2007–08 Southampton F.C. season

Southampton

2007–08 season
Chairman	Ken Dulieu (until 17 December) Leon Crouch (from 20 December)
Manager	George Burley (until 23 January) John Gorman (24 January - 19 February) Nigel Pearson (from 19 February)
Stadium	St Mary's Stadium
Championship	20th
FA Cup	Fifth round
League Cup	First round
Top goalscorer	John (19)
Average home league attendance	21,081
← 2006–07 2008–09 →

During the 2007–08 English football season, Southampton F.C. competed in the Football League Championship.

Season summary

In the 2007-08 season, the Saints initially had an unremarkable campaign, with the club in mid-table for the first half of the campaign. Once again though, Southampton experienced a major loss of form in the spring, not helped by managerial instability caused by the resignation of George Burley followed by caretaker spells by John Gorman and then Nigel Pearson, and were left in serious danger of relegation to League One on the last day of the season. Fortunately a win combined with some other favourable results ensured their survival for another season in the Championship.^[1]

Final league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	West Bromwich Albion (C) (P)	46	23	12	11	88	55	+33	81	Promotion to Premier League
2	Stoke City (P)	46	21	16	9	69	55	+14	79
3	Hull City (P)	46	21	12	13	65	47	+18	75	Qualification to League Championship playoffs
4	Bristol City	46	20	14	12	54	53	+1	74
5	Crystal Palace	46	18	17	11	58	42	+16	71
6	Watford	46	18	16	12	62	56	+6	70
7	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	18	16	12	53	48	+5	70
8	Ipswich Town	46	18	15	13	65	56	+9	69
9	Sheffield United	46	17	15	14	56	51	+5	66
10	Plymouth Argyle	46	17	13	16	60	50	+10	64
11	Charlton Athletic	46	17	13	16	63	58	+5	64
12	Cardiff City	46	16	16	14	59	55	+4	64
13	Burnley	46	16	14	16	60	67	−7	62
14	Queens Park Rangers	46	14	16	16	60	66	−6	58
15	Preston North End	46	15	11	20	50	56	−6	56
16	Sheffield Wednesday	46	14	13	19	54	55	−1	55
17	Norwich City	46	15	10	21	49	59	−10	55
18	Barnsley	46	14	13	19	52	65	−13	55
19	Blackpool	46	12	18	16	59	64	−5	54
20	Southampton	46	13	15	18	56	72	−16	54
21	Coventry City	46	14	11	21	52	64	−12	53
22	Leicester City (R)	46	12	16	18	42	45	−3	52	Relegation to League One
23	Scunthorpe United (R)	46	11	13	22	46	69	−23	46
24	Colchester United (R)	46	7	17	22	62	86	−24	38

Updated to games played on 4 May 2008.
Source: The Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Southampton's score comes first^[2]

Legend

Win

Draw

Loss

Football League Championship

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
11 August 2007	Crystal Palace	H	1-4	25,054	Saganowski
18 August 2007	Norwich City	A	1-2	24,004	Jones
25 August 2007	Stoke City	H	3-2	20,300	Surman, Rasiak, Viáfara
1 September 2007	Queens Park Rangers	A	3-0	15,560	Rasiak (2), Wright-Phillips
16 September 2007	Watford	A	2-3	15,915	Rasiak, Dyer
19 September 2007	Colchester United	H	1-1	18,773	Wright-Phillips
22 September 2007	Barnsley	H	2-3	18,677	Saganowski, Idiakez
29 September 2007	Sheffield United	A	2-1	24,561	Rasiak, Viáfara
2 October 2007	Preston North End	A	1-5	10,279	Jones (own goal)
6 October 2007	West Bromwich Albion	H	3-2	18,002	John (2), Skácel
21 October 2007	Cardiff City	H	1-0	20,796	John
24 October 2007	Bristol City	A	1-2	18,326	McAllister (own goal)
27 October 2007	Burnley	A	3-2	10,944	Wright-Phillips, Euell, John
3 November 2007	Charlton Athletic	H	0-1	23,363
6 November 2007	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	0-0	19,856
10 November 2007	Sheffield Wednesday	A	0-5	19,442
24 November 2007	Blackpool	H	1-0	21,075	John
27 November 2007	Ipswich Town	A	0-2	19,791
1 December 2007	Leicester City	A	2-1	20,070	John, Surman (pen)
4 December 2007	Sheffield Wednesday	H	0-0	17,981
8 December 2007	Hull City	H	4-0	18,125	Wright-Phillips, John (3)
15 December 2007	Coventry City	A	1-1	19,143	Wright-Phillips
22 December 2007	Preston North End	H	0-1	23,267
26 December 2007	Colchester United	A	1-1	6,157	Viáfara
29 December 2007	Barnsley	A	2-2	10,425	Wright-Phillips (2)
1 January 2008	Watford	H	0-3	23,008
12 January 2008	Scunthorpe United	H	1-0	18,416	Rasiak
19 January 2008	Plymouth Argyle	A	1-1	14,676	Wright-Phillips
29 January 2008	Norwich City	H	0-1	18,004
2 February 2008	Crystal Palace	A	1-1	17,967	John
9 February 2008	Queens Park Rangers	H	2-3	22,205	Powell, John
12 February 2008	Stoke City	A	2-3	19,481	John (2)
19 February 2008	Plymouth Argyle	H	0-2	17,806
23 February 2008	Scunthorpe United	A	1-1	6,035	Vignal
1 March 2008	Ipswich Town	H	1-1	23,299	John
4 March 2008	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	2-2	21,795	Vignal (pen), Euell
8 March 2008	Blackpool	A	2-2	9,050	Vignal, John
11 March 2008	Leicester City	H	1-0	17,741	John
15 March 2008	Hull City	A	0-5	16,829
22 March 2008	Coventry City	H	0-0	22,014
29 March 2008	Cardiff City	A	0-1	12,955
5 April 2008	Bristol City	H	2-0	22,890	John, Euell
12 April 2008	Charlton Athletic	A	1-1	26,206	McCarthy (own goal)
19 April 2008	Burnley	H	0-1	21,762
28 April 2008	West Bromwich Albion	A	1-1	26,167	Lallana
4 May 2008	Sheffield United	H	3-2	31,957	Saganowski, John (2)

FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	5 January 2008	Leicester City	H	2-0	20,094	Surman, Vignal
R4	26 January 2008	Bury	H	2-0	25,449	Surman, Rasiak
R5	16 February 2008	Bristol Rovers	A	0-1	11,920

League Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R1	13 August 2007	Peterborough United	A	1-2	4,087	Rasiak

Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Richard Wright (on loan from West Ham United) 2 DF Alexander Östlund 3 DF Wayne Thomas 4 FW Marek Saganowski 6 DF Darren Powell 8 FW Bradley Wright-Phillips 10 MF Jermaine Wright 11 MF Andrew Surman 12 MF Mario Lička 13 GK Bartosz Białkowski 14 MF Adam Hammill (on loan from Liverpool) 15 FW Jason Euell 16 MF Jhon Viáfara 17 FW David McGoldrick 18 FW Nathan Dyer 20 FW Adam Lallana

No. Position Player 21 DF Grégory Vignal (on loan from RC Lens) 22 MF Simon Gillett 23 MF Lloyd James 24 DF Olly Lancashire 25 GK Kelvin Davis 26 FW Cédric Baseya 27 MF Iñigo Idiakez 28 MF Josh Dutton-Black 29 GK Michael Poke 30 MF Youssef Safri 31 FW Stern John 32 GK Andrej Pernecký 34 FW Vincent Péricard (on loan from Stoke City) 35 DF Andrew Davies 36 DF Chris Perry (on loan from Luton Town) 37 DF Chris Lucketti (on loan from Sheffield United)

Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 15 FW Kenwyne Jones (to Sunderland) 33 DF Christian Dailly (on loan from West Ham United) 34 DF Philip Ifil (on loan from Tottenham Hotspur) 32 DF Lucien Mettomo (to Veria) 29 DF Alan Bennett (on loan from Reading) 9 FW Grzegorz Rasiak (on loan to Bolton Wanderers)

No. Position Player 7 MF Rudolf Skácel (on loan to Hertha BSC) 29 DF Stephen O'Halloran (on loan from Aston Villa) 5 DF Claus Lundekvam (Retired) 33 DF Ian Pearce (on loan from Fulham) 19 DF Chris Makin (Retired)

References

1. "Southampton 3-2 Sheff Utd". BBC Sport. 4 May 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
2. "Southampton results for the 2007-2008 season". Statto.com. Retrieved 2016-10-21.