🎥 OTD 2022: Nottingham Forest ended a 23-year wait at Wembley 😍 | OneFootball

Nottingham Forest's rise from relegation scrappers to European qualifiers in the 2024/25 season has been incredible, but it wasn't the first time they had shot up the table in recent times.

The two-time European Cup winners had languished outside the top-flight for over two decades, and had even fallen to the third-tier, and appeared to be heading back that way at the start of the 2021/22 season.

However, Steve Cooper came in, and immediately worked absolute wonders, bringing the Reds from rock bottom to fourth in the table, losing as many games (6) in 38 league games as they had in their opening seven outings.

Sheffield United were beaten on penalties in the play-off semi-finals, before Huddersfield were seen off at Wembley, with Levi Colwill of all people scoring the own goal to send Forest back to the promised land.

It's a day that will live long in the memory for any Forest fan, and nothing they have achieved since would be possible without it, and the many players who have since departed the City Ground.

Their brilliant journey will continue next season with a first foray into Europe in 30 years.

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