This is the list of all our 'On The Day' records that appear on the home page.
| Date |
Title |
Details |
| January 1 | Des Walker scored his only goal for us | Des Walker scored his only goal for us on New Year's Day, 1992, at the end of the home game against Luton Town. We were a goal down after just 43 seconds and it reamined that way until the 90th minute when Des got the ball in the Luton half and went to the edge of the area before unleashing a shot that most keepers would have a problem stopping. The goalkeeper who let it in that day? None other than Steve Sutton who was on loan to Luton from us! |
| January 6 | Brian Clough becomes manager | On January 6th 1975 Brian Clough became our manager. Within 5 years we were champions of England, Europe, held two League Cups and a new record of 42 unbeaten games. The greatest manager ever. |
| January 17 | Our record Victory: 14-0 | Jan 17th was the date of our record victory in 1891. We beat Clapton 14-0 (away!) in the first round of the FA Cup, including five goals from Alex Higgins and four from Tinsley Lindley |
| January 19 | Two games abandoned on Jan 19th | We've had two games abandoned on January 19th. The first was a league game away at Bury in 1901. With the score at 1-1, heavy rain caused the game to be stopped just before half time. We won the rescheduled game 1-0. Then in 1918 during a Wartime fixture away at Bradford Park Avenue we were losing 2-0 when fog caused the game to be halted. We didn't get much luck out of it...we lost the replayed game 3-0. |
| February 5 | We won the European Super Cup | On this day in 1980 we won the European Super Cup. It was the second leg of a two-leg final against none other than Barcelona. After a 1-0 win the first leg at the City Ground (where Charlie George scored his only Forest goal) we held on for 1-1 draw at the Nou Camp to become Super Cup winners of Europe. |
| February 18 | We played a team from every UK country in the FA Cup | On this day in 1922 we lost an FA Cup tie 4-1 away at Cardiff City. The defeat wasn't significant, but a game against a Welsh club meant that we had now played an FA Cup game against teams from England, Scotland (Queens Park), Northern Ireland (Linfield) and now Wales, and are still the only club that have managed that feat. |
| February 22 | John McGovern debut | Former captain John McGovern made the first of his 335 games for Forest in a 0-0 draw at home to Cardiff City |
| February 24 | Trevor Francis debut | Shortly after becoming the first 1 Million pound footballer, Trevor Francis made his debut at home to Bristol City in a 2-0 win. Although playing only 93 games in four seasons for Forest, he won over half of them and scored the only goal in our first European Cup win in 1980. |
| March 3 | Gary Crosby heads out of Dibble's hands | During a game against Manchester City, Gary Crosby scored one of the most controversial goals when he headed the ball out of City keeper Andy Dibble's hands and tapped it in the net. The goal was disputed, but given, and we won the game 1-0. |
| March 5 | Our first Red Card! | Back on March 5, 1910, we had our first sending off! During a home game against Chelsea, both George Needham and Windridge (for Chelsea) got their marching orders. This is the first red card for a Forest player that I know of. |
| March 9 | Our only voided game | On this day in 1974 we had only voided game. After a FA Cup quarter-final pitch invasion at St James Park, we lost 4-3 to Newcastle United despite being 3-1 up at the time of the invasion. The FA decided that the game was not won fairly and ordered the tie to be replayed. We drew the replay 0-0 (and then lost 2-1 in the next replay) but at least judgement was done even though Liam O'Kane's scored his only goal for us in the first game! |
| March 17 | Second League Cup win | We retained the League Cup on this day in 1979 with a 3-2 win over Southampton at Wembley |
| March 21 | Brian Clough born | On this day in 1935, Brian Howard Clough was born in Middlesborough, the sixth of nine children. After managerial spells at Hartlepool, Derby, Brighton and Leeds he joined Forest in 1975 and took us to the greatest heights. |
| March 22 | First League Cup win | We won our first League Cup on this date in 1978. After a 0-0 draw at Wembley the previous Saturday, we beat Liverpool 1-0 in the replay held at Old Trafford with a John Robertson goal |
| March 29 | Full Members Cup win | We won the last ever season of the Full Member's trophy on this day in 1992 with a 3-2 win over Southampton at the old Wembley Stadium |
| April 9 | Third League Cup win | We won our third League Cup on this day in 1989, beating Luton Town 3-1 at the old Wembley |
| April 10 | Our worst loss: 9-1 | April 10th was the date of our worst loss in 1937. We were hammered 9-1 by Blackburn Rovers in a Division 2 league game. Our only goal was an own goal by Blackburn. |
| April 16 | First FA Cup win | On this day in 1898 we won our first FA Cup with a 3-1 win over Derby County at the Crystal Palace ground |
| April 17 | Forest win the Football League Centenary Tournament | Two tournaments were held in 1988 to celebrate 100 years of the Football League. Forest won this one with a penalty shootout over Sheffield Wednesday in the final |
| April 22 | Crowned champions | We won our only Division 1 title on this day, following a point away at Coventry City. |
| April 28 | Relegated for the first time | After 14 seasons in the top flight, we were relegated on this day in 1906 for the first time in our history. We were safe before the start of play with a 1 point lead over Bury and Middlesbrough, but our 4-1 loss at Everton combined with a win for Bury and a draw for 'Boro draw meant we were relegated on Goal Average. We won the Second Division as champions the following season, though. |
| April 29 | Fourth League Cup | We retained the League Cup on this day in 1990, beating Oldham Athletic 1-0 at Wembley |
| April 30 | Full Members Cup win | We won the first of our Full Member's cup on this day on 1989, beating Everton in a 4-3 thriller at Wembley |
| May 1 | Cloughie's last home game | Emotional scenes at the City Ground on this day in 1993 as Brian Clough managed his last home game. He had announced his retirement a few weeks earlier but, as fate would transpire, we were also in the relegation zone prior to this game and the 0-2 loss meant we were relegated. Not that it mattered to the Forest fans, although the tributes were lead a few minutes before full time from the away end. The Sheffield United fans started singing Brian's name and he gave them a thumbs up to begin an emotional end to the greatest period we've ever had. |
| May 2 | Third Division Champions! | On this day in 1951 we were confirmed Division Three (South) champions, with a 2-1 home win against Newport County. We had two games to spare and eventually won the league by 6 points over Norwich in second place |
| May 2 | Second FA Cup win | On this day we won our second (and so far final) FA Cup with a 2-1 victory over Luton Town at the old Wembley Stadium. |
| May 7 | Relegated to the third tier for the first time | In the last game of the season, we were relegated to the third tier on this day in 1945. We needed both a win for us and Leicester loss to escape the drop. While we got a 1-0 victory overy Bury, Leicester got a 1-1 draw away at Cardiff to put us in the third tier for the first time in our history. |
| May 13 | First of two games against Luton in 3 days | On this day (May 13th) in 1988 we played Luton Town on a Friday evening. Nothing strange about that, except the rest of the league had already completed all of their games and we still had to play Luton twice. A fixture backlog had meant that both our previous games against the Hatters had been postponed and this was the first available date for us to meet. We drew 1-1 in Friday's game and had the same scoreline for the return fixture which was in 2 days time on Sunday afternoon. Between the games was the FA Cup Final, making this a rare occasion when league games were finished after the Cup. We also lost in the Semi-Final of the cup to Liverpool, meaning that a victory then would probably have left us playing both games after the Final! |
| May 19 | Stuart Pearce's first England cap | Stuart Pearce made his England debut on May 19th 1987 in a 1-1 draw with Brazil at Wembley. He would go on to win 76 caps while at Forest (and 2 more after his move to West Ham) to make him our top capped England international. |
| May 28 | Second European Cup win | On this day in 1980 we retained the European Cup with another 1-0 victory, this time over Hamburg. John Robertson scored with a superb solo goal. |
| May 30 | First European Cup win | On Wednesday May 30, 1979 we won our first European Cup, beating Malmo 1-0 in the final at the Olympic Stadium with a Trevor Francis header just before half time. |
| August 12 | Charity Shield winners | As League Champions, we played FA Cup holders Ipswich Town on this day in 1978 and won our only Charity Shield so far, with a 5-0 victory. |
| August 14 | Our first substitution! | We made out first substitution on this day (August 14th) in 1968. Goalkeeper Peter Grummitt broke his thumb in the 82nd minute; Dave Hilley came on to replace him as an outfield player, and Joe Baker went in goal for the last 10 minutes. And that was our first ever subsititution! We drew 1-1, by the way. |
| August 15 | Our first Charity Shield appearance | We kicked off the 1959 season with our first appearance in the Charity Shield. As FA Cup holders we played Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux, losing 3-1 |
| August 16 | Our first Premier League game | On this day in 1992 we played our first Premier League game. It was the first season of the new league, and we were selected as the first televised Sunday game against Liverpool. Not given much chance by the studio pundits, we won 1-0 thanks to a Teddy Sheringham 39th minute goal. It was his last goal as he was sold to Spurs a few weeks later. |
| August 16 | Frank Clark debut | Former player, manager and chairman Frank Clark made his first team debut in the 2-0 home win against Portsmouth |
| August 17 | Stuart Pearce's debut | On this day in 1975 Stuart Pearce made the first of his 522 appearances for us. Having signed from Coventry City a few weeks before he made his debut in the 1-1 draw at home at Luton |
| August 20 | Kenny Burns debut | Kenny Burns made his first team debut on this day in 1977. He was our Player Of The Year that season (and again in 1980-81). |
| September 3 | First League Game | We played our first ever league game on September 3rd 1892. It was a 2-2 draw away at Everton with Horace Pike scoring our first ever League goal in the first half. |
| September 17 | Peter Shilton makes his debut | Peter Shilton made his debut on this day in 1977, in a 2-0 home win aginst Aston Villa. He was to win the PFA Players' Player of the Year award that season, as voted for by his fellow professionals |
| September 21 | Viv Anderson makes his debut | Viv Anderson made his competitive debut on this day in 1974. Having played some friendlies the previous season he was given the number 2 shirt from Liam O'Kane in the 9th league game of the season and went on to make over 300 appearances for us as well as play for England. |
| October 2 | Larry Lloyd debut | Larry Lloyd makes his debut in a 1-0 loss away to Hull City |
| October 6 | Our first League Cup game | We made our first appearance in the League Cup on this day in 1960 with a 2-0 win over Halifax Town. After competing for two seasons we took a break for the next four years, before re-joining the competition in 1966. |
| October 20 | Ian Bowyer debut | Ian Bowyer made the first of 566 appearances for Forest, making him the player with second most appearances (after Bob McKinlay) . He had two spells with us including our two European Cup victories. |
| October 24 | John Robertson debut | John Robertson made the first of his 514 appearances for Forest. Often rated as our finest player he was a left winger who had two great feet. He was often the brunt of Clough's quotes, including one in Clough's autobiography: "Rarely could there have been a more unlikely looking professional athlete... [He was a] scruffy, unfit, uninterested waste of time, but something told me he was worth persevering with." |
| October 27 | Bob McKinlay makes his debut | Bob McKinlay played his first game for us on this day in 1951. A 3-3 draw away at Coventry City was the scene of his first appearance, and Bob would go on to become our most regular player with 688 appearances for the Reds. |
| October 28 | 49,946 fans cram into The City Ground | On October 28, 1967 nearly 50,000 fans squeezed into The City Ground for our record attendance. A home game against Manchester United was always a high turnout (as it was ten years previous when 47,800 fans made it to Trentside for their visit). This time we topped that by an extra two thousand as 49,946 people saw us beat them 3-1 with a brace from Joe Baker and one from Frank Wignall |
| October 31 | Our lowest home attendance | Just 2,031 fans turned out for the League Cup game against Brentford on this Tuesday night in 2006 making it our lowest home attendance since proper records after the First World War. |
| November 10 | Brian Clough scores a hat trick against us | Brian Clough made his first visit to the City Ground on November 10th, 1956 as a player for Middlesbrough, and made an immediate impact, scoring a hat-trick for Boro in a 4-0 defeat for Forest. He would make one more appearance as an opponent in the return fixture at Ayresome Park on March 23, 1957 when he scored again in a 2-2 draw. |
| November 13 | Martin O'Neill debut | Former player and manager Martin O'Neill made his debut in a loss away at Newcastle United. Forest won only 2 of the 10 games he appeared in that season but he went on to make 358 appearances for us and won two European Cups, before also managing us for 6 months in 2019 |
| November 15 | Bob McKinlay's last game | After 18 years and a 688 appearances in a Forest shirt, Bob McKinlay laced his boots for the last time on this day in 1969. He is still our top appearance holder and after he retired he joined the coaching staff at The City Ground |
| November 16 | First Competitive Game | We played our first ever competitive game on November 16, 1878- a first round FA Cup tie against Notts County where we won 3-1 in front of 500 fans. |
| November 28 | Villa 5-5 Forest | We played in our only 5-5 draw on this day in 2018. Away at Aston Villa in the league, we were 2-0 up after 6 minutes and then level eight minutes later. It was 3-3 at half-time and, with just eight minutes left, we were losing 4-5 but levelled it up and held on for our only 5-5 draw scoreline (so far) |
| November 29 | Viv Anderson's first England cap | On this day in 1978 Viv Anderson became the first black football player to appear for England in a 1-0 win against Czechoslovakia at Wembley. He would go on to win 30 caps in total, scoring twice. |
| December 10 | Grenville Morris scores his first goal | On this day (December 10) in 1898, Grenville Morris , in only his second game for Forest scored his first goal in a 2-0 away win at Bolton Wanderers. Over the next 15 seasons he would notch 218 goals to become our all-time top scorer. |
| December 15 | We won the Anglo-Scottish cup | On Dec 15 1976 we won out first hardware under Brian Clough. The Anglo-Scottish Cup came to the City Ground after we beat Leyton Orient in a replayed final. The first game ended 1-1, so a replay was necessary. Goals from Sammy Chapman, Ian Bowyer and a brace from Colin Barrett were enough to give us the first of many Clough trophies. |
