David Needham
David William Needham ( born May 21, 1949 in Leicester, England ) is a former English footballer, who was known at Notts County and Nottingham Forest, especially in his years. With Forest he won thereby the English Championship in 1978 and the European Cup of Champions 1978/79 and 1980.
Playing career
Notts County
David Needham started his playing career in 1966 at Notts County. The club played at this time in the fourth English league and could not in the following four years qualify for a higher league. Only in the 1970/71 season the team with David Needham succeeded in rising into the Third Division. Two years later, the jump in the second English league. In this division, he spent four years with the club from Nottingham, before he moved to Queens Park Rangers in the First Division in 1977. He spent the best season at Notts County in the 1975/76 season with fifth place and narrowly missed Erstligaaufstieg.
Nottingham Forest
David Needham spent the first round at the club from Hammersmith and Fulham and completed 18 Erstligaeinsätze. However, after half a year in London, he returned to the East Midlands and signed in December 1977 when Erstliganeuling Nottingham Forest. Needham played immediately in the team and won with Forest under manager Brian Clough as promoted the English First Division Championship in 1977/78. It was followed by the most successful period in the career Needhams, because in the two years following the triumph achieved in the European Cup of Champions 1978/79 and 1979 /80. Each handed a 1-0 victory over Malmö FF and Hamburger SV to win the title. In addition, the team still got 1978 and 1979 the English League Cup. David Needham often came at this time to use, but was able to capture a regular place. In the two finals of the European Cup, coach Brian Clough not to Needham.
In 1982 he moved for a final season to Canada for playing in the NASL Toronto Blizzard.
Achievements
- English Champion: 1978
- European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1979 (1-0 against Malmö FF ), 1980 (1-0 against Hamburger SV)
- UEFA Super Cup winner: 1979 (1:0 and 1:1 against FC Barcelona)
- League Cup winner: 1978 ( 0-0 and 1-0 against Liverpool ), 1979 ( 3-2 against FC Southampton )