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Derby County began life in 1884, as an off-shoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club - formed some 13 years earlier - with football growing more popular. In those days there was no Football League, so the Rams had to make do with a series of friendly matches and the FA Cup.
Derby County F.C. was formed in 1884 as an offshoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club in an attempt to give players and supporters a winter interest as well as secure the cricket club extra revenue.
Derby County Football Club are one of the most historic clubs in English football history, for a number of reasons. Founded in 1884, the Rams would go on to become one of the founding clubs of the English Football League, paving the way for modern football as we know it.
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 2022–23 season.
- Formation and Founder Member of The Football League
- The Bloomer Years
- Bloomer Departs and First Relegation
- "Yo-Yoing" Between Divisions and The Great War
- Promotion and The First Golden Era
- The War Years
- Resumption of League Football and Decline
- Third Tier Football
- Return to The Second Division and Treading Water
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Derby County Football Club was formed in 1884, as an offshoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club. Derbyshire, which had formed in 1871, had just embarked on a disastrous cricket season, losing all ten of its Championship matches, and was looking for methods of generating extra revenue. With the increasing popularity of football in the areas becoming...
The opening day of the 1892–93 season saw the league debut of 18-year-old Steve Bloomer in a 3–1 win away to Stoke City. Bloomer, widely regarded as the finest goalscorer of his generation and Derby County's finest ever player, was mentored by John Goodall, crediting John Goodall with his early development, and over the next 13 consecutive seasons ...
The close of the 1906 season saw Bloomer, against his wishes, sold to Middlesbrough, forcing Harry Newbould – who saw the enforced selling of Bloomer as a sign of things to come – defect to become manager/secretary at Manchester City in July 1906. Former Derby player Jimmy Methven, who was nearing the end of a career spent at right-back with The Ra...
Despite selling Alf Bentley to Bolton Wanderers, the 1911/12 Second Division season saw Derby finally regain their place in the top flight after five years outside it, as they finished top of the league on goal difference over Chelsea, securing their first ever top spot finish. The season also saw Bloomer grab his 300th goal for Derby in 4–2 home w...
To replace Potter, Derby tempted former Wolves manager George Jobey out of retirement. Jobey had retired to run a hotel in 1924 after winning the Third Division North with Wolves, but was tempted back into football by the Rams. Jobey imposed firm discipline at the club and earned them promotion in his first season at the club, a feat not emulated f...
A 1939–40 season did start, but was abandoned after three fixtures, which brought 2 wins and a defeat for Derby. Derby where offered a place in a substitute competition but, mindful of criticism of being unpatriotic after continuing on following the outbreak of World War I, tested the water with a friendly against Leeds United. When less than 2,000...
Flush with the success of their first major cup win, Derby entered into the 1946–47 campaign with a renewed vigour. However, the 1946 Cup winning side never appeared together in the entire season, with four leaving the club shortly after winning the trophy. This was compounded by the double blow of losing Peter C. Doherty (who left for Huddersfield...
The club reacted to relegation in 1954–55 by sacking Jack Barker, whose 19 months in charge at the Baseball Ground left him very bitter: "I wouldn't be a manager again for £10,000 a week. The trouble is that the people you are working for know nothing about the game."He was replaced by another former Derby and England player Harry Storer, who had a...
Derby enjoyed only a moderate return to Second Division football, finishing the 1957–58 season in 16th. Goals proved a problem, especially when Straw, who had scored 60 goals in just 98 appearances, was sold to Coventry Cityafter injuring an ankle in the 1957 close season tour of the Netherlands. Another key figure of the 1957 promotion, Paddy Ryan...
Derby County FC is a founding member of the Football League in 1888. The club holds two first-division titles (1972 and 1975) and one FA Cup (1946). They were the first team in England to employ a mascot full-time to maintain links with fans and the local community.
May 8, 2022 · Derby County players on holiday in Majorca in 1972, where most of them found out about being crowned English champions.
