Blackpool F.C.
Season 1942-43 1942-43 in English football The 1942–43 season was the fourth season of special wartime football in England during World War II.-Overview:Between 1939 and 1946 normal competitive football was suspended in England...
League	League North
Manager	Joe Smith
League position	1st (first competition); 13th (second competition)
Top goalscorer	Combined: Jock Dodds Jock Dodds Ephraim "Jock" Dodds was a Scottish professional football player. He played in the 1936 FA Cup Final, and, at the time of his death, he was the oldest surviving player to have played in a final at Wembley Stadium....  (47)
FA Cup FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world. The "FA Cup" is run by and named after The Football Association and usually refers to the English men's...	Competition suspended
League War Cup Football League War Cup The Football League War Cup was an association football tournament held between 1939 and 1945 which aimed to fill the gaping hole left in English Football by the cancellation of the FA Cup.- Background:...	Winners (Northern Section)
Highest home attendance
Lowest home attendance
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The 1942-43

1942-43 in English football

The 1942–43 season was the fourth season of special wartime football in England during World War II.-Overview:Between 1939 and 1946 normal competitive football was suspended in England...

 season was Blackpool F.C.

Blackpool F.C.

Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 from the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. They are competing in the 2011–12 season of the The Championship, the second tier of professional football in England, having been relegated from the Premier League at the end of the...

's fourth season in special wartime football during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

. They competed in League North, finishing first in the first competition and thirteenth in the second. Blackpool also won the League War Cup

Football League War Cup

The Football League War Cup was an association football tournament held between 1939 and 1945 which aimed to fill the gaping hole left in English Football by the cancellation of the FA Cup.- Background:...

 Northern Section, beating Sheffield Wednesday

Sheffield Wednesday F.C.

Sheffield Wednesday Football Club are a football club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, who are currently competing in the Football League One in the 2011-12 season, in England. Sheffield Wednesday are one of the oldest professional clubs in the world and the fourth oldest in the...

 in the final. They also won the Challenge Cup, a meeting with the winners of the southern section of the League War Cup, Arsenal

Arsenal F.C.

Arsenal Football Club is a professional English Premier League football club based in North London. One of the most successful clubs in English football, it has won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups...

. Blackpool beat the Londoners 4-2 at Stamford Bridge

Stamford Bridge (stadium)

Stamford Bridge is a football stadium in Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, West London, and is the home of Chelsea Football Club. The stadium is located within the Moore Park Estate also known as Walham Green and is often referred to as simply The Bridge...

 in front of 55,195 spectators.

Jock Dodds

Jock Dodds

Ephraim "Jock" Dodds was a Scottish professional football player. He played in the 1936 FA Cup Final, and, at the time of his death, he was the oldest surviving player to have played in a final at Wembley Stadium....

was the club's top scorer for the fifth consecutive season, with 47 goals in all competitions.