Blackpool F.C.
Season 2000-01 2000-01 in English football The 2000–01 season was the 121st season of competitive football in England.-Overview:Manchester United secured their 3rd Premiership title in succession and their 7th title in just nine seasons...
League	Division Three 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...
Manager	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	7th (promoted via play-offs)
Top goalscorers	League: John Murphy (18) Combined: John Murphy (23)
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...	Second 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...	Second round
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The 2000-01

2000-01 in English football

The 2000–01 season was the 121st season of competitive football in England.-Overview:Manchester United secured their 3rd Premiership title in succession and their 7th title in just nine seasons...

 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 94th season (91st consecutive) in the Football League

The Football League

The Football League, also known as the npower Football League for sponsorship reasons, is a league competition featuring professional association football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888, it is the oldest such competition in world football...

. They competed in the 24-team Division Three

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...

, then the bottom tier of English league football

Football in England

Association football is a national sport in England, where the first modern set of rules for the code were established in 1863, which were a major influence on the development of the modern Laws of the Game...

, finishing seventh. They won the end-of-season play-offs and were promoted back to 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...

 after a season's absence.

John Murphy was the club's top scorer for the second consecutive season, with 23 goals (eighteen in the league, one in the 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...

 and four in the 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...

).

Table

Pos Name P W D L F A Pts
1 Brighton & Hove Albion 46 28 8 10 73 35 92
2 Cardiff City 46 23 13 10 95 58 82
3 Chesterfield 46 25 14 7 79 42 80*
4 Hartlepool United 46 21 14 11 71 54 77
5 Leyton Orient 46 20 15 11 59 51 75
6 Hull City 46 19 17 10 47 39 74
7 Blackpool 46 22 6 18 74 58 72
8 Rochdale 46 18 17 11 59 48 71
9 Cheltenham Town 46 18 14 14 59 52 68
10 Scunthorpe United 46 18 11 17 62 52 65
11 Southend United 46 15 18 13 55 53 63
12 Plymouth Argyle 46 15 13 18 54 61 58
13 Mansfield Town 46 15 13 18 64 72 58
14 Macclesfield Town 46 14 14 18 51 62 56
15 Shrewsbury Town 46 15 10 21 49 65 55
16 Kidderminster Harriers 46 13 14 19 47 61 53
17 York City 46 13 13 20 42 63 52
18 Lincoln City 46 12 15 19 58 66 51
19 Exeter City 46 12 14 20 40 58 50
20 Darlington 46 12 13 21 44 56 49
21 Torquay United 46 12 13 21 52 77 49
22 Carlisle United 46 11 15 20 42 65 48
23 Halifax Town 46 12 11 23 54 68 47
24 Barnet 46 12 9 25 67 81 45

* - Chesterfield deducted 9 points

P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; Pts = Points