During the 1994–95 English football season, Nottingham Forest F.C. competed in the FA Premier League. Surprisingly for a newly promoted side, Forest finished in third place, behind Blackburn Rovers and Manchester United: no newly promoted club has achieved as high a finish in the Premier League since, although this achievement was matched by Newcastle United's previous season and six seasons later, Ipswich Town would finish fifth which, to this day, is the highest placing finish a promoted club has achieved since.
Season summary After achieving promotion back to the FA Premier League at the first attempt, Nottingham Forest continued to succeed after Brian Clough as new manager Frank Clark guided them to a third-place finish and UEFA Cup qualification, giving Forest their first European campaign of the post-Heysel era. Never out of the top-six throughout the season, Forest a title challenge in the first quarter of the season, finding themselves in 2nd. However, they couldn't keep up the title push, winning just five out of 20 league games but an unbeaten run of nine wins in their final 12 league games during Spring saw them finish third, 12 points adrift of champions Blackburn Rovers.
Striker Stan Collymore was on target 22 times in the league and speculation that he would be on his way to another club proved correct at the end of the season when he sold to Liverpool for a national record fee of £8.4 million. The failure of Clark to buy a proven replacement cast significant doubt over whether Forest could mount a serious challenge for honours in the post-Collymore era.
Kit The kit was sponsored by Canadian brewery Labatts.
Competitions FA Premier League
League Table
Results summary
Position by round
Matches
FA Cup
Round Three
Round Fourth
Football League Cup
Round Two
Round Three
Round Fourth
Squad
Left club during season
Reserve squad
Transfers
In DatePosNameFromFee1 August 1994MFJohn BurnsBelvedereSigned1 August 1994GKMalcolm RigbyNotts County£50,0004 August 1994FWBryan RoyFoggia£2,500,000
Out DatePosNameToFee13 July 1994GKMark StathamWigan AthleticFree transfer13 July 1994MFIan KilfordWigan AthleticFree transfer2 August 1994FWLee GloverPort Vale£200,00027 September 1994MFGary CrosbyHuddersfield TownFree transfer1 December 1994DFBrian LawsGrimsby TownFree transfer20 March 1995MFLee MarshallStockport CountyFree transfer
Transfers in: £2,550,000 Transfers out: £200,000 Total spending: £2,350,000
Statistics Appearances and goals
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Starting 11 Considering appearances in all competitions
References