2018–19 Nottingham Forest F.C. season

Nottingham Forest 2018–19
Club information
Manager	Aitor Karanka
League Season information
Final League position	The Championship
Cup placements
FA Cup
EFL Cup
Season statistics
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The 2018–19 season is Nottingham Forest's 153rd season in existence and 11th consecutive season in the EFL Championship. In addition to the Championship, the club will participate in the FA Cup and EFL Cup. The season covers the period between 1 July 2018 and 30 June 2019.

Pre-season

On 7 June Forest announced they would play Scunthorpe United as part of their pre-season friendlies schedule. Four days later the club announced a second friendly was to be played against Premier League Bournemouth at home.

25 July 2018	Scunthorpe United	v	Nottingham Forest	Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire
19:30 BST				Stadium: Glanford Park

28 July 2018	Nottingham Forest	v	Bournemouth	West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire
15:00 BST				Stadium: The City Ground

Competitions

League table

2018–19 Football League Championship table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Norwich City  (C) (P)	46	27	13	6	93	57	+36	94	Promotion to the Premier League
2	Sheffield Utd  (P)	46	26	11	9	78	41	+37	89
3	Leeds United	46	25	8	13	73	50	+23	83	Qualification to the Championship Play-offs
4	West Brom	46	23	11	12	87	62	+25	80
5	Aston Villa  (P)	46	20	16	10	82	61	+21	76
6	Derby County	46	20	14	12	69	54	+15	74
7	Middlesbrough	46	20	13	13	49	41	+8	73
8	Bristol City	46	19	13	14	59	53	+6	70
9	Nottm Forest	46	17	15	14	61	54	+7	66
10	Swansea City	46	18	11	17	65	61	+4	65
11	Brentford	46	17	13	16	73	59	+14	64
12	Reading	46	16	16	14	60	62	−2	64
13	Hull City	46	17	11	18	66	68	−2	62
14	Preston North End	46	16	13	17	67	67	0	61
15	Blackburn Rovers	46	16	12	18	63	69	−6	60
16	Stoke City	46	11	22	13	44	51	−7	55
17	Birmingham City	46	14	19	13	64	58	+6	52
18	Wigan Athletic	46	13	13	20	51	62	−11	52
19	Queens Park Rangers	46	14	9	23	53	71	−18	51
20	Reading	46	10	17	19	49	66	−17	47
21	Millwall	46	10	14	22	48	64	−16	44
22	Rotherham United  (R)	46	8	16	22	52	83	−31	40	Relegation to League One
23	Bolton Wanderers  (R)	46	8	8	30	29	77	−48	32
24	Ipswich Town  (R)	46	5	16	25	36	77	−41	31

Updated to games played on 5 May 2019
Source: EFL.com
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

• Brentford were awarded a 1–0 win over Bolton Wanderers due to Bolton being unable to fulfil the fixture.
• Birmingham City deducted 9 points for failure to comply with the EFL profitability and Sustainability rules.

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Last updated: pre-season
Source: BBC

Results by matchday

Matchday	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46
Ground
Result
Position

Last updated: pre-season.
Source: Statto.com
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Lose; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Transfers

Transfers in

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	Transferred From	Fee
1 July 2018	DF		Michael Dawson	Hull City	Free Transfer
1 July 2018	DF		Tobias Figueiredo	Sporting CP	Undisclosed

Transfers out

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	Transferred to	Fee
1 July 2018	DF		Choz Charlesworth	Free Agent	Released
1 July 2018	MF		Chris Cohen	Retired	N/A
1 July 2018	MF		Ashkan Dejagah	Free Agent	Released
1 July 2018	DF		Jack Hobbs	Free Agent	Released
1 July 2018	FW		Luke McCormick	Free Agent	Released
1 July 2018	MF		Elvis Otim	Free Agent	Released
1 July 2018	MF		Aaron Smith	Free Agent	Released
1 July 2018	MF		Connor Smith	Free Agent	Released
1 July 2018	MF		David Vaughan	Free Agent	Released
1 July 2018	FW		Lewis Walters	Free Agent	Released
1 July 2018	DF		Jake Willetts	Free Agent	Released]