Mighty Blackpool F.C.
Mohamed Bah | |||
| Manager |  Alusine ‘Bala’ Kargbo | ||
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| League | Sierra Leone National Premier League | ||
| 2022–2023 | 2nd | ||
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Mighty Blackpool is a Sierra Leonean football club based in the capital Freetown. They play in the Sierra Leone National Premier League, the top football league in the country. Blackpool represents the West End of Freetown and their home games are played at the National Stadium in Freetown.
The club was founded in 1923 under the name Socro United and they are the oldest and most successful football club in Sierra Leone, having won the Premier League fifteen times and the
Mighty Blackpool have an intense
History
Although Mighty Blackpool have won the league title fifteen times, the last time they were league champions was in the 2001 season after a dramatic finish to the season saw them finish one point ahead of Old Edwardians.[2]
In 1989 Mighty Blackpool reached the quarter-final stages of the
In the 2007 league campaign, a 2–0 win over
Mighty Blackpool's record in the
In
In
Honours
League
- Sierra Leone National Premier League champions: 6 [7]
- 1968 (not official championship),[7] 1988, 1991, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001
Cups
- Sierra Leonean FA Cup winners: 4
- 1983, 1988, 1994, 2000
Performance in CAF competitions
- African Cup of Champions Clubs: 6 appearances
- 1968: withdrew in preliminary round
- 1975: First Round
- 1979: First Round
- 1980: First Round
- 1989: Quarterfinals
- 1992: First Round
- CAF Confederation Cup: 2 appearances
- 2006– Preliminary round
- CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 3 appearances
- 1984 – First Round
- 1994 – Second Round
- 2008 – Eliminated in the second round by CSS of Senegal (Stade Demba Diop)
- The Starting Line Up in 2008
- Coach: Christian Cole
- Assistant: Charlie Wright
- 1.
Shongbon (Captain) (pro) - 2.
Saway Dollar (pro) - 3. Ibrahim Kargbo Meuncle
- 4. Pizzo
- 5. David Simbo (pro)
- 6. Lanssana Bayoh
- 7.
Muhmuni Khumson (pro) - 8.
Abu Tommy (pro) - 9. Adrew Alie (pro)
- 10.
Komba Tongu (pro) - 11.
Daniel Dove (pro)
Notable former players
- Ibrahim "Inspector" Bah
- Alhassan Bangura
Umaru Bangura- Albert Cole
- Mohamed Kamara
- Obi Metzger
- Kabba Samura
- Abu Tommy
- Michael Tommy
- David Simbo
Notes
- ^ Mighty Blackpool F.C. Sierra Leone BBC Archived 27 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "Blackpool win new Leone league". BBC Sport. 7 August 2001. Retrieved 18 July 2007.
- ^ "Blackpool wallops Golf Leopard 2–0". The New Citizen. 17 July 2007. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007. Retrieved 22 January 2007.
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"African Club Competitions 1989". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 18 May 2002. Retrieved 18 March 2008.
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"African Club Competitions 1992". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 6 January 2003. Retrieved 18 March 2008.
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"African Club Competitions 2006". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 7 September 2007. Retrieved 18 March 2008.
- ^ a b "Sierra Leone – List of Champions".
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