List of Southampton F.C. players explained

Southampton Football Club is an English association football club based in Southampton, Hampshire. Founded in 1885 as St Mary's YMA, they became a professional club in 1891 and co-founded the Southern Football League in 1894. Southampton won the Southern League Premier Division championship six times between 1896 and 1904, and were later elected to the Football League Third Division in 1920. The Saints finished as runners-up in their first Football League season, and the following year received promotion to the Second Division as Third Division South champions. The club first entered the First Division in 1966, and currently play in its modern-day counterpart, the Premier League.^[1] Southampton won the FA Cup in 1976, reached the final of the League Cup in 1979 and 2017, and won the League Trophy in 2010.^[1]

Since the club's formation, a total of 220 players have made 100 or more appearances for Southampton. Winger Terry Paine holds the record for the highest number of appearances for the Saints, having played 816 times for the club between 1957 and 1974, while ten other players have made more than 400 appearances for Southampton. The club's top goalscorer is Mick Channon, who scored 228 goals in all competitions in two spells with the club, between 1966 and 1977, and from 1979 to 1982. Matt Le Tissier is the only player to have won the Southampton F.C. Player of the Season award three times, while six other players (Peter Shilton, Tim Flowers, James Beattie, Rickie Lambert, José Fonte and James Ward-Prowse) have received the accolade twice.^[2] Le Tissier is also the only player besides Channon to have scored over 200 goals for Southampton.

Key

• The list is ordered first by date of debut, and then if necessary in alphabetical order by surname.
• Appearances as a substitute are included. This feature of the game was introduced in the Football League at the start of the 1965–66 season.
• Statistics are correct up to and including the match played on 17 August 2024. Where a player left the club permanently after this date, his statistics are updated to his date of leaving.

Positions key

Pre-1960s		1960s–
GK	Goalkeeper
FB	Full back	DF	Defender
HB	Half back	MF	Midfielder
FW	Forward

Players

List of Southampton F.C. players with 100 or more appearances

Player	Nationality	Pos	Club career	Starts	Subs	Total	Goals
				Appearances
	<	-- Debut 14 September 1895 -->	FW	1899–1900	116		116	57
	<	-- Debut 14 September 1895 -->	FW	1895–1900	113		113	34
	<	-- Debut 14 September 1895 -->	HB	1895–1906	413		413	27
	<	-- Debut 14 September 1895 -->	FW	1895–1898 1901–1904	200		200	86
	<	-- Debut 19 September 1896 -->	GK	1896–1898 1903–1907	267		267	0
	<	-- Debut 19 September 1896 -->	FB	1896–1900	110		110	6
	<	-- Debut 18 September 1897 -->	FW	1897–1898 1898–1901 1904–1905	106		106	29
	<	-- Debut 2 October 1897 -->	HB	1897–1901	141		141	10
	<	-- Debut 3 September 1898 -->	GK	1898–1903	201		201	10
	<	-- Debut 3 September 1898 -->	FW	1898–1905	271		271	84
	<	-- Debut 11 October 1899 -->	FW	1899–1902 1904–1905	133		133	43
	<	-- Debut 30 April 1900 -->	HB	1900–1906 1911–1915	369		369	18
	<	-- Debut 1 September 1900 -->	FB	1900–1905	229		229	0
	<	-- Debut 11 March 1901 -->	FW	1901–1908	249		249	156
	<	-- Debut 4 September 1901 -->	HB	1901–1904	148		148	7
	<	-- Debut 1 September 1902 -->	FW	1902–1905	112		112	33
	<	-- Debut 2 September 1903 -->	FW	1903–1906	113		113	54
	<	-- Debut 26 September 1903 -->	FW	1903–1907	162		162	23
	<	-- Debut 29 April 1905 -->	GK	1904–1911	111		111	0
	<	-- Debut 11 September 1905 -->	FW	1905–1906 1910–1913	100		100	43
	<	-- Debut 13 November 1905 -->	FW	1905–1911	226		226	61
	<	-- Debut 1 September 1906 -->	FB	1906–1911	209		209	7
	<	-- Debut 8 September 1906 -->	HB	1906–1912	194		194	2
	<	-- Debut 10 September 1906 -->	FB	1906–1912	208		208	4
	<	-- Debut 6 October 1906 -->	FW	1906–1920	183		183	14
	<	-- Debut 2 September 1907 -->	FW	1907–1910	113		113	26
	<	-- Debut 2 September 1907 -->	HB	1907–1911	139		139	1
	<	-- Debut 14 September 1907 -->	GK	1907–1909 1922–1923	101		101	0
	<	-- Debut 3 September 1908 -->	HB	1908–1911	106		106	5
	<	-- Debut 17 October 1908 -->	FW	1908–1914 1919	103		103	29
	<	-- Debut 9 November 1908 -->	HB	1908–1909 1913–1914 1915–1926	208		208	15
	<	-- Debut 22 October 1910 -->	FW	1910–1920	176		176	36
	<	-- Debut 2 September 1911 -->	HB	1911–1915	162		162	12
	<	-- Debut 23 September 1911 -->	HB	1911–1915	172		172	3
	<	-- Debut 30 September 1911 -->	HB	1911–1915	156		156	2
	<	-- Debut 4 September 1912 -->	FW	1912–1919	215		215	53
	<	-- Debut 5 April 1913 -->	FW	1913–1926	392		392	155
	<	-- Debut 30 August 1919 -->	FW	1919–1922	102		102	8
	<	-- Debut 30 August 1919 -->	FW	1919–1922	115		115	13
	<	-- Debut 30 August 1919 -->	FB	1919–1926	280		280	13
	<	-- Debut 30 August 1919 -->	FB	1919–1926	246		246	0
	<	-- Debut 1 September 1919 -->	FW	1919–1931	377		377	198
	<	-- Debut 8 November 1919 -->	HB	1919–1924	200		200	1
	<	-- Debut 17 January 1920 -->	HB	1920–1932	465		465	9
	<	-- Debut 28 August 1920 -->	GK	1920–1928	327		327	0
	<	-- Debut 17 April 1922 -->	FB	1922–1930	195		195	0
	<	-- Debut 10 November 1923 -->	FW	1923–1928	177		177	10
	<	-- Debut 19 January 1924 -->	HB	1924–1936	334		334	8
	<	-- Debut 18 April 1924 -->	HB	1924–1930 1931–1932	248		248	5
	<	-- Debut 30 August 1924 -->	HB	1924–1936	383		383	5
	<	-- Debut 25 October 1924 -->	HB	1924–1933	286		286	13
	<	-- Debut 28 August 1926 -->	FW	1926–1930	117		117	62
	<	-- Debut 27 August 1927 -->	FB	1927–1936	219		219	3
	<	-- Debut 14 January 1928 -->	HB	1928–1936	229		229	10
	<	-- Debut 25 August 1928 -->	GK	1928–1932	107		107	0
	<	-- Debut 27 October 1928 -->	FW	1928–1934	111		111	27
	<	-- Debut 1 April 1929 -->	FW	1929–1933	110		110	46
	<	-- Debut 30 August 1930 -->	HB	1930–1932 1933–1936	123		123	20
	<	-- Debut 8 September 1930 -->	GK	1930–1937	241		241	0
	<	-- Debut 28 February 1931 -->	FB	1931–1938	167		167	0
	<	-- Debut 2 January 1932 -->	FB	1932–1938	191		191	10
	<	-- Debut 20 February 1932 -->	FW	1932–1937	186		186	19
	<	-- Debut 19 March 1932 -->	FW	1932–1937	123		123	18
	<	-- Debut 7 January 1933 -->	FW	1933–1939	222		222	50
	<	-- Debut 26 August 1933 -->	FW	1933–1937	107		107	10
	<	-- Debut 27 December 1937 -->	FW	1937–1953	217		217	64
	<	-- Debut 4 February 1939 -->	FB	1939–1948	102		102	1
	<	-- Debut 15 April 1939 -->	HB	1939–1951	192		192	0
	<	-- Debut 5 January 1946 -->	FW	1946–1947 1956–1959	133		133	42
	<	-- Debut 10 January 1946 -->	FB	1946–1956	237		237	11
	<	-- Debut 4 September 1946 -->	DF	1946–1950	134		134	0
	<	-- Debut 16 November 1946 -->	FW	1946–1957	422		422	158
	<	-- Debut 1 March 1947 -->	HB	1947–1953	223		223	3
	<	-- Debut 24 May 1947 -->	HB	1947–1954	120		120	1
	<	-- Debut 23 August 1947 -->	FW	1947–1951	183		183	12
	<	-- Debut 1 November 1947 -->	FW	1947–1950	107		107	77
	<	-- Debut 3 January 1948 -->	GK	1948–1950	104		104	0
	<	-- Debut 23 October 1948 -->	HB	1948–1958	275		275	0
	<	-- Debut 25 February 1950 -->	HB	1950–1958	251		251	2
	<	-- Debut 3 February 1951 -->	GK	1951–1959	217		217	0
	<	-- Debut 3 September 1951 -->	HB	1951–1959	145		145	0
	<	-- Debut 6 October 1951 -->	GK	1951–1956	136		136	0
	<	-- Debut 4 October 1952 -->	FW	1952–1957	186		186	52
	<	-- Debut 11 October 1952 -->	FB	1952–1965	487	0	487	8
	<	-- Debut 8 November 1952 -->	HB	1952–1961	216		216	25
	<	-- Debut 6 December 1952 -->	FW	1952–1959	238		238	67
	<	-- Debut 25 April 1953 -->	FW	1953–1958	129		129	29
	<	-- Debut 24 October 1953 -->	HB	1953–1959	178		178	5
	<	-- Debut 21 August 1954 -->	FW	1954–1962	330		330	100
	<	-- Debut 20 April 1955 -->	FW	1955–1962	311		311	173
	<	-- Debut 16 March 1957 -->	FW	1957–1974	812	4	816	187
	<	-- Debut 4 May 1957 -->	MF	1957–1970	401	1	402	40
	<	-- Debut 28 September 1957 -->	FW	1957–1962	123		123	36
	<	-- Debut 7 April 1958 -->	FB	1958–1964	192		192	0
	<	-- Debut 6 December 1958 -->	GK	1958–1965	149	0	149	0
	<	-- Debut 22 August 1959 -->	MF	1959–1967	317	3	320	4
	<	-- Debut 22 August 1959 -->	FW	1959–1965	281		281	180
	<	-- Debut 19 March 1960 -->	GK	1960–1963	111		111	0
	<	-- Debut 19 August 1961 -->	DF	1961–1967	260	0	260	2
	<	-- Debut 2 September 1961 -->	MF	1961–1967	167	4	171	12
	<	-- Debut 8 September 1962 -->	FW	1962–1968	189	1	190	106
	<	-- Debut 19 September 1962 -->	DF	1962–1966	165	2	167	3
	<	-- Debut 2 October 1962 -->	DF	1962–1972	266	1	267	4
	<	-- Debut 19 December 1964 -->	MF	1964–1968	152	3	155	12
	<	-- Debut 30 January 1965 -->	DF	1965–1974	101	13	114	3
	<	-- Debut 21 August 1965 -->	DF	1965–1973	223	8	241	1
	<	-- Debut 11 April 1966 -->	FW	1966–1977 1979–1982	602	5	607	228
	<	-- Debut 20 August 1966 -->	FW	1966–1973	277	4	281	153
	<	-- Debut 18 March 1967 -->	MF	1967–1976	188	47	235	76
	<	-- Debut 18 March 1967 -->	GK	1967–1975	289	1	290	0
	<	-- Debut 19 August 1967 -->	MF	1967–1972	223	1	224	27
	<	-- Debut 25 November 1967 -->	DF	1967–1975	137	0	137	2
	<	-- Debut 26 February 1968 -->	DF	1968–1973	192	1	193	4
	<	-- Debut 26 February 1968 -->	DF	1968–1973	194	1	195	2
	<	-- Debut 7 April 1969 -->	FW	1969–1977	238	26	264	55
	<	-- Debut 15 August 1970 -->	MF	1970–1974	171	2	173	19
	<	-- Debut 28 January 1972 -->	DF	1972–1977	200	1	201	2
	<	-- Debut 25 March 1972 -->	FW	1972–1976	120	13	133	22
	<	-- Debut 22 April 1972 -->	DF	1972–1976	137	0	137	2
	<	-- Debut 2 February 1974 -->	DF	1974–1980	278	4	282	44
	<	-- Debut 2 March 1974 -->	MF	1974–1987	535	8	542	64
	<	-- Debut 16 March 1974 -->	FW	1974–1977	157	4	161	36
	<	-- Debut 13 April 1974 -->	GK	1974–1978	107	0	107	0
	<	-- Debut 21 September 1974 -->	DF	1974–1977	135	0	135	7
	<	-- Debut 1 February 1975 -->	DF	1975–1980	98	2	100	3
	<	-- Debut 12 April 1975 -->	DF	1975–1983	217	1	218	11
	<	-- Debut 6 April 1976 -->	MF	1976–1984	346	3	349	27
	<	-- Debut 18 September 1976 -->	FW	1976–1978	105	0	105	48
	<	-- Debut 18 December 1976 -->	GK	1976–1982	160	0	160	0
	<	-- Debut 27 December 1976 -->	MF	1976–1980 1981–1982	234	0	234	13
	<	-- Debut 5 February 1977 -->	MF	1977–1982	82	31	113	11
	<	-- Debut 20 August 1977 -->	FW	1977–1980	162	0	162	61
	<	-- Debut 20 August 1977 -->	DF	1977–1983	268	0	268	9
	<	-- Debut 12 November 1977 -->	MF	1977–1982 1987–1989	191	8	199	36
	<	-- Debut 22 August 1978 -->	DF	1978–1982 1983–1985	196	1	197	4
	<	-- Debut 19 January 1980 -->	FW	1980–1986	217	12	229	99
	<	-- Debut 29 November 1980 -->	DF	1980–1985	111	1	112	0
	<	-- Debut 29 November 1980 -->	FW	1980–1989	299	18	317	79
	<	-- Debut 17 March 1981 -->	FW	1981–1986	59	52	111	16
	<	-- Debut 13 May 1981 -->	DF	1981–1988	89	13	102	0
	<	-- Debut 1 September 1981 -->	MF	1981–1987	272	0	272	71
	<	-- Debut 6 October 1981 -->	MF	1981–1987	83	21	104	15
	<	-- Debut 28 August 1982 -->	DF	1982–1987	222	0	222	11
	<	-- Debut 28 August 1982 -->	GK	1982–1987	242	0	242	0
	<	-- Debut 13 November 1982 -->	DF	1982–1985	123	0	123	3
	<	-- Debut 30 November 1983 -->	DF	1983–1987	129	0	129	2
	<	-- Debut 29 September 1984 -->	DF	1984–1988	173	1	174	6
	<	-- Debut 23 March 1985 -->	MF	1985–1991	269	3	272	14
	<	-- Debut 20 April 1985 -->	MF	1985–1988	89	12	101	5
	<	-- Debut 19 October 1985 -->	MF	1985–1993	340	18	358	39
	<	-- Debut 7 December 1985 -->	DF	1985–1989	131	3	134	1
	<	-- Debut 30 August 1986 -->	MF	1986–2002	462	78	540	209
	<	-- Debut 13 September 1986 -->	GK	1986–1993	251	0	251	0
	<	-- Debut 15 August 1987 -->	DF	1987–1994	180	5	185	13
	<	-- Debut 26 September 1987 -->	FW	1987–1991	132	19	151	56
	<	-- Debut 26 March 1988 -->	FW	1988–1992	140	18	158	43
	<	-- Debut 27 August 1988 -->	DF	1988–1991	120	4	124	6
	<	-- Debut 1 October 1988 -->	DF	1988–2003	321	48	359	1
	<	-- Debut 25 October 1988 -->	MF	1988–1997	167	30	197	19
	<	-- Debut 18 February 1989 -->	DF	1989–1992	130	8	138	13
	<	-- Debut 25 March 1989 -->	DF	1989–1994	171	3	174	7
	<	-- Debut 25 March 1989 -->	MF	1989–1992	148	3	151	13
	<	-- Debut 14 October 1989 -->	DF	1989–2004	453	30	483	13
	<	-- Debut 4 May 1991 -->	DF	1991–1995	126	5	131	4
	<	-- Debut 11 May 1991 -->	DF	1991–1996	148	8	156	14
	<	-- Debut 4 September 1991 -->	FW	1991–1995	133	10	143	32
	<	-- Debut 24 August 1992 -->	DF	1992–1999	224	9	233	13
	<	-- Debut 14 August 1993 -->	DF	1993–1997	121	15	136	3
	<	-- Debut 4 December 1993 -->	GK	1993–1996	103	2	105	0
	<	-- Debut 14 February 1994 -->	MF	1994–1997	148	8	156	18
	<	-- Debut 6 May 1995 -->	MF	1995–2006	282	28	310	20
	<	-- Debut 4 September 1996 -->	DF	1996–2007	403	10	413	2
	<	-- Debut 13 October 1996 -->	FW	1996–1999	92	17	109	33
	<	-- Debut 9 August 1997 -->	FW	1997–1998 1999–2003	89	36	125	25
	<	-- Debut 9 August 1997 -->	GK	1997–2003	220	3	223	0
	<	-- Debut 16 August 1998 -->	FW	1998–2004	188	47	235	76
	<	-- Debut 16 August 1998 -->	DF	1998–2003	161	13	174	2
	<	-- Debut 6 February 1999 -->	MF	1999–2003	137	15	152	8
	<	-- Debut 5 April 1999 -->	FW	1999–2006	127	29	156	45
	<	-- Debut 20 November 1999 -->	MF	1999–2004	78	51	129	16
	<	-- Debut 18 August 2001 -->	MF	2001–2006	135	17	152	5
	<	-- Debut 18 August 2001 -->	MF	2001–2005	116	31	147	13
	<	-- Debut 3 November 2001 -->	DF	2001–2005	129	19	148	1
	<	-- Debut 5 December 2001 -->	FW	2001–2006	74	42	116	19
	<	-- Debut 29 December 2001 -->	MF	2001–2005	88	18	106	6
	<	-- Debut 21 September 2002 -->	GK	2002–2006	123	0	123	0
	<	-- Debut 8 February 2003 -->	DF	2003–2006	96	10	106	4
	<	-- Debut 25 January 2006 -->	MF	2006–2009	128	18	146	18
	<	-- Debut 10 February 2006 -->	MF	2006–2008	95	5	100	1
	<	-- Debut 6 August 2006 -->	GK	2006–2016	299	2	301	0
	<	-- Debut 6 August 2006 -->	FW	2006–2009	66	55	121	25
	<	-- Debut 23 August 2006 -->	MF	2006–2014 2024–	239	26	265	60
	<	-- Debut 9 August 2008 -->	MF	2008–2015	228	33	261	15
	<	-- Debut 23 August 2008 -->	MF	2008 2011–2015	129	24	153	3
	<	-- Debut 8 August 2009 -->	DF	2009–2012	110	11	121	5
	<	-- Debut 11 August 2009 -->	FW	2009–2014	219	16	235	117
	<	-- Debut 22 August 2009 -->	MF	2009–2013	130	15	145	11
	<	-- Debut 16 January 2010 -->	DF	2010–2017	283	5	288	15
	<	-- Debut 28 August 2010 -->	FW	2010–2014	80	38	118	23
	<	-- Debut 25 October 2011 -->	MF	2011–2023	323	87	410	55
	<	-- Debut 7 January 2012 -->	DF	2012–	161	21	182	6
	<	-- Debut 19 August 2012 -->	DF	2012–2015	99	5	104	5
	<	-- Debut 19 August 2012 -->	MF	2012–2018	185	41	226	14
	<	-- Debut 19 August 2012 -->	FW	2012–2017	81	45	126	35
	<	-- Debut 15 September 2012 -->	DF	2012–2020	172	22	194	9
	<	-- Debut 17 August 2014 -->	DF	2014–2021	237	3	240	8
	<	-- Debut 17 August 2014 -->	GK	2014–2022	162	0	162	0
	<	-- Debut 17 August 2014 -->	FW	2014–2022	124	121	245	36
	<	-- Debut 17 August 2014 -->	MF	2014–2018	134	28	162	23
	<	-- Debut 30 July 2015 -->	DF	2015–2020	133	5	138	3
	<	-- Debut 15 August 2015 -->	MF	2015–2022	216	40	256	9
	<	-- Debut 13 August 2016 -->	MF	2016–2020	114	20	134	5
	<	-- Debut 13 August 2016 -->	MF	2016–2022	181	51	232	30
	<	-- Debut 21 September 2016 -->	GK	2016–	148	0	148	0
	<	-- Debut 23 August 2017 -->	DF	2017–	214	7	221	9
	<	-- Debut 12 August 2018 -->	MF	2018–2024	143	71	214	25
	<	-- Debut 12 August 2018 -->	FW	2018–2021	89	11	100	46
	<	-- Debut 10 August 2019 -->	FW	2019–2024	126	65	191	49
	<	-- Debut 15 February 2020 -->	DF	2020–	157	11	168	6
	<	-- Debut 14 August 2021 -->	FW	2021–	90	30	120	29

External links

• Southampton F.C. official website
• Saints Players Archive

Notes and References

1. Web site: Southampton . Football Club History Database . 28 January 2017 .
2. News: Previous winners of the Daily Echo Southampton FC Player of the Season Award . Kerins . Dan . . . 12 May 2016 . 28 January 2017 .