Portsmouth continue to fight for promotion to the Championship from League One, and the side will be hoping that they will be celebrating success come the end of the campaign.

The club has a rich footballing heritage, making Pompey well respected amongst fans up and down the country.

Here, we bring you eight interesting facts about Portsmouth that you may have not known about...

On February 22nd 1956, Fratton Park played host to the first ever league match in the UK to be played under floodlights, against none other than Newcastle United.

The Magpies ran out 2-0 winners, with Billy Curry and Vic Keeble both on target.

Portsmouth possibly have one of the most famous nicknames in English football, as they are also known as 'Pompey', which is also used to describe the city.

It is said to originate from the nautical abbreviation of "Portsmouth Point" to the shorter "Po'm. P." in ships logbooks.

In November 1984, Pompey took on the New Zealand national team at Fratton Park.

The All Whites remain the side who have travelled the furthest distance to play at Pompey's historic ground.

Portsmouth are one of few clubs to have one player represent them in four different decades.

Step forward Alan Knight, who made a staggering 801 first-team and cup appearances for Pompey between 1978 and 2005.

You may not believe this next one, but Fratton Park once played host to an international baseball game.

It was between American and Canadian army sides, and took place all the way back in June 1918.

An international women's match took place at Portsmouth's ground between England and Portugal in February 2002.

At the time, the attendance of 8821 fans was a record crowd for the women's game.

Above is an image of the ground on that famous afternoon.

The one and only Ronaldinho, who won the World Cup with Brazil in 2002, and is considered as one of the greatest footballers of all time, had high praise for Pompey fans and the Fratton Park atmosphere when he visited the ground back in 2008 with AC Milan.

He was quoted saying that it was one of the "best atmospheres in the world of football."

That says something.

Pompey at one point were the largest fan-owned football club in England, after the Pompey Supporters' Trust (PST) successfully bought the club in 2013, sparing it from liquidation.

However, this is no longer the case, as the PST sold their shares to the Tornante Group in 2017.