Portsmouth F.C.
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Full name : Portsmouth Football Club
Nickname(s) : Pompey, The Blues
Founded : 1898
Ground : Fratton Park
(Capacity 20,688)
Chairman : Harry Redknapp
Manager : Premier League
League : Premier League

Portsmouth F.C.
--------------------------------------------------------------------    Portsmouth Football Club is an English football club based in the south coast city of Portsmouth. The club is nicknamed Pompey (also the nickname for the city) and play in the Premier League. The club is currently owned by the Franco-Russian-Israeli Alexandre Gaydamak.

Stadium - Fratton Park
--------------------------------------------------------------------    Portsmouth play their home games at Fratton Park, in Portsmouth. It is the only football stadium in the English professional leagues to be located off the British mainland. Capacity - 20,600 (all seated), Opened - 1898, Pitch size - 115 x 73 yards
   The ground has been home to the club throughout its entire history but, despite improvements, is showing signs of age. Therefore at the end of the 2003/04 season, having consolidated their Premier League status, plans to develop a new stadium on the adjacent disused rail-freight depot site were drawn up and approved.
   These plans were superseded by a new plan to redevelop, more or less on the existing site, but realigning the pitch 90 degrees to accommodate a larger capacity, ultimately 35,000, funded in part by a "Pompey Village" luxury residential project on the adjacent site. Work on the stadium was planned to start in the summer of 2006 but did not happen. By October 2006 several alternative sites for the new stadium were also being considered including the King George V playing fields site in Cosham in the north of the city.
   These plans were dropped however, when the Portsmouth Dockland Stadium project was announced on April 25, 2007. This was a proposal to build a new, and truly unique 36,000 capacity stadium on reclaimed land in the city's docklands area .
   In October 2007 the ambitious Dockyard project also had to be dropped as it was announced the dockyard would be host to 2 new AirCraft Carriers and several Type 45 Destroyer. As a result the stadium plans have been relocated to Horsea Island near Port Solent. Currently Pompey aim to be playing at their new ground from the 2011-12 season.
Supporters
--------------------------------------------------------------------    Rivalries
Prior to the mid/late 1960s, rivalry between Portsmouth and Southampton was largely nonexistent, as a consequence of their disparity in league status (Southampton being in a lower league). This derby match has hence taken place relatively infrequently as, for much of their history, the two teams have been in different divisions. Since 1977, the teams have only played league games against each other in three seasons (1987-88, 2003-04 and 2004-05). Including Southern League games, there have been 67 games between the clubs, with Portsmouth winning 20 and Southampton 34. The rivalry is infamous as one of the most unpleasant and fractious in world football - the two sets of supporters loathe each other.
   Another rivalry over the years was with Plymouth Argyle. This rivalry was known as the Dockyard Derby, Naval Derby or Battle of the Ports.

   Hooliganism
Pompey have had many problems with hooliganism over the years. The 6.57 Crew (so called as this was the time of the Portsmouth - London Waterloo Train they used on a Saturday morning) were a hooligan firm associated with the club. Several books have been published that chronicle, and arguably celebrate, the exploits of Pompey's hooligans, mainly covering the 1970s and 1980s.