1900–01 Blackpool F.C. season
The 1900–01 season was Blackpool F.C.'s first season back in the Football League (fourth total). They competed in the eighteen-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing twelfth.
1900–01 season | ||
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Manager | none | |
Stadium | Bloomfield Road | |
Football League Second Division | 12th | |
Top goalscorer | Bob Birkett (10) | |
Highest home attendance | 4,000 vs Woolwich Arsenal (6 October 1900) | |
Lowest home attendance | 500 vs Barnsley | |
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Arrivals, either during the season in exile or during this campaign, included Jack Parkinson (returning after a season with Liverpool), goalkeeper Joe Dorrington from Blackburn Rovers, Jack Birchall, John Burden, Edward Threlfall, Alfred Boulton, Lorenzo Evans, former schoolboy Harold Hardman, and Geordie Anderson. Out went Henry Parr (who played in the club's first game in the Football League), Jack Morris (despite scoring four goals in his five appearances the previous season), and Gamble.
Bob Birkett top-scored with ten goals in his 32 appearances. Goalkeeper Joe Dorrington was ever-present throughout the club's 34 league games.