48 Facts About Portsmouth FC

Portsmouth FC Football Club is a professional football club based in Portsmouth FC, Hampshire, England, which compete in EFL League One.

Portsmouth FC are one of only five English football clubs to have been champions of all four tiers of the professional English football pyramid.

Portsmouth FC spent their early history in the Southern and Western leagues, winning five division titles before being admitted into the English Football League in 1920 as founder members of the Third Division.

Portsmouth FC were saved from High Court liquidation after being bought out by the fan-owned Pompey Supporters Trust in April 2013.

Whittaker said he was confident that Portsmouth FC would be elected into the league by the other clubs at the next general meeting of the Southern League, which they were.

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Portsmouth FC finished in third position in the 'B' section of Division One.

Portsmouth FC ended their season in sixth place before the following season saw the team win only 8 of their 38 games and were relegated.

Portsmouth FC were then elected to the Football League Third Division as founder members.

Portsmouth FC's promotion to the top division in English football was a double celebration; the first achieved by a football club based south of London, and the first achieved by a club graduating from the Third Division to the First Division.

Portsmouth FC managed to survive relegation, finishing one place above relegation.

From 1929 to 1934, Portsmouth FC had become a regular top-half table finisher in the First Division.

Portsmouth FC progressed to the 1942 London War Cup final at Wembley Stadium, but were beaten by Brentford and finished as runners-up.

End of World War II in 1945 caused Portsmouth FC to hold the distinction of holding the FA Cup trophy for the longest uninterrupted period of seven years, as the trophy was not presented again until the 1946 FA Cup Final.

Portsmouth FC 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.

Portsmouth FC 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.

Field-Marshal Bernard 'Monty' Montgomery of Alamein, was the honorary President of Portsmouth FC, having begun to support them during World War II due to the proximity of his headquarters at Southwick House on the outskirts of Portsmouth FC.

Portsmouth FC would take three seasons before in 1983, Portsmouth FC claimed their Third Division championship title, gaining promotion back into the Second Division.

Portsmouth FC were relegated straight back down to the Second Division.

Portsmouth FC ended the season only two places above the relegation zone.

Portsmouth FC finished in 12th position at the end of the season.

Portsmouth FC took the lead in extra time from a 111th minute Darren Anderton goal.

Portsmouth FC finished top as First Division champions on 27 April 2003, six points clear of second-placed Leicester City, gaining promotion to the FA Premier League, returning to the top tier of English football after an absence of fifteen seasons.

In January 2006, Portsmouth FC were sold by Milan Mandaric and bought by businessman Alexandre Gaydamak.

On 17 May 2008, Portsmouth FC played Cardiff City in the FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, the second such final at the newly rebuilt Wembley.

Youth team coach Paul Hart took over as manager until the end of the season, and Portsmouth FC were guaranteed Premier League safety on 16 May 2009.

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On 19 August 2009, Portsmouth FC announced on their website that a rival consortium headed by current CEO Peter Storrie had made a bid for the club; unknown at the time, this was backed by Ali al-Faraj.

Portsmouth FC gained two wins and a draw away at Sunderland from his first five games.

Portsmouth FC were relegated to the EFL Championship the following day on 10 April 2010 after West Ham won.

Portsmouth FC was succeeded by Michael Appleton, who was announced as the new manager on 10 November 2011.

On 24 January 2012, Portsmouth FC were issued with a winding up petition by HMRC for over £1.

On 17 February 2012, Portsmouth FC went into administration for the second time in two years, bringing them an automatic 10-point deduction.

Portsmouth FC were unable to find a manager on a long-term basis due to their financial state.

Portsmouth FC were relegated to League Two at the end of the season.

On 19 April 2013, Portsmouth FC exited administration when the Pompey Supporters' Trust deal to buy the club was completed.

Portsmouth FC won five games out of five played, guaranteeing Pompey's survival in League Two.

On 15 March 2018, Portsmouth FC revealed a newly redesigned club crest, featuring a new nautical compass star and an "1898" date, added for the founding year of the football club.

On 31 March 2019, Portsmouth FC met Sunderland in the 2019 EFL Trophy Final at Wembley Stadium.

Portsmouth FC were awarded a fifth place finish 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 closed doors.

Between 1980 and 1989, Portsmouth FC scrapped the traditional crest and replaced it with an entirely new design.

On 6 May 2008, a month after their 110th Anniversary, Portsmouth revealed a new crest with a very three dimensional look, the tradition curved shield with "three points" at the top of the shield were replaced with two straightened angles, with "Portsmouth F C " written above the star on the shield.

The new crest had its debut in the 2008 FA Cup Final, in which Portsmouth FC wore a new 110th Anniversary all-blue commemorative home strip.

Portsmouth FC's fans were consulted by traditional and digital media during late 2017 and early 2018 with various designs for new crests.

In 1905, an ambitious Portsmouth FC greatly expanded Fratton Park by the addition of a mock Tudor style club pavilion to the south-west corner in Frogmore Road, a pavilion designed by architect Arthur Cogswell.

Ironically, the chosen nickname Skate was actually stolen from the civilian population of Portsmouth FC, who had long used Skate as a derogatory insult or nickname for sailors based in Portsmouth FC Dockyard and other Royal Navy establishments.

Portsmouth FC created a Hall of Fame in March 2009, which honours former players and staff members of the club.

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Portsmouth FC have developed a relationship with Gosport Borough after their promotion to the Conference South.

Portsmouth FC fans were encouraged to support Gosport in their FA Trophy final match at Wembley in March 2014.

Portsmouth FC are one of only five English football clubs to have been champions of all four tiers of the professional English football pyramid, .