2005–06 Nottingham Forest F.C. season

Nottingham Forest

2005–06 season
Manager	Gary Megson (until February 16) Ian McParland (caretaker manager)
Football League One	7th
FA Cup	Second round
League Cup	First round
Football League Trophy	First Round
Home colours Away colours Third colours

During the 2005–06 English football season, Nottingham Forest F.C. competed in the Football League One where they finished in 7th position on 69 points. It was a disappointing season for Forest who failed to make the play-offs by two points, with a failure to win any of their last three games costing them a play-off spot, though even 7th was something of an achievement considering they had been in the bottom half of the table when manager Gary Megson was dismissed on February after a bad run of form. They suffered great embarrassment in all three cup competitions going out in early rounds to Macclesfield, Chester and Woking.

Final League Table

			P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
C	1	Southend United	46	23	13	10	72	43	+29	82
P	2	Colchester United	46	22	13	11	58	40	+18	79
	3	Brentford	46	20	16	10	72	52	+20	76
	4	Huddersfield Town	46	19	16	11	72	59	+13	73
P	5	Barnsley	46	18	18	10	62	44	+18	72
	6	Swansea City	46	18	17	11	78	55	+23	71
	7	Nottingham Forest	46	19	12	15	67	52	+15	69
	8	Doncaster Rovers	46	20	9	17	55	51	+4	69
	9	Bristol City	46	18	11	17	66	62	+4	65
	10	Oldham Athletic	46	18	11	17	58	60	−2	65
	11	Bradford City	46	14	19	13	51	49	+2	60
	12	Scunthorpe United	46	15	15	16	68	73	−5	60
	13	Port Vale	46	16	12	18	49	54	−5	60
	14	Gillingham	46	16	12	18	50	64	−14	60
	15	Yeovil Town	46	15	11	20	54	62	−8	56
	16	Chesterfield	46	14	14	18	63	73	−10	56
	17	Bournemouth	46	12	19	15	49	53	−4	55
	18	Tranmere Rovers	46	13	15	18	50	52	−2	54
	19	Blackpool	46	12	17	17	56	64	−8	53
	20	Rotherham United	46	12	16	18	52	62	−10	52
R	21	Hartlepool United	46	11	17	18	44	59	−15	50
R	22	Milton Keynes Dons	46	12	14	20	45	66	−21	50
R	23	Swindon Town	46	11	15	20	46	65	−19	48
R	24	Walsall	46	11	14	21	47	70	−23	47

Results

Nottingham Forest's score comes first

Legend

Win

Draw

Loss

Football League One

Main article: 2005–06 Football League

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
1	6 August 2005	Huddersfield Town	H	2 – 1	24,042	Dobie 45', Johnson 87'
2	9 August 2005	Walsall	A	2 – 3	8,703	Commons 36', Friio 85'
3	13 August 2005	Swindon Town	A	1 – 2	8,108	Commons 39'
4	20 August 2005	Scunthorpe United	H	0 – 1	19,091
5	27 August 2005	Gillingham	A	3 – 1	7,228	Johnson 8', Dobie 44', Weir Daley 79'
6	3 September 2005	Brentford	H	1 – 2	17,234	Thompson 48'
7	10 September 2005	Barnsley	A	0 – 2	10,080
8	17 September 2005	Rotherham United	H	2 – 0	20,123	Lester 76' (pen), Commons 88'
9	20 September 2005	Bristol City	H	3 – 1	16,666	Lester 25' (pen), Perch 27', Commons 55'
10	24 September 2005	Swansea City	A	1 – 1	18,212	Lester 54'
11	27 September 2005	Blackpool	H	1 – 1	17,071	Breckin 79'
12	1 October 2005	Tranmere Rovers	H	1 – 0	22,022	Taylor 70'
13	9 October 2005	Southend United	A	0 – 1	10,104
14	15 October 2005	Hartlepool United	H	2 – 0	17,586	Taylor 34', Bopp 90'
15	22 October 2005	Yeovil Town	A	0 – 3	9,072
16	29 October 2005	Bradford City	H	1 – 0	17,983	Johnson 24'
17	12 November 2005	Bournemouth	A	1 – 1	9,222	Southall 19'
18	19 November 2005	Southend United	H	2 – 0	19,576	Wilson 51' (o.g.), Southall 70'
19	26 November 2005	Huddersfield Town	A	1 – 2	17,370	Lester 46'
20	6 December 2005	Port Vale	H	1 – 0	17,696	Tyson 31'
21	10 December 2005	Walsall	H	1 – 1	20,912	Breckin 35'
22	16 December 2005	Scunthorpe United	A	1 – 3	5,857	Taylor 65' (pen)
23	26 December 2005	Doncaster Rovers	H	4 – 0	23,009	Breckin 45', Thompson 50', Southall 53', Taylor 67'
24	31 December 2005	Chesterfield	H	0 – 0	21,909
25	2 January 2006	Colchester United	A	1 – 3	5,767	Tyson 90'
26	14 January 2006	Oldham Athletic	H	3 – 0	17,807	Holt 25', Tyson 63', Southall 67'
27	17 January 2006	Brentford	A	1 – 1	7,859	Commons 5'
28	21 January 2006	Rotherham United	A	1 – 1	7,222	Tyson 34'
29	27 January 2006	Barnsley	H	0 – 2	16,237
30	31 January 2006	Milton Keynes Dons	A	0 – 1	7,670
31	4 February 2006	Blackpool	A	2 – 2	8,399	Breckin 45', Bennett 90'
32	11 February 2006	Swansea City	H	1 – 2	19,132	Tyson 21'
33	15 February 2006	Oldham Athletic	A	0 – 3	5,584
34	18 February 2006	Port Vale	A	2 – 0	6,792	Commons 40', Tyson 90'
35	25 February 2006	Swindon Town	H	7 – 1	22,444	Southall 3', 51', 55', Morgan 17', 57', Breckin 29', Lester 90'
36	4 March 2006	Bristol City	A	1 – 1	14,379	Perch 66'
37	11 March 2006	Gillingham	H	1 – 1	19,446	Tyson 45'
38	18 March 2006	Doncaster Rovers	A	2 – 1	8,229	Commons 25', Holt 47'
39	25 March 2006	Milton Keynes Dons	H	3 – 0	18,214	McClenahan 20' (o.g.), Holt 40', Breckin 90'
40	1 April 2006	Chesterfield	A	3 – 1	7,073	Breckin 19', Tyson 29', Thompson 87'
41	8 April 2006	Colchester United	H	1 – 0	22,680	Perch 72'
42	15 April 2006	Tranmere Rovers	A	1 – 0	9,152	Holt 17'
43	17 April 2006	Yeovil Town	H	2 – 1	28,193	Breckin 40', Southall 68'
44	22 April 2006	Hartlepool United	A	2 – 3	5,336	Tyson 15', Commons 67'
45	29 April 2006	Bournemouth	H	1 – 1	26,847	Tyson 56'
46	6 May 2006	Bradford City	A	1 – 1	15,608	Bennett 88'

League Cup

Main article: 2005–06 Football League Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1	23 August 2005	Macclesfield Town	H	2 – 3	5,050	Breckin 9', 83'

FA Cup

Main article: 2005–06 FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1	5 November 2005	Weymouth	H	1 – 1	10,305	Holt 39'
R1 Replay	14 November 2005	Weymouth	A	2 – 0	6,500	Taylor 67', 73'
R2	3 December 2005	Chester City	A	0 – 3	4,732

Football League Trophy

Main article: 2005–06 Football League Trophy

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1	18 October 2005	Woking	A	2 – 3	3,127	Bopp 20', Weir-Daley 38'

Squad

Appearances for competitive matches only

Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Football League Trophy		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
MF	Felix Bastians	2(9)	0	0(1)	0	0	0	1	0	3(10)	0
DF	Julian Bennett	18	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	2
MF	Eugen Bopp	2(10)	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	5(10)	2
DF	Ian Breckin	46	8	1	0	1	2	0	0	49	10
MF	Sammy Clingan	14(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	14(1)	0
MF	Kris Commons	36(1)	8	0	0	1	0	0	0	37(1)	8
DF	Danny Cullip	10(1)	0	1(1)	0	0	0	0	0	11(2)	0
DF	John Curtis	27	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	28	0
FW	Eugène Dadi	0(5)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1(5)	0
FW	Scott Dobie	6(2)	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	6(2)	2
DF	Nicky Eaden	26(2)	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	28(2)	0
DF	Vincent Fernandez	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1(1)	0
MF	David Friio	11(6)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11(6)	0
MF	Ross Gardner	6(6)	0	0(1)	0	1	0	1	0	9(7)	0
GK	Paul Gerrard	21(1)	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	23(1)	0
FW	Neil Harris	0(1)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1(1)	0
MF	Gary Holt	23(3)	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	27(3)	1
FW	Grant Holt	18(1)	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	18(1)	4
GK	Russell Hoult	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0
FW	Kevin James	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
FW	David Johnson	12(5)	3	2	0	0(1)	0	0	0	14(6)	3
FW	Jack Lester	15(23)	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	16(23)	5
DF	Wes Morgan	41(2)	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	44(2)	2
DF	Gino Padula	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	0
GK	Rune Pedersen	17(1)	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	19(1)	0
DF	James Perch	34(4)	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	36(4)	3
FW	Jon-Paul Pittman	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0(2)	0
MF	Nicky Southall	37(3)	8	2	0	1	0	0	0	40(3)	8
FW	Gareth Taylor	17(3)	4	1	0	1	0	0	0	19(3)	4
DF	John Thompson	28(7)	3	2	0	0(1)	0	1	0	31(8)	3
FW	Nathan Tyson	28	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	28	10
DF	Martin Vickerton	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1(1)	0
FW	Spencer Weir-Daley	0(6)	1	0	0	0(1)	0	1	1	1(7)	2

References

Nottingham Forest 2005–06 at soccerbase.com (use drop down list to select relevant season)

See also

• 2005–06 in English football