The 1994–95 season was the 115th season of competitive
football in England
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.
Overview
Premiership
Blackburn Rovers ended their 81-year wait for the league title thanks to the strike partnership of
Alan Shearer
Alan Shearer (born 13 August 1970) is an English Association football, football pundit and former professional player who played as a striker (association football), striker. Widely regarded as one of the best strikers of all time and one of t ...
and
Chris Sutton which scored a total of more than 50 league goals. On the final day of the season,
Manchester United
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failed to beat
West Ham United
West Ham United Football Club is a professional Association football, football club based in Stratford, London, Stratford, East London, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league system, English f ...
, confirming Blackburn as champions, despite losing to
Liverpool
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. Newly promoted
Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest Football Club is a professional association football club based in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league system, English football.
Founde ...
finished third and qualified for the
UEFA Cup
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along with fourth placed Liverpool (also League Cup winners) and fifth placed
Leeds United
Leeds United Football Club is a professional football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The team compete in the Premier League, the top tier of the English football league system.
Leeds United have won the League Championship th ...
.
After this season the Premier League would be reduced to 20 clubs, so there were four teams relegated this time around. They were occupied by
Crystal Palace,
Norwich City
Norwich City Football Club is a professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk, England. The club competes in the Championship, the second tier of English football. The club was founded in 1902. Since 1935, Norwich have played their h ...
(who had finished third two seasons earlier),
Leicester City
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, and
Ipswich Town.
Division One
The streamlining of the Premier League meant that just two clubs would be promoted from Division One in 1995.
Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough ( ), colloquially known as Boro, is a port town in the Borough of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. Lying to the south of the River Tees, Middlesbrough forms part of the Teesside Built up area, built-up area and the Tees Va ...
won the Division One title in their first season under
Bryan Robson
Bryan Robson (born 11 January 1957) is an English association football, football manager and former player. He began his career with West Bromwich Albion F.C., West Bromwich Albion in 1972, where he amassed over 200 appearances and was club ca ...
, while
Reading
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were the club that were to fail to win promotion despite finishing second in the table. Instead, they competed in the
playoff
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s, losing to
Bolton Wanderers
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in the final, who achieved their second promotion in three years under
Bruce Rioch – as well as being
League Cup runners-up.
1995 saw four clubs relegated from Division One to Division Two –
Swindon Town
Swindon Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The team, known as the "Robins", currently compete in , the fourth level of the English football league system.
Founded as Swindon A ...
(relegated for the second straight season),
Burnley
Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2021 population of 78,266. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River B ...
,
Bristol City
Bristol City Football Club is a professional football club based in Bristol, England. The team compete in the , the second level of the English football league system.
Founded in 1894, the club competed in the Southern League and Western L ...
, and
Notts County
Notts County Football Club is a professional association football, football club in Nottingham, England, which competes in EFL League Two, the fourth tier of Football in England, English football, following promotion and relegation, promotion ...
.
Sunderland
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narrowly avoided the drop following the arrival of enthusiastic new manager
Peter Reid
Peter Reid (born 20 June 1956) is an English football manager, pundit and former player.
A defensive midfielder in his playing days, Reid enjoyed a long and successful career. He built his reputation as one of England's brightest midfield tale ...
, who over the next few years would bring dramatic improvements to the Wearsiders.
Division Two
There were only two promotion places in Division Two for 1994–95. They were occupied by champions
Birmingham City
Birmingham City Football Club is a professional football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small Heath in 1888, Birmingham in 1905, and Birmingham City in 1943. The team compete in the ...
and playoff winners
Huddersfield Town
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Huddersfield Town we ...
, both enjoying success after seasons of disappointment.
Birmingham City
Birmingham City Football Club is a professional football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small Heath in 1888, Birmingham in 1905, and Birmingham City in 1943. The team compete in the ...
also won the
Football League Trophy
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and completed the "
lower-league Double".
1995 saw five teams relegated –
Cambridge United
Cambridge United Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Cambridge, England. They currently compete in EFL League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. Nicknamed the U’s, the club h ...
,
Plymouth Argyle,
Cardiff City
Cardiff City Football Club () is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. It currently competes in , the third tier of the English football league system in the 2025–26 season following relegation. Founded in 1899 a ...
,
Chester City, and
Leyton Orient
Leyton Orient Football Club, commonly referred to as Orient, is a professional association football club based in Leyton, Waltham Forest, London, England. The team compete in EFL League One, the third level of the English football league system. ...
Division Three
This season saw three clubs go up from Division Three instead of four clubs. They were champions
Carlisle United, runners-up
Walsall
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, and playoff winners
Chesterfield.
Exeter City
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, who almost went out of business in mid-season, finished bottom of Division Three but kept their league status because Conference champions
Macclesfield Town were unable to meet the league's stadium capacity requirements.
Successful players
Alan Shearer was the English league's top scorer with 34 Premiership goals for champions Blackburn Rovers.
20-year-old
Robbie Fowler
Robert Bernard Fowler (born 9 April 1975) is an English football coach and former player. He most recently managed Saudi First Division League side Al-Qadsiah.
As a player, he was a striker, and is the ninth-highest goalscorer in the histor ...
collected a League Cup winner's medal with
Liverpool
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as well as the
PFA Young Player of the Year
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award, following another season of strong goalscoring.
Peter Schmeichel
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established himself as a world-class goalkeeper by conceding just 4 goals in 18 home Premiership fixtures with
Manchester United
Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United (often stylised as Man Utd) or simply United, is a professional association football, football club based in Old Trafford (area), Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, Engl ...
.
Stan Collymore
Stanley Victor Collymore (born 22 January 1971) is an English football pundit, sport strategist, and former player who played as a Forward (association football), striker from 1990 to 2001, most notably for Nottingham Forest and later Liverpo ...
scored 22 Premiership goals for
Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest Football Club is a professional association football club based in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league system, English football.
Founde ...
and was soon on his way to
Liverpool
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for an English record fee of £8.4 million.
Experienced Scottish striker
John Hendrie was the driving force in Middlesbrough's return to the Premiership after a two-year absence.
36-year-old
Tranmere Rovers
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Founded in 1884 as Belmont Football Club, they ...
striker
John Aldridge
John William Aldridge (born 18 September 1958) is a former footballer and manager. Nicknamed "Aldo", he was a prolific, record-breaking striker. His tally of 329 Football League goals is the sixth-highest in the history of English football.
...
was Division One's leading goalscorer with 24 league goals.
Bolton Wanderers midfielder
Jason McAteer established himself as one of the most exciting young talents in England and would soon be on his way to
Liverpool
Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...
.
Wrexham
Wrexham ( ; ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in the North East Wales, north-east of Wales. It lies between the Cambrian Mountains, Welsh mountains and the lower River Dee, Wales, Dee Valley, near the England–Wales border, borde ...
striker
Gary Bennett scored a staggering 39 goals in all competitions.
Huddersfield Town
Huddersfield Town Association Football Club is a professional association football club based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. They compete in , the third tier of English football league system, English football.
Huddersfield Town we ...
striker
Andy Booth who scored an impressive 30 goals during this season as well as make international honours with the
England Under 21 squad.
Walsall wingers
Scott Houghton and
Martin O'Connor almost single-handedly earned their club's promotion to Division Two.
Successful managers
Kenny Dalglish
Sir Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish (born 4 March 1951) is a Scottish former association football, football player and manager (association football), manager. He is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time as well as one of Celtic's, Liv ...
become only the third manager to win the English league title with different clubs after he guided Blackburn Rovers to their first league title since 1914.
Joe Royle
Joseph Royle (born 8 April 1949) is an English football manager and former footballer. In his playing career as a striker, he debuted for Everton at the age of 16 and went on to play for Manchester City, Bristol City, Norwich City, and the E ...
completed his first season as
Everton manager by winning the
FA Cup
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.
Roy Evans
Roy Quentin Echlin Evans (born 4 October 1948) is an English former footballer who played as a defender for Liverpool, where he also had a spell as manager. Aside from his time at Liverpool, he had a short spell in the United States; and also ...
won the League Cup in his first full season as Liverpool manager.
Frank Clark took newly promoted Nottingham Forest to third place in the Premiership to achieve UEFA Cup qualification and bring European football to the club for the first time since the early 1980s.
Bryan Robson made an excellent start to his management career by winning the Division One championship and gaining promotion to the Premiership with
Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough ( ), colloquially known as Boro, is a port town in the Borough of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. Lying to the south of the River Tees, Middlesbrough forms part of the Teesside Built up area, built-up area and the Tees Va ...
.
Bruce Rioch won the Division One playoffs and took
Bolton Wanderers
Bolton Wanderers Football Club ( ) is a professional association football, football club based in Horwich, Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in EFL League One, League One, the third level of the Englis ...
to their first cup final in nearly 40 years.
Jimmy Quinn took
Reading
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For educators and researchers, reading is a multifacete ...
to a second-place finish in Division One and only the streamlining of the Premiership prevented them from reaching the top flight for the very first time.
Neil Warnock
Neil Warnock (born 1 December 1948) is an English football manager and former player who is currently football advisor at Torquay United. He is also a television and radio pundit. In a managerial career spanning five decades, Warnock has managed ...
achieved his fourth promotion in less than a decade as he guided
Huddersfield Town
Huddersfield Town Association Football Club is a professional association football club based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. They compete in , the third tier of English football league system, English football.
Huddersfield Town we ...
to glory in the Division Two playoffs.
John Duncan helped
Chesterfield F.C. win the Division Three playoffs and brought some long-awaited success to Saltergate.
Chris Nicholl
Christopher John Nicholl (12 October 1946 – 24 February 2024) was a professional footballer who later worked as a coach and manager.
A centre-back, Nicholl began his playing career at Burnley, but moved to Witton Albion after failing to br ...
had a strong first season as
Walsall F.C.
Walsall Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Walsall, West Midlands, England. The team competes in , the fourth level of the English football league system.
The club's nickname, "The Saddlers", reflec ...
manager by gaining promotion to Division Two.
Barry Fry won the Division Two title with
Birmingham City
Birmingham City Football Club is a professional football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small Heath in 1888, Birmingham in 1905, and Birmingham City in 1943. The team compete in the ...
, who were also Auto Windscreen Shield winners.
Attendances
The 1994–95 season was the first season in which clubs in the top two tiers were required to have
all-seater stadia. A total of 26,150,028 attended matches in competitions organised by
The Football Association
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and the
Football League
The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional association football, football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, it is the oldest football league in Association football around the world, the w ...
and hosted by league clubs. Of that number, 21,856,223 attended Premiership and Football League matches. This ensured that attendance at league matches had increased for the ninth consecutive season.
In the Premiership, 11,213,371 attended the 420 matches held in 1994–95, the highest attendance in the top division since the
1980–81 season. Meanwhile, Football League clubs attracted 10,583,498, a decline of half a million from the
previous season.
The ten most supported teams in league matches this season were as follows:
The attendance at
FA Cup
The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout association football, football competition in domestic Football in England, English football. First played during ...
matches from the First Round to the
Final
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*Final examination or finals, a test given at the end of a course of study or training
*Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which d ...
was 2,015,261, an increase of 25,641 from the previous season. The attendance at the Final was 79,592.
Events
Walker's title dream comes true for Blackburn
The five-year revival of
Blackburn Rovers under the ownership of
Jack Walker
Jack Walker (19 May 1929 – 17 August 2000) was a British industrialist and businessman. Walker built his fortune in the steel industry, amassing a personal fortune of £600 million. He then went on to become the owner and benefactor of Blac ...
paid off as they were crowned Premiership champions and finished top of the English league for the first time in 81 years. A key force in the title glory was striker
Alan Shearer
Alan Shearer (born 13 August 1970) is an English Association football, football pundit and former professional player who played as a striker (association football), striker. Widely regarded as one of the best strikers of all time and one of t ...
, who scored 34 League goals and was named
PFA Players' Player of the Year
The Professional Footballers' Association Men's Players' Player of the Year (often called the PFA Men's Players' Player of the Year, the Players' Player of the Year, or simply the Player of the Year) is an annual award given to the player who is ...
. His strike partner
Chris Sutton also had a major influence on Blackburn's success, as did captain
Tim Sherwood
Timothy Alan Sherwood (born 6 February 1969) is an English former football player and manager.
As a player, he was a midfielder from 1987 until 2005, notably as captain of Blackburn Rovers' Premier League title-winning side in 1995. He also pl ...
and defenders
Colin Hendry
Edward Colin James Hendry (born 7 December 1965) is a Scottish football coach and former professional footballer.
Hendry, who played as a defender, notably played in the Premier League for Blackburn Rovers, with whom he was part of the title- ...
and
Graeme Le Saux. Manager
Kenny Dalglish
Sir Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish (born 4 March 1951) is a Scottish former association football, football player and manager (association football), manager. He is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time as well as one of Celtic's, Liv ...
, who had won three titles as a manager with
Liverpool
Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...
, became only the third manager in English football to win the league title with different clubs.
Everton's triumph leaves United with nothing
Everton had a terrible start to the 1994–95 season. Failure to win any of their first twelve Premiership games cost manager
Mike Walker his job, but the appointment of
Oldham Athletic
Oldham Athletic Association Football Club is a professional association football club in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. As of the 2025–26 EFL League Two, 2025–26 season, the team competes in EFL League Two, the fourth level of the Eng ...
's
Joe Royle
Joseph Royle (born 8 April 1949) is an English football manager and former footballer. In his playing career as a striker, he debuted for Everton at the age of 16 and went on to play for Manchester City, Bristol City, Norwich City, and the E ...
as his successor and the signing of controversial striker
Duncan Ferguson
Duncan Cowan Ferguson (born 27 December 1971) is a Scottish football coach and former player.
He began his career at Dundee United in 1990, and moved to Rangers in 1993 for what was then a British transfer record fee. He spent the remainder o ...
helped to revive Everton's fortunes. Their Premiership survival was confirmed at the end of April and on 20 May they beat
Manchester United
Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United (often stylised as Man Utd) or simply United, is a professional association football, football club based in Old Trafford (area), Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, Engl ...
1–0 in the
FA Cup final
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thanks to a
Paul Rideout goal. Rideout's goal – and the brilliant goalkeeping of veteran
Neville Southall
Neville Southall (born 16 September 1958) is a Welsh Manager (association football), football manager and former international association football, footballer. He has been described as one of the best Goalkeeper (association football), goalk ...
– meant that Everton had won their first major honour in eight years, while United endured their first trophyless season in six years. To date, this remains Everton's last major trophy.
The Eric Cantona kung-fu incident
On 25 January 1995,
Eric Cantona
Eric Daniel Pierre Cantona (; ; born 24 May 1966) is a French former professional footballer who is currently an actor. In his football career Eric Cantona was a physically strong, hard-working and tenacious player. He combined technical skill a ...
, the Manchester United and
France
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forward, was sent off in a Premiership game against
Crystal Palace at
Selhurst Park
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for lashing out at Eagles defender
Richard Shaw. Cantona then kicked Palace supporter Matthew Simmons, who taunted him from the stands.
His club fined him two weeks wages and banned him from playing for the rest of the season. The FA fined Cantona £10,000 and extended his ban from football to 30 September 1995, for a total of eight months – one of the longest suspensions ever handed out in English football.
FIFA
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later confirmed that this ban was worldwide. A jury at Croydon Magistrates Court found him guilty of common assault and the judge sentenced him to fourteen days in prison, although he was immediately released on bail pending an appeal – which was successful in quashing his prison sentence. He received a 120-hour community service order instead, opting to coach children in the
Greater Manchester
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area.
Cantona was not the only player facing jail. Chelsea captain
Dennis Wise
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Beginning his career at Wimbledon, ...
was convicted of assaulting a taxi driver and jailed for three months, although a successful appeal saw both his conviction and his prison sentence quashed.
Arsenal caught up in bungs scandal and drugs controversy
Arsenal
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were another Premiership club to be hit by controversy in the 1994–95 season. In November 1994, winger
Paul Merson
Paul Charles Merson (born 20 March 1968) is an English former professional footballer, manager, commentator and sports television pundit for Sky Sports.
Originally a forward, Merson found success as an attacking midfielder and playmaker late ...
admitted that he was addicted to alcohol, cocaine and gambling. He went on a three-month rehabilitation course before resuming his career. Just before Merson's return, it was revealed that manager
George Graham
George Graham (born 30 November 1944) is a Scottish former football player and manager.
Nicknamed "Stroller", he made 455 appearances in England's Football League as a midfielder or forward for Aston Villa, Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester Unite ...
had accepted £425,000 worth of illegal payments from a Scandinavian agent who had overseen the signings of
Pål Lydersen and
John Jensen
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A former midfielder, his playing career lasted almost two entire decades, including a stint with Arsenal in England and three stin ...
three years earlier. Graham, one of the most successful managers in the club's history, was sacked after nine years at the helm.
Nayim ends Arsenal's Euro dream
Despite the controversy of George Graham's sacking and Paul Merson's personal problems, Arsenal reached the
European Cup Winners' Cup final under caretaker manager
Stewart Houston
Stewart Mackie Houston (born 20 August 1949) is a Scottish former association football, football player and coach (sports), coach who played as a Defender (association football)#Full-back, left-back. Born in Dunoon, he began his professional c ...
, where they faced
Real Zaragoza
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of
Spain
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. The scores were level at 1–1 after 90 minutes, but a freak goal from 40 yards out in the last minute of extra-time by
Nayim – a former
Tottenham Hotspur
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player – won the trophy for the Spaniards.
Grobbelaar Match-fixing allegations
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Bruce Grobbelaar faced match-fixing allegations resulting in the October 2002 judgement by
Lord Bingham of Cornhill
Thomas Henry Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill (13 October 193311 September 2010) was a British judge who was successively Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice and Senior Law Lord. On his death in 2010, he was described as the greatest j ...
. He and his co-defendants had been cleared in November 1997. Grobbelaar later successfully sued ''The Sun'' for
libel
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. ''The Sun'' appealed, and the case was eventually reached the
House of Lords
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. The Lords slashed Grobbelaar's award to £1 and ordered him to pay ''The Suns
legal costs
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, estimated at £500,000. Grobbelaar was unable to pay the costs and was declared
bankrupt
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.
Honours
Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour (First Division & Premier League). Number after slash is Premier League only. * indicates new record for competition
England national team
ab = Abandoned after 27 minutes because of
crowd violence with the Republic of Ireland leading 1–0 and no official result recorded, although caps were awarded.
League tables
FA Premier League
Blackburn Rovers were crowned champions of the English league for the first time since 1914 after four years of heavy spending on and off the pitch. Strikers Alan Shearer and
Chris Sutton scored more than 60 goals between them during the course of the season, while centre half Colin Hendry and full back Graham Le Saux ensured that there was solidity and consistency away from the attack.
Manchester United narrowly missed out on a third successive league title, and were also on the losing side in the FA Cup final, although their fortunes were not helped by the loss of several players including
Eric Cantona
Eric Daniel Pierre Cantona (; ; born 24 May 1966) is a French former professional footballer who is currently an actor. In his football career Eric Cantona was a physically strong, hard-working and tenacious player. He combined technical skill a ...
,
Andrei Kanchelskis
Andrei Antanasovich Kanchelskis (; ; born 23 January 1969) is a Russian professional Association football, football coach and former player who currently manages Russian Second League side FC Dynamo Bryansk, Dynamo Bryansk. During his playing c ...
,
Roy Keane
Roy Maurice Keane (born 10 August 1971) is an Irish football pundit, former coach, and former professional player. He is best known for his career in the Premier League, in particular his captaincy of Manchester United. He is the joint most ...
and
Paul Parker for considerable periods due to suspension or injury.
Newly promoted Nottingham Forest made a huge impact and finished third to qualify for Europe for the first time since 1984. Liverpool showed signs of a return to their former glory with a fourth-place finish and a
Coca-Cola Cup triumph. The final European place went to Leeds United.
Ipswich Town and Leicester City were relegated by a wide margin, while Norwich City were the next to go down due to a terrible second half to the season, which dragged them out of the Premiership just two years after they had been challenging for the championship. Norwich had been seventh at Christmas and appeared capable of qualifying for Europe, but won only one of their final 20 league games.
The final relegation place went to Crystal Palace, who found it difficult to score goals all season long, although they did manage to reach the semi-finals of both domestic cups. Their relegation was confirmed of the final day of the season; despite a thrilling comeback against sixth-placed Newcastle United, they lost 3–2 and went down from the Premiership just 12 months after winning promotion.
Leading goalscorer:
Alan Shearer
Alan Shearer (born 13 August 1970) is an English Association football, football pundit and former professional player who played as a striker (association football), striker. Widely regarded as one of the best strikers of all time and one of t ...
(Blackburn Rovers) – 34
First Division
A dream start in management saw Bryan Robson guide Middlesbrough to the Division One title and regain the Premiership place that was lost two years ago. Reading finished second – the highest in their history, at that point- but the streamlining of the Premiership prevented them from winning promotion and they lost 4–3 to Bolton Wanderers after extra time in the playoff final, having led 2–0 at half time. Losing semi-finalists were Wolverhampton Wanderers and Tranmere Rovers, with the latter making this their 3rd Division One semi-final loss.
Barnsley and Watford were the unlucky sides to narrowly miss out on the playoffs, while an expensively-assembled Derby County side finished a disappointing ninth at the end of what many fans had hoped would be a promotion winning season.
Portsmouth, West Bromwich Albion and Sunderland – three famous clubs which had seen better days – narrowly avoided relegation to Division Two, but managerial changes at each of these clubs gave fans hope that a return to the elite might not be far away.
Swindon Town suffered a second consecutive relegation in a row, despite reaching the League Cup semi-finals on their best cup run for 15 years, joining Bristol City, Burnley and Notts County in Division Two.
Leading goalscorer:
John Aldridge
John William Aldridge (born 18 September 1958) is a former footballer and manager. Nicknamed "Aldo", he was a prolific, record-breaking striker. His tally of 329 Football League goals is the sixth-highest in the history of English football.
...
(Tranmere Rovers) – 24
Second Division
Birmingham City sealed an immediate return to Division One by lifting the Division Two championship trophy, joined by playoff winners Huddersfield Town. The unlucky sides in the playoffs were Brentford, Crewe Alexandra and Bristol Rovers. Wycombe Wanderers finished sixth and would have had a playoff place – and the chance of a unique third successive promotion – had it not been for the restructuring of the league. Their distant neighbours Oxford United fell away to finish seventh after topping the table at Christmas.
Leyton Orient, Chester City and Cardiff City were perhaps unsurprisingly relegated to Division Three; Orient had spent much of the season teetering on the verge of bankruptcy, Chester suffered from the loss of manager
Graham Barrow and virtually their entire promotion-winning squad from the previous season, and Cardiff had only narrowly avoided an immediate return to Division Three the previous year. But the other two relegated teams were surprise candidates for the drop. Plymouth Argyle had almost won promotion to Division One a year earlier. Cambridge United had narrowly missed out on a place in the then-new Premier League three years earlier and poor form in the run in sealed their fate after
AFC Bournemouth
AFC Bournemouth ( ) is a professional association football club based in Kings Park, Boscombe, a suburb of Bournemouth, Dorset, England. The club compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league system, English football. ...
avoided the drop in the final two games of the season after spending most of it in the bottom five. This sparked pitch invasion scenes and has been called the team's ''Great Escape'' season.
Leading goalscorer:
Gary Bennett (Wrexham) – 29
Third Division
Ambitious Carlisle United sealed the Division Three title to end eight years of basement division football, joined by runners-up Walsall and playoff winners Chesterfield.
Debt-ridden Exeter City finished joint bottom of the league with Scarborough, but retained their league status due to Conference champions Macclesfield Town lacking a stadium adequate for Football League capacity standards.
Fulham finished eighth under new manager
Ian Branfoot in their first season in the fourth tier of English football.
Leading goalscorer:
Dougie Freedman
Douglas Alan Freedman (born 25 May 1974) is a Scottish professional football manager and former player. He is currently the sporting director of Al-Diriyah, where he has been since 2025.
Freedman played as a striker, primarily for Crystal Pal ...
(Barnet) – 24
Transfer deals
For subsequent transfer deals see
1995–96 in English football
The 1995–96 season was the 116th season of competitive football in England.
Overview
Premiership
Newcastle United were at one stage twelve points clear of Manchester United at the top of the table, but Alex Ferguson's relatively young and ...
.
Diary of the season
6 July 1994 –
Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Tottenham (, , , ) or Spurs, is a professional Association football, football club based in Tottenham, North London, England. The club itself has stated that it should always ...
's 12-point penalty is reduced to 6 points on appeal at a
Football Association
A football association, also known as a football federation, soccer federation, or soccer association, is a governing body for association football. Many of them are members of the sport's regional bodies such as UEFA and CONMEBOL and the world gov ...
hearing, while the £600,000 fine is increased to £1.5 million and the FA Cup ban remains in place.
10 July 1994 –
Graham Barrow, manager of newly promoted
Chester City, stuns the club by handing in his resignation, after being told that he must break up and sell off his promotion-winning side.
11 July 1994 –
Graham Taylor
Graham Taylor (15 September 1944 – 12 January 2017) was an English football player, manager, pundit and chairman of Watford Football Club. He was the manager of the England national football team from 1990 to 1993, and also managed Lincoln ...
prepares for a Division One promotion challenge with
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club ( ), commonly referred to as Wolves, is a professional association football, football club based in Wolverhampton, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league s ...
, signing defender
Steve Froggatt
Stephen Junior Froggatt (born 9 March 1973) is an English former professional Association football, footballer. His senior playing career lasted from 1991 until 2001, when he announced his retirement after failing to recover from injury.
Career ...
from
Aston Villa
Aston Villa Football Club (commonly referred to as simply Villa) is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England. The club, founded in 1874, compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. The team have p ...
for £1 million, while
Clayton Blackmore (
Manchester United
Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United (often stylised as Man Utd) or simply United, is a professional association football, football club based in Old Trafford (area), Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, Engl ...
's longest-serving player) signs for
Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough ( ), colloquially known as Boro, is a port town in the Borough of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. Lying to the south of the River Tees, Middlesbrough forms part of the Teesside Built up area, built-up area and the Tees Va ...
on a free transfer to join
Bryan Robson
Bryan Robson (born 11 January 1957) is an English association football, football manager and former player. He began his career with West Bromwich Albion F.C., West Bromwich Albion in 1972, where he amassed over 200 appearances and was club ca ...
's fellow promotion hopefuls.
12 July 1994 –
Sheffield Wednesday
Sheffield Wednesday Football Club is a professional association football club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system.
Formed in 1867 as an off ...
sign midfielder
Ian Taylor from
Port Vale for £1 million.
13 July 1994 –
Blackburn Rovers pay a national record £5 million for
Norwich City
Norwich City Football Club is a professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk, England. The club competes in the Championship, the second tier of English football. The club was founded in 1902. Since 1935, Norwich have played their h ...
's 21-year-old striker
Chris Sutton.
16 July 1994 – Chester City announce former
England
England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...
international and
Port Vale coach
Mike Pejic as their new manager.
18 July 1994 –
Blackpool
Blackpool is a seaside town in Lancashire, England. It is located on the Irish Sea coast of the Fylde peninsula, approximately north of Liverpool and west of Preston, Lancashire, Preston. It is the main settlement in the Borough of Blackpool ...
appoint
Preston North End
Preston North End Football Club, commonly referred to as Preston, North End or PNE, is a professional association football club in Preston, Lancashire, England. They currently play in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English footbal ...
assistant manager
Sam Allardyce
Samuel Allardyce (born 19 October 1954) is an English football manager and former professional player. Allardyce made 578 league and cup appearances in a 21-year career spent mostly in the Football League, as well as brief spells in the North ...
as their new manager.
19 July 1994 – Bryan Robson further bolsters Middlesbrough's squad with a £1 million move for Aston Villa defender
Neil Cox
Neil James Cox (born 8 October 1971) is an English former professional Association football, footballer and manager who is currently the assistant manager of National League (division), National League club York City F.C., York City. A Defender ...
.
22 July 1994 –
Leicester City
Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area, and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest city in the East Midlands with a popula ...
, newly promoted to the
Premier League
The Premier League is a professional association football league in England and the highest level of the English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Football Lea ...
and in the top flight for the first time since 1987, pay a club record £1.25 million for
Notts County
Notts County Football Club is a professional association football, football club in Nottingham, England, which competes in EFL League Two, the fourth tier of Football in England, English football, following promotion and relegation, promotion ...
midfielder
Mark Draper
Mark Andrew Draper (born 11 November 1970) is an English football coach and former professional Association football, footballer.
As a player, he was a midfielder from 1988 to 2003, notably in the Premier League for Leicester City F.C., Leice ...
.
2 August 1994 – Tottenham Hotspur sell winger
Vinny Samways
Vincent Samways (born 27 October 1968) is an English former professional footballer and manager who played as a central midfielder from 1986 until 2006.
He notably played in the Premier League for Tottenham Hotspur and Everton. He also pla ...
to
Everton for £2.2 million.
3 August 1994 – Tottenham Hotspur pay a club record £2.6 million for
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
winger
Ilie Dumitrescu
Ilie Dumitrescu (; born 6 January 1969) is a former Romanian professional football manager and former player, who is currently a television sport pundit for Digi Sport.
As a player, he was a winger who notably played in the Premier League with ...
.
4 August 1994 – Aston Villa pay
Wimbledon
Wimbledon most often refers to:
* Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London
* Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships
Wimbledon may also refer to:
Places London
* W ...
£1.35 million for long-serving striker
John Fashanu
John Winton Fashanu (born 18 September 1962) is an English television presenter and former professional footballer.
As a footballer he was a centre-forward from 1978 until 1995, most notably in an eight-year spell at Wimbledon in which he won ...
, and Tottenham Hotspur pay
Monaco
Monaco, officially the Principality of Monaco, is a Sovereign state, sovereign city-state and European microstates, microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Regions of Italy, Italian region of Liguria, in Western Europe, ...
£2 million for
German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany, the country of the Germans and German things
**Germania (Roman era)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...
striker
Jürgen Klinsmann
Jürgen Klinsmann (; born 30 July 1964) is a German professional Association football, football manager and former player. He played for several prominent clubs in Europe including VfB Stuttgart, Inter Milan, AS Monaco FC, Monaco, Tottenham Hot ...
.
6 August 1994 – A second Romanian World Cup star, defender
Dan Petrescu, joins a
Premier League
The Premier League is a professional association football league in England and the highest level of the English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Football Lea ...
club. Petrescu, 27, signs for Sheffield Wednesday in a £1.3 million deal.
10 August 1994 –
Newcastle United
Newcastle United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league system, English football. Since th ...
pay a club record £2.65 million for
Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas ...
and
Anderlecht
Anderlecht (; ) is one of the List of municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the south-western part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels, Forest, B ...
defender
Philippe Albert.
11 August 1994 – After more than 13 years at
Liverpool
Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...
, goalkeeper
Bruce Grobbelaar
Bruce David Grobbelaar (born 6 October 1957) is a Zimbabwean former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, most prominently for English club Liverpool between 1981 and 1994, and for the Zimbabwean national team. Regarded as one of ...
signs for
Southampton
Southampton is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England. It is located approximately southwest of London, west of Portsmouth, and southeast of Salisbury. Southampton had a population of 253, ...
on a free transfer.
12 August 1994 –
Chelsea sign midfielder
David Rocastle from
Manchester City
Manchester City Football Club is a professional association football, football club based in Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the English football league system, top flight of Football in England, English footbal ...
for £1.25 million. A tribunal orders Sheffield Wednesday to pay £1 million for Port Vale midfielder Ian Taylor.
13 August 1994 – The
Football League
The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional association football, football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, it is the oldest football league in Association football around the world, the w ...
season kicks off.
Oldham Athletic
Oldham Athletic Association Football Club is a professional association football club in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. As of the 2025–26 EFL League Two, 2025–26 season, the team competes in EFL League Two, the fourth level of the Eng ...
, relegated from the Premier League last season, start with a 5–2 home win over
Charlton Athletic
Charlton Athletic Football Club is a professional association football club based in Charlton, south-east London, England. The team compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system.
Their home ground is ...
.
Danny Wilson begins his managerial career by guiding
Barnsley
Barnsley () is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. It is the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. The town's population was 71,422 in 2021, while the wider boroug ...
to a 2–1 home win over last season's beaten playoff finalists
Derby County
Derby County Football Club () is a professional association football club in Derby, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system.
One of the 12 founder members of the English Football ...
.
Sheffield United begin their quest for an immediate return to the Premier League by beating
Watford
Watford () is a town and non-metropolitan district with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in Hertfordshire, England, northwest of Central London, on the banks of the River Colne, Hertfordshire, River Colne.
Initially a smal ...
3–0 at
Bramall Lane
Bramall Lane is a association football, football stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, which is the home of Sheffield United F.C., Sheffield United.
The stadium was originally a cricket ground, built on a road named after the Bramall ...
.
Grimsby Town
Grimsby Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England, that competes in , the fourth level of the English football league system.
Nicknamed "the Mariners", the club was f ...
and
Bolton Wanderers
Bolton Wanderers Football Club ( ) is a professional association football, football club based in Horwich, Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in EFL League One, League One, the third level of the Englis ...
draw 3–3 at
Blundell Park.
14 August 1994 –
Eric Cantona
Eric Daniel Pierre Cantona (; ; born 24 May 1966) is a French former professional footballer who is currently an actor. In his football career Eric Cantona was a physically strong, hard-working and tenacious player. He combined technical skill a ...
converts a penalty and
Paul Ince
Paul Emerson Carlyle Ince (; born 21 October 1967) is an English professional football manager and former player who was most recently manager of Reading. A midfielder, Ince played professionally from 1986 to 2007, starting his career with West ...
is also on the scoresheet as
Manchester United
Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United (often stylised as Man Utd) or simply United, is a professional association football, football club based in Old Trafford (area), Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, Engl ...
beat
Blackburn Rovers 2–0 in the
FA Charity Shield
The Football Association Community Shield (formerly the Charity Shield) is English football's annual match contested at Wembley Stadium between the champions of the previous Premier League season and the holders of the FA Cup. If the Premier ...
.
20 August 1994 –
**
Huddersfield Town
Huddersfield Town Association Football Club is a professional association football club based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. They compete in , the third tier of English football league system, English football.
Huddersfield Town we ...
play their first game at the new
Alfred McAlpine Stadium, a Division Two fixture with newly promoted
Wycombe Wanderers
Wycombe Wanderers Football Club () is a professional association football club based in the town of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. The team competes in League One, the third level of the English football league system.
Founded in 188 ...
which ends in a 1–0 defeat.
*** The
FA Premier League season opens with Liverpool beating newly promoted
Crystal Palace 6–1 at
Selhurst Park
Selhurst Park is a football stadium in Selhurst, in the London Borough of Croydon, England, which is the home ground of Premier League club Crystal Palace. The stadium was designed by Archibald Leitch and opened in 1924. It has hosted interna ...
;
Steve McManaman
Steven McManaman (born 11 February 1972) is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger. He is one of the most decorated English footballers to have played for a club abroad, with the UEFA website stating in 2012 that "of al ...
and
Ian Rush
Ian James Rush (born 20 October 1961) is a Welsh former professional association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), forward. He is regarded as one of the best strikers of all time and one of the best Welsh playe ...
both find the net twice.
Bryan Roy
Bryan Eduard Steven Roy (born 12 February 1970) is a Dutch association football, football manager and a former professional player.
As a player he was a winger (association football), winger and notably played for AFC Ajax, Ajax, Nottingham Fore ...
and Jürgen Klinsmann score on their English league debuts: Roy scoring the only goal as
Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest Football Club is a professional association football club based in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league system, English football.
Founde ...
win away at
Ipswich Town, and Klinsmann in a 4–3 away win for Tottenham Hotspur against Sheffield Wednesday before "executing a full-length 'Superman' dive stunt" celebration.
Arsenal
An arsenal is a place where arms and ammunition are made, maintained and repaired, stored, or issued, in any combination, whether privately or publicly owned. Arsenal and armoury (British English) or armory (American English) are mostly ...
beat
Manchester City
Manchester City Football Club is a professional association football, football club based in Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the English football league system, top flight of Football in England, English footbal ...
3–0 at
Highbury
Highbury is an area of North London, England, in the London Borough of Islington.
Highbury Manor
Highbury was once owned by Ranulf, brother of Ilger, and included all the areas north and east of Canonbury and Holloway Roads.
The manor hou ...
.
21 August 1994 –
Leicester City
Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area, and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest city in the East Midlands with a popula ...
play their first top flight game since their relegation from the old First Division in May 1987, but lose 3–1 at home to
Newcastle United
Newcastle United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league system, English football. Since th ...
.
22 August 1994 – Bryan Roy's fine start in English football continues when he scores the equaliser for Nottingham Forest as they hold double winners Manchester United to a 1–1 draw at the
City Ground
The City Ground is a association football, football stadium in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England, on the banks of the River Trent. It has been home to Nottingham Forest F.C., Nottingham Forest since 1898 and has a capacity of 30,455.
...
.
23 August 1994 – Leicester suffer another defeat in the Premier League, this time losing 3–0 to Blackburn at
Ewood Park
Ewood Park () is a Association football, football stadium in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, and the home of Blackburn Rovers F.C., founding members of the English Football League, Football League and Premier League, who have played there since ...
.
24 August 1994 – Newcastle top the Premier League after two games by beating Coventry City 4–0 on
Tyneside
Tyneside is a List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, built-up area across the banks of the River Tyne, England, River Tyne in Northern England. The population of Tyneside as published in the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 774,891 ...
. Manchester City beat West Ham 3–0 at
Maine Road
Maine Road was a football stadium in Moss Side, Manchester, England, that was home to Manchester City from 1923 to 2003. It hosted FA Cup semi-finals, the Charity Shield, a League Cup final and England matches. Maine Road's highest attenda ...
.
27 August 1994 – National record signing Chris Sutton scores a hat-trick for Blackburn Rovers as they beat Coventry City 4–0, with all of Blackburn's goals coming during the final 15 minutes after Coventry were reduce to 10 men after
Micky Quinn was sent off.
Andy Cole
Andrew Alexander Cole (born 15 October 1971) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. His professional career lasted from 1988 to 2008, and is mostly remembered for his time with Manchester United, who paid a Brit ...
and
Steve Watson are both on the scoresheet twice for Newcastle United in their 5–1 home win over Southampton, as are
Uwe Rosler and
Paul Walsh for Manchester City in a 4–0 home win over Everton. Newcastle are still top of the Premier League. The race to win promotion to the Premier League is currently led by
Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough ( ), colloquially known as Boro, is a port town in the Borough of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. Lying to the south of the River Tees, Middlesbrough forms part of the Teesside Built up area, built-up area and the Tees Va ...
, who have won their first three league games under the management of
Bryan Robson
Bryan Robson (born 11 January 1957) is an English association football, football manager and former player. He began his career with West Bromwich Albion F.C., West Bromwich Albion in 1972, where he amassed over 200 appearances and was club ca ...
.
28 August 1994 – 19-year-old striker
Robbie Fowler
Robert Bernard Fowler (born 9 April 1975) is an English football coach and former player. He most recently managed Saudi First Division League side Al-Qadsiah.
As a player, he was a striker, and is the ninth-highest goalscorer in the histor ...
scores a hat-trick for Liverpool in less than five minutes as they beat
Arsenal
An arsenal is a place where arms and ammunition are made, maintained and repaired, stored, or issued, in any combination, whether privately or publicly owned. Arsenal and armoury (British English) or armory (American English) are mostly ...
3–0 in the league at
Anfield
Anfield is a Association football, football stadium in the area of Anfield (suburb), Anfield, Liverpool, England, which has been the home of Liverpool F.C. since its formation in 1892. The stadium has a seating capacity of 61,276, making it the ...
.
30 August 1994 – Newly promoted Nottingham Forest go top of the Premier League with a 2–1 win at Everton.
31 August 1994 – Newcastle United finish the first month of the league season as Premier League leaders with four wins from their opening four games, with defending champions Manchester United and newly promoted Nottingham Forest bracketed together as their nearest rivals and Liverpool and Chelsea three points behind with a game in hand each. With four teams going down this season due to the reduction of the Premier League from 22 clubs to 20, the relegation places are occupied by Everton, Leicester City,
West Ham United
West Ham United Football Club is a professional Association football, football club based in Stratford, London, Stratford, East London, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league system, English f ...
and Coventry City. In Division One, Bryan Robson has made a perfect start to his managerial career by guiding Middlesbrough to the top of Division One after winning their first four games of the season.
Oldham Athletic
Oldham Athletic Association Football Club is a professional association football club in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. As of the 2025–26 EFL League Two, 2025–26 season, the team competes in EFL League Two, the fourth level of the Eng ...
occupy second place – but for the first time in 100 years of
the Football League
The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, it is the oldest football league in the world, and was the top-level football league in England from ...
's second tier the runners-up of the division will not gain automatic promotion. Due to a reorganisation of the Premier League and Football League for next season, the second to fifth placed teams in Division One will go into the playoffs, which are also currently occupied by
Portsmouth
Portsmouth ( ) is a port city status in the United Kingdom, city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England. Most of Portsmouth is located on Portsea Island, off the south coast of England in the Solent, making Portsmouth the only city in En ...
,
Millwall
Millwall is a district on the western and southern side of the Isle of Dogs, in east London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lies to the immediate south of Canary Wharf and Poplar, north of Greenwich and Deptford, east of ...
and
Reading
Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of symbols, often specifically those of a written language, by means of Visual perception, sight or Somatosensory system, touch.
For educators and researchers, reading is a multifacete ...
. The number of relegation places from Division One are unchanged – they are occupied by
Derby County
Derby County Football Club () is a professional association football club in Derby, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system.
One of the 12 founder members of the English Football ...
,
Southend United, and
West Bromwich Albion
West Bromwich Albion Football Club (), commonly known as West Brom or The Albion, is a professional association football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the Englis ...
.
1 September 1994 – Liverpool pay a club record fee of £3.6 million for Coventry City and
Republic of Ireland
Ireland ( ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 Counties of Ireland, counties of the island of Ireland, with a population of about 5.4 million. ...
defender
Phil Babb.
2 September 1994 – Liverpool further enhance their defence with a £3.5 million move for Wimbledon's
John Scales.
3 September 1994: Former Wolverhampton Wanderers and England captain
Billy Wright dies of cancer aged 70. On the same day, his former club draw 1–1 draw with
Sunderland
Sunderland () is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It is a port at the mouth of the River Wear on the North Sea, approximately south-east of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is the most p ...
at
Roker Park
Roker Park was a football ground in Roker, Sunderland, England, which was the home of Sunderland from 1898 to 1997, before the club moved to the Stadium of Light. Its final capacity was around 22,500, with only a small part being seated; it h ...
in Division One. Middlesbrough remain top of Division One despite dropping points for the first time this season in a 1–1 draw at
Watford
Watford () is a town and non-metropolitan district with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in Hertfordshire, England, northwest of Central London, on the banks of the River Colne, Hertfordshire, River Colne.
Initially a smal ...
. The biggest scoreline of the day in that division is
Bolton Wanderers
Bolton Wanderers Football Club ( ) is a professional association football, football club based in Horwich, Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in EFL League One, League One, the third level of the Englis ...
's 4–0 win over
Stoke City
Stoke City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. The team competes in the , the second level of the English football league system.
Founded as Stoke Ramblers in 1863, the cl ...
at
Burnden Park
Burnden Park was the home of England, English association football, football club Bolton Wanderers F.C., Bolton Wanderers, who played home games there between 1895 and 1997. As well as hosting the 1901 FA Cup final replay, in 1946 it was the sc ...
.
6 September 1994 –
Dean Holdsworth
Dean Christopher Holdsworth (born 8 November 1968) is an English former professional football player and manager who is the technical director at club Kidderminster Harriers. As a striker he scored 193 goals in 610 league games over a 22-year ...
– dismayed by the departures of John Fashanu and John Scales over the past two months – submits a transfer request at Wimbledon, who strip him of the club
captaincy
A captaincy ( , , ) is a historical administrative division of the former Spanish colonies, Spanish and Portuguese colonies, Portuguese colonial empires. It was instituted as a method of organization, directly associated with the home-rule admin ...
, awarding it to
Vinnie Jones
Vincent Peter Jones (born 5 January 1965) is an English actor, presenter, and former professional footballer.
Jones played professionally as a defensive midfielder from 1984 to 1999, notably for Wimbledon, Leeds United, Sheffield United, C ...
.
9 September 1994 – Romanian World Cup midfielder
Gheorghe Popescu signs for Tottenham Hotspur in a club record £2.9 million deal from
PSV Eindhoven
Philips Sport Vereniging (; ), abbreviated as PSV and internationally known as PSV Eindhoven (), is a Dutch sports club from Eindhoven, Netherlands. It is best known for its professional association football, football department, which has pla ...
.
10 September 1994 – Manchester United sell striker
Dion Dublin
Dion Dublin (born 22 April 1969) is an English former professional footballer, television presenter and pundit. He is a club director of Cambridge United.
As a player he was a centre-forward, notably playing in the Premier League for Manches ...
to Coventry City for £2 million (a record buy for
Phil Neal
Philip George Neal (born 20 February 1951) is an English retired footballer who played for Northampton Town, Liverpool and Bolton Wanderers as a full-back. He is regarded as one of the most successful English players of all time, having won ei ...
's team). Dublin's value doubled in two years at
Old Trafford
Old Trafford () is a football stadium in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, and is the home of Manchester United. With a capacity of 74,197, it is the largest club football stadium (and second-largest football stadium overall after W ...
after signing from
Cambridge United
Cambridge United Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Cambridge, England. They currently compete in EFL League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. Nicknamed the U’s, the club h ...
, but a broken leg in his first season – coupled with the arrival of
Eric Cantona
Eric Daniel Pierre Cantona (; ; born 24 May 1966) is a French former professional footballer who is currently an actor. In his football career Eric Cantona was a physically strong, hard-working and tenacious player. He combined technical skill a ...
– saw his first team opportunities limited. On the same day, his new club are held to a 2–2 draw by
QPR at
Loftus Road
Loftus Road, currently known as MATRADE Loftus Road Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Shepherd's Bush, West London, Greater London, England, which is home to Queens Park Rangers F.C., Queens Park Rangers Football Club, w ...
.
Everton crash to the bottom of the Premier League with a 3–0 defeat at Blackburn, having picked up one point from their first five league games. Newcastle take their 100% start to the season to five games with a 4–2 home win over Chelsea, with second-placed Nottingham Forest beating Sheffield Wednesday 4–1 at the City Ground. In Division One, newly promoted
Reading
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For educators and researchers, reading is a multifacete ...
move into second place with a 3–1 win over Oldham at
Boundary Park
Boundary Park is a football stadium in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. Its name originates from the fact that it lies at the northwestern extremity of Oldham, with Royton and Chadderton lying immediately north and west respectively.
Bound ...
. Wolves move into third place with a 2–0 home win over Tranmere.
11 September 1994 –
Leeds United
Leeds United Football Club is a professional football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The team compete in the Premier League, the top tier of the English football league system.
Leeds United have won the League Championship th ...
beat
rival
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club Manchester United for the first time in more than a decade, defeating them 2–1 in the league at
Elland Road
Elland Road, or Elland Road Stadium, is a football stadium in Beeston, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which has been the Home (sports), home of Leeds United F.C., Leeds United since the club's formation in 1919. The stadium is the List of foot ...
. A north-eastern derby match in Division One sees Middlesbrough and Sunderland draw 2–2 at
Ayresome Park
Ayresome Park was a football stadium in the Ayresome area of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. It was the home of Middlesbrough F.C. from its construction in time for the 1903–04 season, until the Riverside Stadium opened in 1995. It ...
in what is likely to the last time Middlesbrough play either of their north-eastern rivals there; work is beginning on a new
30,000-seater stadium on the banks of the
River Tees
The River Tees (), in England, rises on the eastern slope of Cross Fell in the North Pennines and flows eastwards for to reach the North Sea in the North East of England. The modern-day history of the river has been tied with the industries ...
which is planned to open in time for next season.
13 September 1994 – Wolves go top of Division One with a 5–0 home win over Southend United. Bolton surge 10 places into fifth place with a 3–0 win at
Luton
Luton () is a town and borough in Bedfordshire, England. The borough had a population of 225,262 at the 2021 census.
Luton is on the River Lea, about north-west of London. The town's foundation dates to the sixth century as a Saxon settleme ...
.
Grimsby Town
Grimsby Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England, that competes in , the fourth level of the English football league system.
Nicknamed "the Mariners", the club was f ...
make a similar surge into seventh place by beating
Port Vale 4–1 at home. Newcastle beat
Royal Antwerp 5–0 in
Belgium
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in their first European fixture for 17 years, with midfielder
Robert Lee scoring a hat-trick.
14 September 1994 – Manchester United begin their quest for the
European Cup
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with a 4–2 home win over
Swedish champions
IFK Gothenburg in the first game of the group stage.
Ryan Giggs
Ryan Joseph Giggs (né Wilson; born 29 November 1973) is a Welsh football coach, former player and co-owner of Salford City. He is regarded as one of the greatest players of his generation, and one of the best wingers in the history of footba ...
scores twice. Middlesbrough return to the top of Division One with a 2–1 home win over bottom club
West Bromwich Albion
West Bromwich Albion Football Club (), commonly known as West Brom or The Albion, is a professional association football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the Englis ...
.
17 September 1994 – Dion Dublin scores on his Coventry City debut, a 2–1 home league win over Leeds United. Leicester City achieve their first Premier League win – 3–1 at home to Tottenham Hotspur, with young striker
Julian Joachim scoring twice. Nottingham Forest are held to a 1–1 draw at Southampton and miss the chance to go top of the league. Bryan Robson experiences his first league defeat as a manager when Middlesbrough lose 2–1 at Port Vale in Division One, surrendering top place to Wolves, who win 1–0 at
Burnley
Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2021 population of 78,266. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River B ...
.
18 September 1994 – Newcastle make it six straight wins from the start of the Premier League campaign with a 3–2 win at Arsenal, while Blackburn move into second place by beating Chelsea 2–1 at
Stamford Bridge.
19 September 1994 – The
East Anglia
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The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the East Angles, ...
n derby at
Portman Road
Portman Road is a association football, football stadium in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, which has been the home ground of Ipswich Town F.C., Ipswich Town since 1884. The stadium has also hosted many England youth international matches, and one E ...
sees Norwich beat Ipswich 2–1.
21 September 1994 –
Gary Lineker
Gary Winston Lineker ( ; born 30 November 1960) is an English Sports broadcasting, sports broadcaster and former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Striker (association football), striker. Lineker is the only player t ...
, England's second highest goalscorer of all time, announces his retirement from playing. Since leaving Tottenham in 1992, he has played for
Nagoya Grampus Eight
; formerly known as is a Japanese association football club that plays in the J1 League, and have for all but one season since the inauguration of the league, following promotion from the J2 League in 2017.
Based in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture an ...
of Japan. In the
League Cup, a weakened Manchester United side beat Port Vale 2–1 at
Vale Park
Vale Park is a football stadium in the area of Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, and it has been the home ground of Port Vale Football Club since its opening in 1950. It has a current capacity of 15,695, and was renovated durin ...
in the second round first leg, with 19-year-old striker
Paul Scholes
Paul Scholes (born 16 November 1974) is an English football pundit, coach and former player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time, Scholes spent his entire professional playing career with Manchester United, for whom h ...
scoring twice on his first team debut.
23 September 1994 –
UEFA
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announces that the Summer Cup will be re-introduced next year and will now be known as the
Intertoto Cup
The UEFA Intertoto Cup (from , "between" and , " betting pool"),Most precisely, from (football pool); cf. originally called the International Football Cup, was a summer football competition between European clubs. The competition was discon ...
. It will feature 40 clubs and at least one Premier League team (the highest placed applicant or applicants who failed to qualify for one of the three major European competitions) will be able to compete.
24 September 1994 – Newcastle drop points for the first time this season with a 1–1 draw at home to Liverpool but are still top of the Premier League. Manchester United suffer a shock 3–2 defeat at Ipswich, with
Paul Mason scoring twice from midfield for the
Suffolk
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side, while Paul Scholes scores on his first league appearance for the losers. Wolves continue to lead Division One on goal difference ahead of Middlesbrough.
25 September 1994 –
Wigan Athletic
Wigan Athletic Football Club is a professional association football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The team competes in the EFL League One, the third level of the English football league system.
Founded in 1932, they have p ...
sack manager
Kenny Swain after an appalling start to the season, which has seen them lose 8 of their first 9 games and already left the side four points adrift at the bottom of Division Three with most of the teams above them having a game in hand. Former player Graham Barrow, who resigned as Chester City manager two months ago, is announced as Swain's successor.
27 September 1994 – Blackburn Rovers, in Europe for the first time, are eliminated from the
UEFA Cup
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Computer scientists and Mathematici ...
3–2 on aggregate by Swedish side
Trelleborg
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, but Newcastle go through 10–2 on aggregate by beating Antwerp 5–2 on Tyneside, with
Andy Cole
Andrew Alexander Cole (born 15 October 1971) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. His professional career lasted from 1988 to 2008, and is mostly remembered for his time with Manchester United, who paid a Brit ...
scoring a hat-trick.
30 September 1994 – September draws to a close with Newcastle United still top after winning six of their first seven games, while Blackburn Rovers and Nottingham Forest have leapfrogged Manchester United into fourth place. Completing the top five are a Chelsea side who are showing some of their best form in years under the management of
Glenn Hoddle
Glenn Hoddle (born 27 October 1957) is an English former football player and manager. He currently works as a television pundit and commentator for ITV Sport and TNT Sports.
He played as a midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur, Monaco, Chelsea and ...
. Manchester City are also giving the top five a run for their money after last season's close shave with relegation. Everton are bottom of the division with no wins from their first seven games, while Crystal Palace, Coventry City and West Ham United are all still in the bottom four as well.
Graham Taylor
Graham Taylor (15 September 1944 – 12 January 2017) was an English football player, manager, pundit and chairman of Watford Football Club. He was the manager of the England national football team from 1990 to 1993, and also managed Lincoln ...
is rebuilding his managerial career well at Wolverhampton Wanderers, who have leapfrogged Middlesbrough on goals scored at the top of Division One.
Swindon Town
Swindon Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The team, known as the "Robins", currently compete in , the fourth level of the English football league system.
Founded as Swindon A ...
,
Tranmere Rovers
Tranmere Rovers Football Club are a professional association football club based in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. The team competes in , the fourth level of the English football league system.
Founded in 1884 as Belmont Football Club, they ...
and Reading complete the top five
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Burnley
Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2021 population of 78,266. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River B ...
.
1 October 1994 – Everton manager Mike Walker looks to pull his side together by making a triple
loan
In finance, a loan is the tender of money by one party to another with an agreement to pay it back. The recipient, or borrower, incurs a debt and is usually required to pay interest for the use of the money.
The document evidencing the deb ...
bid for
Rangers striker
Duncan Ferguson
Duncan Cowan Ferguson (born 27 December 1971) is a Scottish football coach and former player.
He began his career at Dundee United in 1990, and moved to Rangers in 1993 for what was then a British transfer record fee. He spent the remainder o ...
and midfielder
Ian Durrant
Ian Durrant (born 29 October 1966) is a Scottish professional football coach and former player who was last a first team coach at Kilwinning Rangers until the end of the 23-24 season.
During his playing career, Durrant played as a midfielder fo ...
as well as
Trevor Steven
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, who was sold from Everton to Rangers by
Colin Harvey
James Colin Harvey (born 16 November 1944) is an English former professional association football, footballer who is best known for his time as a player, coach and manager with Everton F.C., Everton.
Playing career
Harvey was born in Liverpool ...
in 1989. On the same day, Everton lose 2–0 to Manchester United at
Old Trafford
Old Trafford () is a football stadium in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, and is the home of Manchester United. With a capacity of 74,197, it is the largest club football stadium (and second-largest football stadium overall after W ...
and remain bottom of the Premier League. Newcastle maintain their lead of the Premier League with a 2–0 win at Aston Villa. Wolves and Middlesbrough continue their duel at the top of Division One.
2 October 1994 – Duncan Ferguson and Ian Durrant complete their loan moves from Rangers to Everton, but Trevor Steven's move falls through. West Ham climb out of the bottom four with a 2–1 win at Chelsea. Nottingham Forest climb back into second place and are two points behind Newcastle after beating QPR 3–2 at the
City Ground
The City Ground is a association football, football stadium in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England, on the banks of the River Trent. It has been home to Nottingham Forest F.C., Nottingham Forest since 1898 and has a capacity of 30,455.
...
. The only Division One action of the day sees West Bromwich Albion lose 4–1 to Stoke at the
Victoria Ground
The Victoria Ground was the home ground of Stoke City from 1878 until 1997, when the club relocated to the Britannia Stadium after 119 years. At the time of its demolition it was the oldest operational ground in the Football League.
Histor ...
.
3 October 1994 – Two local rivals scrapping for points to climb out of the relegation zone meet at
Filbert Street
Filbert Street was a football stadium in Leicester, England, which served as the home of Leicester City F.C. from 1891 until 2002. Although officially titled the City Business Stadium in the early 1990s, it remained known almost exclusively b ...
, with hosts Leicester holding Coventry to a 2–2 draw.
4 October 1994 – In the second legs of the second round League Cup ties,
Mansfield Town
Mansfield Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. The team competes in , the third level of the English football league system.
The club was formed in 1897 as Mans ...
of Division Three eliminate Premier League high-flyers Leeds United, while extra-time goals from
Chris Armstrong and
Bruce Dyer
Bruce Antonio Dyer (born 13 April 1975) is an English former professional footballer.
His career started in 1993 with Watford, before he became the country's first £1 million-teenager when he joined Crystal Palace in 1994. He spent five ...
help top-flight Crystal Palace see off the challenge of
Lincoln City, also of the fourth tier.
8 October 1994 – Nottingham Forest miss the chance to go top of the Premier League when Manchester City hold them to a 3–3 draw in a thrilling clash at
Maine Road
Maine Road was a football stadium in Moss Side, Manchester, England, that was home to Manchester City from 1923 to 2003. It hosted FA Cup semi-finals, the Charity Shield, a League Cup final and England matches. Maine Road's highest attenda ...
. Liverpool climb into third place with a 3–2 home win over Aston Villa. Manchester United's hopes of a third successive Premier League title are hit by a 1–0 defeat at Sheffield Wednesday, with
David Hirst scoring the only goal of the game.
15 October 1994 – Division Three side
Northampton Town
Northampton Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Northampton, England. The team competes in EFL League One, League One, the third level of the English football league system.
Founded in 1897, the c ...
move into the new
Sixfields Stadium
Sixfields Stadium is an 8,203-capacity all-seater sports stadium in the Sixfields area on the west side of Northampton, England. It has been the home ground of Northampton Town F.C., Northampton Town Football Club following their move from the ...
. Their first game is against
Barnet, ending in a 1–1 draw with 19-year-old striker
Martin Aldridge scoring the first goal at the new stadium. In the Premier League, Newcastle win 1–0 at Crystal Palace to make it 10 matches unbeaten and maintain their lead of the league. Blackburn keep up the pressure with a 3–2 home win over Liverpool. Manchester United bounce back from their disappointment last weekend to beat West Ham 1–0 at Old Trafford with a goal from
Eric Cantona
Eric Daniel Pierre Cantona (; ; born 24 May 1966) is a French former professional footballer who is currently an actor. In his football career Eric Cantona was a physically strong, hard-working and tenacious player. He combined technical skill a ...
. Leicester's hopes of surviving their first season in the Premier League are given a major boost when they beat Southampton 4–3 at home to climb out of the bottom four. Middlesbrough suffer a shock 5–1 defeat at Luton in Division One, which pushes them down from second to fourth place, but sees their hosts make a dramatic surge from 18th place to eighth. A thrilling game at
Fratton Park
Fratton Park is a association football, football ground in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, and is the home of Portsmouth F.C., Portsmouth Football Club. Fratton Park's location on Portsea Island is unique in English professional football, as it ...
sees
Portsmouth
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beat Swindon Town 4–3.
17 October 1994 –
Keith Burkinshaw, at 59 the oldest manager in the English league, is sacked by Division One strugglers West Bromwich Albion. Nottingham Forest climb back into second place in the Premier League with a 3–1 home win over Wimbledon putting them two points behind leaders Newcastle.
19 October 1994 – A late equaliser from
Lee Sharpe
Lee Stuart Sharpe (born 27 May 1971) is an English former professional footballer, sports television pundit, reality television personality and golfer.
As a player, Sharpe was predominantly a left winger from 1988 to 2004. He notably played ...
preserves Manchester United's 38-year unbeaten run in European competitions as they hold
FC Barcelona
Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly known as FC Barcelona and colloquially as Barça (), is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of ...
to a 2–2 draw in their third Champions League group fixture at Old Trafford.
22 October 1994 – An exciting weekend in the Premier League and Football League kicks off. Newcastle maintain their lead of the Premier League and take their unbeaten start to 11 matches with a 2–1 home win over Sheffield Wednesday, although Nottingham Forest keep the gap down to two points with a 2–0 win at Aston Villa. Norwich maintain their hold on sixth place with a 4–2 home win over QPR, while Manchester City's 5–2 home win over Tottenham takes them onto the brink of the top five and the chance of European football for the first time since the late 1970s. Wolves maintain their lead of Division One with a 3–3 draw at home to struggling
Millwall
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, as their nearest rivals Reading and Tranmere are both beaten.
23 October 1994 – Title contenders Blackburn Rovers and Manchester United clash in the league at
Ewood Park
Ewood Park () is a Association football, football stadium in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, and the home of Blackburn Rovers F.C., founding members of the English Football League, Football League and Premier League, who have played there since ...
, with
Alex Ferguson
Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson (born 31 December 1941) is a Scottish former professional football manager and player, best known for managing Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. He is widely regarded as the greatest manager of all time and ...
's side finishing 4–2 winners.
29 October 1994 – Newcastle's unbeaten start to the Premier League season ends with a 2–0 defeat to Manchester United, although they remain top of the table thanks to Nottingham Forest's 2–0 defeat at home to fourth-placed Blackpool. A mere five points separate the top four teams, with Liverpool muscling in on the leading pack with a 3–1 win at Ipswich. While Liverpool are showings signs of turning into serious title contenders for the first time in four seasons, Everton are held to a 1–1 draw at home to Arsenal and are still bottom of the Premier League and winless after 12 games.
31 October 1994 – October draws to a close with Newcastle United still top, with Nottingham Forest, Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Liverpool and Leeds United their nearest contenders. Everton are still bottom of the league and it currently looks like something little short of a miracle will save their 41-year top flight tenure as they have yet to win a league game after their opening 12 games. Leicester City, Wimbledon and Ipswich Town have also joined Everton in the relegation zone. Liverpool miss the chance of going third with a 2–1 defeat at QPR. Wolverhampton Wanderers and Middlesbrough remain level at the top of Division One, with Tranmere Rovers, Reading and Swindon Town complete the top five. Millwall have taken Burnley's place in the Division One relegation zone, which is otherwise unchanged.
1 November 1994 –
Osvaldo Ardiles is sacked after 16 months as manager of Tottenham Hotspur. Everton finally win a Premier League game at the 13th attempt by beating West Ham 1–0 at
Goodison Park
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. Ipswich boost their survival hopes with a 2–0 home win over Leeds.
David Kelly scores a hat-trick for Division One leaders in a 5–1 away win over struggling
Bristol City
Bristol City Football Club is a professional football club based in Bristol, England. The team compete in the , the second level of the English football league system.
Founded in 1894, the club competed in the Southern League and Western L ...
, which adds to the home side's relegation fears.
John Aldridge
John William Aldridge (born 18 September 1958) is a former footballer and manager. Nicknamed "Aldo", he was a prolific, record-breaking striker. His tally of 329 Football League goals is the sixth-highest in the history of English football.
...
scores four of Tranmere's goals in their 6–1 home win over Barnsley.
2 November 1994 – Manchester United lose 4–0 to Barcelona at the
Nou Camp in their fourth Champions League group game. In the Premier League, Crystal Palace beat Coventry 4–1 at
Highfield Road
Highfield Road was a football stadium in the city of Coventry, England. It was the home ground for Coventry City for 106 years.
History
It was built in 1899 in the Hillfields district, close to the city centre, and staged its final game on 30 ...
to climb from 17th to 12th. Blackburn keep up the pressure on Newcastle with a 1–0 win at Sheffield Wednesday.
UEFA Cup
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hopefuls Norwich draw 1–1 at Southampton.
5 November 1994 – Newcastle remain top of the Premier League with a 2–1 home win over QPR, with Blackburn remaining second and beating Tottenham 2–0 at
Ewood Park
Ewood Park () is a Association football, football stadium in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, and the home of Blackburn Rovers F.C., founding members of the English Football League, Football League and Premier League, who have played there since ...
.
6 November 1994 – Manchester United remain firmly in the hunt with a 2–1 away win over Aston Villa, still managed by
Alex Ferguson
Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson (born 31 December 1941) is a Scottish former professional football manager and player, best known for managing Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. He is widely regarded as the greatest manager of all time and ...
's predecessor
Ron Atkinson
Ronald Frederick Atkinson (born 18 March 1939) is an English former football player and manager. Nicknamed "Big Ron", he was regarded as one of Britain's best-known football pundits in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Nicknamed "The Tank" during his ...
, although Atkinson's job is reportedly on the line now that Villa have lost seven of their last eight Premier League games and are fourth from bottom, a mere 18 months after finishing runners-up to United in the first season of Premier League.
8 November 1994 –
Mike Walker is sacked after 10 months as manager of Everton.
9 November 1994 – ''
The Times
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'' reports that 16 Football League clubs are set to break away from the league to form a second tier of the Premier League. Liverpool move into third place in the Premier League with a 3–1 home win over Chelsea. Aston Villa lose 4–3 away to Wimbledon, and have now lost eight of their last nine league games.
10 November 1994 –
Ron Atkinson
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Nicknamed "The Tank" during his ...
is sacked as manager of Aston Villa, while Tottenham Hotspur appoint
Gerry Francis from Queens Park Rangers. Manchester United crush Manchester City 5–0 in the
Manchester derby
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at Old Trafford, with
Andrei Kanchelskis
Andrei Antanasovich Kanchelskis (; ; born 23 January 1969) is a Russian professional Association football, football coach and former player who currently manages Russian Second League side FC Dynamo Bryansk, Dynamo Bryansk. During his playing c ...
scoring a hat-trick.
11 November 1994 –
Joe Royle
Joseph Royle (born 8 April 1949) is an English football manager and former footballer. In his playing career as a striker, he debuted for Everton at the age of 16 and went on to play for Manchester City, Bristol City, Norwich City, and the E ...
, the longest-serving manager in England with 12 years at Oldham Athletic, is named as the new manager of Everton.
13 November 1994 – The third round of the FA Cup is highlighted by Division Two promotion chasers
Oxford United
Oxford United Football Club () is a professional association football, football club based in Oxford, England. The club compete in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football league system, English football. Founded as Headingto ...
's 2–0 defeat at
non-league
Non-League football describes association football, football leagues played outside the top leagues of a country. Usually, it describes leagues which are not fully professional. The term is primarily used for football in England, where it is ...
club
Marlow.
14 November 1994 –
Ray Wilkins
Raymond Colin Wilkins (14 September 1956 – 4 April 2018) was an English football player and coach.
Born into a footballing family with his father and three brothers involved in the game, Wilkins played as a midfielder. He began his career a ...
, 38, quits as Crystal Palace player-coach to return to
Queens Park Rangers
Queens Park Rangers Football Club, commonly abbreviated to QPR, is a professional association football club based in Shepherd's Bush, West London, England. The team currently compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English f ...
as their new player-manager, while
Brian Little resigns as manager of Leicester City, sparking rumours that he will take over at Aston Villa.
19 November 1994 – Manchester United go top of the Premier League with a 3–0 home win over Crystal Palace, as Newcastle's lead of the table ends with a 3–2 defeat to Wimbledon. Managerless Aston Villa win 4–3 at Tottenham but remain in the bottom four.
21 November 1994 – Joe Royle has a dream start to his reign as Everton manager as they triumph 2–0 over Liverpool in the
Merseyside derby
The Merseyside derby is an association football match between Everton F.C., Everton and Liverpool F.C., Liverpool, two clubs based in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is the longest running top-flight local derby, derby in England, with its fi ...
at
Goodison Park
Goodison Park is a Association football, football stadium in Walton, Liverpool, Walton, Liverpool, England, it was the home of Premier League club Everton F.C., Everton from 1892 until 2025. It is now the home of Everton F.C. (women), Everton's ...
and climb off the bottom of the Premier League.
23 November 1994 – Managerless Leicester boost their survival hopes with a 2–1 home win over Arsenal. In the Champions League, Manchester United are left facing likely elimination after losing 3–1 to IFK Gothenburg, being reduced to 10 men after
Paul Ince
Paul Emerson Carlyle Ince (; born 21 October 1967) is an English professional football manager and former player who was most recently manager of Reading. A midfielder, Ince played professionally from 1986 to 2007, starting his career with West ...
was sent off.b
25 November 1994 – Brian Little is named as the new Aston Villa manager on his 41st birthday.
26 November 1994 – Alan Shearer scores a hat-trick and Chris Sutton nets once as Blackburn Rovers beat Queens Park Rangers 4–0 in the league at Ewood Park to go top of the Premier League. Manchester United's short-lived lead is ended as they are held to a goalless draw at Arsenal in an ill-tempered match where
Mark Hughes
Leslie Mark Hughes (born 1 November 1963) is a Welsh association football, football coach and former player who is the head coach of club Carlisle United F.C., Carlisle United.
During his playing career he usually operated as a Forward (asso ...
is sent off and
Paul Ince
Paul Emerson Carlyle Ince (; born 21 October 1967) is an English professional football manager and former player who was most recently manager of Reading. A midfielder, Ince played professionally from 1986 to 2007, starting his career with West ...
injures his ankle blocking a shot from
John Jensen
John Jensen (; born 3 May 1965), nicknamed Faxe (), is a Danish professional football manager and former player.
A former midfielder, his playing career lasted almost two entire decades, including a stint with Arsenal in England and three stin ...
. Middlesbrough return to the top of Division One with a 2–0 win at Charlton.
30 November 1994 – Blackburn Rovers are the new month-end Premier League leaders, ahead of second-placed Manchester United by a single point, while they are two points ahead of former leaders Newcastle United who have dipped to third place. Liverpool, Nottingham Forest and Leeds United are continuing to put up a strong challenge, along with a Manchester City side who spent last season battling to avoid relegation. Everton's new manager Joe Royle has taken them off bottom place over the last month with their first three league wins of the season, with Ipswich Town and Leicester City now propping up the league. Also in the relegation zone are League Cup holders Aston Villa, who almost won the league title two seasons ago. Middlesbrough finish the month as outright leaders of Division One with a two-point lead over Wolverhampton Wanderers. Tranmere Rovers,
Bolton Wanderers
Bolton Wanderers Football Club ( ) is a professional association football, football club based in Horwich, Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in EFL League One, League One, the third level of the Englis ...
and
Luton Town
Luton Town Football Club is a professional association football, football club from Luton, Bedfordshire, England. The club currently competes in EFL League One, the third level of the English football league system. Nicknamed "The Hatters", L ...
complete the top five, while Swindon Town's drastic loss of form over the last month has seen them slump from the playoff zone into 19th place and manager
John Gorman sacked to be replaced by 33-year-old Manchester City midfielder
Steve McMahon
Stephen Joseph McMahon (born 20 August 1961) is an English football manager, former professional footballer and current television pundit.
As a player, he was a midfielder from 1979 to 1998, most notably playing for Liverpool in the late 1980s. ...
, who takes over as player-manager. Portsmouth, another side who were looking like promotion contenders not so long ago, have slumped even further towards the relegation zone, only ahead of
Bristol City
Bristol City Football Club is a professional football club based in Bristol, England. The team compete in the , the second level of the English football league system.
Founded in 1894, the club competed in the Southern League and Western L ...
on goal difference. West Bromwich Albion and Notts County continue to struggle.
3 December 1994 –
Teddy Sheringham
Edward Paul "Teddy" Sheringham (born 2 April 1966) is an English football manager and former player. He played as a forward, mostly as a second striker, in a 24-year professional career. Sheringham was part of the Manchester United team tha ...
scores a hat-trick as Tottenham Hotspur beat Newcastle United 4–2 in the league at
White Hart Lane
White Hart Lane was a Association football, football stadium in Tottenham, North London and the home of Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Tottenham Hotspur Football Club from 1899 to 2017. Its capacity varied over the years; when changed to all-seater i ...
. Blackburn remain top of the table with a 3–0 away win over Wimbledon, although an
Eric Cantona
Eric Daniel Pierre Cantona (; ; born 24 May 1966) is a French former professional footballer who is currently an actor. In his football career Eric Cantona was a physically strong, hard-working and tenacious player. He combined technical skill a ...
goal gives Manchester United a 1–0 home win over Norwich to ensure that the gap between first and second place remains at one point. Manchester City's 2–1 at Ipswich takes them to within one point and one place of the top five. A thrilling match in Division One sees Sheffield United win 6–3 at Luton and move to the brink of the playoff places, boosting their hopes of an immediate return to the Premier League.
7 December 1994 – Manchester United bow out of the Champions League despite beating
Galatasaray
Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (, ''Galatasaray Sports Club''), more commonly referred to as simply Galatasaray and familiarly as Cimbom, is a Turkish sports club based on the European side of the city of Istanbul including basketball, wheelchair ...
4–0 at Old Trafford in their final group game. Young midfielders
Simon Davies and
David Beckham
Sir David Robert Joseph Beckham ( ; born 2 May 1975) is an English former professional footballer, the president and co-owner of Inter Miami CF and co-owner of Salford City. Primarily a right winger and known for his range of passing, cross ...
score their first goals for the club.
9 December 1994 – The Football Association quashes Tottenham's FA Cup ban and 6-point deduction.
10 December 1994 – Nottingham Forest beat Ipswich Town 4–1; all the goals are scored in the first-half. Blackburn scrape a 3–2 home win over Southampton to maintain their lead of the Premier League. Manchester United keep up the pressure with a 3–2 win over QPR at
Loftus Road
Loftus Road, currently known as MATRADE Loftus Road Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Shepherd's Bush, West London, Greater London, England, which is home to Queens Park Rangers F.C., Queens Park Rangers Football Club, w ...
;
Paul Scholes
Paul Scholes (born 16 November 1974) is an English football pundit, coach and former player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time, Scholes spent his entire professional playing career with Manchester United, for whom h ...
scores twice for the visitors and
Les Ferdinand
Leslie Ferdinand (born 8 December 1966) is an English football coach, former professional footballer and television pundit.
A striker, his playing career included notable spells in the Premier League with Queens Park Rangers, Newcastle United, ...
– one of the strikers whose name has recently been linked with a move to Old Trafford – scores twice for the hosts.
11 December 1994 – Arsenal manager
George Graham
George Graham (born 30 November 1944) is a Scottish former football player and manager.
Nicknamed "Stroller", he made 455 appearances in England's Football League as a midfielder or forward for Aston Villa, Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester Unite ...
denies allegations that he received an illegal £285,000 payment as part of a transfer deal. Everton pay a club record fee of £4 million for Rangers striker Duncan Ferguson, who has been on loan at
Goodison Park
Goodison Park is a Association football, football stadium in Walton, Liverpool, Walton, Liverpool, England, it was the home of Premier League club Everton F.C., Everton from 1892 until 2025. It is now the home of Everton F.C. (women), Everton's ...
for two months.
12 December 1994 –
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People
* Scarborough (surname)
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* Scarborough, Western Australia, suburb of Perth
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, who are bottom of Division Three, sack manager
Billy Ayre
William Ayre (7 May 1952 – 16 April 2002) was an English association football, footballer who played for three clubs in a sixteen-year professional career, making over three hundred English Football League, League appearances in the process. ...
, with former manager
Ray McHale returning to the club for his second spell in charge. Though the vast majority of the clubs in the Football Conference still do not have grounds suitable for hosting League football, current Conference leaders
Macclesfield Town's
Moss Rose
Moss Rose, known as The Leasing.com Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, which is the home ground of Macclesfield F.C., and the former home of Macclesfield Town F.C., a club wound up in Se ...
ground was used by Chester City from 1990 to 1992, making it seem likely that they will be promoted if they win the Conference.
15 December 1994 –
Mark McGhee
Mark Edward McGhee (born 25 May 1957) is a Scottish former professional football player and coach. A former forward, McGhee started his career at Greenock Morton in 1975 and had spells at clubs including Newcastle United, Aberdeen, Hamburg, ...
leaves Reading to take charge of Leicester City. He is replaced at
Elm Park by 35-year-old players
Jimmy Quinn and
Mick Gooding.
17 December 1994 – Manchester United suffer their first home league defeat of the season when they go down 2–1 at home to Nottingham Forest, who win the game with goals from
Stuart Pearce
Stuart Pearce (born 24 April 1962) is an English professional football manager and former player, who was most recently a first-team coach for Premier League club West Ham United. He was nicknamed "Psycho" for his unforgiving style of play.
...
and
Stan Collymore
Stanley Victor Collymore (born 22 January 1971) is an English football pundit, sport strategist, and former player who played as a Forward (association football), striker from 1990 to 2001, most notably for Nottingham Forest and later Liverpo ...
, squandering the chance to go top of the league.
Tony Cottee
Antony Richard Cottee (born 11 July 1965) is an English former professional footballer and manager who now works as a television football commentator.
As a player, he was a striker from 1982 until 2001, notably playing in the top flight of En ...
scores a hat-trick for West Ham United in their 3–0 home league win over Manchester City.
18 December 1994 –
John Lyall
John Angus Lyall (24 February 1940 – 18 April 2006) was an English footballer and manager primarily known for his 34 years at West Ham United. He played for the club as a youth, then as a first-team player before injury cut short his career. ...
resigns after four-and-a-half years in charge of Ipswich Town, who are currently bottom of the Premier League.
19 December 1994 – Former Liverpool manager
Graeme Souness
Graeme James Souness (; born 6 May 1953) is a Scottish former professional football player, manager and television pundit.
A midfielder, Souness achieved his greatest period of success as an integral part of the Liverpool team of the late 19 ...
denies allegations that he received a £30,000 illegal payment in connection with a player transfer.
21 December 1994 – Brian Little's rebuilding of Aston Villa begins when he signs midfielder Ian Taylor from Sheffield Wednesday, with striker
Guy Whittingham
Guy Whittingham (born 10 November 1964) is an English football manager and former professional footballer.
As a player, he was a striker from 1988 until 2005, notably in the Premier League for Aston Villa and Sheffield Wednesday. Having started ...
moving in the opposite direction in a deal worth £1 million.
26 December 1994 –
Boxing Day
Boxing Day, also called as Offering Day is a holiday celebrated after Christmas Day, occurring on the second day of Christmastide (26 December). Boxing Day was once a day to donate gifts to those in need, but it has evolved to become a part ...
drama in the Premier League sees Blackburn stay on top by beating Manchester City 3–1 at
Maine Road
Maine Road was a football stadium in Moss Side, Manchester, England, that was home to Manchester City from 1923 to 2003. It hosted FA Cup semi-finals, the Charity Shield, a League Cup final and England matches. Maine Road's highest attenda ...
, while Manchester United keep up the pressure with a thrilling 3–2 away win over Chelsea.
28 December 1994 –
** Ipswich Town appoint their former player
George Burley
George Elder Burley (born 3 June 1956) is a Scottish former football player and manager. He had a professional career spanning 21 years as a player, making 628 league appearances and earning 11 Scotland caps. His most successful spell came whi ...
as their new manager. Burley, 38, had recently quit
Colchester United
Colchester United Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Colchester, Essex, England. The team competes in , the fourth level of the English football league system.
Founded in 1937, the club spent its ea ...
and without a proven track record he was perhaps a surprise candidate for the job.
*** Manchester United are held to a surprise 1–1 home draw by struggling Leicester City, preventing them from going top of the Premier League after Blackburn's fixture was cancelled due to bad weather.
31 December 1994: 1994 draws to a close with Blackburn Rovers still top and now with a three-point lead over Manchester United as well as a game in hand. Liverpool and Nottingham Forest are still in distant contention while a resurgent Tottenham Hotspur are now putting pressure on the top five, while Leeds United and Manchester City's challenges are practically dead and buried as they have slid down the table considerably. Norwich City, meanwhile, finish 1994 in seventh place as manager
John Deehan looks set to defy the critics who felt he could never successfully replace Mike Walker and mount a challenge for another European place. The month-end bottom four of Everton, Aston Villa, Ipswich Town and Leicester City remain unchanged from last month. Middlesbrough continue to lead the Division One promotion race, now five points ahead of their nearest rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers. Tranmere Rovers, Reading and
Sheffield United complete the top five, while the change of manager at Swindon Town has made little difference to their league form (though they continue to progress well in the League Cup) as they are only outside the relegation zone on goal difference. The final Premier League games of 1994 include a 3–1 win for QPR against Arsenal at Highbury, Manchester United being held to a 2–2 draw at Southampton, leaders Blackburn winning 1–0 at Crystal Palace and Tottenham climbing into sixth place with a 4–0 win at Coventry. Wolves keep up their Division One promotion push with a 3–1 win at
Barnsley
Barnsley () is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. It is the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. The town's population was 71,422 in 2021, while the wider boroug ...
, whose own promotion hopes are dented as a result. Leaders Middlesbrough draw 1–1 at Stoke. Burnley climb out of the relegation zone with a 5–1 home win over Southend.
2 January 1995 – Alan Shearer adds another hat-trick for Blackburn Rovers in their 4–2 home win over West Ham United in the league. Ipswich Town give their survival hopes a boost with a 4–1 home win over fellow strugglers Leicester City.
3 January 1995 – Manchester United get their title push back on track after back-to-back draws by beating Coventry City 2–0 at Old Trafford.
6 January 1995 – Aston Villa sign striker
Tommy Johnson and defender
Gary Charles from Derby County for £1.45million each.
7 January 1995 – Division Three
Walsall
Walsall (, or ; locally ) is a market town and administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. Historic counties of England, Historically part of Staffordshire, it is located ...
hold Premier League Leeds United to a 1–1 draw the
Bescot Stadium
Bescot Stadium, currently known as the Pallet-Track Bescot Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in the area of Bescot, Walsall, West Midlands, England, and is the current home ground of Walsall Football Club and Aston Vill ...
in the FA Cup third round to force a
replay.
Enfield's hopes of achieving an upset against Leicester City are ended when they lose 2–0 to the home side at
Filbert Street
Filbert Street was a football stadium in Leicester, England, which served as the home of Leicester City F.C. from 1891 until 2002. Although officially titled the City Business Stadium in the early 1990s, it remained known almost exclusively b ...
. Marlow's FA Cup dream ends in a 2–0 defeat at Swindon Town.
Wrexham
Wrexham ( ; ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in the North East Wales, north-east of Wales. It lies between the Cambrian Mountains, Welsh mountains and the lower River Dee, Wales, Dee Valley, near the England–Wales border, borde ...
shock Ipswich Town 2–0, while
Aylesbury United's run ends in a 4–0 defeat by Queens Park Rangers at
Loftus Road
Loftus Road, currently known as MATRADE Loftus Road Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Shepherd's Bush, West London, Greater London, England, which is home to Queens Park Rangers F.C., Queens Park Rangers Football Club, w ...
.
Birmingham City
Birmingham City Football Club is a professional football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small Heath in 1888, Birmingham in 1905, and Birmingham City in 1943. The team compete in the ...
hold Liverpool to a goalless draw. Last season's beaten finalists Chelsea beat Charlton 3–0 at Stamford Bridge.
8 January 1995 – Chester City sack manager Mike Pejic, with the club having lost 17 of their 24 games this season and being ten points adrift of safety. Physiotherapist
Derek Mann is appointed as caretaker manager.
9 January 1995 – Manchester United meet Sheffield United in the FA Cup at
Bramall Lane
Bramall Lane is a association football, football stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, which is the home of Sheffield United F.C., Sheffield United.
The stadium was originally a cricket ground, built on a road named after the Bramall ...
for the second season running, and triumph 2–0.
10 January 1995 – Manchester United break the English transfer fee record by signing Andy Cole from Newcastle United in a deal worth £7million; £6million cash plus £1million-rated winger
Keith Gillespie
Keith Robert Gillespie ( ; born 18 February 1975) is a Northern Irish former professional footballer who plays as a winger for FC Mindwell in the Mid-Ulster Football League.
He began his career at Manchester United after winning the FA Yo ...
, 19.
11 January 1995 – Everton are reported to be in the process of making a £2.5million bid for 31-year-old Manchester United striker
Mark Hughes
Leslie Mark Hughes (born 1 November 1963) is a Welsh association football, football coach and former player who is the head coach of club Carlisle United F.C., Carlisle United.
During his playing career he usually operated as a Forward (asso ...
, whose future at Old Trafford has been threatened by the arrival of Andy Cole.
12 January 1995 –
Howard Kendall
Howard Kendall (22 May 1946 – 17 October 2015) was an English footballer and manager.
Kendall joined Preston North End as an apprentice and stayed with the club when he turned professional. He was a runner-up in the 1964 FA Cup with Preston ...
makes his return to management with Division One's basement side Notts County, who have been under the management of
Russell Slade since early September.
13 January 1995 – Arsenal pay Luton Town £2.5million for 19-year-old
Welsh striker
John Hartson
John Hartson (born 5 April 1975) is a Welsh former professional footballer, coach and sports television pundit for S4C, Sky Sports, Premier Sports TV and TNT Sports.
As a player he was a striker, notably for Scottish club Celtic where his ti ...
.
14 January 1995 – Ipswich Town collect three priceless points in a shock 1–0 win over Liverpool at Anfield, in which 21-year-old winger
Adam Tanner scores the only goal.
15 January 1995 – Mark Hughes suffers a knee injury as he scored Manchester United's goal in their 1–1 league draw at Newcastle United. It is feared that he has suffered cruciate ligament damage and will be out of action until next season, effectively ending Everton's hopes of signing him any time soon. Manchester United's new signing Andy Cole does not play in the match, nor does Keith Gillespie, who went into the opposite direction as part of the deal. United are now five points behind leaders Blackburn, who have a game in hand.
16 January 1995 – Tests show that the knee injury suffered by Mark Hughes yesterday is less serious than feared, and he is expected to return to action before the end of next month.
17 January 1995 – Walsall's FA Cup dream is ended in a 5–2 defeat by Leeds United at Elland Road in the third round replay.
18 January 1995 – Millwall beat Arsenal 2–0 in the FA Cup third round replay at Highbury.
20 January 1995 –
Steve Nicol
Stephen Nicol (born 11 December 1961) is a Scottish retired professional footballer who mainly played as a right back and occasionally played in other positions across defence and midfield. He played for the successful Liverpool teams of the 1 ...
, Liverpool's longest serving player, joins Notts County on a free transfer after 13 years at
Anfield
Anfield is a Association football, football stadium in the area of Anfield (suburb), Anfield, Liverpool, England, which has been the home of Liverpool F.C. since its formation in 1892. The stadium has a seating capacity of 61,276, making it the ...
.
21 January 1995 – Leeds United pay a club record £3.4million for
Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt e.V. () is a German professional sports club based in Frankfurt, Hesse. It is best known for its football club, which was founded on 8 March 1899. The club currently plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German footb ...
's
Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...
ian striker
Tony Yeboah
Anthony Yeboah (born 6 June 1966) is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
He is considered one of the most prominent and prolific goal scorers in Ghanaian and African football history and gained a reputation for ...
. Everton climb out of the relegation zone again with a 3–1 home win over Crystal Palace.
Bolton Wanderers
Bolton Wanderers Football Club ( ) is a professional association football, football club based in Horwich, Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in EFL League One, League One, the third level of the Englis ...
, who have been outside the top flight since 1980, beat Charlton 5–1 at
Burnden Park
Burnden Park was the home of England, English association football, football club Bolton Wanderers F.C., Bolton Wanderers, who played home games there between 1895 and 1997. As well as hosting the 1901 FA Cup final replay, in 1946 it was the sc ...
to move just two points short of top position in Division One. The club also have a new all-seater stadium at
Lostock in the pipeline which is hoped to be open by the 1997–98 season, as well as being in this season's League Cup semi-final.
22 January 1995 – Blackburn Rovers are now just one point ahead of Manchester United at the top of the Premier League after Alex Ferguson's men beat them 1–0 at Old Trafford with Eric Cantona's 12th league goal of the season. Andy Cole makes his United debut in the game.
25 January 1995 – After being sent off for kicking an opponent in Manchester United's 1–1 draw at Crystal Palace, Eric Cantona leaps into the crowd and kicks spectator Matthew Simmons, who had allegedly been making racist remarks to the Frenchman.
Jurgen Klinsmann is carried off in Tottenham's 1–0 defeat at Aston Villa in a collision with goalkeeper
Mark Bosnich
Mark John Bosnich (; born 13 January 1972) is an Australian former professional association football, soccer player who played as a goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper, and sports pundit. He played in England for Premier League clubs ...
.
26 January 1995 – Blackburn Rovers beat Ipswich Town 4–1 in the league at Ewood Park, with Alan Shearer scoring yet another hat-trick.
27 January 1995 – Manchester United confirm that Eric Cantona will not play for the first team for the rest of the season, and fine him £20,000 after being charged with bringing the game into disrepute.
28 January 1995 – In the first game after the Eric Cantona incident, Manchester United beat Wrexham 5–2 in the FA Cup fourth round at
Old Trafford
Old Trafford () is a football stadium in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, and is the home of Manchester United. With a capacity of 74,197, it is the largest club football stadium (and second-largest football stadium overall after W ...
.
Brian Flynn's Division Two underdogs gave United a scare after taking an early lead, but United soon blew them apart.
30 January 1995 – Brian Little continues his reshaping of the Aston Villa squad with the £1.7million sale of defender
Earl Barrett to Everton.
31 January 1995 – The month ends with Blackburn Rovers still leading the Premier League, while Manchester United have cut their lead to a single point
Kenny Dalglish
Sir Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish (born 4 March 1951) is a Scottish former association football, football player and manager (association football), manager. He is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time as well as one of Celtic's, Liv ...
's men have a two-game advantage of their Old Trafford rivals. Liverpool, Nottingham Forest and Newcastle United complete the top five. Ipswich Town and Leicester City continue to prop up the top flight, while Aston Villa and Everton have surged clear of the drop zone at the expense of Coventry City and West Ham United. Middlesbrough are now two points ahead of Wolverhampton Wanderers (who are level with Bolton Wanderers) at the top of Division One, with Reading and Tranmere Rovers completing the top five.
1 February 1995 – Blackburn are held to a 1–1 draw at home to Leeds, but still have a five-point lead over Manchester United. Division One strugglers
Portsmouth
Portsmouth ( ) is a port city status in the United Kingdom, city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England. Most of Portsmouth is located on Portsea Island, off the south coast of England in the Solent, making Portsmouth the only city in En ...
sack manager
Jim Smith after four years in charge and appoint veteran player
Terry Fenwick
Terence William Fenwick (born 17 November 1959) is an English former football manager and player who played either as a centre-back or a full-back.
During his playing career, he made a total of 455 appearances in the English Football League f ...
as player-manager.
4 February 1995 – Andy Cole scores his first goal for Manchester United in a 1–0 home win over Aston Villa in the Premier League. Villa's 32-year-old striker
John Fashanu
John Winton Fashanu (born 18 September 1962) is an English television presenter and former professional footballer.
As a footballer he was a centre-forward from 1978 until 1995, most notably in an eight-year spell at Wimbledon in which he won ...
is carried off with a knee injury.
5 February 1995 – The gap between first and second at the top of the Premier League now stands at two points after Tottenham beat Blackburn 3–1 at
White Hart Lane
White Hart Lane was a Association football, football stadium in Tottenham, North London and the home of Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Tottenham Hotspur Football Club from 1899 to 2017. Its capacity varied over the years; when changed to all-seater i ...
.
7 February 1995 –
Leyton Orient
Leyton Orient Football Club, commonly referred to as Orient, is a professional association football club based in Leyton, Waltham Forest, London, England. The team compete in EFL League One, the third level of the English football league system. ...
co-manager
John Sitton takes the bizarre move of sacking defender
Terry Howard at half-time during a 1–0 defeat by Blackpool.
8 February 1995 – After Wolves and Sheffield Wednesday drew 1–1 in their FA Cup fourth round replay, Wednesday goalkeeper
Kevin Pressman
Kevin Paul Pressman (born 6 November 1967) is an English football coach, former professional goalkeeper, and goalkeeping coach and assistant manager for Gainsborough Trinity.
As a player, he made over 500 appearances in both the Premier Leagu ...
put his side 3–0 up in the penalty shoot-out, only to lose.
11 February 1995 – Aston Villa match the record for a Premier League victory when they beat Wimbledon 7–1 at Villa Park. Recently signed striker
Tommy Johnson scores a hat-trick. Manchester United win the
Manchester derby
The Manchester derby refers to association football, football matches between Manchester City F.C., Manchester City and Manchester United F.C., Manchester United, first contested in 1881. City play at the City of Manchester Stadium in Bradford, ...
3–0 at
Maine Road
Maine Road was a football stadium in Moss Side, Manchester, England, that was home to Manchester City from 1923 to 2003. It hosted FA Cup semi-finals, the Charity Shield, a League Cup final and England matches. Maine Road's highest attenda ...
to go top of the table.
12 February 1995 – Blackburn return to the top of the Premier League with a 3–1 home win over Sheffield Wednesday.
13 February 1995 – Less than six months after leaving them to return to West Ham United, Tony Cottee scores twice against Everton in a 2–2 league draw at
Upton Park.
14 February 1995 – George Graham, whose job as Arsenal manager is reportedly under threat due to sub-standard Premier League form as well as allegations of illegal payments, pays
Vitesse Arnhem
SBV Vitesse Arnhem (''Stichting Betaald Voetbal Vitesse Arnhem, Eng: Professional Football Foundation Vitesse Arnhem''), widely known as Vitesse () or internationally known as Vitesse Arnhem, is a Dutch professional association football, footba ...
£2million for the
Netherlands
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winger
Glenn Helder.
Coventry
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sack manager
Phil Neal
Philip George Neal (born 20 February 1951) is an English retired footballer who played for Northampton Town, Liverpool and Bolton Wanderers as a full-back. He is regarded as one of the most successful English players of all time, having won ei ...
.
15 February 1995 – England's friendly international against the Republic of Ireland in
Dublin
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is cancelled, with the Republic 1–0 in the lead thanks to Wolverhampton Wanderers striker
David Kelly, due to rioting by England
hooligans believed to be member of the
Combat 18 organisation.
18 February 1995 – Three months after being sacked as manager of Aston Villa, Ron Atkinson returns to management with Villa's local rivals Coventry City, who beat West Ham 2–0 at home today and climbed five places up the Premier League table to 13th. On the same day, his previous club win 2–1 at Sheffield Wednesday to climb to an impressive ninth as Brian Little's new blood so far circulated well at
Villa Park
Villa Park is a association football, football stadium in Aston, Birmingham, with a seating capacity of 42,918. It has been the home of Premier League club Aston Villa F.C., Aston Villa since 1897. The ground is less than a mile from both Witt ...
.
19 February 1995 – Mark Hughes scores his first goal for Manchester United since his return from injury in a 3–1 win over Leeds United in the FA Cup fifth round at Old Trafford.
21 February 1995 – George Graham is sacked as Arsenal manager after he admits to receiving an illegal payment of £425,000 from
Norwegian agent
Rune Hauge when Arsenal signed
Pal Lydersen in 1991 and
John Jensen
John Jensen (; born 3 May 1965), nicknamed Faxe (), is a Danish professional football manager and former player.
A former midfielder, his playing career lasted almost two entire decades, including a stint with Arsenal in England and three stin ...
in 1992. Assistant manager
Stewart Houston
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will take over as manager until the end of the season before Arsenal find a permanent manager to succeed Graham, who had been in charge at
Highbury
Highbury is an area of North London, England, in the London Borough of Islington.
Highbury Manor
Highbury was once owned by Ranulf, brother of Ilger, and included all the areas north and east of Canonbury and Holloway Roads.
The manor hou ...
since May 1986 and had won six major trophies including two league titles. Arsenal are currently 10th in the league after winning 1–0 at home to Nottingham Forest today.
22 February 1995 – In Brian Little's first game against old club Leicester City since leaving them for Aston Villa, the two sides draw 4–4 in the league at
Villa Park
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. The gap between first and second in the table remains at two points with Blackburn winning 2–1 at home to Wimbledon and Manchester United winning 2–0 at Norwich.
24 February 1995 –
The Football Association
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extends Eric Cantona's suspension until 30 September and he is fined a further £10,000.
25 February 1995 – Manchester United's hopes of a third successive league title win are damaged by a 1–0 defeat to a resurgent Everton, with Duncan Ferguson scoring the only goal. Leaders Blackburn are held to a goalless draw at home to Norwich.
26 February 1995 –
Peter Taylor resigns as manager of Southend United, who were considered one of the pre-season favourites for promotion, but have fallen to being just one place outside the relegation zone after a disastrous run of form. Former Lincoln City manager
Steve Thompson is announced as caretaker manager until the end of the season.
28 February 1995 – Blackburn Rovers remain month-end leaders of the Premier League, but failed to take maximum advantages of the two games they had in hand and are still only three points ahead of second-placed Manchester United. The challenge from the remainder of the top five – Newcastle United, Liverpool and particularly Nottingham Forest – is becoming more and more distant, while Norwich City's challenge for a UEFA Cup place has collapsed into a battle to avoid relegation in the space of a few weeks. The bottom four remain unchanged apart from West Ham United climbing out of the drop zone at the expense of a goal-shy Crystal Palace. Tranmere Rovers have stormed to the top of Division One at the expense of Middlesbrough, with the top five being completed by Bolton Wanderers, Sheffield United and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
4 March 1995 – Andy Cole becomes the first player to score five goals in a Premier League game in Manchester United's 9–0 home win over Ipswich Town – which is also the biggest win yet in the Premier League. United now have a greater goal difference than Blackburn, who remain top by three points after a 1–0 away win over Aston Villa. Fourth placed Liverpool beat third placed Newcastle 2–0 at Anfield.
5 March 1995 – West Ham boost their survival hopes with 1–0 away win over local rivals Arsenal.
7 March 1995 – Manchester United go top of the Premier League on goal difference when captain
Steve Bruce
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scores the only goal of the game in an away win over Wimbledon.
8 March 1995 – Blackburn return to the top of the Premier League with a 3–1 home win over Arsenal.
10 March 1995 – Aston Villa sign defender
Alan Wright
Alan Geoffrey Wright (born 28 September 1971) is an English football manager and former professional footballer.
He was a left back who has played over 750 league and cup games for eight clubs, including an eight-year spell in the Premier Lea ...
from Blackburn Rovers for £1million.
11 March 1995 – Liverpool's faint hopes of a unique domestic treble are ended when they lose 2–1 at home to Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Cup quarter-final. Blackburn drop two points but remain top of the Premier League when they draw 1–1 at Coventry, who ended their title hopes nearly a year ago. A Division One promotion crunch game at
Burnden Park
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sees second-placed Bolton beat Middlesbrough 1–0, although both sides have two games in hand over leaders Tranmere.
12 March 1995 – Everton's season which began with a 12-match winless start in the league is showing signs of turning into a success after they beat Newcastle United 1–0 at Goodison Park in the FA Cup quarter-final. Manchester United reach the semi-finals with a 2–0 win over Queens Park Rangers, managed by former United player Ray Wilkins and ending his hopes of beginning his managerial career with FA Cup glory.
13 March 1995 – Chelsea captain
Dennis Wise
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Beginning his career at Wimbledon, ...
is sentenced to three months in prison for assault and criminal damage, but is released on bail pending an appeal against his conviction and sentence. The court case follows an alleged attack on a taxi driver in London.
14 March 1995 – Liverpool's hopes of making a late run to the title are virtually ended when they lose 3–2 at home to Coventry City, with
Peter Ndlovu scoring a hat-trick for the Sky Blues.
15 March 1995 – Blackburn Rovers strengthen themselves for the title run-in with a £1.5million move for Southampton defender
Jeff Kenna. They are still three points ahead at the top of the Premier League after Manchester United are held to a goalless draw at home to Tottenham – the first time this season they have failed to score at home.
17 March 1995 – Southampton pay a club record £1.2million for Sheffield Wednesday striker
Gordon Watson to partner Matthew Le Tissier and Neil Shipperley in attack, with manager
Alan Ball looking for fresh blood to lift his side out of the relegation zone.
19 March 1995 – Manchester United are six points behind leaders Blackburn after losing 2–0 to Liverpool at Anfield with eight games remaining.
20 March 1995 – Norwich's 11-match winless run in the Premier League ends with a 3–0 win over local rivals Ipswich in the
East Anglia
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The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the East Angles, ...
n derby at
Carrow Road
Carrow Road is a association football, football stadium in Norwich, Norfolk, England, and is the home of EFL Championship club Norwich City F.C., Norwich City. The stadium is east of the city, near Norwich railway station and the River Wensum.
...
, and lifts
John Deehan's team five places into 11th position and pushes the visitors closer to an almost inevitable relegation.
21 March 1995 – Liverpool pay Millwall £1.5million for 18-year-old
Irish winger
Mark Kennedy – a record fee in English football for a teenager.
22 March 1995 – Crystal Palace reach the FA Cup semi finals for the time since 1990 with a 4–1 win at Wolves in the quarter-final replay. Manchester United, who will be Palace's opponents in the semi-final at
Villa Park
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next month, beat Arsenal 3–0 at Old Trafford in the Premier League to keep their title hopes alive.
23 March 1995 – A judge at
Croydon Crown Court sentences Eric Cantona to 14 days in prison for his attack on Matthew Simmons. He is released on bail, pending an appeal against the sentence. Meanwhile, Cantona's teammate
Paul Ince
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faces charges relating to the incident, while Matthew Simmons will also face prosecution for allegedly provoking the attack.
25 March 1995 –
31 March 1995 – Eric Cantona's prison sentence is quashed on appeal and he is sentenced to 120 hours of
community service
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. Meanwhile, his Manchester United side are still second in the league to a Blackburn Rovers team who have a three-point lead and a game in hand. The threat from Liverpool, Newcastle United and Nottingham Forest is now even more distant to the point that it could be mathematically ended within a couple of weeks. At the other end of the table, Ipswich Town and Leicester City continue to prop up the rest of the Premier League and will now need a practical miracle to beat the drop. Meanwhile, Crystal Palace are sinking deeper and deeper into hot water, while Southampton have fallen into the bottom four. A first win of 1995 has helped ease Norwich City's worries as they stand 12th, but they are just six points ahead of 19th-placed Southampton who have two games in hand. Arsenal, still reeling from the George Graham and Paul Merson scandals, are suddenly under surprise threat of relegation from a division they traditionally compete at the top end of. Middlesbrough have regained their lead of Division One, where Bolton Wanderers, Tranmere Rovers, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Reading complete the top five.
1 April 1995 – Nottingham Forest achieve a record Premier League away win when they beat Sheffield Wednesday 7–1 at
Hillsborough. Meanwhile, Ipswich Town and Leicester City's survival hopes are virtually ended by home defeats. Arsenal climb four places up the Premier League table with a 5–1 home win over Norwich. Crystal Palace climb out of the relegation zone with a 2–1 home win over Manchester City, who are now just four points above the relegation zone having been in the hunt for a
UEFA Cup
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place as recently as December.
2 April 1995 – Liverpool beat Bolton to win the
League Cup for a record fifth time with two goals from
Man of the Match
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, Steve McManaman. A thrilling game at
The Dell sees Southampton move closer to safety with a 4–3 win over Tottenham Hotspur, with
Matt Le Tissier
Matthew Paul Le Tissier (; born 14 October 1968) is a former professional association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. Le Tissier spent his entire professional club career with Southampton F.C., Southampton, before turning to non- ...
scoring twice for the hosts and Teddy Sheringham scoring twice for the visitors. Manchester United are held to a goalless draw at home to Leeds, with Blackburn potentially on the verge of going eight points ahead at the top of the Premier League, and Alex Ferguson admitting that the chances of his team winning a third successive league title are now slim.
3 April 1995 – Howard Kendall is sacked as Notts County manager. While results briefly improved following his appointment, it is clear by now that the club have no hope of avoiding relegation. Previous caretaker Russell Slade is also dismissed, and veteran player Steve Nicol, who was signed by Kendall shortly into his brief reign, is handed control of the team for the remainder of the season.
4 April 1995 – Blackburn go eight points ahead at the top of the Premier League with six games left, winning 1–0 at QPR.
5 April 1995 – On-loan Ghanaian striker Tony Yeboah scores a hat-trick for Leeds United in a 4–0 home win over Ipswich Town – a result which relegates the visitors. Leicester City cling onto their Premier League status with a 1–0 home win over a Norwich City who are heading towards the relegation zone just three months after being in close contention for a UEFA Cup place.
6 April 1995 – It is announced that Eric Cantona's community service order will take place in the form of coaching football to young boys in the
Manchester
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area. Arsenal beat
Sampdoria 3–2 in the semi-finals of the
European Cup Winners' Cup
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, but the chances of an all-English final are left looking extremely slim after
Chelsea are beaten 3–0 by
Real Zaragoza
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in
Spain
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.
8 April 1995 – Norwich City fall closer to the relegation zone in a 3–0 defeat at Newcastle United. Leicester City's relegation is confirmed by a 1–0 defeat at Sheffield Wednesday. Chester City become the first Football League side to be relegated this season, due to their failure to defeat
Bristol Rovers
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.
9 April 1995 – 35-year-old Crystal Palace supporter Paul Nixon is crushed to death by a coach outside a Walsall
public house
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before the
FA Cup semi-final at Villa Park between Crystal Palace and Manchester United. Mr Nixon had been trying to escape a brawl between supporters of the two teams, after being stabbed and seriously injured by a brick. The semi-final ended in a 2–2 draw after extra time, while Everton overcome Tottenham Hotspur 4–1 in the other semi-final. In the Premier League, Leeds keep their European hopes alive with a 1–0 away win over Liverpool.
10 April 1995 – Derek Mann resigns as Chester City manager after failing to save the club from relegation, and reverts to his previous role as club physio. Everton veteran
Kevin Ratcliffe
Kevin Ratcliffe (born 12 November 1960) is a Welsh former professional footballer who spent most of his career playing for Everton.
Club career
Ratcliffe was born in Mancot, near Queensferry in Flintshire, Wales. He joined Everton as an appre ...
takes over as player-manager of the club, who are now looking almost certain to finish bottom of Division Two.
12 April 1995 – Manchester United reach the FA Cup final after beating Crystal Palace 2–0 in the semi-final replay which was attended by fewer than 18,000 fans. United had
Roy Keane
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sent off, with his availability for the remaining season being put into further doubt by an ankle injury picked up minutes before he was dismissed. The losing side also had
Darren Pitcher and
Darren Patterson sent off. Liverpool move closer to securing a UEFA Cup place with a 1–0 win at Arsenal, as do Nottingham Forest with a 1–0 win at Norwich. Southampton move closer to survival with a 2–0 win at Chelsea.
13 April 1995 – West Ham climb out of the bottom four win a 3–0 home win over Wimbledon.
14 April 1995 – Everton's 2–0 home win over Newcastle confirms relegation for Leicester and Ipswich, while Manchester City boost their survival bid and surge to 11th with a 2–1 home win over Liverpool.
15 April 1995 – Ian Wright keeps up his strong record of goals against Ipswich Town by scoring in a 4–1 league win for Arsenal at Highbury. Manchester United keep their title hopes alive with a 4–0 win at relegated Leicester City, while Southampton continue their surge up the table with a 2–1 home win over Queens Park Rangers. Blackburn drop points when Leeds hold them to a 1–1 draw at Ewood Park.
17 April 1995 – Manchester United's title bid is made harder when Chelsea hold them to a goalless draw at Old Trafford. However, their neighbour's City do them a favour by beating leaders Blackburn Rovers 3–2 at Ewood Park, a result which boosts their own battle against relegation. The gap between first and second now stands at five points with four games left to play. Arsenal managed another impressive victory, beating Aston Villa 4–0 at
Villa Park
Villa Park is a association football, football stadium in Aston, Birmingham, with a seating capacity of 42,918. It has been the home of Premier League club Aston Villa F.C., Aston Villa since 1897. The ground is less than a mile from both Witt ...
. Southampton take a big step towards safety with a 2–0 win at Wimbledon.
20 April 1995 – New Leyton Orient owner
Barry Hearn
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dismisses co-managers John Sitton and
Chris Turner, and replaces them with Tottenham Hotspur coach
Pat Holland. Arsenal reach their second successive European Cup Winners' Cup final by defeating Sampdoria on penalties after losing the return leg 3–2 in
Italy
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, but Chelsea's fightback at home to Real Zaragoza in the other semi-final second leg isn't quite enough and they bow out by a single goal after an eventful first European campaign in more than 20 years. Blackburn move closer to title glory with a 2–1 home win over Crystal Palace, who remain in the relegation zone as a result.
21 April 1995 – Bolton miss the chance to go top of Division One when they lose 2–0 at
Reading
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For educators and researchers, reading is a multifacete ...
, whose chances of securing the only automatic promotion spot in the division this season are boosted as a result. Tranmere blow a similar opportunity with a 2–0 defeat at home to Southend, who are enjoying a resurgence in form.
23 April 1995 – The day after being confirmed as Football Conference champions, Macclesfield Town's celebrations are dashed in devastating fashion when the Football League announces that they will not be promoted into Division Three due to their Moss Rose ground not meeting safety requirements. While Chester City and
Crewe Alexandra
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both offer the use of their respective
Deva Stadium
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The ...
and
Gresty Road
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grounds, the League refuse to waive their rule that new clubs must own their own ground (introduced to avoid a repeat of the situation which led to the demise of
Maidstone United three years prior). This announcement also means that Scarborough and
Exeter City
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, who had been battling to avoid bottom spot (with Northampton Town also having been not entirely out of danger), are guaranteed safety regardless of where they finish. In the
Autoglass Trophy final, a Wembley match is decided by a golden goal for the first time when a 103rd-minute goal from
Paul Tait gives
Birmingham City
Birmingham City Football Club is a professional football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small Heath in 1888, Birmingham in 1905, and Birmingham City in 1943. The team compete in the ...
a 1–0 win over
Carlisle United.
Barry Fry's team are also hoping to add the Division Two title – and with it an immediate return to Division One – to their first notable honour since they won the
Football League Cup
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Orga ...
in 1963.
27 April 1995 – Eric Cantona ends weeks of speculation about a move to Inter Milan by signing a new three-year contract with Manchester United.
29 April 1995 –
Roy McFarland
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Born in Liverpool, McFarland developed his skills at Tranmere Ro ...
is sacked after 18 months as manager of
Derby County
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One of the 12 founder members of the English Football ...
after failing to qualify for the Division One playoffs.
30 April 1995 – Middlesbrough clinch the Division One championship – and the only automatic promotion place to the Premier League for this season – by beating Luton Town 2–1 in the final game at 93-year-old
Ayresome Park
Ayresome Park was a football stadium in the Ayresome area of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. It was the home of Middlesbrough F.C. from its construction in time for the 1903–04 season, until the Riverside Stadium opened in 1995. It ...
and at the end of Bryan Robson's first season in management. They move into their new 30,000-seat stadium this summer, which will be the first new stadium occupied by a top flight club since Manchester City moved to Maine Road in 1923. West Ham beat Blackburn 2–0 at Upton Park, when victory for the visitors would have taken them to within two points of winning the Premier League title.
1 May 1995 – Manchester United cut Blackburn's Premier League lead to five points with a 3–2 away win over relegation threatened Coventry City, with Andy Cole scoring twice – taking his tally for United to 11 goals in 15 league games. Alex Ferguson, whose team have a game in hand, speaks of his belief that the title race could still go the last game of the season.
3 May 1995 – Southampton's safety is confirmed with a 3–1 home win over Crystal Palace, who remain in the bottom four.
6 May 1995 – Norwich City's relegation is confirmed as they lose 2–1 at Leeds United, a mere four months after they had been in contention for a UEFA Cup place and two seasons after they had almost won the inaugural Premier League title. Everton move closer to safety with a goalless draw at home to Southampton. Aston Villa are also still in danger of going down despite a 2–0 home win over Liverpool.
7 May 1995 – Manchester United continue to put the pressure on Blackburn Rovers as a
David May goal gives them a 1–0 home win over Sheffield Wednesday and cuts the gap to two points.
8 May 1995 – Blackburn Rovers maintain their lead at the top of the Premier League when Alan Shearer scores the only goal of a 1–0 win against his hometown club Newcastle United, meaning that they will be champions in two days time if Manchester United fail to beat Southampton.
10 May 1995 – Manchester United ensure the title race goes to the final game of the season after beating Southampton 2–1 at Old Trafford.
Simon Charlton had given the visitors an early lead before Andy Cole equalised to score his 12th goal in 17 league games, with
Denis Irwin
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converting a penalty to secure victory for United just minutes before the championship celebrations were set to begin in
Blackburn
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. West Ham secure their survival with a 3–0 win over Liverpool, who as League Cup winners will still qualify for the UEFA Cup even if they fail to finish in the top five. Aston Villa and Sheffield Wednesday are now the only teams that Crystal Palace might be overhaul on the final day of the season in the battle to avoid the final relegation place.
13 May 1995 – Wimbledon and Nottingham Forest complete their Premier League campaigns with a 2–2 draw at
Selhurst Park
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. Forest have secured a third-place finish and a
UEFA Cup
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campaign – their first European campaign in 11 years – on their Premier League comeback, while Wimbledon have comfortably secured a tenth successive season in the top flight and a second successive top 10 finish.
14 May 1995 – Blackburn Rovers are crowned league champions for the first time in 81 years, despite losing 2–1 at Liverpool on the final day of the season. Blackburn's title status was confirmed after Manchester United could only manage a 1–1 draw with a spirited West Ham United. The final Premier League relegation place goes to Crystal Palace, despite their dynamic fightback from being 3–0 down at Newcastle United they still lose 3–2, while Newcastle are beaten to a UEFA Cup place, with Leeds securing the final place in the competition. Aston Villa's safety is confirmed by a 1–1 draw with already-relegated Norwich at
Carrow Road
Carrow Road is a association football, football stadium in Norwich, Norfolk, England, and is the home of EFL Championship club Norwich City F.C., Norwich City. The stadium is east of the city, near Norwich railway station and the River Wensum.
...
. Sheffield Wednesday's safety is confirmed by a 4–1 win at home to doomed Ipswich.
15 May 1995 – Alan Smith is sacked as manager of relegated Crystal Palace.
19 May 1995 –
Trevor Francis
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is sacked after four years as manager of Sheffield Wednesday.
20 June 1995 – Roy McFarland is appointed manager of Bolton Wanderers, with former assistant manager
Colin Todd
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being appointed as joint manager alongside McFarland.
20 May 1995 – Everton win the FA Cup thanks to a
Paul Rideout goal in the final, which leaves Manchester United (who narrowly missed out on repeating the double) without a major trophy for the first time since 1989. Rideout's goal came in the 30th minute, and United made a few late attempts to equalise (including two extremely close attempts by
Paul Scholes
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in the dying minutes of the game) but all shots were foiled by a courageous
Neville Southall
Neville Southall (born 16 September 1958) is a Welsh Manager (association football), football manager and former international association football, footballer. He has been described as one of the best Goalkeeper (association football), goalk ...
.
24 May 1995 – Paul Ince is cleared of assaulting a Crystal Palace supporter in the skirmish that followed Eric Cantona's attack on Matthew Simmons four months ago. It was already known that the spectator who accused Ince of assault had a history of football-related violence dating back to the early 1970s.
27 May 1995 –
Chesterfield end their six-year spell in the fourth tier of the Football League with a 2–0 win over
Bury in the Division Three playoff final.
28 May 1995 – Huddersfield Town win the Division Two playoff final by beating Bristol Rovers 2–1.
29 May 1995 – The Division One playoff final sees Bolton end their 15-year absence from the top flight with a 4–3 win over Reading. Bolton had trailed 2–0 until the 75th minute and the match went into extra time.
30 May 1995 – Manchester City, still looking for a new manager following the dismissal of
Brian Horton
Brian "Nobby" Horton (born 4 February 1949) is an English former footballer and manager. He spent 16 years as a professional player and 22 years as a manager, making 689 appearances and managing 1,098 matches. In addition to this, he spent four ...
, agree to sell striker
Niall Quinn
Niall John Quinn (honorary Order of the British Empire, MBE; born 6 October 1966) is an Irish former professional Association football, footballer, manager, businessman and sports television pundit.
As a player, he was a Striker (association f ...
to
Sporting CP
Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries, of Portugal in a £2million deal.
31 May 1995 –
Dutch superstar
Ruud Gullit
Ruud Gullit (; born Rudi Dil; 1 September 1962) is a former Dutch Association football, footballer and subsequent manager. Regarded among the greatest footballers of all time, he was also noted for his Utility player#Association football, abili ...
accepts an offer to join Chelsea on a free transfer from
Sampdoria.
5 June 1995 – Niall Quinn's transfer to Sporting CP falls through after he fails to agree a contract. Newcastle United sign
Warren Barton from Wimbledon for £4million – a national record for a defender.
6 June 1995 – Relegated Notts County appoint
Colin Murphy as their new manager. Steve Thompson resigns as Southend United manager to become Murphy's assistant at
Meadow Lane
Meadow Lane is a football (soccer), football stadium in Nottingham, England. It is the home ground of Notts County F.C., Notts County, who have played there since it opened in 1910. The stadium was also home to Notts County Ladies F.C. from 201 ...
, and Southend in turn appoint
Ronnie Whelan
Ronald Andrew Whelan (; born 25 September 1961) is an Irish former professional football player who played as a midfielder and sometimes as a defender. He played an integral role in the dominant Liverpool side that won a wealth of titles in ...
as player-manager, one year after he joined them as a player from Liverpool.
8 June 1995 – Bruce Rioch leaves newly promoted Bolton to become manager of Arsenal.
13 June 1995 – Norwich appoint Wycombe manager
Martin O'Neill
Martin Hugh Michael O'Neill, (born 1 March 1952) is a Northern Irish professional Manager (association football), football manager and former Association football, player who played as a midfielder. After a brief early career in the Irish Leag ...
as their new manager.
15 June 1995 – Four months after being sacked by Portsmouth,
Jim Smith returns to management with Derby County.
20 June 1995 – The English transfer fee record is broken for the sixth time in four years when Arsenal pay £7.5million for Inter Milan's Dutch striker
Dennis Bergkamp
Dennis Nicolaas Maria Bergkamp (; born 10 May 1969) is a Dutch professional Association football, football coach and former Football player, player who was most recently the Assistant manager of Ajax. Originally a wide midfielder, Bergkamp was ...
.
23 June 1995 – Manchester United announce the sale of striker Mark Hughes to Chelsea for £1.5 million and midfielder Paul Ince to
Inter Milan
Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale () or simply Inter, and colloquially known as Inter Milan in English-speaking countries, is an Italian professional Association football, football List of football ...
for £7.5 million.
26 June 1995 – Aston Villa pay a club record £3.5 million for
Partizan Belgrade
Jugoslovensko sportsko društvo Partizan ( sr-Cyrl, Југословенско спортско друштво Партизан, lit=Yugoslav Sports Society Partizan), commonly abbreviated as JSD Partizan ( sr-Cyrl, ЈСД Партизан, lin ...
's 22-year-old
Serbia
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n striker
Savo Milošević
Savo Milošević ( sr-Cyrl, Саво Милошевић, ; born 2 September 1973) is a Serbian professional Manager (association football), football manager and former Football player, player.
A former Forward (association football), forward, he ...
, taking the place of
Dean Saunders
Dean Nicholas Saunders (born 21 June 1964) is a Welsh football manager and former professional footballer.
As a player, he was a striker in a career which lasted from 1982 until 2001. He played for Liverpool and Aston Villa in the 1990s, and ...
, who had linked up with his former Liverpool manager Graeme Souness at
Turkish side
Galatasaray
Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (, ''Galatasaray Sports Club''), more commonly referred to as simply Galatasaray and familiarly as Cimbom, is a Turkish sports club based on the European side of the city of Istanbul including basketball, wheelchair ...
along with Newcastle United's
Barry Venison and Coventry City's
Mike Marsh.
30 June 1995 –
Stan Collymore
Stanley Victor Collymore (born 22 January 1971) is an English football pundit, sport strategist, and former player who played as a Forward (association football), striker from 1990 to 2001, most notably for Nottingham Forest and later Liverpo ...
joins Liverpool from Nottingham Forest for a national record fee of £8.4million.
Notable debutants
20 August 1994:
Kevin Gallen, 18-year-old striker, makes his debut for
Queens Park Rangers
Queens Park Rangers Football Club, commonly abbreviated to QPR, is a professional association football club based in Shepherd's Bush, West London, England. The team currently compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English f ...
on the opening day of the Premier League season as they lose 2–0 to Manchester United at
Old Trafford
Old Trafford () is a football stadium in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, and is the home of Manchester United. With a capacity of 74,197, it is the largest club football stadium (and second-largest football stadium overall after W ...
.
21 September 1994:
Paul Scholes
Paul Scholes (born 16 November 1974) is an English football pundit, coach and former player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time, Scholes spent his entire professional playing career with Manchester United, for whom h ...
, 19-year-old midfielder, scores twice on his debut for
Manchester United
Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United (often stylised as Man Utd) or simply United, is a professional association football, football club based in Old Trafford (area), Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, Engl ...
in their 2–1 win over
Port Vale in the
Football League Cup
The English Football League Cup, often referred to as the League Cup and currently known as the Carabao Cup for sponsorship reasons, is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout competition in men's domestic football in England.
Orga ...
second round first leg at
Vale Park
Vale Park is a football stadium in the area of Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, and it has been the home ground of Port Vale Football Club since its opening in 1950. It has a current capacity of 15,695, and was renovated durin ...
.
28 January 1995:
Phil Neville
Philip John Neville (born 21 January 1977) is an English association football, football manager and former player who is the current head coach of Major League Soccer club Portland Timbers. He is also the co-owner of Salford City F.C., Salford ...
, 18-year-old defender, makes his debut for Manchester United in their 5–2 home win over
Wrexham
Wrexham ( ; ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in the North East Wales, north-east of Wales. It lies between the Cambrian Mountains, Welsh mountains and the lower River Dee, Wales, Dee Valley, near the England–Wales border, borde ...
in the
FA Cup
The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout association football, football competition in domestic Football in England, English football. First played during ...
fourth round.
8 March 1995:
Emile Heskey
Emile William Ivanhoe Heskey (born 11 January 1978) is an English former professional footballer who currently serves as head of football development of Leicester City Women. Playing as a striker, he made more than 500 appearances in the Foo ...
, 17-year-old striker, makes his debut for
Leicester City
Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area, and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest city in the East Midlands with a popula ...
in their 2–0 defeat by QPR at
Loftus Road
Loftus Road, currently known as MATRADE Loftus Road Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Shepherd's Bush, West London, Greater London, England, which is home to Queens Park Rangers F.C., Queens Park Rangers Football Club, w ...
in the Premier League.
August 1994 Defender Mark Norman made his debut for Wycombe Wanderes only to end his career through injury soon after.
Retirements
21 September 1994:
Gary Lineker
Gary Winston Lineker ( ; born 30 November 1960) is an English Sports broadcasting, sports broadcaster and former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Striker (association football), striker. Lineker is the only player t ...
, 33-year-old former England striker, announces his retirement from playing after two years in Japan with
Grampus Eight, having previously played for
Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Tottenham (, , , ) or Spurs, is a professional Association football, football club based in Tottenham, North London, England. The club itself has stated that it should always ...
,
FC Barcelona
Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly known as FC Barcelona and colloquially as Barça (), is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of ...
,
Everton and
Leicester City
Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area, and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest city in the East Midlands with a popula ...
. He was, at that time, England's second highest scorer of all time, having scored 48 times before his international retirement in 1992.
This has since been surpassed by both Wayne Rooney and Harry Kane
29 March 1995:
Peter Reid
Peter Reid (born 20 June 1956) is an English football manager, pundit and former player.
A defensive midfielder in his playing days, Reid enjoyed a long and successful career. He built his reputation as one of England's brightest midfield tale ...
, 38-year-old
Bury midfielder and former England international, retires from playing after accepting an offer to manage
Sunderland
Sunderland () is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It is a port at the mouth of the River Wear on the North Sea, approximately south-east of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is the most p ...
.
14 May 1995:
Glenn Hoddle
Glenn Hoddle (born 27 October 1957) is an English former football player and manager. He currently works as a television pundit and commentator for ITV Sport and TNT Sports.
He played as a midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur, Monaco, Chelsea and ...
, 37-year-old Chelsea player-manager and former England midfielder, retires from playing.
Top goalscorers
Premier League
*
Alan Shearer
Alan Shearer (born 13 August 1970) is an English Association football, football pundit and former professional player who played as a striker (association football), striker. Widely regarded as one of the best strikers of all time and one of t ...
(Blackburn Rovers) – 34 goals
Division One
*
John Aldridge
John William Aldridge (born 18 September 1958) is a former footballer and manager. Nicknamed "Aldo", he was a prolific, record-breaking striker. His tally of 329 Football League goals is the sixth-highest in the history of English football.
...
(Tranmere Rovers) – 24 goals
Division Two
*
Gary Bennett (Wrexham) – 29 goals
Division Three
*
Dougie Freedman
Douglas Alan Freedman (born 25 May 1974) is a Scottish professional football manager and former player. He is currently the sporting director of Al-Diriyah, where he has been since 2025.
Freedman played as a striker, primarily for Crystal Pal ...
(Barnet) – 24 goal
English League Leading Goalscorers
Deaths
* 5 August 1994 –
Terry Hibbitt, 46, who died of cancer, started his career at
Leeds United
Leeds United Football Club is a professional football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The team compete in the Premier League, the top tier of the English football league system.
Leeds United have won the League Championship th ...
under
Don Revie
Donald George Revie (10 July 1927 – 26 May 1989) was an English footballer and manager. He is best known for managing Leeds United from 1961 until 1974, winning the Football League First Division twice and the FA Cup once, before being the Eng ...
in 1963 and made 63 league appearances, scoring 11 goals, before his transfer to
Newcastle United
Newcastle United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league system, English football. Since th ...
in 1971, being in their midfield for the 1974 FA Cup final defeat to
Liverpool
Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...
. Signed for
Birmingham City
Birmingham City Football Club is a professional football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small Heath in 1888, Birmingham in 1905, and Birmingham City in 1943. The team compete in the ...
in 1975 before returning to Newcastle in 1978 and staying on
Tyneside
Tyneside is a List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, built-up area across the banks of the River Tyne, England, River Tyne in Northern England. The population of Tyneside as published in the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 774,891 ...
until 1981, when he ended a professional career which had spanned 18 years and 401 league games. Remained active at non-league level with
Gateshead
Gateshead () is a town in the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough of Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the River Tyne's southern bank. The town's attractions include the twenty metre tall Angel of the North sculpture on the town's southern outskirts, ...
until 1986, briefly managing the club.
* 23 August 1994 –
Joe Loughran, 79, played 268 league games at centre-half between 1933 and 1953 for
Birmingham City
Birmingham City Football Club is a professional football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small Heath in 1888, Birmingham in 1905, and Birmingham City in 1943. The team compete in the ...
,
Luton Town
Luton Town Football Club is a professional association football, football club from Luton, Bedfordshire, England. The club currently competes in EFL League One, the third level of the English football league system. Nicknamed "The Hatters", L ...
,
Burnley
Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2021 population of 78,266. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River B ...
and finally
Southend United, his career being disrupted by World War II.
* 3 September 1994 – Billy Wright, 70, captain of
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club ( ), commonly referred to as Wolves, is a professional association football, football club based in Wolverhampton, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league s ...
and
England
England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...
during the 1950s. At club level won three league championships and one F.A Cup. Was Arsenal manager from 1962 to 1966 but had little success. Made history as England's (and the world's) first 100-cap player.
* 23 September 1994 –
Johnny Berry
Reginald John Berry (1 June 1926 – 16 September 1994), also listed as John James Berry, was an English footballer. Berry joined Manchester United from Birmingham City in 1951. Despite his diminutive stature, he was a natural right winger with ...
, 68,
Manchester United
Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United (often stylised as Man Utd) or simply United, is a professional association football, football club based in Old Trafford (area), Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, Engl ...
winger from the 1950s who was forced to retire after being severely injured in the
Munich air disaster
The Munich air disaster occurred on 6 February 1958, when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off at Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany. The aircraft was carrying the Manchester United F.C., Manche ...
. After retiring as a player, he ran a sports shop in Aldershot with his brother Peter.
* 9 October 1994 –
** –
Raich Carter, 80, was capped 13 times for England and score seven times before and after the Second World War as an inside-forward. He was also an FA Cup winner with
Sunderland
Sunderland () is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It is a port at the mouth of the River Wear on the North Sea, approximately south-east of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is the most p ...
in
1937
Events
January
* January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua.
* January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Feb ...
and
Derby County
Derby County Football Club () is a professional association football club in Derby, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system.
One of the 12 founder members of the English Football ...
in
1946
1946 (Roman numerals, MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th centur ...
. He later managed
Hull City,
Cork Athletic,
Leeds United
Leeds United Football Club is a professional football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The team compete in the Premier League, the top tier of the English football league system.
Leeds United have won the League Championship th ...
,
Mansfield Town
Mansfield Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. The team competes in , the third level of the English football league system.
The club was formed in 1897 as Mans ...
and finally
Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough ( ), colloquially known as Boro, is a port town in the Borough of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. Lying to the south of the River Tees, Middlesbrough forms part of the Teesside Built up area, built-up area and the Tees Va ...
before he retired from football in 1966.
** –
Idris Hopkins, 83, was capped 12 times on the right wing for
Wales
Wales ( ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the England–Wales border, east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic ...
in the 1930s and played 272 league games for the
Brentford
Brentford is a suburban town in West (London sub region), West London, England and part of the London Borough of Hounslow. It lies at the confluence of the River Brent and the River Thames, Thames, west of Charing Cross.
Its economy has dive ...
side of the 1930s and 1940s which played in the First Division. Died in
High Wycombe
High Wycombe, often referred to as Wycombe ( ), is a market town in Buckinghamshire, England. Lying in the valley of the River Wye, Buckinghamshire, River Wye surrounded by the Chiltern Hills, it is west-northwest of Charing Cross in London, ...
,
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire (, abbreviated ''Bucks'') is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-east, Hertfordshir ...
, two days before what would have been his 84th birthday.
* 2 November 1994 –
Harold Pearson, 86, kept goal for
West Bromwich Albion
West Bromwich Albion Football Club (), commonly known as West Brom or The Albion, is a professional association football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the Englis ...
when they won the F.A Cup in 1931 and played once for England.
* 30 December 1994 –
Geoff Bradford
Geoffrey Reginald William Bradford (18 July 1927 – 30 December 1994) was an English professional Association football, footballer who spent his entire career at Bristol Rovers F.C., Bristol Rovers and won one international cap for England na ...
, 67, centre-forward for
Bristol Rovers
Bristol Rovers FC is a men's professional football club in Bristol. The team competes in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. The club is affiliated to Bristol Rovers W.F.C., whose team play in the FA Women's National Leag ...
for his entire career, scored 242 league goals for the
West Country
The West Country is a loosely defined area within southwest England, usually taken to include the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Bristol, with some considering it to extend to all or parts of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and ...
club and became the club's only ever full England international when he won his solitary cap against
Denmark
Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...
in 1955.
* 2 January 1995 –
Ian Frodsham, 19, who died of cancer, was a
Liverpool
Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...
midfielder who had turned professional some 18 months before his death after playing in the Anfield club's youth side, although he never played a first-team game for them.
* 26 January 1995 –
Vic Buckingham
Victor Frederick Buckingham (23 October 1915 – 26 January 1995) was an English football player and manager.
He played for Second Division side Tottenham Hotspur. As manager he won the 1954 FA Cup final with West Bromwich Albion and finished ...
, 79, played 204 league games at wing-half for
Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Tottenham (, , , ) or Spurs, is a professional Association football, football club based in Tottenham, North London, England. The club itself has stated that it should always ...
between 1935 and 1949. Moved into management in 1950 and over the next 30 years managed clubs including
Bradford Park Avenue,
West Bromwich Albion
West Bromwich Albion Football Club (), commonly known as West Brom or The Albion, is a professional association football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the Englis ...
,
Ajax Amsterdam
Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (), also known as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam, or commonly Ajax, is a Dutch professional Association football, football Football team, club based in Amsterdam, that plays in the , the top tier in Dutch football. ...
(twice),
Fulham
Fulham () is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It lies in a loop on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea, London, Chelsea ...
,
Sheffield Wednesday
Sheffield Wednesday Football Club is a professional association football club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system.
Formed in 1867 as an off ...
and
FC Barcelona
Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly known as FC Barcelona and colloquially as Barça (), is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of ...
.
* 30 January 1995 –
George Poyser
George Henry Poyser (6 February 1910 – 30 January 1995) was an English football player and manager.
A defender, he enjoyed a lengthy playing career, the tail end of which was interrupted by World War II. He played for Wolverhampton Wandere ...
, 84, was manager of
Notts County
Notts County Football Club is a professional association football, football club in Nottingham, England, which competes in EFL League Two, the fourth tier of Football in England, English football, following promotion and relegation, promotion ...
from 1953 and 1957 before joining
Manchester City
Manchester City Football Club is a professional association football, football club based in Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the English football league system, top flight of Football in England, English footbal ...
as assistant manager, becoming manager in place of
Les McDowall on the club's relegation to the Second Division in 1963. He was sacked two years later with promotion still yet to be achieved.
* 8 February 1995 –
Jimmy Allen, 85, was a centre-half for
Portsmouth
Portsmouth ( ) is a port city status in the United Kingdom, city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England. Most of Portsmouth is located on Portsea Island, off the south coast of England in the Solent, making Portsmouth the only city in En ...
and
Aston Villa
Aston Villa Football Club (commonly referred to as simply Villa) is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England. The club, founded in 1874, compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. The team have p ...
in the 1930s and was capped twice by England. Managed
Colchester United
Colchester United Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Colchester, Essex, England. The team competes in , the fourth level of the English football league system.
Founded in 1937, the club spent its ea ...
from 1948 to 1953, during which time they were elected to the Football League.
* 11 March 1995 –
Sonny Feehan, 68, who was born in
Dublin
Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ...
, played 12 league games in goal for
Manchester United
Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United (often stylised as Man Utd) or simply United, is a professional association football, football club based in Old Trafford (area), Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, Engl ...
during the early
Matt Busby
Sir Alexander Matthew Busby (26 May 1909 – 20 January 1994) was a Scottish football player and manager, who managed Manchester United between 1945 and 1969 and again for the second half of the 1970–71 season. He was the first manager of an E ...
era, later playing for
Northampton Town
Northampton Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Northampton, England. The team competes in EFL League One, League One, the third level of the English football league system.
Founded in 1897, the c ...
and
Brentford
Brentford is a suburban town in West (London sub region), West London, England and part of the London Borough of Hounslow. It lies at the confluence of the River Brent and the River Thames, Thames, west of Charing Cross.
Its economy has dive ...
.
* 1 April 1995 –
Johnny Nicholls, 63, was a forward in
West Bromwich Albion
West Bromwich Albion Football Club (), commonly known as West Brom or The Albion, is a professional association football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the Englis ...
's FA Cup winning side of 1954, the same year that he won two England caps. Remained at the
Black Country
The Black Country is an area of England's West Midlands. It is mainly urban, covering most of the Dudley and Sandwell metropolitan boroughs, with the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall and the City of Wolverhampton. The road between Wolverhampto ...
club until 1957, by which time he had played 131 league games and scored 58 goals, and signed for
Cardiff City
Cardiff City Football Club () is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. It currently competes in , the third tier of the English football league system in the 2025–26 season following relegation. Founded in 1899 a ...
and then played his last league game at 28 for
Exeter City
Exeter City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Exeter, Devon, England. The team play in , the third level of the English football league system. Known as "the Grecians", the origin of their nickname is subject to ...
before finishing his playing career in non-league football.
* 6 May 1995 –
Noel Brotherston, 38, who died of a heart attack, was a striker for
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ; ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been #Descriptions, variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares Repub ...
who played for clubs including Blackburn Rovers and
Bury. He retired from playing in 1988.
* 20 May 1995 –
Leslie Smith, 77, started his playing career with
Brentford
Brentford is a suburban town in West (London sub region), West London, England and part of the London Borough of Hounslow. It lies at the confluence of the River Brent and the River Thames, Thames, west of Charing Cross.
Its economy has dive ...
in their First Division days of the late 1930s and won his only England senior cap in 1939. Signed for
Aston Villa
Aston Villa Football Club (commonly referred to as simply Villa) is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England. The club, founded in 1874, compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. The team have p ...
after World War II and played 181 games for the midlands club, before returning to Brentford for the
1952–53 season and then finishing his career at non-league level with
Kidderminster Harriers as player-manager. Later scouted for Wolverhampton Wanderers.
* 23 May 1995 –
Joe Walter, 99, inside-forward who played for
Bristol Rovers
Bristol Rovers FC is a men's professional football club in Bristol. The team competes in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. The club is affiliated to Bristol Rovers W.F.C., whose team play in the FA Women's National Leag ...
,
Huddersfield Town
Huddersfield Town Association Football Club is a professional association football club based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. They compete in , the third tier of English football league system, English football.
Huddersfield Town we ...
and Blackburn Rovers. Won a league championship with Huddersfield in 1924. At the time of his death, he was believed to be the oldest former professional footballer in England.
* 30 May 1995 –
Ted Drake
Edward Joseph Drake (16 August 1912 – 30 May 1995) was an English football player and manager. As a player, he first played for Southampton but made his name playing for Arsenal in the 1930s, winning two league titles and an FA Cup, as well ...
, 82, played as a centre forward for Arsenal before the Second World War and managed Chelsea to league championship glory in 1955.
* 30 May 1995 –
Bobby Stokes
Robert William Thomas Stokes (30 January 1951 – 30 May 1995) was an English footballer, best known for scoring the winning goal in the 83rd minute of the FA Cup Final for Southampton against Manchester United in 1976.
Born in Portsmouth, Sto ...
, 44, former
Southampton
Southampton is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England. It is located approximately southwest of London, west of Portsmouth, and southeast of Salisbury. Southampton had a population of 253, ...
striker who scored the winning goal in the
1976 FA Cup Final when Southampton defeated
Manchester United
Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United (often stylised as Man Utd) or simply United, is a professional association football, football club based in Old Trafford (area), Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, Engl ...
1–0.
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