2005–06 Southampton F.C. season

Southampton endured a poor to largely indifferent season after relegation from the Premier League the previous season and finished in a lowly 12th place in the Championship. Although the south coast side started the season well, they ended up drawing too many games (19 games by the season's end) and a run of five wins from 35 games dragged them into the lower reaches of the table and put Southampton in danger of a second successive relegation. Manager Harry Redknapp, unable to establish consistency and unhappy with the appointment of former rugby coach Sir Clive Woodward to the coaching staff, had resigned in December,^[1] returning as manager of Southampton's archrivals Portsmouth. His replacement, former Ipswich Town manager George Burley,^[2] was unable to turn the club's form around until the back end of the season, with five wins from their last six games taking the team from 20th to 12th. The late run of form gave fans hope that next season Southampton could mount a sustained attempt at promotion.

Kit

The season's kit was manufactured by the club's own brand, Saints. The kit was sponsored by English life insurance company Friends Provident.

Final league table

Main article: 2005–06 Football League

			P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
C	1	Reading	46	31	13	2	99	32	+67	106
P	2	Sheffield United	46	26	12	8	76	46	+30	90
P	3	Watford	46	22	15	9	77	53	+24	81
	4	Preston North End	46	20	20	6	59	30	+29	80
	5	Leeds United	46	21	15	10	57	38	+19	78
	6	Crystal Palace	46	21	12	13	67	48	+19	75
	7	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	16	19	11	50	42	+8	67
	8	Coventry City	46	16	15	15	62	65	−3	63
	9	Norwich City	46	18	8	20	56	65	−9	62
	10	Luton Town	46	17	10	19	66	67	−1	61
	11	Cardiff City	46	16	12	18	58	59	−1	60
	12	Southampton	46	13	19	14	49	50	−1	58
	13	Stoke City	46	17	7	22	54	63	−9	58
	14	Plymouth Argyle	46	13	17	16	39	46	−7	56
	15	Ipswich Town	46	14	14	18	53	66	−13	56
	16	Leicester City	46	13	15	18	51	59	−8	54
	17	Burnley	46	14	12	20	46	54	−8	54
	18	Hull City	46	12	16	18	49	55	−6	52
	19	Sheffield Wednesday	46	13	13	20	39	52	−13	52
	20	Derby County	46	10	20	16	53	67	−14	50
	21	Queens Park Rangers	46	12	14	20	50	65	−15	50
R	22	Crewe Alexandra	46	9	15	22	57	86	−29	42
R	23	Millwall	46	8	16	22	35	62	−27	40
R	24	Brighton & Hove Albion	46	7	17	22	39	71	−32	38

Results

Southampton's score comes first^[3]

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

Championship

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
6 August 2005	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	0-0	24,061
9 August 2005	Luton Town	A	2-3	9,447	Oakley, Jones
13 August 2005	Sheffield Wednesday	A	1-0	26,688	Jones
20 August 2005	Norwich City	H	1-0	23,498	Quashie (pen)
27 August 2005	Crewe Alexandra	H	2-0	20,792	Belmadi, Quashie
29 August 2005	Coventry City	A	1-1	23,000	Fuller
10 September 2005	Queens Park Rangers	H	1-1	25,744	Higginbotham
13 September 2005	Ipswich Town	A	2-2	22,997	Powell, Wise
18 September 2005	Derby County	A	2-2	22,348	Ormerod, Fuller
24 September 2005	Plymouth Argyle	H	0-0	26,331
28 September 2005	Reading	H	0-0	24,946
1 October 2005	Preston North End	A	1-1	15,263	Davidson (own goal)
15 October 2005	Hull City	H	1-1	23,810	Oakley
18 October 2005	Leeds United	A	1-2	18,881	Walcott
22 October 2005	Millwall	A	2-0	10,759	Walcott, Fuller
29 October 2005	Stoke City	H	2-0	24,095	Walcott, Belmadi
5 November 2005	Leicester City	A	0-0	21,318
19 November 2005	Leeds United	H	3-4	30,173	Pahars, Quashie (2, 1 pen)
22 November 2005	Hull City	A	1-1	18,061	Kosowski
26 November 2005	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	0-0	24,628
3 December 2005	Burnley	H	1-1	21,592	Higginbotham (pen)
11 December 2005	Luton Town	H	1-0	19,086	Walcott
17 December 2005	Norwich City	A	1-3	24,836	Belmadi
26 December 2005	Watford	A	0-3	16,972
28 December 2005	Sheffield United	H	0-1	27,443
31 December 2005	Cardiff City	A	1-2	13,377	Blackstock
2 January 2006	Brighton & Hove Albion	H	2-1	24,630	Blackstock (2)
14 January 2006	Queens Park Rangers	A	0-1	15,494
21 January 2006	Ipswich Town	H	0-2	22,250
25 January 2006	Crystal Palace	H	0-0	24,651
31 January 2006	Plymouth Argyle	A	1-2	15,936	Surman
4 February 2006	Derby County	H	0-0	21,829
10 February 2006	Reading	A	0-2	23,845
15 February 2006	Preston North End	H	0-0	19,534
25 February 2006	Sheffield Wednesday	H	3-0	26,236	Higginbotham, Rasiak, Jones
4 March 2006	Coventry City	H	1-1	21,980	Rasiak
11 March 2006	Crewe Alexandra	A	1-1	6,588	Madsen
20 March 2006	Watford	H	1-3	19,202	Madsen
25 March 2006	Sheffield United	A	0-3	22,824
28 March 2006	Burnley	A	1-1	10,636	Bardsley (own goal)
1 April 2006	Cardiff City	H	3-2	22,388	Lundekvam, Fuller (2)
8 April 2006	Brighton & Hove Albion	A	2-0	7,999	Fuller, Chaplow
15 April 2006	Stoke City	A	2-1	16,501	Rasiak (2, 1 pen)
17 April 2006	Millwall	H	2-0	22,043	Jones (pen), Fuller
22 April 2006	Crystal Palace	A	1-2	20,995	Fuller
30 April 2006	Leicester City	H	2-0	26,801	Fuller, Surman

FA Cup

Main article: 2005–06 FA Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	7 January 2006	Milton Keynes Dons	H	4-3	15,908	Prutton, Quashie, Walcott, Kenton
R4	28 January 2006	Leicester City	A	1-0	20,427	Jones
R5	18 February 2006	Newcastle United	A	0-1	40,975

League Cup

Main article: 2005–06 Football League Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R1	22 August 2005	Southend United	A	3-0	6,358	Blackstock, Dyer, Ormerod
R2	20 September 2005	Mansfield Town	A	0-1	3,739

First-team squad

Squad at end of season^[4] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
2	DF	Alexander Östlund
3	MF	Kamil Kosowski (on loan from Wisła Kraków)
4	MF	Darren Potter (on loan from Liverpool)
5	DF	Claus Lundekvam
6	DF	Darren Powell
8	MF	Matt Oakley
10	MF	Jermaine Wright (on loan from Leeds United)
11	DF	Michael Svensson
13	GK	Paul Smith
14	FW	Ricardo Fuller
15	FW	Kenwyne Jones
16	DF	Martin Cranie
17	FW	Marian Pahars
18	FW	Grzegorz Rasiak (on loan from Tottenham Hotspur)

No.	Position	Player
19	DF	Danny Higginbotham
20	MF	David Prutton
21	DF	Chris Baird
22	DF	Darren Kenton
24	FW	Dexter Blackstock
26	GK	Kevin Miller
28	GK	Bartosz Białkowski
29	MF	Andrew Surman
31	MF	Djamel Belmadi^[5]
33	FW	Nathan Dyer
34	DF	Jim Brennan
35	FW	David McGoldrick
36	MF	Simon Gillett
37	DF	Gareth Bale

Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Antti Niemi (to Fulham)
4	MF	Dennis Wise (to Coventry City)
7	DF	Tomasz Hajto (to Derby County)
9	FW	Brett Ormerod (to Preston North End)
9	FW	Peter Madsen (on loan from Cologne)
10	MF	Neil McCann (to Hearts)
12	MF	Nigel Quashie^[6] (to West Bromwich Albion)
12	MF	Richard Chaplow (on loan from West Bromwich Albion)
18	MF	Rory Delap^[7] (to Sunderland)

No.	Position	Player
23	MF	Yoann Folly (on loan to Sheffield Wednesday)
26	DF	Matthew Mills (to Manchester City)
27	FW	Leon Best (on loan to Sheffield Wednesday)
28	GK	Alan Blayney (to Doncaster Rovers)
29	MF	Fabrice Fernandes (to Bolton Wanderers)
29	MF	Léandre Griffit (to Elfsborg)
32	FW	Theo Walcott (to Arsenal)
34	FW	Marcelo Tejera (to Peñarol)
37	GK	Andrew McNeil (to Hibernian)

Reserve squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.		Position	Player
25		GK	Danny Brice

References

↑ "Redknapp walks out on Southampton". BBC Sport. 3 December 2005. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
↑ "Saints unveil Burley as new coach". BBC Sport. 23 December 2005. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
↑ http://www.statto.com/football/teams/southampton/2005-2006
↑ Southampton squad for 2005–06 season
↑ Belmadi was born in Champigny-sur-Marne, France.
↑ Quashie was born in Southwark, England.
↑ Delap was born in Sutton Coldfield, England.

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