South Coast derby
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| Locale | Hampshire |
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| Teams |
Portsmouth Southampton |
| First meeting | Portsmouth 2 Southampton 0 (6 Sept 1899) |
| Latest meeting | Southampton 2 Portsmouth 2 (7 April 2012) |
| Statistics | |
| Meetings total | "First class": 70 All matches: 139 |
| Most wins | "First class": Southampton (34) All matches: Portsmouth (62) |
| Largest victory | Southampton 5 Portsmouth 1 (FA Cup, 13 Jan 1906) Southampton 5 Portsmouth 1 (11 Sept 1920) Southampton 5 Portsmouth 1 (27 Aug 1960) Southampton 4 Portsmouth 0 (17 April 1975) |
The South Coast Derby or the Hampshire Derby are terms used to describe football matches played between Portsmouth Football Club and Southampton Football Club.
Portsmouth play their home games at Fratton Park, while Southampton play theirs at St. Mary's Stadium. The two clubs are the most successful on the southern coast of England, and lie only 19 miles apart. However, because the two clubs have often been in different leagues, they seldom play each other as compared to the North London derby and North West derby which have been contested over a hundred times.
Portsmouth are statistically the more successful of the two clubs with two old Division 1 (now the Premier League) titles, being champions of England in 1948–49 and 1949–50, as well as two FA Cups in 1939 and 2008 compared to Southampton's solitary FA Cup success in 1976; despite this, Southampton have won more competitive matches between the two teams, and have been more regularly in a higher league than Portsmouth, including their 27 consecutive years in the top flight of English football.
Southampton currently play in the Premier League. Portsmouth currently play in League Two.
Southampton were originally formed in 1885 as St. Mary's Young Men's Association F.C., before adopting the name Southampton St. Mary's when the club joined the Southern League in 1894. After they won the Southern League title in 1896–97, the club became a limited company and changed their name to Southampton F.C. Portsmouth was founded in April 1898 and joined the Southern League in 1899.
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