2005–06 Portsmouth F.C. season

During the 2005–06 season, Portsmouth competed in the FA Premier League. It was Portsmouth's third consecutive season in English football's top-flight.

Season summary
Manager Alain Perrin was sacked in November with Portsmouth struggling in the relegation zone. Joe Jordan was appointed caretaker manager after the sacking of Perrin. He was replaced by Harry Redknapp, who had walked out of arch-rivals Southampton after being refused permission by the club to talk to Portsmouth about the managerial vacancy. For a while it looked as if Redknapp's efforts were in vain, with Portsmouth eight points adrift of safety at the end of February. However, by the end of March that had been cut to just three (with a game in hand over seventeenth-placed West Bromwich Albion) and eventually Portsmouth managed to secure survival with a 2–1 win at Wigan Athletic to send West Brom and Birmingham City down.

Kit
Portsmouth signed a deal with Jako to produce the club's kit. Oki became the kit sponsors. The strip was manufactured by Pompey Sport, but after the kit deal with Jako, they were rebadged with its logo. The home shirt was atypical for Portsmouth, as it had a large white space under the collar on the rear where players' names were printed. The away was red and gold, whilst the third was white and navy. The white strip was only worn three times, away at Manchester United, Aston Villa and West Ham United respectively.

Results
Portsmouth's score comes first

Starting 11

 * Considering starts in all competitions


 * GK: #15, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jamie Ashdown, 18
 * RB: #2, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Linvoy Primus, 21
 * CB: #5, 🇮🇪 Andy O'Brien, 32
 * CB: #3, Dejan Stefanović, 30
 * LB: #6, Brian Priske, 28
 * RM: #26, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Gary O'Neil, 39
 * CM: #22, Richard Hughes, 24
 * CM: #28, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sean Davis, 17
 * LM: #14, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Matthew Taylor, 35
 * CF: #25, Benjani Mwaruwari, 16
 * CF: #32, 🇨🇩, Lomana LuaLua, 25

In

 * 🇮🇪 Andy O'Brien - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Newcastle United, £2,000,000, 13 June
 * 🇫🇷 Laurent Robert - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Newcastle United, undisclosed, 19 June
 * 🇨🇴 Jhon Viáfara - 🇨🇴 Once Caldas, £1,600,000, 7 July
 * 🇫🇷 Grégory Vignal - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Liverpool, free, 12 July
 * 🇿🇲 Collins Mbesuma - Kaizer Chiefs, undisclosed, 12 July
 * Sander Westerveld - 🇪🇸 Real Sociedad, free, 22 July
 * 🇳🇴 Azar Karadas - Benfica, loan, 22 July
 * Brian Priske - 🇧🇪 Genk, undisclosed, 22 August
 * Zvonimir Vukić - 🇺🇦 Shakhtar Donetsk, undisclosed, 29 August
 * Darío Silva - 🇪🇸 Sevilla FC, free, 31 August
 * 🇨🇲 Franck Songo'o - 🇪🇸 Barcelona, £205,000, 31 August
 * 🇸🇳 Salif Diao - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Liverpool, season loan, 31 August
 * 🇵🇱 Emmanuel Olisadebe - Panathinaikos, undisclosed, 4 January
 * Benjani Mwaruwari - 🇫🇷 Auxerre, £4,100,000, 5 January
 * 🇫🇷 Noé Pamarot, Pedro Mendes, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sean Davis -  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tottenham Hotspur, £7,500,000 combined, 12 January
 * 🇮🇪 Dean Kiely - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Charlton Athletic, undisclosed, 25 January
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Wayne Routledge - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tottenham Hotspur, season loan, 30 January
 * Ognjen Koroman - 🇷🇺 Terek Grozny, loan, 30 January
 * 🇦🇷 Andrés D'Alessandro - 🇩🇪 VfL Wolfsburg, season loan, 31 January

Out

 * 🇨🇿 Patrik Berger - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Aston Villa, free, 17 May
 * 🇳🇬 Yakubu - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Middlesbrough, £7,500,000, 23 May
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Richard Duffy - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Coventry City, season loan, 7 June
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Rowan Vine - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luton Town, £250,000, 4 July
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Steve Stone - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Leeds United, free, 29 June
 * 🇸🇳 Diomansy Kamara - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 West Bromwich Albion, £1,500,000, 26 July
 * 🇯🇲 Ricardo Fuller - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Southampton, £90,000 (rising to £340,000 if Southampton gain promotion), 28 July
 * Shaka Hislop - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 West Ham United, free, 29 July
 * Arjan de Zeeuw - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Wigan Athletic, £90,000, 11 August
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 David Unsworth - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sheffield United, free, 22 August
 * Kostas Chalkias - released (later joined 🇪🇸 Real Murcia), 19 January
 * Darío Silva - released, 13 February
 * Sander Westerveld - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Everton, 28-day loan, 24 February
 * 🇨🇴 Jhon Viáfara - 🇪🇸 Real Sociedad, loan, January
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 James Keene - 🇸🇪 GAIS, loan, March
 * 🇦🇺 Hayden Foxe - released
 * Aleksander Rodić - 🇹🇷 Kayserispor, loan
 * Giannis Skopelitis - Egaleo, loan
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Gary Silk - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Boston United
 * Transfers in: £16,250,000
 * Transfers out: £9,450,000
 * Total spending: £6,800,000