During the 2005–06 season, Portsmouth competed in the FA Premier League. It was Portsmouth's third consecutive season in English football's top-flight.
Season summary Manager Alain Perrin was sacked in November with Portsmouth struggling in the relegation zone. Joe Jordan was appointed caretaker manager after the sacking of Perrin. He was replaced by Harry Redknapp, who had walked out of arch-rivals Southampton after being refused permission by the club to talk to Portsmouth about the managerial vacancy. For a while it looked as if Redknapp's efforts were in vain, with Portsmouth eight points adrift of safety at the end of February. However, by the end of March that had been cut to just three (with a game in hand over seventeenth-placed West Bromwich Albion) and eventually Portsmouth managed to secure survival with a 2–1 win at Wigan Athletic to send West Brom and Birmingham City down.
Kit Portsmouth signed a deal with Jako to produce the club's kit. Oki became the kit sponsors. The strip was manufactured by Pompey Sport, but after the kit deal with Jako, they were rebadged with its logo. The home shirt was atypical for Portsmouth, as it had a large white space under the collar on the rear where players' names were printed. The away was red and gold, whilst the third was white and navy. The white strip was only worn three times, away at Manchester United, Aston Villa and West Ham United respectively.
Final league table
Results Portsmouth's score comes first
Legend WinDrawLoss
FA Premier League
Results summary
Results per matchday
DateOpponentVenueResultAttendanceScorers 13 August 2005 Tottenham HotspurH0–220,215 20 August 2005 West Bromwich AlbionA1–224,404Robert 23 August 2005 Aston VillaH1–119,778LuaLua 27 August 2005 Manchester CityA1–241,022Viáfara 10 September 2005 EvertonA1–036,831Ferguson (own goal) 17 September 2005 Birmingham CityH1–119,319LuaLua 24 September 2005 Bolton WanderersA0–123,134 1 October 2005 Newcastle UnitedH0–020,220 15 October 2005 MiddlesbroughA1–126,551O'Neil 22 October 2005 Charlton AthleticH1–219,030Silva 29 October 2005 SunderlandA4–134,926Vukić, Taylor (2), Silva 5 November 2005 Wigan AthleticH0–219,102 19 November 2005 LiverpoolA0–344,394 26 November 2005 ChelseaH0–220,182 3 December 2005 Manchester UnitedA0–367,684 12 December 2005 Tottenham HotspurA1–336,141LuaLua 17 December 2005 West Bromwich AlbionH1–020,052Todorov 26 December 2005 West Ham UnitedH1–120,168O'Neil 28 December 2005 ArsenalA0–438,223 31 December 2005 FulhamH1–019,101O'Neil 2 January 2006 Blackburn RoversA1–219,521Taylor 14 January 2006 EvertonH0–120,094 21 January 2006 Birmingham CityA0–529,138 1 February 2006 Bolton WanderersH1–119,128Karadas 4 February 2006 Newcastle UnitedA0–251,627 11 February 2006 Manchester UnitedH1–320,206Taylor 25 February 2006 ChelseaA0–242,254 4 March 2006 Aston VillaA0–130,194 11 March 2006 Manchester CityH2–119,556Mendes (2) 18 March 2006 West Ham UnitedA4–234,837LuaLua, Davis, Mendes, Todorov 1 April 2006 FulhamA3–122,322O'Neil (2), LuaLua 8 April 2006 Blackburn RoversH2–220,048LuaLua, Todorov 12 April 2006 ArsenalH1–120,230LuaLua 15 April 2006 MiddlesbroughH1–020,204O'Neil 17 April 2006 Charlton AthleticA1–225,419D'Alessandro 22 April 2006 SunderlandH2–120,078Todorov, Taylor (pen) 29 April 2006 Wigan AthleticA2–121,126Mwaruwari, Taylor (pen) 7 May 2006 LiverpoolH1–320,240Koroman
FA Cup
+RoundDateOpponentVenueResultAttendanceGoalscorersR37 January 2006 Ipswich TownA1–015,593SilvaR429 January 2006 LiverpoolH1–217,247Davis
League Cup
+RoundDateOpponentVenueResultAttendanceGoalscorersR220 September 2005 GillinghamA2–3 4,903O'Neil, Taylor
First-team squad
Left club during season
Reserve squad
Statistics
Starting 11 Considering starts in all competitions GK: #15, Jamie Ashdown, 18 RB: #2, Linvoy Primus, 21 CB: #5, Andy O'Brien, 32 CB: #3, Dejan Stefanović, 30 LB: #6, Brian Priske, 28 RM: #26, Gary O'Neil, 39 CM: #22, Richard Hughes, 24 CM: #28, Sean Davis, 17 LM: #14, Matthew Taylor, 35 CF: #25, Benjani Mwaruwari, 16 CF: #32, , Lomana LuaLua, 25
Transfers In Andy O'Brien - Newcastle United, £2,000,000, 13 June Laurent Robert - Newcastle United, undisclosed, 19 June Jhon Viáfara - Once Caldas, £1,600,000, 7 July Grégory Vignal - Liverpool, free, 12 July Collins Mbesuma - Kaizer Chiefs, undisclosed, 12 July Sander Westerveld - Real Sociedad, free, 22 July Azar Karadas - Benfica, loan, 22 July Brian Priske - Genk, undisclosed, 22 August Zvonimir Vukić - Shakhtar Donetsk, undisclosed, 29 August Darío Silva - Sevilla FC, free, 31 August Franck Songo'o - Barcelona, £205,000, 31 August Salif Diao - Liverpool, season loan, 31 August Emmanuel Olisadebe - Panathinaikos, undisclosed, 4 January Benjani Mwaruwari - Auxerre, £4,100,000, 5 January Noé Pamarot - Tottenham Hotspur, £2,000,000, 12 January
Pedro Mendes - Tottenham Hotspur, £3,500,000, 12 January
Sean Davis - Tottenham Hotspur, £2,000,000, 12 January
Dean Kiely - Charlton Athletic, undisclosed, 25 January Wayne Routledge - Tottenham Hotspur, season loan, 30 January Ognjen Koroman - Terek Grozny, loan, 30 January Andrés D'Alessandro - VfL Wolfsburg, season loan, 31 January
Out Patrik Berger - Aston Villa, free, 17 May Yakubu - Middlesbrough, £7,500,000, 23 May Richard Duffy - Coventry City, season loan, 7 June Rowan Vine - Luton Town, £250,000, 4 July Steve Stone - Leeds United, free, 29 June Diomansy Kamara - West Bromwich Albion, £1,500,000, 26 July Ricardo Fuller - Southampton, £90,000 (rising to £340,000 if Southampton gain promotion), 28 July Shaka Hislop - West Ham United, free, 29 July Arjan de Zeeuw - Wigan Athletic, £90,000, 11 August David Unsworth - Sheffield United, free,A clause was included in Unsworth's transfer that United would only pay a fee to Portsmouth if they gained promotion; they did, but the fee paid is undisclosed. 22 August Kostas Chalkias - released (later joined Real Murcia), 19 January Jhon Viáfara - Real Sociedad, loan, January Darío Silva - released, 13 February Sander Westerveld - Everton, 28-day loan, 24 February James Keene - GAIS, loan, March Hayden Foxe - released Aleksander Rodić - Kayserispor, loan Giannis Skopelitis - Egaleo, loan Gary Silk - Boston United Transfers in: £16,250,000 Transfers out: £9,450,000 Total spending: £6,800,000
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