Blackpool F.C. season 1919-20
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| Season 1919-20 1919-20 in English football The 1919–1920 season was the 45th season of competitive football in England, and the first following the end of World War I.-Honours:Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition... |
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| 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 | Bill Norman Bill Norman (football manager) William "Bill" Norman was an English football manager.Between 1918 and 1923, he was in charge of Blackpool, who became one of a growing number of clubs to appoint a full-time manager. Before that point, the team selection had been the responsibility of a committee comprising directors, the captain,... |
| League position | 4th |
| Top goalscorer | League: Joe Lane Joe Lane (footballer) James Charles "Joe" Lane was an English professional footballer. He played as a forward.After spells with Hungarian club Ferencvárosi TC and English side Sunderland, Lane signed for another English club, Blackpool, in 1913 for ₤400. He made his debut for the club on November 22, 1913, in a 2–2... (26) Combined: Joe Lane Joe Lane (footballer) James Charles "Joe" Lane was an English professional footballer. He played as a forward.After spells with Hungarian club Ferencvárosi TC and English side Sunderland, Lane signed for another English club, Blackpool, in 1913 for ₤400. He made his debut for the club on November 22, 1913, in a 2–2... (28) |
| 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... |
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| Previous season | ← 1918-19 Blackpool F.C. season 1918-19 The 1918-19 season was Blackpool F.C.s fourth and final season in special wartime football during World War I. They competed in two Football League competitions spread over the full season — the Lancashire Section, Northern Group Principal Competition, for thirty games, and then in the Lancashire... |
| Next season | 1920-21 Blackpool F.C. season 1920-21 The 1920-21 season was Blackpool F.C.s twentieth season in the Football League. They competed in the 22-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing fourth.... → |
The 1919-20
1919-20 in English football
The 1919–1920 season was the 45th season of competitive football in England, and the first following the end of World War I.-Honours:Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition...
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 nineteenth season (sixteenth 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 22-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 fourth.
Joe Lane
Joe Lane (footballer)
James Charles "Joe" Lane was an English professional footballer. He played as a forward.After spells with Hungarian club Ferencvárosi TC and English side Sunderland, Lane signed for another English club, Blackpool, in 1913 for ₤400. He made his debut for the club on November 22, 1913, in a 2–2...
was the club's top scorer, with 28 goals (26 in the league and two 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...
).
Table
| P | W | D | L | F | A | GA | Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tottenham Hotspur 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.... |
42 | 32 | 6 | 4 | 102 | 32 | 3.188 | 70 |
| 2 | 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... |
42 | 28 | 8 | 6 | 97 | 38 | 2.553 | 64 |
| 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... |
42 | 24 | 8 | 10 | 85 | 34 | 2.500 | 56 |
| 4 | 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... |
42 | 21 | 10 | 11 | 65 | 47 | 1.383 | 52 |
| 5 | 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... |
42 | 20 | 8 | 14 | 60 | 44 | 1.364 | 48 |
| 6 | 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... |
42 | 19 | 9 | 14 | 61 | 50 | 1.220 | 47 |
| 7 | West Ham United West Ham United F.C. West Ham United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Upton Park, Newham, East London. They play in The Football League Championship. The club was founded in 1895 as Thames Ironworks FC and reformed in 1900 as West Ham United. In 1904 the club relocated to their current... |
42 | 19 | 9 | 14 | 47 | 40 | 1.175 | 47 |
| 8 | 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... |
42 | 13 | 17 | 12 | 46 | 43 | 1.070 | 43 |
| 9 | South Shields South Shields F.C. South Shields F.C. are a football club based in South Shields, England. They have a long and complicated history, with three distinct incarnations taking the name... |
42 | 15 | 12 | 15 | 58 | 48 | 1.208 | 42 |
| 10 | Stoke Stoke City F.C. Stoke City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire that plays in the Premier League. Founded in 1863, it is the oldest club in the Premier League, and considered to be the second oldest professional football club in the world, after Notts... |
42 | 18 | 6 | 18 | 60 | 54 | 1.111 | 42 |
| 11 | 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... |
42 | 18 | 6 | 18 | 78 | 72 | 1.083 | 42 |
| 12 | 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... |
42 | 15 | 10 | 17 | 61 | 55 | 1.109 | 40 |
| 13 | Port Vale Port Vale F.C. Port Vale Football Club is an English football club currently playing in Football League Two. They are based in Burslem, Staffordshire — one of six towns that make up the city of Stoke-on-Trent. The club's traditional rivals in the city are Stoke City, and games between the two clubs are known as... * |
42 | 16 | 8 | 18 | 59 | 62 | 0.952 | 40 |
| 14 | Leicester City 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... |
42 | 15 | 10 | 17 | 41 | 61 | 0.672 | 40 |
| 15 | 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... |
42 | 16 | 6 | 20 | 51 | 59 | 0.864 | 38 |
| 16 | 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... |
42 | 14 | 9 | 19 | 52 | 61 | 0.852 | 37 |
| 17 | Rotherham County Rotherham County F.C. Rotherham County Football Club was an English football club based in the town of Rotherham, Yorkshire. The club was founded in 1877 as Thornhill Football Club becoming Rotherham County in 1905. It joined the Midland League in 1903, and stayed in that competition until it was abandoned for World... |
42 | 13 | 8 | 21 | 51 | 83 | 0.614 | 34 |
| 18 | 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... |
42 | 11 | 9 | 22 | 43 | 73 | 0.589 | 31 |
| 19 | 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... |
42 | 10 | 10 | 22 | 55 | 80 | 0.688 | 30 |
| 20 | Coventry City Coventry City F.C. Coventry City Football Club, otherwise known as the Sky Blues owing to the traditional colour of their strip, are a professional English Football league club based in Coventry... |
42 | 9 | 11 | 22 | 35 | 73 | 0.479 | 29 |
| 21 | 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.... |
42 | 9 | 9 | 24 | 44 | 101 | 0.436 | 27 |
| 22 | 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... |
42 | 10 | 5 | 27 | 34 | 75 | 0.453 | 25 |
* Leeds City were expelled from the league after eight games; Port Vale, formerly Burslem Port Vale, took their place and inherited their record.
P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GA = Goal average; Pts = Points
League
Mingay 41, Tulloch 35, Jones 22, Keenan 35, Wilson 22, Rooks 39, Charles 27, Heathcoate 31, Lane 30, Sibbald 32, Quinn 24, Fairhurst 27, Booth 8, AppletonLen Appleton
Leonard "Len" Appleton was an English footballer. He played for Blackpool, Exeter City and Southport.-References:...
15, O'Doherty 1, Tremelling 7, Jacklin 1, McGinn 20, Burke 9, Hunter 11, Marsh 4, Bainbridge 1, Berry
Edmund Berry
Edmund Berry was an English footballer. He played professionally for Blackpool in the early 20th century.Berry made his debut for Blackpool late in the 1919–20 campaign, in a 1–1 draw with Wolves at Bloomfield Road on 13 March...
5, Baker
Len Baker
Leonard Henry "Len" Baker was an English professional footballer who played as a wing half.Baker began his professional career with Bill Norman's Blackpool in 1919, during 1918-19 inter-war competitions...
7, Kent 5, Howard 1, Dumper 1, Barrass 1
Players used: 28
FA Cup
Mingay 3, Tulloch 3, Keenan 3, Wilson 3, Rooks 3, Charles 3, Heathcote 1, Lane 3, Quinn 3, Fairhurst 3, McGinn 2, Sibbald 3Players used: 12
League
Lane 26, Heathcote 13, Sibbald 6, Charles 4, Quinn 4, Hunter 4, Rooks 3, Booth 2, Wilson 1, McGinn 1, BerryEdmund Berry
Edmund Berry was an English footballer. He played professionally for Blackpool in the early 20th century.Berry made his debut for Blackpool late in the 1919–20 campaign, in a 1–1 draw with Wolves at Bloomfield Road on 13 March...
1
Goals scored: 65