The annual RamsTrust raffle is back. Here’s your chance to win something truly special…a signed 2025/26 Derby County home shirt. For just £5 per entry, you’re not only in with a chance of getting your...

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Long before festive television schedules became the norm, football provided one of the few escapes from the Christmas routine. In the Victorian era, matches were commonly played on Christmas Day, when...

In the multi-million pound Premier League era, the idea of Liverpool being involved in an end-of-season relegation battle sounds ridiculous but, in the spring of 1953, this was very much the case. The...

The Rams travelled to St James’s Park to face Newcastle United on Saturday, 9 September 1933, still searching for their first victory of the season. Derby were the only Division One side yet to record...

Season 1951/52 had seen the Rams start off with three wins and three defeats in their opening six games and this inconsistency continued as the season progressed. By the turn of the year, the club’s ten victories had been mirrored by ten defeats and, though the club had won more than half their matches at the Baseball Ground, a poor away record, as well as a run of four straight defeats since Boxing Day (coupled with an early exit from... Read More Read More

To mark the founding of the world’s first professional football league by William McGregor in 1888, which began with 12 clubs including Derby County, the Football League celebrated its Golden Jubilee ...

Having joined the Football League in 1920 as founder members of the newly-created third tier of the professional game, Brentford spent most of that decade in the lower reaches of the Third Division (S...

The promotion season of 1968/69 has gone down in history as laying the foundation for the club’s run of success in the early/mid 1970s, however it’s often forgotten that the season had actually starte...

The second half of the 1930s saw some of the most celebrated names in the club’s long history wear the shirt but without ever managing to get their hands on either of the two major trophies on offer. ...

After the conclusion of the 1966/1967 season, a disappointing campaign where the Rams finished 17th in Division Two, the Rams embarked on a post-season tour of Germany to play a series of friendly fix...

Here’s your chance to get your hands on a Derby County 2024/25 home shirt (size medium), signed by the first-team squad! This fantastic prize has been generously donated by the club – and it could be ...

The end of the current season saw League football bid farewell to one of its most iconic stadiums when Everton, who had called it home since 1892, played their final match there before moving across t...

After a 0-0 draw against VfL Bochum in Germany, manager Dave Mackay and assistant Des Anderson took their Derby County side to Spain to compete in the Costa del Sol tournament as part of their prepara...

When we read about yet another manager or top player criticising the number of fixtures scheduled, one of the most common ripostes is that players and managers “have it easy compared to how football u...

Although not a matchday programme, this piece of memorabilia commemorates a significant moment in the history of Derby County. To mark the club’s golden jubilee, a celebratory supper was held on Monda...

Season 1974/75 will always, of course, be remembered for Derby’s second League title in four seasons but what of their FA Cup campaign? The Third Round draw (which was now being shown live on Match of...

Without a win in four matches, Derby County travelled to Elland Road on Saturday 1 December 1934 to face Leeds United. All eyes were on Hughie Gallacher, the prolific Scottish forward recently signed ...

Having finished runners-up to title winners Sunderland the previous season, Derby had entered the new season as one of half a dozen clubs expected to challenge for honours and had started off in great...

After 11 games of the 1938/1939 season, George Jobey’s Derby County side were flying high in Division One, sitting second with 16 points. They were level on points with leaders Everton, though the Tof...

The 1930s had begun with an air of optimism around the club with George Jobey’s team lying in third place in the table, five points behind leaders Sheffield Wednesday, and on a run of 7 wins from thei...

“What a fantastic experience it was, parading the trophy around the pitch” says former Rams striker Roger Davies as he fondly recalls the moments leading up to the final game of the 1974/1975 season a...

In late October of the 1945/1946 season, Ted Magner’s Derby County team made the journey to Somerton Park in South Wales to face Newport County in the Football League South. Just a week earlier, the R...

Just under seven years (2,555 days, to be precise) since the outbreak of war put an abortive end to the 1939/40 Football League season, August 31, 1946, saw the resumption of the competition. There wa...

Derby County concluded the 1911/12 season as Division Two champions with 54 points, edging out Chelsea on goal average after both teams finished level on points. After spending four years at Middlesbr...

George Jobey’s Rams suffered three consecutive away defeats at the start of the 1926/1927 season against Arsenal, Leeds, and Sheffield United. Their only victory came in the second game of the new cam...

The mid-50s saw Derby drop to the third tier of the game for the first time in their history. Despite scoring 110 goals and recording 18 home wins, the fact that only one promotion place was available...

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The winter of 1947 was one of the coldest on record in British history, with February the coldest month since 1895. Snowfall led to widespread disruption across the UK including the postponement of De...

Take any club in the country and ask a representative section of its adult supporters to list that club’s “Ten Top Players of All Time” and you would probably end up with a many players who would rece...

Derby were due to play at Spurs in a Division One fixture on Saturday 28 February 1953 but the game was postponed because of Tottenham’s involvement in the FA Cup quarter final at Birmingham that day....

Though not lifting the trophy until 1946, Derby’s FA Cup record in the 1930s was generally very good but it also threw up more than its fair share of tough away ties at lower-division clubs and when t...

It used to be tradition in England that a full League programme would be played on Christmas Day with the fixtures reversed on Boxing Day. Derby County’s last ever Christmas Day match was in 1957 wher...

Though they weren’t to lift the actual trophy itself until 1946, Derby’s Cup record in the 1930s was more than respectable. Although they had been on the receiving end of a giant-killing act at Exeter...

Stuart Webb is best known for his loyal service to Derby County between 1970-2003 as secretary, chief executive, director and chairman.

On 23 February 1921, Division One leaders Burnley visited the Baseball Ground on a run of 24 consecutive league games without defeat. Derby were bottom of the table with only two league wins all seaso...

Relegation from the First Division in 1921 had been followed by two successive mid-table finishes for the Rams. The previous season had seen attendances begin to drop below 10,000 so the summer signin...

One of the rarest post war Derby home programmes is from the game against arch rivals Nottingham Forest on Saturday 30 January 1971. At the time the Rams had been struggling to establish a consistent ...

The 1930s and 40s saw Chelsea as one of the Rams’ most regular opponents. Indeed, the two clubs had met one another in 17 consecutive seasons between 1930/31 and 1952/53. While the subsequent decade s...

After losing the opening game of the 1939/1940 season 3-0 at Sunderland, the Rams played their first match at the Baseball Ground on Wednesday 30 August against Portsmouth. Derby President Bendle W Mo...

The FA Cup hadn’t been overly kind to Derby in the years since they lifted the trophy in 1946. There was a semi-final in 1948 and quarter-final appearances in 1949 and 1950 but, in the subsequent 14 y...

In the summer of 1951 a national exhibition and fair was held throughout the UK known as the Festival of Britain. Its objective was to give British citizens a feeling of successful recovery after Worl...

The Rams were due to travel to Carlisle United for a Division Two fixture on Saturday 8 February 1969 but the game was postponed due to severe frost and snowfall in Scotland and northern England. Manc...