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Blackpool F.C.

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Blackpool Football Club is an English professional football club. Its home ground is located at Bloomfield Road in the centre of the resort of Blackpool in north-west England.

Blackpool FC are known as the Seasiders or Tangerines. Their team color is tangerine.

The club's most famous achievement was winning the FA Cup in 1953 (in the so-called Matthews final) when they beat Bolton Wanderers 4 - 3, overturning a 1-3 deficit in the closing stages of the game.

The club is currently in the Nationwide League Division 2.

Although the South stand is on Bloomfield Rd, since the re-development of the North and West stands, the main access to the ground is Seasiders Way.

The current manager of Blackpool FC is Steve McMahon.


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