Blackpool F.C.
Season 1912-13 1912-13 in English football The 1912–13 season was the 42nd season of competitive football in England.-Overview:Sunderland won the First Division for the fifth time, with a record of 25–4–9; Aston Villa, finishing second, had fewer defeats, but a lot more draws: 19–12–7....
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	None
League position	20th (bottom)
Top goalscorer	League: George Wilson George Wilson (English footballer) George Wilson was an English footballer who played in his club career at Blackpool and Sheffield Wednesday between 1912 and 1925...  (10) Combined: George Wilson (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...	First round
Highest home attendance
Lowest home attendance
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The 1912-13

1912-13 in English football

The 1912–13 season was the 42nd season of competitive football in England.-Overview:Sunderland won the First Division for the fifth time, with a record of 25–4–9; Aston Villa, finishing second, had fewer defeats, but a lot more draws: 19–12–7....

 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 sixteenth season (thirteenth 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 twenty-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 second tier of English 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 bottom. Their application for re-election was successful.

George Wilson

George Wilson (English footballer)

George Wilson was an English footballer who played in his club career at Blackpool and Sheffield Wednesday between 1912 and 1925...

 was the club's top scorer, with ten goals.

Season synopsis

Other than two victories in their opening four league games, Blackpool's nine wins were spaced out over the course of the season. By the league season's halfway point, a 4–0 Christmas Day defeat at Lancashire

Lancashire

Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...

 rivals Burnley

Burnley F.C.

Burnley Football Club are a professional English Football League club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Nicknamed the Clarets, due to the dominant colour of their home shirts, they were founder members of the Football League in 1888...

, they had won only two further games. Of the remaining nineteen matches, Blackpool lost ten, a sequence that contributed to their finishing at the foot of the table.

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...

, Blackpool took Tottenham

Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club , commonly referred to as Spurs, is an English Premier League football club based in Tottenham, north London. The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane....

 to a first-round replay after a 1–1 draw at White Hart Lane

White Hart Lane

White Hart Lane is an all-seater football stadium in Tottenham, London, England. Built in 1899, it is the home of Tottenham Hotspur and, after numerous renovations, the stadium has a capacity of 36,230....

 on 11 January. Three days later, the replay was played at the same venue after Blackpool sold Spurs the ground rights. The Londoners were victorious 6–1.

To the consternation of the Seasiders' fans, their arch-rivals Preston North End

Preston North End F.C.

Preston North End Football Club is an English professional football club located in the Deepdale area of the city of Preston, Lancashire, currently playing in the third tier of English league football, League One...

 won the championship and Burnley took the second promotion spot.

Table

		P	W	D	L	F	A	GA	Pts
1	Preston North End Preston North End F.C. Preston North End Football Club is an English professional football club located in the Deepdale area of the city of Preston, Lancashire, currently playing in the third tier of English league football, League One...	38	19	15	4	56	33	1.697	53
2	Burnley Burnley F.C. Burnley Football Club are a professional English Football League club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Nicknamed the Clarets, due to the dominant colour of their home shirts, they were founder members of the Football League in 1888...	38	21	8	9	88	53	1.660	50
3	Birmingham Birmingham City F.C. Birmingham City Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, they became Small Heath in 1888, then Birmingham in 1905, finally becoming Birmingham City in 1943.They were relegated at the end of the...	38	18	10	10	59	44	1.341	46
4	Barnsley Barnsley F.C. Barnsley Football Club are a professional English football club based in the town of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Nicknamed the Tykes, they were founded in 1887 under the name Barnsley St. Peter's...	38	19	7	12	57	47	1.213	45
5	Huddersfield Town Huddersfield Town F.C. Huddersfield Town Football Club is an English football club formed in 1908 and based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. They currently play in League One...	38	17	9	12	66	40	1.650	43
6	Leeds City	38	15	10	13	70	64	1.094	40
7	Grimsby Town Grimsby Town F.C. Grimsby Town Football Club is an English football club based in the seaside town of Cleethorpes, in North East Lincolnshire, England, who compete in the Conference National. They were formed in 1878 as Grimsby Pelham and later became Grimsby Town...	38	15	10	13	51	50	1.020	40
8	Lincoln City Lincoln City F.C. Lincoln City Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Lincoln, Lincolnshire. The club are currently members of the Conference National in 2011–12 following relegation from the Football League....	38	15	10	13	50	52	0.962	40
9	Fulham Fulham F.C. Fulham Football Club is a professional English Premier League club based in southwest London Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Founded in 1879, they play in the Premier League, their 11th current season...	38	17	5	16	65	55	1.182	39
10	Wolverhampton Wanderers Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club that represents the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands region. They are members of the Premier League, the highest level of English football. The club was founded in 1877 and since 1889 has played at...	38	14	10	14	56	54	1.037	38
11	Bury Bury F.C. Bury Football Club is an association football team based in Bury, Greater Manchester. The team currently play in League One. The club's nickname is The Shakers which was bestowed upon them by club chairman JT Ingham, an industrialist and ironmonger of the late 1890s.-Formation of the club and the...	38	15	8	15	53	57	0.930	38
12	Hull City Hull City A.F.C. Hull City Association Football Club is an English association football club based in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, founded in 1904. The club participates in the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football...	38	15	6	17	60	56	1.071	36
13	Bradford Park Avenue	38	14	8	16	60	60	1.000	36
14	Clapton Orient Leyton Orient F.C. Leyton Orient F.C. are an English professional football club in East London. They currently play in Football League One and are known to their fans as the O's.Leyton Orient have spent one season in the top flight of English football, in 1962–63...	38	10	14	14	34	47	0.723	34
15	Leicester Fosse Leicester City F.C. Leicester City Football Club , also known as The Foxes, is an English professional football club based at the King Power Stadium in Leicester...	38	13	7	18	50	65	0.769	33
16	Bristol City Bristol City F.C. Bristol City Football Club is one of two football league clubs in Bristol, England . They play at Ashton Gate, located in the south-west of the City...	38	9	15	14	46	72	0.639	33
17	Nottingham Forest Nottingham Forest F.C. Nottingham Forest Football Club is an English Association Football club based in West Bridgford, Nottingham, that plays in the Football League Championship...	38	12	8	18	58	59	0.983	32
18	Glossop Glossop North End A.F.C. Glossop North End A.F.C. are an English football club based in Glossop, Derbyshire. Former members of the Football League, they are currently in the North West Counties League and are members of the Derbyshire County Football Association. They play their home matches at Surrey Street, which has a...	38	12	8	18	49	68	0.721	32
19	Stockport County Stockport County F.C. Stockport County Football Club is an English football club based in Stockport, Greater Manchester. The club formed in 1883 as Heaton Norris Rovers, shortly afterwards merging with Heaton Norris F.C., and adopted the current name on 24 May 1890 on the creation of the County Borough of Stockport...	38	8	10	20	56	78	0.718	26
20	Blackpool 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...	38	9	8	21	39	69	0.565	26

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

League

• Fiske – 22
• Dale – 5
• Gladwin – 10
• Thorpe
  Levy Thorpe
  Levi "Levy" Thorpe was an English professional association football player who played as a wing half. He made 98 appearances for Blackpool, all of which were in consecutive games...
  
   – 38
• Connor – 28
• Booth – 23
• Charles – 38
• Heslop – 27
• Dollins – 13
• Wilkinson
  Fred Wilkinson
  Fred Wilkinson was a footballer who played in the Football League for Blackpool, Watford and Stoke. He made three appearances for Stoke.-Blackpool:...
  
   – 15
• Quinn – 32
• Wilson – 24
• Chapman – 2
• Bainbridge – 28
• Jones – 32
• Kidd
  Jimmy Kidd
  James "Jimmy" Kidd was a footballer who played in the Football League for Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers and Derby County.-Blackpool:...
  
   – 16
• Gillow – 23
• Crewdson – 17
• Millership – 12
• Davies – 3
• McCulloch – 1
• Keenan – 1
• Reeves – 4
• Pagnam – 3

Players used: 24

FA Cup

• Thorpe
  Levy Thorpe
  Levi "Levy" Thorpe was an English professional association football player who played as a wing half. He made 98 appearances for Blackpool, all of which were in consecutive games...
  
   – 2
• Booth – 2
• Charles – 2
• Heslop – 2
• Dollins – 2
• Quinn – 1
• Wilson – 2
• Jones – 2
• Kidd
  Jimmy Kidd
  James "Jimmy" Kidd was a footballer who played in the Football League for Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers and Derby County.-Blackpool:...
  
   – 2
• Gillow – 2
• Crewdson – 2
• Davies – 1

Players used: 12

League

• Wilson – 10
• Bainbridge – 9
• Charles – 4
• Heslop – 4
• Connor – 3
• Gillow – 3
• Quinn – 3
• Booth – 1
• Dollins – 1
• Wilkinson
  Fred Wilkinson
  Fred Wilkinson was a footballer who played in the Football League for Blackpool, Watford and Stoke. He made three appearances for Stoke.-Blackpool:...
  
  – 1

League goals scored: 39

Footnotes

In Roy Calley's book, Gillow is incorrectly stated as having scored two league goals