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Goalkeeper Peter Shilton was the first player to win the Southampton F.C. Player of the Season award twice. Tim Flowers was named Southampton F.C. Player of the Season in 1992 and 1993. Alan Shearer made over 150 appearances for Southampton. Ken Monkou played 233 games for the club. Matt Oakley played over 300 times for Southampton.
Jack Dorkin, who played as a centre-forward for Southampton between 1893 and 1895, has scored the most goals of any player with fewer than 25 appearances for the club, with 20 in all competitions; seven more players have scored ten or more goals for the Saints. Four players scored in their only appearance for Southampton, including Jock Fleming ...
Ted Drake, who played as a centre-forward for Southampton between 1931 and 1934, has scored the most goals of any player with between 25 and 99 appearances for the club, with 49 in all competitions; five more players have scored over 40 goals for the Saints. Eight of the 359 players listed – Kevin Keegan, Derek Statham, Dean Richards, Peter ...
The team play in red and white shirts. They have been nicknamed "The Saints" because of the club's beginnings as a church football team at St Mary's Church. Southampton shares a long-standing South Coast derby rivalry with Portsmouth, in part due to geographic proximity and both cities' respective maritime histories.
Southampton F.C. Under-21s and Academy or Saints U21s and Academy is the youth organisation run by Southampton F.C. to encourage and develop young footballers in the south of England. Renowned players including Gareth Bale, Theo Walcott, and Alan Shearer began their careers at this academy. . The team is made up of under-21 and academy players, is effectively Southampton's second-string side ...
Southampton used 31 players during the 1998–99 season and had 13 different goalscorers. Norwegian striker Egil Østenstad finished as the club's top goalscorer for the first time, scoring just eight goals in all competitions (including seven in the league) – the lowest of any Saints top scorer since they started playing league football.
Southampton were relegated to the Championship in the 2004–05 season, and were quickly relegated again following off-the-pitch problems in 2009. In their first season in League One, Southampton won the League Trophy with an emphatic 4–1 win against Carlisle United. The following season, Southampton were promoted to the Championship as ...
The 1986–87 Southampton F.C. season was the club's 86th season of competitive football and their 17th in the First Division of the Football League.The second season with Chris Nicholl as manager, 1986–87 saw the Saints improve only marginally on their previous campaign, finishing 12th in the First Division table – two places higher than the year before.