The fixture between Leicester City and Derby County is a football rivalry in the East Midlands. The fixture is often called an East Midlands derby. Although both clubs have a strong mutual dislike of each other, they both consider Nottingham Forest their main rivals.
Derby County: 46 wins
28 draws
Leicester City 34 wins
Historically, Derby have a better record against Leicester beating them 46 times in 108 meetings. Leicester have won 34 meetings with 28 ending in draws. However, in recent years Leicester have dominated the fixture, having won 8 of the last 9 meetings. In fact, a Derby player didn't score against Leicester from 2007 until Theo Robinson scored against them in the Championship game on 1 December 2012.
During both Derby and Leicester's history several players have played for both clubs and a manager has managed both.
Derby then Leicester
Johnny McMillan
Jack Bowers
Tommy Eggleston
David McCulloch
Johnny Morris
Willie Carlin
Gerry Daly
Dave Langan
Gary Mills, also played for Nottingham Forest and Notts County
Bobby Davison
Ian Ormondroyd
Phil Gee
Gary Rowett
Dean Sturridge
Jacob Laursen
Lee Morris
Steve Howard
Matt Oakley
Chris Powell
Marc Edworthy
James Vaughan
Leicester then Derby
Mick O'Brien
John Summers
David Nish
David Webb
Trevor Christie, also played for Nottingham Forest and Notts County.
Mark Wallington
Mark Grew
Peter Shilton
Ian Wilson
Paul Kitson
Gary Charles
Russell Hoult
Ashley Ward
Spencer Prior
Chris Makin
Kevin Poole
Ryan Smith
Robbie Savage - played for Birmingham City and Blackburn Rovers in between.
Paul Dickov - loaned to Derby County from Leicester in 2009.
Jordan Stewart
Lee Hendrie
DJ Campbell
David Martin
Zak Whitbread
Michael Keane - loaned to Leicester City, and later Derby County, from Manchester United
Jesse Lingard - loaned to Leicester City, and later Derby County, from Manchester United
David Nugent
Managers and staff
Nigel Pearson - managed Leicester in 2 separate spells, left derby by mutual consent on the 8th of October 2016
Kevin Phillips - Player and coach at Leicester, later first team coach at Derby
Derby County win Leicester City win Draw
Games between the two teams, like the majority of local derbies in English football, have resulted in a number of football hooliganism incidents.
After a Football League Cup game between the two sides in 1985 which saw Leicester eliminated at the hands of Derby, there was a widespread "riot".
In October 2009, James Underwood, a Derby supporter aligned with the firm Derby Lunatic Fringe was involved in an incident with Leicester supporters. In May 2010, Underwood was then banned from attending football matches for three years for his role in that incident, among other separate clashes involving supporters of Everton, Nottingham Forest and Sheffield Wednesday.
The Highest scoring game between the two sides ended 5–2 to Derby County in the 1928/29 English football season. The year Leicester achieved what was until their Premier League title win in 2015-16 their highest ever league finish, 2nd in Division One (now the Premier League)
Leicester have a 100% record on neutral ground beating Derby 2–1 in the 1993/94 Play-off finals for promotion to the Premier League.
The last time Derby beat Leicester away from home was 3–0 in 2002. The year both clubs were relegated from the Premier League. Leicester won the reverse fixture 3–2.
Leicester have never scored against Derby in the FA Cup losing 6–0 in 1910, 3-0 in 1894 and drawing 0–0 in the clubs first ever meeting the year before.
According to the Football fan census, Leicester and Derby are 'traditional' rivals.
Leicester as well as Forest refer to Derby as 'the sheep', a reference to their nickname being the Rams.
Of the two clubs, Leicester have a better record against Nottingham Forest.
Leicester's 4–0 win over Derby in 1999 remains the shortest amount of time any club has scored four goals in a Premier League match.
