It has been a very eventful last few days around Fratton Park, with Portsmouth having made the decision to part company with Kenny Jackett following their defeat in the Papa John’s Trophy final against Salford City.

Portsmouth will now need to regroup and try and get their campaign back on track.

Jackett was unable to get Portsmouth out of League One which was the aim when he arrived at the club, but he was ultimately unsuccessful despite some promising runs of form during his time in charge. He leaves them still in a relatively strong position and having developed a squad that is amongst the strongest in the league.

With Portsmouth now embarking on a new era, we take a look back through their history and rank the club’s top best performing managers in terms of points they picked up per game (since three points was introduced for a win). Click ‘next’ to scroll through the list…

Kicking off this list of greatest ever performing managers in charge of Portsmouth in terms of points they picked up per match is Tony Pulis, who managed to win 11 and draw ten of his 35 matches in charge leaving him with 1.23 points per game.

Pulis would only last ten months at Fratton Park taking over the club midway through the 1999/2000 season, with him arriving January after a controversial six-month stint at Bristol City. He managed to secure his first league win in charge with a 3-0 win against Barnsley thanks to a Steve Claridge hat-trick. Pompey would win seven of their final 17 games to finish in 18^th place in the second tier.

Portsmouth did not get off to the best of starts to the 2000/01 season with Pulis’ side managing just two wins and four draws in their opening 11 league matches. That meant that following a 1-1 draw at Stockport County he was dismissed on 12 October 2000 and was replaced by Claridge.

In at ninth place on this list is Graham Rix, who spent just over a year in charge at Fratton Park and he managed to accumulate 1.24 points per game during that time.

Rix was appointed as Portsmouth manager in February 2001 and he was the club’s third manager in what had been a turbulent 2000/01 campaign. He arrived following Steve Claridge stepping down as manager on 25 February and he managed to secure a win in his first game in charge which came with a 2-0 success at home against Burnley.

However, Rix would manage to win just two of the final 12 matches of the campaign as Portsmouth finished the 2000/01 season in 20th place in the second tier just one point clear of Huddersfield Town who occupied the final relegation slot. Pompey got off to a strong start to the following campaign winning four and losing just one of their eight matches.

That was as good as it ever got for Rix, whose side were unable to consistently pick up three points and they would go on to finish in 17th place that campaign, with Rix having left the club on 25 March 2002.

Coming in at eighth place on this list is another manager who would not last too long in the role at Fratton Park, with Andy Awford managing to accumulate 1.24 points per game during his time in charge.

Awford had a caretaker spell in charge of Portsmouth between 25 November and 9 December 2013, and he would do so again in March 2014 after Richie Barker left the club in real danger of relegation from League Two. However, Awford came in and did an excellent job as caretaker managing to keep the club up with five wins and two draws in seven matches in charge.

The following summer he was appointed into the role on a permanent basis for the 2014/15 season. Awford got the side off to a strong start to the campaign and they won three of their opening four League Two matches. However, they lacked consistency in their form after that and they ended up going on a run of nine matches without a win in the league between the end of November and end of January.

In April Awford would step down from his role with the club and Portsmouth under Gary Waddock would go on to finish the campaign in a disappointing 14^th place in League Two.

Coming in at number seven on this list is Harry Redknapp, who enjoyed two successful spells in charge of Pompey with his second one a very good one in which he accumulated 1.48 points per game.

Redknapp had some making up to do to Portsmouth fans after he controversially left the club for bitter rivals Southampton in 2004 a few weeks after he left his role with Pompey. However, after taking the Saints down in the 2004/05 season he then returned to Fratton Park in December 2005 with the club starting relegation from the Premier League in the face after a poor start.

The first win since Redknapp’s return came against West Brom in his second game, but they would win just one of their subsequent 11 league matches to look doomed for the drop. However, they then went on to win six out of their last ten to secure a 17^th place finish. The following campaign saw them get off to a flying start with four wins in their first five games, before a drop-off saw them finish in 9^th.

In 2007/08 Redknapp guided the club to another strong finish in the Premier League with them ending up in 8^th place in the table on 57 points. However, the greatest achievement was him guiding them all the way to the FA Cup final where they beat Cardiff City 1-0 at Wembley. Fresh from that success he was courted by Tottenham Hotspur and in October 2008 he made the move there.

In at number six in this list is Jim Smith, who managed to win 82 and draw 54 of his 200 matches in charge of the club which leaves him with 1.50 points per game.

Smith took over at Fratton Park in the summer of 1991 and in his first season in charge he enjoyed a decent campaign taking Pompey to a 9^th place finish in the second tier having won 19 of their 46 matches. While the 1991/92 will also be remembered for them reaching the FA Cup semi-finals but lost to Liverpool in extra time of a replay.

The following season Portsmouth would miss out on promotion to the top flight on goal difference having taken 88 points and won 26 league games. They then suffered heartbreak in the play-offs losing to Leicester City in the semi-finals. With key player sold in the summer Smith could take his side to just a 17^th place finish in the 1993/94 campaign though they did reach the League Cup quarter-finals.

However, he was sacked midway through the 1994/95 season in January following a run of just three wins in 16 league matches.

In fifth place on this list is Bobby Campbell, who managed to win 43 and draw 20 of his 98 matches in charge of the club leaving him with 1.52 points per game.

Campbell arrived at Fratton Park in May 1982 after an unsuccessful spell in charge of Fulham, but he would enjoy more success with Portsmouth. In his first season in charge in 1982/83 he managed to guide the club to third-tier title and automatic promotion to the second division with Pompey winning 27 of their league matches and finishing on 91 points five more than second-placed Cardiff.

However, the following season would see Portsmouth spend the majority of the time trying to avoid relegation straight back down to the third tier. In the end, Campbell managed to guide the club to 14 wins and 49 points which proved to be enough to earn them a 16^th place finish seven points clear of the relegation zone.

That though was not enough to keep him is in his job and the decision was made to move in another direction in May 1984 ending his two-year spell in charge.

Another manager who like Redknapp makes this list having had two spells in charge of the club is Alan Ball. During his first spell in charge he managed to win 94 and draw 58 of his 222 games in charge leaving him with 1.53 points per game.

Ball’s first spell in charge of the club saw him take over from Bobby Campbell after his departure in May 1984. His first season in charge saw the club agonisingly miss out on automatic promotion to the top-flight with them having accumulated 74 points the same as third-placed Manchester City but they had an inferior goal difference.

The next campaign was also heart-breaking with Pompey again finishing the season just shy of the automatic promotion places having racked up 73 points and meaning they missed out this time by just three points. However, eventually, in 1986/87 they earned promotion with 23 wins from their 42 games enough to see them home in second place on 78 points.

The next term Portsmouth would suffer an immediate relegation back to the second tier though, with them picking up just 35 points leaving them seven adrift of safety. Ball was then sacked midway through the 1988/89 season with the club failing to really mount another promotion push.

In third place on this list is the Redknapp once again this time for his first spell in charge of the club, during which time he managed to accumulate 1.57 points per game.

Redknapp took over at Fratton Park for his first spell in charge in March 2002 with the club struggling down the wrong end of the table in the English second tier under Graham Rix. He had initially been in a director of football role with the club and had even been linked with the job at Leicester City. After a 17^th place finish in the 2001/02 campaign things would improve dramatically.

The 2002/03 seasons is one that will live long in the memory of supporters, with Redknapp’s side managing to hot the ground running in excellent fashion winning eight and drawing one of their opening nine matches. It was a start that they never really looked back on and they would suffer just six losses all season on their way to winning the league by six points with 98 points accumulated.

Pompey would survive fairly comfortably in the Premier League in the 2003/04 season finishing in 13^th place having picked up 12 wins and earned 45 points. However, Redknapp fell out with owner Milan Mandarić over the appointment of Velimir Zajec as director of football and he eventually resigned in November 2004.

In second place on this list is Paul Cook, who managed to enjoy a successful spell in charge at Fratton Park in which time he managed to accumulate 1.70 points per game.

Cook took over as Portsmouth manager in May 2015 with the club searching for someone who could come in and get them promoted out of League Two. Some saw the manager’s move to Fratton Park as a little strange after he had just earned promotion to the third tier with Chesterfield the previous campaign. However, the size of the club was too good a chance to pass up for him.

In his first season in charge Cook got off to a very strong start losing just one of his first 15 league matches in charge and it looked like he would be able to get Pompey promoted at the first time of asking. However, a run of just three wins in 11 games halted their progress and saw them drop away from the automatic promotion places. In the end, they finished in 6^th place on 78 points.

In the play-offs they were beaten 3-2 on aggregate by Plymouth Argyle meaning they would have to start from scratch again the following season. That is what Cook did and with a few more additions t the squad, he managed to find the right formula and guided the club to the League Two title in 2016/17 winning 26 games and finishing the season with 87 points. He left that summer though to take over at Wigan Athletic.

In first place in this list is ironically the manager who Portsmouth have just decided to part company with. However, Jackett leaves the club having accumulated 1.74 points per game.

Jackett first arrived at Fratton Park in the summer of 2017 with him taking over from Cook who had move to Wigan. It appeared to be a decent appointment given he had proven League One promotion experience during his time at Millwall and Wolves. In the 2017/18 campaign, Pompey would win 20 of their 46 games, but also lose the same amount meaning they had settle for 8^th place.

The following campaign saw Jackett’s side get off to a storming start and they suffered just one defeat in their opening 20 League One matches and following a 2-0 win against Southend United on 8 December 2018 they were top of the league and seven points clear of third place. However, they would then fall away winning just three in 14 to drop down the table and away from the automatic places.

They ended the 2018/19 season in 4^th place but lost in the play-off semi-finals to Sunderland. Then last season saw a similar story unfold with Portsmouth finishing in 5^th place after the table was decided on points per game. They would lose again in the play-off semi-finals this time to Oxford United. This term they have not looked like securing promotion and after losing in the Papa John’s Trophy final Jackett has been sacked.