McClaren rejuvenated the Rams, taking them from 20th place to 7th in 10 weeks with 29 points from 12 games, including a seven match winning streak. days of Brian Clough in the late 1960s and . Clough had built a balanced team at Derby, one in which every player knew his job. Paul Simpson also came in from big money (800k from Oxford United) as did Marco Gabbiadini (1.3m from Sunderland) and even Bobby Davison (who had left for Leeds United three years earlier), returned for a spell on loan and reached a century of goals for Derby, only the 7th player and most recent to do so, when he netted in a 22 draw with Newcastle United. The Anglo Italian cup run, coupled with extended interest in the Coca-Cola Cup (where they took Arsenal to a third round replay) and reaching the FA Cup Quarter-finals for the first time in 9 years, taking Sheffield Wednesday to a replay after a 33 draw at The Baseball Ground meant the cup took part in 64 matches between 15 August 1992 and 8 May 1993, a new club record with Paul Kitson taking part in 61 of them and finishing the season as leading scorer, with 24 goals in all competitions. After over a decade in the second tier of English football, Brian Clough took charge at Derby and kickstarted a revolution at the club; it went on to win the Football League First Division twice in the 1970s and reach the European Cup semi finals in 1973 before rapidly declining back to the third tier and near financial meltdown within ten years of its second Championship. Clough also fired the club secretary, the groundsman and the chief scout, along with two tea ladies he caught laughing after a defeat. [54] Derby ended the season with a win and a draw as they finished in 12th place on 64 points, 7 places and 15 points better off than the previous season, the club's first top half finish since promotion in 2007 and best league standing since relegation in 2008. Richard, who was also a director of knitwear company Cox Moore, joined the Rams' board in the mid-1970s. Strupar in particular adapted well to English football after arriving from Genk, netting 5 goals in 13 starts including the first Premier League goal of the new 2000 millennium with a 3rd-minute strike in a 20 win over Watford. The plans were scaled down from the planned 20 million pound development proposed in 2007. Derby opened the 1970-71 season with a pre-season participation in the inaugural Watney Cup, an invitational tournament in which the top two scorers from all divisions of the Football League who had not earned promotion or European football, took part. They went into the last home game of the season against 3rd placed Crystal Palace knowing victory would guarantee promotion. The club embarked on a 20 match unbeaten league run from 11 November 1995 to 5 March 1996, the club's best run inside of one season. One bright point to the campaign came with the reserves successful The Central League Division One Central Section campaign, which saw them finish top and become the first Derby reserves team to win the title since Arthur Cox's reserves claimed it in the 1985/86 season. [34][35] The poor start saw fans accuse Gadsby and the board of failing to invest properly in players for the club and, on 29 October 2007, Gadsby stepped down as chairman to be replaced by former Hull City owner Adam Pearson. With the goals of front three Kevin Hector, Francis Lee (a 100,000 capture from Manchester City in August 1974), and Roger Davies, all of whom hit 12 or more league goals, supplemented by midfielder Bruce Rioch, whose 15 strikes helped me finish the club's top league scorer, Derby hit Q.P.R. Other late signings, such as John Barton and John McAlle were also vital, and an ageing Kevin Hector was still contributing to the cause; he grabbed his 200th Derby goal in a 23 League Cup 2nd Round defeat by West Ham and made his final appearance for the club, his 589th (a club record), in a 32 victory over Watford on the final day of the season at the Baseball Ground and notched his 201st and final goal for the club with the opener, only Steve Bloomer having more goals for the club,. The following season Davison was again top scorer and, alongside new signings such as Jeff Chandler, Ross McLaren and future-England manager Steve McLaren and John Gregory, helped the club earn promotion for the third tier at the second attempt, setting the club record of 84 points in a season from 3 points for a win, as they finished third in the 198586 Third Division, recording some big wins along the way; a 70 win over Lincoln City was the club's biggest league win since before World War I. The club were 3rd in the table at the time. Arthur Cox retired in October of the 199394 season, citing severe back problems, leaving the role after 9 years in charge. Within two days of Davies's dismissal, on 26 November 2007, Derby appointed highly rated former Wigan manager Paul Jewell. Although the club won its first game following the exodus 30 against Rotherham United[16] they then embarked on 9 match winless streak which seriously threatened relegation. Derby also reached the final of the Central League Cup final against Manchester City Elite Development squad. When Derby County ascended to the top of English soccer in the early 1970s the game was a lot more meritocratic than it is today. Steve Powell also became Derby's youngest ever player, a record he held for almost 30 years, when he made his debut in a Texaco Cup tie against Stoke City aged just 16 years and 30 days. Derby finished the season 12th in the league, 11 points off the play-off players, with Nigel Clough being satisfied with the performances of the team, stating a lack of firepower as the reason why they fell short and a target to improve in 201213. Maxwell, who appeared to have vast wealth at his disposal, helped the directors raise the 220,000 necessary to lift the petitions and Derby survived off the pitch. Poor results continued: a 60 home defeat at the hands of Aston Villa on 12 April 2008 is the biggest defeat at Pride Park and, by the season's end, they had recorded the Premier League's lowest points total (11). | Sports Memorabilia, Football Programmes, League Fixtures | eBay! Gregory immediately bought in Newcastle pair Warren Barton and Rob Lee, and recorded three wins and a creditable 22 draw with Manchester United in his first seven games. Such abandon often left the side defensively frail however, and there were heavy defeats along the way including a 30 defeats to Ipswich Town and Carlisle United, who finished the season bottom, and 41 to Q.P.R. George made his competitive debut in the 1975 FA Charity Shield at Wembley Stadium as Derby overcame FA Cup winners West Ham United 20 under the Twin Towers to claim the shield for the only time in their history. When this was not granted, Mackay's position became essentially untenable and he was sacked on 25 November 1976. Some memorable results occurred along the way, including a 22 draw away to Arsenal, a 42 victory over Tottenham Hotspur and a remarkable 32 victory against Manchester United, in which Mart Poom and Paulo Wanchope made their Derby debuts, Wanchope scoring a goal which was later voted the greatest in the club's history. Unlike the flair of Burley's playoff team, Davies side was built on a strong defence with more than 1 goal conceded in a match on just 4 occasions as a tightly knit defence of Marc Edworthy, Dean Leacock, Darren Moore and Mo Camara helped Bywater to keep 12 clean sheets, including 5 on the trot through January. "[29] The day after the game, thousands of Derby County supporters lined the streets of the city as the club's staff and players took part in an open top bus tour.[30]. A buoyant feeling had returned to The Baseball Ground, and Cox was in his pomp, shaping a tightly knit group of players who each knew their jobs and respected each other which was supplemented with considered signings such as Phil Gee from Gresley Rovers and Nigel Callaghan from Watford. With the team of Taylor and McFarland leading the team to an impressive second half of the season, hopes were raised for the 198384 campaign. Gregory's replacement (initially on a short-term contract until the end of the season but then appointed full-time) was former Ipswich Town boss George Burley. The history of Derby County Football Club from 1967 to the present covers the major events in the history of the club from Brian Clough assuming control in 1967 up until the 201718 season. The season ended with a 11 draw at Sunderland which took the club to 30 points, their lowest return for 11 years, and 19th place. As a result, Derby entered the Football League playoffs for the first time since they had been introduced in 1987. A return of 10 points from a possible 12 in November saw the club peak at 9th in the league and showed that the club had the ability and wherewithal to stay in the Premiership although a crippling injury list contributed to a ten match winless streak mid-season[9] which made sure safety was never a foregone conclusion, Derby finished the season in 12th, 6 points clear of relegation. "[76] Two days later, former player Gary Rowett was appointed as Derby boss, Derby's third manager of the season and Morris' fifth manager in 13 months. [78] and took 15 points for the final nine games to guide them to a 9th-placed finish. However, the signing of Swindon Town's Rod Thomas and Aston Villa's Bruce Rioch turned the club's season around and they lost only four of their last 18 fixtures to grab a third place finish and a return to European football; a fine achievement considering the tumultuous nature of the campaign. After a 21 win in Yugoslavia saw Derby proceed through to the second round 41 on aggregate, the club found itself drawn again Eusbio's Benfica, one of European football's leading lights. He lost in the Republican primary on June 28, 2022. Skip to main content. Former Presidents Nixon and LBJ stand together outside the LBJ library. Form declined badly and key players departed Paul Goddard was sold to Millwall for 800,000 whilst injuries bit into a squad increasingly short of depth. Following the AEK Athens defeat, a 11 draw away to Q.P.R. However, Brown was unable to match Burley's ability to bring in quality players on a restricted budget, and was further weakened when Grzegorz Rasiak was sold under his nose to Tottenham Hotspur on the last day of the August Transfer Window, not giving him time to bring in a replacement. Murphy lasted just 6 games into the 197778 season before being replaced by former Manchester United manager Tommy Docherty. They came to despise one another although it was still Clough . Having just clinched promotion to Division One with an exciting Newcastle United side, Arthur Cox left St James' Park on a point of contract and Derby wasted no time in appointing him as manager in May 1984. In becoming Derby's third manager of 1982 Taylor created friction with former partner Brian Clough, from which the pair's friendship never recovered. Following a seven-match winless run which saw the club drop to 5th place in the table, Clement was sacked on 8 February 2016, though Morris said the sacking was not due to results but because "not enough progress had been made" in the club's playing style. The club recorded an average attendance of 26,023, a figure more than 3,000 down on the previous campaign but still the second highest in the Championship behind Leeds United's 27,299 and the 15th best in the country. After a 21 home defeat to Blackburn Rovers[73] saw Derby slip into the relegation zone, Pearson was suspended on 27 September 2016 whilst the club undertook an internal investigation into his management after a training ground altercation with Mel Morris compounded already growing concerns over his management methods[74] Assistant manager Chris Powell took over in a caretaker role for two games until Pearson was sacked on 8 October. but in the early 1970s it was clearly frowned upon. Derby County, champions of England twice in the 1970s, Championship play-off finalists in 2014 and 2019, the club of Brian Clough, Dave Mackay and Roy McFarland, have gone into administration. Mackay's departure triggered a revolving managerial door at Derby over the next 8 years. Although Stimac's debut ended in a heavy defeat, 51 to Tranmere Rovers with Stimac scoring, Smith's jigsaw was complete and Derby's season turned on its head. However, a 02 defeat at home to Wimbledon (Derby's first home defeat in 23 league fixtures, equalling the club record set 67 years previously) showed a need for more experience and the inspired capture of Paul McGrath proved a key capture. Of the eight loanees, only Everton's Osman made a significant impact[17] and without him Derby could well have been relegated, as the club collected almost half of its 52 points from his 17 games. The club settled into mid-table mediocrity until Brian Clough and Peter Taylor arrived in 1967 and transformed the club. The season started in encouraging fashion, with a 12 match unbeaten run, though 7 of these were draws, only coming to an end 10 defeat away to Manchester United. Derby County Fixtures & Results 1969/1970. October and November were disappointing with Derby picking up only 1 win and 5 points out of a possible 30 as Derby fell to 15th place in the league, with a 40 defeat at rivals Leicester City at the start of the month, starting the slump in form. They even overcame bitter rivals Nottingham Forest, recent Champions of Europe at the time 20 at The Baseball Ground in a fractious FA Cup Third Round tie before being knocked out in the 5th round 10 against Manchester United. Docherty was unpopular amongst fans now used to success and it was with a sense of relief when he resigned in May 1979 to take over at Q.P.R. With Derby back in the top flight, Robert Maxwell took over from his son as chairman, who took the position of vice-chairman, and showed a clear desire to make his mark, with two England internationals being brought into the club in the guise of new club record signing Mark Wright, at a cost of 760,000, and Peter Shilton from Southampton. [10] An extended FA Cup saw The Baseball Ground hold its final three FA Cup fixtures ending with a 02 defeat by Middlesbrough in the quarter finals before The Baseball Ground held its final ever match, against Arsenal, on 11 May 1996. After overcoming Millwall 51 on aggregate in the semifinal legs, and surviving a pitch invasion in the 31 win at the New Den, Derby came up against local rivals Leicester City at Wembley. The 199899 season was Jim Smith's Derby County peak, as the financial demands of Premier League football began to catch up with them. After defeating Czechoslovakia's Spartak Trnava 21 over two legs, the Rams met Italian giants Juventus: at the end of the 31 defeat in Turin, Clough accused the rivals to have bribed the match officials and called the Italians "cheating bastards" ,[2] despite the Bianconeri will prove later unrelated to any attempt to combine. Financial circumstances were worsening as the debt spiralled to 30m plus, despite Burley building success on the pitch without using any transfer funds. Injuries also played a significant role; one match, away to Ipswich Town in October, came at the height of the club's injury problems and saw them unable to even name a full complement of substitutes such was the lack of players available. However, the club entered the Playoffs without the presence of key duo Rasiak and Idiakez both unavailable through injury and a 20 defeat in the first leg away to Preston North End proved impossible to overturn in the second leg at Pride Park, which finished 00 in front of a crowd of over 31,000. After a 22 draw at home to Hull City on 10 February 2007, Derby were 7 points clear at the top of the table[25] and had strengthened for the promotion run in with the signing of Tyrone Mears, Jay McEveley, Gary Teale, David Jones, Craig Fagan, Stephen Pearson and Jon Macken for a combined 5m. As an invitational, the player's participation in the competition is not officially recorded in the club's records but the tournament did give Derby their first cup win since 1946, with a 41 win over Manchester United in the final at The Baseball Ground. [26] A resounding 51 win against Colchester United (by far the biggest win of a campaign which saw victory by a two-goal or above margin on just 6 occasions) looked to have put the club back on track but after taking just 12 points from the next 10 fixtures, the club slipped out of the automatic promotion places altogether and a 02 defeat at Crystal Palace in the penultimate game of the season confirmed a 3rd-placed finish and entry into the 200607 Championship playoffs. [92], History of Derby County F.C. Alan Hinton finished the season as the club's top scorer with 15 goals, whilst Kevin Hector netted his 100th for the club in a 60 FA Cup Fourth Round win over Notts County and Alan Durban became the club's most capped international, overtaking Sammy Crooks, with his 27th and final appearance for Wales.