List of Southampton F.C. players

This article is about Southampton players with at least 100 appearances. For Southampton players with between 25 and 99 appearances, see List of Southampton F.C. players (25–99 appearances). For Southampton players with fewer than 25 appearances, see List of Southampton F.C. players (1–24 appearances).

Matt Le Tissier is the second-highest all-time goalscorer and fourth-highest appearance-maker for Southampton.

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. 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.

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. 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 9 November 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

Nationality

Unless otherwise noted, the nationality of a player is determined by the country for which he has played, or if he has not played international football, his country of birth.

Position

Playing positions are listed according to the tactical formations that were employed at the time. The change in the names of defensive and midfield positions reflects the tactical evolution that occurred from the 1960s onwards.

Club career

Club career is defined as the first and last calendar years in which the player appeared for the club in any of the competitions listed below.

Total appearances and Total goals

Total appearances and goals comprise those in the Southern League, Wessex League, Football League, Premier League, Southern Alliance, Southern District Combination, United League, FA Cup, League/EFL Cup, FA Charity/Community Shield, League/EFL Trophy, Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, Southern Floodlit Cup, Southern Charity Cup, Texaco Cup, Full Members Cup, Hampshire Senior Cup, Hampshire Junior Cup, Hampshire Benevolent Cup, Hampshire County Cricket Club Charity Cup, Portsmouth Cup, Rowland Hospital Cup and Victory Cup. Wartime competitions are excluded.

Players

Watty Keay scored 34 goals for Southampton, including the first at The Dell, in 1898.

Jack Robinson played 201 times for Southampton, including in the 1900 FA Cup Final.

Frank Jefferis made over 220 appearances for the Saints.

Joe Mallett played for the club 223 times.

Tony Knapp played 260 games for Southampton.

Martin Chivers scored over 100 goals for the club.

Ian Turner played in the 1976 FA Cup Final for Southampton.

Alan Ball managed the club after two spells as a player.

Goalkeeper Peter Shilton was the first player to win the Southampton F.C. Player of the Season award twice.

Tim Flowers was named Southampton F.C. Player of the Season in 1992 and 1993.

Alan Shearer made over 150 appearances for Southampton.

Ken Monkou played 233 games for the club.

Matt Oakley played over 300 times for Southampton.

Egil Østenstad scored 33 goals in 109 appearances.

Wayne Bridge won the Southampton Player of the Season award in 2001.

Marians Pahars scored 45 goals for the Saints.

Antti Niemi made 123 appearances for the club.

Steven Davis was a former club captain of the Saints.

Fraser Forster attended the 2014 Fifa World Cup with England.

Nathan Redmond was Southampton's Player of the Season for the 2018–19 season.

Jack Stephens joined Southampton from Plymouth Argyle in 2011.

Danny Ings made exactly 100 appearances for Southampton, scoring 46 goals.

Ché Adams made his Southampton debut in August 2019.

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

Player	Nationality	Pos	Club career	Starts	Subs	Total	Goals
				Appearances
Jack Farrell	England	FW	1895–1898 1899–1900	116	—	116	57
Watty Keay	Scotland	FW	1895–1900	113	—	113	34
Samuel Meston	Scotland	HB	1895–1906	413	—	413	27
Joe Turner	Scotland	FW	1895–1898 1901–1904	200	—	200	86
George Clawley	England	GK	1896–1898 1903–1907	267	—	267	0
Harry Haynes	England	FB	1896–1900	110	—	110	6
Jimmy Yates	England	FW	1897–1898 1898–1901 1904–1905	106	—	106	29
Arthur Chadwick	England	HB	1897–1901	141	—	141	10
Jack Robinson	England	GK	1898–1903	201	—	201	10
Harry Wood	England	FW	1898–1905	271	—	271	84
Archie Turner	England	FW	1899–1902 1904–1905	133	—	133	43
Bert Lee	England	HB	1900–1906 1911–1915	369	—	369	18
George Molyneux	England	FB	1900–1905	229	—	229	0
Fred Harrison	England	FW	1901–1908	249	—	249	156
Tommy Bowman	Scotland	HB	1901–1904	148	—	148	7
John Fraser	Scotland	FW	1902–1905	112	—	112	33
George Hedley	England	FW	1903–1906	113	—	113	54
Fred Mouncher	England	FW	1903–1907	162	—	162	23
Tom Burrows	England	GK	1904–1911	111	—	111	0
Harry Brown	England	FW	1905–1906 1910–1913	100	—	100	43
Frank Jefferis	England	FW	1905–1911	226	—	226	61
Horace Glover	England	FB	1906–1911	209	—	209	7
John Robertson	Scotland	HB	1906–1912	194	—	194	2
Jack Eastham	England	FB	1906–1912	208	—	208	4
Joe Blake	England	FW	1906–1920	183	—	183	14
John Bainbridge	England	FW	1907–1910	113	—	113	26
John Johnston	Scotland	HB	1907–1911	139	—	139	1
Herbert Lock	England	GK	1907–1909 1922–1923	101	—	101	0
Bert Trueman	England	HB	1908–1911	106	—	106	5
Percy Prince	England	FW	1908–1914 1919	103	—	103	29
Alec Campbell	England	HB	1908–1909 1913–1914 1915–1926	208	—	208	15
Sid Kimpton	England	FW	1910–1920	176	—	176	36
James Denby	England	HB	1911–1915	162	—	162	12
Jim McAlpine	Scotland	HB	1911–1915	172	—	172	3
Sid Ireland	England	HB	1911–1915	156	—	156	2
Len Andrews	England	FW	1912–1919	215	—	215	53
Arthur Dominy	England	FW	1913–1926	392	—	392	155
Joe Barratt	England	FW	1919–1922	102	—	102	8
Fred Foxall	England	FW	1919–1922	115	—	115	13
Tom Parker	England	FB	1919–1926	280	—	280	13
Fred Titmuss	England	FB	1919–1926	246	—	246	0
Bill Rawlings	England	FW	1919–1931	377	—	377	198
Bill Turner	England	HB	1919–1924	200	—	200	1
Bert Shelley	England	HB	1920–1932	465	—	465	9
Tommy Allen	England	GK	1920–1928	327	—	327	0
Ted Hough	England	FB	1922–1930	195	—	195	0
Bill Henderson	England	FW	1923–1928	177	—	177	10
George Harkus	England	HB	1924–1936	334	—	334	8
Arthur Bradford	England	HB	1924–1930 1931–1932	248	—	248	5
Stan Woodhouse	England	HB	1924–1936	383	—	383	5
Michael Keeping	England	HB	1924–1933	286	—	286	13
Dick Rowley	Ireland	FW	1926–1930	117	—	117	62
Bill Adams	England	FB	1927–1936	219	—	219	3
Bill Luckett	England	HB	1928–1936	229	—	229	10
Willie White	Scotland	GK	1928–1932	107	—	107	0
Herbert Coates	England	FW	1928–1934	111	—	111	27
Johnny Arnold	England	FW	1929–1933	110	—	110	46
Johnny McIlwaine	Scotland	HB	1930–1932 1933–1936	123	—	123	20
Bert Scriven	England	GK	1930–1937	241	—	241	0
Arthur Roberts	England	FB	1931–1938	167	—	167	0
Charlie Sillett	England	FB	1932–1938	191	—	191	10
Dick Neal	England	FW	1932–1937	186	—	186	19
Tom Brewis	England	FW	1932–1937	123	—	123	18
Arthur Holt	England	FW	1933–1939	222	—	222	50
Fred Tully	England	FW	1933–1937	107	—	107	10
Ted Bates	England	FW	1937–1953	217	—	217	64
George Smith	England	FB	1939–1948	102	—	102	1
Eric Webber	England	HB	1939–1951	192	—	192	0
Don Roper	England	FW	1946–1947 1956–1959	133	—	133	42
Bill Ellerington	England	FB	1946–1956	237	—	237	11
Bill Rochford	England	DF	1946–1950	134	—	134	0
Eric Day	England	FW	1946–1957	422	—	422	158
Joe Mallett	England	HB	1947–1953	223	—	223	3
Stan Clements	England	HB	1947–1954	120	—	120	1
George Curtis	England	FW	1947–1951	183	—	183	12
Charlie Wayman	England	FW	1947–1950	107	—	107	77
Ian Black	Scotland	GK	1948–1950	104	—	104	0
Len Wilkins	England	HB	1948–1958	275	—	275	0
Bryn Elliott	England	HB	1950–1958	251	—	251	2
John Christie	Scotland	GK	1951–1959	217	—	217	0
Pat Parker	England	HB	1951–1959	145	—	145	0
Fred Kiernan	Ireland	GK	1951–1956	136	—	136	0
Johnny Walker	Scotland	FW	1952–1957	186	—	186	52
Tommy Traynor	Republic of Ireland	FB	1952–1965	487	0	487	8
John Page	England	HB	1952–1961	216	—	216	25
John Hoskins	England	FW	1952–1959	238	—	238	67
John Flood	Scotland	FW	1953–1958	129	—	129	29
Bobby McLaughlin	England	HB	1953–1959	178	—	178	5
Tommy Mulgrew	Scotland	FW	1954–1962	330	—	330	100
Derek Reeves	England	FW	1955–1962	311	—	311	173
Terry Paine	England	FW	1957–1974	812	4	816	187
John Sydenham	England	MF	1957–1970	401	1	402	40
Brian Clifton	England	FW	1957–1962	123	—	123	36
Ron Davies	Wales	FB	1958–1964	192	—	192	0
Tony Godfrey	England	GK	1958–1965	149	0	149	0
Cliff Huxford	England	MF	1959–1967	317	3	320	4
George O'Brien	Scotland	FW	1959–1965	281	—	281	180
Ron Reynolds	England	GK	1960–1963	111	—	111	0
Tony Knapp	England	DF	1961–1967	260	0	260	2
Ken Wimshurst	England	MF	1961–1967	167	4	171	12
Martin Chivers	England	FW	1962–1968	189	1	190	106
Stuart Williams	Wales	DF	1962–1966	165	2	167	3
Denis Hollywood	England	DF	1962–1972	266	1	267	4
Jimmy Melia	England	MF	1964–1968	152	3	155	12
Tony Byrne	Republic of Ireland	DF	1965–1974	101	13	114	3
Dave Walker	England	DF	1965–1973	223	8	241	1
Mick Channon	England	FW	1966–1977 1979–1982	602	5	607	228
Ron Davies	Wales	FW	1966–1973	277	4	281	153
Hugh Fisher	Scotland	MF	1967–1976	188	47	235	76
Eric Martin	Scotland	GK	1967–1975	289	1	290	0
Jimmy Gabriel	Scotland	MF	1967–1972	223	1	224	27
Bob McCarthy	England	DF	1967–1975	137	0	137	2
Joe Kirkup	England	DF	1968–1973	192	1	193	4
John McGrath	England	DF	1968–1973	194	1	195	2
Bobby Stokes	England	FW	1969–1977	238	26	264	55
Brian O'Neil	England	MF	1970–1974	171	2	173	19
Jim Steele	Scotland	DF	1972–1977	200	1	201	2
Paul Gilchrist	England	FW	1972–1976	120	13	133	22
Paul Bennett	England	DF	1972–1976	137	0	137	2
David Peach	England	DF	1974–1980	278	4	282	44
Nick Holmes	England	MF	1974–1987	535	8	542	64
Peter Osgood	England	FW	1974–1977	157	4	161	36
Ian Turner	England	GK	1974–1978	107	0	107	0
Mel Blyth	England	DF	1974–1977	135	0	135	7
Manny Andruszewski	England	DF	1975–1980	98	2	100	3
Malcolm Waldron	England	DF	1975–1983	217	1	218	11
Steve Williams	England	MF	1976–1984	346	3	349	27
Ted MacDougall	England	FW	1976–1978	105	0	105	48
Peter Wells	England	GK	1976–1982	160	0	160	0
Alan Ball	England	MF	1976–1980 1981–1982	234	0	234	13
Trevor Hebberd	England	MF	1977–1982	82	31	113	11
Phil Boyer	England	FW	1977–1980	162	0	162	61
Chris Nicholl	Northern Ireland	DF	1977–1983	268	0	268	9
Graham Baker	England	MF	1977–1982 1987–1989	191	8	199	36
Ivan Golac	Yugoslavia	DF	1978–1982 1983–1985	196	1	197	4
Steve Moran	England	FW	1980–1986	217	12	229	99
Reuben Agboola	Nigeria	DF	1980–1985	111	1	112	0
Danny Wallace	England	FW	1980–1989	299	18	317	79
David Puckett	England	FW	1981–1986	59	52	111	16
Steve Baker	England	DF	1981–1988	89	13	102	0
David Armstrong	England	MF	1981–1987	272	0	272	71
George Lawrence	England	MF	1981–1987	83	21	104	15
Mark Wright	England	DF	1982–1987	222	0	222	11
Peter Shilton	England	GK	1982–1987	242	0	242	0
Mick Mills	England	DF	1982–1985	123	0	123	3
Mark Dennis	England	DF	1983–1987	129	0	129	2
Kevin Bond	England	DF	1984–1988	173	1	174	6
Jimmy Case	England	MF	1985–1991	269	3	272	14
Andy Townsend	England	MF	1985–1988	89	12	101	5
Glenn Cockerill	England	MF	1985–1993	340	18	358	39
Gerry Forrest	England	DF	1985–1989	131	3	134	1
Matt Le Tissier	England	MF	1986–2002	462	78	540	209
Tim Flowers	England	GK	1986–1993	251	0	251	0
Kevin Moore	England	DF	1987–1994	180	5	185	13
Rod Wallace	England	FW	1987–1991	132	19	151	56
Alan Shearer	England	FW	1988–1992	140	18	158	43
Russell Osman	England	DF	1988–1991	120	4	124	6
Francis Benali	England	DF	1988–2003	321	48	359	1
Neil Maddison	England	MF	1988–1997	167	30	197	19
Neil Ruddock	England	DF	1989–1992	130	8	138	13
Micky Adams	England	DF	1989–1994	171	3	174	7
Barry Horne	Wales	MF	1989–1992	148	3	151	13
Jason Dodd	England	DF	1989–2004	453	30	483	13
Jeff Kenna	Republic of Ireland	DF	1991–1995	126	5	131	4
Richard Hall	England	DF	1991–1996	148	8	156	14
Iain Dowie	Northern Ireland	FW	1991–1995	133	10	143	32
Ken Monkou	Netherlands	DF	1992–1999	224	9	233	13
Simon Charlton	England	DF	1993–1997	121	15	136	3
Dave Beasant	England	GK	1993–1996	103	2	105	0
Jim Magilton	Northern Ireland	MF	1994–1997	148	8	156	18
Matt Oakley	England	MF	1995–2006	282	28	310	20
Claus Lundekvam	Norway	DF	1996–2007	403	10	413	2
Egil Østenstad	Norway	FW	1996–1999	92	17	109	33
Kevin Davies	England	FW	1997–1998 1999–2003	89	36	125	25
Paul Jones	Wales	GK	1997–2003	220	3	223	0
James Beattie	England	FW	1998–2004	188	47	235	76
Wayne Bridge	England	DF	1998–2003	161	13	174	2
Chris Marsden	England	MF	1999–2003	137	15	152	8
Marians Pahars	Latvia	FW	1999–2006	127	29	156	45
Jo Tessem	Norway	MF	1999–2004	78	51	129	16
Rory Delap	Republic of Ireland	MF	2001–2006	135	17	152	5
Anders Svensson	Sweden	MF	2001–2005	116	31	147	13
Paul Telfer	Scotland	DF	2001–2005	129	19	148	1
Brett Ormerod	England	FW	2001–2006	74	42	116	19
Fabrice Fernandes	France	MF	2001–2005	88	18	106	6
Antti Niemi	Finland	GK	2002–2006	123	0	123	0
Danny Higginbotham	Gibraltar	DF	2003–2006	96	10	106	4
Andrew Surman	England	MF	2006–2009	128	18	146	18
Jermaine Wright	England	MF	2006–2008	95	5	100	1
Kelvin Davis	England	GK	2006–2016	299	2	301	0
Bradley Wright-Phillips	England	FW	2006–2009	66	55	121	25
Adam Lallana	England	MF	244	30	274	60
Morgan Schneiderlin	France	MF	2008–2015	228	33	261	15
Jack Cork	England	MF	2008 2011–2015	129	24	153	3
Dan Harding	England	DF	2009–2012	110	11	121	5
Rickie Lambert	England	FW	2009–2014	219	16	235	117
Dean Hammond	England	MF	2009–2013	130	15	145	11
José Fonte	Portugal	DF	2010–2017	283	5	288	15
Guly do Prado	Brazil	FW	2010–2014	80	38	118	23
James Ward-Prowse	England	MF	2011–2023	323	87	410	55
Jack Stephens	England	DF	2012–	167	21	188	6
Nathaniel Clyne	England	DF	2012–2015	99	5	104	5
Steven Davis	Northern Ireland	MF	2012–2018	185	41	226	14
Jay Rodriguez	England	FW	2012–2017	81	45	126	35
Maya Yoshida	Japan	DF	2012–2020	172	22	194	9
Ryan Bertrand	England	DF	2014–2021	237	3	240	8
Fraser Forster	England	GK	2014–2022	162	0	162	0
Shane Long	Republic of Ireland	FW	2014–2022	124	121	245	36
Dušan Tadić	Serbia	MF	2014–2018	134	28	162	23
Cédric Soares	Portugal	DF	2015–2020	133	5	138	3
Oriol Romeu	Spain	MF	2015–2022	216	40	256	9
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg	Denmark	MF	2016–2020	114	20	134	5
Nathan Redmond	England	MF	2016–2022	181	51	232	30
Alex McCarthy	England	GK	2016–	150	0	150	0
Jan Bednarek	Poland	DF	2017–	225	7	232	9
Stuart Armstrong	Scotland	MF	2018–2024	143	71	214	25
Danny Ings	England	FW	2018–2021	89	11	100	46
Ché Adams	Scotland	FW	2019–2024	126	65	191	49
Kyle Walker-Peters	England	DF	2020–	165	11	176	6
Adam Armstrong	England	FW	2021–	96	33	129	31

References

• Chalk, Gary; Holley, Duncan (August 1987), Saints: A Complete Record of Southampton Football Club 1885–1987, Breedon Books, ISBN 978-0907969228
• Chalk, Gary; Holley, Duncan (2003), In That Number: A Post-War Chronicle of Southampton FC, Hagiology Publishing, ISBN 0-953447-43-X
• Chalk, Gary; Holley, Duncan; Bull, David (November 2013), All the Saints: A Complete Players' Who's Who of Southampton FC, Hagiology Publishing, ISBN 978-0992686406

External links

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