Still some way to go to beat their neighbour's story though: Nottingham Forest won promotion to the top division at the end of the 1976–77 season after finishi

Still some way to go to beat their neighbour's story though: Nottingham Forest won promotion to the top division at the end of the 1976–77 season after finishing third in the Second Division, but no-one could have predicted how successful Clough's team would be over the next three seasons. Nottingham Forest became one of the few teams (and the most recent team to date) to win the English First Division Championship a year after winning promotion from the English Second Division (1977–78 season). In 1978–79, Forest went on to win the European Cup by beating Malmö 1–0 in Munich's Olympiastadion and retained the trophy in 1979–80, beating Hamburg 1–0 in Madrid They also won the European Super Cup and two League Cups.