Roy McFarland
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Roy Leslie McFarland | ||
| Date of birth | 5 April 1948 | ||
| Place of birth | Liverpool, England | ||
| Playing position | Central defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1966–1967 | Tranmere Rovers | 35 | (0) |
| 1967–1981 | Derby County | 434 | (44) |
| 1981–1982 | Bradford City | 40 | (1) |
| 1983–1984 | Derby County | 8 | (0) |
| Total | 517 | (45) | |
| National team | |||
| 1971–1976 | England | 28 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1981–1982 | Bradford City | ||
| 1984 | Derby County (caretaker) | ||
| 1993–1995 | Derby County | ||
| 1995–1996 | Bolton Wanderers (Co-manager) | ||
| 1996–2001 | Cambridge United | ||
| 2001–2002 | Torquay United | ||
| 2003–2007 | Chesterfield | ||
| 2009 | Burton Albion | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Roy Leslie McFarland (born 5 April 1948) is an English football manager and former player. With Derby County, he played 442 league games, helping him to earn 28 caps for England.
Born in Liverpool, Lancashire, McFarland was a player for Tranmere Rovers, Derby County and Bradford City. He represented England at full international level. Brian Clough and Peter Taylor signed him for Derby on 25 August 1967, when they were a Second Division side preparing for a challenge to win promotion to the First Division.
He was famous during the late 1960s and 1970s as a central defender in the Derby side which won promotion to the First Division in 1969 and followed this success with two league titles; the first under Clough in 1972 and the second under Dave Mackay in 1975, though injury meant he was only able to make four appearances during the latter campaign. He also won 28 caps for England.
He is noted for having the earliest known booking for time wasting when he humorously kicked the ball out of play after Derby had taken the lead against Liverpool in a game Derby were very unlikely to win.
McFarland had been deemed responsible for putting Włodzimierz Lubański, Poland's best striker at the time, out of football for two years after an apparent poor tackle damaged Lubański's cruciate ligament during a World Cup qualifying match in October 1973. Lubanski missed the 1974 FIFA World Cup where Poland captured third place, but recently Lubanski himself wrote in his memoirs published in Poland that his leg was injured without McFarland's involvement as a result of an earlier injury and resultant insufficient preparation for the big game.
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