Nottingham Forest

Nottingham Forest are an iconic English football club with a record in European competition to rival the likes of Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea.

Forest are undoubtedly helped by being based in a city with a population of more than 330,000. Founded in 1862, County are recognised as the world's oldest football league club. Clough joined Forest as a Jose Mourinho-style brash young manager in 1975 and transformed the club who had been 13th in the second tier at the time. Trevor Francis scored the only goal in Munich to seal victory over Malmo. Forest's reward was a place in the playoffs, where they earned a dramatic penalty shoot-out victory over Sheffield United to reach the final at Wembley. When he was interviewed during the final season of his reign, Clough insisted: "There's only one way to play football – that's on grass. Clough's indelible influence and ideas about how the game should be played live on in Forest fans' preferred playing style. It would be the last season when Forest would feature in European competition. Six years after becoming league members, Forest won the FA Cup for the first time by beating Derby County in front of 62,000 supporters at Crystal Palace, enjoying an underdog 3-1 victory over opponents who had thrashed them 5-0 less than a week earlier. John Robertson is widely considered to have been Forest's greatest ever player. Until they moved to their beloved City Ground home in 1898, Nottingham Forest Football Club played at a variety of stadiums including Trent Bridge, now better known as a cricket ground. Worse was to follow.

Nottingham Forest are back in the Premier League following a 23-year absence after beating Huddersfield Town at Wembley to win the Championship play-offs.

Nottingham Forest are back in the Premier League after beating Huddersfield Town in the Championship playoff final. But their third relegation from the Premier League in 1999 took much longer to recover from. Nottingham Forest Win Championship Play-Offs And Promotion To The Premier League

An own goal by Levi Colwill made the difference in the Championship playoff final as Nottingham Forest edged past Huddersfield 1-0 to clinch promotion.

In the second half another Thomas cross proved problematic, this time from the right, but Djed Spence shepherded the ball out. Thomas played the ball low towards the penalty spot, where Ward, who peeled off his marker arrived from the back post but Forest got a block in. Naby Sarr clumsily upended Philip Zinckernagel and from the subsequent free-kick Garner located Yates but the Forest midfielder, who got free of Tom Lees, dropped his header narrowly wide.

MADRID, 29 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –. Nottingham Forest achieved promotion to the Premier League this Sunday after their narrow victory (0-1) against ...

Town did not have criteria above despite looking for their options and dominance in the second half. Levi Colwill’s own goal just before half-time was the decisive moment. Nottingham Forest achieved promotion to the Premier League this Sunday after their narrow victory (0-1) against Huddersfield Town, in the final play-off for promotion at Wembley.

Nottingham Forest have ended a two-decade exile from the top-flight of English football after defeating Huddersfield Town in a dramatic Championship play-off ...

All this came before Samba's late injury - and delay in getting off the field - which further stymied their attempts to find a late equaliser. Having taken just one point from their first seven fixtures under Chris Hughton, the idea of promotion back to the Premier League - having been absent since the turn of the millennium - must have seemed fanciful to Forest fans. Nottingham Forest have ended a two-decade exile from the top-flight of English football after defeating Huddersfield Town in a dramatic Championship play-off final at Wembley to book their place in next season's Premier League.

Forest beat Huddersfield 1–0 in the Championship playoff final at Wembley Stadium on Sunday to secure its return to the English Premier League next season. The ...

He’s just killed us with kindness and the fans absolutely adore him.” Forest did it the hard way this season, too. If you mistreat one, then they’re aggressive, and we were.

The Nottingham Forest manager Steve Cooper said the playoff win against Huddersfield had 'reminded the world how special the club is'

We’ve brought Nottingham to Wembley, we’ve taken over the place and here we are in the Premier League.” In the second half we tried to take more risks.” Forest edged out Huddersfield in the playoff final courtesy of a Levi Colwill own goal but victory was mired in controversy after Forest survived two late penalty scares.

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Everybody connected with the football club deserves this today and we’re now really looking forward to a positive future,” Cooper said. Forest’s nerves frayed when Samba limped off injured in the final minutes, but the Reds held on to earn their return to the big time. Cooper repaired the wounds of Forest’s worst start to a season for 108 years and ensured they remained focus after losing a shot at automatic promotion in their penultimate game of the season against top-two rivals Bournemouth. Fourth placed Forest beat Sheffield United on penalties in the play-off semi-final and held their nerve again to earn the ultimate prize against Huddersfield. For the first time in the 21st century, Forest can look forward to welcoming the Premier League’s elite to their City Ground stadium on the banks of the River Trent. Nottingham Forest clinched promotion to the Premier League for the first time in 23 years with a 1-0 win against Huddersfield in the Championship play-off final on Monday (AEST).

An own goal saw the City Ground outfit beat Huddersfield in the Championship play-off final at Wembley.

“I have the feeling that I could work and prepare another one, two matches, straight away. The pity that I have is that we were defending well enough; I wasn’t watching the team suffer in defence. I have to accept the decisions. The first objective was to get out of the relegation zone. “I’m just really proud of everybody connected with the football club: it’s a magical football club, and we’ve just reminded the world of that. It takes a group of men to get off the canvas and fight back, and that’s what they’ve done.

Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis' son Miltiadis has spoken about his family's ambitions for the club.

Everybody connected with the football club deserves this today and we're now really looking forward to a positive future. We want to invest and buy players to build a team that can compete with everyone in England." "I want to thank Steve who came here and changed the team everything for the team.