Blackpool News

Blackpool News

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Blackpool History

Founded in 1887 and nicknamed ‘The Seasiders’, Blackpool have an abundance of history and memorable moments. The club currently play their home matches at Bloomfield Road – a stadium which holds over 16,000 spectators – and have done since 1901. If you are looking for the latest Blackpool news, remember, everything can be found here in just a few, easy clicks.

Currently competing in League One, Blackpool’s greatest success came back in 1953 after lifting the FA Cup for the first time in the club’s history. They were trailing 3-1 to Bolton Wanderers and heading into the latter stages of the game, Blackpool completed a stunning comeback to triumph 4-3. That season, the club had four players represent England – just 13 players in total have played for England when at Blackpool.

Between 1948 and 1953, the Seasiders made three FA Cup Final appearances and in the 1950s, they had four top-six finishes in the Football League First Division. Their best finish in the top tier of English football was finishing runners-up to Manchester United in the 1955/56 campaign.

More recently, Blackpool won promotion to the Premier League in 2009/10, and doing so became the first club in English football to have won promotion from every division of the Football League via the play-off system. The club’s top goalscorer is Jimmy Hampson, who scored 252 times between 1927 and 1938, while their longest serving manager was Joe Smith, who spent 22 years and nine months in charge from August 1935 to April 1958.