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1959–60 Blackpool F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ4569810 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1959–60 season was Blackpool F.C.'s 52nd season (49th consecutive) in the Football League. They competed in the 22-team Division One, then the top tier of English football, finishing eleventh, mid-table.

Ray Charnley was the club's top scorer for the second consecutive season, with eighteen goals.

Hugh Kelly retired at the end of the season after seventeen years of service for Blackpool, his only professional club. George Farm left mid season to join Queen of the South after becoming the first player to make 500 first team appearances for Blackpool.

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References

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

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“1959–60 Blackpool F.C. season” enters the record as season of football team. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Blackpool, season and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959, 1992, 1887—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Blackpool, season and football.
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“1959–60 Blackpool F.C. season” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Blackpool, season and football provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4569810. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1959, 1992 and 1887.

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This entry incorporates text from “1959–60 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.