Portsmouth 3-1 Doncaster Rovers: result and report

Championship · Saturday 22 October 2011

Result

Portsmouth 3-1 Doncaster Rovers

Championship · Saturday 22 October 2011, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Portsmouth · Doncaster Rovers · Championship predictions

Portsmouth 3-1 Doncaster Rovers: match report

Portsmouth defeated Doncaster Rovers 3-1 in the Championship on Saturday 22 October 2011. The half-time score was 1-1.

Luke Varney opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Portsmouth's goals came from Luke Varney (3'), Dave Kitson (68') and Luke Varney (75'). Doncaster Rovers scored through Simon Gillett (27').

Discipline: Portsmouth received 1 yellow card; Doncaster Rovers received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Portsmouth were 18th on 12 points from 12 and Doncaster Rovers 23rd on 8 points from 12. Portsmouth went on to finish that season 18th with 50 points, and Doncaster Rovers 24th with 36.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Portsmouth win, 0 draws and 1 for Doncaster Rovers.

Going into the match Portsmouth's last five read L-W-L-L-W and Doncaster Rovers's L-L-W-D-W.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Luke VarneyPortsmouth · 1-0
  • 27'Goal · Simon GillettDoncaster Rovers · 1-1
  • 35'Yellow card · Ricardo RochaPortsmouth
  • 35'Yellow card · Billy SharpDoncaster Rovers
  • 57'Yellow card · K. BennettDoncaster Rovers
  • 68'Goal · Dave KitsonPortsmouth · 2-1
  • 75'Goal · Luke VarneyPortsmouth · 3-1

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Portsmouth 1, draws 0, Doncaster Rovers 1.

Team news

Portsmouth line-up

Ricardo Rocha, Jason Pearce, Greg Halford, Tal Ben Haim, Liam Lawrence, David Norris, Erik Huseklepp, Luke Varney, Dave Kitson, Hayden Mullins, Stephen Henderson

Doncaster Rovers line-up

Neil Sullivan, George Friend, Sam Hird, Hérita N'Kongolo Ilunga, Pascal Chimbonda, John Oster, Simon Gillett, Kyle Bennett, Patrick McCarthy, Giles Barnes, Brian Stock