DELETECITY

Your club · Portsmouth

Nine points docked. Nothing else moves.

Portsmouth lost both games to City in 2009/10, their one Premier League season of the nine, so nothing comes off. The nine-point deduction for administration stays: 19 points, 19th of 19, and down.

At a glance

Premier League seasons
1 of 9 · 2009/10
Points taken off City
0 in 2 league games
Transfers with City
City paid Portsmouth £0; Portsmouth signed 1 player from City, fee undisclosed.

Season by season: real → without City

  1. 2009/10Real: 20th, without City: 19th

The nine seasons

Portsmouth had one season in the Premier League in these nine, 2009/10, and eight outside it. It was the season they became the first Premier League club to enter administration, on 26 February 2010. They were docked nine points and went down in April. Burnley and Hull went down with them.

Take Manchester City out and almost nothing changes. Portsmouth lost 1–0 at home in August and 2–0 away in January, so no points come off. The deduction stays in the rebuilt table too. 19 points, 20th for real, 19th of 19 without City: City’s place and nothing more, fifteen points short of 16th.

The site’s 2009/10 page asks whether nine points relegated Portsmouth. It is a question about the deduction, not about City. Two defeats by City leave the rebuild nothing to take away.

The money

No money went from City to Portsmouth for players, and none the other way in reported fees. Tal Ben Haim joined Portsmouth from City in the summer of 2009, in their Premier League season, for an undisclosed fee: £0 in reported fees, 1 undisclosed. Abdul Razak came on loan from City in 2011/12, when Portsmouth were outside the Premier League.

Every season, club by club

Positions are real of 20 and rebuilt of 19; see How it works.