The team was in last place - with six defeats and a draw from its first seven games - when Steve Cooper took charge in September and the former Swansea manager has transformed Forest's fortunes.Īsked to assess Cooper’s contribution to promotion, Forest captain Joe Worrall said: “I keep using the expression ‘like a whipped dog.' If you treat any dog with kindness, then they become a nice dog. Huddersfield, which had two strong penalty appeals waved away in the second half, finished the regular season in third place - one spot ahead of Forest - as it sought a first return to the Premier League since relegation in 2019.įorest joins champion Fulham and second-place Bournemouth in getting promoted from the Championship.įorest is a big name in English soccer, having won back-to-back European Cups, in 1979 and '80, under Brian Clough.īut it fell on hard times, even becoming the first ever European Cup-winning club to fall into the third division of a domestic league system.įorest did it the hard way this season, too. The most lucrative match in soccer - it's worth £170 million pounds ($273 million) in future broadcast money and guaranteed earnings - was settled by an own-goal by Huddersfield defender Levi Colwill just before halftime.įorest had a late scare when goalkeeper Brice Samba was injured and replaced in the 89th minute by American Ethan Horvath, who made his first appearance since March 20 in the FA Cup quarterfinals. They finished ninth in the following campaign, but have found themselves rooted to the foot of the table on every other occasion.Ĭhettle is their all-time leading appearance maker in the Premier League, having taken in 174 games, while former Netherlands international forward Bryan Roy is their top scorer with 24 efforts to his name.LONDON - Two-time European Cup winner Nottingham Forest is back in the top flight of English soccer for the first time since 1999.įorest beat Huddersfield 1-0 in the Championship playoff final at Wembley Stadium on Sunday to secure its return to the English Premier League next season. In total, the Reds have spent five seasons in the Premier League, with a best finish of third secured in 1994-95 as a side captained by Stuart Pearce and inspired by the goal-scoring exploits of Stan Collymore made a stunning return to the top flight on the back of their first promotion. What is Nottingham Forest’s overall Premier League record? Steve Cooper has, after overseeing a remarkable reversal in fortune during the 2021-22 campaign, acquired another ticket for the play-off lottery this season, with Sheffield United edged out on penalties at the semi-final stage to book a shot at securing the riches on offer to final victors in a Wembley showpiece. Play-off semi-final heartache was endured at Championship level in 2002-03, 2009-11, with Forest – who spent three seasons in League One between 20 – unable to drag themselves over the promotion line. The most recent of those came in 1998-99, when the Reds finished rock-bottom for a third time in the space of seven years, and they have now spent 23 years outside of the Premier League pack. They tumbled out of the top tier that season, before bouncing straight back up, and have gone on to experience two more relegations since then.
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With Clough still at the helm in 1992-93, Forest were founder members of the Premier League and famously recorded the first goal scored in Sky Sports’ coverage of the rebranded top flight as Teddy Sheringham netted a solitary strike in a 1-0 opening weekend win over Liverpool. When were Nottingham Forest last in the Premier League?