This page details Blackpool Football Club's all-time records.
Club records
Results
- Largest victory: 10–0 (v. Lanerossi Vicenza, Anglo-Italian Cup on 10 June 1972)
- Largest defeat: 1–10 (v. Small Heath, Division Two, on 2 March 1901 and v. Huddersfield Town, Division One, on 13 December 1930)
- Consecutive victories: 12 (between 31 March 2007 and 14 August 2007)
- Consecutive defeats: 8 (between 26 November 1898 and 7 January 1899 and between 28 November 1964 and 16 January 1965)
League finishing positions
- Highest: 2nd in Division One (1956)
- Lowest: 21st in Division Four (1983)
Transfer fees
- Largest transfer fee paid: £1,250,000 (DJ Campbell, to Leicester City, 2010)
- Largest transfer fee received: £6,750,000 (Charlie Adam, from Liverpool, 2011)
Record transfer-fee progression
Paid
Player | From | Fee | Year |
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Jock Dodds | Sheffield United | £10,000 | 1939 |
Alan Suddick | Newcastle United | £63,000 | 1966 |
Tony Kellow | Exeter City | £125,000 | 1978 |
Jack Ashurst | Sunderland | £132,400 | 1979 |
Andy Morrison | Blackburn Rovers | £245,000 | 1994 |
Chris Malkin | Millwall | £275,000 | 1996 |
Charlie Adam | Rangers | £500,000 | 2009 |
DJ Campbell | Leicester City | £1,250,000 | 2010 |
Received
Player | To | Fee | Year |
---|---|---|---|
Joe Lane | Birmingham City | £3,600 | 1920 |
Alan Ball | Everton | £112,000 | 1966 |
Tony Green | Newcastle United | £150,000 | 1971 |
Micky Burns | Newcastle United | £166,000 | 1974 |
Paul Stewart | Manchester City | £200,000 | 1987 |
Alan Wright | Blackburn Rovers | £400,000 | 1991 |
Trevor Sinclair | Q.P.R. | £600,000 | 1993 |
Brett Ormerod | Southampton | £1,750,000 | 2001 |
Charlie Adam | Liverpool | £6,750,000 | 2011 |
Individual records
Further information: List of Blackpool F.C. playersPlayers
- Most Football League appearances: Jimmy Armfield (569; between 27 December 1954 and 1 May 1971)
- Most consecutive League appearances: Georgie Mee (195; between 25 December 1920 and 12 September 1925)
- Most goals in total: Jimmy Hampson (252; between 15 October 1927 and 8 January 1938)
- Most Football League goals: Jimmy Hampson (248)
- Most League goals in one season: Jimmy Hampson (45; in 1929–30)
- Most goals in one game: 5 (Jimmy Hampson; v. Reading on 10 November 1928 and Jimmy McIntosh; v. Preston North End on 1 May 1948)
- Fastest goal: 11 seconds (Bill Slater; v. Stoke City on 10 December 1949 and James Quinn; v. Bristol City on 12 August 1995
- Most capped player: Jimmy Armfield (43; for England)
Managers
- Longest-serving manager: Joe Smith (22 years, 9 months; from 1 August 1935 to 30 April 1958)
Personal honours
Ballon d'Or
The following players have won the Ballon d'Or while playing for Blackpool:
FWA Footballer of the Year
The following players have won the FWA Footballer of the Year award while playing for Blackpool:
Attendances
- Largest attendance – Pre-2002: 38,098; v. Wolverhampton Wanderers on 17 September 1955.
- Largest attendance – 2002 onwards: 16,116 (99.48% of capacity; v. Manchester City on 17 October 2010)
Home gate receipts
- Highest: £72,949 (v. Tottenham Hotspur, FA Cup third round, 5 January 1991)
References
- "Adam ready to give Dalglish selection headache" Archived 11 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine – Daily Mirror, 9 July 2011
- Seaside Legends Archived 30 April 2007 at the Wayback Machine – Blackpool's official website
- Calley, Roy (1992). Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887–1992, p. 115
- ^ Gillatt, Peter (30 November 2009). Blackpool FC On This Day: History, Facts and Figures from Every Day of the Year. Pitch Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-905411-50-4.
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