The fixture between Leicester City

Leicester City F.C.

Leicester City Football Club , also known as The Foxes, is an English professional football club based at the King Power Stadium in Leicester...

and Derby County

Derby County F.C.

Derby County Football Club is an English football based in Derby. the club play in the Football League Championship and is notable as being one of the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888 and is, therefore, one of only ten clubs to have competed in every season of the English...

is a football rivalry in the East Midlands. The fixture is sometimes called an East Midlands Derby but the term is usually reserved for Derby's games against Nottingham Forest

Nottingham Forest F.C.

Nottingham Forest Football Club is an English Association Football club based in West Bridgford, Nottingham, that plays in the Football League Championship...

. Although both clubs have a strong mutual disliking of each other, they both consider Forest their main rivals.

In both camps

During both Derby and Leicester's history. Several players have played for both clubs.

Derby then Leicester

• Jack Bowers
  Jack Bowers
  John William Anslow "Jack" Bowers was an English footballer, who was twice the top scorer in the Football League and made three appearances for England.-Early days:...
  
  
• Johnny Morris
  Johnny Morris (footballer)
  John "Johnny" Morris was an English former footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Manchester United, Derby County and Leicester City....
  
  
• Gerry Daly
  Gerry Daly
  Gerard Anthony Daly was an Irish football player.Daly started his football career in Drumcondra with the famous schoolboy nursery Stella Maris...
  
  
• Bobby Davison
  Bobby Davison
  Robert "Bobby" Davison is an English former professional footballer and current youth team coach at Leeds United and assistant manager to Noel Blake's England national under-19 football team.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Ian Ormondroyd
  Ian Ormondroyd
  Ian Ormondroyd is a retired English footballer. Ormondroyd became famous for his height and build in a similar manner to Peter Crouch, giving him a cult status among fans of the clubs he played for....
  
  
• Phil Gee
  Phil Gee
  Phil Gee is a retired English football forward.Phil Gee also plays in Derby County's masters football team for the yearly Sky Sports Masters competition, held at the Capital FM Arena ....
  
  
• Gary Rowett
  Gary Rowett
  Gary Rowett is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender. In May 2009 he was appointed assistant manager to Paul Peschisolido at Burton Albion.-Career:...
  
  
• Dean Sturridge
  Dean Sturridge
  Dean Constantine Sturridge is an English former footballer who played as a striker.-Derby County:Sturridge began his career as a trainee at Derby County, and worked his way through the ranks to make his first team debut on 11 January 1992 in a 1-0 defeat at Southend United.He gained more first...
  
  
• Jacob Laursen
  Jacob Laursen
  Jacob Thaysen-Laursen is a Danish retired professional football player, who played as a defender. He most notably played for English club Derby County and won the Danish Superliga championship with Silkeborg IF and F.C. Copenhagen...
  
  
• Lee Morris
  Lee Morris (footballer)
  Lee Morris is a professional footballer, was player-coach at Eastwood Town, but on 19 October 2011 Solihull Moors F.C. announced they had signed him as a player....
  
  
• Steve Howard
  Steve Howard
  Steven John "Steve" Howard is a Scottish-English footballer currently playing for Championship side Leicester City.Howard is renowned for his aerial strength...
  
  
• Matt Oakley
  Matthew Oakley
  Matthew "Matt" Oakley is an English midfielder playing for League One side Exeter City on loan from Npower Championship side Leicester City where he was captain from 2008 to 2011. He had previously played for Southampton and Derby County....
  
  
• Chris Powell
  Chris Powell
  Christopher George Robin "Chris" Powell is an English football manager and retired player, who had a long career as a left back, crowned by five caps for the English national team...
  
  
• Marc Edworthy
  Marc Edworthy
  Marc Edworthy is a former English professional footballer. He started out playing as a right winger before being moved to right back...
  
  

Leicester then Derby

• David Nish
  David Nish
  David John Nish was an English former footballer who broke the then British transfer record in 1972 by paying £225,000 for his signature.-Club:...
  
  
• David Webb
  David Webb (footballer)
  David James Webb is an English former professional footballer who made 555 appearances in the Football League playing for Leyton Orient, Southampton, Chelsea, Queens Park Rangers, Leicester City, Derby County, A.F.C. Bournemouth and Torquay United. He became a manager, taking charge of A.F.C...
  
  
• Peter Shilton
  Peter Shilton
  Peter Leslie Shilton OBE is a former English footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He currently holds the record for playing more games for England than anyone else, earning 125 caps....
  
  
• Ian Wilson
• Paul Kitson
  Paul Kitson
  For the English footballer who spent most of his career in the United States, see Paul Kitson .Paul Kitson is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker...
  
  
• Russell Hoult
  Russell Hoult
  Russell Hoult is an English footballer. He is a goalkeeper and is currently player/assistant manager/goalkeeping coach for Hereford United.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Spencer Prior
  Spencer Prior
  Spencer Justin Prior is an English former footballer. He was a central defender who retired at the end of the 2006-07 season, finishing his career with hometown club Southend United, where he began his career...
  
  
• Chris Makin
  Chris Makin
  Christopher Gregory Makin is an English professional footballer currently playing for Radcliffe Borough. He spent the final part of his career at Southampton, but is perhaps most famous for his spell at Sunderland...
  
  
• Robbie Savage
  Robbie Savage
  Robert William "Robbie" Savage is a football pundit and former Welsh professional footballer who played predominantly as a midfielder. During his career he captained Derby County, and also played for the Welsh national team. He now presents 606 on BBC Radio Five Live on Sunday evenings alongside...
  
   - played for Birmingham City and Blackburn Rovers in between.
• Paul Dickov
  Paul Dickov
  Paul Dickov is a retired Scottish footballer, turned manager who is currently in charge of League One side Oldham Athletic...
  
   - loaned to Derby County from Leicester in 2009.
• Jordan Stewart
  Jordan Stewart
  Jordan Barrington Stewart is an English footballer, who currently plays for Millwall in the Football League Championship. He plays either as a left-back or left-winger, and if required, can play at centre-back....
  
  

Notable results

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Trivia

• Of the 100 competitive meetings between the clubs. Derby County have won 45% of all fixtures, Leicester have won 28% and 27% have ended as a draw.
• 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 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
  1993-94 in English football
  The 1993-1994 season was the 114th season of competitive football in England.-Overview:From the start of this season, the FA Premier League would be sponsored by Carling Breweries - an association which would last for eight years...
  
   for promotion to the Premier League.
• The last time Derby beat Leicester away from home was 3-0 in 2002
  2001-02 in English football
  The 2001-02 season was the 122nd season of competitive football in England.-Arsenal cruise to title glory:In what had earlier been one of the most closely fought Premiership title races for years, Arsenal won the championship by seven points. Their crown was won in the penultimate game of the...
  
  . The year both clubs were relegated from the Premier League. Leicester won the reverse fixture 3-2.
• Leicester have never scored against Derby in the F.A. Cup losing 6-0 in 1910, 3-0 in 1894 and drawing 0-0 in the clubs first ever meeting the year before.
• 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.