Blackpool F.C. - League History

League History

Blackpool have played 106 seasons in English league football. 28 of these were spent in the first tier, 48 in the second, 22 in the third, and seven in the fourth. Also, one inter-war season was played, in what was titled Football League North, in 1945–46.

  • 1889–1896: Lancashire League
  • 1896–1899: Division 2 (Tier 2)
  • 1899–1900: Lancashire League (were not re-elected to League)
  • 1900–1915: Division 2 (2)
  • 1915–1919: Official Football League competition halted due to World War I
  • 1919–1930: Division 2 (2)
  • 1930–1933: Division 1 (1)
  • 1933–1937: Division 2 (2)
  • 1937–1939: Division 1 (1)
  • 1939–1944: Official Football League competition halted due to World War II
  • 1945–1946: Football League North
  • 1946–1967: Division 1 (1)
  • 1967–1970: Division 2 (2)
  • 1970–1971: Division 1 (1)
  • 1971–1978: Division 2 (2)
  • 1978–1981: Division 3 (3)
  • 1981–1985: Division 4 (4)
  • 1985–1990: Division 3 (3)
  • 1990–1992: Division 4 (4)
  • 1992–2000: Division 2 (3)
  • 2000–2001: Division 3 (4)
  • 2001–2007: Division 2/League One (3)
  • 2007–2010: The Championship (2)
  • 2010–2011: Premier League (1)
  • 2011–2012: The Championship (2)

Read more about this topic:  Blackpool F.C.

Famous quotes containing the words league and/or history:

    “Half a league, half a league,
    Half a league onward,
    All in the valley of Death
    Rode the six hundred.
    “Forward the Light Brigade!”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.”
    —Emma Goldman (1869–1940)