Nottingham Forest Football Club
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| Full name | Nottingham Forest Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Reds, Forest, Tricky Trees |
| Founded | 1865 |
| Ground | City Ground |
| Capacity | 30,445 |
| Owner |
Evangelos Marinakis (80%) Sokratis Kominakis (20%) |
| Chairman | Nicholas Randall QC |
| Manager | Mark Warburton |
| League | Championship |
| 2016–17 | Championship, 21st |
| Website | Club home page |
Nottingham Forest Football Club is a professional association football club based in Nottingham, England. The team play in the Championship, the second tier of English football, having been there since promotion from League One in 2008. The club, often referred to as Forest, have played home matches at the City Ground since 1898.
Founded in 1865, Forest were founder members of the Football Alliance in 1889 and joined the Football League in 1892. Since then, they have mostly competed in the top two League tiers, bar five seasons in the third tier. Forest won the FA Cup in 1898 and 1959. Their most successful period was under the management of Brian Clough between 1975 and 1993, winning the League in 1978 and back to back European Cups in the two years after, a feat which has never been equalled, plus four League Cups and two Full Members Cups.
Forest were founded in 1865 as Nottingham Forest Football and Bandy Club by a group of shinty players (Bandy is similar to shinty, but is played on ice. In fact bandy is called "camanachd-deighe" in Scots Gaelic, which literally means "ice shinty".) shortly after their neighbours Notts County, (the world's oldest surviving professional football club), in 1862. They joined the Football Alliance in 1889, and won the competition in 1892, before entering the Football League. In their early years Forest were a multi-sports club; as well as their roots in bandy and shinty, the baseball club Forest deployed were British champions in 1899.
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