Official website: http://www.dcfc.premiumtv.co.uk

Key staff

Club manager: Paul Jewell
Chairman, Football Operations: Mr Adam Pearson
President and chief executive: Mr Tom Glick
Non-executive directors: Don Amott, Roger Faulkner

Club Contacts: Please click visit the official site to contact the club

Shirt information

Shirt Manufacturer: Adidas

Colours: the home kit is white shirts with a black adidas trim, black shorts and white socks

Shirt Sponsor: Bombardier

Team history and honours

Founded: 1884

Honours:

Football League Division One: Champions 1971-72, 1974-75; Runners-up 1895-96, 1929-30, 1935-36, 1995-96

Championship Play-off: winners 2007/2008

Football League Division Two: Champions 1911-12, 1914-15, 1968-69, 1986-87; Runners-up 1925-26

Football League Division Three North: Champions 1956-57, Runners-up 1955-56

FA Cup: Winners 1946; Runners-up 1898, 1899, 1903

Football League Cup: Semi-finalists 1968

Texaco Cup: Winners 1972

European Cup: Competed 1972-73, 1975-76

UEFA Cup: Competed 1974-75, 1976-77

Anglo-Italian Cup: Runners-up 1993

Club records

Record victory: 12-0 (at home to Finn Harps F.C. UEFA Cup First Round, First Leg, 15 September 1976)

Record defeat: 2-11 (away to Everton, FA Cup, First Round, 18 January 1890)

Record home attendance: 41,826 against Tottenham Hotspur, Football League First Division, 20 September 1969 at the Baseball Ground

Record attendance (Pride Park): 33,475 *(Ted McMinn Testamonial game versus Glasgow Rangers XI, May 1st 2006

Record Gate receipts: £425,804 (Huddersfield Town,FA Cup Fifth Round replay on 24th February 1999)

Record appearances: Kevin Hector (486 league matches, 589 total matches)

Record goal-scorer: Steve Bloomer (293 league goals, 332 total goals)

Record scorer in a single season: Jack Bowers, Ray Straw (37 goals)

Youngest player: Lee Holmes (15 years, 268 days, v Grimsby Town, 26 December 2002)

Most capped player: Deon Burton, 42 caps for Jamaica)

Record Transfer Fee: £3.5 Million to Norwich City F.C. for Robert Earnshaw

Record Fee Received: £7m from Leeds United F.C. for Seth Johnson

Most goals in one match: Steve Bloomer 6