Blackpool F.C. season 1900–01

The 1900–01 season was Blackpool F.C.'s first season back in the Football League (fourth total). They competed in the eighteen-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing twelfth.

Arrivals, either during the season in exile or during this campaign, included Jack Parkinson (returning after a season with Liverpool), goalkeeper Joe Dorrington from Blackburn Rovers, Jack Birchall, John Burden, Edward Threlfall, Alfred Boulton, Lorenzo Evans, former schoolboy Harold Hardman, and Geordie Anderson. Out went Henry Parr (who played in the club's first game in the Football League), Jack Morris (despite scoring four goals in his five appearances the previous season), and Gamble.

Bob Birkett top-scored with ten goals in his 32 appearances. Goalkeeper Joe Dorrington was ever-present throughout the club's 34 league games.

Blackpool's starting eleven for the opening game of the season featured eight new players from the squad of two seasons earlier, plus Jack Parkinson, who returned from a season with Liverpool while Blackpool were in their exile from the Football League.

New Brighton Tower were their first opponents, and Blackpool returned from Wallasey with a point after a goalless draw, goalkeeper Joe Dorrington keeping a clean sheet on his Football League debut for the club.

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