St Mary's Stadium is an all-seater football stadium in Southampton, England, which has been the home stadium of EFL Championship club Southampton F.C. since 2001. The stadium has a capacity of 32,384 and is currently the largest football stadium in South East England.
St Mary's Stadium
The exterior of the Itchen Stand at St Mary's Stadium in Southampton, April 2022
Panorama of St Mary's Stadium during Southampton v. Colchester United in 2009
The view from the Chapel Stand at St Mary's Stadium in Southampton, April 2022
Southampton Football Club is an English professional football club based in Southampton, Hampshire, that competes in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football. Its home ground since 2001 has been St Mary's Stadium, before which it was based at The Dell. The team play in red and white shirts. They have been nicknamed "The Saints" because of the club's beginnings as a church football team at St Mary's Church. Southampton shares a long-standing South Coast derby rivalry with Portsmouth, in part due to geographic proximity and both cities' respective maritime histories.
Friendly match at Holstein Kiel, Germany, 15 May 1964
Southampton players form a huddle before kicking off against Derby in 2007
Ronald Koeman (front left) as manager
View from the Chapel Stand