The 2014–15 season is the 109th season in the Football League and 116th season overall of association football played by Derby County F.C., an English football club based in Derby, Derbyshire. Their third-place finish in the 2013–14 season and losing out to Queens Park Rangers in the play-off final means it is their seventh consecutive season in the second tier. It will be Steve McClaren's first full season as Head Coach of the team.

Derby County played their league games in the Championship in the 2014-15 season, the fixtures were announced on 18 June 2014. The season began on 9 August 2014 and concluded on 2 May 2015 For the majority of their league campaign, Derby County were placed around the top positions in the league, being in first place on three separate occasions. However, a collapse in form from March saw them drop from first place to eventually finishing eighth.

Derby entered the League Cup in the first round, the draw for this was announced on 17 June 2014. Derby were in the northern half of the draw and were one of the seeded teams. They were drawn an away tie against non-seeded, League Two side Carlisle United. After defeating Carlisle, Derby went through to the second round of the competition. They were one of the seeded teams in the draw and they were drawn to play Charlton Athletic in the second round. They defeated Charlton Athletic and in the third round faced Reading. Derby progressed through to the fourth round of the competition after defeating Reading, and in the fourth round draw they were given an away tie at another Championship team, which was Fulham. After managing to defeat Fulham away from home, Derby were drawn at home to Premier League club Chelsea in the Quarter Finals. They exited the competition at this stage after a 3-1 home defeat to Chelsea.

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