🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most games in charge for overseas managers 🔴🔝🔴
#1: Ralph Hasenhuttl (Austria, 174 games)
A proponent of gegenpressing, he steered us to Premier League safety in his 1st season in 2019. His zenith came when we briefly topped the Premier League table in November 2021.
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🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most games in charge for overseas managers 🔴🔝🔴
#2: Ronald Koeman (Netherlands, 91 games)
Made some quality signings - such as Pelle, Tadic, Mane - and led us to 6th place in the Premier League in 2015-16, our best finish since 1985. Then left us for 11th-place Everton.
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⚪️⚫️ Swansea 1-2 Southampton stats review ⚫️⚪️
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- Shea Charles became the 9th Northern Irishman to score at least 5 goals for the club.
- This was our 6th 2-1 win in the league this season; the only previous EFL seasons where we’ve had as many 2-1s are 1928-29 (6) and 2023-24 (8).
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⚪️⚫️ Swansea 1-2 Southampton stats review ⚫️⚪️
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- That’s 7 league wins in a row for us for the 1st time since 2011, and only the 2nd time ever in the Football League.
- Now unbeaten in our last 8 games vs Swansea (W6, D2).
- This was our 40th ever win over the Swans.
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#3: Mauricio Pochettino (Argentina, 60 games)
Fans were wary when we sacked club legend Nigel Adkins. But Poch showed it to be an inspired decision, as he ensured Premier League safety in 2013 and then 8th place in 2014.
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So Saints and Macclesfield both still have more wins over Premier League teams in 2026 than Spurs.
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#4: Claude Puel (France, 53 games)
In charge for just 1 season, 2016-17, when we finished 8th and reached the League Cup final. But we ended the year very poorly, scoring in just 2 of our final 8 games, and Puel was sacked.
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#5: Mauricio Pellegrino (Argentina, 34 games)
After Pochettino, the club seemed to conclude that all Argentines called Mauricio must be top managers. But Pellegrino proved them wrong, winning just 5 of his 30 league games.
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🔴🟡 Southampton 3-0 Blackburn stats review 🟡🔴
(2/2)
- Ryan Manning’s goal came in his 100th league game for us.
- This is the 19th season in the Football League where we’ve got 20 or more league wins.
- That’s 7 straight wins (all comps), 6 straight league wins, 6 straight home wins.
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🔴🟡 Southampton 3-0 Blackburn stats review 🟡🔴
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- Now conceded only 10 goals in our last 15 league games, scoring 34.
- Have lost only once in our last 22 home games to Blackburn, a run stretching back to 1948.
- Cyle Larin’s goal was our 8,600th ever scored in all competitions.
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After what we endured last season and the beginning of this one, we all deserve to thoroughly enjoy how well the team is playing right now.
Great to see Cameron Archer have such a good game tonight as well.
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🔴🔵 Southampton 2-1 Derby stats review 🔵🔴
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- Derby’s goal was the 99th we’ve conceded to them in the Football League.
- Sam Edozie became the 287th man to reach 75 appearances for the club.
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🔴🔵 Southampton 2-1 Derby stats review 🔵🔴
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- That’s 5 straight league wins - 1st time we’ve done that since August 2011.
- And 6 straight wins in all competitions - 1st time we’ve done that since September 2014.
- We’ve now lost only 1 of our last 11 games vs the Rams (W4, D6).
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#6=: Jan Poortvliet (Netherlands, 32 games)
Played left-back in the 1978 World Cup final, but nowhere near as effective an operator as a manager. Sacked in Jan 2009 with the club on a downwards trajectory towards League 1.
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#6=: Tonda Eckert (Germany, 32 games)
Replaced Will Still, and improved results simply by playing players in their best positions, where everyone knows what to do. Can he lead us back to the Premier League’s VAR utopia?
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#8=: Ruben Selles (Spain, 18 games)
Took over after Nathan Jones’s disasterclass, but did no better. Then managed Reading and Hull. Sacked twice this season alone, by Sheff U and R.Zaragoza. Clearly has a phenomenal agent.
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Hmm, last weekend’s win in the cup isn’t looking like such an amazing result any more… In retrospect, it was a home banker.
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🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most games in charge for overseas managers 🔴🔝🔴
#8=: Mark Wotte (Netherlands, 18 games)
Appointed mid-way through the 2008-09 season, but couldn’t stop us sliding into League 1. Also managed Willem II, Al Ahli in Doha, Univ. Craiova and Syria U23s during a varied career.
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🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most games in charge for overseas managers 🔴🔝🔴
#10: Ivan Juric (Croatia, 16 games)
The less said the better. Earned just 2 wins and 1 draw from his disastrous tenure. Has also managed Genoa, Torino, Roma and Atalanta.
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🔴🟡 Wrexham 1-5 Southampton stats review 🟡🔴
(3/3)
- Tonda Eckert has become the 24th Saints manager to earn 20 wins.
- Tonda currently has the highest win percentage of any Saints manager in charge for at least 30 games (64.5% of games won in all competitions vs Nigel Adkins’s 54.0%).
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🔴🟡 Wrexham 1-5 Southampton stats review 🟡🔴
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- Prior to the game, only 10 different Saints players had scored goals vs Wrexham; now it’s 15.
- This was our 200th ever away win in the 2nd tier (51 in the Championship, 149 in the old 2nd Division).
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🔴🟡 Wrexham 1-5 Southampton stats review 🟡🔴
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- Our unbeaten run is now 16 games - the equal 5th longest unbeaten run in our history.
- Was only our 9th ever 5-1 away win, but our 2nd this season (after the win at Charlton).
- We’ve now earned 200 away points in the Championship.
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What a week we’re having! Unbelievable stuff from Tonda and the lads. Just brilliant.
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🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - highest league finishes 🔴🔝🔴
#1: 2nd in Division 1, 1983-84 season
So, so close to glory. Frank Worthington arrived to add flair to the team. But a run of earning only 1 pt from 5 away games in the autumn ultimately cost us, as Liverpool pipped us to the title by 3 pts.
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🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - highest league finishes 🔴🔝🔴
#2: 5th in Division 1, 1984-85 season
Saints added powerful striker Joe Jordan to an already strong squad. Superb on their day, but a couple of patches of shaky form during the season put paid to a tilt at the title.
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Well that was absolutely bloody brilliant! And we totally deserved that - beat them fair and square.
I also immensely enjoyed Ben White’s complete disasterclass of a performance.
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Ross Stewart you beauty!!!
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - highest league finishes 🔴🔝🔴
#3=: 6th in Premier League, 2015-16 season
This is the only time in our history where we’ve finished a season higher up in the pyramid than Liverpool, who were 8th. We also earned our highest ever Premier League points tally (63).
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🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - highest league finishes 🔴🔝🔴
#3=: 6th in Division 1, 1980-81 season
This was the final season with 2pts for a win. Had 3 pts been introduced a year sooner, we’d have finished 1980-81 in 5th place. Mick Channon and Chris Nicholl both played in all 42 league games for us.
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🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - highest league finishes 🔴🔝🔴
#5=: 7th in Division 1, 1989-90 season
Only champions Liverpool (78) scored more goals this season than Chris Nicholl’s side (71). Youngsters Matthew Le Tissier (with 20) and Rodney Wallace (18) led the goalscoring charts for Saints.
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