Blackpool FC

Blackpool FC
	Blackpool FC
Basic data
Surname	Blackpool Football Club
Seat	Blackpool
founding	July 26, 1887
Board	Simon Sadler
Website	blackpoolfc.co.uk
First soccer team
Head coach	Neil Critchley
Venue	Bloomfield Road , Blackpool
Places	17,338
league	EFL League One
2019/20	13th place
home	Away

The Blackpool (officially: Blackpool Football Club ) - also known as The Seasiders (about: The guys from the coast) - is an English football club from the county Lancashire located north-west coast city of Blackpool . The club has been playing in the third division, EFL League One, since the 2017/18 season . The stadium on Bloomfield Road is in the center of Blackpool. The club has several nicknames, including "(The) 'Pool" and "The Seasiders" the best known. Furthermore, the team is called "The Tangerines" (The Mandarins ) after the orange home game wear . The club has a particularly strong rivalry with Preston North End .

The club's greatest success was winning the FA Cup in 1953 (in the so-called "Matthews Final"), when the Bolton Wanderers could still be defeated 4-3 after the team was still 1-3 shortly before the end of the game had been behind. Three years later, Blackpool FC, which played several times for the English title in the immediate post-war period, became English runner-up and played three games at Wembley Stadium in six years . The club provided a number of players, especially for the English national team , with four Blackpool players in the selection of England against Hungary in 1953 - the Daily Mirror stated in advance that "Blackpool FC will play against Hungary today". However, this fact should be pushed into the background in view of England's spectacular 6-3 defeat.

After the last first division membership in the 1970/71 season , the club experienced a continuous decline, which only ten years later led to the fourth division fourth division . Even in the 1982/83 season, being fourth from last, the first-time farewell from the Football League to the Alliance Premier League (today: National League ) could only just be prevented by the fact that the league association allowed the club to be re-elected. agreed.

history

The first years (1887-1896)

The "Blackpool Football Club" was founded on July 26, 1887 and was made up of a part of the local club "St. John's Football Club ”together. A historical review of the Blackburn Rovers published in the 1990s indicates a game against "Blackpool" in December 1880, although it is unclear whether this actually refers to the club known today as Blackpool FC. In any case, the St. John's team had already existed for at least a decade and was in turn a recreation of the previously disbanded "Victoria Club". The process of founding Blackpool FC was initiated by five St. John members - namely Revd. NS Jeffrey, Sam Bancroft, Dick Swanbrick, Dick Worthington and WJ Brown - who believed the City of Blackpool needed a football club to bear their name. When no agreement could be reached with the remaining club members, the men left the meeting called for this purpose and founded the Blackpool Football Club in the nearby Stanley Arms Hotel on their own. The remaining players from St. John's eventually defected to this new club and thus ensured the quick end of their former club. The new Blackpool FC played their first competitive game at Chorley FC , which they won 2-1.

In its first season, Blackpool FC won the Fylde Cup and the Lancashire Junior Cup to win their first trophies and even made a profit of £ 20 - total income from membership and other benefits had amounted to £ 66. The sporting home of the club was initially to be found in "Raikes Hall Gardens" (also called "Royal Palace Gardens"). There you were part of a larger entertainment complex and so, for example, there was still a theater at this point by a lake . This lucrative location advantage ensured an average attendance of 2,000 early on, which made gaming operations a financial success in the early years.

The profit could be nearly tripled in the following season 1888/89 and the club then joined as a founding member of the " Lancashire League ". After a fifth place (with a total of thirteen participants) in the season 1889/90, the club won two runners-up in a row - first behind FC Bury and then only because of the poorer average behind Liverpool FC . The championship was finally won in the 1893/94 season, Blackpool FC was victorious in 15 of 22 games and was able to retract the championship three points ahead of the runner-up. Another runner-up followed, but then the club found itself only near the bottom of the table. The club management then decided that the future should be sought beyond regional football and so the club changed on May 13, 1896 to a stock corporation and he also applied for admission to the association of the Football League .

Relegation from the Football League and merger with FC South Shore (1896-1900)

The application to participate in the Football League was successful and so Blackpool FC debuted together with Gainsborough Trinity and Walsall FC in the Second Division , which consisted of 16 participants , after Burslem Port Vale and Rotherham County were both eliminated from the league. On September 5, 1896, Blackpool FC played its first game in the Football League at Lincoln City and had to cover a distance of almost 250 kilometers. Blackpool lost the game on the pitch, which had been affected by constant rain, 3-1 and the newspaper “Athletic News” then certified the team as “weak in front of goal plus a rather poor defense”. In the FA Cup , the club was initially more successful and beat the Burton Swifts in the first round, before failing three weeks later at the Bolton Wanderers .

In the end, the club occupied eighth place in the table in its first season, which could not be confirmed in the subsequent fourteen years. Although the popularity of the spectators in Raikes Hall was relatively high, the club generated a minus and the subsequently falling audience income ensured that the club quickly maneuvered itself into a precarious financial situation. From a sporting point of view, the team was in a crisis situation, only finished eleventh at the end of the 1897/98 season and also missed the first main round of the FA Cup.

For the 1898/99 season, the club changed its home ground after Raikes Hall was to be used for the development of residential complexes. The new home was the Athletic Grounds in Stanley Park in Blackpool and the move could be carried out without major financial difficulties. In sporting terms, however, the situation deteriorated further and the club finished third from last, ahead of Loughborough Town and Darwen FC . Both FC Darwen and FC Blackpool then had to leave the Second Division.

In a decision criticized by the supporters, the club then merged with local rivals South Shore FC in 1899. South Shore had previously played with some success in the Lancashire League and made a name for itself primarily with an FA Cup win against Notts County , which was considered one of the biggest cup surprises to date.

Immediately after the merger, which was sealed on December 12, 1899, most of the former South Shore players joined Blackpool FC, which itself returned shortly to Raikes Hall and then moved to Bloomfield Road, where South Shore FC recently had its new one sporting home.

Second attempt and development up to the First World War (1900–1915)

During the year-long absence from the Football League, Blackpool FC celebrated a respectable success by winning the " Lancashire Combination " and was immediately re-accepted into the Second Division of the League Association on May 25, 1900 - together with Stockport County .

The club management implemented extensive restructuring in the team. A few prominent players joined the team, including goalkeeper Joe Dorrington from Blackburn Rovers and their own young talent Harold Hardman , who was to celebrate great successes on the left wing in the further course of his career at Everton and later an official at Manchester United and the FA was. With Jack Parkinson , the club's former top scorer from the time of the first Second Division season also returned after only one year at first division club Liverpool . The first season 1900/01 after returning, the club completed in twelfth place, followed by rank 13 in the 1901/02 season. In terms of sport, the club stagnated in the following years and always finished between 13th and 15th in the table until 1908, but after Tom Barcroft succeeded RB Middleton as club secretary in 1903, he successfully laid the foundations in business terms (Barcroft should have been active for Blackpool FC for over 30 years). Despite the initially lacking success, the number of spectators increased significantly between 1901 and 1905, with 7,000 spectators reported for the game against the Bolton Wanderers in October 1903 alone - including 3,000 guest fans.

The financial situation was so precarious during this time that the club management decided to sell a home right even during the FA Cup participation in the 1905/06 season. Previously, the club had defeated Crystal Palace after two replays and pulled the first division club Sheffield United as their next opponent . Despite major protests in their own appendix, the club finally went to Bramall Lane and even won this game on February 3, 1906 with 2-1. In the next round, however, the club clearly failed in front of 35,000 spectators with 0: 5 at Newcastle United . Also in the following season, the club's management sold a home game with the FA Cup first round match against West Ham United and in the newly opened Upton Park ( Boleyn Ground ), Blackpool FC was eliminated from the competition with a 2-1 defeat.

In the 1908/09 season, the sporting development in the Second Division hit another low point when the club was bottom of the table. Following this season, in which even the top scorer Bob Whittingham had still been sold to Bradford City , the club owed its remaining in the Football League game operation only to a successful application for resumption. With Jack Cox returning from Liverpool , who from then on acted as a kind of player- coach, the team's fortunes should develop positively in the following period. Although the financial situation required further home sales of FA Cup games - in the 1910/11 season the club Manchester United "left" the home game at Old Trafford and lost 2-1 there - was 12th in the Second Division during the season 1909/10 a significant increase over the previous year. With the seventh place in the 1910/11 season finally achieved the best placement in the club's short history.

However, this intermediate high did not ensure sustainability and in the two subsequent years the team returned to the bottom of the table - the fourteenth place in the 1911/12 season was followed by the 20th and last place in the 1912/13 season. Again you had to apply for new membership for playing in the Second Division and again this request was granted. Also in the season 1913/14 the course turned out to be disappointing. Besides the again only moderate 16th place in the championship, the first round of the FA Cup against FC Gillingham from the Southern League was a negative surprise. One of the newcomers was bemerkenswertesten but Joe Lane from Sunderland , who had previously been in Hungary at Budapest Ferencváros should be had played, and an important attacking players in the team. After eleven goals in his first season, he contributed 28 goals in the following season 1914/15 and helped Blackpool FC to advance to 10th place. Before the team could develop any further, the outbreak of the First World War caused one Interruption of official game operations until the end of the fighting.

The long road to excellence (1915–1930)

During the war, Blackpool FC played with a frequently changing team composition in various regional leagues that were characterized by rather low sporting value. The team first took third place in a “Lancashire Section”, which was followed by a runner-up in the subsequent season. In the last "war season" 1918/19, the club won the championship in "Section A" - local rivals such as Burnley FC, Preston North End and the Blackburn Rovers also played there - and then appeared as one of four "Section- Winners ”in the semi-finals of the“ Lancashire Senior Cup ”against Liverpool FC and went down 1-0 on Bloomfield Road.

When the Football League resumed its game operations for the 1919/20 season, Blackpool FC started with Bill Norman - following the example of an increasing number of football clubs - for the first time with a full-time coach in a season after the former at Huddersfield Town Norman employed twelve months earlier. He prescribed a strict fitness program for the team and his concept with a strict training routine immediately bore fruit when he and the team achieved fourth place in the club's history in the second division.

Although the sale of Joe Lane in March 1920 to Birmingham City for 3,600 pounds caused short-term doubts about the club's new objectives among the supporters, the club was able to consolidate itself financially and also confirmed the fourth in the 1920/21 season Place of the previous year. Before that, however, the team had headed the table for a long time, so that fourth place - and the resulting missed promotion to the First Division - was ultimately a disappointment. The tragic low point of this season was also the death of defender Horace Fairhurst , who suffered a serious head injury during the game against Barnsley FC on December 27, 1920 and died eleven days later.

In the 1921/22 season, the club played against relegation to the newly established Third Division North and needed no less than two wins to stay in the last two games. In both games, the team had to win against the promotion candidate West Ham United and retained the upper hand with a 2-0 win at Upton Park and a 3-1 at Bloomfield Road seven days later - instead of Blackpool FC rose by one point the Seasiders Bradford City and Bristol City . In the period that followed, the team was unable to draw attention to itself through top sporting performances. Only Harry Bedford , who was signed by Nottingham Forest , was able to convince with his scoring qualities and was - like Joe Lane in previous years - responsible for the majority of the goals in the next few years. Also Bert Baverstock from Bolton Wanderers joined the team and became captain before an injury would end his career at the club early. The further expansion of the home ground on Bloomfield Road, which with the new south stand now had a capacity of 18,000 seats, was also worth mentioning.

Like two years before, the club found itself again long promising in the battle for promotion in the 1922/23 season before three defeats in the last six games resulted in the fall to fifth place - with a total of 32 goals Harry Bedford in particular played a key role in the return to the top half of the table. After the end of the season Bill Norman left the club together with his co-trainer and son-in-law Allan Ure for Leeds United - the latter returned to Bloomfield Road many years later. With the exception of the signing of Arsenal player Henry White for £ 1,225, the era under Bill Norman had always suffered from the club's financial squeeze, which made possible higher goals difficult.

With "Major" Frank Buckley , the former Norwich City trainer was engaged as the new sporting director for the 1923/24 season . The start of the season was difficult at first, but after the first seven games without a win, the team brought Konstanz into their performances and with another 32 goals from Harry Badford, the team finished fourth in the table. During this time Blackpool FC also started the tradition of the orange jerseys. After Albert Hargreaves an international match between the Netherlands and Belgium as referee had directed, he was so impressed by the colors of the Dutch that he delivered them to the Blackpool FC for the next season. Initially, the orange jerseys were combined with black shorts and a black collar, and after an FA Cup game against the Blackburn Rovers on March 7, 1925, the black color was dropped again - according to legend, their own players had their teammates cloudy during this Day "cannot see".

In terms of sport, Blackpool FC could not draw further attention to itself until the end of the 1920s, before the second division championship under coach Harry Evans - Blackpool FC's only championship title in the Football League to this day - succeeded in the 1929/30 season . This also brought about the first promotion to the highest English league.

"Up and down" in the 1930s (1930–1939)

In the first two seasons of the new decade, Blackpool FC managed to stay in the league just over the 20th position in the table, but the last place in the 1932/33 season meant relegation to the second division. Two days before the second division was downgraded again, an almost completely new presidium had been formed. The new coach for the second division season 1933/34 was the Scot Sandy MacFarlane and numerous new signings should pave the way back to the First Division after the departure of Major Frank Buckley - including Bert Thomson from the Glasgow Rangers , the later Northern Irish international Peter Doherty , as well the goalkeeper Jock Wallace (father of the later Rangers coach of the same name between 1983 and 1986).

The club, which was one of the favorites for promotion, could not meet the high expectations and was only in midfield in the final table of the 1933/34 season with rank 11. In the following season they were able to improve to fourth place, but the desired return to first class failed again. The young Peter Doherty was responsible for the few sporting highlights, and as a striker he developed into the best club player of the time. The new coach for the 1935/36 season was the former player Joe Smith , who with tenth place also could not ensure the longed-for promotion, but discovered a young talent in Bobby Finan . Finan should develop into the team's new top scorer, contributing 34 goals in his first season alone. However, Peter Doherty could no longer be held with the second division side, especially since Manchester City's offer of 10,000 pounds was exceptionally high.

With the signings George Farrow (from Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic ), Frank Hill (from Arsenal FC ) and Danny Blair (from Aston Villa ), a new attempt in the promotion race was started in the 1936/37 season. This turned out to be successful in the end, and after winning the second division championship, Blackpool FC returned to the First Division after four years. In contrast to the previous first division membership, the relegation succeeded in the following two seasons with a twelfth and 15th place in the table relatively safely.

At the beginning of the 1939/40 season, the team led the table even briefly with three wins in three games, before the outbreak of World War II ensured that the official game operations were interrupted until the end of the fighting.

Matthews and Mortensen: The Golden Era (1946–1961)

English football continued in 1946 and Blackpool FC should quickly attract attention. The upswing that began now could be associated with two names who are still counted among the best football players in England: Stanley Matthews and Stan Mortensen . For the first time, the two strikers led the club in 1948 in an FA Cup final, which was lost to Manchester United after a 2-1 half-time lead with 2: 4. Even three years later, the "Tangerines" lost in the cup final - now against Newcastle United .

The third attempt in 1953 finally brought the longed-for success and thus the first major national title for Blackpool FC. The club was already 3-1 back in the final against Bolton Wanderers at Wembley Stadium, with only 20 minutes remaining. A minute before the end of regular time, Mortensen managed to equalize with his third goal in the game and in stoppage time Bill Perry scored the decisive 4-3 winner. Although Matthews himself remained without a goal, his performance was considered to be decisive for the victory and the game went down as the "Matthews Final" in English football history. In the subsequent Charity Shield game against the reigning champions FC Arsenal , the newly crowned cup winner lost 3-1 in October 1953.

In 1956, Blackpool FC won the English runner-up and took second place, the best placement in the club's history. The club pushed Wolverhampton Wanderers tied for points to third place due to the better goal cut and only had to admit defeat to Manchester United, who were eleven points better. During these extremely successful times, an average of more than 30,000 spectators often found their way to the Seasiders stadium. The team also played international tours, including one in the Australasian region .

The Post Matthews Period (1961–1971)

After Mortensen and Matthews withdrew, the time as an English top club was over. Although the club made headlines with the signing of Cheung Chi Doy from Hong Kong in 1959 when a Chinese player was used for the first time in the English professional league, the form curve of the team went down significantly , apart from the semi-finals in the 1962 League Cup . Following the 1966/67 season , the club finally had to move into the second-rate Second Division after three decades in the English elite class. In the previous year 1966, the club had two world champions in their own ranks, Jimmy Armfield and Alan Ball , of which Armfield was now even making their way into the second division. In the 1966/67 season, the club even set a negative record at home games and the record of only one win and five draws in the top English division was only beaten 39 years later by Sunderland .

In the subsequent season 1968/69, the club missed the return to the First Division with third place only because of the poorer goal quotient against the Queens Park Rangers . Two years later, the missed opportunity could then be made up for by winning the second division championship behind Huddersfield Town , but after the 1970/71 season, as bottom of the table, the renewed demotion followed directly . This season, in which the Tangerines also won the Anglo-Italian Cup , remained the last first division season in the history of the club for 39 years.

The sporting decline (1971–1983)

Seven more years later, the club even slipped into the third division for the first time , with the relegation being missed by just one point against Cardiff City . In the previous season, the club had occupied the fifth place in the final table and would have displaced Nottingham Forest from the promotion place with only two points more points . The team had similarly narrowly missed promotion to the First Division in 1974 - a win instead of the 1: 2 defeat against Sunderland on the last matchday would have meant that Blackpool would have been promoted instead of Carlisle United .

The stay in the third and fourth leagues after relegation in 1978 should last for 29 years. The first descent into the fourth division Fourth Division under Alan Ball as coach marked another temporary low point in 1981, as the club had thus arrived for the first time in the lowest division of the Football League. At the end of the 1982/83 season, the club finished fourth from last place and had to worry about remaining in the professional league association of the Football League. As with the clubs below that, the application to re-join the association was granted.

In addition to the problems on the field, the club also had to struggle with the increasing hooliganism in the area around the club - the gang called "Benny's Mob" was mostly up to mischief.

Changing times (1983-1994)

The first ray of hope after a lengthy drought was in 1985 when they won the fourth division championship, which brought Blackpool FC back to the third division. Five years later, however, followed the renewed relegation to the fourth division.

During the 1990/91 season the Tangerines experienced another sporting highlight with the appearance of Tottenham Hotspur on Bloomfield Road in a third round game of the FA Cup, as the opponents trained by Terry Venables are top-class with the English national players Gary Mabbutt , Gary Lineker and Paul Gascoigne was occupied. The decisive goal for the 1-0 victory for the team from London was ultimately achieved by Paul Stewart , of all people, who had started his career at Blackpool FC. At the end of the season, the "Seasiders" took fifth place in the championship, which entitles them to participate in the play-off games. After Scunthorpe United could be eliminated in the semifinals , the team led by Billy Ayre , who had taken over as coach from Graham Carr only six months earlier , met on May 31, 1991 at Wembley Stadium on Torquay United . In an exciting decision, Blackpool FC lost 4-5 on penalties. Almost a year later, the team was in the same place in the play-off final again on May 23, 1992 and again a penalty shoot-out had to ensure the decision, which was now 4: 3 in favor of Blackpool FC against Scunthorpe United.

After the establishment of the Premier League as the new top English division, Blackpool FC was one of the founding members of the third division, now known as the “Second Division”, in August 1992. For two years, the club was only just able to avoid relegation there, before club chairman Owen Oyston decided to change direction, coach Ayre fell victim and Sam Allardyce made his successor in July 1994.

Turbulence in club management (1994–2000)

In his second year in office, Allardyce led the team to third place in the 1995/96 season, but was then dismissed after the play-off semi-final defeat by eventual winners Bradford City . A change finally took place in the club's management after Oyston was found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl on May 22, 1996 . His wife Vicki finally took over the chairmanship until 1999, before his son Karl ran the business permanently - even after father Owen was released early from his original six-year sentence in 2000.

Gary Megson succeeded Allardyce in the coaching office and during his short time there, the team met on September 18, 1996 in the second round of the League Cup with Chelsea FC , supervised by Ruud Gullit , on a top club again. The first leg at Bloomfield Road was lost 4-1, but with a 3-1 win in the second leg at Stamford Bridge , the team was able to draw attention again with a victory at a first division club despite the elimination.

Megson left the club in 1997 for Stockport County and Nigel Worthington was hired as the new coach of Blackpool FC before the start of the 1997/98 season. The sporting trend under Worthington was back in the relegation zone and after more than two years, Worthington's tenure ended on December 23, 1999.

The resuscitation (since 2000)

At the turn of the year, the former England international Steve McMahon took a seat on the vacated Blackpool FC coaching chair. Already in his first full season 2000/01 McMahon led his new team after relegation on the play-offs after a 4-2 final win over Leyton Orient at Cardiffer Millennium Stadium for promotion. Until McMahon's resignation in 2004, the team played consistently in the third division and even won the LDV Vans Trophy twice in 2002 and 2004 (statistically speaking, Blackpool FC was even the most successful club with three wins from three games at the Millennium Stadium 2001 and 2006 - in terms of percentage and then nominal yield).

With Colin Hendry , a former Scottish national team captain became the new coach of FC Blackpool, who was to remain in office for just over a year before he was replaced by Simon Grayson . After McMahon's departure, Grayson and teammate Mike Flynn had already briefly taken over the training management and together with the experienced assistants Tony Parkes and Asa Hartford , the newcomer to the coach led his team to 19th place, which was synonymous with relegation. In December 2005, the Oyston family, the owners of the association, announced that there were three offers to take over the association. This was made more concrete in May 2006, when the Latvian businessman Valeri Belokon promised a substantial investment and considered taking over the chairmanship from Karl Oyston. On May 19, 2006, Belokon announced that he had agreed to a payment of five million pounds over several years.

Belokon secured a share of 20% with an additional option to double it at a later date and became the new club president. Together with his assistant Normund Malnacs, he also secured a seat on the board and strengthened the team through new purchases. After seventeen years, the club reached the fourth round of the FA Cup for the first time and lost there after a replay with 2: 3 against Norwich City on Carrow Road . In the league, Blackpool FC missed direct promotion to the second-rate Football League Championship despite a 6-3 away win against Swansea City against Bristol City at first, but after play-off wins against Oldham Athletic and Yeovil Town - in the latter The club played another game at Wembley Stadium after 15 years and won it 2-0 - the long-awaited return to the second division was perfect. At the end of the season, the team had also set a new club record with ten wins in a row.

Belokon, who announced his goal when he was appointed president of wanting to move up to the Premier League with Blackpool FC, acquired a football club in Riga for this purpose , primarily to train players for Blackpool FC in a " farm team ".

In the 2007/08 season, however, the club had to assert itself rather in the relegation battle. With a 1-1 draw against Watford FC on the last day of the match, they were finally relegated to the relegation ranks with a 2-point gap.

In the 2009-10 season , Blackpool finished 6th in the Football League Championship. With that they reached the playoff semi-finals. After victories (2: 1, 4: 3) against Nottingham Forest , Blackpool surprisingly even reached the playoff final for the last promotion place in the Premier League . On May 22, the play-off final between FC Blackpool and Cardiff City took place, which had prevailed with (1: 0, 2: 3 (4: 3 after penalty shootout)) against Leicester City . After two deficits, Blackpool FC won the game 3-2 and was promoted to the Premier League for the first time.

The 2010/11 Premier League season was initially the only one for Blackpool FC: It ended in 19th place and the club was relegated back to the second division Football League Championship .

Football League Championship 2011/12 was finished in 5th place, the 2012/13 season only in 15th place. In 2014/2015, Blackpool FC was already the first relegated from the 2nd division 6 game days before the end of the season. In the following 2015/16 season , relegation from League One , the third highest division, could not be prevented and you had to go to League Two .

In the League Two season 2016/17 they reached the playoffs in 7th place. There you could prevail in the semifinals against Luton Town with a 3: 2 home win and a 3: 3 draw and reached the final. With a 1: 2 win against Exeter City , the direct resurgence was made.

In the meantime, the club has been able to stabilize in the middle of League One .

successes

English Cup (FA Cup): 1

1953

English-Italian Cup (Anglo-Italian Cup): 1

1971

Football League Trophy : 2

2002, 2004

Lancashire Cup: 6

1936, 1937, 1954, 1994, 1995, 1996

Notable Players: Blackpool Football Club Hall of Fame

The Blackpool Football Club Hall of Fame was launched on August 22, 2006 with the unveiling of a roll of honor for Jimmy Armfield. This was followed by a selection of the best players in the club's history, organized by the supporters' association “Blackpool Supporters Association”, from each of five players from a certain period to the “Hall of Fame”.

Before 1950:

1950s:

1960s:

1970s:

1980s:

1990s:

Coach chronicle

Surname	From	To
Tom Barcroft	1903	1909
Jack Cox	1909	1911
Jimmy McMullan	June 1934	October 1935
Bill Norman	August 1, 1919	May 31, 1923
"Major" Frank Buckley	July 1, 1923	May 31, 1927
Sydney Beaumont	August 1, 1927	May 31, 1928
Harry Evans	August 1, 1928	May 31, 1933
Sandy MacFarlane	July 1, 1933	July 31, 1935
Joe Smith	August 1, 1935	April 30, 1958
Ron Suart	May 1, 1958	February 1, 1967
Stan Mortensen	February 1, 1967	April 30, 1969
Les Shannon	May 1st 1969	October 26, 1970
Jimmy Meadows	October 26, 1970	20th December 1970
Bob Stokoe	20th December 1970	November 23, 1972
Harry Potts	January 1, 1972	May 5th 1976
Allan Brown	May 5th 1976	February 6, 1978
Jimmy Meadows	March 7, 1978	May 20, 1978
Bob Stokoe	May 20, 1978	17th August 1979
Stan Ternent	19th September 1979	February 1, 1980
Alan Ball	February 1980	February 28, 1981
Allan Brown	March 1, 1981	May 31, 1982
Sam Ellis	June 1, 1982	April 30, 1989
Jimmy Mullen	May 20, 1989	April 30, 1990
Tom White	April 30, 1990	June 11, 1990
Graham Carr	June 11, 1990	November 30, 1990
Billy Ayre	November 30, 1990	June 10, 1994
Sam Allardyce	July 19, 1994	May 29, 1996
Gary Megson	5th July 1996	July 1, 1997
Nigel Worthington	July 8, 1997	December 23, 1999
Steve McMahon	January 7, 2000	June 6, 2004
Colin Hendry	June 7, 2004	November 10, 2005
Simon Grayson	November 11, 2005	December 23, 2008
Tony Parkes	December 24, 2008	May 18, 2009
Ian Holloway	May 21, 2009	November 3, 2012
Michael Appleton	November 7, 2012	January 11, 2013
Paul Ince	February 18, 2013	January 21, 2014
Barry Ferguson	January 21, 2014	May 3, 2014
José Riga	June 11, 2014	October 27, 2014
Lee Clark	October 30, 2014	May 9, 2015
Neil McDonald	2nd June 2015	May 18, 2016
Gary Bowyer	June 1, 2016	August 6, 2018
Terry McPhillips	August 6, 2018	5th July 2019
Simon Grayson	6th July 2019	February 12, 2020
Neil Critchley	March 2nd 2020	-