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Southampton Football Club ( ) is an english professional football clubhouse based in Southampton, Hampshire, which plays in the Premier League, the circus tent tier of English football. One of the founding members of the Premier League, they have spent the majority of their history in the top flight since their first forwarding to it in 1966 ; their longest continuous period was for 27 seasons between 1978 and 2005. Their home grate since 2001 has been St Mary ‘s Stadium, anterior to which they were based at The Dell. The club has been nicknamed “ The Saints ” since its origin in 1885 due to its history as a church football team, founded as St. Mary ‘s Church of England Young Men ‘s Association, and play in red and white shirts. Southampton have a long-standing competition with Portsmouth, ascribable in separate to geographic proximity and both cities ‘ respective maritime histories. Matches between the two clubs are known as the South Coast bowler hat .
history [edit ]
Chart of annual table positions of Southampton in the Football League .
Foundation and Southern League ( 1885–1920 ) [edit ]
Southampton were originally founded at St. Mary ‘s Church, on 21 November 1885 by members of the St. Mary ‘s Church of England Young Men ‘s Association. St. Mary ‘s Y.M.A., as they were normally referred to in the local press, played most of their early games on The Common where games were frequently interrupted by pedestrians insistent on exercising their correct to roam. More authoritative matches, such as cup games, were played either at the County Cricket Ground in Northlands Road or the Antelope Cricket Ground in St Mary ‘s Road. The club was originally known as St. Mary’s Young Men’s Association F.C. ( normally abbreviated to “ St. Mary ‘s Y.M.A. ” ) and then became merely St. Mary’s F.C. in 1887–88, before adopting the name Southampton St. Mary’s when the club joined the Southern League in 1894. For the start of their League career, Saints signed respective raw players on professional contracts, including Charles Baker, Alf Littlehales and Lachie Thomson from Stoke and Fred Hollands from Millwall. [ 2 ] After winning the Southern League title in 1896–97, the club became a limited company and was renamed Southampton F.C. Southampton won the Southern League championship for three years running between 1897 and 1899 and again in 1901, 1903 and 1904. During this prison term, they moved to a newly built £10,000 stadium called The Dell, to the northwesterly of the city center in 1898. Although they would spend the adjacent 103 years there, the future was far from sealed in those early days and the club had to rent the premises first before they could afford to buy the stadium in the early part of the twentieth hundred. The cabaret reached the first of their four FA Cup Finals in 1900. On that day, they went down 4–0 to Bury and two years late they would suffer a exchangeable destine at the hands of Sheffield United as they were beaten 2–1 in a replay of the 1902 final examination. Reaching those finals gave Southampton recognition, even internationally : in 1909, an athletic Bilbao example who played for affiliate team Atlético Madrid purchased 50 Saints shirts during a trip to England, which were shared between the two squads. This early Southampton association is the reason why the semblance of both spanish clubs became red and blank, as they are nowadays. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
After World War I, Saints joined the newly formed Football League Third Division in 1920 which split into South and North sections a year later. The 1921–22 season ended in gloat with promotion and marked the beginning of a 31-year bide in the Second Division. The 1922–23 temper was a unique “ flush Season ” – 14 wins, 14 draws and 14 defeats for 42 points, or one point per game. Goals for and against statistics were besides equal and the team finished in mid-table. In 1925 and 1927, they reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup, losing 2–0 and 2–1 to Sheffield United and Arsenal respectively. Saints were concisely forced to switch home matches to the prime of their local rivals Portsmouth at Fratton Park during World War II when a bomb calorimeter landed on The Dell pitch in November 1940, leaving an 18-foot crater which damaged an underground culvert and flooded the pitch. promotion was narrowly missed in 1947–48 when they finished in one-third set, a feat repeated the follow season ( despite having an eight-point lead with eight games to play ) whilst in 1949–50 they were to be denied promotion by 0.06 of a finish, missing out on second topographic point to Sheffield United. In the 1948–49 and 1949–50 seasons, Charlie Wayman rattled in 56 goals. then delegating in 1953 mail Saints sliding rear into division 3 ( South ). It took until 1960 for Saints to regain Second Division condition with Derek Reeves plundering 39 of the champions ‘ 106 league goals. On 27 April 1963 a crowd of 68,000 at Villa Park saw them lose 1–0 to Manchester United in the FA Cup semi-final .
Reaching the first Division and cup succeed ( 1966–1977 ) [edit ]
In 1966, Ted Bates ‘ team were promoted to the First Division as runner-up, with Martin Chivers scoring 30 of Saints ‘ 85 league goals. For the comply campaign Ron Davies arrived to score 43 goals in his first season. Saints stayed among the elite for eight years, with the highest finish position being seventh place in 1968–69 and again in 1970–71. These finishes were high enough for them to qualify for the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969–70 ( going out in Round 3 to Newcastle United ) and its successor, the UEFA Cup in 1971–72, when they went out in the first rung to Athletic Bilbao. In December 1973, Bates stood down to be replaced by his adjunct Lawrie McMenemy. The Saints were one of the inaugural victims of the new three-down relegation system in 1974. Under McMenemy ‘s management, Saints started to rebuild in the Second Division, capturing players such as Peter Osgood, Jim McCalliog, Jim Steele and Peter Rodrigues ( captain ) and in 1976, Southampton reached the FA Cup Final, playing Manchester United at Wembley, and beat much-fancied United 1–0 with a goal from Bobby Stokes. The play along season, they played in Europe again in the Cup Winners ‘ Cup, reaching Round 3 where they lost 2–3 on aggregate to Anderlecht .
return to First Division ( 1977–1992 ) [edit ]
In 1977–78, captained by Alan Ball, Saints finished runner-up in the Second Division ( behind Bolton Wanderers ) and returned to the First Division. They finished well in 14th place in their first temper back in the lead flight. The following season they returned to Wembley in the final examination of the League Cup where they acquitted themselves well, losing 3–2 to Nottingham Forest. In 1980, McMenemy made his biggest sign, capturing the European Footballer of the Year Kevin Keegan. Although Keegan ‘s Southampton career alone lasted two years, Saints fielded an attractive side besides containing Alan Ball, fecund goal-scorer Ted MacDougall, ( who still holds the criminal record for the largest phone number of goals in an FA Cup game – nine – for Bournemouth against Margate in an 11–0 winnings ), MacDougall ‘s strike partner at Bournemouth and Norwich City, Phil Boyer, club stalwart Mick Channon and Charlie George and in 1980–81 they scored 76 goals, finishing in sixth target, then their highest league ending. The follow season, Kevin Keegan helped lift the club to the top of the First Division. Southampton led the league for over two months, taking top spot on 30 January 1982 and staying there ( apart from one week ) until 3 April 1982. But in a disappointing end to the season, in which Keegan was hampered by a back wound, Southampton won alone two of their end nine games and finished one-seventh. The winners of a wide-open title subspecies were Keegan ‘s old golf club Liverpool, who were crowned champions on the concluding day of the season. Keegan scored 26 of Southampton ‘s 72 goals that season, but was then sold to Newcastle. Southampton continued to progress under McMenemy ‘s stewardship, and with a team containing Peter Shilton ( the England goalkeeper ), Nick Holmes, David Armstrong, hitter Steve Moran and quick winger Danny Wallace reached their highest always league finish as runner-up in 1983–84 [ 6 ] ( three points behind the champions Liverpool ) equally well as reaching the semi-final of the FA Cup losing 1–0 to Everton at Highbury Stadium. McMenemy then added feel midfielder Jimmy Case to his ranks. They finished fifth the following year, but as a solution of the Heysel Disaster all English clubs were banned from european rival : had it not been for this, then Southampton would have again qualified for the UEFA Cup. McMenemy left at the end of the 1984–85 temper to be succeeded by Chris Nicholl, who was sacked after six years in blame despite preserving the club ‘s top flight condition. He was replaced by Ian Branfoot, who until the end of the 1990–91 temper had been assistant coach to Steve Coppell at Crystal Palace. By this stage, a key actor in the Southampton line-up was Guernsey -born attacking midfielder/striker Matthew Le Tissier, who broke into the first team in the 1986–87 temper. He was voted PFA Young Player of the year in 1990 and late made eight appearances for the England team – he last retired in 2002 at the age of 33. Another excite new player to break into the Southampton team fair after Le Tissier was Alan Shearer, who at the old age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive football player in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He besides scored 30 times for England internationally .
Southampton in the Premier League ( 1992–2005 ) [edit ]
Southampton were founding members of the Premier League in 1992–93, but spent most of the adjacent ten seasons struggling against relegation. In 1995–96, Southampton finished 17th with 38 league points, avoiding relegation on finish deviation. Two significant wins during the concluding weeks of the season did much to ensure that Saints and not Manchester City would achieve Premiership survival. First came a 3–1 home succeed over eventual double winners Manchester United, then came a 1–0 away win over demote Bolton Wanderers. Former Liverpool and Rangers coach Graeme Souness, was brought in, signing foreign players such as Egil Østenstad and Eyal Berkovic. The highlight of the season was a 6–3 acquire over Manchester United at The Dell in October, when both his signings scored doubly. Souness resigned after good one season in charge, being replaced by Dave Jones who had won forwarding to Division One with Stockport County equally well as reaching the League Cup semi-finals. In 1998–99, they were rooted to the penetrate of the table for much of the first half of the season but again keep off relegation on the last day of the season after a former run of good results, helped by the interposition of latvian Marian Pahars and honest-to-god hero Le Tissier ( The alleged “ Great Escape ” ). In 1999, Southampton were given the enterprise to build a newly 32,000-seat stadium in the St Mary ‘s area of the city, having been playing in the Dell since 1898. The stadium had been converted to an all-seater format earlier in the ten, but had a capacitance of less than 16,000 and was unsuitable for far expansion. During the 1999–2000 season, Dave Jones discontinue as Southampton coach to concentrate on a court case after he was accused of abusing children at the children ‘s home plate where he had worked during the 1980s. The accusations were late proved to be baseless, but it was excessively late to save Jones ‘ career as Southampton director and he was succeeded by ex-England director Glenn Hoddle. Hoddle helped keep Southampton good clear of the Premier League drop zone but having received an offer he moved to Tottenham Hotspur equitable before the end of the 2000–01 season. He was replaced by first-team coach Stuart Gray, who oversaw the move to the St Mary ‘s stadium for the 2001–02 temper. At the end of the 2000–01 season, in the final competitive match at The Dell, Matthew Le Tissier came on recently to score the last ever league goal at the old stadium with a one-half fusillade on the turning in a 3–2 succeed against Arsenal. Gray was sacked after a hapless start to the following season, and he was replaced by ex- Coventry City coach Gordon Strachan, who steered Southampton to guard and a batten 11th-place polish. In 2002–03, Southampton finished eighth in the league and finished runner-up in the FA Cup to Arsenal ( after losing 1–0 at the Millennium Stadium ), thanks in no minor part to the metamorphosis of James Beattie, who fired base 24 goals, 23 in the league. Strachan resigned in March 2004 and within eight months, two managers – Paul Sturrock and Steve Wigley – had come and gone. Chairman Rupert Lowe risked the wrath of Saints fans when he appointed Harry Redknapp as coach on 8 December 2004, just after his resignation at South Coast rivals Portsmouth. [ 7 ] He brought in a count of new signings, including his son Jamie in the attack to survive relegation. Southampton were relegated from the Premier League on the stopping point day of the temper, ending 27 consecutive seasons of top flight football for the club. Their delegating was ironically confirmed by a 2–1 dwelling kill to Manchester United, who had been on the receiving end of many upsets by Southampton over the years, namely in the 1976 FA Cup final and since then on a numeral of occasions in the league, a well as inflicting a intemperate get the better of on them in a November 1986 League Cup tie which price United coach Ron Atkinson his job. [ 8 ] Lowe and Southampton continued to make headlines after early England Rugby World Cup-winning coach Sir Clive Woodward joined the club—eventually being appointed technical conductor in June 2005. [ 9 ]
Outside the crown fledge ( 2005–2012 ) [edit ]
Southampton players form a huddle before kicking off against Derby in 2007 In November 2005, coach Harry Redknapp resigned to rejoin Portsmouth, and was replaced by George Burley. Rupert Lowe resigned as president in June 2006, and Jersey-based businessman Michael Wilde, who had become the club ‘s major stockholder assumed the post. Following a club record £6 million being spent on transfers, polish strikers Grzegorz Rasiak and Marek Saganowski performed well and the temper saw the introduction of 17-year-old left-back Gareth Bale. Southampton finished in sixth rate and lost the play-off semi-final to Derby County on penalties. The dining table sought newfangled investing in the club, and in February 2007, Wilde stepped down american samoa president to be replaced by local businessman Leon Crouch as “ Acting president ”, a function Crouch retained until 21 July 2007. In the 2007–08 temper, George Burley revealed that players such as Bale and Kenwyne Jones had to be sold to stop the baseball club going into government and that failing to achieve promotion had put the club in serious fiscal difficulty. Burley left the club in January 2008 to take over as Scotland coach and was replaced by Nigel Pearson who saved the cabaret from relegation on the final day. In July 2008 all the board members except one resigned, allowing Lowe and Wilde to return : Wilde as Chairman of Southampton FC and Rupert Lowe as Chairman of Southampton Leisure Holdings plc. Although Pearson kept the team up, the board did not renew his condense due to fiscal constraints, and the relatively unknown Dutchman Jan Poortvliet was appointed director. Financial troubles continued to mount, resulting in more players being sold or loaned out and parts of St Mary ‘s were closed off to reduce costs. In January 2009, Poortvliet resigned with the club one place from penetrate of the Championship, with Mark Wotte taking over managerial duties. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In April 2009, Southampton ‘s rear caller was placed in administration. A ten-point penalty was imposed, but as the team was already being relegated due to finishing second from bottom of the Football League Championship this points deduction had to apply to the 2009–10 temper. By the end of May, the club was unable to meet its staff wages and asked employees to work amateur as a gesture of grace. The administrator warned that the club faced at hand bankruptcy unless a buyer was found. [ 13 ] In June, administrator Mark Fry confirmed negotiations with two groups of investors, followed by confirmation that the club had been sold to an oversea buyer “ owned and controlled by Markus Liebherr “. [ 14 ] Liebherr brought in italian businessman Nicola Cortese to look after the club ‘s business interests on his behalf. In July 2009, with the club in the control of the modern owner, Wotte was sacked as head passenger car and Alan Pardew was appointed as the new First Team Manager. [ 15 ] The Saints made their first big sign under Liebherr, hitter Rickie Lambert, who was purchased on 10 August from League One side Bristol Rovers. [ 16 ] Southampton started the 2009–10 temper in League One, in the third tier of English football for the first time in 50 years and with −10 points. In March 2010, Southampton won their first trophy since 1976 when they defeated Carlisle United 4–1 at Wembley to claim the Football League Trophy. [ 17 ] Southampton finished the season in 7th position, seven points from the last play-off put. A new home shirt was unveiled on 10 June 2010, in celebration of the cabaret ‘s hundred-and-twenty-fifth anniversary. The design was based on the original St. Mary ‘s Y.M.A. kit used in 1885 ; it featured the new anniversary peak and was without a sponsor ‘s logo. [ 18 ] On 11 August, it was announced that Liebherr had died ; however, the golf club ‘s future had been assured and planned for before his death. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] Pardew was dismissed in August and Nigel Adkins joined from Scunthorpe United as his successor. [ 21 ] The club was promoted to the Championship in May 2011 as runner-up to Brighton & Hove Albion. Returning to the Championship for the 2011–12 season, Southampton made their best start to a season for 75 years with a winning run at St. Mary ‘s of 13 league games, setting a modern baseball club record and going top of the league. In April 2012, Southampton achieved promotion to the Premier League as runner-up to Reading. The final game of the season set a record attendance at St Mary ‘s Stadium of 32,363. Lambert finished the season as the Championship ‘s top goalscorer with 27 league goals, his one-third “ golden boot ” in four seasons. He besides won the Championship Player of the Year award .
return to the Premier League ( 2012–present ) [edit ]
Southampton returned to the Premier League for temper 2012–13 initially under Nigel Adkins. Substantial sums were spent to strengthen the play police squad, but early in the season, Adkins was replaced by Argentine coach Mauricio Pochettino. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Southampton finished the season in 14th put, and future season in 8th .
At the end of the 2013–14 season, Pochettino departed the clubhouse for Tottenham. The club subsequently appointed Ronald Koeman as his replacement on a three-year condense, and made several high-profile sales over the summer. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ] [ 27 ] [ 28 ] In the concluding bet on of the 2014–15 season, a 6–1 victory against Aston Villa, Sadio Mané scored three goals in the space of 176 seconds, the fastest hat-trick in the history of the Premier League. [ 29 ] The club finished one-seventh, then their highest ever Premier League crying, [ 30 ] [ 31 ] consequently qualifying for the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League. [ citation needed ] After defeating Vitesse, the Saints were eliminated in the play-off by Midtjylland. [ 32 ] The adopt season, Southampton once again set newly records for the baseball club at the end of the temper, finishing in one-sixth place. They once again qualified for the Europa League, although this time immediately entered the group stages, as opposed to the play-off rounds. In June 2016, Koeman left Southampton to join Everton and Claude Puel replaced him on a three-year shrink. The club were eliminated in the group stage of the Europa League but were more successful in the EFL Cup, where they lost 3–2 in the final to Manchester United. The club ended the 2016–17 season in eighth. During the summer, Puel was replaced as director by Argentine coach Mauricio Pellegrino, previously of Deportivo Alavés. In mid-season, the club sold Dutch defender Virgil vanguard Dijk to Liverpool for an estimated £75 million, Southampton ‘s record sale and a earth record for his position. [ 33 ] Pellegrino was sacked in March 2018 with the team 1 point above the relegation zone, [ 34 ] [ 35 ] and his substitute, early player, Mark Hughes, guided the club to a 17th-place stopping point, avoiding delegating on the last day of the season. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] [ 38 ] Hughes signed a newly contract at the conclusion of the temper but a poor start to the following season led to him being sacked in December 2018 with the team in 18th station. [ 39 ] He was replaced with early RB Leipzig boss Ralph Hasenhüttl, who steered the cabaret away from relegation to finish 16th. [ 40 ] In August 2017, Southampton Football Club confirmed that the chinese businessman Gao Jisheng had completed a multimillion-pound coup d’etat of the club, acquiring an 80 % post for around £210m after successfully passing the relevant checks, including the Premier League ‘s owners and directors test. The softwood followed more than 12 months of talks between the Gao family and the South Coast club. The investment was made personally by Gao and his daughter Nelly as opposed to being sanctioned through Lander Sports, as in the first place mooted. Hangzhou-based Lander is the family ‘s business branch, which develops, constructs and manages sports sites. [ 41 ] Southampton suffered their worst ever defeat on 25 October 2019, losing 9–0 to Leicester City at home, this would former be replicated on 2 February 2021 against Manchester United at Old Trafford in the keep up political campaign, albeit under different circumstances. It is tied with Ipswich Town ‘s defeat by Manchester United in 1995 as the biggest defeat since the Premier League ‘s origin. [ 42 ] Following universal joint backlash toward the team ‘s operation, the players and coaching staff refused their wages from the match and rather donated them to the Saints Foundation. [ 43 ] On 9 April 2020, Southampton became the first Premier League club to defer players salaries, [ 44 ] during the COVID-19 pandemic. Southampton stated that coach Ralph Hasenhüttl signed a four-year shrink extension on 2 June 2020 until 2024. [ 45 ] Despite a inadequate start that saw them in the relegation zone adenine late as November, Southampton improved greatly as the temper went on, ending the year with a seven-game unbeaten streak to finish 11th in the league. Their final run of 52 points was the team ‘s highest entire since 2015–16. This solid finish led to Hasenhüttl being named Manager of the Month for July 2020. [ 46 ] The club ‘s good run continued in the 2020–21 season with the Saints sitting in third after 13 games. [ 47 ] The team besides had a successful carry in the FA Cup where they reached the semi-finals, losing to eventual winners Leicester City. [ 48 ] In November, Southampton concisely led the Premier League postpone. however, despite the outstanding begin to the season, a mid-season loss of human body and an collection of injuries which decimated the aged police squad ranks, due in part to the inaccessibility of much of the golf club ‘s train facilities resulting from the restrictions imposed during the second lockdown in England. As a consequence of this, Hasenhüttl was forced to field many of the club ‘s youth players in an attempt to fill in the gaps in his senior squad. After an impressive run during the first-half of the season, Southampton would finally finish in 15th invest. [ citation needed ]
Players [edit ]
current team [edit ]
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On loan [edit ]
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The Saints B team and Academy [edit ]
Southampton runs a highly successful young academy, [ 51 ] [ 52 ] with a number of teams from ages eight to 23 years. late products of the golf club ‘s youth system include England internationals Adam Lallana, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, James Ward-Prowse, Calum Chambers, Luke Shaw and Theo Walcott ; Wales international winger Gareth Bale ; and Ireland international striker Michael Obafemi.
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former players [edit ]
musician records [edit ]
Most appearances Terry Paine – 815 : 1956–1974 [ 53 ] Most goals Mick Channon – 228 : 1966–1977, 1979–1982 [ 53 ] Most goals in one season Derek Reeves – 44 : 1959–60 [ 53 ] Most goals in one match Albert Brown – 7 : against Northampton Town, 28 December 1901 [ 54 ] Youngest player Theo Walcott – 16 years 143 days. Against Wolverhampton Wanderers, 6 August 2005 [ 53 ] Highest transfer fees
Non-playing staff [edit ]
[ 56 ] [ 57 ] [ 58 ]
- Corporate Hierarchy
Position
Name
Owner
Gao Jisheng (80%)
Katharina Liebherr (20%)
Chairman
Gao Jisheng
CEO
Martin Semmens
Vice-Chair of the Board
Martin Semmens
Vice-Chair of the Board
Nelly Gao
Managing Director
Toby Steele
Chief Commercial Officer
David Thomas
Director of Legal & Risk
Tim Greenwell
Director of Football Operations
Matt Crocker
Honorary President
Terry Paine MBE
Club Ambassador
Matt Le Tissier
Club Ambassador
Francis Benali
Club Ambassador
Lawrie McMenemy
- First Team Staff
Position
Name
First Team Manager
Ralph Hasenhüttl
First Team Assistant Coach
Richard Kitzbichler
First Team Assistant Coach
Kelvin Davis
First Team Assistant Coach
Craig Fleming
First Team Assistant Coach
Dave Watson
First Team Assistant Coach / Development Coach
Louis Carey
First Team Goalkeeping Coach
Andrew Sparkes
Head of Sports Science
Alek Gross
Head of Professional Medical Services
Steve Wright
Head of First Team Analysis
Scott Waters
First Team Sports Scientist
Bill Styles
First Team Strength & Conditioning Coach
Matthew Banks
First Team Physiotherapist
Kevin Mulholland
First Team Club Doctor
Dr. Inigo Sarriegui
Lead Data Scientist
Alex Kleyn
Kit & Equipment Manager
Mark Forbes
First Team Kit Officer
Jamie Ireland
Team/Player Liaison Officer
Dean Newbold
- Academy Staff
Position
Name
Academy Director
Matt Hale
Academy Manager
Ed Vahid
Assistant Academy Manager
Robin Nicholls
Head of Academy Medical Services
Tom Sturdy
Coach Development Manager
Iain Brunnschweiler
B Team Coach
David Horseman
B Team Individual Player Coach
Lee Skyrme
Under-18 Coach
Carl Martin
Under-18 Individual Player Coach
Mikey Harris
Development Goalkeeping Coach
Ryan Flood
Goalkeeping Scout and Pathways Monitor
Vince Bartram
Youth Recruitment Scout
Rod Ruddick
Youth Recruitment Scout
Jim Flood
Youth Recruitment Scout
Wayne Stephens
- Sports Science
Position
Name
High Performance Manager
Mark Jarvis
Sports Therapist
Chris Lovegrove
Sports Therapist
Jack Curson
Professional Phase Soft Tissue Therapist
Giovanni Fenu
- Scouting, Recruitment & Analytics
Position
Name
Head of Scouting & Recruitment
Martyn Glover
Head of Scouting (Portugal & Spain)
Vicente Portal
Player Insights Manager
Tom Stockwell
Player Insights Lead
Sam Stanton
Player Insights Analyst
Jonathan Kaye
Data & Analytics Manager
Joseph McDermott
First Team Data Analyst
Peter Thompson
First Team Data Analyst
Tobias Loveland
First Team Data Analyst
Adam Ridgewell
First Team Data Analyst
Henry Baptiste
Historic sexual mistreat prosecutions [edit ]
In December 2016, as the United Kingdom football intimate misuse scandal expanded, former Southampton trainees Dean Radford, Jamie Webb and, by and by, Billy Seymour told the BBC about incidents they said happened when they were in their teens. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] By 4 December 2016, six players had alleged abuse by an ex-Southampton employee, [ 61 ] subsequently named as Bob Higgins. [ 62 ] [ 63 ] [ 64 ] He had been dismissed by Southampton in 1989 after allegations were made against him, [ 62 ] and in 1991 he was charged with six counts of indecent attack against young boys he had been coaching ; at the trial at Southampton Crown Court, he was acquitted on the direction of the estimate [ 63 ] when the pursuance offered no evidence. [ 62 ] [ 64 ] Higgins then worked as a youth coach at Peterborough United F.C. in the mid-1990s, [ 65 ] [ 66 ] and was investigated as character of a 1997 Channel 4 Dispatches probe, when he denied allegations of mistreat. [ 66 ] On 5 July 2017, Higgins was charged with 65 counts of indecent assail. The offences were alleged to have taken identify in the 1980s and 1990s and to have involved 23 alleged victims. [ 67 ] [ 68 ] On 23 July 2018, after a trial at Salisbury Crown Court, Higgins was found guilty of one charge of indecent rape, and not guilty of another count of the lapp offense, while the jury failed to reach verdicts on 48 other counts of the same care. [ 69 ] After a 2019 retrial, on 51 counts of indecent rape, at Bournemouth Crown Court, [ 70 ] Higgins was found guilty of 45 charges of indecent attack against adolescent boys, not guilty of five counts of indecent attack, with the jury ineffective to reach a verdict on one final count. [ 71 ] He was sentenced to 24 years and three months in prison. [ 72 ] The FA ‘s Sheldon Review, published in March 2021, [ 73 ] identified failures to act adequately on complaints or rumours of sexual abuse at clubs including Southampton. [ 74 ] In November 2021, a report by the children ‘s charity Barnardo ‘s criticize Southampton for missing opportunities to prevent Higgins from abusing schoolboy footballers : “ adults in Southampton Football Club during the time Higgins worked for them or on their behalf did not consider the social welfare and wellbeing of the boys involved with the club as their prime circumstance. ” It said the damage caused was “ incalculable ” and “ crushing ”. Southampton issued a deep apology, admitting it had “ wholly failed to protect so many young people from suffering misuse over a long period of time ”. [ 75 ]
stadium and train facilities [edit ]
view from the Chapel Stand St Mary ‘s Stadium has been home to the Saints since August 2001. It has a capacity of 32,689 [ 76 ] and is one of alone a handful of stadium in Europe to meet UEFA ‘s Four Star criteria. [ 77 ] The stadium has besides been host to a phone number of international games. The ground ‘s record attendance is 32,363, set in a game between Southampton and Coventry City in April 2012. [ 78 ] From 1898 to 2001, Southampton played their home games at The Dell. The purpose-built stadium was redeveloped a number of times through its 103-year history, with two of the stands being completely rebuilt after fires and in 1950 it became the first earth in England to have permanent floodlight installed. Following the Taylor report card, The Dell was converted to an all-seater stadium and, with a capacity of approximately 15,000, became the smallest flat coat in England ‘s top-flight, precipitating a motion to a new base. Prior to The Dell, the club ‘s home grounds were the Antelope Ground, from 1887 to 1896, and the County Cricket Ground, from 1896 to 1898. [ 79 ] The golf club ‘s train facilities, Staplewood Campus, are located in Marchwood on the boundary of the New Forest. The stream facilities were opened in November 2014, at a price of about £40m. [ citation needed ] The chief building was named after the cabaret ‘s late owner, Markus Liebherr. [ 80 ] For the 2012–13 season until the end of the 2013–14 season, the cabaret agreed a hand with Eastleigh F.C., presently of the Conference South, for the use of their stadium, Ten Acres, for The Saints ‘ U21 team fixtures. This continues a partnership with Eastleigh that has lasted for the last decade. [ 81 ] This partnership though ended and Southampton ‘s youth teams continued to play at Staplewood and St. Mary ‘s until the 2019–20 season when some U23 cup games were to be played at A.F.C. Totton ‘s Testwood Stadium, where Southampton F.C. Women play their home matches. [ 82 ]
Fans create a tifo in the St Mary ‘s stadium
anthem [edit ]
The Saints ‘ anthem is the popular sports tune When the Saints Go Marching In, and since the club ‘s official nickname is “ the Saints ”, they are one of entirely a few teams who do not change the original lyric .
crown [edit ]
The 125th anniversary class crest primitively, the club used the same peak as the one used by the city itself. however, during the 1970s a contest was run for fans to design a raw one. The gain design, designed by Rolland Parris, was used for around 20 years, before being modified slightly by Southampton blueprint agency The Graphics Workshop in the 1990s for copyright reasons. From top-to-bottom, the halo is a reference book to the dub “ Saints ”, the ball to the nature of the clubhouse, the scarf joint to the fans and the team coloring material. The tree represents the nearby New Forest and Southampton Common, with the water representing Southampton ‘s connections with the rivers, seas and oceans. Below that is a white rose – the symbol of the city which is besides stage on the city coat of arms. [ 83 ] In the mid-1990s the ball was changed from a vintage manner ball ( such as those used in the 1960s ) to the current ball with black and ashen panels, for copyright reasons. On 13 May 2010, the official peak for the 125th anniversary was released : “ The black delineate and ring feature will now appear in gold, whilst the all important years 1885 and 2010 are scripted either side of the shield, with the calculate 125 replacing the ball ”. The badge was used on Southampton ‘s shirts for the 2010–11 temper. [ 84 ]
South Coast bowler hat [edit ]
The South Coast Derby is the diagnose given to matches between the Saints and their boisterous nearby rivals, Portsmouth F.C., from the city of the same name, 19 miles ( 31 kilometer ) from Southampton. The South Coast derbies are besides referred to as the Hampshire Derby. Including Southern League games, there have been 71 games between the two clubs, with Southampton winning 35 and Portsmouth 21. [ 85 ]
Club honor [edit ]
The club ‘s trophy cabinet, located within the St. Mary ‘s stadium reference : [ 86 ] [ 87 ]
- Runners-up: 1976
- Winners: 1890–91, 1891–92, 1894–95
- Runners-up: 1892–93, 1893–94, 1895–96
- Winners: 1971, 1983
- Runners-up: 1981
- London Fives Tournament
- Runners-up: 1972
ten-spot companies have sponsored the players ‘ shirts since shirt advertising was permitted in English football. The foremost company to do so was photocopier manufacturer Rank Xerox who sponsored the club for three years from 1980. other sponsors have been Air Florida ( 1983 ), Draper Tools ( 1984–93 ), Dimplex ( 1993–95 ), Sanderson ( 1995–99 ), Friends Provident ( 1999–2006 ), Flybe .com ( 2006–10 ), aap3 ( 2011–14 ), Veho ( 2014–16 ), Virgin Media. ( 2016–19 ) [ 88 ] and LD Sports ( 2019–20 ) [ 89 ] Since 2020 the shirt sponsor is Sportsbet.io. [ 90 ] In addition, Virgin Media has been Southampton ‘s sleeve patron since 2017. [ 91 ] Since 2021, Southampton ‘s kits have been manufactured by hummel, who previously manufactured Southampton ‘s kits between 1987 and 1991. former manufacturers have included Umbro ( 1974–76, 2008–13 ), Admiral ( 1976–80, 1991–93 ), Patrick ( 1980–87 ), Pony ( 1993–99 ), Adidas ( 2013–14, 2015–16 ) and Under Armour ( 2016–21 ). From 1999 to 2008 and in 2014–15 they used their own post, Saints .
Managers [edit ]
club records [edit ]
[ 53 ] [ 92 ] Longest winning run
- 10 matches, 16 April 2011 – 20 August 2011 (League)
- 11 matches, 16 April 2011 – 20 August 2011 (All competitions)
Longest unbeaten run
- 19 matches, 5 September 1921 – 31 December 1921
Longest home winning streak
- 19 matches, 12 February 2011 – 29 November 2011 (League)
- 21 matches, 12 February 2011 – 29 November 2011 (All competitions)
Biggest wins
Biggest losses
Highest scoring Football League game
Record home attendance 32,363 against Coventry City, 28 April 2012