During the 2000–01 English football season, Derby County competed in the

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(known as the FA Carling Premiership for sponsorship reasons).

Season summary

Derby's season started with one defeat and four draws in their first five games during which they scored 11 goals. However, the goals soon dried up and overall, another season of struggle plagued Pride Park, but Jim Smith's men were saved with one week of the season left after a shock 1–0 win over champions

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at Old Trafford as well as

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losing their penultimate game of the season at

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. The attention was then quickly focused on improving the squad for 2001–02 in a bid to prevent another relegation battle.

Final league table

;Results summary ;Results by round

Results

''Derby County's score comes first''

Legend

FA Premier League

FA Cup

League Cup

Players

First-team squad

:''Squad at end of season''

Left the club during season

Reserve squad

Transfers

In

Out

:Transfers in: £4,150,000 :Transfers out: £3,650,000 :Total spending: £500,000

Loan in

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–

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, 1 November * Taribo West – A.C. Milan, 2 November, three-month loan (later extended by a further five months on 24 January) *

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– Las Palmas, 1 March, three-month loan

Statistics

Starting 11

:''Considering starts in all competitions'' * GK: #1,

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, 38 * RB: #5,

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, 35 * CB: #2,

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, 31 * CB: #21, Chris Riggott, 34 * LB: #15, Danny Higginbotham, 28 * RM: #6,

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, 28 * CM: #4,

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, 30 * CM: #7, Seth Johnson, 34 * LM: #20,

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, 29 * CF: #12,

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, 36 * CF: #9, Deon Burton, 29

Notes

References

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