Editing Mighty Blackpool F.C. (section)

== 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 F.C.|Old Edwardians]].<ref name="BBC Sport010807">{{cite news|title=Blackpool win new Leone league|work=[[BBC Sport]]|date=7 August 2001|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/1477677.stm|access-date=18 July 2007|archive-date=10 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240510061947/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/1477677.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1989 Mighty Blackpool reached the quarter-final stages of the [[African Cup of Champions Clubs]]; the first time a club from Sierra Leone had reached that stage. In the first round they beat reigning champions [[ES Sétif]] from [[Algeria]] and on the second round beat [[Djoliba Athletic Club]] from [[Mali]], before losing to [[Tonnerre Yaounde]] from [[Cameroon]] in the quarter finals.<ref name="BBC Sport010807" />

In the 2007 league campaign, a 2–0 win over [[Golf Leopards]] on 15 July meant that Blackpool were on 24 points from 12 games.<ref name="NewCitizen070717">{{cite news|title=Blackpool wallops Golf Leopard 2–0 |publisher=The New Citizen |date=17 July 2007 |url=http://www.christiantrede.com/webdesign/clients/newcitizen/sportpage.php?subaction=showfull&id=1184673196&archive=&start_from=&ucat=9 |access-date=22 January 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009220220/http://www.christiantrede.com/webdesign/clients/newcitizen/sportpage.php?subaction=showfull&id=1184673196&archive=&start_from=&ucat=9 |archive-date=9 October 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Mighty Blackpool's record in the [[African Cup of Champions Clubs]] has mostly seen them eliminated in the early rounds. In [[African Cup of Champions Clubs 1968|1968]] they were due to play [[Republic of the Congo|Congolese]] club, [[Étoile du Congo]] in the preliminary round but withdrew from the competition before the matches were played handing Étoile du Congo a walkover, and in [[African Cup of Champions Clubs 1975|1975]] they lost 3–0 on aggregate to [[Djoliba Athletic Club]] of [[Mali]] in the first round. In [[African Cup of Champions Clubs 1979|1979]] they again lost in the first round, drawing 4–4 with [[Accra Hearts of Oak SC]] of [[Ghana]] on aggregate but losing out on penalties 4–2. And in [[African Cup of Champions Clubs 1980|1980]] they lost to [[ASF Police]] of [[Senegal]] 4–1 on aggregate in the first round.

In [[African Cup of Champions Clubs 1989|1989]] they reached the Quarterfinal stage of the African Cup of Champions Clubs. In the preliminary round they had a walkover, when Benfica withdrew from the competition. In the first round they beat  [[Algeria]]n club [[ES Sétif]] 5–3 on penalties after the two matches ended all square at 1–1. In the second round they met Djoliba Athletic Club again, this time winning 2–1 on aggregate. They went out of the competition in the Quarter Final stage losing 4–1 to [[Cameroon]] club, [[Tonnerre Yaoundé]].<ref name="RSSF01">{{cite web
  | title = African Club Competitions 1989
  | publisher = [[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]]
  | date = 18 May 2002
  | url = https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/afcup89.html
  | access-date = 18 March 2008
  | archive-date = 4 February 2023
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230204045202/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/afcup89.html
  | url-status = live
  }}</ref> In [[African Cup of Champions Clubs 1992|1992]] they were again eliminated in the first round, this time by [[Canon Yaoundé]] of Cameroon after beating [[Liberia Petroleum Refining Company Oilers|LPRC Oilers]] of [[Liberia]] in the preliminary round.<ref name="RSSF02">{{cite web
  | title = African Club Competitions 1992
  | publisher = [[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]]
  | date = 6 January 2003
  | url = https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/afcup92.html
  | access-date = 18 March 2008
  | archive-date = 5 October 2018
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181005024025/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesa/afcup92.html
  | url-status = live
  }}</ref>

In [[CAF Confederation Cup 2006|2006]] they played in the [[CAF Confederation Cup]], losing to [[CSS Richard-Toll]] of Senegal in the preliminary round
<ref name="RSSF03">{{cite web
  | title = African Club Competitions 2006
  | publisher = [[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]]
  | date = 7 September 2007
  | url = https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/afcup06.html
  | access-date = 18 March 2008
  | archive-date = 24 July 2022
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220724105150/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/afcup06.html
  | url-status = live
  }}</ref>