Derby County
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| Surname | Derby County Football Club | |||
| Seat | Derby , England | |||
| founding | 1884 | |||
| Board | Mel Morris | |||
| Website | dcfc.co.uk | |||
| First soccer team | ||||
| Head coach | Phillip Cocu | |||
| Venue | Pride Park Stadium | |||
| Places | 33,597 | |||
| league | EFL Championship | |||
| 2019/20 | 10th place | |||
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Derby County (officially: Derby County Football Club ) - also known as The Rams ( German Die Widder ) - is an English football club from Derby . He has been playing in the EFL Championship , the second highest English league , since relegation from the Premier League in 2008 .
history
The first years and three runners-up championships (1884–1945)
The club was founded in 1884 as an offshoot of the Derbyshire County Cricket Club . The name should initially be based directly on the cricket club and be "Derbyshire County FC", but objections from the local football association - which were mainly bothered by the name, which was perceived as too long - ensured that the official name "Derby County FC" was chosen has been.
The "Rams", as Derby County would later be called, initially played like the cricket club in the Racecourse Ground , and in addition to a number of friendly games and unofficial competitions, Derby County took part in the FA Cup from 1888 on .
When the Football League was launched in 1888 , Derby County was a founding member. Three years later, Derby Midland joined another club from the city that had previously played in the Midland League , the Rams. It also began the time of Steve Bloomer , who is still revered as the best player in the club's history and who joined the club in 1892. Three years later the club moved into the baseball ground , which according to its name had previously served as a baseball field , for the next 102 years as its new home ground and at that time set the traditional colors to black and white. In the Football League First Division 1895/96 Derby reached the runner-up behind Aston Villa .
On April 16, 1898 Derby County moved for the first time in an FA Cup final, but lost there against Nottingham Forest with 1: 3. Almost a year later, on April 15, 1899, the club lost again in the final of the same competition - now with 1: 4 against Sheffield United . The club had even less chance four years later when they came under the wheels 6-0 after half a dozen goals against FC Bury . And also in the championship the team performance decreased, which in 1907 resulted in the first relegation to the second-rate Second Division . The return to the English elite class succeeded five years later when Jimmy Methven had taken over the supervision of the team and the Bloomer, who had meanwhile migrated to Middlesbrough FC , had been brought back. The team led by Bloomer was known as "the 5 Bs" ("The 5 Bs") and was shaped by the players Frank Buckley , Tommy Barbour , Horace Barnes and Jimmy Bauchop until the outbreak of the First World War . Although the club had to relegate again in 1914, the following year the second division championship immediately returned to the first division, which, however, could not be started again until 1919 due to the war. In 1921, the penultimate place in the championship meant the third relegation from the English elite class.
Nevertheless, the following era should be successful. Although the club could not win any titles after its resurgence in 1926, the club became a fixture in English top division football, occupying a place in the top half of the table from the late 1920s until the beginning of the 1939/40 season and winning in the years 1930 and 1936 respectively the runner-up behind Sheffield Wednesday and Sunderland FC .
Title win in the FA Cup and relegation to the Second Division (1946–1967)
When the FA Cup was played again after the end of World War II in the 1945/46 season, Derby County reached the final again and was now able to win a title for the first time after a 4-1 win against Charlton Athletic after extra time . This triumph also ended the long phase of unsuccessful semi-finals in this competition (no less than ten semi-final defeats had overtaken the club between 1895 and 1909), which had even given rise to superstition in the club's environment . This was due to the fact that the baseball ground had been built on an old gypsy camp and, according to legend, the old residents had allegedly returned the favor with a curse for the expulsion. Belief in it went so far that the club's players asked gypsies to lift the curse.
The championship operation in the Football League was continued in the following year, but despite the cup victory Derby could not preserve the good pre-war form and rose in 1953 to the second division. Two more years later things worsened and the club then played in the Third Division North for the first time in its history even only third class. After the return to the second division was still unsuccessful in the first year there by the runner-up behind Grimsby Town , the third division championship and the return to the second division could be celebrated in 1957.
The Brian Clough Era (1967–1973)
Until 1967, the club operated without significant success in the second division, until then in 1967 the commitment of Brian Clough made for a push back into the English top football. Clough, who was assisted by the former goalkeeper Peter Taylor , found at the time of his takeover a club that always had to fight to stay in the Second Division and whose last big cup success from 1946 had already faded. So the expectations of the still young coach Clough were low, that he could build on past successes with the team.
But Clough succeeded mainly through the commitment of the central player Dave Mackay in 1969 to rise to the First Division, where he and his team were able to position themselves straight away in fourth place just one year later. Due to "financial irregularities" the club was not allowed to participate in European club competitions in 1971, but this setback could not prevent Derby County in the Football League First Division 1971/72 the first English championship in the club's history could win. Shortly before the end of the season, Clough had traveled to the Isles of Scilly with his family while the team had flown to Mallorca . Back at home, the rivals Leeds United and Liverpool FC failed in their last game of the season, so that the Rams won the championship trophy on May 8, 1972. The top scorer of the championship team was Alan Hinton (38 games / 15 goals) ahead of John O'Hare (40/13) and Kevin Hector (42/12).
Derby could not defend the title in the following season, but in the European Cup of National Champions in 1972/73 the team advanced to the semi-finals and faced Juventus Turin there . In a controversial encounter, the English champions were eliminated and massive allegations of bribery were directed against the Italian opponent, culminating in Clough insulting the Italians as "cheating bastards".
Clough's often outspoken manner against the institutions of football, which even led to a threat to expel the club from the Football League at times, finally brought about the end of his coaching time at Derby County. After he had fallen out with the board again, he left the club with Taylor in 1973. This resulted in a far-reaching protest from its own supporters who wanted to move the board to resign and intended a return of the successful coach Cloughs - without success. Clough would later "retaliate" in his own way and celebrate great success with a number of former derby players - including John McGovern and Archie Gemmill - with Nottingham Forest .
The second championship title and in the national championship cup against Real Madrid (1973-1976)
Despite the departure of Clough, Derby County was able to win the second championship in the 1974/75 season . Dave Mackay had meanwhile taken over the coaching business and the new signings Francis Lee and Bruce Rioch should turn out to be decisive for this renewed success . Before the following season 1975/76 another "big name" joined the team with Charlie George and when the club faced the big Spanish club Real Madrid in the round of 16 of the European championship competition 1975/76 , it was Charlie George who scored three goals contributed to the 4-1 first leg win. This presumably most spectacular game in the baseball ground should not be enough for advancement in the competition, as the Rams lost 5-1 in the second leg after extra time at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium .
Via the second division into the third division (1976-1984)
This "golden era" of the club was over, the sporting performance dropped noticeably in the course of the 1970s, and in the Football League First Division 1979/80 Derby County rose again from the bottom of the table in the second division. There they were initially a contender for an immediate return to the First Division, but there, too, things continued to deteriorate, so that in 1984 - at the time of the 100th anniversary and only nine years after the last English championship - even the case in the Third Division had to be accepted.
The Arthur Cox era and promotion to the Premier League (1984–1996)
In order to stop the further sporting decline, the club engaged on May 28, 1984 the formerly employed coach Arthur Cox at Newcastle United , who led Derby County back to the first division within a short time. After two years, he was promoted to the Second Division and from there immediately made it to the English elite class in 1987.
With players like Peter Shilton , Mark Wright , Dean Saunders and Ted McMinn there succeeded in 1988/89 the jump into the top half of the table and fifth place at the end of the season. Since at this time the English football clubs were excluded from European club competitions due to the Heysel disaster , Derby County was denied the sporting reward for this league success. The Cox team was at its peak at this time, but the club was soon to face difficult times again, especially as the financial contributions of the controversial president and businessman Robert Maxwell noticeably diminished. Derby County rose again in 1991 from the First Division and successor to Maxwell, who presumably died by suicide , was the local newspaper mogul Lionel Pickering , after he had previously secured the majority of shares in Derby County.
After the introduction of the Premier League in 1992 and the separation from the Football League, the club played in the now "First Division" called the second English division. The hopes of an immediate Premier League participation had come to an end when they lost in the semi-finals of the play-offs to eventual winners Blackburn Rovers . With the commitment of Craig Short , who was bought by Notts County for 2.5 million British pounds and was the most expensive transfer under the English Premier League for the next five years, Derby County's ambitions to become part of this newly designed division as quickly as possible Wanting to become a professional league.
Due to the high television money that could now be earned through the Premier League, and the resulting competitive pressure, the promotion project turned out to be difficult in these years. After Cox resigned from coaching due to health problems in late 1993, Roy McFarland returned to the club as athletic director. This could not realize the promotion despite high financial investments, and after the defeat in the play-off final against Leicester City in 1994, the club finished the following season only in midfield, which in turn resulted in the dismissal of McFarland. The new coach was Jim Smith , who led the club into more successful times after a slow start. With players like Igor Štimac Smith overachieved the season goal (in the "upper half of the table"): the team won the runner-up in the second division and was thus able to secure their first-time Premier League participation.
The Rams in the Premier League and the move to Pride Park Stadium (1996-2002)
In the club's first Premier League season in 1996/97 , Derby County was able to establish itself well with twelfth place in the final table and had a number of international top performers in the team - among them, in addition to Štimac, Paulo Wanchope , Aljoša Asanović and Jacob Laursen were named. At the beginning of the 1997/98 season , the club moved into the new Pride Park Stadium , which as a purely seating stadium had 30,000 seats and was later expanded to a capacity of 33,597 seats. Other high quality signings followed, including those of Stefano Eranio and Francesco Baiano . This was then reflected in successful first division placements and Derby County occupied a single-digit place in the table in this and the following season with ninth and eighth place.
The soaring was stopped in the 1999/2000 season and Derby County suddenly found itself in a relegation battle. With the 16th place in the final table and position 17 in the 2000/01 season, the fall in the second division could finally only be averted. Coach Smith resigned in October 2001 after previously declining the club's offer to become sporting director. His successor was Colin Todd , who himself was dismissed after only three months - the FA Cup third-round home defeat against fourth division relegation candidate Bristol Rovers had made the difference.
Towards the end of January 2002, the club's management appointed John Gregory as the new sporting director, after he had announced his retirement as coach of Aston Villa less than a week earlier . A draw against fellow title favorites Manchester United fueled optimism that Derby could move away from the relegation regions in the following years, but ultimately seven defeats in the last eight games ensured that the club after six consecutive years in the Premier League 2001 / 02 had to return to the Football League.
Another relegation to the Football League (2002-2006)
The relegation to the second division caused a serious financial crisis for the club, which forced the club to sell a number of key players and to rebuild a team with young talents - including from their own ranks: Tom Huddlestone and Lee Grant . A return to the elite class was almost impossible and the team settled in the lower half of the table. In a controversial decision, the Derby club management suspended coach Gregory in March 2003 and replaced him with George Burley , who had previously coached Ipswich Town and should now serve as an interim solution. In the end, the class could be retained with 18th place, and after the contract with Gregory was finally terminated, Burley took over the sporting management permanently.
The parent company of the club was in October 2003 in the short term insolvency and consequently the main shareholder Lionel Pickering paved the way for sale of the club for three million pounds of the new board, consisting of John Sleightholme , Jeremy Keith and Steve Harding . From a sporting point of view, the 20th place in the 2003/04 season was again a disappointment. However, this changed significantly in the 2004/05 season and the club took fourth place in the now " Football League Championship " called the second English division. In the semi-finals of the qualifying games for promotion to the Premier League, Derby County then lost to Preston North End .
A short time later, Burley resigned and based his decision on disagreements with the board. He was succeeded by Phil Brown , who acted haplessly. A series of poor results - including a 6-1 loss to Coventry City and a 3-1 FA Cup loss to third division Colchester United - was his undoing, and the club sacked Brown in January 2006. With Terry Westley took over the youth coach of the club took over the sporting direction and saved the team from relegation to Football League One .
Return to the Premier League and direct relegation (2006-)
In April 2006, CEO John Sleightholme resigned after complaining that important decisions had been made without his knowledge. Only a month later, the remaining board members followed him, and the consortium "RamsTrust" - led by former vice-chairman Peter Gadsby - bought the club, reduced the debt level and subsequently ensured that the club took back ownership of the Pride Park Stadium . In June 2006, the new club management signed Billy Davies , who was very successful at Preston North End , who was now also doing well in his new club and led Derby to the play-off games of the 2006/07 Championship . In the semifinals, the team initially defeated in a penalty shootout to Southampton FC and was also in the final at the new Wembley Stadium victorious. The only goal of the game against West Bromwich Albion was Stephen Pearson (synonymous with Pearson's first ever goal for Derby), which ensured promotion to the Premier League.
On June 11, 2007, the club informed the public of its plans to expand the Pride Park Stadium from 33,957 to 44,000 seats at the beginning of the 2008/09 season. Part of the expansion plans with the name “Pride Plaza”, which include the renovation of the stadium, the construction of restaurants and the construction of a hotel, are to be realized.
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The club also set ambitious sporting standards in the summer of 2007 and signed the Welsh international Robert Earnshaw of Norwich City for the new club-internal record transfer fee of £ 3.5 million . Added to this was Tyrone Mears , who had already been loaned by West Ham United in the back series of the 2006/07 season , for a million pounds , and Claude Davis from Sheffield United for another three million defender . Despite this personnel upgrade, the promoted team started with a series of defeats after an opening draw against Portsmouth FC , with the 6-0 defeat at Liverpool in particular raising doubts about their suitability for the first division. The voices in the supporters became louder that Gadsby had not invested the lush transfer budget in adequate players. Thereupon Gadsby resigned on October 29, 2007 as chairman. He was succeeded by Adam Pearson, the former owner of Hull City . The sporting results did not improve, and after only six points from the first 14 games, coach Davies left the club on November 26, 2007. Two days later, Paul Jewell , who had previously worked successfully at Wigan Athletic , was appointed the new athletic director . During the winter transfer period, this acted extensively on the player market, and in addition to the sale of numerous players, seven new signings found their way to the Rams. Although the performances were somewhat consolidated, the results left a lot to be desired even after this “fresh cell treatment”, so that the Rams were relegated to the Championship League seven game days before the end of the 2007/08 Premier League . With this descent, Derby County set several negative records. Previously, no other English first division team had been relegated before April. The first direct relegation in the history of Derby County was accompanied by the biggest home defeat at home Pride Park (6-0 against Aston Villa ); No other English professional club had collected fewer points since the introduction of the 3-point rule, and recently only Loughborough Town had only had one win in an entire season 108 years earlier. On January 28, 2008, despite the sporting decline, it was announced that the club had been bought up by the US company General Sports and Entertainment . As the new president, Tom Glick had taken over the management and Andy Appleby the chairmanship of the board.
In the second division, the sporting downturn continued in the 2008/09 season and the media interest began to rise rather because the club threatened to break a negative record in English professional football with the series of league games not won (with the 2-1 victory Paul Jewell finally succeeded against Sheffield United on September 13, 2008 at the 27th attempt the first league win for Derby County). On December 29, 2008, Jewell resigned from his head coaching position and was succeeded by Chris Hutchings on an interim basis.
On January 5, 2009, Nigel Clough, the son of the former Derby manager Brian Clough, took over the vacant coaching position and secured relegation in the 2008/09 Football League Championship . After four seasons with placements between the 10th and 19th place in the table, the club parted on September 28, 2013 after a 0-1 away defeat at local rivals Nottingham Forest from Clough. Just two days later, the board presented the successor to the former English national coach Steve McClaren .
At the end of the 2013-14 season , Derby County missed promotion to the Premier League by losing 1-0 in the play-off final to Queens Park Rangers . This was repeated at the end of the 2018/19 season when they lost 2-1 to Aston Villa in the play-off final .
European Cup balance sheet
| season | competition | round | opponent | total | To | Back |
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| 1972/73 | European Champions Cup | 1 round |
.svg){kind=small} Željezničar Sarajevo
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4: 1 | 2: 0 (H) | 2: 1 (A) |
| 2nd round |
 Benfica Lisbon
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3-0 | 3: 0 (H) | 0: 0 (A) | ||
| Quarter finals |
 Spartak TAZ Trnava
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2: 1 | 0: 1 (A) | 2: 0 (H) | ||
| Semifinals |
 Juventus Turin
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1: 3 | 1: 3 (A) | 0: 0 (H) | ||
| 1974/75 | Uefa cup | 1 round |
 Servette Geneva
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6: 2 | 4: 1 (H) | 2: 1 (A) |
| 2nd round |
.svg){kind=small} Atlético Madrid
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4: 4 (7: 6 on behalf ) |
2: 2 (H) | 2: 2 a.d. (A) | ||
| 3rd round |
Velež Mostar
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4: 5 | 3: 1 (H) | 1: 4 (A) | ||
| 1975/76 | European Champions Cup | 1 round |
Slovan Bratislava
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3: 1 | 0: 1 (A) | 3: 0 (H) |
| 2nd round |
real Madrid
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5: 6 | 4: 1 (H) | 1: 5 a.d. (A) | ||
| 1976/77 | Uefa cup | 1 round |
 Finn Harps
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16: 1 | 12: 0 (H) | 4: 1 (A) |
| 2nd round |
.svg){kind=small} AEK Athens
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2: 5 | 0: 2 (A) | 2: 3 (H) |
Overall record : 22 games, 11 wins, 4 draws, 7 defeats, 50:29 goals (goal difference +21)
titles and achievements
English Championship : 2nd
English runner-up: 3
English Cup (FA Cup): 1
- 1946 (4-1 against Charlton Athletic)
FA Cup finalist: 3rd
- 1898 (1: 3 against Nottingham Forest), 1899 (1: 4 against Sheffield United) and 1903 (0: 6 against Bury FC)
English "Supercup" (Charity Shield): 1
- 1975 (2-0 against West Ham United)
Current squad 2018/19
(As of February 2, 2019)
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Record player
The following list names the ten players with the most competitive appearances and goals in Derby County's history.
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Manager (trainer)
| Period | Trainer |
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| 1896-1906 |
 Harry Newbould
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| 1906-1922 |
 Jimmy Methven
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| 1922-1925 |
Cecil Potter
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| 1925-1941 |
George Jobey
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| 1944-1946 |
Ted Magner
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| 1946-1953 |
Stuart McMillan
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| 1953-1955 |
Jack Barker
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| 1955-1962 |
Harry Storer
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| 1962-1967 |
Tim Ward
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| 1967-1973 |
Brian Clough
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| 1967-1973 |
Peter Taylor (Assistant Trainer)
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| 1973-1976 |
Dave Mackay
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| 1976-1977 |
Colin Murphy
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| 1977-1979 |
Tommy Docherty
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| 1979-1982 |
Colin Addison
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| 1982 |
John Newman
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| 1982-1984 |
Peter Taylor
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| 1984-1993 |
Arthur Cox
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| 1993-1995 |
Roy McFarland
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| 1995-2001 |
Jim Smith
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| 2001-2002 |
Colin Todd
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| 2002-2003 |
John Gregory
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| 2003-2005 |
George Burley
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| 2005-2006 |
Phil Brown
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| 2006-2007 |
Billy Davies
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| 2007-2008 |
Paul Jewell
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| 2009-2013 |
Nigel Clough
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| 2013-2015 |
Steve McClaren
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| 2015-2016 |
Paul Clement
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| 2016 |
Darren Wassall
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| 2016 |
Nigel Pearson
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| 2016-2017 |
Steve McClaren
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| 2017-2018 |
Gary Rowett
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| 2018-2019 |
Frank Lampard
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| 2019– |
 Phillip Cocu
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League affiliation
- 1888-1907: Football League First Division
- 1907–1912: Football League Second Division
- 1912–1914: Football League First Division
- 1914/1915: Football League Second Division
- 1915–1921: Football League First Division
- 1921–1926: Football League Second Division
- 1926–1953: Football League First Division
- 1953–1955: Football League Second Division
- 1955–1957: Football League Third Division
- 1957-1969: Football League Second Division
- 1969–1980: Football League First Division
- 1980–1984: Football League Second Division
- 1984–1986: Football League Third Division
- 1986/1987: Football League Second Division
- 1987–1991: Football League First Division
- 1991/1992: Football League Second Division
- 1992–1996: Football League First Division
- 1996-2002: FA Premier League
- 2002-2004: Football League First Division
- 2004–2007: Football League Championship
- 2007-2008: Premier League
- since 2008: Football League Championship / EFL Championship
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ FA Cup title 1946 ( Memento from March 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ "The Gypsy Curse" (Derby County Football Club) ( Memento of September 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Derby County - Juventus Turin (europeancuphistory)
- ↑ Derby County - Real Madrid (europeancuphistory)
- ^ "Pride Park expansion plans" (The Rams) ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ "Derby sign Earnshaw" (BBC Sport Online)
- ↑ "General Sports and Entertainment Takeover - BBC Sport" (BBC Sport)
- ^ "Jewell resigns as Derby manager" (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Nigel Clough takes over as Derby boss (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Nigel Clough: Derby County sack manager after defeat at Forest (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Steve McClaren named as Derby County head coach (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Play-Off Final 2014 (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Play-Off-Final 2019 (BBC Sport)
- ^ Derby County Player Profiles
- ↑ Derby County Club Records ( Memento from August 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (dcfc.co.uk)