [ 55 ] and a full England external, disputes over fixture clashed between the football and cricket clubs meant that when the opportunity to play at Sir Francis Ley ‘s Baseball Ground arose, the club accepted. [ 56 ] normally referred to amongst supporters as “ the BBG ”, the club moved to the Baseball Ground in 1895 and remained there for the following 102 years, despite opportunities to move in the 1920s and 1940s. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] Derby had already played there, a 1–0 win over Sunderland during the 1891–92 season, as an alternative venue after a regular brush at the County Ground. At its acme during the late 1960s, the land could hold around 42,000 – the baseball club ‘s phonograph record attendance achieved following the opening of the Ley Stand with a 41,826 crowd watching a 5–0 frustration of Tottenham Hotspur on 20 September 1969. [ 56 ] From this bill, the continued summation of seating saw the capacity devolve over the next 15 years to 26,500 in 1985. Following the Taylor Report in 1989, and the legal requirement for all seater stadium, the flat coat ‘s capacity dwindled to just 18,500 by the mid-1990s, not adequate for the then ambitious second tier golf club. Despite initially hoping to rebuild the Baseball Ground to hold 26,000 spectators, and rejecting the offer of two sites elsewhere in Derby, then-chairman Lionel Pickering announced in February 1996 the intention to move to a raw, purpose built stadium at the newly regenerated Pride Park, with the last first team game at the Baseball Ground being in May 1997, a 1–3 home kill to Arsenal, though it continued to host modesty matches until 2003. Derby ‘s modern reason, named Pride Park Stadium, was officially opened by the Queen on 18 July with a friendly against italian clubhouse Sampdoria following on 4 August. Derby hold the singular differentiation of being the lone golf club to have had three home grounds host fully England internationals. England beat Ireland 9–0 at the Racecourse Ground in 1895, beat Ireland again, 2–1, at the Baseball Ground in 1911 and, most recently, Pride Park hosted England ‘s 4–0 win over Mexico in May 2001. [ 58 ]

Pride Park was renamed the iPro stadium on 7 December 2013, as character of a 10-year, £7 million sponsorship cover with ball-shaped sports drink company iPro. At the begin of 2017, it reverted to its original appoint of Pride Park Stadium .

Supporters and competition [edit ]

support [edit ]

Derby is much acknowledged as a “ passionate football town ” by rival supporters and the press alike. Tony Francis of The Daily Telegraph noted, “ Derby is a passionate football town … evening in Division Two, it ‘s a reasonable stake that crowd at Pride Park would not fall army for the liberation of rwanda below 20,000. It ‘s historic, it ‘s geographic, it ‘s in the lineage. Some places have it, some do n’t. ” [ 60 ] During the 2007–08 Premier League temper, Derby County fans were repeatedly referred to as the best in the nation due to their commitment despite the club ‘s black campaign. [ 61 ] Almost every home catch at Pride Park Stadium was sold out by the Derby fans and the club besides had a large following away from home. The recognition included them being named fans of the temper in much national coverage of the season, winning an award from Nuts magazine, [ 62 ] and being named the most patriotic supporters in the area in a 2008 view by Sky Sports Magazine. [ 63 ] In 2013, Derby garter Nick Webster was voted Championship Fan of the Year. [ 64 ] statistically, the golf club had the 12th-highest average attendance in the country in the 2007–08 season, [ 65 ] 2008–09, [ 66 ] and 2009–10 seasons, [ 67 ] despite alone having the 15th-largest clubhouse ground and finishing 18th or lower in their respective division. In 2008–09, they were the best supported club in the Championship, with a larger average attendance than nine Premier League clubs, and had the Football Leagues ‘ unmarried largest league couple attendance, with 33,079 against Wolverhampton Wanderers on 13 April 2009. Derby ‘s fame supporters include actor Robert Lindsay, former Labour MP Dennis Skinner, [ 68 ] irish singer Niall Horan, [ 69 ] Blur guitarist Graham Coxon, [ 70 ] The Gaslight Anthem guitarist Alex Rosamilia, [ 71 ] adult film star Keiran Lee [ 72 ] and actor Jack O’Connell. [ 73 ] It has been reported that O’Connell has persuaded other celebrities to support the club, including actors George Clooney, [ 74 ] and Angelina Jolie, [ 75 ] and exemplar Cara Delevingne. [ 76 ] [ better source needed ]

Rivals [edit ]

Derby ‘s primary rival clubs are Nottingham Forest, Leicester City and Leeds United. [ 77 ] Forest, based in Nottingham, 14 miles ( 23 kilometer ) east of Derby, are by far the fiercest rivals ; a 2008 survey named the competition the 11th-largest in English football, revealing that nine out of 10 fans from both clubs point to the other as their fiercest rival, [ 78 ] whilst a 2020 sketch listed it joint-12th. [ 79 ] Meetings between the side are known as East Midlands derbies and the winning team is awarded the Brian Clough Trophy. The competition as a whole largely developed from the 1970s, due to early Derby director Brian Clough aim over at Forest, a lot to the anger of the Derby fans. The competition has been seen to be american samoa much about which club owns Clough ‘s heart as the proximity of the clubs geographically. [ 80 ] The competition with Leicester City stems largely from geographic location quite than any share history. [ 81 ] Leeds United are disliked due to ongoing friction from the early on 1970s when Derby and Leeds were two of the top English teams and the hardly concealed hostility between their respective managers, Brian Clough and Don Revie [ 81 ] and is documented in the novel and film The Damned United. This competition is traditionally stronger on Derby ‘s side : while Derby consider Leeds their second or third-biggest rivals, Leeds fans focus more on their dislike of Manchester United and Chelsea, [ 77 ] however the competition intensified once more in the 2018-19 season following the ‘Spygate ‘ scandal, play-off semi-final and increase animosity between the managers, staff and fans of both clubs. [ 82 ] [ 83 ] A 2019 study called ‘ The League of Love And Hate ’ reported Derby fan ‘s top five rivals as Nottingham Forest ( 88 % ), Leicester City ( 64 % ), Leeds United ( 63 % ), Stoke City ( 43 % ) and Aston Villa ( 30 % ). Derby themselves appeared in the top fives of Forest ( 1st – 77 % ), Leicester ( 2nd – 60 % ), Burton Albion ( 3rd – 56 % ), Leeds ( 5th – 30 % ) and Stoke ( 5th – 28 % ). [ 84 ]

Players [edit ]

current team [edit ]

As of 17 August 2021[85][86]

notice : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Reserves and Academy [edit ]

celebrated early players [edit ]

several ex-players/managers associated with Derby County are represented in the English Football Hall of Fame, which was created in 2002 as a celebration of those who have achieved at the identical point of the english game. To be considered for trigger players/managers must be 30 years of age or older and have played/managed for at least five years in England. [ 87 ]
The Football League 100 Legends is a number of “ 100 fabled football players ” produced by The Football League in 1998, to celebrate the 100th season of League football. Eight early Derby players made the list .

The Jack Stamps Trophy ( Player of the class ) [edit ]

Derby County ‘s Player of the Season award is voted for by the club ‘s supporters and named in honor of Jackie Stamps, who scored two goals in Derby ‘s sole FA Cup concluding victory in 1946. It was first introduced in the 1968–69 season. [ 88 ]

Managers [edit ]

Below is a list of all the permanent wave managers that Derby County have had since the appointment of Harry Newbould in 1900. [ 90 ] In the 16 years prior to Newbould ‘s date, the team was selected by club committee, a standard practice by football clubs at the prison term .

Current first gear team management [edit ]

Board of directors and ownership [edit ]

Owner and Chairman: Mel Morris
CEO: Stephen Pearce
Operations Director: John Vicars
Technical director: Vacant
Chief Financial Officer: Stephen Pearce
Commercial Director: Lisa Biesty
Human Resources Director: Sarah Edwards
Chief Technical Officer: Stuart Fisher
Honorary Vice Chairman: Don Amott
Club Ambassadors: Roy McFarland, Roger Davies, Michael Johnson

Club academy [edit ]

Moor farm [edit ]

Derby County ‘s academy, called Moor Farm, is a purpose-built complex situated near the city suburb of Oakwood. It was built in 2003, at a monetary value of £5 million, [ 91 ] to replace the golf club ‘s previous academy, The Ram-Arena, which was based at Raynesway. It covers 50 acres ( 200,000 m2 ) and features six full-sized prepare pitches plus an indoor pitch and includes a gymnasium, restaurant, ProZone room and a laundry. [ 91 ] When opening the academy, then-Chairman Lionel Pickering said that the intent was to have “ at least eight players from the Academy … in the first-team within three years. ” [ 91 ] Although this was not achieved, the academy produced a total of luminary players, including England external midfielder Tom Huddlestone, Wales international defender Lewin Nyatanga, Northern Ireland external goalkeeper Lee Camp, England under-21s players Miles Addison and Lee Grant, vitamin a well as England under-19 musician Giles Barnes. In April 2009, raw coach Nigel Clough announced his intention to restructure the academy, appointing former Derby players Darren Wassall and Michael Forsyth [ 92 ] and Wolverhampton Wanderers Academy director John Perkins to the backroom staff, replacing the leave Phil Cannon, David Lowe and Brian Burrows. [ 93 ] Following this, and an increased investment of £1 million per class from the club, [ 94 ] a phone number of players broke through to the first team police squad ; ahead of the 2010–11 season, about a third of the Derby team were academy graduates, with Mason Bennett setting the club commemorate for youngest first team appearance when he made his full debut with a start in a kill at Middlesbrough on 22 October 2011 at the age of 15 years and 99 days old. [ 95 ] This helped strengthen the academy ‘s reputation [ 96 ] and reinforced CEO Tom Glick ‘s express hope to make Moor Farm “ the academy of choice in the Midlands. ” [ 96 ] In August 2012, Derby ‘s academy became a tier 2 academy under the new controversial Elite Player Performance Plan. [ 97 ] It was awarded Tier 1 status two years by and by in July 2014. [ 98 ] Focus on the academy continued during the ownership of Mel Morris after his leverage of the club late that year and, at the end of the 2019-20 temper Derby had given more first-team minutes to players aged under 21 than any other club in the Football League Championship, with academy graduates such as Max Bird, Louie Sibley, Jason Knight, Jayden Bogle, Morgan Whittaker and Lee Buchanan getting a full of 7,946 minutes in the league during the campaign. [ 99 ] When discussing targets for the 2020-21 crusade, Morris stated “ We are not going to see a team of 11 players from the Academy have this season ( 2019/20 ) but the prey for adjacent temper ( is ) 50 % of our starting 11 should be Academy players. That ( is ) our aim, and I think there is a possibility we could get there. ” [ 100 ]

Honours [edit ]

Note: the leagues and divisions of English football have changed somewhat over time, so here they are grouped into their relative levels on the English football league system at the time they were won to allow easy comparison of the achievement

domestic honours [edit ]

minor honours [edit ]

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Reserve team honor [edit ]

125th anniversary [edit ]

As partially of the golf club ‘s hundred-and-twenty-fifth Anniversary in 2009, the Derby board took a count of initiatives to celebrate the baseball club ‘s history .

all-time eleven [edit ]

As part of the club ‘s hundred-and-twenty-fifth Anniversary celebrations, [ 102 ] it was announced that during 2009 each month a vote would be carried out to decide on the golf club ‘s official All Time XI, starting in February 2009 with the goalkeeper, with the following eight months offering opportunities for Derby ‘s confirm to select a team based within a 4–4–2 formation, with December ‘s vote being reserved for the director. [ 103 ] Voting closed on the 25th of each month, with the achiever being announced in the come few days. [ 104 ]

exceed 10 Derby goals [edit ]

On 2 June 2009, the Club announced the supporters choice of the Top 10 Goals in the cabaret ‘s history, with the fans then asked again to choose their darling from the 10 nominated. The list was obviously biased in favor of more holocene goals, largely thanks to the increased coverage modern football enjoys. Three goals featured from the club ‘s 2008/09 campaign. [ 114 ] The winners were announced on 22 June 2009. [ 115 ]

Derby County in Europe [edit ]

Derby first competed in Europe when they entered the 1972–73 european Cup after winning the 1971–72 First Division Title, [ 116 ] reaching the semi-final stages, where they lost 3–1 on sum to Juventus in controversial circumstances. They had qualified for the 1970–71 Fairs Cup after finishing the 1969–70 First Division in 4th, but were banned from entering the competition for fiscal irregularities. The 70s was the Derby County ‘s extremum in English football and they qualified for Europe in three of the next four seasons, competing in the UEFA Cup or the european Cup in each of the three seasons between 1974–75 and 1976–77. The club then declined quickly and has not appeared in the clear european competitions since, though it finished in 5th in the 1989 First Division which would have guaranteed entry into the 1989–90 UEFA Cup had English Clubs not been banned from Europe following the Heysel Stadium Disaster. Outside of major contest, the clubhouse competed in the Anglo-Italian Cup between 1992–93 and 1994–95, reaching the final examination in 1993, losing 3–1 to Cremonese at Wembley .

Records and statistics [edit ]

Kevin Hector holds the record for Derby County appearances in all competitions, appearing 589 times in two vitamin e spells with the club between 1966 and 1982. He sits ahead of Ron Webster, who played 535 times for the club, frequently in the same team as Hector. Just counting league appearances, Hector is again in the tip with 486 appearances, ahead of Jack Parry, who played 483 times for the club between 1948 and 1967. The club ‘s all-time acme goalscorer is Steve Bloomer, frequently referred to as “ Football ‘s First Superstar ”, who netted 332 goals for the club in two spells between 1892 and 1914. He is over 100 goals ahead of irregular in the list Kevin Hector, who netted 201 goals for the golf club. Jack Bowers holds the cabaret record for most goals in a single season, when he scored 43 goals ( 35 in the league and a far 8 in the FA Cup ), during the 1932–33 season. The club ‘s record attendance is 41,826, for a first base Division match against Tottenham Hotspur at the Baseball Ground on 20 September 1969, which Derby won 5–0. The record is improbable to be broken in the cheeseparing future as Derby ‘s current stadium, Pride Park Stadium, has a restrict of 33,597 spectators. The criminal record attendance at Pride Park for a competitive Derby County match is 33,378 for a Premier League match against Liverpool on 18 March 2000. The largest push to ever watch a Derby County bet on is 120,000 when Derby County played Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in the 1975–76 european Cup. Derby ‘s historically hapless 2007–08 Premier League campaign saw the cabaret determine and peer several unwanted records in English football. The club equalled Loughborough ‘s all-time league read of merely one gain in an stallion league season. They besides equalled or set several Premier League records ( 1992–present ), including fewest dwelling wins in a season ( 1, joint with Sunderland ), least goals ( 20, initially set, but now held jointly with Sheffield United ) fewest away wins in a season ( 0, joint with five other clubs ), and most defeats in a season ( 29, joint with three early clubs ). Unmatched records include fewest points in a season ( three points for a succeed ) with 11 ; and worst goal difference ( −69 ). [ 117 ] The club besides holds the joint record for most back-to-back league games without a succeed ( with Macclesfield Town ), with 36 matches over two seasons between 22 September 2007 and 13 September 2008. Derby besides own ( alongside Watford ), the joint record for most askew defeat in an FA Cup concluding, a 6–0 loss to Bury in 1903. [ 118 ]

Women ‘s team [edit ]

Derby County F.C. Women – Women ‘s football cabaret associated with Derby County F.C .