Southampton F.C.

Southampton Football Club is a professional football club based in Southampton, Hampshire, England. The club currently competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football, but will compete in the EFL Championship in the 2025–26 season following relegation. Its home ground since 2001 has been St Mary's Stadium, before which it was based at The Dell. The team play in red and white shirts. They have been nicknamed "The Saints" because of the club's beginnings as a church football team at St Mary's Church. Southampton shares a long-standing South Coast derby rivalry with Portsmouth, in part due to geographic proximity and both cities' respective maritime histories.