's squad of players from the previous, inaugural season, with the most notable newcomers being J. L. Sommerville and Mullens, while Charles "Ned" Bromley replaced A.

[2] In the summary of the season, the St. Mary's Parish News claimed that the football club were "winning golden opinions throughout the town and neighbourhood (for being) victorious all along the line.

The works team comprised employees of the Oswald, Mordaunt & Co. shipyard in Woolston, which later became part of Vosper Thorneycroft.

Many of the workers had been recruited from the north of England and Scotland who had previously played football in their home towns.

The Sunflowers were run by Canon Norman Pares, who had played for the Old Etonians when they won the 1879 FA Cup Final.

Playing in goal for the Portsmouth side was "A. C. Smith", a pseudonym for Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle.