2021–22 Southampton F.C. season explained

Club:	Southampton
Season:	2021–22
Chairman:	Gao Jisheng Henrik Kraft
Manager:	Ralph Hasenhüttl
Stadium:	St Mary's Stadium
League:	Premier League
League Result:	15th
Cup1:	FA Cup
Cup1 Result:	Quarter-finals
Cup2:	EFL Cup
Cup2 Result:	Fourth round
League Topscorer:	James Ward-Prowse (10)
Season Topscorer:	James Ward-Prowse (11)
Highest Attendance:	31,588 v Liverpool (17 May 2022)
Lowest Attendance:	26,951 v Leicester City (1 December 2021)
Average Attendance:	29,884
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Prevseason:	2020–21
Nextseason:	2022–23

The 2021–22 season was Southampton's 10th consecutive season in the Premier League and the 105th season in existence. This season, the club participated in the Premier League, FA Cup and EFL Cup. The season covers the period from 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022.

Squad

• Ages as of the end of the 2021–22 season

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Transfers

Players transferred in

Date		Name	Club	Fee	Ref.
1 July 2021	MF	Theo Walcott	Everton	Free transfer	^[1]
2 July 2021	DF	Romain Perraud	Stade Brest	Undisclosed	^[2]
27 July 2021	DF	Olly Lancashire	Crewe Alexandra	Free transfer	^[3]
28 July 2021	DF	Dynel Simeu	Chelsea	Undisclosed	^[4]
2 August 2021	DF	Tino Livramento	Chelsea	Undisclosed	^[5]
10 August 2021	FW	Adam Armstrong	Blackburn Rovers	Undisclosed	^[6]
24 August 2021	DF	Thierry Small	Everton	Undisclosed	^[7]
25 August 2021	DF	Lyanco	Torino	Undisclosed	^[8]
6 December 2021	GK	Willy Caballero	Unattached	Free transfer	^[9]
11 February 2022	DF	Nico Lawrence	Glebe	Undisclosed	^[10]

Players loaned in

Players transferred out

Date		Name	Club	Fee	Ref.
21 June 2021	DF	Wesley Hoedt	Anderlecht	Undisclosed	^[12]
23 June 2021	GK	Angus Gunn	Norwich City	Undisclosed	^[13]
12 July 2021	MF	Alex Jankewitz	Young Boys	Undisclosed	^[14]
24 July 2021	MF	Mario Lemina	Nice	Undisclosed	^[15]
24 July 2021	MF	Callum Slattery	Motherwell	Undisclosed	^[16]
4 August 2021	FW	Danny Ings	Aston Villa	Undisclosed	^[17]
13 August 2021	DF	Jannik Vestergaard	Leicester City	Undisclosed	^[18]
31 August 2021	FW	Michael Obafemi	Swansea City	Undisclosed	^[19]

Players loaned out

Date		Name	Club	Duration	Ref.
22 June 2021	DF	Kayne Ramsay	Crewe Alexandra	14 January 2022	^[20] ^[21]
2 July 2021	DF	Jake Vokins	Ross County	End of season	^[22]
14 July 2021	FW	Dan Nlundulu	Lincoln City	6 January 2022	^[23] ^[24]
3 August 2021	MF	Will Ferry	Crawley Town	End of season	^[25]
20 August 2021	GK	Matthew Hall	Melksham Town	End of season	^[26] ^[27]
27 August 2021	FW	Benni Smales-Braithwaite	Gloucester City	31 December 2021	^[28]
4 January 2022	GK	Jack Bycroft	Dorchester Town	End of season	^[29]
6 January 2022	FW	Dan Nlundulu	Cheltenham Town	End of season	^[30]
11 January 2022	DF	Jeremi Rodriguez	Burgos	End of season	^[31]
12 January 2022	MF	Caleb Watts	Crawley Town	End of season	^[32]
14 January 2022	DF	Kayne Ramsay	Ross County	End of season
25 January 2022	DF	Dynel Simeu	Carlisle United	End of season	^[33]

Players released

Date		Name	Subsequent club	Join date	Ref.
30 June 2021	DF	David Agbontohoma	Sheffield Wednesday	1 July 2021	^[34] ^[35]
	MF	Thomas O'Connor	Burton Albion	1 July 2021	^[36]
	DF	Ryan Bertrand	Leicester City	15 July 2021	^[37] ^[38]
	DF	Kameron Ledwidge	Shelbourne	30 July 2021	^[39]
	MF	Jake Hesketh	Eastleigh	2 August 2021	^[40]
	DF	James Morris	Watford	2 August 2021	^[41]
	DF	Pascal Kpohomouh	Weston-super-Mare	19 August 2021	^[42]
	GK	Kingsley Latham	Farnborough	27 August 2021	^[43]
	MF	Lucas Defise	Union Saint-Gilloise	2 September 2021	^[44]
	GK	Tommy Scott	Hamworthy United	14 October 2021	^[45]
	DF	Allan Tchaptchet	Grenoble	1 February 2022	^[46] ^[47]
	MF	Josh Sims	Ross County	14 February 2022	^[48]
31 December 2021	DF	Sam McQueen	None (retired)		^[49]

Pre-season friendlies

Southampton announced two pre-season matches against Cardiff City and Swansea City for 27 July and 31 July respectively, on 2 July.^[50] Further friendlies were announced with a behind closed doors friendly against Fulham confirmed for 24 July^[51] and Athletic Bilbao to visit St Mary's Stadium on 7 August.^[52] On 25 July, a further friendly against Levante was confirmed for 4 August.^[53]

Competitions

Premier League

See main article: 2021–22 Premier League.

Matches

The league fixtures were revealed on 16 June 2021.^[54]

FA Cup

See main article: 2021–22 FA Cup.

The Saints entered the competition in the third round and were drawn away to Swansea City.^[55] On 9 January 2022, the Saints were drawn at home to Coventry City in the fourth round.^[56] On 6 February 2022, the Saints were drawn at home to West Ham United in the fifth round.^[57] On 3 March 2022, the Saints were drawn at home to Manchester City in the quarter-finals.^[58]

EFL Cup

See main article: 2021–22 EFL Cup.

The Saints entered the competition in the second round and were drawn away to Newport County.^{[59] [60]} On 25 August, the draw for the third round was completed, with the Saints drawn away to Sheffield United.^{[61] [62]} On 22 September, the draw for the fourth round was completed, with the Saints drawn away to Chelsea.^{[63] [64]}

Squad statistics

			Name	League				FA Cup				EFL Cup				Total
1	GK		Alex McCarthy	17	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	17	0	1	0
2	DF		Kyle Walker-Peters	29(3)	1	5	0	2(1)	1	1	0	2	1	0	0	33(4)	3	6	0
4	DF		Lyanco	9(6)	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	12(6)	0	2	0
5	DF		Jack Stephens	9(2)	0	3	0	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	14(2)	0	4	0
6	MF		Oriol Romeu	34(2)	2	9	0	2(2)	0	0	0	1(1)	0	0	0	37(5)	2	9	0
7	FW		Shane Long	3(10)	1	1	0	3(1)	1	0	0	0(2)	0	0	0	6(13)	2	1	0
8	MF		James Ward-Prowse	36	10	3	1	4	1	0	0	1(1)	0	0	0	41(1)	11	3	1
9	FW		Adam Armstrong	17(6)	2	1	0	3(1)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	21(7)	2	1	0
10	FW		Ché Adams	23(7)	7	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0	1(1)	1	0	0	24(9)	8	0	0
11	MF		Nathan Redmond	20(7)	1	0	0	1(2)	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	23(9)	3	0	0
13	GK		Willy Caballero	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	0
15	DF		Romain Perraud	18(2)	0	3	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	21(2)	1	4	0
16	DF		Thierry Small	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
17	MF		Stuart Armstrong	15(10)	2	1	0	2(2)	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	18(12)	3	1	0
18	FW		Armando Broja	21(11)	6	2	0	1(3)	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	24(14)	9	2	0
19	MF		Moussa Djenepo	5(7)	0	3	0	1(1)	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	8(8)	0	4	0
20	MF		Will Smallbone	2(2)	0	0	0	1(1)	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0	3(4)	0	0	0
21	DF		Tino Livramento	25(3)	1	2	0	2(1)	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0	27(5)	1	2	0
22	DF		Mohammed Salisu	33(1)	0	8	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	36(1)	1	8	1
23	MF		Nathan Tella	10(4)	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	14(4)	1	2	0
24	MF			23(7)	4	4	0	1(1)	1	0	0	1	3	0	0	25(8)	8	4	0
27	MF		Ibrahima Diallo	10(13)	0	1	0	2(2)	0	1	0	3	1	2	0	15(15)	1	4	0
32	MF		Theo Walcott	5(4)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0(2)	0	0	0	6(6)	0	0	0
35	DF		Jan Bednarek	30(1)	4	10	0	1	0	0	0	1(1)	0	0	0	32(2)	4	10	0
41	GK		Harry Lewis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
43	DF		Yan Valery	3(2)	0	0	0	3	0	1	1	3	0	0	0	9(2)	0	1	1
44	GK		Fraser Forster	19	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	24	0	2	0
45	MF		Tyler Dibling	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
48	MF		Kegs Chauke	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
53	FW		Kazeem Olaigbe	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Players with appearances who left during the season
14	FW		Michael Obafemi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0

Most appearances

			Name	League		FA Cup		EFL Cup		Total
1	MF		James Ward-Prowse	36	0	4	0	1	1	41	1	42
	MF		Oriol Romeu	34	2	2	2	1	1	37	5	42
3	FW		Armando Broja	21	11	1	3	2	0	24	14	38
4	DF		Mohammed Salisu	33	1	1	0	2	0	36	1	37
	DF		Kyle Walker-Peters	29	3	2	1	2	0	33	4	37
6	DF		Jan Bednarek	30	1	1	0	1	1	32	2	34
7	MF			23	7	1	1	1	0	25	8	33
	FW		Ché Adams	23	7	0	1	1	1	24	9	33
9	DF		Tino Livramento	25	3	2	1	0	1	27	5	32
	MF		Nathan Redmond	20	7	1	2	2	0	23	9	32

Top goalscorers

			Name	League		FA Cup		EFL Cup		Total
1	MF		James Ward-Prowse	10	36	1	4	0	2	11	42	0.26
2	FW		Armando Broja	6	32	1	4	2	2	9	38	0.24
3	FW		Ché Adams	7	30	0	1	1	2	8	33	0.24
	MF			4	30	1	2	3	1	8	33	0.24
5	DF		Jan Bednarek	4	31	0	1	0	2	4	34	0.12
6	MF		Stuart Armstrong	2	25	1	4	0	1	3	30	0.10
	MF		Nathan Redmond	1	27	1	3	1	2	3	32	0.09
	DF		Kyle Walker-Peters	1	32	1	3	1	2	3	37	0.08
9	FW		Shane Long	1	13	1	4	0	2	2	19	0.11
	FW		Adam Armstrong	2	23	0	4	0	1	2	28	0.07
	MF		Oriol Romeu	2	36	0	4	0	2	2	42	0.05

Notes and References

1. News: Walcott set to remain a Saint . Southampton FC . 18 May 2021 . 30 May 2021.
2. News: Saints secure Perraud signing . Southampton FC . 2 July 2021 . 2 July 2021.
3. News: Lancashire brought into B Team set-up . Southampton FC . 27 July 2021 . 27 July 2021.
4. News: Saints sign highly-rated youngster Simeu . Southampton FC . 28 July 2021 . 28 July 2021.
5. News: Saints complete Livramento deal . Southampton FC . 2 August 2021 . 2 August 2021.
6. News: Armstrong is a Saint! . Southampton FC . 10 August 2021 . 10 August 2021.
7. News: Saints sign teenage star Small . Southampton FC . 24 August 2021 . 24 August 2021.
8. News: Saints seal deal for Lyanco . Southampton FC . 25 August 2021 . 25 August 2021.
9. News: Saints sign Caballero on short-term deal . Southampton FC . 6 December 2021 . 6 December 2021.
10. News: Lawrence signs for Saints Academy . Southampton FC . 11 February 2022 . 11 February 2022.
11. News: Saints seal Broja loan deal . Southampton FC . 10 August 2021 . 10 August 2021.
12. News: Hoedt joins Anderlecht . Southampton FC . 17 June 2021 . 17 June 2021.
13. News: Gunn completes Norwich City move . Southampton FC . 23 June 2021 . 23 June 2021.
14. News: Jankewitz joins BSC Young Boys . Southampton FC . 12 July 2021 . 12 July 2021.
15. News: Lemina est Niçois! . OGC Nice . 24 July 2021 . 24 July 2021 . French.
16. News: Slattery completes Motherwell move . Southampton FC . 24 July 2021 . 24 July 2021.
17. News: Villa announce Danny Ings signing . Aston Villa FC . 4 August 2021 . 4 August 2021.
18. News: Vestergaard completes Leicester move . Southampton FC . 13 August 2021 . 13 August 2021.
19. News: Obafemi completes Swansea transfer . Southampton FC . 31 August 2021 . 31 August 2021.
20. News: Ramsay joins Crewe Alexandra . Southampton FC . 22 June 2021 . 22 June 2021.
21. News: Ramsay joins Ross County on loan . Southampton FC . 14 January 2022 . 14 January 2022.
22. News: Vokins joins Ross County on loan . Southampton FC . 2 July 2021 . 2 July 2021.
23. News: Nlundulu seals loan move . Southampton FC . 14 July 2021 . 14 July 2021.
24. News: Nlundulu recalled from Lincoln loan . Southampton FC . 6 January 2022 . 6 January 2022.
25. News: Ferry signs new contract ahead of Crawley loan . Southampton FC . 3 August 2021 . 3 August 2021.
26. News: Youngster Hall seals Melksham Town loan move . Southampton FC . 20 August 2021 . 20 August 2021.
27. News: Bycroft joins Dorchester on loan . Southampton FC . 4 January 2022 . 5 January 2022.
28. News: Smales-Braithwaite seals Gloucester City loan move . Southampton FC . 27 August 2021 . 27 August 2021.
29. News: Magpies sign Southampton goalkeeper on loan . Dorset Echo . 4 January 2022 . 4 January 2022.
30. News: Nlundulu joins Cheltenham on loan . Southampton FC . 6 January 2022 . 6 January 2022.
31. News: Youngster Rodriguez joins Burgos CF on loan . Southampton FC . 11 January 2022 . 12 January 2022.
32. News: Watts heads to Crawley on loan . Southampton FC . 12 January 2022 . 12 January 2022.
33. News: Simeu joins Carlisle on loan . Southampton FC . 25 January 2022 . 25 January 2022.
34. News: Southampton FC announce 2021 retained list . Southampton FC . 4 June 2021 . 4 June 2021.
35. News: Young duo sign professional Owls deals . Sheffield Wednesday FC . 1 July 2021 . 1 July 2021.
36. News: Burton Albion to sign Tom O'Connor once Southampton contract expires . Burton Albion FC . 23 June 2021 . 23 June 2021.
37. News: Bertrand to depart Saints . Southampton FC . 12 May 2021 . 30 May 2021.
38. News: Ryan Bertrand signs for Leicester City . Leicester City FC . 15 July 2021 . 15 July 2021.
39. News: Shels sign Ledwidge and En-Neyah . Shelbourne FC . 30 July 2021 . 3 August 2021.
40. News: Jake Hesketh Joins The Spitfires . Eastleigh FC . 2 August 2021 . 2 August 2021.
41. News: Watford sign James Morris after successful trial . Watford Observer . 2 August 2021 . 2 August 2021.
42. News: Seagulls land Kpohomouh signature . Weston-super Mare AFC . 19 August 2021 . 20 August 2021.
43. News: New Keeper for Farnborough . Pitching In . 27 August 2021 . 31 August 2021.
44. News: 2 September 2021 . Officieel: Union Saint-Gilloise vindt nog twee versterkingen . 10 September 2021 . Voetball Belgie . Dutch.
45. News: Bournemouth Poppies v Hamworthy Utd . Hamworthy United FC . 14 October 2021 . 18 October 2021.
46. News: Premier League clubs publish 2020/21 retained lists . Premier League . 4 June 2021 . 17 August 2021.
47. News: Mercato. Le GF38 officialise l’arrivée d’Allan Tchaptchet . Grenoble Foot Info . 1 February 2022 . 6 February 2022.
48. News: Josh Sims joins Ross County . Ross County FC . 14 February 2022 . 15 February 2022.
49. News: Sam McQueen announces his retirement . Southampton FC . 1 January 2022 . 1 January 2022.
50. News: Saints line up pre-season friendlies in Wales . Southampton FC . 2 July 2021 . 2 July 2021.
51. News: Two more testing pre-season friendlies confirmed for Southampton . Saints Marching . 21 July 2021 . 23 July 2021.
52. News: Saints confirm Athletic Club friendly . Southampton FC . 21 July 2021 . 21 July 2021.
53. News: Levante friendly confirmed . Southampton FC . 25 July 2021 . 25 July 2021.
54. News: 2021/22 Fixtures: Saints start at Everton . Southampton F.C. . 16 June 2021.
55. News: Saints face Swansea trip in the FA Cup. Southampton FC. 6 December 2021. 6 December 2021.
56. News: Saints draw Coventry City. Southampton FC. 9 January 2022. 9 January 2022.
57. News: Saints draw West Ham United. Southampton FC. 6 February 2022. 6 February 2022.
58. News: Saints draw Man City in FA Cup quarter-finals. Southampton FC. 3 March 2022. 5 March 2022.
59. Web site: Carabao Cup Round Two draw confirmed . EFL . 12 August 2021.
60. Web site: Carabao Cup second round date confirmed . Southampton FC . 17 August 2021.
61. News: Carabao Cup Round Three draw confirmed. EFL. 25 August 2021. 26 August 2021.
62. News: Date set for Sheffield United Carabao Cup tie. Southampton FC. 1 September 2021. 1 September 2021.
63. News: Carabao Cup Round Four draw: confirmed ties. EFL. 22 September 2021. 23 September 2021.
64. News: Date confirmed for Chelsea trip. Southampton FC. 28 September 2021. 28 September 2021.