Derby County Football Club. All Information for The Rams Fans

Derby County (also well-known as the Rams) is an
English football club based in Derby, England. The team is a current member of Premier League. The first home ground of the club was the Baseball Ground. In 1997 Pride Park Stadium became a new home. It is located in Pride Park business park on the outskirts of Derby. This football (soccer) stadium holds 33,597 spectators. Derby has plans to expand the capacity to 44,000 for the 2008–2009 season, subject to retaining their Premiership status. The chairman of the club is Adam Pearson and the manager is William McIntosh “Billy” Davies. Billy Davies is a former football player. He played in such clubs as: Rangers, IF Elsborg, St Mirren, Leicester City, Dunfermline Athletic and Motherwell. His career of a manager started at Motherwell club, then was

Preston North End. In 2006 he took over a post of Derby manager. The Rams football club has a long list of managers:

• 1896 – 1806 – Harry Newbould
• 1906 – 1922 – Jimmy Methvan
• 1922 – 1925 – Cecil Potter
• 1925 – 1941 – George Jobey
• 1944 – 1946 – Ted Magner
• 1946 – 1953 – Stuart McMillan
• 1953 – 1955 – Jack Barker
• 1955 – 1962 – Harry Storer
• 1962 – 1967 – Tim Ward
• 1967 – 1973 – Brian Clough
• 1973 – 1976 – Dave Mackay
• 1977 – Colin Murphy
• 1977 – 1979 – Tommy Docherty
• 1979 – 1982 – Colin Addison
• 1982 – Johnny Newman
• 1982 – 1984 – Peter Taylor
• 1984 – Roy McFarland
• 1984 – 1993 – Arther Cox
• 1993 – 1995 – Roy McFarland
• 1995 – 2001 – Jim Smith
• 2001 – 2002 – Colin Todd
• 2002 – 2003 – John Gregory
• 2003 – 2005 – George Burley
• 2005 – 2006 – Phil Brown
• 2006 – present Billy Davies

In 1884 the club began it’s life as an off-shoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club. At first they wanted to name themselves Derbyshire County FC, but the local football association forced them to shorten the name and the team chose “Derby County FC“. The Rams took part in the premier British football competition of that time: the FA Cup and became a founder member of the Football League in 1888. The clubs original colours were amber, chocolate and blue. In 1890 the traditional colours of the kit became black and white and they are still in use today. The colours of away kits have varied from year to year but usually include yellow/gold or blue. Through its history Derby County FC has such trophies:

Division 1		Division 2		Division 3		FA Cup
Winners	Runners-Up	Winners	Runners-Up	Winners	Runners-Up	Winners	Runners-Up
1971-1972	1895-1896	1911-1912	1925-1926	1956-1957	1955-1956	1945-1946	1897 – 1898
1974-1975	1929-1930	1914-1915					1898 -1899
	1935-1936	1968-1969					1902 – 1903
	1995-1996	1986-1987

League Championes	Anglo-Italian Cup	Charity Shield	Watney Cup	Brian Clough Trophy	Texaco Cup
Play-Offs Winners	Runners-Up	Winners	Winners	Winners	Winners
2006-2007	1993	1975 – 1976	1970 – 1971	2007	1972

Derby County FC has an academy that is one of the best in the Europe. It is the Moor Farm training complex in Oakwood that has world class training facilities and also boasts a gym and restaurant. It was built at a cost of £5.2 million. The complex is worthy of notice for producing young stars such as: Tom Huddlestone, Lee Camp, Lewin Nyatanga and Giles Barnes. The present squad of the team includes:

Goalkeeper	Defender	Midfielder	Striker
Lewis Price	Marc Edworthy	David Jones	Steve Howard
Ben Hinchliffe	Mohammed Camara	Matt Oakley	Robert Earnshaw
Stephen Bywater	James McEveley	Eddie Lewis	Craig Fagan
	Dean Leacock	Gary Teale	Jonathan Macken (on loan to Barnsly )
	Michael Johnson (on loan to Sheff W )	Lee Holmes	Kenny Miller
	Andy Todd	Robert Malcolm
	Andy Griffin	Benny Feilhaber
	Claude Davis	Stephen Pearson
	Darren Moore	Giles Barnes
	Tyrone Mears	Matthew Richards
	Lewin Nyatanga (on loan to Barnsly )
	Miles Addison
	Mitchell Hanson
	Jason Beardsley