Blackpool F.C. season 1918-19
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| Season 1918-19 | |
| League | Principal Competition — Football League, Lancashire Section Subsidiary Competition — Football League, Lancashire Section |
| Manager | Bill Norman |
| League position | 11th (Principal Competition) 1st (Subsidiary Competition) |
| Top goalscorer | Hunter (18) |
| FA Cup | Competition suspended |
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| Previous season | ← 1917-18 |
| Next season | 1919-20 → |
The 1918-19 season was Blackpool F.C.'s fourth and final season in special wartime football during World War I. They competed in the Lancashire Section of a makeshift Football League. The season was split into a Principal Competition (30 games) and a Subsidiary Competition (six games), the latter of which saw Blackpool facing only their closest of neighbours (Burnley, Preston North End and Blackburn Rovers). Blackpool finished eleventh in the principal competition and first in the subsidiary competition. Their winning of the subsidiary competition led to their appearance in the Lancashire Senior Cup, in which they lost to Liverpool at the semi-final (or first) stage by a single goal at Bloomfield Road.
Bill Norman became Blackpool's first full-time manager prior to the start of the season.
Hunter was the club's top scorer, with eighteen goals (fourteen in the principal competition and four in the subsidiary).
[edit] References
- Calley, Roy (1992). Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887-1992. Breedon Books Sport. ISBN 1-873626-07-X.
