In addition, their reserve side won the Central League for the first time since 1936. However, results fell off in equally spectacular fashion after the New Year, as only 12 points from a possible 36 saw the Rams spiral down to 10th place, 10 points away from a play-off position. The club's return of 49 points (from a possible 138) was the club's lowest ever return from a 46-game programme[47] and was their lowest points total in the second tier since 1984, when they took just 42 points from 42 fixtures. When Derbyshire Constabulary received allegations of financial irregularities, Sleightholme resigned his position as chairman in April 2006, stating "My position has been made untenable. 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 1971-72 season was Derby County 's 72nd in the Football League and their 45th season in the top flight. Burley's first full season in charge brought little joy, as they recorded a 20th-placed finish in the 200304 Division One, just 1 point clear of relegation with safety not confirmed until the penultimate game of the season with a 20 win over Millwall. Shop by category. Whilst Derby were now under the control of the Maxwell family, with Ian as chairman whilst Robert remained in charge at Oxford United, Cox entered a club finally run with backroom stability if not exactly limitless funds. His most memorable strikes, and arguably the greatest single 90 minutes in Derby County's history, came in the 2nd Round of the European Cup where, on 22 October 1975, Derby hit 4 goals past Read Madrid, George claiming a hat-trick, in a 41 victory at The Baseball Ground. Despite such struggles Saunders had managed an impressive 17 goals, almost half of Derby's 37 total, and it was no surprise that the club failed to hold on to him as he was sold to Liverpool for 2.9m (over 2m more than the previous record fee received for a Derby player), along with Mark Wright, who commanded a 2.3m. Derby twice broke its transfer record in the space of a month when in March 1992 they signed Paul Kitson for 1.3m from Leicester City (Phil Gee being one of two players going in the opposite direction) and then Tommy Johnson for Notts County ten days later. Burley achieved safety against a background of boardroom uncertainty Chairman Lionel Pickering, after putting temporary faith in former Coventry City chairman Bryan Richardson and a notional 30m bond, was removed from the chair after the club temporarily entered receivership by The Co-operative Bank, who instantly installed a new board composed of John Sleightholme, Jeremy Keith and Steve Harding, for the cost of 1 each. The first two seasons at The Pride Park Stadium were the peak of Jim Smith's time at Derby County. [78] and took 15 points for the final nine games to guide them to a 9th-placed finish. Some of their responsibilities include overseeing the Primary, Candidate Filing, and other elections; chairing County Executive Committee Meetings; organizing and leading the local party; as well as overseeing and/or assisting with precinct and . Allsop played 33 times last season as Derby were relegated after a 21-point . After an opening day home defeat by Oldham Athletic the club went unbeaten at The Baseball Ground in the league for the rest of the season. Derby County Fixtures & Results 1969/1970. Season summary [ edit] Although shorn of the star names of the previous decade, Derby had the ever consistent Steve Buckley in the ranks, alongside a striking combination of Alan Biley and Dave Swindlehurst, who both broke double figures for the season, as well as the experience of McFarland and Steve Powell. Les Parkin covered Derby County when they won Football League titles under Clough and Dave Mackay in the 1970s, and travelled with the club for their matches in the European and UEFA Cups. [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. Carlin, brought from Sheffield United for 60,000 as the final piece of Clough's jigsaw, made his debut in the fifth game of the season, a 22 home draw with Hull City and from there the club lost just three of its remaining 37 fixtures, including winning the final 9, a club record. Behind the scenes circumstances were deteriorating, and Burley left his position, citing interference from football agent turned Director of Football Murdo Mackay, and the sale of Huddlestone, to Tottenham Hotspur, against his wishes. 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. The season itself started in unconvincing fashion with two draws and two defeats. Mackay's record of a League title and two top five finishes, as well as an FA Cup semi-final, in just two-and-a-half years should have made him fireproof but an alarming start to the 197677 season, which saw the club fail to win a league match until the 9th fixture, when they thumped Tottenham Hotspur 82 with Bruce Rioch grabbing four in his emergency centre forward role, had Mackay's position coming under threat. Derby's upturn in form had also sparked an upturn in attendances, which had fallen dramatically during the late 1970s and early 1980s. 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. 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 club paid the price, earning only 3 wins from their first 17 fixtures. but in the early 1970s it was clearly frowned upon. In one of the greatest nights in the club's history, Derby swept aside Benfica 30 in front of 38,100 fans and then held their nerve in the return leg to record a 00 draw at the Estdio da Luz in front of 75,000 (becoming only the second club in European football history, after Ajax, to keep a clean sheet against Benfica over two legs) to win 30 on aggregate and advance to the quarter finals. The club relied less on loan signings and more on the club's academy as Jeff Hendrick, Mark O'Brien, Callum Ball, Mason Bennett and Will Hughes all broke into the first team, Bennett and Hughes making their debuts with Bennett setting a club record for youngest ever team player, making his first appearance against Middlesbrough on 22 October 2011 at 15 years and 99 days old,[56] beating Lee Holmes' record by 169 days. The fine of 10,000 and a one-year ban from European competition saw the club bring in Preston North End secretary Stuart Webb into the club to help its administrative efficiency off the pitch match the playing efficiency on it. 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. At one stage touted as a future England manager, Gregory had been in place at Aston Villa but his relationship with Villa chairman Doug Ellis led him to walk out to take charge at Derby. McClaren was sacked on 12 March 2017 following a 30 defeat away to Brighton, which included a performance that Mel Morris described as being "far from what we expect to see from those wearing a Derby County shirt. However, Aston Villa's 10 win at Pride Park on 7 February 1997, the first home league defeat at the ground, saw the team lose their way somewhat and Europe was missed out on, with only 16 points taken from the final 36 available. 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. Despite raising over 7m in transfers, the club could no longer attract such quality of player to the club for affordable fees and only Seth Johnson and Esteban Fuertes were signed, the former for a club record 3m. With Derby clear in the high court, Taylor was fired as manager following a 51 defeat at Barnsley, with the club having won just 31 points from 33 games, and McFarland was appointed until the end of the season. [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. "[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]. Entry into the European Cup in 1972 compelled the installation of new floodlights to match UEFA specifications. Despite interest from Westley in taking the position of manager, former Preston North End boss Billy Davies was appointed Derby County's new permanent manager, having taken Preston North End into the playoffs in the previous two seasons. 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. Several of these players left during the 199495 season, Kitson joining Newcastle United for 2.25m, Charles and Johnson moving to Aston Villa for a combined 2.9m and Pembridge moving to Sheffield Wednesday. Although the improved end to the season had given fresh hope that the impetus of the late 1990s could be revived, such plans were dashed when the club took 14 matches to record its first league win of the 200001 season beating Bradford City 10. Detroit, MI May 1, 1975 Freedom Hall, Louisville, KY (101st Kentucky Derby Concert) May 2, 1975 Robinson Auditorium, Little Rock, AR May 3, 1975 Lambuth University . Players weren't paid on time (resulting in Danny Higginbotham going on strike), with high earning players such as Georgi Kinkladze and Fabrizio Ravanelli underperforming, and the club was trading insolvent. A rise back to the top followed towards the end of the 1980s and start of the 1990s before a spell of flitting between top flight and second-tier football followed over the next 20 years. The club's reserve side had a less successful year than in the two previous seasons, with the club missing out on the Central League title by one point from Sheffield United, as well as being beaten in the Derbyshire Senior Cup final by Buxton. And it arguably contains their most consistent sequence of results in the FA Cup since formation, albeit without going all the way to the final - but they went so, so close. Whilst the club did manage a trip to Wembley for the first time in nearly 20 years reaching the final of the Anglo-Italian Cup, where they lost 13 to Cremonese and recorded a club record 7 consecutive away league wins, starting with a 31 win at Cambridge United on 3 October 1992 and ending with a 21 defeat at Brentford on Boxing Day, 1992, the season was seen as something of a disappointment considering the amount of money spent and the players available to the club. With a more settled side than he was previously allowed Burley only used 24 players, 7 of whom were involved in 10 or less games and a strong mix of academy graduates (Lee Grant, Pablo Mills, Tom Huddlestone, Marcus Tudgay) and inspired purchases (Rasiak, Idiakez, Tommy Smith) Derby enjoyed a splendid second half to the season, recording just 6 defeats in their final 24 fixtures, including a run of 1 defeat in 14, and equalled the club record for away wins in a season and setting a club record of 6 consecutive away victories. It was revealed that the debt had risen to 52million, with the Gadsby-led consortium injecting more than 20million, paying off the ABC Corporation loan and negotiated a deal over the remaining debt with the Co-operative Bank, as well as returning Pride Park to club ownership. Derby County chairman Mel Morris (Photo: Getty Images) In keeping with the entire saga, which started in 2018 when Derby's owner Mel Morris exploited the legal loophole of selling Pride Park to . Perhaps Brian was ahead of his time." The 198485 season was one of transition and, although the club only managed a 7th-placed finish the lowest league placing in the club's history the foundations for the next five years of success were being laid, with Rob Hindmarch, Charlie Palmer and Eric Steele were bought in for free whilst the sale of Kevin Wilson for 150,000 to Ipswich Town helped fund moves for Trevor Christie, Gary Micklewhite and Geraint Williams. Dale Derby is a former Republican member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, representing District 74 from 2016 to 2018. This was Derby's sole participation in the tournament, which lasted only four seasons, but the victory proved to be the highlight of an otherwise unremarkable season as Derby consolidated their top-flight position with a ninth-placed finish, though Roy McFarland became the first Derby player to represent England since 1950 when he appeared against Malta, and Clough made two more key signings in the shape of Archie Gemmill, 66,000 from Preston, and again broke the club transfer record with the 170,000 capture of Sunderland's Colin Todd. In the event of the fixtures, a tigerish Wolverhampton Wanderers overcame Leeds 21 at Molineux and Liverpool could only record a 00 draw at Highbury against Arsenal. Squad / Appearances; Transfers; Manager history; Players from A-Z; . The Barnsley match had attracted a crowd of 27,232 (the club's biggest home attendance since 27, 783 watched a 31 home defeat against Manchester United in February 1980) and it broke 30,000 for the first time since a 21 home defeat against Nottingham Forest in 1979, in a 22 draw against Manchester United on 18 October 1997. Its first league triumph in the 1971-72 season came just three . Derby County's former chairman expressed his frustration with Brian Clough in the unseen letter. Derby County is saddened to hear of the passing of former director Richard Moore. That is why an influx of new faces is needed in this most important of summers to make sure they move forward next season. The plans were scaled down from the planned 20 million pound development proposed in 2007. (Section 172.023, Texas Election Code). One of these matches, a 52 victory over Sheffield Wednesday in which Baiano scored twice, was the club's first victory at Hillsborough since September 1936. In this sequence the club won 13 of its fixtures, scoring three or more goals on 8 occasions and recorded a 41 win at Birmingham City, their first win at St. Andrews since 1948, and catapulted themselves from the bottom five to the top of the table in the space of four months, at one point finding themselves 7 points clear at the top of the table. He left office in 2016. The second leg was won 41 for a 161 aggregate victory, but the club exited Europe at the second stage for the second consecutive season, crashing out 52 on aggregate to Greek side AEK Athens, with a 32 home defeat the club's first ever home defeat in European competition. However, a 02 defeat away to Plymouth Argyle in the FA Cup Fifth Round preceded a notable wobble in results and the club recorded a return of just 6 points from the next 5 games, conceding top spot to Birmingham City after a 01 defeat at St. Andrews on 9 March 2007. 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. Although domestic cup progress was limited (only reaching the third round of the League Cup and the fifth round of the FA Cup), Derby's UEFA Cup debut proved relatively fruitful.