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Blackpool Football Club are an England Association football club founded in 1887 and located in the Lancashire seaside resort of Blackpool. They have been a member of the The Football League since 1896, except for the 1899–1900 in English football season, which was spent in non-League football.

Blackpool currently plays in Football League Championship, the English football league system of professional football in England, after winning the 2006-07 in English football Football League One Play-Offs 2007.

The club's home ground has been Bloomfield Road since 1901, and their nicknames include the 'Pool, the Seasiders and the Tangerines, the latter in reference to the dominant colour of their home kit (association football). The club's motto is Progress, as featured on its crest.

They have a fierce rivalry with local arch-enemy Preston North End F.C., and any League meeting between the two clubs is known as the West Lancashire derby (or, alternatively, the M55 motorway derby).

Blackpool's most notable achievement is winning the 1953 FA Cup Final, the so-called "Stanley Matthews (football player) Final", in which they beat Bolton Wanderers F.C. 4–3, overturning a 1–3 deficit in the closing stages of the game.

During that post-World War II period, Blackpool made three Wembley Stadium (1923) appearances in six years and came close to winning the English football champions on several occasions. They also supplied the national teams with many players, notably for England national football team in 1953 in football (soccer) when four Blackpool men lined up at Wembley, causing the Daily Mirror to declare that "Blackpool F.C. are playing Hungary national football team today", though it became England v Hungary (1953).

Conversely, in Blackpool F.C. season 1982-83, Blackpool finished four places from the bottom of the entire Football League, their lowest-ever ranking in the competition, and were only saved from relegation to the Alliance Premier League (now the Football Conference) because the re-election system voted in their favour. Blackpool F.C. season 1970-71, Blackpool was playing in English football's Football League First Division.

Ian Holloway was appointed as Blackpool's coach (sport) in May 2009. He succeeded Simon Grayson, who left Blackpool for Leeds United A.F.C. and who guided Blackpool to promotion to the Championship in 2007.

History

Formation and early years

Blackpool Football Club were formed on 26 July 1887, after a mergers and acquisitions with a breakaway group from the local St. John's Football Club. Blackpool managed to win two pieces of silverware in its first season in existence, 1887-88 in English football: the The Fylde Cup and the Lancashire Junior Cup.

At the conclusion of the following 1888-89 in English football season, Blackpool became founder members of the Lancashire League (football). In their first season in the competition, Blackpool finished fifth out of the thirteen member clubs. They finished as runners-up over the following three seasons (to Bury F.C. twice and Liverpool F.C. once), before winning the championship themselves on their fourth attempt.

Blackpool's home at that point in time was Raikes Hall Gardens (also known as the Royal Palace Gardens), which was part of a large entertainment complex that included a theatre and a boating lake, amongst other attractions. This meant that Blackpool's average attendances were around the two-thousand mark, making Blackpool's formative years a financial success.

After struggling to repeat the success of the 1893–94 season, the Blackpool board decided it was time to leave local football behind, so on 13 May 1896, Blackpool became a limited company and applied for entry to the The Football League.

Their application was successful, and for Blackpool's Blackpool F.C. season 1896-97 they joined the sixteen-team Football League Second Division. Blackpool's first-ever The Football League game took place on 5 September 1896, at Lincoln City F.C., which they lost 3–1 in front of around 1,500 spectators.

After three seasons in the League, Blackpool were not re-elected at the conclusion of the Blackpool F.C. season 1898-99 season, after finishing third-bottom. They had moved to a new ground, at Stanley Park, Blackpool's Athletic Grounds, the same season.

On 12 December 1899, Blackpool amalgamated with local rivals South Shore. Shortly afterwards, the club, after a brief return to Raikes Hall, moved to a new ground at Gamble's Field, on Bloomfield Road at the southern end of the town. The name of the ground was subsequently renamed for the road on which it stood.

Early 20th century

Blackpool's season out of the Football League was a success: they finished third upon their return to the Lancashire League, and after the Football League's annual meetingon 25 May 1900, were permitted back into Division Two.

During the ten seasons that followed, Blackpool could finish no higher than twelfth place. The club's top goalscorers in the league included Bob Birkett (ten goals in Blackpool F.C. season 1900-01), Geordie Anderson (twelve goals in Blackpool F.C. season 1901-02) and Bob Whittingham (thirteen in Blackpool F.C. season 1908-09).

At the end of Blackpool F.C. season 1910-11, Blackpool found themselves in seventh place, thanks largely to Joe Clennell's haul of eighteen goals.

It was a case of as-you-were, however, for the four seasons leading up to World War I, with finishing positions of fourteenth, twentieth, sixteenth and tenth. For the latter of those seasons, Joe Lane (footballer) netted 28 goals.

The outbreak of war forced the cancellation of League football for four years, during which time regional competitions were introduced. When normalcy resumed, in Blackpool F.C. season 1919-20, Blackpool had appointed their first full-time manager in the form of Bill Norman (football manager). Norman guided Blackpool to fourth-placed finishes in his first two League seasons in charge (he was installed as manager during the final inter-war season), with Lane again netting close to thirty goals in the former.

The club's form nosedived in the Blackpool F.C. season 1921-22 season, with a finishing position of nineteenth, before bouncing back to a fifth-placed finish in the following campaign. Harry Bedford, who had joined Blackpool from Nottingham Forest F.C., was the country's top league scorer, with 32 goals to his name.

Bedford repeated the feat the Blackpool F.C. season 1923-24, this time under the watchful eye of new manager Frank Buckley (footballer), who replaced Bill Norman after his four years of service. Blackpool finished fourth in Buckley's first season in charge.

The Blackpool F.C. season 1924-25 season was not as successful; a seventeenth-placed finish tempered only slightly by Blackpool's reaching the fourth round of the FA Cup for the first time. A single-goal defeat at fellow Lancastrians Blackburn Rovers F.C. ended the Seasiders' run.

Buckley guided Blackpool to top-ten finishes in his final two seasons as manager — with Billy Tremelling's thirty goals in the latter helping considerably — before he left to take the helm at Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.).

Buckley's replacement was Sydney Beaumont, who took charge for the Blackpool F.C. season 1927-28 season, but he lasted only until the spring after Blackpool finished in nineteenth position.

Harry Evans (football manager) was installed as the new Blackpool manager, in an honorary capacity, for the Blackpool F.C. season 1928-29 campaign. Due in no small part to Jimmy Hampson's 40 goals, Blackpool finished eighth. In his Blackpool F.C. season 1929-30, Evans guided Blackpool to the Division Two championship (their only championship to date), finishing three points ahead of Chelsea F.C.. Hampson had bagged 45 of Blackpool's 98 league goals.

Blackpool lasted only three seasons in the First Division. Two third-bottom finishes were followed by a last-placed finish, and Blackpool returned to the Second Division.

The club's relegation prompted the Blackpool board to install a recognised manager, and they opted for Alex 'Sandy' MacFarlane. MacFarlane occupied the Bloomfield Road hot seat for just two seasons, in which Blackpool finished eleventh and fourth. MacFarlane's final season, Blackpool F.C. season 1934-35, marked Jimmy Hampson's eighth successive (and final) season as Blackpool's top league goalscorer.

Joe Smith (footballer born 1889) was appointed Blackpool's sixth manager in August 1935, a role in which he remained for the next 23 years.

Blackpool finished tenth in Smith's first season, with Bobby Finan taking over from Hampson as top scorer, with 34 goals. It was Smith's second season in charge, however, that marked the starting point of the success to come. Blackpool finished the Blackpool F.C. season 1936-37 season as runners-up in the Second Division to Leicester City F.C. and were promoted back to the First Division.

Two seasons of Division One football were played before a World War II intervened. Blackpool sat atop the table at the time the abandonment occurred. Regional competitions were implemented again between 1939 and 1945. For the Blackpool F.C. season 1945-46 season, after the war's conclusion, Blackpool spent one season in the Football League North and South.

Post-Second World War

Scottish defender Hugh Kelly (footballer) had arrived at Blackpool in 1943, as had fellow defender Tommy Garrett in 1942. striker Stan Mortensen joined Blackpool after the war in 1946. Mortensen went on to become Blackpool's top league goalscorer for the next nine seasons, sharing the honour with Allan Brown in Blackpool F.C. season 1952-53. Stanley Matthews, who became a regular source of goals for Mortensen, joined Blackpool in 1947, as did centre-forward Jackie Mudie. Goalkeeper George Farm signed in 1948 as did outside-left Bill Perry (footballer) in 1949. Kelly, Garrett, Matthews, Mudie, Farm and Perry would play with Blackpool throughout the 1950s, the most successful decade in Blackpool's history.

Post-war Blackpool reached the FA Cup Final on three occasions, losing to Manchester United F.C. in FA Cup Final 1948 and Newcastle United F.C. FA Cup Final 1951, and winning it in FA Cup Final 1953 captained by Harry Johnston (footballer).

In Blackpool F.C. season 1955-56, and now captained by Kelly, Blackpool attained their highest-ever league finish: runners-up to Manchester United, despite losing their final four League games. It was a feat that could not be matched or bettered over the following two seasons, with fourth and seventh-placed finishes, and Smith left Blackpool as Blackpool's most successful and longest-serving manager.

Smith was succeeded, in May 1958, by Ron Suart, the first former Seasiders player to return to Blackpool as manager. In his first season, he led Blackpool to eighth in the First Division and the sixth round of the FA Cup. A 23-year-old Ray Charnley topped Blackpool's goalscoring chart with twenty, in his first season as a professional, and went on to repeat the feat for seven of the eight seasons that followed.

The Football League Cup came into existence in 1960-61 in English football. Blackpool were knocked out in the second round, the round in which they entered. The club's First Division status came under threat, but they managed to avoid relegation by one point, at the expense of Newcastle United F.C.. Local arch-rivals Preston North End F.C. were the other club to make the drop.

Mid-table finishes in Blackpool F.C. season 1961-62 and Blackpool F.C. season 1962-63 (and an appearance in the League Cup semi-finals during the former) were offset by another lowly finish of eighteenth in Blackpool F.C. season 1963-64, with Alan Ball, Jr. top-scoring with thirteen goals. Much of the same ensued over the following two seasons, before relegation finally occurred in Blackpool F.C. season 1966-67. Blackpool finished bottom of the table, eight points adrift of fellow demotion victims Aston Villa F.C.. Suart had resigned four months before the end of the season. His replacement was another former Blackpool player, Stan Mortensen.

Late 20th century

Mortensen picked up the pieces for Blackpool's first season back in the Second Division in thirty years, guiding them to a Blackpool F.C. season 1967-68. They had gone into the final game of the season at Huddersfield Town F.C. knowing that a win would likely secure a return to the First Division. They won 3–1, but once the premature celebrations had ended, they discovered that their nearest rivals, Queens Park Rangers F.C., had scored a last-minute winner at Aston Villa F.C.. Q.P.R. were promoted by virtue of a better goal-average: 1.86, to Blackpool's 1.65.

At the end of the following Blackpool F.C. season 1968-69 campaign, the Blackpool board made the decision to sack Mortensen after just over two years in the job. Their decision was met by fans with shock and anger, as Mortensen was as popular a manager as he was a player.

Les Shannon, who spent the majority of his playing career with Blackpool's Lancashire rivals Burnley F.C., was installed as manager for the Blackpool F.C. season 1969-70 season. In his first season he succeeded where Mortensen had failed, by guiding Blackpool back to the top flight as runners-up behind Huddersfield Town F.C.. Their promotion had been sealed after the penultimate game of the season, a 3–0 victory at rivals Preston North End, courtesy of Fred Pickering hat-trick football. The result effectively relegated the hosts to the Football League Third Division.

As quickly as Shannon had taken Blackpool up, he saw them return whence they came. Blackpool finished at the foot of the table and were relegated back to Division Two, along with Burnley. Before the season's conclusion, Shannon was briefly replaced in a caretaker-manager capacity by Jimmy Meadows, who in turn was permanently replaced by Bob Stokoe. On 12 June 1971, well over a month after the conclusion of the Blackpool F.C. season 1970-71, Blackpool won the Anglo-Italian Cup with a 2–1 victory over Bologna F.C. 1909 in the final. This was achieved without the services of Jimmy Armfield, who retired in May after seventeen years and 627 appearances for the club.

Blackpool finished amongst the top ten teams in the Second Division for six consecutive seasons, under three different managers: Stokoe, Harry Potts and Allan Brown.

Brown's second season at the helm, Blackpool F.C. season 1977-78, ended with Blackpool's relegation to the Football League Third Division for the first time in their history.

Stokoe returned for a second stint as manager for the Blackpool F.C. season 1978-79 campaign, at the end of which Blackpool finished mid-table. Stokoe resigned during the summer.

Stan Ternent became Blackpool's seventh manager in nine years, only to be replaced in February 1980 by Alan Ball, Jr., the popular former Blackpool midfielder who left Blackpool for Everton F.C. fourteen years earlier. Ball himself only lasted a year in the job, and departed when Blackpool were relegated to the league's Football League Fourth Division.

Allan Brown had taken over from Ball in February 1981, and he remained in charge for the following Blackpool F.C. season 1981-82 term. Blackpool finished twelfth in their first season in Division Four; however, unable to handle the pressure of the job, Brown resigned during the close season.

Sam Ellis took over from Brown in June 1982, three years after he finished his playing career with Watford F.C.. His first season saw Blackpool finish 21st, with Dave Bamber topping Blackpool's goalscoring chart for the second consecutive season with ten strikes.

It was Blackpool F.C. season 1984-85, however, that brought the success Blackpool had been looking for. Blackpool finished second behind Chesterfield F.C. and were back in Division Three.

Blackpool managed to finish in the top half of the table for their first three seasons in the Third Division, but slipped to nineteenth in Ellis's seventh and final season in charge.

For the Blackpool F.C. season 1989-90 season, Blackpool appointed Jimmy Mullen (footballer born 1952) as manager. Mullen's reign last only eleven months, however, and he left Blackpool after their relegation back to Division Four.

Graham Carr replaced Mullen, but his spell in the manager's seat was even shorter — just four months. He was sacked in November 1990 with Blackpool in eighteenth place.

Carr's replacement was his assistant, Billy Ayre. Ayre guided Blackpool to a fifth-placed finish and qualification for the Football League Play-Offs. They lost only five of their thirty league games that remained at the time of Ayre's appointment. The run included thirteen consecutive home wins in an eventual 24–game unbeaten run at Bloomfield Road.

After beating Scunthorpe United F.C. in the two-legged semi-finals of the play-offs, Blackpool lost to Torquay United F.C. in the Wembley Stadium (1923) final, on penalties after the score was tied 2–2 after regular and extra time (see Blackpool F.C. season 1990-91 Final).

The following Blackpool F.C. season 1991-92 season finished with Blackpool in fourth place, missing out on automatic promotion by one point, which meant another play-offs experience. This time they met Barnet F.C. in the Blackpool F.C. season 1991-92 Semi-finals and won 2–1 on aggregate. They returned to Wembley, where they faced Scunthorpe United in Blackpool F.C. season 1991-92 Final, Blackpool they knocked out of the play-offs twelve months earlier. Again the score was tied at the end of regular and extra time, but Blackpool were victorious in the penalty shootout and booked their place in the new Division Two.

Blackpool struggled in their first two terms back in the third tier of English football, demonstrated by eighteenth- and twentieth-placed finishes, avoiding relegation in the latter season by virtue of a 4–1 victory over Leyton Orient F.C. on the final day of the season, which resulted in a pitch invasion by the Blackpool supporters. Ayre was sacked in the summer of 1994 and was replaced by Sam Allardyce.

Allardyce led Blackpool to a mid-table finish in his Blackpool F.C. season 1994-95 and saw Blackpool knocked out of both cup competitions at the first hurdle. Tony Ellis was Blackpool's top scorer with seventeen league goals.

The Blackpool F.C. season 1995-96 season saw Blackpool finish third and claim a place in the play-offs for the third time in six seasons. In the semi-finals, Blackpool travelled to Bradford City A.F.C. and won 2–0. Three days later, they hosted the Yorkshiremen at Bloomfield Road and lost 3–0. Blackpool remained in Division Two, and Allardyce was sacked not long afterwards.

Former Norwich City F.C. manager Gary Megson replaced Allardyce, and attained a seventh-placed finish in his Blackpool F.C. season 1996-97. Nigel Worthington succeeded Megson in the summer of 1997, and in the Northern Ireland's two full campaigns in the hot seat, Blackpool finished twelfth and fourteenth. Worthington resigned towards the end of the Blackpool F.C. season 1999-2000 season, and his seat was filled by the former Liverpool F.C. and England national football team midfielder Steve McMahon.

21st century

McMahon arrived too late to save Blackpool from relegation to the Third Division after a 22nd-placed finish in the league.

McMahon gained promotion via the play-offs in his Blackpool F.C. season 2000-01 in charge. He comfortably stabilised Blackpool in Football League Division Two (now League One) for the next two seasons and gained the first of two Football League Trophy wins in 2001 as Blackpool beat Cambridge United F.C. 4–1 at the Millennium Stadium. He repeated the LDV Vans Trophy feat in 2004, this time beating Southend United F.C. 2–0 again in Cardiff; however, McMahon believed he could not take Blackpool any further with the budget he was being offered and resigned in the summer of 2004.

Blackpool chose another high-profile individual as McMahon's successor: ex-Blackburn Rovers F.C. and Scotland national football team captain (sports) Colin Hendry, who finished his playing career with the club. Hendry's reign lasted seventeen months, though Blackpool remained in the new Football League One.

Hendry was replaced by Simon Grayson, who also ended his playing career at Bloomfield Road, in November of the Blackpool F.C. season 2005-06 season.

On 6 January 2007, Blackpool reached the fourth round of the FA Cup for the first time in seventeen years, after beating Aldershot Town F.C. 4–2 at Bloomfield Road. They were knocked out in the fourth round by Norwich City F.C., 3–2 after a replay at Carrow Road on 13 February, narrowly missing out on a trip to London to face Chelsea F.C. in the last sixteen.

On 21 April 2007, Blackpool guaranteed themselves at least a place in the play-offs after a 2–1 win at Cheltenham Town F.C.. Seven days later, they beat Scunthorpe United 3–1 at Bloomfield Road in the penultimate game of the regular season. The visitors were crowned champions of League One despite their defeat, while Blackpool moved two points behind the second automatic-promotion place after Bristol City F.C. lost by a single goal at Millwall F.C..

On the final day of the regular season, Blackpool won 6–3 at Swansea City F.C., a result which ensured that the Tangerines finished in third place, ended Swansea's play-off hopes, resulted in Oldham Athletic's finishing the season in sixth position, and meant Blackpool finished the season as top scorers in League One with 76 goals. Blackpool and Oldham met in the two-legged Blackpool F.C. season 2006-07 Semi-finals of the play-offs. Blackpool won both legs — 2–1 at Boundary Park on 13 May and 3–1 at Bloomfield Road six days later. On 27 May they met Yeovil Town F.C. in Blackpool F.C. season 2006-07 Final at the new Wembley Stadium, their first appearance at England national football team's national stadium in fifteen years. Blackpool won 2–0, a club-record tenth consecutive victory, and were promoted to Football League Championship in their 100th overall season in the Football League.

Recent events

On 11 August 2007, Blackpool beat Leicester City F.C. by a single goal at the Walkers Stadium in their first game in The Championship, and their first game in the second tier of English football for 29 years. It was also the first time Blackpool had won their opening league game since the Blackpool F.C. season 2000-01 season.

Seven days later, Blackpool's run of twelve consecutive wins ended after they drew with Bristol City at Bloomfield Road. Their thirteen-game unbeaten run was ended the following game, with defeat at Wolves on 25 August.

Blackpool knocked Premier League side Derby County F.C. out of the Football League Cup at the second-round stage on 28 August 2007. The match ended 1–1 after ninety minutes and 2–2 after extra time. The Seasiders won the resulting penalty shootout 7–6. On 25 September, Blackpool beat Southend United F.C. 2–1 after extra time to reach the fourth round for the first time in 35 years. They were drawn away to Premiership side Tottenham Hotspur F.C. in the last sixteen, a match they lost 2–0. Tottenham went on to 2008 Football League Cup Final.

On 8 December 2007, Blackpool beat Preston North End F.C. at Deepdale (stadium) by a single goal in the first West Lancashire derby since 1 April 2000.

Blackpool finished the Blackpool F.C. season 2007-08 season in 19th place, escaping relegation by two points and ensuring their safety in a 1–1 draw with Watford F.C. on the final day of the Championship season. It was their highest-placed finish in the Football League since Blackpool F.C. season 1970–71.

On 23 December 2008, Simon Grayson left Blackpool to join Football League One club Leeds United A.F.C. after just over three years in charge at Bloomfield Road. Under the guidance of Grayson's assistant, Tony Parkes, in a caretaker manager capacity, Blackpool finished the Blackpool F.C. season 2008-09 campaign in 16th place. Parkes left Blackpool on 18 May 2009 after a meeting with chairman Karl Oyston about finances.

On 21 May 2009, Ian Holloway was appointed as manager, signing a one-year contract with the club.

Players

See also:
- List of Blackpool F.C. players
- List of notable Blackpool F.C. players
- :Category:Blackpool F.C. players

One-club men

Eight players spent their entire professional playing career with Blackpool:

Internationals

Blackpool have had 35 full-international representatives. Their first was F.J. Griffiths, for Wales national football team, in 1899. Their most recent was David Vaughan (footballer) in 2008, also for Wales.

England

Scotland

Wales

Northern Ireland

Prior to 1924, there was only one Irish national team. In that year, the Republic of Ireland began playing separate matches, and that position is reflected here.

Republic of Ireland

Latvia

Hall of Fame

The Blackpool F.C. Hall of Fame was established on 22 August 2006, with a plaque unveiled by Jimmy Armfield. Organised by the Blackpool Supporters Association, Blackpool fans around the world voted on their all-time heroes. Five players per decade are inducted.

Pre-1950s:
- Jack Parkinson (footballer born 1869)
- Harry Bedford
- Jimmy Hampson
- Jock Dodds
- Georgie Mee

1950s:
- Stan Mortensen
- Stanley Matthews
- Bill Perry (footballer)
- Harry Johnston (footballer)
- Allan Brown

1960s:
- Jimmy Armfield
- Alan Ball, Jr.
- Tony Green (footballer)
- Ray Charnley
- Glyn James

1970s:
- Alan Suddick
- Mickey Walsh
- Tommy Hutchison
- John Burridge
- Mickey Burns

1980s:
- Paul Stewart (footballer)
- Alan Wright
- Eamon O'Keefe
- Andy Garner
- Mike Davies (footballer)

1990s:
- Trevor Sinclair
- Dave Bamber
- Tony Ellis
- Andy Morrison
- Phil Clarkson

Non-playing staff

Managers past and present

There have been 30 different managers of Blackpool. The longest-serving manager was Joe Smith (footballer born 1889), who occupied the role for 23 years. Blackpool has, on average, appointed a new manager every 3.03 years.

– Also played for Blackpool

– Norman was Blackpool's first full-time manager

Honours

League

- Championships (1):
- - Football League Second Division (Blackpool F.C. season 1929-30)

- Automatic promotions (3):
- - Blackpool F.C. season 1936-37 (Division Two to Football League First Division)
- - Blackpool F.C. season 1969-70 (Division Two to Division One)
- - Blackpool F.C. season 1984-85 (Football League Division Four to Football League Division Three)

- Promotions via play-offs (3):
- - Blackpool F.C. season 1991-92 (Division Four)
- - Blackpool F.C. season 2000-01 (Division Three)
- - Blackpool F.C. season 2006-07 (Football League One)-

Cups

- FA Cup (1):
- - 1953 FA Cup Final
- Anglo-Italian Cup (1):
- - Anglo-Italian Cup 1971
- Football League Trophy (2):
- - Blackpool F.C. season 2001-02, Blackpool F.C. season 2003-04
- Football League War Cup (1):
- - 1943
- Lancashire Senior Cup (6):
- - 1936, 1937, 1954, 1994, 1995, 1996
- Lancashire Junior Cup (2):
- - 1888, 1891

- denotes most recent honour

Shirts and sponsors

Blackpool first began wearing Tangerine (color) for the Blackpool F.C. season 1923-24 season, after a recommendation from referee Albert Hargreaves, who officiated a Netherlands national football team–Belgium national football team international match and was impressed by the Dutchmen's colours.

Before changing to tangerine permanently, Blackpool tried several different colours: blue-and-white striped shirts in the 1890s; a mixture of red or white shirts at the turn of the twentieth century; and even red, yellow and black during World War I. After the war, they wore all-white. The board introduced another change in 1934 when Blackpool appeared in alternating dark- and light-blue stripes (which have been reintroduced as Blackpool's away shirt several times since the mid-1990s), but they bowed to public pressure in 1939 and settled on tangerine.

Below is a list of Blackpool's shirt sponsors:

Back-of-shirt sponsors:

Shorts sponsors:

Matchday programmes

Blackpool's home-game matchday programmes have been given several titles over the years. Below is a list of their titles, if any, and their prices.

Notes

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