Mighty Blackpool
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| Full name | Mighty Blackpool |
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| Nickname(s) | The Tis-Tas Boys |
| Founded | 1923 |
| Ground |
National Stadium Freetown, Sierra Leone |
| Capacity | 45,000 |
| Chairman |
 Mohamed Bah
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| Manager |
Christian Cole
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| League | Sierra Leone National Premier League |
| 2010/11 | 7th out of 14 teams |
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 FA Cup four times. They changed their name to Mighty Blackpool in 1954 to show their admiration for the former Blackpool and England player Sir Stanley Matthews.
Mighty Blackpool have an intense rivalry with city rivals East End Lions.
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.
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.
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