Derby County F.C.
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| Full name | Derby County Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Rams |
| Founded | 5 February 1884 |
| Ground | Pride Park Stadium |
| Capacity | 33,597 |
| Owner | Mel Morris |
| Chairman | Mel Morris |
| Manager | Steve McClaren |
| League | Championship |
| 2015–16 | Championship, 5th |
| Website | Club home page |
Derby County Football Club (/ˈdɑːrbi ˈkaʊnti/) is a professional association football club based in Derby, Derbyshire, England. Their home matches are played at Pride Park Stadium, where the club moved in 1997.
Notable for being one of the 12 founder members of the Football League in 1888, it is one of only 10 clubs to have competed in every season of the English football league system 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 English football. The club's competitive peak came in the 1970s when they were twice 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. Additionally, the club was a strong force in the interwar years and 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.
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