Blackpool currently play in League One. They were the first ever team in English football to have won promotion from every division of the Football League via the play-off system. Nicknamed the ‘Seasiders’, Blackpool wear tangerine shirts with white shorts first seen in the 1920s and the shirts are manufactured by Fila and sponsored by Wonga who have sponsored them for three seasons. Blackpool’s away shirt is white with tangerine shorts and the third shirt is the 125th anniversary special kit which is navy blue to commemorate one of their first ever shirts back in the late 19th century.
Blackpool 23/24 Kits
Blackpool Home Kits
2022/23 Blackpool Home Shirt
Blackpool’s 2022/23 Puma home shirt was predominantly orange and had an all-over repeating diamond pattern alternating between an outline and a solid fill. The jersey had its collar and sleeve cuffs in white and detailed with an offset black striping.
2021/22 Blackpool Home Shirt
Blackpool FC wore a tangerine-based Puma home shirt for the 2021/22 season. The jersey boasted an eye-catching front graphic composed of slanted chartered lines underpinned by bold white geometrical visuals, producing an overall wavy effect. Complementing the print design were the white accents from the round collar and the sleeve cuffs.
Blackpool Away Kits
2022/23 Blackpool Away Shirt
Puma designed Blackpool’s away shirt with a white base and a blue patter of vertical broken lines, with the adjacent columns angled lower and lower towards the left-hand side. Prominent sleeve cuffs and v-collar featured in the same shade of blue.
2021/22 Blackpool Away Shirt
Blackpool wore a predominantly white Puma away shirt for the 2021/22 season. The graphic was the same as the home and featured rising graph lines accompanied by abstract geometric patterns, though the said patterns were subtle. The linear visuals, sleeve cuffs, and round collar were all in tangerine orange.
Blackpool were formed in 1877, the club play at 11,295 capacity Bloomfield Road in Lancashire. They are known as the Tangerines (from their bright orange shirts) or the sea-siders due to their location on the North West of England’s coast.
Blackpool’s finest moment was winning the 1953 FA Cup final in a come from behind victory inspired by their famous player Sir Stanley Matthews. Other trophies collected by Blackpool include the Division Two championship in 1930, the Anglo-Italian cup in 1971 and the Football League Trophy in both 2002 & 2004.
The most goals scored in a season by a player wearing a Blackpool shirt was 45 by Jimmy Hampson and the player who pulled on Blackpool’s trademark orange shirt the most times was Jimmy Armfield with 568 club appearance.