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1942–43 Blackpool F.C. season

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Blackpool F.C.
Season 1942-43
League League North
Manager Joe Smith
League position 1st (first competition); 13th (second competition)
Top goalscorer Combined: Jock Dodds (47)
FA Cup Competition suspended
League War Cup Winners (Northern Section)
Highest home attendance
Lowest home attendance
Previous season ← 1941-42
Next season 1943-44 →

The 1942-43 season was Blackpool F.C.'s fourth season in special wartime football during World War II. They competed in League North, finishing first in the first competition and thirteenth in the second. Blackpool also won the League War Cup Northern Section, beating Sheffield Wednesday in the final. They also won the Challenge Cup, a meeting with the winners of the southern section of the League War Cup, Arsenal. Blackpool beat the Londoners 4-2 at Stamford Bridge in front of 55,195 spectators.[1]

Jock Dodds was the club's top scorer for the fifth consecutive season, with 47 goals in all competitions.


Notes

  1. ^ Calley, Roy (1992); Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887-1992, Breedon Books Sport. ISBN 1-873626-07-X

References

  • Calley, Roy (1992). Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887-1992. Breedon Books Sport. ISBN 1-873626-07-X. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
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