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1954–55 Blackpool F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ4568242 ↗
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The 1954–55 season was Blackpool F.C.'s 47th season (44th consecutive) in the Football League. They competed in the 22-team Division One, then the top tier of English football, finishing nineteenth.

Stan Mortensen was the club's top scorer for the eleventh consecutive season, with eleven goals in all competitions.

Harry Johnston retired at the end of the season after 21 years of service for Blackpool, his only professional club. He remains the club's longest-serving player.

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References

Calley, Roy (1992). Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887–1992. Breedon Books Sport.

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This entry incorporates text from “1954–55 Blackpool F.C. season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.