1976165438+1October Portsmouth urgently needed 25,000 pounds to repay its debts to avoid bankruptcy. Finally, the local newspaper News mobilized fans to donate money to tide over the difficulties. The team sold players to solve the financial difficulties and was forced to beat young players. The result was reduced to 1978 Group D competition. Portsmouth is back. Two years later, Group D rose to Group C, and in 1982/83, Group C won the championship and advanced to Group B. Under the leadership of Allen Bohr, he missed the promotion opportunity twice and finally returned to Class A successfully in 1986/87. Financial constraints can only keep Portsmouth in the top league for one season. The second demotion prompted Deakin to sell the team to London businessman Jim Gregory on 1988.
199192, jim smith took over as head coach. The emergence of high-quality young players has revived the team and reached the FA Cup1quarter finals, only to lose to Liverpool on penalties in the replay. The next year, he only needed one goal and handed over the upgraded Premier League seat to West Ham United. Chairman Gregory recovered the money he had lent to the team earlier, and Portsmouth sold the players again to pay off the debts. The state of the team plummeted, and Smith was dismissed by controversy on 1995 and replaced by Terry fenwick. Portsmouth beat Huddersfield on the last day of the season to avoid relegation.
Terry venables went to Plymouth as a consultant in the summer of 1996, and later acquired the team as chairman with a symbolic 1. At that time, terry venables was also the coach of the Australian national team and signed a large number of Australian players, but his performance was not satisfactory. Venables also often missed Portsmouth because of the Australian team's game, which disappointed the fans. 1997/98 is only two thirds of the season, and venables and Terry Felix both leave Portsmouth. Venables sold his shares back to Martin Gregory, the son of former chairman Jim Gregory, and Allen Bohr returned to his nest to teach. Portsmouth escaped relegation again on the last day of the season. In the new season, Portsmouth was still troubled by the fiscal deficit, and was finally liquidated at 1988 and 12. Milan Mandaric, an American Serbian businessman, bought Portsmouth in May, 1999, and invested more troops, but the team still failed to improve. Former West Ham manager Harry Redknapp took over Portsmouth in 2002, with Jim Smith as his deputy. When he arrived, he set the goal of getting promotion qualification, and finally led the Premier League as the champion of the first division.
Although many people think that Portsmouth will not fail in the Premier League, Redknapp has successfully signed a number of generals, including veterans Sheringham, todorov, Vincent Pericard and Yakuba, and integrated into the team of veteran generals matthew taylor and Gary O 'Neill, scoring goals at the home of the so-called "Fort Faton". In the following year, the conflict between Mahndri and Redknapp continued, and the situation became more and more serious. In June 2004, Mandrisi appointed Velimir Zajec to the board of directors and served as the football director of the club. Redknapp was greatly dissatisfied and resigned with James Bev on June 23, 2004. Zajec took over as interim head coach, with joe jordan as deputy, but a series of poor performances led Mandrisi to hastily appoint former Marseille coach alain perrin as the new head coach in April 2005, and Zajec continued to serve as the former football director. On April 25th, 6 days after the home team defeated the old enemy Southampton 4-/kloc-0-,Portsmouth lost to Manchester City, but the teams behind them lost points one after another and decided to avoid relegation, and finally ranked 17.
The start of the 2005/06 season was not satisfactory. Following Zayec's resignation due to family reasons, Mandaric announced on June 24th, 2005 that Perrin, who had just been in office for eight months, was temporarily led by head coach Jordan. 65438+On February 7th, Portsmouth reached a compensation agreement with Southampton to bring former head coach Harry Redknapp back to Faton Park.
On June 2, 2006, Portsmouth announced that Mandrisi had transferred half of its ownership to 30-year-old French-Russian billionaire Alexander gaydamak. 19 In July, Mandrisi sold the remaining shares to gaydamak for 32 million pounds. On September 2 1 9, he announced his resignation as chairman after the game against Bolton on Monday.
On May 7th, 2008, in the final of the 2008 FA Cup held at Wembley Stadium, Portsmouth beat Cardiff City with 1-0 and won the FA Cup for the second time. It also broke the monopoly of the top four Premier League (Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool) in recent years and won the UEFA Cup in 2008-09.
On May 27th, 2009, Dr Sulaiman Al-Fahim, CEO of Abu Dhabi Development and Investment Joint Group (ADUG), United Arab Emirates, successfully acquired the team in his own name. Fahim was the leader of the group's acquisition of Manchester City in 2008. On August 26th, Al-fahim successfully acquired the team with an estimated 60 million pounds and became the team leader. On October 5th, 65438/kloc-0, Al-fahim transferred 90% of the shares to Saudi businessman Ali al-Faraj. 20 10 on February 26th, Premier League official website issued a statement that Portsmouth filed for bankruptcy protection and the club was officially taken over. This is the first time that a club has been taken over since the establishment of 1992 Premier League. Portsmouth will be deducted nine points. After losing 2-0 to Tottenham in the 32nd round on March 27th of the same year, we will strive for 15 points in the remaining 6 games. After the 34th round of West Ham 10 in April, Portsmouth will definitely avoid relegation next season. 201April 1 1 Sunday, Portsmouth beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 in the semi-final of the 20 10 FA Cup held at Wembley Stadium. After 2008, he entered the final again, against Chelsea. The final was 0: 1 lost to Chelsea. However, because the team did not meet the qualification of UEFA and could not qualify for the European League in 2010/1season, the qualification of the European League play-off fell to the sixth team in the league. On June 20 10, the team appointed Steve Cotterill, the former head coach of Naudts County, as the new head coach.
On 20 11June1day, London Convers Sports Initiatives, led by Russian businessman Vladimir Antonov, formally acquired the club from Hong Kong businessman Balram Chainrai's Sports Holding (Asia) Co., Ltd. after many months of negotiations. On June 5th, 200 1, 1, the team announced the summer transfer results, signed David Norris from Ipswich for free, and successively signed Jason Pierce, Luke Varney, Stephen Henderson and Greg halford.
On 20th/KOOC-0//KOOC-0/June/KOOC-0/4th, head coach Steve Cotterill transferred to Nottingham Forest Football Club. On 201111/the team appointed Michael April as the new head coach.
2011165438+1On October 23rd, Vladimir Antonov, the owner of the club, was suspected of being involved in money laundering in Lithuanian banks, and his London office was also sealed up. 2011165438+1On October 29th, Antonov announced his resignation as chairman of Portsmouth Club. 2065438+02654381October 24 Portsmouth was warned for failing to pay taxes in time, and was finally declared into trusteeship on February 17.
At 20 19: 30 Beijing time (UK local time 12:30), Portsmouth, Coventry and doncaster were unfortunately relegated after the last round of the Premier League Championship on 20112.
As the team enters the trusteeship state, in order to avoid the bankruptcy liquidation of the team, all the old players of the club can only leave the team through transfer or salary compensation. Jason Pierce joined Leeds United, Joel Ward joined Crystal Palace, Stephen Henderson joined West Ham United and Kevin Etohu joined barnsley. Hyde Mullins joined Birmingham and Mokona returned to the South African League. On August 12 and 10, all the old players of the team left the team. In the first round of the league, the team had to form a first-team lineup by renting players and signing short contracts.
After 44 rounds of League One in 20 12/ 13 season, Portsmouth fell into League Two ahead of schedule because it was eight points behind Colchester and oldham, who ranked fifth and sixth from the bottom. From the FA Cup champion in 2008 to the 20 14 League B, it has experienced three relegations in four years, which is embarrassing. On April 26th, 20 13, Portsmouth finally completed the tug-of-war of transfer after entering the trusteeship state 15 months. PST (Pompeii Supporters Trust), a group of fans, reached an agreement with the company of stadium owner Balram Li Qian and completed the formal transfer formalities at the hearing on the 27th. Portsmouth finally returned to the hands of fans and became one of the few fans. Portsmouth fans celebrated their own festival in the match between League One and Sheffield United. A crowd of 265,438+0,000 people flocked to the Faton Park Stadium to witness the team's return to the road, and the team also successfully defeated its opponent 3-0, which made people look forward to next season's League Two match.
20 13 On June 26th, Portsmouth Football Club and Portsmouth University reached an agreement to use the sports training center in Langston Campus of Portsmouth University as their training base for next season. It is also the team's return to the city for daily training and preparation after many years, and it is closer to the fans. The Pompeii legion will also begin its own road to revival.