List of Blackpool F.C. records and statistics

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

A graph displaying Blackpool's finishing positions in the English Football League from 1896 to the present.

• 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

Received

Individual records

Players

• 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^[2] and Jimmy McIntosh; v. Preston North End on 1 May 1948)
• Fastest goal: 11 seconds (Bill Slater; v. Stoke City on 10 December 1949^[3] and James Quinn; v. Bristol City on 12 August 1995^[4]
• 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:

• Stanley Matthews – 1956

FWA Footballer of the Year

The following players have won the FWA Footballer of the Year award while playing for Blackpool:

• Stanley Matthews – 1947–48
• Harry Johnston – 1950–51

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)^[4]

References

1. "Adam ready to give Dalglish selection headache" Archived 11 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine – Daily Mirror, 9 July 2011
2. Seaside Legends Archived 30 April 2007 at the Wayback Machine – Blackpool's official website
3. Calley, Roy (1992). Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887–1992, p. 115
4. 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.