Portsmouth F.C.

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Portsmouth Football Club is an English professional association football club in Portsmouth, Hampshire. The team compete in EFL League One, the third gear tier of the English football league system. The club was founded on 5 April 1898 and home matches are played at Fratton Park, their original family reason which was beginning opened on 15 August 1899. Portsmouth are besides known as Pompey, the local nickname for both the city of Portsmouth and HMNB Portsmouth. [ 1 ] uniquely, Portsmouth is the only cabaret in English professional football which is not located on the mainland of Great Britain, [ 2 ] as the clubhouse and the city of Portsmouth are both built on Portsea Island alternatively. Portsmouth have been the top tier League Champions of England doubly ; in the back-to-back 1948–49 and 1949–50 seasons. Portsmouth have won the FA Cup twice ; in 1939 and 2008, the FA Charity Shield once in 1949 and the EFL Trophy once in 2019. They have besides won the second gear grade deed once in 2002–03, the third base tier three times in 1923–24 ( South ), 1961–62, 1982–83 and the fourth tier once in 2016–17. By winning the League Two title in 2017, Portsmouth became only the fifth English football baseball club to win all four tiers of current English professional football. In summation, Portsmouth are besides one of only two english football clubs ( along with Wolverhampton Wanderers ) to have been champions of five master divisions including the former regional Football League Third Division South championship in the 1923–24 season. Before their election into the national English Football League in 1920, Portsmouth were besides champions of the regional Southern Football League in 1901–02 and 1919–20. The team were besides champions of the Western Football League in 1900–01, 1901–02 and 1902–03. After earning promotion from the Second Division in the 1926–27 season, Portsmouth became the first football club south of London to reach the First Division, the top tier of professional English football. They besides became the first club in the Football League to gain promotion through three master divisions ; from the Third Division ( 1920–21 to 1923–24 ( South ) ), to the Second Division ( 1924–25 to 1926–27 ) and reaching the beginning Division for the 1927–28 season. Portsmouth remained in the First Division for a further 32 years until relegation to the second Division at the end of the 1958–59 season. Their most late time period in the top tier was between 2003 and 2010, when they besides participated in the 2008–09 UEFA Cup, Portsmouth ‘s alone appearance in european competition. The club ‘s fortunes declined between 2010 and 2013 when the cabaret entered fiscal administration doubly and were relegated three times, dropping to the fourth tier and their lowest point since the 1979–80 season. The club were saved in 2013 from senior high school Court elimination after being bought out by the fan-owned Pompey Supporters Trust ( PST ) on 10 April 2013. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] This made Portsmouth the largest fan-owned football cabaret in England until 3 August 2017, when the PST sold it to The Tornante Company, an investing company owned by former Disney CEO Michael Eisner. [ 5 ] [ 6 ]

history [edit ]

For information on a breakdown of Portsmouth ‘s league and cup history, see List of Portsmouth F.C. seasons

other early Portsmouth clubs [edit ]

1883–1896 – Portsmouth A.F.C. – Amateur club formed by Portsmouth architect Arthur Cogswell. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle played as a goalkeeper under the pseudonym, “A.C. Smith”.
?–1891–?? – Portsmouth Town F.C. – An amateur team who almost became Portsmouth’s first professional club, but whose efforts failed and led to their disbandment.
1894–1899 – Royal Artillery (Portsmouth) F.C. (reformed 1900–1901) – A popular amateur army team based at the United Services Recreation Ground complex at Burnaby Road, Portsmouth. Their supporters were the originators of the “Town Hall Chimes” (later, “The Pompey Chimes”) and the team were nicknamed “Pompey” before the professional Portsmouth F.C. were formed in 1898. A “professionalism” scandal in 1899 led to their “retirement” and a rise in interest of the new Portsmouth F.C.. Royal Artillery (Portsmouth) F.C. briefly reformed for one more season in 1900–1901.

1898–1899 : establish of Portsmouth F.C . [edit ]

12 High Street, Old Portsmouth The club was first founded on 5 April 1898 at 12 High Street, Old Portsmouth, ( the office of solicitor John Edward Pink ) as “The Portsmouth Football and Athletic Company”, with John Brickwood as president, The company directors were :
A Blue Plaque on the wall of 12 High Street, Old Portsmouth ( Alderman John E. Pink ‘s solicitors ‘ agency build ) commemorates the founding on 5 April 1898 .
In 1899, work began on developing a diagram of former agrarian land near Goldsmith Avenue, Milton, Portsmouth into a new football establish, bought in 1898 from the local Goldsmith farming family. The new football ground was to be named Fratton Park after the nearby and convenient Fratton railroad track station, with an adjoining railroad track goods yard located between the two. Frank Brettell was announced as Portsmouth Football Club ‘s first manager-secretary in February 1899, [ 9 ] he had been secretary-player with the St Domingo Club ( now Everton ) in Liverpool and helped “ create the organization which became Everton ”. [ 10 ] Brettell joined Portsmouth F.C. in May 1899 and his first Portsmouth signings were irish goalkeeper Matt Reilly and Harry Turner both from the recently “ go to bed ” imperial Artillery ( Portsmouth ) F.C. besides joining Portsmouth as a newly director was regimental Sergeant-Major Frederick Windrum, the treasurer-trainer from Royal Artillery. [ 9 ] Brettell, with his valuable northerly contacts, besides signed Scottish football player Tom Wilkie, the erstwhile Heart Of Midlothian and Liverpool player. Bob Blyth and Alex “ Sandy ” Brown were both signed from Preston North End. Edward Turner, Harold Clarke and Harold Stringfellow all came from Everton. Dan Cunliffe, Thomas “ Tommy ” Cleghorn and Robert “ Bobby ” Marshall were all signed from Liverpool. [ 10 ] A bold and ambitious lotion for Portsmouth ‘s direct entry into the Southern League First Division, without the common probationary period in the lower divisions, was accepted, [ 11 ] and the golf club joined the Southern Football League Division One for the 1899–1900 season. The southerly League were identical cutting to see a professional team from Portsmouth join the Southern League, the Southern League secretary, Mr Nat Whittaker was quoted in the press as saying ; “ personally, I think there is a great future for ‘socker ‘ ( sic ) by and large in Portsmouth and if they can alone do well next season the achiever of the club is assured. Help them ? Of course, I will, and anyone else who wants to make football grow in the south ”. Whittaker besides said he was convinced that Portsmouth would be elected into the league by the other clubs at the next cosmopolitan meet of the Southern League, which they were. [ 9 ] Portsmouth ‘s first competitive Southern League equal was played away at Chatham Town at Maidstone Road, Chatham on Saturday 2 September 1899, [ 12 ] which Portsmouth won 1–0, with Portsmouth ‘s first-ever goal scored by Harold Clarke. During the peer, Portsmouth director Frank Brettel had sent telegrams of the latest grudge every fifteen minutes to Fratton Park, where push had gathered to hear the latest news. [ 13 ] Four days late, on Wednesday 6 September 1899, the first-ever home match at Fratton Park was played ; a friendly against local anesthetic town rivals Southampton, which Portsmouth won 2–0, with goals from Dan Cunliffe and Harold Clarke. [ 14 ] Portsmouth ‘s first competitive Southern League base match followed on Saturday 9 September, a 2–0 win against Reading, with goals again scored by Clarke and Cunliffe, attended by a crowd of up to 7000 supporters. [ 15 ] Portsmouth ‘s first 1899–1900 season in the Southern Football League Division One was successful, with the clubhouse winning 20 out of 28 league matches, earning them the runner-up spot in the table behind champions, Tottenham Hotspur. In their second 1900–01 Southern Football League Division One season, Portsmouth finished in third base place behind moment space Bristol City and first position Southampton. Portsmouth besides joined the 1900–01 westerly Football League and finished acme as Division One champions. [ 16 ] The following season saw Portsmouth player Bob Blyth become Portsmouth ‘s second director on 1 August 1901, replacing Frank Brettell who had left on 31 May 1901. Portsmouth won the 1901–02 Southern Football League championship entitle. however, Portsmouth were not promoted and no teams were relegated. No club had applied for election to the Football League proper. In the 1901–02 western Football League, Portsmouth besides won the Division One championship for a second consecutive season. [ 16 ] In the 1902–03 Southern Football League, Portsmouth finished in third base position. In the 1902–03 westerly Football League, Portsmouth won the Division One backing for a third base back-to-back season. [ 16 ] The following 1903–04 southerly Football League saw a fourth-place eat up. On 5 July 1904, Portsmouth F.C. Chairman and Brickwoods Brewery owner, Sir John Brickwood was Knighted by His Majesty, King Edward VII. [ 17 ] In the 1903–04 western Football League, Portsmouth finished in fourth position behind champions Tottenham Hotspur. Richard Bonney, the ex-army soldier who had co-founded Royal Artillery ( Portsmouth ) F.C. in 1894, became Portsmouth ‘s third coach on 1 August 1905 for the 1905–06 Southern Football League. Portsmouth finished in third base place. In the 1905–06 western Football League, Portsmouth finished in seventh position behind champions Queens Park Rangers. A newfangled baseball club pavilion was designed and built by Arthur Cogswell in the southwest corner of Fratton Park, which housed the club offices and player ‘s change rooms. John Brickwood besides donated a clock tower steeple to the east side of the fresh pavilion. In the 1906–07 Southern Football League, Portsmouth ended the temper as runner-up for a irregular time, after Fulham won the title by just two points. interim, in the 1906–07 western Football League, the exceed Division One was split into equal ‘A ‘ and ‘B ‘ sections, with a playoff between the two section winners to decide a Division One champion. Portsmouth finished in third put in the ‘B ‘ section of Division One. The 1906–07 season was highlighted by the visit of Manchester United to Fratton Park in the FA Cup, which generated a record attendance of 24,329. A 2–2 draw meant a replay in Manchester, where Portsmouth recorded a celebrated 2–1 gain. The following 1908–09 season, Portsmouth finished in one-fourth military position. In their last western Football League appearance, Portsmouth finished in fourth put of the ‘B ‘ section of Division One. At the end of the season, all fourteen members of the split ‘A ‘ and ‘B ‘ sections of Division One resigned from the western Football League. For the 1909–10 Southern Football League, Portsmouth abandoned their salmon pink and maroon “ Shrimps ” earned run average shirts and changed their colours to white shirts, navy aristocratic shorts and navy blue socks. Portsmouth ended their season in one-sixth identify before the following season saw the team win alone 8 of their 38 games and were relegated. Manager Richard Bonney was then let go. A severe fiscal crisis struck between seasons and a public attract for funds in May 1911 kept the club afloat. [ 18 ]

1912 : reformation [edit ]

With the recruitment of Robert Brown from Sheffield Wednesday, as Portsmouth ‘s fourthly coach, the team finished moment home in the 1911–12 Southern Football League Division Two behind Merthyr Town and were promoted as runner-up. however, the clubhouse ‘s finances were in trouble again, with losses and debts increasing to £10,000. [ 18 ] A shareholders meeting was called on 8 May 1912, where George Lewin Oliver, one of the original founders and directors, proposed that “ The Portsmouth Football and Athletic Company “ should be wound up and replaced with a more business orientated company. The original company was then liquidated to remove the debt and on 27 July 1912, the “ Portsmouth Football Club Ltd “ was formed as the new parent caller of Portsmouth F.C., with significant fiscal guarantees given by the board of directors. The original 1898 founding director George Lewin Oliver became the new Portsmouth F.C. president. [ 19 ] For the new 1912–13 southern Football League temper back in Division One, Portsmouth, now under newfangled possession, wore new home colors of blue shirts, white shorts and black stockings. [ 20 ] Portsmouth finished the temper in 11th side. Portsmouth ‘s celebrated crest, consisting of a crescent moonlight and ace made its first appearance in the 1913–14 season. The moon and star motif comes from the Portsmouth township ( then ) coating of arms and are believed to date back american samoa army for the liberation of rwanda as the time of Richard I. curiously, the star on the original badge featured a star with five points quite than the eight that appear on the town crest. [ 20 ] Portsmouth ended the season in 9th placement. football was suspended during the 1914–1918 First World War. many with connections to Portsmouth F.C. joined the “ Pompey Pals Battalions ”, which formed parts of the Hampshire Regiment. many never returned home. [ 21 ] In 1915, the Fratton End patio was upgraded to accommodate 8,000 standing supporters and covered with a roof for the first time. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] On 6 June 1918, an american army team played a canadian army team in a baseball meet at Fratton Park, with the gate money donated to the british Red Cross. The US united states army team won 4–3. [ 22 ] [ 18 ] Following the resumption of matches in the 1919–20 season, Portsmouth won the Southern League championship for the second gear time. Portsmouth were then elected to the Football League Third Division as founder members. John McCartney took over as the fifth director of Portsmouth on 1 May 1920 from Robert Brown who had left to join Gillingham, besides in The Football League .
Chart of postpone positions for Portsmouth since joining the Football League .
Competing in the inauguration season in England ‘s Football League Third Division, Portsmouth claimed the claim alone four years late in the 1923–24 temper with the team being promoted into the second Division. Debuting in the second division for the first time, they finished in fourth place behind Derby County, Manchester United and the class champions, Leicester City. The follow season, a new South Stand was designed by celebrated football architect Archibald Leitch and was opened by Football League President John McKenna on 29 August 1925, precisely before the kickoff against Middlesbrough. [ 24 ] The season ended with Portsmouth in eleventh put. After finishing in eleventh stead, Portsmouth won promotion to the foremost division by finishing runner-up in the 1926–27 Second Division season and in the procedure, getting their biggest club winnings with a 9–1 home winnings over Notts County, which is still the highest home succeed grade record to date. Portsmouth ‘s promotion to the top division in English football was a duplicate celebration ; the beginning achieved by a football golf club based south of London, and the inaugural achieved by a club graduating from the Third Division to the First Division. [ 25 ] Sunderland A.F.C. fan and South Shields coach Jack Tinn joined Portsmouth as new director on 1 May 1927, replacing John McCartney who had resigned due to ill health. Portsmouth ‘s debut season in the 1927–28 First Division was a contend, finishing one point and one plaza above relegation. The following 1928–29 temper in the First Division, Portsmouth continued to falter, losing 10–0 away at Filbert Street to Leicester City, which is however a club record away frustration. Despite their failings in the Football League, however, that season besides saw Portsmouth reach the FA Cup Final for the first time, which they lost to Bolton Wanderers. One Pompey patron is reported to have “ carried a black cat, with the club colours around its neck ” to the 1929 FA Cup Final. [ 26 ] Portsmouth managed to survive relegation, finishing one place above relegation. From 1929 to 1934, Portsmouth had become a even top-half table finisher in the First Division. The 1933–34 temper saw Portsmouth again reach the FA Cup final examination for a second base time, having beaten Manchester United, Bolton Wanderers, Leicester City and Birmingham City on the way. The baseball club was again defeated in the FA Cup Final, this prison term by Manchester City. Halfway through the 1934–35 season, on 23 December 1934, the original 1898 founding director and late Portsmouth chair, George Lewin Oliver died. [ 27 ] Using money from the June 1934 sale of defender Jimmy Allen and money from the 1934 FA Cup Final, Portsmouth F.C. announced at Christmas 1934 that Fratton Park ‘s North Stand was to be demolished and replaced with a a lot larger stand, increasing the ground capacity to more than 58,000. [ 28 ] The 1934–35 season ended with Portsmouth in fourteenth position and seven points above relegation. On 7 September at the begin of the 1935–36 First Division season, in a base game against Aston Villa, the newfangled North Stand was opened by John McKenna, who had besides opened Fratton Park ‘s new South Stand ten years sooner. [ 28 ] Former Portsmouth defender Jimmy Allen, whose sale in 1934 had largely paid for the fresh North Stand, was present at the game, as master of the visiting Aston Villa team. The new North Stand briefly held the nickname of “ The Jimmy Allen Stand ” for a while afterwards. Portsmouth ended the 1935–36 season in tenth topographic point .

1938–39 season : First FA Cup exuberate [edit ]

Having established themselves in the acme flight, the 1938–39 season saw Portsmouth reach the FA Cup Final for the third clock time with coach Jack Tinn, who had worn his ‘lucky ‘ spats throughout the qualifying rounds. This was indeed one-third meter golden, as Portsmouth managed to defeat favourites Wolverhampton Wanderers 4–1 in what the press had dubbed, ‘The Gland Final ‘ – a reference to ‘monkey gland ‘ testosterone injections – used by both teams ( and others ) that season. [ 29 ] Bert Barlow and John ‘Jock ‘ Anderson scored, whilst Cliff Parker scored doubly ( third and fourthly goals ). The modern 1939–40 temper in the First Division began on Saturday 26 August 1939. On Friday 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. On Saturday 2 September 1939, all divisions of the Football League played their one-third and concluding game of the temper, with Blackpool F.C. at the top of the table and Portsmouth in 18th position. These would be the last national Football League fixtures before abandonment following the british declaration of war on Germany on Sunday 3 September 1939. large gatherings of push were suspended with the implementation of the Emergency Powers ( Defence ) Act 1939. however, football competitions did take place during the war, with the Football League being split into ten-spot regional miniskirt leagues, with Portsmouth in ‘League South ‘. An annual home cup competition was held excessively, called the Football League War Cup. In 1942, Portsmouth reached the London War Cup concluding, [ 30 ] a competition that had begun entirely a season earlier in 1940–41. The London War Cup was held once again during the 1941–42 temper and was intended by its organisers to stand in for the FA Cup, despite the official Football League War Cup competition had been taking home per annum since 1939. The London War Cup competition required Portsmouth, the current FA Cup champions, to secede from the Football Association to enter. Portsmouth progressed to the 1942 London War Cup final at Wembley Stadium, but were beaten by Brentford and finished as runner-up. After the competition, Portsmouth paid a ten Pounds readmission fee to rejoin the Football Association again. [ 31 ] The London War Cup competition was never played again. Ironically, the London War Cup trophy win by Brentford in 1942 was reused for subsequent Football League War Cup competitions. The trophy was final presented in 1945 to Chelsea and remains in the Chelsea F.C. museum today. During his wartime visits to Portsmouth, Field Marshal Montgomery became matter to in Portsmouth Football Club and was made honorary President of Portsmouth F.C. in 1944 ( until 1961 ). [ 32 ] The end of World War II in 1945 caused Portsmouth to hold the eminence of holding the FA Cup trophy for the longest continuous time period of seven years, as the trophy was not presented again until the 1946 FA Cup Final. Manager Jack Tinn was rumoured to have kept the FA Cup trophy ‘safe under his layer ‘ during a share of the war. Because the navy city of Portsmouth was a elementary strategic military target for german Luftwaffe bombing, the FA Cup trophy was routinely moved around the city of Portsmouth for its safety and security, moving from Fratton Park ‘s boardroom, into bank vaults, back to Fratton Park and about local public house. During the worst of the bombing on Portsmouth, the FA Cup trophy was besides taken ten miles north of Portsmouth, to the nearby Hampshire village of Lovedean, where it was kept and displayed in a quaint thatched roof country public house called “ The Bird in Hand ”. [ 33 ] In 1945, the FA Cup trophy was taken around the streets of Portsmouth and proudly shown off at Victory in Europe Day street parties. FA Cup competition was resumed for the 1945–46 season, but the resumption of the Football League had to wait one more class. Portsmouth, as a Division One team and as the current FA Cup Champions ( from 1939 ), were drawn to play against Birmingham City in the Third Round stage of the FA Cup competition. The first of the two-leg link was played at Birmingham ‘s St. Andrew ‘s stadium on 5 January 1946 and the result was 1–0 in Birmingham City ‘s party favor. The second gear leg at Fratton Park ended 0–0 on 9 January 1946, with Birmingham City winning 1–0 overall on aggregate. ( See 1945–46 FA Cup for full moon results ) The FA Cup trophy was not to stay with Portsmouth for an one-eighth consecutive class and was returned to the Football Association in time for the 1946 FA Cup Final, in which Derby County were awarded the trophy. The Football League finally resumed in 1946–47. Portsmouth had capitalised on the footballers called up to serve in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines in the war years and recruited some of them. In this way, Portsmouth had the nibble of some of the best. Portsmouth ended the 1946–47 Football League First Division season in 12th place. On 1 May 1947, fabled director Jack Tinn left Portsmouth, with Bob Jackson taking over the function on the same day. The second post-war Football League First Division season resumed under director Bob Jackson in 1947–48. This was besides the first season Portsmouth wore crimson socks, which replaced their traditional black socks. The crimson socks were an mind proposed by Portsmouth ‘s honorary president, Field Marshal Montgomery, who had suggested that Portsmouth should wear red socks to commemorate the sacrifice of british servicemen lost in war. Red is traditionally the color of the british Army and besides of the Remembrance poppy flower, and so Montgomery ‘s mind was adopted by Portsmouth at the start of the season. Bob Jackson ‘s Portsmouth finished in 8th space at the conclusion of the 1947–48 First Division season .

1948–49 and 1949–50 : Champions of England [edit ]

In their 50-year “ golden jubilee ” anniversary 1948–49 season, Bob Jackson ‘s Portsmouth side were tipped to be the foremost team of the twentieth hundred to win a historic Football League and FA Cup “ double “. The electric potential of a rare ‘Double ‘ learn Fratton Park attracting average dwelling attendances of 36,000 supporters, and a record attendance of 51,385 in an FA Cup quarter-final match against Derby County on 26 February 1949, which Portsmouth won 2–1. portsmouth lost 1–3 in the FA Cup semi-final against Leicester City on 26 March 1949 at the inert Highbury stadium. Portsmouth however, did win one half of the ‘Double ‘, securing the First Division title and becoming Football League Champions of England at the end of the 1948–49 temper, with Manchester United complete as runner-up. Portsmouth ‘s championship-winning team consisted of Ernest Butler, Phil Rookes, Harry Ferrier, Jimmy Scoular, Reg Flewin, Jimmy Dickinson, Peter Harris, Duggie Reid, Ike Clarke, Len Phillips, Jack Froggatt, Jasper Yeuell, Lindy Delapenha, Bert Barlow and Cliff Parker. Bob Jackson ‘s Portsmouth side beat Aston Villa 5–1 on the last day of the following 1949–50 season, winning the Football League title again for a moment straight season – on goal average – as both Portsmouth and runners up Wolverhampton Wanderers finished the season with 53 points each, and entirely one detail ahead of third place Sunderland on 52 points. Portsmouth are one of only five english teams to have won back-to-back consecutive top-flight League titles since the end of World War II. In the be 1950–51 season, League champions Portsmouth finished in 7th position, 13 points behind deed winners Tottenham Hotspur. Eddie Lever took over at Pompey in 1952 after championship-winning coach Bob Jackson joined Hull City. In the 1952–53 season, Portsmouth finished in 15th topographic point and only 4 points above the relegation zone, with Arsenal F.C. winning the league title. Portsmouth finished third base in the 1954–55 season, entirely 4 points behind winners Chelsea F.C. . In the 1955–56 season, on 22 February 1956, Fratton Park hosted the Football League ‘s first ever floodlit evening game, against Newcastle United, played under floodlights erected on crown of the North Stand and South Stand ceiling. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] Portsmouth ended the temper in 12th place in Division One. The original solid earthbank Fratton End stand was replaced in 1956 with a new stand built from prefabricate concrete and steel. It had two distinctive terraced tiers, a roofed amphetamine terrace and an alfresco lower terrace. In the 1956–57 season, Portsmouth escaped delegating by four points and finished two places above the drop partition. In the following 1957–58 season, Portsmouth once again escape relegation on goal average and finished one place above the delegating zone. Manager Eddie Lever left Portsmouth in April 1958. Freddie Cox became newfangled Portsmouth director in August 1958. The new 1958–59 season was the first Football League season with four home divisions. The two previous regional Third Divisions ( North and South ) which had begun in the 1921–22 temper were restructured and replaced with two modern national divisions, named the Third Division and Fourth Division. At the end of the 1958–59 season Portsmouth finished penetrate of the First Division, ending their 32-year stay in the First Division, and relegation to the Second Division. By now, the championship winning team of 1949 and 1950 had been broken up, caused by ageing or injury .

1959–1979 : decline and relegation to the Fourth Division [edit ]

Following the bottom-place finish in the previous 1958–59 First Division season, Portsmouth started the 1959–60 season in the Second Division, the moment tier of English football, which Portsmouth had last been in during the 1926–27 season. After another hapless season, they escaped a far relegation to the Third Division only by 2 points and finishing lone one seat above the delegating zone. In the 1960–61 season Portsmouth finished second-to-last place in the Second Division delegating zone and were relegated once again to the Third Division, ( the first former English League champions to do indeed ). Manager Freddie Cox was sacked in February 1961. [ 36 ] Under the guidance of George Smith, Portsmouth, now in the Third Division for the 1960–61 temper had a thoroughly season and were promoted back to the second Division at the first time of asking after winning the Third Division title. Field-Marshal Bernard ‘Monty ‘ Montgomery of Alamein, was the honorary President of Portsmouth, having begun to support them during World War II due to the proximity of his headquarters at Southwick House on the outskirts of Portsmouth. In private agreement dated 25 April 1962, he wrote to Smith : “ I congratulate you very much on getting Portsmouth out of the Third Division – which was completely a improper place for a celebrated team. While the players all did their stuff, the major credit goes to you. ” Despite express fiscal means, director George Smith maintained Portsmouth ‘s Second Division condition throughout the rest of the 1960s until Smith was replaced by Ron Tindall in April 1970 as Smith moved upstairs to become general director in April 1970, until his retirement from football in 1973. The cash injection that accompanied the arrival of John Deacon as president in 1972 failed to improve Portsmouth ‘s Second Division position. Ron Tindall was replaced in May 1973 by John Mortimore. however, Ron Tindall returned for two games as caretaker coach after director John Mortimore left in 1974. Ian St. John became fresh Portsmouth coach in September 1974. With Deacon ineffective to continue bankrolling the cabaret on the same scale, Portsmouth finished bottom of the Second Division in the 1975–76 season and were relegated polish to the Third Division. In November of the 1976–77 Third Division season, the club found itself needing to raise £ 25,000 to pay off debts and so debar bankruptcy. [ citation needed ] With players having to be sold to ease the golf club ‘s fiscal position, and no money available for replacements, Portsmouth were forced to rely on inexperienced young players. Initially results improved, but then declined again. On 4 May 1977, Ian St. John was replaced as director by former Portsmouth and England international player Jimmy Dickinson. They ended the 1976–77 season entirely one place and one period above the Third Division ‘s delegating zone. They were relegated at the end of the modern 1977–78 temper, finishing in bottom place. In the 1978–79 Fourth Division season, Portsmouth finished in 7th position. Jimmy Dickinson suffered a heart assail near the end of the season and after the season in May 1979, was replaced by Frank Burrows .

1979–1987 : tax return to the First Division [edit ]

Under Frank Burrows newfangled management, Portsmouth gained forwarding back to the Third Division after finishing in 4th place in the 1979–80 temper. Portsmouth would take three seasons before in 1983, Portsmouth claimed their third base Division championship title, gaining promotion back into the second Division. In the 1983–84 Second Division season, Portsmouth finished sixteenth topographic point in the table. After the temper, Bobby Campbell was replaced by former England international and 1966 FIFA World Cup winner, Alan Ball on 11 May 1984. Under Ball, Portsmouth ‘s results markedly improved and they narrowly missed winning promotion to the First Division in the 1984–85 Second Division season, finishing in 4th place on finish deviation. They finished in 4th place again for the following 1985–86 season. In Ball ‘s third season as Portsmouth coach in the 1986–87 Second Division season, Portsmouth finished as runner-up behind Derby County, gaining forwarding back to the First Division for the beginning time since the 1958–59 season. During the season, the upper tier of the Fratton End stand, built merely thirty years earlier in 1956, was closed due to structural concerns, leaving entirely the lower grade of the Fratton End open to fans. By the center of the new 1987–88 First Division temper, the club was again in fiscal trouble. Portsmouth were relegated straight back down to the Second Division. The summer of 1988 visit chair John Deacon sell the club to London-based businessman and former Queens Park Rangers chair, Jim Gregory. Fratton Park was in a poor condition, with the Fratton End still half close to fans and leaking roof in the North and South stands. With modern president Jim Gregory injecting money into the cabaret, employment began in the summer of 1988 to demolish the upper grade of the Fratton End and its roof. The North and South stands were refurbished and both received smart new blue-coloured alloy sheet ceiling .

1988–2003 : The Second Tier [edit ]

After a single disappointing season in the First Division, Portsmouth were relegated back to the Second Division for the 1988–89 season. Halfway through the temper, Alan Ball was sacked on 17 January 1989 and replaced by John Gregory. The entire Fratton end stand was closed during most of the season during demolition works, with lone the lower tier of the resist reopening in the spring of 1989. Portsmouth ended the season merely two places above the relegation zone. Following the 15 April 1989 Hillsborough Disaster, Portsmouth removed the margin fences from Fratton Park for the new 1989–90 season, except at the Fratton End to separate away supporters. [ citation needed ] The season saw John Gregory leaving the club on 3 January 1990. assistant director Frank Burrows became director for a second spell on 23 January 1990. Portsmouth finished in 12th put at the end of the season. The 1990–91 season saw Frank Burrows resign as coach on 13 March 1991 after a string of bad results. Burrows was replaced by passenger car Graham Paddon until the end of the season, finishing in 17th position. [ citation needed ] Jim Smith ‘s arrival as director at the beginning of the 1991–92 season sparked a revival in the team ‘s fortunes and that year Portsmouth reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup, meeting Liverpool at neutral ground Highbury on 5 April 1992 – the 94th Anniversary of Portsmouth Football Club. Portsmouth took the lead in extra time from a 111th minute Darren Anderton goal. however, Liverpool ‘s Ronnie Whelan equalised five minutes former, and the semi-final equal ended tied 1–1 after the distribute 120 minutes. The tie was then replayed at Villa Park on 13 April 1992 and ended 0–0 after extra prison term. Portsmouth then lost 1–3 on penalties to Liverpool, who went on to meet Sunderland in the 1992 FA Cup Final, which Liverpool won 2–0. [ citation needed ] The 1992–93 Football League season saw a major restructure of the English football “ pyramid ” system, caused by all the First Division clubs resigning from the Football League and forming a new breakaway crown tier FA Premier League. now without a first Division, the Football League Second Division was renamed as the “ Football League First Division ” for the 1992–93 season. The FA Premier League besides had a modern winners trophy made, meaning the celebrated old Football League First Division championship trophy became demoted in condition, now acting as the newfangled moment tier “ beginning division ” championship trophy alternatively. Portsmouth had a good 1992–93 temper in the raw “ first class ”, but missed out on automatic promotion to the new first tier Premier League by virtue of scoring only one fewer finish than second-placed West Ham United. In the subsequent promotion play-offs, Portsmouth lost 3–2 on aggregate over two games to Leicester City in the play-off semi-finals for the third gear forwarding place. During the 1993–94 season under director Jim Smith, Portsmouth finished 17th out of 24 in the First Division, winning 15 matches, drawing 13 and losing 18. The team reached the quarterfinals of the League Cup and the third round of the FA Cup, in both cases being knocked out after replays. [ citation needed ] The 1994–95 season was a disappointing one for Portsmouth and after a decline in form which left them struggling at the wrong end of the “ modern ” First Division, Jim Smith was sacked on 1 February 1995 and was replaced by Terry Fenwick, who guided them to safety with 4 wins in their final examination 6 league games. In the 1995–96 temper Fenwick ‘s beginning wax temper in charge of Portsmouth, relegation to the Second Division was avoided on the last day of the season ( on goal remainder ) when Portsmouth won aside at Huddersfield Town while early results went the club ‘s means. In the summer of 1996, Terry Venables arrived at Portsmouth as a adviser. Venables had recently resigned as the England national team director after the UEFA Euro 1996 rival. Fratton Park was transformed into an all-seat stadium, with modern blue fictile seats fitted to the lower North terrace, Milton End, lower South patio paddocks and besides to the leftover of the Fratton End terrace. In the 1996–97 league political campaign, Portsmouth finished just unretentive of the stipulate places for the playoffs for promotion to the Premier League. Terry Venables took over as president in February 1997 after buying a 51 per penny controlling partake in the cabaret for £1. [ 37 ] The team enjoyed a run in the 1996–97 FA Cup contest, beating FA Premier League side Leeds United on 15 February 1997, but were finally beaten 1–4 by Chelsea F.C. in the quarter-finals at Fratton Park on 9 March 1997. At the end of the 1996–97 temper, the Fratton End was in full demolished in the summer ( of 1997 ) and knead began to build a raw Fratton End point of view. additionally, a new roof extension was built over the lower tier of the North Stand and was completed before the new season started. These new additions to Fratton Park were partially funded by the Football Trust ( immediately The Football Foundation ). At 4.59pm on Friday 31 October 1997, the newfangled £2.2 million Fratton End was officially cleared for its opening, with one hour to spare before a 5 promethium deadline. Problems with some misorientated Fratton End rooftop floodlights caused the Fratton End of the gear to be “ shrouded in gloom on Hallowe’en ”, according to the Sky Sports 3 television observer, causing some doubt that the live televised Division One game against Swindon Town would take place. [ citation needed ] Fortunately, the match referee, Paul Danson gave the green light for the evening regular. The crippled was won 0–1 by Swindon Town with an official Fratton Park attendance of only 8,707. As a mark of respect to the club ‘s erstwhile player and director, a memorial portrait of Jimmy Dickinson was incorporated into the seating of the new Fratton End rack, along with the club ‘s crest. Terry Venables ‘ function as bus of the australian national team meant he was frequently absent from Portsmouth. interim, the team ‘s results were poor. Two-thirds of the manner through the 1997–98 season, he and coach Terry Fenwick left the club, with Portsmouth on the bed of the postpone, and Venables selling his shareholding back to Martin Gregory, son of early chair Jim Gregory. Alan Ball then returned as coach for the second time on 26 January 1998. delegating to the third tier was avoided on the last day of the temper – by 1 point. Portsmouth ‘s centennial season, 1998–99, saw a fiscal crisis hit the club, and in December 1998 Portsmouth went into fiscal administration. [ 38 ] Serbian-born US businessman Milan Mandarić saved the club with a coup d’etat distribute in May 1999, and the new chair immediately started investing for the new 1999–2000 season. Alan Ball was sacked on 9 December 1999 during the 1999–2000 season with the club near the bottom of the postpone. Tony Pulis took over on 13 January 2000 and steered the club to condom at the end of the season. In the 2000–01 temper, Pulis was put on leave and replaced by Portsmouth player, Steve Claridge in a player-manager function. On 23 February 2001, Graham Rix took over from Claridge. Portsmouth escaped relegation on the last day of the 2000–01 season when they won their final game and Huddersfield Town lost theirs, keeping Portsmouth up at their expense. [ 39 ] During the summer break, erstwhile West Ham United director Harry Redknapp was appointed conductor of football by Mandaric. A week before the new season began, 25-year-old Portsmouth goalkeeper Aaron Flahavan was killed in a car crash near Bournemouth on 5 August 2001. In a check of respect, Portsmouth retired his number 1 shirt for the temper. Portsmouth signed veteran Croatian playmaker Robert Prosinečki on a annual deal and Peter Crouch for the depart of the 2001–02 season. Rix lost his job on 25 March 2002, with Harry Redknapp taking over. Former Portsmouth coach Jim Smith was asked to team up with Redknapp, and while he initially turned the offer down to remain as assistant at Coventry City, he soon arrived at Portsmouth after a change of coach at Coventry saw about all of the golf club ‘s coach staff being dismissed. Peter Crouch scored 19 goals for Portsmouth, but was sold to Aston Villa in March 2002 for £5 million. Portsmouth ended the 2001–02 Division One season in 17th place and 4 points above relegation. In the 2002–03 season, Portsmouth led the First Division for most of the season, with Svetoslav Todorov scoring 26 league goals, which made him the First Division ‘s top scorer at the end of the season. Portsmouth finished exceed as First Division champions on 27 April 2003, six points pass of second-placed Leicester City, gaining promotion ( with a crippled to spare ) to the FA Premier League, returning to the clear tier of English football after an absence of fifteen seasons. [ 40 ] Portsmouth were awarded the Football League First Division Championship trophy for a third time, as the early Football League backing trophy had been demoted in condition in 1992–93 ( because of the creation of the FA Premier League ) and had become the moment tier trophy. Portsmouth goalkeeper Shaka Hislop, midfielders Matthew Taylor and Paul Merson earned places in the 2002–03 Division One PFA team of the Year award .

2003–2010 : FA Premier League [edit ]

In Portsmouth ‘s Premiership debut season in 2003–04, the “ Harry & Jim ” partnership of Harry Redknapp and Jim Smith resulted in a thirteenth place final examination place at the end of the season. about halfway through the following 2004–05 season in the Premiership, Harry Redknapp unexpectedly walked out on Portsmouth on 24 November 2004 after a row with president Milan Mandarić over the appointment of new Director of Football Velimir Zajec at the club. concisely afterwards on 8 December 2004, Harry Redknapp was announced by Southampton F.C. chair Rupert Lowe as their new director, with Jim Smith as his assistant. [ 41 ] Velimir Zajec then replaced Redknapp as Portsmouth director, but in April 2005, Zajec was replaced by Frenchman Alain Perrin. Perrin managed to secure Portsmouth ‘s Premiership condition with a few games of the season left, including a South Coast Derby 4–1 win over Harry Redknapp ‘s Southampton slope, [ 42 ] who were finally relegated at the end of the season. During the 2005–06 season and after achieving lone four wins from a total of 20 games as Portsmouth director, Alain Perrin was sacked on 24 November 2005, precisely one year to the day since Harry Redknapp left Portsmouth. Harry Redknapp then made a surprise return to manage Portsmouth again after leaving relegate Southampton. In January 2006, Portsmouth were sold by Milan Mandarić and bought by businessman Alexandre Gaydamak. New signings included a quartet from Tottenham Hotspur, then record sign Benjani and Argentine international Andrés D’Alessandro on lend from VfL Wolfsburg. The clubhouse survived their third season in the Premier League one station above the delegating zone in 17th situation. With large amounts of money available for Redknapp to make criminal record signings, the club finished the 2006–07 season in the top half of the table for the first time, in ninth put, entirely one detail short of european reservation .
Portsmouth won the FA Cup for the second time in 2008 The following 2007–08 season Portsmouth finished eighth in the Premier League and reached the FA Cup concluding for the first clock since 1939. They eliminated Manchester United at Old Trafford in the quarter-finals, and on 5 April 2008, Portsmouth beat Championship side West Bromwich Albion 1–0 at Wembley Stadium in the semi-finals, coincidentally the same day that the club celebrated its hundred-and-tenth birthday. On 17 May 2008, Portsmouth played Cardiff City in the FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, the second such final at the newly rebuilt Wembley. Portsmouth won 1–0, with Nwankwo Kanu scoring the only finish. It was the second time Portsmouth had won the FA Cup .
The FA Cup acquire had besides earned Portsmouth a place in the 2008–09 UEFA Cup, the baseball club ‘s inaugural clock time playing european football. Their beginning european match was a 2–0 victory over Vitória de Guimarães in the first orotund on 18 September. Portsmouth went on to win the connect 4–2 on aggregate, progressing to the group stagecoach. On 25 October 2008, Redknapp on the spur of the moment left Portsmouth for a second time, leaving his assistant Tony Adams to be promoted to the managerial function. On 27 November 2008, Portsmouth drew 2–2 with Milan, going 2–0 up through goals from Younès Kaboul and Nwankwo Kanu, but conceding two goals later in the bet on. Adams was dismissed in February 2009. [ 43 ] Youth team coach Paul Hart took over as director until the end of the season, and Portsmouth were guaranteed Premier League base hit on 16 May 2009. Portsmouth finished the 2008–09 Premier League season in 14th place. On 26 May, Portsmouth accepted a bid from Emirati businessman Sulaiman Al Fahim to purchase the cabaret. [ 44 ] Because of the fiscal problems suffered by the club, Portsmouth were forced to sell several of their top players and high gear earners, including Peter Crouch, Sylvain Distin, Glen Johnson and Niko Kranjčar. On 21 July 2009, Al Fahim was appointed non-executive president of Portsmouth. On 19 August 2009, Portsmouth announced on their web site that a rival consortium headed by current CEO Peter Storrie had besides made a command for the cabaret ; unknown at the time, this was backed by Ali al-Faraj. Despite this, Al Fahim completed the coup d’etat on 26 August 2009 ; al Faraj moved to review a coup d’etat of West Ham United. As the early stages of the 2009–10 season progressed, the finances dried up and the golf club admitted on 1 October that some of their players and staff had not been paid. On 3 October, media outlets started to report that a softwood was nearing completion for Ali al-Faraj to take restraint of the club. On 5 October, a batch was agreed for al-Faraj and his associates, via BVI -registered company Falcondrone, to hold a 90 % majority hold, with Al-Fahim retaining 10 % bet on and the title of non-executive chair for two years. [ 45 ] [ 46 ] Falcondrone besides agreed a deal with Alexandre Gaydamak the right to buy, for £1, Miland Development ( 2004 ) Ltd., which owns diverse strategic pockets of land around the ground, once refinancing was complete. [ 47 ] Two days after the al-Faraj coup d’etat was completed, Portsmouth ‘s former technical director Avram Grant returned as film director of football. [ 48 ] Because of the fiscal problems, however, the Premier League placed the baseball club under a transfer embargo, meaning the clubhouse were not allowed to sign any players. Avram Grant took over at Portsmouth on 26 November 2009, [ 49 ] [ 50 ] replacing Hart, who had been sacked by the board two days previously due to the cabaret ‘s position at the bottom of the league table. [ 51 ] In December 2009, it was announced that the baseball club had failed to pay the players for the second gear consecutive calendar month, [ 52 ] and on the 31st it was announced actor ‘s wages would again be paid late, on 5 January 2010. According to coarse football contracts, the players then had the right to terminate their contracts and leave the club without any compensation for the golf club, upon giving two weeks ‘ notice. Despite the fiscal difficulties, Grant ‘s time as coach was initially successful. He gained two wins ( against Burnley and Liverpool ) and a draw away at Sunderland from his first five games. The only losses inflicted on Portsmouth in this period were by eventual double winners Chelsea and the previous season ‘s champions, Manchester United. HM Revenue and Customs ( HMRC ) filed a winding-up petition against Portsmouth at the High Court of Justice in London on 23 December 2009. [ 53 ] In March 2010, this winding-up request was dropped, [ 54 ] leaving Portsmouth with a nine-point penalty for entering administration. [ 55 ]

administration, 2010 FA Cup Final and relegation [edit ]

During the 2009–10 season, it had become apparent to the club ‘s new owner Balram Chainrai that Portsmouth were approximately £135 million in debt [ 56 ] thus to protect the golf club from liquidation, Chainrai placed the club into administration on 26 February 2010, and the club appointed Andrew Andronikou, Peter Kubik and Michael Kiely of accountancy firm UHY Hacker Young as administrators. This mechanically incurred a nine-point penalty from the Premier League which came into effect on 17 March and consigned the team to about certain delegating, which was mathematically confirmed on 10 April 2010. [ 57 ] On 9 April 2010, it was announced David Lampitt would be joining Portsmouth as their fresh chief executive officer after he had worked a period of notice at the FA, his current employer. Portsmouth were relegated to the EFL Championship ( the raw Tier 2 level name ) the following day on 10 April 2010 after West Ham won. Portsmouth won their fa Cup semi-final match against Tottenham 2–0 after extra-time the future day, with goals from Frédéric Piquionne and Kevin-Prince Boateng winning the pit. They faced Chelsea in the final at Wembley on 15 May 2010 and lost 1–0 to a goal from Didier Drogba. Despite being the FA Cup finalists, the club were denied a license to play european football the following season in the UEFA Europa League. [ 58 ] In May, Grant resigned as Portsmouth coach. On 17 June, the club ‘s creditors voted for a company voluntary arrangement ( CVA ), with an 81.3 % majority ; [ 59 ] HMRC, Paul Hart and the agentive role of Portsmouth midfielder Tommy Smith were the only ones to reject it, but HMRC appealed against the CVA due to the reduction of its considerable debt. [ 60 ] On 15 July 2010, HMRC appealed against the proposed CVA on the last day before it would be formally agreed, [ 61 ] the font was in the first place going to take put in October 2010, but after an appeal from the administrators at the clubhouse it was set for 3 August at the high Court in London. The case was heard by Mr Justice Mann from 3 to 5 August where, having heard submissions from both sides, he turned down HMRC ‘s appeal on all five counts it had put forward. HMRC decided not to appeal against the verdict, leaving Portsmouth ‘s administrators to formally agree the CVA and bring the club out of administration. [ 62 ] On 17 August, Balram Chainrai completed his coup d’etat of the club and passed the owners ‘ and directors ‘ fit and proper person test .

2010–2017 : decline and relegations to fourth tier [edit ]

Former Notts County director Steve Cotterill was appointed coach of relegated Portsmouth in the Championship June 2010 on a three-year contract. [ 63 ] On 22 October, Portsmouth issued a statement saying, “ It appears probable that the golf club will now be closed down and liquidated by the administrators, ” [ 64 ] but key creditor Alexandre Gaydamak announced the following day that he had reached an agreement which could save their future. [ 65 ] It was revealed good hours later that Portsmouth had ultimately come out of administration, with Balram Chainrai regaining control of the company. [ 66 ] On 1 June 2011, Convers Sports Initiatives ( CSI ) owned by russian Vladimir Antonov completed its takeover of the club. [ 67 ] On 14 October 2011, Steve Cotterill took the vacant Nottingham Forest director ‘s position. [ 68 ] He was succeeded by Michael Appleton, who was announced as the fresh coach on 10 November 2011. [ 69 ] On 23 November 2011, a Europe-wide halt justify was issued for Portsmouth owner Vladimir Antonov by lithuanian prosecutors as contribution of an investigation into alleged asset undress at Lithuanian bank Bankas Snoras, which was 68 % owned by Antonov and had gone into impermanent administration the previous week. Operations in another of Antonov ‘s banks, Latvijas Krajbanka, were suspended by latvian authorities for exchangeable reasons. [ 70 ] Antonov was subsequently arrested at his offices in London on 24 November and was bailed. [ 71 ] He shortly subsequently resigned as chair of Portsmouth after rear company CSI entered administration. [ 72 ] On 24 January 2012, Portsmouth were issued with a winding up request by HMRC for over £1.6 million in unpaid taxes, which was heard on 20 February. [ 73 ] On 17 February 2012, Portsmouth went into administration for the second time in two years, bringing them an automatic 10-point tax write-off. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] Administrator Trevor Birch admitted that the fiscal situation was “ worse than we first feared ” and that Portsmouth were “ struggling to make the end of the season ”. [ 76 ] On 11 April 2012, reports from administrators PKF revealed that Portsmouth owed £58 million with £38 million being owed to UHY Hacker Young, £10.5 million investment made by Vladimir Antonov ‘s CSI remained outstanding, players were ascribable £3.5 million in wages and bonuses for the last two seasons, while £2.3 million was owed to HMRC and, additionally, £3.7 million was owed for general trade. [ 77 ] On 21 April, Portsmouth were relegated from the Championship after a 2–1 loss to Derby County, the beginning time in 30 years that the clubhouse had played at that flush. Following Pompey ‘s relegation to League One, the entire professional act squad left the club. [ 78 ] The team were given a 10-point subtraction in December 2012 for their fiscal problems. [ 79 ] On 7 November 2012, it was announced that Michael Appleton had left Portsmouth to become the director of Blackpool. [ 80 ] On 9 November 2012, Chanrai halted his undertake to buy the clubhouse. [ 81 ] Six days late, the Pompey Supporters Trust signed a conditional agreement with PFK to buy the club. [ 82 ] Portsmouth were unable to find a director on a long-run basis due to their fiscal country. The club went on a commemorate winless hunt of 23 matches, last ending on 2 March 2013 as Portsmouth won 2–1 away at Crewe Alexandra. [ 83 ] On 10 April 2013, a deal with administrators was reached, [ 84 ] although the Pompey Supporters ‘ Trust had not so far finalised the leverage. [ 85 ] Portsmouth were relegated ( for the second consecutive season ) to League Two at the end of the season. [ 86 ] On 19 April 2013, Portsmouth exited administration when the Pompey Supporters ‘ Trust ( PST ) deal to buy the club was completed. [ 87 ] Former caretaker Guy Whittingham was appointed coach on a permanent basis with a annual compress. [ 88 ] Portsmouth sold over 10,000 season tickets for the 2013–14 temper, a record for any League Two club. [ 89 ] In November 2013, Whittingham was sacked and a calendar month later ex- Crawley Town coach Richie Barker was appointed Portsmouth boss, along with Steve Coppell as the director of football. Barker was sacked after 20 games in charge, with the cabaret in serious danger of relegation to the Football Conference, and Andy Awford was again made caretaker coach. [ 90 ] He won five games out of five played, guaranteeing Pompey ‘s survival in League Two. [ 91 ] On 1 May 2014, Awford was appointed Pompey ‘s permanent wave coach, signing a annual compress. [ 92 ] On a historic announcement on 29 September 2014, the golf club was able to declare itself debt-free after paying back all creditors and bequest payments to ex-players. [ 93 ] The news came 18 months after the PST took control of the club. Following an unsuccessful EFL League Two 2014–15 campaign, Paul Cook was appointed new coach of Portsmouth on 12 May 2015. [ 94 ] Paul Cook led Portsmouth to an EFL League Two play-off touch in the 2015–16 season after a 2–0 away win at Hartlepool United on 30 April 2016, [ 95 ] but lost to Plymouth Argyle in the semi-final. [ 96 ] In the 2016–17 season, Paul Cook ‘s side secured promotion to League One with a 3–1 acquire away at Notts County on 17 April 2017. [ 97 ] On 6 May, the concluding match of the season, Portsmouth topped the mesa ( for the first time in the season ) following the 6–1 home gain against Cheltenham and were crowned champions of League Two. [ 98 ] Paul Cook resigned on 31 May 2017 to join Wigan Athletic. [ 99 ] Kenny Jackett was appointed the new director on Friday 2 June 2017. In May the Pompey Supporters ‘ Trust ( PST ) voted in favor [ 100 ] of a proposed bid by The Tornante Company, headed by former Disney headman executive Michael Eisner, to take over the baseball club which was completed on 3 August 2017. [ 101 ] [ 102 ] [ 6 ]

2017–present : EFL League One [edit ]

Portsmouth began the 2017–18 season in League One, the third gear tier of professional English football following their League Two backing gain in the former 2016–17 season. On 15 March 2018, Portsmouth revealed a newly redesigned club crest, featuring a new nautical compass leading and an “ 1898 ” date, added for the initiation year of the football clubhouse. The newly crest was introduced for the new 2018–19 season. [ 103 ] Portsmouth ended the 2017–18 League One temper in 8th position on 66 points, missing the play-off places by 5 points. The 2018–19 EFL League One season began in August with a run of four consecutive league wins and their best league start since 1980–81. [ 104 ] Portsmouth remained undefeated in the 2018–19 EFL League One crusade for football team consecutive league matches and topped the League One mesa, before being defeated by Gillingham in the one-twelfth match. [ 105 ] On 31 March 2019, Portsmouth met Sunderland in the 2019 EFL Trophy Final at Wembley Stadium. The match finished 1–1 after normal time, and 2–2 after 30 minutes of extra clock. A penalty gunfight followed, with Portsmouth winning 5–4. [ 106 ] Portsmouth ‘s regular EFL League One season concluded on 4 May 2019, with the team finishing 4th and qualifying for the League One play-offs. In the play-off semi-finals, Portsmouth were met by fifth placed Sunderland. The first base leg match at the Stadium of Light on 11 May 2019 was won 1–0 by Sunderland. [ 107 ] The second leg was played at Fratton Park on 16 May 2019 and ended 0–0, which meant Portsmouth lost 0–1 overall and missed a Wembley play-off final examination for promotion to The Championship. [ 108 ] During the 2019–20 season, Portsmouth achieved a winning run of nine back-to-back matches in all competitions, setting a new gain record for the club since Portsmouth joined the Football League in 1920. [ 109 ] The criminal record run of nine matches began with an FA Cup Third Round win on Saturday 4 January 2020 away at Fleetwood Town, with the record-setting ninth game played away at Tranmere Rovers on Saturday 8 February 2020 in an EFL League One match. [ 110 ] On 18 February 2020, Portsmouth qualified for the 2020 EFL Trophy Final after narrowly defeating Exeter City 3-2 in the semi-final at Fratton Park. [ 111 ] Portsmouth were due to return to Wembley Stadium to defend the EFL Trophy as champions on Sunday 5 April 2020 [ 112 ] – coincidentally, the 122nd anniversary of the establish of Portsmouth FC in 1898. Their opponents were to be Salford City, and would have been the first always meet between the two clubs. [ 113 ] however, on Friday 13 March 2020, all professional football in England was suspended until ( at least ) 30 April ascribable to the ball-shaped COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. [ 114 ] On Tuesday 9 June 2020, the football clubs of EFL League One ( and EFL League Two ) voted to end the temper early on a points-per-game calculation, which resulted with Coventry City as League One champions and Rotherham United as League One runner-up. [ 115 ] Portsmouth were awarded a fifth place end to earn one of the four promotion play-off places for the EFL Championship, and were matched with Oxford United in a two-legged semi-final behind close doors. After two legs a penalty shoot-out was needed to settle the 2-2 aggregate tie, which Oxford United won 5–4. [ 116 ] Portsmouth ‘s fourth-successive season in EFL League One in the 2020–21 season began on 12 September 2020, with a home plate fastness played at Fratton Park against Shrewsbury Town which ended 0–0 and was played behind shut doors. [ 117 ] Fratton Park ‘s last remaining flood tower in the southeast corner was last removed on Friday 20 November 2020. [ 118 ] COVID-19 ‘social-distancing ‘ restrictions were partially relaxed in December 2020 when 2,000 Portsmouth fans were permitted to return to Fratton Park on 5 December for the EFL League One game against Peterborough United, a 2–0 win for the home side. [ 119 ] Portsmouth reached top place in EFL League One on 18 December 2020 and over the Christmas menstruation, after a 0–2 away win at Hull City. [ 120 ] due to COVID-19 lockdowns, the delay 2019–20 EFL Trophy Final was finally played buttocks close doors at Wembley Stadium on 13 March 2021, with Portsmouth losing 4–2 on penalties to Salford City after ending 0–0 after extra time. [ 121 ] After multiple straight losses and with lone one succeed in seven games, coach Kenny Jackett was sacked on 14 March 2021, ending his about 4 year tenure with the club. [ 122 ] Jackett left Portsmouth in 7th invest in the league, despite being top at Christmas, one rate below the play-off positions. On 19 March 2021, the club appointed Danny Cowley as director until the end of the 2020/21 season. [ 123 ] In his first crippled in commission at the baseball club, Portsmouth would come from behind to beat Ipswich Town 2–1. [ 124 ] By early May 2020 and with 45 league games played, Portsmouth were in sixth military position with a individual game to play, needing to win their last game to guarantee their sixth-place play-off target, with Oxford United and Charlton Athletic both chasing with alike promotion hopes. however, on Sunday 9 May 2021 at Fratton Park, Portsmouth lost 0–1 to Accrington Stanley in the final league game of the season, which featured a minutes hush following the death of former Portsmouth musician Alan McLoughlin. meanwhile, Oxford United and Charlton Athletic had both won their respective concluding matches, with both clubs leap-frogging Portsmouth in the table to finish with 74 points each, with Oxford United qualifying for the sixth-place play-off position with a superior goal difference over seventh-place Charlton Athletic. Portsmouth ‘s 0–1 loss to Accrington Stanley resulted in a drop to eighth place, two points and two positions outside the promotion play-off places. [ 125 ] On Monday 10 May 2021, Danny Cowley and buddy Nicky Cowley both signed “ long-run ” deals to remain at Portsmouth as director and adjunct respectively. [ 126 ] Portsmouth ‘s fifth-successive season in EFL League One in the 2021–22 season began on 7 August 2021, with an away fastness at Fleetwood Town ‘s Highbury Stadium, which resulted with a 0–1 winnings to Portsmouth. [ 127 ] After winning their first base three league games against Fleetwood Town, Crewe Alexandra and Shrewsbury Town, Portsmouth topped EFL League One on 17 August 2021. [ 128 ]

Players [edit ]

current police squad [edit ]

As of 24 September 2021[129]

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Out on loan [edit ]

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youth Academy [edit ]

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celebrated players [edit ]

For a number of luminary players and players who played for Portsmouth for more than 100 games in a sortable-list format, see List of Portsmouth F.C. players .

Retired and reserved numbers [edit ]

Number 1 was temporarily retired for the 2001–02 season in respect to goalkeeper Aaron Flahavan, who died in a car crash in August 2001, days after being handed the squad number 1 for the first time. Since the 2003–04 season, number 13 shirt was reserved in respect for him, as this was the number he wore for the majority of his stay at the club.[130] Ten years after his death, however, the number 13 was again used, first by Stephen Henderson, then by Simon Eastwood, Johnny Ertl, James Bolton and Kieron Freeman respectively.
Number 12 is reserved for the fans (often referred to as the 12th man).[ citation needed]
Number 58 is “Nelson” the club mascot’s number.[131]

Portsmouth Player of the Season ( since 1968 ) [edit ]

reservoir : [ 132 ]

Portsmouth Hall of Fame [edit ]

Portsmouth created a Hall of Fame in March 2009, which honours former players and staff members of the club. [ 133 ] At a year-by-year ceremony, the club holds a day to announce the year ‘s inducted to the number, and besides has a dinner for the people stage. The following players have been inducted into the Portsmouth Football Club Hall of Fame : All appearances and goals according to Soccerbase. * Denotes player for Portsmouth FC Women
Key:
GK = Goalkeeper

CB = Centre-back

LB = Left-back

RB = Right-back

FB = Full-back

LH = Left half

RH = Right half

WH = Wing half

CM = Centre midfielder

LW = Left winger

RW = Right winger

OF = Outside forward

IF = Inside forward

FW = Forward

ST = Striker

U = Utility player

Club personnel [edit ]

source : [ 143 ]

Managers [edit ]

possession [edit ]

Portsmouth Football Club has operated under five different rear caller name in its history :

Portsmouth Football and Athletic Company Limited (5 April 1898 – 27 July 1912)
Portsmouth Football Company Limited (27 July 1912 – May 1999)[144]
Portsmouth City Football Club Limited (12 May 1999 – 25 May 2010)[145] (initially as ‘Overflint Limited’ from 7 April 1999 – 12 May 1999)
Portsmouth Football Club (2010) Limited (25 May 2010 – 10 April 2013)[146] (initially as ‘PFC Realisations Limited’ from 25 May 2010 – 23 November 2010)
Portsmouth Community Football Club Limited (10 April 2013 – Present)[147] (initially as ‘Portsmouth Supporters Trust (Operations) Limited’ from 7 February 2012 – 14 September 2012)

The stream owner of Portsmouth Community Football Club Limited is The Tornante Company, which purchased the cabaret from the Portsmouth Supporters Trust ( PST ) on 3 August 2017. [ 148 ]

Club cap [edit ]

2018–present, shirt crest

home colours [edit ]

1899–1909

1909–1912

1912–1933

1933–1947
In their beginning 1899–1900 temper in the Southern League Division One, Portsmouth ‘s first home colours were salmon tap shirts with maroon collars and cuffs, matched with white shorts and black socks. The pinko shirts gave the early Portsmouth F.C. the alternative second nickname of ‘The Shrimps ‘. The collars and cuffs were the like discolor as the Corporation of Portsmouth ‘s public trams, which were painted maroon at the clock. [ 149 ] These colours lasted until the end of the 1908–09 season. ‘The Shrimps ‘ nickname then besides declined from coarse custom. At the start of the 1909–10 season, Portsmouth changed to white shirts with navy blue shorts and navy blue socks. The next season, Portsmouth ended the inadequate 1910–11 season in bottom place and Portsmouth were relegated to Southern League Division Two. Following delegating, a fiscal crisis, store raise, forwarding in early 1912 and then another fiscal crisis, the original Portsmouth company that had been formed in 1898 was ‘wound up ‘. A new limited company was formed on 27 July 1912 as Portsmouth F.C. ‘s parent company. For the startle of the 1912–13 Southern League Division One season, Portsmouth changed their home colours to azure aristocratic shirts, white shorts and black socks. This was to become Portsmouth ‘s home kit out coloring material combination up until the startle of the 1933–34 season, when the shirts were changed to a royal blue. [ 154 ] These colours remained until the originate of the 1947–48 temper, when the black socks were changed to red ; this concur with the golf club ‘s most successful menstruation and has remained the prefer color for the majority of the time since. [ 155 ] Portsmouth F.C. changed their color combination several times during the 1966–1976 menstruation, before reverting to the now tradition post-war aristocratic shirts, white shorts and crimson stockings in 1976. [ 149 ] For the club ‘s hundred-and-tenth anniversary season in 2008–09, Portsmouth played in an all blue home kit, which debuted in the previous season ‘s successful 2008 FA Cup Final gain. [ 149 ] Since the 2009–10 season, Portsmouth reverted to the now traditional blue-white-red home kit .

crimson socks memorial [edit ]

1947–1966

1966–1972
1972–1973

1973–1976

1976–2008

2008–2009
Portsmouth had predominantly worn black socks since their first match in 1899 up until the end of the post-World War II 1946–47 FA Cup season – in which the Football League had not even resumed. During the second World War and post-war periods, the british Army ‘s Field Marshal Sir Bernard ‘Monty ‘ Montgomery had been based at Southwick House, 5 miles to the north of Portsmouth. Montgomery regularly attended war-time League South matches at Fratton Park, becoming the honorary President of Portsmouth Football Club. Following the hypnotism by Montgomery, loss socks were introduced by the club as a memorial to soldiers lost in wartime as red is the traditional semblance of the british Army and besides the color of the Remembrance poppy. [ 156 ] With the resumption of a full professional Football League season in England in 1947–48, Portsmouth changed their socks from the usual black to red at Christmas time in 1947. [ 157 ] This besides gave the Portsmouth team a patriotic blue, white and loss appearance exchangeable to the United Kingdom ‘s red flannel and bluing Union Flag. The newfangled bolshevik socks besides coincided with Portsmouth ‘s most successful menstruation, as the cabaret won two back-to-back top-tier division ( now ‘Premier League ‘ ) style honor in 1948–49 and 1949–50, so the red socks were retained for commodity luck. [ citation needed ]

aside colours [edit ]

The most frequent off colours used by Portsmouth have been white shirts with royal or navy blue shorts and either blue sky or flannel socks. [ 20 ]

other historic kits [edit ]

For the 2008 FA Cup Final victory against Cardiff City, Portsmouth debuted an all blue sky dwelling kit manufactured by Canterbury and sponsored by Oki Printing Solutions to commemorate the club ‘s 110th anniversary year. The all blue home kit was besides used throughout the following 2008–09 season. [ 149 ] Portsmouth again reached the FA Cup Final in 2010, but were defeated 1–0 by Chelsea. Portsmouth, as the away team, wore a white and maroon kit inspired from elements of the original “ Shrimps ” era ( 1899–1909 ) kit in which maroon collars and cuffs featured on the salmon pink home shirts .
1 Portsmouth ‘s own manufacturer.
2 As from 2011–12 season, sponsors were added to the binding of EFL clubs shirts. [ 158 ]
3 TotalAV signed as back of shirt sponsors for 2020–21 and 2021–22 seasons. [ 159 ]
4 Nike extend kit deal for 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24 seasons. [ 160 ] 5 University of Portsmouth extend sponsorship deal for 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24 seasons. [ 161 ]

“ pompey ” dub [edit ]

Portsmouth Football Club are traditionally nicknamed Pompey, a nickname already long associated with the English city of Portsmouth and its Royal Navy base. An accurate origin for the Pompey nickname has never formally been identified by historians, as many variations and interpretations of the Pompey nickname exist .

ground [edit ]

The entrance to Fratton Park ‘s South Stand, with its mock Tudor facade Portsmouth F.C. play their home games at Fratton Park, in the suburb of Milton, Portsmouth. The football grind was once the site of a potato field in 1898 when it was purchased by the newly-formed Portsmouth Football & Athletic Company, formed on 5 April 1898, a consortium of local anesthetic businessmen and ex-husband british Army officers whose chair was Sir John Brickwood, the owner of Brickwoods Brewery. Fratton Park was designed and completed during 1899 by local architect Arthur Cogswell, and was first opened to the populace on 15 August 1899, a public open day. The early Fratton Park of 1899 only had one roofed all-seat stand on the pitch ‘s southern side, which measured 100 feet long and seven seat rows grandiloquent and was known as the Grandstand, the best ( and alone ) seats in Fratton Park. Just in presence of the Grandstand was a terrace standing enclosure. On the opposite northern side of the pitch, a 240 feet farseeing exposed North Terrace was built. The land behind the two finish line ‘ends ‘ was left informal and unexploited at this time, although the entire cant margin was encircled by a 4 feet high metal hoop-topped fence. Portsmouth ‘s first ever equal was played away at Chatham Town on Saturday 2 September 1899, which Portsmouth won 1–0 and earned their first ever points in the Southern League Division One. The first ever football match to take place at Fratton Park was a “ friendly ” against Southampton, played four days late on Wednesday 6 September 1899, with Portsmouth winning 2–0. The foremost competitive match at Fratton Park was played three days subsequently on Saturday 9 September 1899 ; a Southern League Division One peer against Reading, which Portsmouth besides won 2–0. In 1900, Portsmouth ‘s president, Sir John Brickwood opened a new Brickwoods Brewery public house named The Pompey future to Fratton Park on the corner of Frogmore Road and Carisbrooke Road in Milton, Portsmouth. The Pompey was designed by Arthur Cogswell, an architect who had a friendship with the cabaret president and who had designed many of Brickwood ‘s public house in Portsmouth, american samoa well as early buildings, including Fratton Park itself in 1900. 1n 1905, an ambitious Portsmouth greatly expanded Fratton Park by the addition of a mock Tudor manner golf club pavilion to the southwest recess in Frogmore Road, a pavilion designed by architect Arthur Cogswell. The pavilion originally featured a grandiloquent octangular clock column steeple on its northeast corner, with an upper watch veranda built beneath it giving an unobscured view over the integral Fratton Park sales talk. The pavilion contained the clubhouse offices and team change rooms. In accession to the pavilion, two modern solid earthbank terraces, topped with cinders and wooden planking were built behind the two goal ends. They were initially known as the Fratton Railway End and Milton End ( or Spion Kop ) and were built behind the west and east end goal lines respectively. The North Terrace was besides partially redeveloped in 1905 with the accession of a moment all-seat roofed stand similar in purpose to the master Grandstand, but built within the centre section of the North Terrace, which retained its original stand terraces to the newfangled base ‘s sides. During World War I, a roof was built over the Fratton Railway End in 1915. After winning promotion to the Football League proper in 1920, the original southerly side Grandstand was replaced in 1925 with a larger South Stand, designed by scots architect Archibald Leitch. The pavilion ‘s clock loom was demolished as the South Stand was partially built into the pavilion ‘s footprint and actually silent contains most of the pavilion ‘s original east side within it. The new South Stand was built with a seated upper tier while a lower section became a standing patio, known as the South Paddock. The South Stand besides contained raw player ‘s dress rooms, which had access to the pitch via a player ‘s burrow built at paddock horizontal surface at the halfway line point. Ten years belated in 1935, Archibald Leitch besides designed a larger north Stand for Fratton Park, which saw a new full-length, roofed North Stand standing terrace built behind and overlooking a fully restored full-length lower Northern Terrace, which remained uncover and overt air. The west end section of the North Stand was built at an irregular lean compared to its east goal, due to the confines of Fratton Park ‘s nation footprint, as an older public pathway named Milton Lane lay behind the stand and had been built at an different unparallel angle to the more recent Fratton Park. The new North Stand brought Fratton Park ‘s utmost capacity up to 58,000 supporters, although this capacitance was never quite filled to its maximum potential. Fratton Park reached its stream all-time grind attendance record of 51,385 supporters on 26 February 1949, for an FA Cup Sixth Round meet, a 2–1 gain against visitors Derby County. In 1951, wooden seats were fitted to the North Stand ‘s upper berth standing tier which slightly reduced overall grind capacity, while leaving the lower tier North Terrace candid to standing supporters. The Fratton Railway End was demolished in 1956 and replaced by a new prefabricate concrete and steel stand, plainly known as The Fratton End, which omitted the “ railway ” character of the bequest name. The public house build up The Pompey was purchased by the football club in 1988 after its public house function ended, and has since been used as a cabaret shop, club offices, a media kernel, cordial reception area and ticket office. Fratton Park became an all seated football ground in 1996 when all terraces were fitted with amobarbital sodium plastic seats, which greatly reduced Fratton Park ‘s previous maximum capacity. In 1997, a modern Fratton end was opened in October 1997, as the earlier 1956 one had been partially demolished in 1988 after its upper tier steel structure was found weakened by rust and was deemed dangerous. besides in 1997, the uncover lower North Terrace was covered by a roof canopy which was joined to the existing North Stand roof. In 2007, The Milton End finally received a ceiling for the first time, as many away visitors complained of being soaked by rain during its history. Fratton Park is dearly nicknamed “ The Old Girl ” by Portsmouth ‘s supporters. The football prime has been home to the club throughout its integral history. Plans for resettlement were foremost mooted in the early 1990s, but due to assorted objections and fiscal obstacles, the club has continued to play at Fratton Park. Most recently, plans for move have included new stadium on a web site offered by the Royal Navy at Horsea Island, between Stamshaw and Port Solent, and on domesticate estate in Portsmouth Harbour beside the existing naval base. The early was mooted as a potential 2018 FIFA World Cup venue as part of England ‘s bid work. however, the price to the city ‘s taxpayers to join the bid was deemed excessively capital a risk to take. [ 162 ] A one-third, frequently returned-to option, is to build a new stadium on the web site of the existing Fratton Park. Following Portsmouth F.C. ‘s fiscal troubles, subsequent relegation from the Premier League, and the failure of the England 2018 bid, as of May 2017 there are no active agent plans for a newfangled baseball club stadium .

Supporters and rivalries [edit ]

portsmouth fans at Wembley Stadium for the 2007–08 FA Cup semi-final with West Bromwich Albion Portsmouth ‘s independent rivals are Southampton, who are 19.8 miles ( 31.8 kilometer ) away. The South Coast Derby is one of the less frequently played rivalries within English football ascribable to the clubs being in different divisions however this normally adds to the ferocity of the repair. prior to the mid/late 1960s, competition between Portsmouth and Southampton was largely non-existent, as a consequence of their disparity in league condition. This bowler hat match has been sporadic. Since 1977, the teams have only played league games against each early in four seasons ( 1987–88, 2003–04, 2004–05 and 2011–12 ). Including Southern League games, there have been 64 league games between the clubs, but they have besides met five times in the FA Cup, Portsmouth beating their rivals 4–1 at St Mary ‘s stadium in their last meeting in 2010, and doubly in the League Cup – with Southampton winning both times. many Portsmouth supporters normally use the derogative nickname Scummer ( plural : Scummers ) to describe Southampton fans, or jointly Scum to besides include their football club, and indeed the city of Southampton itself .

A disproven common origin theory dating from the late twentieth century suggested that the Scum nickname was an acronym of Southampton Company of Union Men, linked to a vague recollection of an unspecified and unsourced past dockers strike, in which Southampton-based dockers supposedly crossed Portsmouth dockyard picket lines when brought in as scab labour to work inside the naval base. This theory is almost certainly an urban myth, as Royal Navy dockers are not permitted to go on strike.
Victorian era dockers employed in the supposedly higher status Portsmouth Royal Dockyard, looked down in disdain upon the civilian merchant port dockers at Southampton Docks and nicknamed them Scum, as scum, flotsam and jetsam are useless residue found floating on, or nearby water.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Scummers was a derogatory name with naval origins for pirates or buccaneers, and was first recorded in use in 1585.[163][164]

interim, Portsmouth supporters have had the equally derogative nickname Skate bestowed upon them by Southampton fans as a rebutter to Scummer since the 1987–88 Division One season. This was unofficially chosen by Southampton fans from a list of insults compiled by a Southampton-based supporters fanzine called The Ugly Inside in 1988. [ 165 ] Ironically, the choose dub Skate was actually stolen from the civilian population of Portsmouth, who had long used Skate as a derogative abuse or dub for sailors based in Portsmouth Dockyard and other Royal Navy establishments. According to legend and folklore, Royal Navy matelots on farseeing sea voyages were regularly denied female company, and would keep a skate ( pisces species ) in their hammock or bunkside, as the mouth of the skate was purportedly used as a substitute vagina. Sailors ashore in Royal Navy uniform seeking the services of Portsmouth ‘s prostitutes would often be refused service and met with a “I ain’t no skate bait, mate!” rebuttal. [ 164 ] Another competition over the years, colloquially known as the “ Dockyard Derby ”, is with Plymouth Argyle. [ 166 ] [ 167 ] This competition is besides known as the Battle of the Ports. [ 168 ] In recent seasons the club has besides developed a minor competition with Sunderland, chiefly stemming from the clubs meet each other 5 times in the 18/19 season. [ 169 ] Lesser rivalries exist with boyfriend South Coast clubs AFC Bournemouth, Brighton and Hove Albion and South London cabaret Millwall .

‘The Pompey Chimes ‘ [edit ]

The best-known chant whistle by Portsmouth supporters are “ The Pompey Chimes ”. The tone is regarded as football ‘s oldest chant still in use today. [ 170 ] [ 171 ] “ The Pompey Chimes ” were originally called “ The Town Hall Chimes ”, and were created by the supporters of Royal Artillery (Portsmouth) Football Club, a british Army artillery regiment team, who were the most popular and successful amateurish football team based in Portsmouth for much of the 1890s. royal Artillery played their home matches at the United Services Recreation Ground in Burnaby Road, Portsmouth, [ 172 ] and were already nicknamed “ Pompey ” [ 173 ] before the establish of Portsmouth F.C. in 1898. The nearby Portsmouth Town Hall, only 0.3 miles ( 0.5 kilometer ) from Burnaby Road was completed in 1890, and would strike the diverse Westminster Quarters chimes every quarter hour. football referees would use the Town Hall ‘s clock bells as a reference to when the football meet should end at 4 phase modulation. [ citation needed ] Just before 4 autopsy the crowd of supporters would sing in unison with the Town Hall ‘s chimes on the hour to encourage the referee to blow the whistle to signify full-time. [ citation needed ] The original words to “ The Pompey Chimes ” ( as printed in the 1900–01 Official Handbook of Portsmouth F.C. ), were :
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Just one more goal!
Make tracks! What ho!
Hallo! Hallo!! With the death of Royal Artillery ( Portsmouth ) F.C. after their extrusion from the 1898–99 FA Amateur Cup for allege professionalism, many of Royal Artillery ‘s supporters switched their commitment in 1899 to Portsmouth F.C., taking the “ Town Hall Chimes ” chant and the “ Pompey ” nickname from Burnaby Road to Fratton Park, a distance of 1.8 miles ( 2.8 kilometer ). The Pompey Chimes are still sung at Fratton Park today, and have evolved to be sung at a flying tempo, and with a shorten chime style – normally doubly :
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Pompey play up!
Play up Pompey,
Pompey play up! It is most common to hear The Chimes sing by Portsmouth supporters as an boost to the Portsmouth team, more specifically before the Portsmouth players take set-piece kicks, such as corner-kicks, penalty-kicks or conduct free-kicks .

Portsmouth in Europe [edit ]

To go steady Portsmouth have played a single season in UEFA competitions, competing in the 2008–09 UEFA Cup. They beat Vitória de Guimarães 4-2 on aggregate in the first base round. [ 174 ] [ 175 ] In the group stage Portsmouth only registered one win along with a draw against A.C. Milan, [ 176 ] and were knocked out at the group stages after a 3–2 away loss to VfL Wolfsburg. [ 177 ]
The club ‘s female counterpart is Portsmouth F.C. Women, which was founded in 1987. The team presently plays in the FA Women ‘s Premier League National Division, after having won the FA Women ‘s Premier League Southern Division in 2012. Pompey are the stream holders of the Hampshire Cup. Following the coup d’etat of Portsmouth F.C. by the Portsmouth Supporters Trust, it was announced that there would be closer ties between the men ‘s and women ‘s clubs .

Affiliated clubs [edit ]

Portsmouth have had a long-standing relationship with Havant & Waterlooville, with regular pre-season friendlies organised between the two clubs. Portsmouth have besides previously used West Leigh Park, Havant & Waterlooville ‘s home stadium, for reserve team matches. former links with belgian side Zulte Waregem [ 178 ] and Irish academy Home Farm [ 179 ] have been cancelled. Portsmouth have developed a kinship with Gosport Borough after their promotion to the Conference South. Portsmouth fans were encouraged to support Gosport in their FA Trophy final match at Wembley in March 2014. [ 180 ] They besides play friendlies and lend out players to the side .

Club honor [edit ]

source for honor : [ 181 ]

League competitions [edit ]

Portsmouth are one of only five english football clubs to have been champions of all four tiers of the professional English football pyramid, ( after Wolverhampton Wanderers, Burnley, Preston North End and Sheffield United ). In addition, Portsmouth are besides one of alone two english football clubs to have been champions of five professional divisions including the early regional Football League Third Division South backing in the 1923–24 temper. Wolverhampton Wanderers besides share this distinction, having won all four divisions, plus a Football League Third Division North style succeed, coincidentally in the same 1923–24 season as Portsmouth won the respective South division. First Tier : Football League First Division ( 1888–1992 ) > Premier League ( 1992–present )
Second Tier : Football League Second Division ( 1892–1992 ) > Football League First Division ( 1992–2004 ) > EFL Championship ( 2004–present )
Third Tier : Football League Third Division South ( 1921–1958 ) > Football League Third Division ( 1958–1992 ) > Football League Second Division ( 1992–2004 ) > EFL League One ( 2004–present )
Fourth Tier : Football League Fourth Division ( 1958–1992 ) > Football League Third Division ( 1992–2004 ) > EFL League Two ( 2004–present )

Cup competitions [edit ]

FA Cup
FA Community Shield

Winners (1): 1949 (shared)
Runners-up (1): 2008

EFL Trophy
Hampshire Senior Cup

Winners (4): 1903, 1913, 1952, 1987
Runners-up (4): 1900, 1904, 1905, 1959

Lower league competitions [edit ]

Other/friendly honours [edit ]

Runners-up (1): 1942

club records [edit ]

Notes [edit ]

References [edit ]

official websites [edit ]

news sites [edit ]

Publications [edit ]

Farmery, Colin (1999). Portsmouth: From Tindall to Ball – A Complete Record. Desert Island Books. ISBN 1-874287-25-2.
Farmery, Colin (2004). Seventeen Miles From Paradise – Saints v Pompey: Passion, Pride and Prejudice. Desert Island Books. ISBN 1-874287-89-9.
Farmery, Colin (2005). Portsmouth: the Modern Era – a Complete Record. Desert Island Books. ISBN 1-905328-08-7.
Inglis, Simon (1996). Football Grounds of Britain. Collins Willow. ISBN 0-00-218426-5.
Pennant, Cass; Silvester, Rob (2004). Rolling with the 6.57 Crew – The True Story of Pompey’s Legendary Football Fans. John Blake Publishing. ISBN 1-84454-072-3.

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