Portsmouth F.C.
Portsmouth Football Club is an English professional association football club in Portsmouth, Hampshire. The club currently compete in EFL League One, the third tier of the English football league system. The club was founded on 5 April 1898 and home matches are played at Fratton Park. Portsmouth F.C. are also known as Pompey, a local nickname for both the city of Portsmouth and HMNB Portsmouth; the nickname predates the football club.Portsmouth have been top tier League Champions of England twice; in the consecutive 1948–49 and 1949–50 seasons. Portsmouth were only the sixth-ever English football club to achieve consecutive English league champion titles. Portsmouth's two English league champion titles were also the first to be consecutively won after World War II. Portsmouth have won the FA Cup twice; in 1939 and 2008, the FA Charity Shield once in 1949 and the EFL Trophy once in 2019. They have also won the second tier title once in 2002–03, the third tier three times in 1923–24 (South), 1961–62, 1982–83 and the fourth tier once in 2016–17. Portsmouth are only the fifth English football club to have won all four tiers of current English professional football. In addition, Portsmouth are also one of only two English football clubs (along with Wolverhampton Wanderers) to have been champions of five professional divisions including the former regional Football League Third Division South championship in the 1923–24 season. Before their election into the Football League in 1920, Portsmouth were champions of the regional Southern Football League in 1901–02 and 1919–20, and the Western Football.
English football club
association football club