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.

Blackpool
1900–01 season
Managernone
StadiumBloomfield Road
Football League Second Division12th
Top goalscorerBob Birkett (10)
Highest home attendance4,000 vs Woolwich Arsenal (6 October 1900)
Lowest home attendance500 vs Barnsley

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.

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