1994–95 Nottingham Forest F.C. season

Season summary

After achieving promotion back to the FA Premier League at the first attempt, Nottingham Forest continued to succeed in life after Brian Clough as new manager Frank Clark guided them to an impressive 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 seemingly mounted an unexpected serious title challenge in the first quarter of the season, finding themselves in 2nd. Unfortunately, they couldn't quite keep up the title push and hit a bad run of form throughout most of 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, nonetheless a magnificent achievement.

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

Main article: 1994–95 FA Premier League

League Table

Results summary

Position by round

| color_2-5 = blue2| text_2-5 = Qualified to the 1995-96 UEFA Cup | color_19-22 = red1| text_19-22 =Relegated to 1995–96 First Division

Matches

Cooper Black Pearce Roy Roy Bohinen Black Collymore Ferdinand Lomas Dibble Collymore Collymore
Woan Stone Roy Keown Collymore Haaland Pearce Pearce Bishop Hughes

Wilcox
Chettle Saunders R. Lee J. Lee Sheringham Pearce Lowe J. Lee
Collymore
Woan Collymore Collymore Woan
Roy
Bohinen
Collymore Collymore Collymore Phillips

FA Cup

Main article: 1994–95 FA Cup

Round Three

Gemmill

Round Fourth

Saunders

Football League Cup

Main article: 1994–95 Football League Cup

Round Two

(1-2 on agg)

Round Three

Birch Roy

Round Fourth

Squad

Left club during season

Reserve squad

Transfers

In

Out

: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

References

1. "FootballSquads - Nottingham Forest - 1994/95".
2. "All Nottingham Forest players: 1995".