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1998–99 Nottingham Forest F.C. season

English football club season

Field	Value
club	Nottingham Forest F.C.
season	1998–99
chairman	Nigel Wray (until 13 April)
Eric Barnes (from 13 April)
manager	Dave Bassett (until 5 January)
Micky Adams (caretaker 5–11 January)
Ron Atkinson (from 11 January)
stadium	City Ground
league	FA Premier League
league result	20th (relegated)
cup2	FA Cup
cup2 result	Third round
cup3	League Cup
cup3 result	Fourth round
league topscorer	Dougie Freedman (9)
season topscorer	Dougie Freedman (12)
highest attendance	30,025 (vs. Manchester United, 6 February)
lowest attendance	6,382 (vs. Leyton Orient, 22 September)
average attendance	24,415
prevseason	1997–98
nextseason	1999–2000

Eric Barnes (from 13 April) Micky Adams (caretaker 5–11 January) Ron Atkinson (from 11 January) During the 1998–99 English football season, Nottingham Forest F.C. competed in the FA Premier League.

Season summary

Nottingham Forest's campaign back in the FA Premier League got off to a fairly good start in the first three games in the season, losing narrowly 2-1 at Arsenal and winning the other two against Coventry City and at Southampton; however, it would be 19 games until their next victory and they went on a very poor run of only one win in 25 league games - in addition to two wins in 32 games - and winning their final three games did not matter as they were already relegated. Pierre Van Hooijdonk, top scorer in Forest's promotion-winning 1997-98 campaign, went AWOL before the start of the season following the sale of strike partner Kevin Campbell and it appeared that he would never play for the club again. He returned in October, but Forest were already deep in relegation trouble and it was too late to save manager Dave Bassett's job. Ron Atkinson made what appeared to be his final return to management, but was unable to save Forest from relegation in bottom place - the third time in seven years that they had endured this fate. With just 7 wins and 30 points all season, they had never really looked like beating the drop, due to embarrassing results like the 1-8 defeat at home to Manchester United. A win at Goodison Park was the highlight of Atkinson's ill-fated tenure, along with a three-match winning run at the end of the season, albeit after they had already been relegated, that at least saw them avoid going down with the lowest points total since the formation of the Premier League. This marked the first instance since the 1927-28 season that the winner of England's second tier finished bottom in their subsequent season in the top-flight.

When Atkinson's contract was not renewed, Brian Little, Glenn Hoddle and Roy Evans were just some of the many high profile names linked with the manager's job, but in the end it was 33-year-old former England captain David Platt who took on the role as player-manager.

Final league table

Main article: 1998–99 FA Premier League

;Results summary

;Results by round

Results

Nottingham Forest's score comes first

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

FA Premier League

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
17 August 1998	Arsenal	A	1–2	38,064	Thomas
22 August 1998	Coventry City	H	1–0	22,546	Stone
29 August 1998	Southampton	A	2–1	14,942	Darcheville, Stone
8 September 1998	Everton	H	0–2	25,610
12 September 1998	Chelsea	A	1–2	34,809	Darcheville
19 September 1998	West Ham United	H	0–0	26,463
26 September 1998	Newcastle United	A	0–2	36,760
3 October 1998	Charlton Athletic	H	0–1	22,661
17 October 1998	Leeds United	H	1–1	23,911	Stone
24 October 1998	Liverpool	A	1–5	44,595	Freedman
1 November 1998	Middlesbrough	A	1–1	34,223	Harewood
7 November 1998	Wimbledon	H	0–1	21,362
16 November 1998	Derby County	H	2–2	24,014	Freedman, van Hooijdonk
21 November 1998	Tottenham Hotspur	A	0–2	35,832
28 November 1998	Aston Villa	H	2–2	25,753	Bart-Williams, Freedman
7 December 1998	Sheffield Wednesday	A	2–3	19,321	Bonalair, van Hooijdonk
12 December 1998	Leicester City	A	1–3	20,891	van Hooijdonk
19 December 1998	Blackburn Rovers	H	2–2	22,013	Chettle (pen), Freedman
26 December 1998	Manchester United	A	0–3	55,216
28 December 1998	Southampton	H	1–1	23,456	Chettle (pen)
9 January 1999	Coventry City	A	0–4	17,172
16 January 1999	Arsenal	H	0–1	26,021
30 January 1999	Everton	A	1–0	34,175	van Hooijdonk
6 February 1999	Manchester United	H	1–8	30,025	Rogers
13 February 1999	West Ham United	A	1–2	25,458	Hjelde
20 February 1999	Chelsea	H	1–3	26,351	van Hooijdonk
27 February 1999	Charlton Athletic	A	0–0	20,007
10 March 1999	Newcastle United	H	1–2	22,852	Freedman
13 March 1999	Wimbledon	A	3–1	12,149	Rogers, Freedman, Shipperley
20 March 1999	Middlesbrough	H	1–2	21,468	Freedman
3 April 1999	Leeds United	A	1–3	39,645	Rogers
5 April 1999	Liverpool	H	2–2	28,374	Freedman, van Hooijdonk
10 April 1999	Derby County	A	0–1	32,217
17 April 1999	Tottenham Hotspur	H	0–1	25,181
24 April 1999	Aston Villa	A	0–2	34,492
1 May 1999	Sheffield Wednesday	H	2–0	20,480	Porfírio, Rogers
8 May 1999	Blackburn Rovers	A	2–1	24,565	Freedman, Bart-Williams
16 May 1999	Leicester City	H	1–0	25,353	Bart-Williams

FA Cup

Main article: 1998–99 FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
	R3	2 January 1999	Portsmouth	H	0–1	10,092

League Cup

Main article: 1998–99 Football League Cup

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R2 1st Leg	15 September 1998	Leyton Orient	A	5–1	4,906	Johnson, Freedman (2), Stone, Harewood
R2 2nd Leg	22 September 1998	Leyton Orient	H	0–0 (won 5-1 on agg)	6,382
R3	27 October 1998	Cambridge United	H	3–3 (won 4-3 on pens)	9,192	Freedman, Armstrong, Harewood
R4	11 November 1998	Manchester United	A	1–2	37,237	Stone

First-team squad

:Squad at end of season

Left club during season

Reserve squad

Statistics

Appearances, goals and cards

:(Starting appearances + substitute appearances)

No.	Pos.	Name	League	FA Cup	League Cup	Discipline	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps
1	GK	ENG Dave Beasant	26	0	1	3	0	30	0	1	0
2	DF	FRA Matthieu Louis-Jean	15+1	0	1	2+1	0	18+2	0	4	1
3	DF	ENG Alan Rogers	34	4	0	4	0	38	4	9	0
4	MF	ENG Nigel Quashie	12+4	0	0+1	2	0	14+5	0	4	0
5	DF	ENG Steve Chettle	32+2	2	1	3	0	36+2	2	8	1
6	DF	NOR Jon-Olav Hjelde	16+1	1	1	2	0	19+1	1	4	0
7	MF	ENG Steve Stone	26	3	1	3	2	30	5	5	0
8	MF	SCO Scot Gemmill	18+2	0	1	2	0	21+2	2	3	0
9	FW	ENG Neil Shipperley	12+8	1	1	0	0	13+8	1	1	0
10	MF	WAL Andy Johnson	25+3	0	1	2	1	28+3	1	7	0
11	MF	ENG Chris Bart-Williams	20+4	3	1	2	0	23+4	3	3	0
12	DF	SCO Chris Doig	1+1	0	0	0	0	1+1	3	0	0
13	GK	WAL Mark Crossley	12	0	2	1+1	0	13+1	0	0	0
14	FW	SCO Dougie Freedman	20+11	9	1	4	3	25+11	12	2	0
15	DF	ENG Craig Armstrong	20+2	0	0	4	1	24+2	1	3	0
15	DF	SCO Richard Gough	7	0	0	0	0	7	0	3	1
16	MF	ENG Geoff Thomas	5	1	0	0	0	5	1	1	0
17	MF	FRA Thierry Bonalair	24+4	1	0	0	0	27+4	1	5	1
18	MF	ENG Ian Woan	0+2	0	0	0	0	0+2	0	1	0
19	FW	FRA Jean-Claude Darcheville	14+2	2	0	1+2	0	15+4	2	4	0
20	MF	WAL Glyn Hodges	3+2	0	0	0	0	3+2	1	1	0
20	MF	ENG Carlton Palmer	13	0	0	0	0	13	0	3	1
22	DF	ENG Des Lyttle	5+5	0	1	1+1	0	7+6	0	1	0
23	DF	ENG Andy Dawson	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
23	FW	FRA Bernard Allou	0+2	0	0	0	0	0+2	0	0	0
24	DF	WAL Christian Edwards	7+5	0	0	0	0	7+5	0	1	0
25	DF	SWE Jesper Mattsson	5+1	0	0	0	0	5+1	0	1	0
26	DF	ENG Steve Melton	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
27	FW	SCO Andy Gray	3+5	0	0+1	2+1	0	5+7	0	0	0
29	FW	ENG Marlon Harewood	11+12	1	0+1	2+2	2	13+15	3	6	0
30	MF	USA John Harkes	3	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0
31	MF	POR Hugo Porfirio	3+6	1	0	0	0	3+6	1	4	0
32	DF	NOR Ståle Stensaas	6+1	0	0	0	0	6+1	0	1	0
40	FW	NED Pierre Van Hooijdonk	19+2	6	0	0+1	0	19+3	6	5	1

Starting 11

:Considering starts in all competitions

GK: #1, ENG Dave Beasant, 30
RB: #17, FRA Thierry Bonalair, 27
CB: #15, ENG Craig Armstrong, 24
CB: #5, ENG Steve Chettle, 36
LB: #3, ENG Alan Rogers, 38
RM: #7, ENG Steve Stone, 30
CM: #11, ENG Chris Bart-Williams, 23
CM: #10, WAL Andy Johnson, 28
LM: #8, SCO Scot Gemmill, 21
CF: #14, SCO Dougie Freedman, 25
CF: #40, NED Pierre van Hooijdonk, 19

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee
1 August 1998	FW	SCO Dougie Freedman	ENG Wolverhampton Wanderers	£950,000
21 August 1998	MF	SCO Nigel Quashie	ENG Queens Park Rangers	£2,500,000
29 August 1998	FW	SCO Andy Gray	ENG Leeds United	£200,000
21 September 1998	FW	ENG Neil Shipperley	ENG Crystal Palace	£1,500,000
10 December 1998	DF	SWE Jesper Mattsson	SWE Halmstad	£300,000
19 January 1999	MF	ENG Carlton Palmer	ENG Southampton	£1,100,000

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee
6 June 1998	MF	ENG John Finnigan	ENG Lincoln City	Free transfer
29 July 1998	FW	ENG Kevin Campbell	TUR Trabzonspor	£2,500,000
1 August 1998	FW	ENG Ian Thomas-Moore	ENG Stockport County	£800,000
18 August 1998	DF	ENG Colin Cooper	ENG Middlesbrough	£2,500,000
16 October 1998	DF	ENG Stuart Thom	ENG Oldham Athletic	£45,000
20 February 1999	DF	ENG Craig Armstrong	ENG Huddersfield Town	£750,000
5 March 1999	MF	ENG Chris Allen	ENG Port Vale	Free transfer
11 March 1999	MF	ENG Steve Stone	ENG Aston Villa	£5,500,000
19 March 1999	DF	ENG Andy Dawson	ENG Scunthorpe United	£50,000
25 March 1999	MF	SCO Scot Gemmill	ENG Everton	Nominal

:Transfers in: £6,550,000 :Transfers out: £12,145,000 :Total spending: £5,595,000

Staff

Position	Staff
Chairman	ENG Nigel Wray (until 13 April)
ENG Eric Barnes (from 13 April)
Chief executive	ENG Philip Soar
Director	ENG Irving Scholar
First-team managers	ENG Dave Bassett (until 5 January)
ENG Ron Atkinson (from 11 January)
Assistant managers	ENG Micky Adams (until 11 January)
ENG Peter Shreeves (from 11 January)
First-team Coach	NIR Liam O'Kane
Goalkeeping coach	ENG Mike Kelly
Reserve Team Coach	ENG Ian McParland
Head Academy Coach	ENG Nick Marshall
Physiotherapists	ENG John Haselden
ENG Gary Fleming

References

"Nottingham Forest 1998-1999 Results - statto.com".
"FootballSquads - Nottingham Forest - 1998/99".
Quashie was born in [[London Borough of Southwark. Southwark]], [[England]], but also qualified to represent [[Scotland]] internationally through his grandfather and would make his international debut for [[Scotland national football team. Scotland]] in 2004.
Johnson was born in [[Bristol]], [[England]], but also qualified to represent [[Wales]] internationally and made his international debut for [[Wales national football team. Wales]] in 1998.
"All Nottingham Forest players: 1999".

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