1995–96 Nottingham Forest F.C. season


During the 1995–96 English football season, Nottingham Forest competed in the FA Premier League.

Season summary

were expected to struggle following the sale of star striker Stan Collymore to Liverpool, but they performed reasonably well throughout the season and there was never any question of them being relegated. They were unbeaten from their first 12 league games, although they drew too many games to be considered serious title challengers, before they ran into a 7–0 defeat at Blackburn Rovers, who had just signed Forest midfielder Lars Bohinen.
The biggest success of the season was Forest's UEFA Cup exploits. In arguably the worst season for English clubs in European competitions in the era of three European trophies, they were the only English side with European action to look forward to after Christmas, and in March their adventure resumed with the first leg of the quarter-final - against Bayern Munich at the Olympiastadion. Forest lost 2–1, and any remaining hopes of a semi-final place were crushed in the second leg when the Bavarians thrashed Frank Clark's men 5–1 at the City Ground.
A ninth-place finish in the final table was not quite enough to secure another European campaign, and Clark's big summer signing, Dean Saunders, was captured in hope that he could be the man to score the goals which would bring more success to the club.

Final league table

;Results summary
;Results by round

Results

Nottingham Forest's score comes first

Legend

FA Premier League

FA Cup

RoundDateOpponentVenueResultAttendanceGoalscorers
R36 January 1996Stoke CityA1-118,000Pearce
R3R17 January 1996Stoke CityH2-017,372Campbell, Pearce
R47 February 1996Oxford UnitedH1-115,050Campbell
R4R13 February 1996Oxford UnitedA3-08,022Campbell, Woan, Silenzi
R528 February 1996Tottenham HotspurH2-218,600Woan
R5R9 March 1996Tottenham HotspurA1-1 31,055Roy
QF13 March 1996Aston VillaH0-121,067

League Cup

RoundDateOpponentVenueResultAttendanceGoalscorers
R2 1st Leg19 September 1995Bradford CityA2-39,288Bohinen
R2 2nd Leg4 October 1995Bradford CityH2-2 15,231Pearce, Silenzi

UEFA Cup

RoundDateOpponentVenueResultAttendanceGoalscorers
R1 1st Leg12 September 1995 Malmö FFA1-212,486Woan
R1 2nd Leg26 September 1995 Malmö FFH1-0 23,817Roy
R2 1st Leg17 October 1995 AuxerreA1-020,000Stone
R2 2nd Leg31 October 1995 AuxerreH0-0 28,064
R3 1st Leg21 November 1995 LyonH1-022,141McGregor
R3 2nd Leg5 December 1995 LyonA0-0 35,000
QF 1st Leg5 March 1996 Bayern MunichA1-238,000Chettle
QF 2nd Leg19 March 1996 Bayern MunichH1-5 28,844Stone

Squad

Left club during season

Reserve squad

Transfers

In

Out

Statistics

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