During the 2006–07 English football season, Southampton F.C.

Southampton F.C.

Southampton Football Club is an English football team, nicknamed The Saints, based in the city of Southampton, Hampshire. The club gained promotion to the Championship from League One in the 2010–2011 season after being relegated in 2009. Their home ground is the St Mary's Stadium, where the club...

 competed in the Football League Championship

Football League Championship

The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...

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Season summary

Southampton improved in their second consecutive season in the Championship, although their overall form was inconsistent and they were soon out of the race for automatic promotion. Their inconsistency threatened to put them out of the play-off picture too, but eventually Southampton scraped to sixth position in the final table. Southampton were drawn against manager George Burley

George Burley

George Elder Burley is a Scottish football manager and former player and manager, formerly the manager of Crystal Palace Football Club. Burley had a professional career spanning 21 years as a player making 628 appearances and earning 11 Scotland caps...

's old club , who managed to defeat Southampton 4–3 in a penalty shootout after a 4–4 aggregate draw over two legs.

Kit

The season's kit was manufactured by the club's own brand, Saints; a new kit was introduced for the season. The kit was sponsored by English life insurance company Friends Provident

Friends Provident

Friends Provident was an organisation offering life insurance based in the United Kingdom. It was founded as a mutual Friendly Society for Quakers, although it was demutualised in 2001 and became a publicly listed company, no longer linked with the Religious Society of Friends...

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Squad

Squad at end of season

Left club during season

Starting 11

Considering starts in all competitions

• GK: #1,   Kelvin Davis
  Kelvin Davis
  Kelvin Geoffrey Davis is an English footballer who currently plays as a goalkeeper for newly-promoted Championship club Southampton. Born in Bedford, Davis began his career with Luton Town as a youth player in 1991 and remained there until 1999. Davis later played for Wimbledon, Ipswich Town and...
  
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• RB: #21,   Chris Baird
  Chris Baird
  Christopher Patrick "Chris" Baird is a Northern Irish footballer who plays for Fulham and the Northern Ireland national football team.-Southampton:...
  
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• CB: #5,   Claus Lundekvam
  Claus Lundekvam
  Claus Lundekvam is a former Norwegian footballer, who spent most of his career at English side Southampton. He played for Southampton in the 2003 FA Cup Final against Arsenal .-Playing career:...
  
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• CB: #3,   Pelé, 39
• LB: #22,   Gareth Bale
  Gareth Bale
  Gareth Frank Bale is a Welsh footballer who plays for English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Wales national team. Bale began his professional career with Southampton in 2005 and was transferred to Tottenham two years later...
  
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• RM: #7,   Rudi Skácel
  Rudolf Skácel
  Rudolf "Rudi" Skácel is a professional footballer who has been capped at international level by the Czech Republic and currently plays for Heart of Midlothian in the Scottish Premier League...
  
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• CM: #23,   Jhon Viafara, 33
• CM: #10,   Jermaine Wright
  Jermaine Wright
  Jermaine Malaki Wright is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder and can also operate as a defender.-Football career:...
  
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• LM: #29,   Andrew Surman
  Andrew Surman
  Andrew Ronald Edward Surman is a South African-born English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Norwich City. He spent the first five years of his career with Southampton where he played more than 100 games and has also played for Wolverhampton Wanderers and loan spells at Walsall and...
  
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• CF: #9,   Grzegorz Rasiak
  Grzegorz Rasiak
  Grzegorz Rasiak born 12 January 1979 in Szczecin, is a Polish international footballer who last played for AEL Limassol in Cyprus. Since 2002, he has played for the Poland national team....
  
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• CF: #15,   Kenwyne Jones
  Kenwyne Jones
  Kenwyne Joel Jones is a Trinidadian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Stoke City and the Trinidad and Tobago national team. He previously played for Sunderland, Southampton, Stoke City, Sheffield Wednesday, W Connection and Joe Public.He began his football...
  
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