Nottingham Forest F.C. and also signed Stan Collymore, Lars Bohinen and Colin Cooper. Clark brought immediate return to the Premier League when the club finished Division One runners-up at the end of the 1993–94 season. Forest finished third in 1994–95 and qualified for the UEFA Cup – their first entry to European competition in the post-Heysel era. Collymore then transferred in the 1995-96 close season to Liverpool for a national record fee of £8.5million. Forest reached the 1995-96 UEFA Cup quarter-finals, the furthest an English team reached in UEFA competition that season. They finished ninth in the league. The 1996–97 season quickly became
History of Nottingham Forest F.C. League. The final game of that season was away at Ipswich. Forest lost 2–1 with ironically his son, Nigel, scoring the last goal of Clough's era. Relegation was followed by Keane's £3.75 million British record fee transfer to Manchester United. Since Brian Clough's departure, Nottingham Forest made numerous managerial changes and spent just four further seasons in the Premier League, and none since 1999. Nor have Forest won any major trophies since Clough left. Clough died in September 2004 after a long battle with stomach cancer. Clough's managerial record Played: 908, Won: 418, Drawn: 256, Lost: 234 Frank Clark, who