Blackpool F.C.
Season 1999-2000 1999-2000 in English football -Premier League:Manchester United were crowned FA Premier League champions with an 18-point margin over runners-up Arsenal and with just 3 league defeats all season. This was despite their failure to retain the European Cup and withdrawal from the FA Cup in order to compete in the FIFA Club World...
League	Division Two Football League Second Division From 1892 until 1992, the Football League Second Division was the second highest division overall in English football.This ended with the creation of the FA Premier League, prior to the start of the 1992–93 season, which caused an administrative split between The Football League and the teams...
Manager	Nigel Worthington Nigel Worthington Nigel Worthington is a former Northern Ireland international footballer and manager.He was manager of the Northern Ireland national team from 2007 until after their final Euro 2012 qualifying campaign match against Italy in October 2011.As a player, he was a left full back and occasional left... (succeeded by Steve McMahon Steve McMahon Stephen Joseph McMahon is an English former football midfielder who most notably played for Liverpool in the late 1980s... )
League position	22nd (relegated)
Top goalscorers	League: John Murphy (10) Combined: John Murphy (10)
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...	Third round
League Cup Football League Cup The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup or, from current sponsorship, the Carling Cup, is an English association football competition. Like the FA Cup, it is played on a knockout basis...	First round
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The 1999-2000

1999-2000 in English football

-Premier League:Manchester United were crowned FA Premier League champions with an 18-point margin over runners-up Arsenal and with just 3 league defeats all season. This was despite their failure to retain the European Cup and withdrawal from the FA Cup in order to compete in the FIFA Club World...

 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 93rd season (90th consecutive) in the Football League

The Football League

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. They competed in the 24-team Division Two

Football League Second Division

From 1892 until 1992, the Football League Second Division was the second highest division overall in English football.This ended with the creation of the FA Premier League, prior to the start of the 1992–93 season, which caused an administrative split between The Football League and the teams...

, then the third tier of English league football

Football in England

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, finishing 22nd. As a result, they were relegated to the league's basement division

Football League Third Division

The Football League Third Division was the 3 tier of English Football from 1920 until 1992 when after the formation of the Football Association Premier League saw the league renamed The Football League Division Two...

.

Nigel Worthington

Nigel Worthington

Nigel Worthington is a former Northern Ireland international footballer and manager.He was manager of the Northern Ireland national team from 2007 until after their final Euro 2012 qualifying campaign match against Italy in October 2011.As a player, he was a left full back and occasional left...

 resigned as manager during the season. He was replaced by the former Liverpool

Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...

 midfield

Midfield

Midfield is the part of a sports pitch that lies approximately in the center. It is a term most commonly associated with football to refer to the area in and around the center circle, as well as the players who occupy that region, but it can be used in field hockey to describe the same area, or in...

er Steve McMahon

Steve McMahon

Stephen Joseph McMahon is an English former football midfielder who most notably played for Liverpool in the late 1980s...

.

John Murphy was the club's top scorer, with ten goals in all competitions.

On 15 January, Bloomfield Road

Bloomfield Road

Bloomfield Road is an all-seater football stadium in the English town of Blackpool, Lancashire. It has been the permanent home of Blackpool F.C. since 1901 and is named after the road on which the stadium's main entrance used to stand. The stadium has been in a process of redevelopment since 2000...

 hosted a "Break The Gate" promotion for the visit of Luton Town

Luton Town F.C.

Luton Town Football Club is an English professional football club based since 1905 at Kenilworth Road, Luton, Bedfordshire. The club currently competes in the fifth tier of English football, the Conference National, for the third consecutive season during the 2011–12 season.Formed in 1885, it was...

. Chairman Karl Oyston pledged that revenue generated from home supporters in excess of the hardcore 3500 would be made available to Steve McMahon for team strengthening. Two days later it was announced that £12,000 had been raised. The scheme was repeated for the visit of Brentford

Brentford F.C.

Brentford Football Club are a professional English football club based in Brentford in the London Borough of Hounslow. They are currently playing in Football League One....

 on 29 January.

Table

Pos Name P W D L F A Pts
1 Preston North End 46 28 11 7 74 37 95
2 Burnley 46 25 13 8 69 47 88
3 Gillingham 46 25 10 11 79 48 85
4 Wigan Athletic 46 22 17 7 72 38 83
5 Millwall 46 23 13 10 76 50 82
6 Stoke City 46 23 13 10 68 42 82
7 Bristol Rovers 46 23 11 12 69 45 80
8 Notts County 46 18 11 17 61 55 65
9 Bristol City 46 15 19 12 59 57 64
10 Reading 46 16 14 16 57 63 62
11 Wrexham 46 17 11 18 52 61 62
12 Wycombe Wanderers 46 16 13 17 56 53 61
13 Luton Town 46 17 10 19 61 65 61
14 Oldham Athletic 46 16 12 18 50 55 60
15 Bury 46 13 18 15 61 64 57
16 A F C Bournemouth 46 16 9 21 59 62 57
17 Brentford 46 13 13 20 47 61 52
18 Colchester United 46 14 10 22 59 82 52
19 Cambridge United 46 12 12 22 64 65 48
20 Oxford United 46 12 9 25 43 73 45
21 Cardiff City 46 9 17 20 45 67 44
22 Blackpool 46 8 17 21 49 77 41
23 Scunthorpe United 46 9 12 25 40 74 39
24 Chesterfield 46 7 15 24 34 63 36
P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; Pts = Points

Squad

Left club during season