Blackpool F.C.
Blackpool Football Club are a Inglis fitbaw club foondit in 1887 an based in the Lancashire seaside toun o Blackpool. For the 2014–15 Inglis saison, the team are competin in the Football League Championship, the seicont tier o professional football in ingland, for the fowert-consecutive saison. When they reached the Premier League, at the end o the 2009–10 campaign, Blackpool became the first club in Inglis fitbaw tae hae wan promotion frae ivery diveesion o the Fitbaa League via the play-aff seestem.
Full name | Blackpool Football Club | |||
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Nickname(s) | The Seasiders, The 'Pool, The Tangerines | |||
Foondit | 26 July 1887[1] | |||
Ground | Bloomfield Road Blackpool, Ingland | |||
Capacity | 17,338 | |||
Owners | Owen Oyston | |||
Chairman | Natalie Christopher | |||
Manager | Gary Bowyer | |||
League | League One | |||
2022–23 | Championship, 23rd o 24 (relegatit) | |||
Wabsteid | Club wabsteid | |||
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Honours
eeditBlackpool hae aicht Fitbaa League an fifteen cup honours tae their name. They are:
Honour | Number | Years | |||
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League | |||||
Champions | 1 | 1929–30 (Division 2) | |||
Automatic promotions | 3 | 1936–37 (Division 2 tae Division 1); 1967–70 (Division 2 tae Division 1); 1984–85 (Division 4 tae Division 3) | |||
Promotions via play-affs | 4 | 1991–92 (Division 4 tae new Division 2); 2000–01 (Division 3 tae Division 2); 2006–07 (League Ane tae The Championship); 2009–2010 (The Championship tae the Premier League) | |||
Cups | |||||
FA Cup winners | 1 | 1953 | |||
Anglo-Italian Cup winners | 1 | 1971 | |||
Fitbaa League Trophy winners | 2 | 2002, 2004 | |||
Sooth Wast Challenge Cup winners | 1 | 2010* | |||
League War Cup winners | 1 | 1943 | |||
Lancashire Senior Cup winners | 7 | 1936, 1937, 1942, 1954, 1994, 1995, 1996 | |||
Lancashire Junior Cup winners | 2 | 1888, 1891 |
* denotes maist recent honour
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- ↑ Calley, Roy (20 October 1992). Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887–1992. Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd. ISBN 1-873626-07-X.