Southampton

Club Information

Club History

Southampton Football Club was founded in 1885 as St Mary's Church of England Young Men's Association and became a professional club in 1894. The Saints enjoyed their greatest moment in 1976 when they won the FA Cup as a Second Division side, with Bobby Stokes scoring the winner against Manchester United. The club became renowned as one of the finest academies in English football, producing players like Alan Shearer, Matt Le Tissier, Gareth Bale, and Luke Shaw. After relegation in 2023, Southampton won promotion back to the Premier League.

Trophy Cabinet

• FA Cup: 1 (1976)
• Football League Trophy: 1 (2010)

Did You Know?

• Southampton's academy has produced more Premier League players than almost any other club including Alan Shearer, Gareth Bale, and Theo Walcott
• Matt Le Tissier scored 209 goals for the club and is considered the greatest Saints player of all time
• The club won the 1976 FA Cup as a Second Division side — one of the great FA Cup upsets
• Southampton were founded as a church team in the parish of St Mary's which gives the stadium its name
• The Dell, their former ground, was so small that the corner flags were inside the pitch boundary
• Rickie Lambert went from working in a beetroot factory to playing for England after starring for Southampton
• The club's youth system was so prolific it earned the nickname "The Southampton Academy"