10 amazing facts since Derby were last in the Premier League

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Derby County last played in the Premier League in the 2007-08 season.

Derby County are currently in the hunt for a place in the Championship’s top six, with the hope of navigating themselves through the play-offs and back to the Premier League.

It has been a decade since the Rams last tasted Premier League football; that ill-fated campaign where they managed just one league win and a record low 11 points from 38 matches.

It is a record that Derby wish to erase from memory altogether, and that will only happen once the club manage to get back in to England’s top flight and consolidate their position for a good few years.

During the past decade it has not been for lack of trying that has seen Derby fall short, but perhaps a lack of planning, awareness and intelligence both on and off the pitch at crucial moments.

Here we look at ten amazing facts from the past decade during Derby’s bid to return to the top flight, including the amount of money the East Midlands side has spent on transfer fees alone.

– The two-time former Division 1 champions have spent more than £65,000,000 in fees on new players.

– Ex-Derby players have won 13 titles across Europe, while five have gone on to play regular Premier League football and two have played at a major international football tournament.

– The Rams have played 451 Championship league games to date, against 51 different opponents.

– 21 different clubs have won promotion to the Premier League during Derby’s stint in the Championship, including Burnley and Norwich City, who have earned three promotions in that time.

– Leicester City, Norwich City, Bournemouth and Southampton have all played at least one season in League One, the Championship and the Premier League.

– Bournemouth entered administration, were docked 10 points in League One, were relegated to League Two and have since climbed the football pyramid and currently find themselves in the top half of the Premier League.

– Leeds United and Nottingham Forest – Derby’s two biggest rivals – have incredibly gone through 25 different managers combined with seven different nationalities.

– Pep Guardiola became a manager, going on to have spells at Barcelona, Bayern Munich and City. To date, he has won 22 trophies and looks set to add at least the Premier League title to that tally this season.

– The planet Mercury has orbited the sun 40 times.

– Over 1,300,000,000 people have been born (roughly the population of India).