2006–07_Southampton_F.C._season

2006–07 Southampton F.C. season

Southampton F.C. 2006–07 football season

During the 2006–07 English football season, Southampton Football Club competed in the Football League Championship.

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Southampton F.C.
2006–07 season
Chairman	Michael Wilde
Manager	George Burley
Stadium	St Mary's
Championship	6th (qualified for playoffs)
Play-offs	Semi-finals
FA Cup	Fourth round proper
League Cup	Third round
Top goalscorer	League: Grzegorz Rasiak (18) All: Grzegorz Rasiak (20)
Highest home attendance	32,008 (vs. Southend United, 6 May)
Lowest home attendance	18,736 (vs. Colchester United, 16 March)
Average home league attendance	23,556
← 2005–06 2007–08 →

Southampton improved in their second consecutive season in the Championship, although their overall form was inconsistent and they were soon out of the race for automatic promotion. Their inconsistency threatened to put them out of the play-off picture too, but eventually Southampton scraped to sixth position in the final table. Southampton were drawn against manager George Burley's old club Derby County, who managed to defeat Southampton 4–3 in a penalty shootout after a 4–4 aggregate draw over two legs.

Final League table (extract)

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GD	Pts
4	West Bromwich Albion	46	14	4	5	51	24	8	6	9	30	31	81	55	+ 26	76
5	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	12	5	6	33	28	10	5	8	26	28	59	56	+ 3	76
6	Southampton	46	13	6	4	36	20	8	6	9	41	33	77	53	+ 24	75
7	Preston North End	46	15	4	4	38	17	7	4	12	26	36	64	53	+ 11	74
8	Stoke City	46	12	8	3	35	16	7	8	8	27	25	62	41	+ 21	73

Championship

Note: Southampton score given first

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Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
6 August 2006	Derby County	A	2–2	21,939	Bale, Wright-Phillips
9 August 2006	Coventry City	H	2–0	21,088	Bale, Rasiak
12 August 2006	West Bromwich Albion	H	0–0	24,322
19 August 2006	Barnsley	A	2–2	11,306	Rasiak (2)
26 August 2006	Preston North End	H	1–1	20,712	Rasiak
9 September 2006	Ipswich Town	A	1–2	21,422	Jones
12 September 2006	Crystal Palace	A	2–0	17,084	Jones, Rasiak
16 September 2006	Plymouth Argyle	H	1–0	22,514	Rasiak
23 September 2006	Burnley	A	3–2	13,051	Rasiak (2), Skacel
30 September 2006	Queens Park Rangers	H	1–2	25,185	Wright-Phillips
14 October 2006	Leicester City	A	2–3	21,347	Viafara, Idiakez
17 October 2006	Cardiff City	A	0–1	19,345
21 October 2006	Stoke City	H	1–0	20,531	Licka
28 October 2006	Colchester United	A	0–2	5,893
1 November 2006	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	2–0	18,979	Wright-Phillips, Jones
4 November 2006	Hull City	H	0–0	20,560
11 November 2006	Sunderland	A	1–1	25,667	Bale
18 November 2006	Leeds United	A	3–0	19,647	Rasiak (2), Skacel
25 November 2006	Luton Town	H	2–1	20,482	Baird, Rasiak
29 November 2006	Birmingham City	H	4–3	21,889	Jones (2), Skacel, Wright-Phillips
2 December 2006	Hull City	A	4–2	15,697	Rasiak (2), Bale, Wright-Phillips
9 December 2006	Southend United	A	1–2	10,867	Rasiak
16 December 2006	Norwich City	H	2–1	25,919	Jones, Bale
23 December 2006	Sheffield Wednesday	A	3–3	23,739	Rasiak, Jones, Wright-Phillips
26 December 2006	Crystal Palace	H	1–1	30,548	Baird
30 December 2006	Leicester City	H	2–0	24,447	Pele, Prutton
1 January 2007	Plymouth Argyle	A	1–1	15,377	Rasiak
13 January 2007	Burnley	H	0–0	20,486
20 January 2007	Queens Park Rangers	A	2–0	14,686	Rasiak, Wright-Phillips
31 January 2007	Sheffield Wednesday	H	2–1	20,230	Jones (2)
2 February 2007	Derby County	H	0–1	27,656
10 February 2007	West Bromwich Albion	A	1–1	21,138	Jones
17 February 2007	Barnsley	H	5–2	22,460	Surman (3), Jones (2)
20 February 2007	Coventry City	A	1–2	17,194	Saganowski
24 February 2007	Ipswich Town	H	1–0	27,974	Saganowski
5 March 2007	Preston North End	A	1–3	13,060	Rasiak
10 March 2007	Stoke City	A	1–2	13,404	Saganowski
13 March 2007	Cardiff City	H	2–2	20,383	Baird, Wright-Phillips
16 March 2007	Colchester United	H	1–2	18,736	Saganowski
31 March 2007	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	6–0	24,804	Saganowski (3), Breen o.g., Best, Surman
7 April 2007	Luton Town	A	2–0	9,171	Viafara, Saganowski
9 April 2007	Sunderland	H	1–2	25,766	Saganowski
14 April 2007	Birmingham City	A	1–2	19,754	Saganowski
21 April 2007	Leeds United	H	1–0	29,012	Wright-Phillips
28 April 2007	Norwich City	A	1–0	25,437	Best
6 May 2007	Southend United	H	4–1	32,008	Jones (2), Best (2)

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

Championship play-off semi-final

Main article: 2007 Football League play-offs

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Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
12 May 2007	Derby County	H	1–2	30,602	Surman
15 May 2007	Derby County	A	3–2^a	31,569	Viafara (2), Rasiak

FA Cup

Main article: 2006–07 FA Cup

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Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	6 January 2007	Torquay United	A	2–0	5,396	Rasiak (2)
R4	28 January 2007	Manchester City	A	1–3	26,496	Jones

League Cup

Main article: 2006–07 Football League Cup

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Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R1	23 August 2006	Yeovil Town	H	5–2	20,653	Cohen o.g., Skacel, Wright-Phillips, Dyer, Jones
R2	19 September 2006	Millwall	A	4–0	5,492	Belmadi (2), Wright-Phillips, McGoldrick
R3	24 October 2006	Notts County	A	0–2	6,731

Kit

The season's kit was manufactured by the club's own brand, Saints; a new kit was introduced for the season. The kit was sponsored by English airline Flybe.

Squad statistics

Source:^[1]^[2]

Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.

Players with squad numbers struck through and marked † left the club during the playing season.

Players with names in italics and marked * were on loan from another club for the whole of their season with Southampton.

Players listed with no appearances have been in the matchday squad but only as unused substitutes.

Key to positions: GK – Goalkeeper; DF – Defender; MF – Midfielder; FW – Forward

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No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Play-offs		Total		Discipline
1	GK	ENG	Kelvin Davis	38	0	2	0	3	0	1	0	44	0	1	0
2	DF	SWE	Alexander Östlund	17 (3)	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	20 (3)	0	4	0
3	DF	CPV	Pelé	34 (3)	1	2	0	3	0	2	0	41 (3)	1	6	0
4 †	MF	ARG	Marcelo Sarmiento *	0	0	1	0	2 (1)	0	0	0	3 (1)	0	1	0
4	FW	POL	Marek Saganowski *	11 (2)	10	0	0	0	0	2	0	13 (2)	10	1	0
5	DF	NOR	Claus Lundekvam	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	33	0	6	0
6	DF	ENG	Darren Powell	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	3	0
7	MF	CZE	Rudi Skácel	32 (5)	3	0	0	2	0	1 (1)	0	35 (6)	4	3	0
8	FW	ENG	Bradley Wright-Phillips	15 (24)	8	1 (1)	0	3	3	0	0	19 (25)	11	2	0
9	FW	POL	Grzegorz Rasiak	32 (7)	18	2	2	1	0	0 (2)	1	35 (9)	21	1	0
10	MF	ENG	Jermaine Wright	41 (1)	1	2	0	1 (1)	0	0	0	44 (2)	1	0	0
12	MF	CZE	Mario Lička	7 (8)	1	0 (2)	0	1 (1)	0	0	0	8 (11)	1	3	0
14 †	FW	JAM	Ricardo Fuller	1	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0	1 (1)	0	0	0
14	MF	ESP	Iñigo Idiakez	12 (2)	1	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	12 (3)	1	5	0
15	FW	TRI	Kenwyne Jones	25 (9)	14	1	1	2	1	1	0	29 (9)	16	2	1
16	DF	ENG	Martin Cranie	0 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	0	0	1	0	1 (2)	0	0	0
17	MF	ALG	Djamel Belmadi	9 (5)	0	0	0	1	1	1 (1)	0	11 (6)	1	2	0
18	MF	ENG	Nathan Dyer	10 (8)	0	0	0	0 (3)	1	0	0	10 (11)	1	1	0
19	DF	ENG	Chris Makin	19 (3)	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	23 (3)	0	1	0
20	MF	ENG	David Prutton	1 (2)	1	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	1 (3)	1	0	0
21	DF	NIR	Chris Baird	44	3	2	0	3	0	2	0	51	3	5	0
22	DF	WAL	Gareth Bale	38	5	1	0	3	0	1	0	43	5	4	0
23	MF	COL	Jhon Viáfara	29 (7)	2	2	0	2	0	2	2	35 (7)	4	8	0
24	MF	ENG	Danny Guthrie *	8 (2)	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	10 (2)	0	0	0
25	GK	ENG	Michael Poke	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	GK	ENG	Kevin Miller	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	FW	IRL	Leon Best	6 (3)	4	0	0	0	0	1 (1)	0	7 (4)	4	1	0
28	GK	POL	Bartosz Białkowski	8	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	9	0	0	0
29	MF	ENG	Andrew Surman	26 (11)	4	0	0	2 (1)	0	2	1	30 (12)	5	3	0
35	FW	ENG	David McGoldrick	1 (8)	0	2	0	0 (1)	1	0	0	3 (9)	1	0	0
41	MF	ENG	Adam Lallana	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0

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Players not included in matchday squads
No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name
11	DF	SWE	Michael Svensson
24 †	FW	ENG	Dexter Blackstock
34	MF	WAL	Lloyd James
36	MF	ENG	Simon Gillett
37 †	MF	FIN	Tim Sparv
45 †	DF	ENG	Kyle Critchell

Transfers

In

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Date	Position	Name	Club From	Fee
2 May 2006	FW	Grzegorz Rasiak	Tottenham Hotspur	£2,000,000^[3]
5 July 2006	FW	Bradley Wright-Phillips	Manchester City	Undisclosed^[4]
10 July 2006	MF	Jermaine Wright	Leeds United	Free^[5]
19 July 2006	DF	Pelé	Belenenses	Undisclosed^[6]
29 July 2006	MF	Rudi Skácel	Hearts	£1,600,000^[7]
4 August 2006	MF	Jhon Viáfara	Portsmouth	£750,000^[8]
4 August 2006	MF	Mario Lička	1. FC Slovácko	Free^[8]
16 August 2006	DF	Chris Makin	Reading	Free^[9]
31 August 2006	MF	Iñigo Idiakez	Derby County	£250,000^[10]

Out

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Date	Position	Name	Club To	Fee
6 June 2006	DF	Jelle Van Damme	Anderlecht	Undisclosed^[11]
1 July 2006	FW	Marian Pahars	Free Agency	Released^[12]
1 July 2006	DF	Darren Kenton	Leicester City	Free^[12]^[13]
1 July 2006	DF	Jim Brennan	Free Agency	Released^[12]
12 July 2006	MF	Yoann Folly	Sheffield Wednesday	Undisclosed^[14]
2 August 2006	DF	Danny Higginbotham	Stoke City	£225,000^[15]
9 August 2006	FW	Dexter Blackstock	Queens Park Rangers	Undisclosed
31 August 2006	FW	Ricardo Fuller	Stoke City	£500,000^[16]

Loans In

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Date	Nationality	Position	Name	Club From	Length
28 June 2006		MF	Marcelo Sarmiento	Racing Club de Cordoba	Full Season (ended 19 January)^[17]
30 January 2007		FW	Marek Saganowski	Troyes	Until end of season^[18]

Loans Out

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Date	Position	Name	Club To	Length
8 November 2006	DF	Martin Cranie	Yeovil Town	Until 1 January^[19]
30 January 2007	MF	Simon Gillett	Blackpool	Until end of season^[20]
30 January 2007	MF	David Prutton	Nottingham Forest	Until end of season^[21]
2 March 2007	DF	Martin Cranie	Yeovil Town	One Month (recalled 30 March)^[22]^[23]
9 March 2007	MF	Iñigo Idiakez	Queens Park Rangers	One Month (extended on 5 April, recalled 16 April)^[24]^[25]^[26]

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"Saints sign Argentine Sarmiento". BBC Sport. 28 June 2006. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
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"Saints capture striker Saganowski". BBC Sport. 30 January 2007. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
[19]
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"Saints' Gillett back at Blackpool". BBC Sport. 30 January 2007. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
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"Prutton joins Forest in loan deal". BBC Sport. 30 January 2007. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
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"Glovers swoop to re-sign Cranie". BBC Sport. 2 March 2007. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
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"Saints recall Cranie from Yeovil". BBC Sport. 30 March 2007. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
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External links

Southampton Football Club match record: 2006–07

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