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The fixture between Leicester City and Derby County is a football rivalry in the East Midlands. The fixture is often called an East Midlands derby. Although both clubs have a strong mutual dislike of each other, they both consider Nottingham Forest their main rivals.

Overall record

• Derby County: 46 wins
• 28 draws
• Leicester City 34 wins

Historically, Derby has a better record against Leicester beating them 46 times in 108 meetings. Leicester has won 34 meetings with 28 ending in draws. However, in recent years Leicester have dominated the fixture, having won 8 of the last 9 meetings. In fact, a Derby player didn't score against Leicester from 2007 until Theo Robinson scored against them in the Championship game on 1 December 2012.

Crossing the divide

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During both Derby and Leicester's history several players have played for both clubs and a manager has managed both.

Players

Derby then Leicester

• Johnny McMillan
• Jack Bowers
• Tommy Eggleston
• David McCulloch
• Johnny Morris
• Willie Carlin
• Gerry Daly
• Dave Langan
• Gary Mills, also played for Nottingham Forest and Notts County
• Bobby Davison
• Ian Ormondroyd
• Phil Gee
• Gary Rowett
• Dean Sturridge
• Jacob Laursen
• Lee Morris
• Steve Howard
• Matt Oakley
• Chris Powell
• Marc Edworthy
• James Vaughan

Leicester then Derby

• Mick O'Brien
• John Summers
• David Nish
• David Webb
• Trevor Christie, also played for Nottingham Forest and Notts County.
• Mark Wallington
• Mark Grew
• Peter Shilton, also played for Nottingham Forest.
• Ian Wilson
• Paul Kitson
• Gary Charles also played for Nottingham Forest.
• Russell Hoult
• Ashley Ward
• Spencer Prior
• Chris Makin
• Kevin Poole
• Ryan Smith
• Robbie Savage – played for Birmingham City and Blackburn Rovers in between.
• Paul Dickov – loaned to Derby County from Leicester in 2009.
• Jordan Stewart
• Lee Hendrie
• DJ Campbell
• David Martin
• Zak Whitbread
• Michael Keane – loaned to Leicester City, and later Derby County, from Manchester United
• Jesse Lingard – loaned to Leicester City, and later Derby County, from Manchester United
• David Nugent
• Martyn Waghorn – played for Rangers, Wigan Athletic and Ipswich Town in between.
• Tom Lawrence
• Andy King – loaned to Derby County from Leicester in January 2019.
• Richard Stearman

Managers and staff

• Nigel Pearson – managed Leicester in 2 separate spells, left Derby by mutual consent on 8 October 2016
• Kevin Phillips – Player and coach at Leicester, later first team coach at Derby

Results since 2006

  Derby County win   Leicester City win   Draw

Notable results

Leicester City	2–1	Derby County
Walsh 41', 84'		Johnson 28'

Honours

Hooliganism

Games between the two teams, like the majority of local derbies in English football, have resulted in a number of football hooliganism incidents.

After a EFL Cup game between the two sides in 1985 which saw Leicester eliminated at the hands of Derby, there was a widespread "riot".

In October 2009, James Underwood, a Derby supporter aligned with the firm Derby Lunatic Fringe was involved in an incident with Leicester supporters. In May 2010, Underwood was then banned from attending football matches for three years for his role in that incident, among other separate clashes involving supporters of Everton, Nottingham Forest and Sheffield Wednesday.

Trivia

• The Highest scoring game between the two sides ended 5–2 to Derby County in the 1928/29 English football season. The year Leicester achieved what was until their Premier League title win in 2015–16 their highest ever league finish, 2nd in Division One (now the Premier League)
• Leicester have a 100% record on neutral ground beating Derby 2–1 in the 1993/94 Play-off finals for promotion to the Premier League.
• The last time Derby beat Leicester away from home was 3–0 in 2002. The year both clubs were relegated from the Premier League. Leicester won the reverse fixture 3–2.
• According to the Football fan census, Leicester and Derby are 'traditional' rivals.
• Leicester as well as Forest refer to Derby as 'the sheep', a reference to their nickname being the Rams.
• Of the two clubs, Leicester have a better record against Nottingham Forest.

See also

• Leicester City F.C.–Nottingham Forest F.C. rivalry
• M69 derby

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