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🔴🔵 Southampton 3-1 Birmingham stats review 🔵🔴

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- David Webb also refereed our last home game vs B’ham in 2023: we also won 3-1 having led 2-0 at HT.

- Was the 150th game where McCarthy was an unused sub.

- Armstrong has now scored 4 goals vs the Blues. Only Channon (5) has more.

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December 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🔴🔵 Southampton 3-1 Birmingham stats review 🔵🔴

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- This was our 2,400th ever home league game, and our 1,280th win.

- Was also our 2,750th ever home game in all comps. It was the 2,300th of those in which we’ve scored at least once, and our 1,493rd win.

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December 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🔴🔵 Southampton 3-1 Birmingham stats review 🔵🔴

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- Finn Azaz is the 1st player to score in 5 league games in a row since Danny Ings in 2019.

- That’s now 3 straight league wins vs B’ham, and Adam Armstrong has scored in all 3.

- Armstrong’s goal was his 30th in the 2nd tier for us.

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December 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - biggest wins in Europe 🔴🔝🔴

#7: Saints 3-0 Sparta Prague, Europa League, 15 Sep 2016

Our Group K campaign made a great start, with Charlie “Parklife” Austin bagging 2 goals. But two poor draws against Hapoel Be’er Sheva would later cost us a place in the knockout stages.

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December 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - biggest wins in Europe 🔴🔝🔴

#8: Saints 2-0 Rosenborg, Fairs Cup, 1 Oct 1969

Our first ever European tie ended in a 2-1 aggregate win against Norwegian league runners-up Rosenborg. Our goals in the 2nd leg came from the predictable sources of Ron Davies and Terry Paine.

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December 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I am proud to announce that the inaugural winner of the Southampton FC Statistics Peace Prize is Terry Hurlock!

Congratulations to Terry, who narrowly edged out Mark Dennis and Neil Ruddock for this prestigious award.

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December 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - biggest wins in Europe 🔴🔝🔴

#9: Vitesse 0-2 Saints, Europa League, 6 Aug 2015

Goals from Graziano Pelle and Sadio Mane at either end of the game gave us a good away win. Steven Caulker and Cuco Martina both made their club debuts in the match.

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December 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - biggest wins in Europe 🔴🔝🔴

#10: Saints 2-1 Inter, Europa League, 3 Nov 2016

A famous night under the St Mary’s lights. A second half comeback, via goals from Van Dijk and a Nagamoto own goal, gave us the win over the Nerazzuri.

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December 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - appearances by African players 🔴🔝🔴

#1: Reuben Agboola (Nigeria, 112 games)

Londoner who qualified to play for Nigeria through his father. Played 33 games during our best-ever 2nd place finish in the league in the 1983/84 season.

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December 2, 2025 at 7:57 AM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - appearances by African players 🔴🔝🔴

#2: Joe Aribo (Nigeria, 109 games)

London lad who qualifies to play for the Super Eagles through his heritage. Has experienced the ups and downs of two relegations and one promotion since joining Saints.

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December 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - appearances by African players 🔴🔝🔴

#3: Victor Wanyama (Kenya, 97 games)

Defensive midfielder who was a key part of the excellent team which finished 6th in the Premier League in 2015-16. Moved to Tottenham, and finished the 2025 season playing for Dunfermline.

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November 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - appearances by African players 🔴🔝🔴

#4: Hassan Kachloul (Morocco, 97 games)

Exciting midfielder who signed from Metz and scored 25 goals for the club. His final game for Saints was vs Arsenal in the last ever game at The Dell in 2001.

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November 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - appearances by African players 🔴🔝🔴

#5: Moussa Djenepo (Mali, 91 games)

Talented but wildly inconsistent, and only scored 5 goals in his 91 games. Returned to Standard Liege, from where we had signed him originally. Currently playing for Esteghal FC in Iran.

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November 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - appearances by African players 🔴🔝🔴

#6: Sofiane Boufal (Morocco, 84 games)

Born in France to Moroccan parents, he played for Angers and Lille before joining Saints. Scored the 2017-18 Premier League Goal of the Season with his amazing solo run and finish vs West Brom.

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November 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Eckert seems to have hit upon the revolutionary tactic of playing our best players in their best positions. Incredibly, it turns out that that’s a fairly effective plan.

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November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - appearances by African players 🔴🔝🔴

#7: Mohamed Salisu (Ghana, 80 games)

Made his way through the youth setup at Real Valladolid before joining Saints. Played in all 3 of Ghana’s games at the 2022 World Cup.

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November 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
🔴🟡 Charlton 1-5 Southampton stats review 🟡🔴

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- Only the 2nd time in the post-war era where we’ve scored 4 goals within an 8-min spell in a game. The other time was vs Ipswich in the FA Cup in January 1961, when Mulgrew, O’Brien (2) and Penk scored in the space of 7 mins.

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November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
🔴🟡 Charlton 1-5 Southampton stats review 🟡🔴

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- Only the 6th time in the post-war era we’ve scored 5 or more goals in the 1st half of a league match. The most recent previous time was when Mane hit his 2m 56s hat-trick vs Aston Villa in 2015.

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November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🔴🟡 Charlton 1-5 Southampton stats review 🟡🔴

(1/3)

- Was our 1st game against Charlton since April 2011.

- Was the 500th game ever in which we’ve scored 4 or more goals.

- Was our 2,400th ever away game in league play, and our 583rd away win in those games.

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November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - appearances by African players 🔴🔝🔴

#8: Sadio Mane (Senegal, 75 games)

One of the most talented players to ever wear red and white stripes. His fastest-ever top flight hat-trick, scored in 2m 56s vs Aston Villa, is a record which will surely outlive all of us.

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November 24, 2025 at 7:52 AM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - appearances by African players 🔴🔝🔴

#9: Kamaldeen Sulemana (Ghana, 74 games)

Blistering pace, but, one game vs Liverpool aside, often frustrated the fans with a lack of end product. Signed from Rennes for a then club-record fee. Now in Serie A with Atalanta.

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November 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I’m sensing that Will Still wasn’t getting the best out of the squad. This is brilliant! #SaintsFC
November 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - appearances by African players 🔴🔝🔴

#10: Radhi Jaidi (Tunisia, 68 games)

Quality defender who played in both our League 1 seasons. Retired in 2012 after injury struggles. Later became our U23s head coach, and currently managing Lebanese club Nejmeh.

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November 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most games played while only scoring 1 goal 🔴🔝🔴

#1: Francis Benali (1 goal in 369 games)

A club legend. His one goal was a beauty - a header vs Leicester in December 1997. Awarded the freedom of the city in 2016 for his career and prodigious charity fundraising.

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November 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most games played while only scoring 1 goal 🔴🔝🔴

#2: David Walker (1 goal in 230 games)

Signed by Ted Bates in 1965, with his only goal coming vs WBA in March 1967. Played as a centre back or as a holding midfielder in front of the back 4. Left us to join Cape Town City.

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November 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM