1 Early years
  (1898 - 1911)
Glory years (1946 - 1959)

League football resumed for the 1946-47 campaign. In Pompey's Golden Jubilee season of 1948-49, the club were tipped to be the first team of the 20th century to win the Football League and FA Cup double. However, Pompey crashed out of the FA Cup in the semi-final against Leicester City, but made up for it by claiming the league title in spectacular fashion. That season also saw a record attendance of 51,385, a record which still stands to this day.

The 1948-49 team consisted of:

* Ernest Butler
* Phil Rookes
* Harry Ferrier
* Jimmy Scoular
* Reg Flewin
* Jimmy Dickinson
* Peter Harris
* Duggie Reid
* Ike Clarke
* Len Phillips
* Jack Froggatt
* Jasper Yeuell
* Lindy Delapenha
* Bert Barlow
* Cliff Parker

The club retained the title the following year, beating Aston Villa 5-1 on the last day of the season, and are thus one of only five English teams to have won back to back titles since World War II.

Pompey enjoyed a fourth-place finish in 1951-52, but in the summer of 1952 championship-winning manager Bob Jackson left for Hull City. The players who had featured in the club's recent successes were now ageing and the young players coming into the side were not of comparable quality. Although the team finished third in 1954-55, subsequent seasons saw Pompey struggle and they were relegated to the Second Division in 1959.

2 Climbing up the league
   (1919 - 1927)
3 Life at the top
   (1927 - 1939)
4 Glory years
   (1946 - 1959)
5 Life in the lower leagues
   (1961 - 1976)
6 Near oblivion
  (1976 - 1980)
7 Back on track
  (1980 - 1988)
8 Waiting for success
  (1988 - 2002)
9 The Premiership at last
  (2002-2004)
10 Crisis and struggle
    (2004 - 2006)
11 A change of fortunes
    (2006 - 2007)
12 Qualification for Europe
    FA Cup glory
   (2007-present)


Highlights

1902 Southern League champion
1903 Southern Charity Cup victory
1906 Hants Charity Cup victory
1920 Southern League champion
1924 Football League Third Division South
1939 FA Cup victory
1948/1949 Premier League champion
1949/1950 Premier League champion
1962 League Division Three champion
1983 League Division Three champion
1989 Premier League degradation -> degradation to Championship
2003 Championship champion -> promotion to Premier League
2006 Overtake by Russian biljonair Alexandre Gaydamak.
2007 Barclays Asia Trophy victory
2008 FA Cup victory


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