| LC control no. | nb2006006964 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Derby County Football Club |
| Variant(s) | Derby County F.C. (Soccer team) DCFC (Derby County Football Club) Rams (Soccer team) |
| Beginning date | 1884 |
| Associated country | Great Britain England |
| Associated place | Derbyshire (England) |
| Located | Derby (England) |
| Field of activity | Soccer |
| Found in | Journey through a season, 1997 BL auth. file, 20 Mar. 2006 (hdg.: Derby County Football Club) Derby County, 2007: t.p. (Derby County Football Club) p.9 (Rams) Its website, viewed 12 August 2021 (Derby County Football Club; DCFC; club address: Pride Park Stadium, Pride Park, Derby DE24 8XL) Nor Ram, June 1992: page 5 (Derby County F.C., The Baseball Ground, Shaftesbury Crescent, Derby DE3 8NB) Wikipedia, viewed 12 August 2021 (Derby County F.C.; Derby County Football Club; professional association football club based in Derby, Derbyshire, England, and has played its home matches at Pride Park Stadium since 1997; founded in 1884 as an offshoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club, the proposed name "Derbyshire County F.C." was rejected in order to avoid confusion with Derbyshire County Football Association; the team gets its nickname, The Rams, to show tribute to its links with the First Regiment of Derby Militia, which took a ram as its mascot; the club's first home stadium was the County Cricket Ground, also known as the Racecourse Ground; the club moved to the Baseball Ground in 1895 where it played its last first team game in May 1997 before moving to a new, purpose-built stadium at the newly regenerated Pride Park; due to sponsorship, the venue was officially known as the iPro Stadium between 2013 and 2016) |
| Associated language | eng |
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