The following is a list of Southampton managers from the founding of
Southampton F.C.
Southampton Football Club () is an English professional football club based in Southampton, Hampshire, which competes in the . Their home ground since 2001 has been St Mary's Stadium, before which they were based at The Dell. The club play in ...
in 1885 until the present. The first secretary manager of the club was Cecil Knight from 1892 to 1895; the first full-time manager of the club was
George Swift from 1911 to 1912.
The most successful managers are, in terms of trophies and honours,
Ernest Arnfield
Ernest Arnfield (25 December 1853 – 8 August 1945) was an English football manager who was secretary/manager of Southampton F.C. from 1897 to 1911, and again from 1912 to 1919.
Arnfield was born in Mellor, Derbyshire. He died in Southampton, a ...
, with whom the club won the
Southern Football League
The Southern League is a men's football competition featuring semi-professional clubs from the South and Midlands of England. Together with the Isthmian League and the Northern Premier League it forms levels seven and eight of the English fo ...
five times and the
Western Football League Division 1A once; and (since the start of
the Football League era), in terms of win percentage,
Nigel Adkins.
The longest-serving manager has been
Ted Bates from 1955 to 1973, for 850 matches. (Bates – "Mr Southampton" – had played for the club from 1937 to 1955, and also served as a club director for 20 years after managing it.)
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