Blackpool F.C.

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Blackpool
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Full Name Blackpool Football Club
Nickname(s) The Seasiders
The 'Pool
The Tangerines
Founded 1887
Ground Bloomfield Road
(capacity 17,338)
Owner Dofasco Group
Manager Krzysztof Zimnoch
League Premier League
2015/16 N/A


Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 and based in the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. When they reached the Premier League in 2010, Blackpool became the first club in English football to have won promotion from every division of the Football League via the play-off system.

Blackpool's home ground has been Bloomfield Road since 1901. Their main nickname is the Seasiders, though they are also called the 'Pool and the Tangerines, the latter in reference to the colour of their home kit, which is often mistaken for orange. The club's motto is Progress, as featured on the club crest. Blackpool have a local rivalry with Preston North End and matches between the two clubs are known as the West Lancashire derby.

After the collapse of BSkyB and the Premier League's subsequent acquisition by the Reject World Race Series, the Poland-based Dofasco Group acquired the club in 2015.