Derby County F.C.

General

Kit history

Derby County
Full name	Derby County Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Rams
Founded	5 February 1884
Ground	Pride Park Stadium, Derby (Capacity: 33,597)
Owner	(in administration)
Manager	Paul Warne
Current League	Championship
2023–24	League One, 2nd (promoted)
Website	Club home page
Current season

Derby County Football Club is an English football club based in Derby, England. Notable for being one of the twelve members of the Football League in 1888, it is one of only ten clubs to have competed in every season of the English football league and, in 2009, was ranked 137th in the top 200 European football teams of the 20th century by International Federation of Football History and Statistics.

Derby County F.C. was founded in 1884, by William Morley, as an offshoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club; it has spent all but four seasons in the top two divisions of the English football league. The club's competitive peak came in the 1970s when it had two spells as English League Champions and competed in major European competitions on four separate occasions, reaching the European Cup semi-finals, as well as winning several minor trophies. The club was also a strong force in the interwar years of the football league and also won the 1945–46 FA Cup.

The club adopted its now traditional black and white club colours in the 1890s and appropriated its club nickname The Rams, a tribute to its links with the First Regiment of Derby Militia, which took a ram as its mascot and the song "The Derby Ram" as its regimental song, at the same time. Home games are played at the Pride Park Stadium, located in Pride Park, Derby, where the club moved in 1997. As of 2013, the club plays in the Football League Championship and are managed by Steve McClaren.

Players

Current squad

As of 25 October 2024

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK Jacob Widell Zetterström 2 DF Kane Wilson 3 DF Craig Forsyth (3rd captain) 4 MF David Ozoh (on loan from Crystal Palace) 5 DF Sonny Bradley (vice-captain) 6 DF Eiran Cashin 7 MF Tom Barkhuizen 8 MF Ben Osborn 9 FW James Collins 10 FW Jerry Yates (on loan from Swansea City) 11 MF Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (captain) 12 DF Nat Phillips (on loan from Liverpool) 13 GK Rohan Luthra 14 FW Conor Washington 16 MF Liam Thompson

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF Kenzo Goudmijn 18 MF Marcus Harness (on loan from Ipswich Town) 19 FW Kayden Jackson 20 DF Callum Elder 21 DF Jake Rooney 23 MF Joe Ward 24 DF Ryan Nyambe 26 MF Darren Robinson 27 FW Corey Blackett-Taylor 28 MF Tawanda Chirewa (on loan from Wolverhampton Wanderers) 31 GK Josh Vickers 32 MF Ebou Adams 35 DF Curtis Nelson 39 FW Dajaune Brown

Out on loan

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 MF Tyrese Fornah (at Salford City until the end of the 2024–25 season)

Women's team

Main article: Derby County F.C. Women

External links

• Official website