Blackpool

FM12 Update

Club
5400Reputation
19Last season
—Squad value
—Capacity

Squad strength

FMDB calculation
48Players
—Average age
—Under 21
48Average ability
91Average potential
—Squad value
£13,053Wage bill per week
9Nationalities
0Home-grown
—Expiring contracts
67CA16
102PA16

These are the FMDB's own figures over all 48 registered members of the primary team, not just the rows listed below; hover a figure for the population it was computed from. The wage bill is the sum of recorded contract wages, not an asserted payroll. This version's export records no game start year, so ages and the contract-expiry window cannot be computed. CA16 and PA16 are the means of the sixteen highest recorded abilities and potentials; a coded potential enters PA16 at its band's midpoint and the figure says how many did. Home-grown counts players whose person_trained_status names this club.

Best eleven

FMDB calculation
The FMDB's own selection: the highest recorded current ability per slot of the supplied 4-3-3, each player used once, and only where player_position.competency for that slot is at least 10. Mean ability of the eleven 67, from the 39 strongest squad members.

Club

Full name
Blackpool
Short name
—
Nickname
—
Nation
England
Current division
npower Championship
Continental competition
—
Stadium
—
Founded
—
Reputation
5400
Colours
#FFFFFF #FF7300
Captain
—
Vice-captain
—
Other teams
—
Professional status
—
World reputation
—
Potential reputation
—
Reputation scope
—
Reputation stars
—

Finances

Partial export
Balance
—
Transfer budget
£2,000,000
Wage budget
£10,000
Debt
—
Club value
—
Financial status
—
Owner
—
Shirt sponsor
—
Transfer budget before the window
£4,000,000
Maximum player wage
£0
Previous turnover
£0
Previous profit
£0
Loans, gifts and FFP rows from club_finance, named by loan_source_type
Source Amount Terms
bankdebt£2,700,000from 2009-06-30 · to 2012-06-29 · 12 monthly payments left
gift repayable on profitdebt£276,000from 2009-06-30

Balance is club_finance_detail.cash and Debt its basic_loan_debt, as authored. Every other club_finance row — loans, gifts and FFP totals — is listed by the source family loan_source_type gives it, with the amount's meaning on hover, rather than summed into a figure the source does not state. Club value, a named owner and a shirt sponsor are not established by the export.

Squad

48 people with a club_squad_number row for this teamSet-piece takers
Squad members with number, position, age, nationality, ability, contract, wage, value and last season
No start year CA PA Value Apps (Gls) 2011–12 HG As recorded
3Neil AshtonDL—England60832013-05-23£600——Nation
4Mark CreightonDC—England66852015-06-30£699——Nation
6James William HarrisMC—England70952013-06-30£550——Nation
7Adrian CieslewiczAMC—Poland67-62012-12-30£250———
9Danny WrightFC—England61702013-06-30£700——Nation
10Jake SpeightFC—England64852013-06-30£749——Nation
12Dean KeatesMC—England681052012-06-30£800——Nation
15Stephen TomassenDC—England54-62012-06-01£53———
16John James HuntDL—England43-42012-06-07£250———
17Glen LittleMR—England651332013-01-01£600——Nation
18Jamie TolleyMC—Wales57652012-05-23£500——Nation
19Obi AnoruoFC—Nigeria50-52012-05-26£350———
20Nathaniel Knight-PercivalDC—England61872013-06-30£600——Nation
21Christopher Ethan MaxwellGK—Wales82-72012-07-01£400———
22Declan Stephen Patrick WalkerDR—Republic of Ireland50-52012-06-23£400———
23Chris WestwoodDC—England771072013-06-30£649——Nation
24Eassou Mathias PogbaFC—France60-62012-06-30£249———
25Joslain Leonel MayebiGK—Cameroon851102014-06-30£500———
26Joe ClarkeDL—England50682012-05-30£300———
28Max PenkDL—Wales40-52012-06-30£55———
29Jamie MortonMC—England30-42012-06-30£55———
30Louis MossAMR—Barbados46-52012-06-30£55———
30Steven LeslieML—Scotland63912012-06-30£500——Nation
—Andy Davies Staff——Wales———£0———
—Andy PascoML—Wales20-42012-06-30£0———
—Anthony StevensDL—Wales40-52012-06-30£55———
—Billy Barr Staff——England———£600———
—Chris ClarkFC—Wales30-52012-06-30£54———
—Dave Brammer Staff——England———£0———
—Ed MarshDR—England27-42012-06-01£0———
—James ColbeckFC—England25-52012-06-30£55———
—Joseph Patrick Jones Staff——Wales———£250———
—Kyle ParleDC—Wales20-42012-06-30£54———
—Leon Alan ClowesDL—Wales50-52012-06-30£250———
—Louis GrayGK—Wales20-42012-06-30£54——Nation
—Mark Williams——Wales———£0——Nation
—Matty OwenDL—Wales22-42012-06-12£0———
—Max FarginFC—England22-52012-06-01£0———
—Michael Oakes Staff——England———£500———
—Mike Williams Staff——Wales———£0———
—Nicholas RushtonAMC—Wales40-42012-06-30£150———
—PaulML—Wales20-3—£54——Nation
—Ritson Lloyd Staff——Wales———£500———
—Robert OglebyFC—Wales66-62012-06-30£450—14 (2)—
—Robert SalathielFC—Wales48-62012-06-30£55———
—Ross AnkersMC—Wales20-42012-06-30£54———
—Sean SmithDL—Wales20-32012-06-30£54———
—Tony Merola Staff——Wales———£0———

Sort by clicking a column header. Hide columns you do not need; the choice is remembered in this browser. Apps (Gls) is the 2011–12 season, the latest player_history season recorded for anyone in this squad; it is named explicitly because no database records the date the game starts on.

Highest potential

FMDB calculation
Highest recorded potential ability across every team the club owns
Player Pos Age CA PA Value
Glen LittleMR—65133—
Joslain Leonel MayebiGK—85110—
Chris WestwoodDC—77107—
Dean KeatesMC—68105—
James William HarrisMC—7095—
Steven LeslieML—6391—

The highest recorded player.potential_ability across all 1 of this club's team, one row per person. A negative potential is a coded band rather than a fixed ability and is shown as the code it is, never ranked as a number. Ages are season-start ages where the export records a start year; the list is ranked on potential alone, so it is not an age-filtered wonderkid list.

Facilities

Training only in the export
  • Training facilities—
  • Youth facilities—
  • Youth recruitment—
  • Junior coaching—
  • Corporate facilities—
Training ground
—
Academy
—
Morale
—
Season ticket holders
—
Average attendance
—
Lowest and highest
— / —

club_facility carries training facilities only, in every version: youth facilities, youth recruitment, junior coaching and academy category are not in the export. The training ground is the stadium row that club_server names.

Key staff

Chairman
Karl Oyston
Managing Director
—
Director of Football
—
Assistant Manager
Steve Thompson
Head of Youth Development
—

Roles held now from staff_history. "Unknown person" is a spell whose person uid this version does not contain.

League position by season

25 seasons on this page
Blackpool league position by season11223 1986–871990–911994–951998–992002–032006–072010–11npower League 1, 1986–87: position 9 of 24npower League 1, 1987–88: position 10 of 24npower League 1, 1988–89: position 19 of 24npower League 1, 1989–90: position 23 of 24npower League 1, 1992–93: position 18 of 24npower League 1, 1993–94: position 20 of 24npower League 1, 1994–95: position 12 of 24npower League 1, 1995–96: position 3 of 24npower League 1, 1996–97: position 7 of 24npower League 1, 1997–98: position 12 of 24npower League 1, 1998–99: position 14 of 24npower League 1, 1999–00: position 22 of 24npower League 1, 2001–02: position 16 of 24npower League 1, 2002–03: position 13 of 24npower League 1, 2003–04: position 14 of 24npower League 1, 2004–05: position 16 of 24npower League 1, 2005–06: position 19 of 24npower League 1, 2006–07: position 3 of 24npower Championship, 2007–08: position 19 of 24npower Championship, 2008–09: position 16 of 24npower Championship, 2009–10: position 6 of 24npower League 2, 1990–91: position 5 of 24npower League 2, 1991–92: position 4 of 22npower League 2, 2000–01: position 7 of 24English Premier Division, 2010–11: position 19 of 20
Finishing position as recorded, 1 at the top, from the 25 season rows on this page.
Blackpool league position by season
SeasonCompetitionPosition
2010–11English Premier Division19
2009–10npower Championship6
2008–09npower Championship16
2007–08npower Championship19
2006–07npower League 13
2005–06npower League 119
2004–05npower League 116
2003–04npower League 114
2002–03npower League 113
2001–02npower League 116
2000–01npower League 27
1999–00npower League 122
1998–99npower League 114
1997–98npower League 112
1996–97npower League 17
1995–96npower League 13
1994–95npower League 112
1993–94npower League 120
1992–93npower League 118
1991–92npower League 24
1990–91npower League 25
1989–90npower League 123
1988–89npower League 119
1987–88npower League 110
1986–87npower League 19

Honours

FMDB calculation

Competitions won by any of this club's 1 recorded team, counted from comp_history. Confirmed overall winners in every recorded season; abandoned, cancelled and no-data seasons are excluded and stage placings are counted separately. The newer nation_cup_history export covers national-team tournament runs; it does not establish club cup-run coverage.

Transfers

Exported; UI pending
Record signing
—
Record sale
—
Net spend
—
Date Player From or to Fee
————

Modern exports separate completed transfer events, agreed future moves and club fee records. This panel has not integrated them. Unknown fees and incomplete coverage cannot establish full net spend.

Stadium

In the export
Name
—
Capacity
—
Seated
—
Expandable to
—
Built
—
Pitch
— × —
Roof
—
Owner
—

Affiliates

Link types are codes
Club Relationship Terms
———

Affiliations from club_link in both directions, with the yearly cost, dates, loan counts and wage share the row records. link_type_id has no lookup table in the catalog, so the relationship is shown as its code rather than given a name. Owned teams are listed separately under Other teams.

Fans

Not in this export
Supporter profile
—
Expectation
—
Season ticket waiting list
—

Supporter values are the researched 1–20 figures in club_supporter_profile; the expectation is the media's predicted finish in club_media_expectation; ticket prices are from club_finance_detail. Supporter-type percentages and a waiting list are not exported.

Across versions

Recorded
Blackpool reputation across versions05K10K CM0102 RFM06 RFM10 RFM13 RFM16 RFM19 RFM22 RFM26 UReputation, CM0102 Release: 8 Reputation, CM0203 Release: 8 Reputation, CM0304 Release: 8 Reputation, CM0304 Update: 8 Reputation, FM05 Release: 80 Reputation, FM05 Update: 77 Reputation, FM06 Release: 77 Reputation, FM07 Release: 84 Reputation, FM07 Update: 84 Reputation, FM08 Release: 84 Reputation, FM09 Release: 86 Reputation, FM09 Update: 86 Reputation, FM10 Release: 4,350 Reputation, FM10 Update: 87 Reputation, FM11 Release: 5,250 Reputation, FM11 Update: 105 Reputation, FM12 Release: 5,250 Reputation, FM12 Update: 5,400 Reputation, FM13 Release: 5,600 Reputation, FM14 Release: 5,500 Reputation, FM14 Update: 5,550 Reputation, FM15 Release: 5,300 Reputation, FM15 Update: 5,300 Reputation, FM16 Release: 4,750 Reputation, FM16 Update: 4,750 Reputation, FM17 Release: 4,450 Reputation, FM17 Update: 4,450 Reputation, FM18 Release: 93 Reputation, FM18 Update: 4,650 Reputation, FM19 Release: 93 Reputation, FM19 Update: 4,650 Reputation, FM20 Release: 95 Reputation, FM20 Update: 4,850 Reputation, FM21 Release: 97 Reputation, FM21 Update: 4,850 Reputation, FM22 Release: 5,200 Reputation, FM23 Release: 5,350 Reputation, FM24 Update: 5,000 Reputation, FM26 Release: 5,000 Reputation, FM26 Update: 5,000
Recorded reputation in each database where this uid resolves. Missing values remain gaps. Raw export scales may differ between versions.

Current staff

15 spells
Roles held now, from staff_history spells with no end date or one still in the future
Role Person Joined Until Rating FMDB calculation
CoachJohn James Murphy2011-08-09——
ChairmanKarl Oyston1999-07-01——
DirectorUnknown person2006-04-30——
PhysioPhil Horner——16.0 / 20
PhysioAlan Bent2009-12-14—15.0 / 20
ManagerIan Holloway2009-05-21—16.3 / 20
ManagerIan Holloway2009-05-21—16.3 / 20
Assistant ManagerSteve Thompson2006-07-01——
Assistant ManagerSteve Thompson2009-07-01——
Goalkeeping CoachAndy Fairman2011-07-31——
Goalkeeping CoachGeorge Wood2011-08-31——
Sports ScientistMark Westhead———
Sports ScientistAlan Wright2011-07-01——
Sports ScientistJohn Hills2011-08-17——
Sports ScientistJohn Hills2011-08-17——

Playing spells belong to a career and are shown on the person's own page. A further 0 current spells point at a person uid this version does not contain.

Season records

Points as stored, never recomputed
League seasons, as stored: points include any deduction applied at the time
Season Competition Pos Of P W D L GF GA Pts
2010–11English Premier Division19203810919557839
2009–10npower Championship62446191314745870
2008–09npower Championship162446131716475856
2007–08npower Championship192446121816596454
2006–07npower League 132446241111764983
2005–06npower League 1192446121717566453
2004–05npower League 1162446151219545957
2003–04npower League 1142446161119586559
2002–03npower League 1132446151318566458
2001–02npower League 1162446141418666956
2000–01npower League 27244622618745872
1999–00npower League 122244681721497741
1998–99npower League 1142446141418445456
1997–98npower League 1122446171118596762
1996–97npower League 172446181513604769
1995–96npower League 132446231310674082
1994–95npower League 1122446181018647064
1993–94npower League 120244616525637553
1992–93npower League 1182446121519637551
1991–92npower League 242242221010714576
1990–91npower League 252446231013784779
1989–90npower League 1232446101620497346
1988–89npower League 1192446141319565955
1987–88npower League 1102446171415716265
1986–87npower League 192446161614745964

Club records

More record types
Club records
Record type Holder Name as recorded Value
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record_type is a raw code; the two rows read as most appearances and most goals. Attendance record, biggest win and heaviest defeat belong here too.

Derbies and partnerships

Derbies involving this club
Derby Opponent W Needs data D L First match Needs data Reputation
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No partnerships recorded

club_partnership is empty or near-empty in most versions of the source.

Kits

Season and slots
  • Kit 0, style 1
  • Kit 0, style 1
  • Kit 0, style 7
  • Kit 0, style 5
  • Kit 0, style 1
  • Kit 0, style 1
  • Kit 0, style 1
  • Kit 0, style 0

Showing up to 8 of 18 loaded kit rows. Legacy colour slots are shown. Modern kit-part and style exports now describe the parts, but these drawings have not integrated them.

Data wishlist for this page

20 data pointsWhole site
  • export_meta.game_start_year Season-start ages, under-21 count and this season's expiring contracts Now liveAges are taken at 1 July of the exported game start year and the expiry window closes on 30 June of the next; the convention is stated on every figure because no .dat database stores an in-game date. CSV-era versions carry no start year and say so.
  • player.current_ability, player.potential_ability over the squad CA16 and PA16 Now liveFMDB means of the sixteen highest recorded abilities and potentials in the primary squad; a coded potential is counted at its band midpoint (config/potential.php) and the figure says how many were.
  • player over club_squad_number Squad ability, potential, value and recorded wage totals Now liveFigures cover the whole primary-team squad with recorded-value coverage. League-relative ability stars are not implemented.
  • player.current_ability and player_position Best eleven Now liveFMDB selects eligible players for a fixed 4-3-3 from at most 60 candidates. Empty positions stay blank and a team average requires eleven filled slots.
  • person_trained_status, person_days_at_location Training days and home-grown squad status Partial exportThe squad table and the home-grown count show recorded trained-at-club and trained-in-nation relationships where the version exports them. Rule codes are not interpreted and training days are not shown; neither is a ruling on eligibility under a competition rule.
  • player.current_ability, player.potential_ability Squad member ability and potential Now liveThe squad table displays stored figures where recorded; coded potential is not a fixed ability.
  • player_history Squad appearances and goals for a named season Now liveThe page uses the latest season recorded for anyone in the squad, not an inferred last season relative to a game date.
  • player.potential_ability across the club teams Highest potential at the club Now livePlayers are deduplicated across the club teams. This is not an age-based wonderkid list.
  • club_finance, club_finance_source, club_finance_detail, club_director Balance, budgets, debt rows, embargo and directors Partial exportCash balance, basic loan debt, the embargo flag and directors are displayed, and every other finance row is listed by its loan_source_type family with the amount meaning on hover. Club valuation, a named owner, a financial-status label and a shirt sponsor are not established: owner type, financial state and income type are raw codes.
  • club_facility, club_server.training_ground_stadium_uid Youth facilities, recruitment, junior coaching and academy status Needs source dataOnly training_facilities is present in any version; the training ground is shown where club_server names one. A corporate revenue field is not a facilities rating.
  • club identity Club nickname Needs source dataThe current club catalog has no nickname column; a short name is not a nickname.
  • transfer_event, future_transfer, club_transfer_record Transfers and record signing or sale Exported; UI pendingCompleted FM24/FM26 events, agreed future moves and recorded club fee records now have separate tables. They are not integrated into this panel; incomplete or unknown fees cannot support complete net-spend totals.
  • club_link Affiliations and agreement terms Partial exportLinks in both directions are displayed with cost, dates, loan counts and wage share. link_type_id, flags and reasons have no lookup, so the relationship is shown as a code; club_partnership is a player-pair relation.
  • comp_history for every recorded club team Confirmed titles with competition and years Now liveThe honours calculation covers all recorded club teams, with edition and stage checks where available. nation_cup_history describes national-team tournament runs, not club cup coverage.
  • stadium Stadium capacity, build date, pitch dimensions, roof and owner Now liveThese fields are rendered where recorded. Pitch type and heating remain available source fields not shown in this club panel.
  • staff_history, staff_ability, staff_coaching Staff quality by recorded job Now liveFMDB computes role-specific attribute means with coverage thresholds; these are not stored scouting stars or a staff-subtype census.
  • club_supporter_profile, club_media_expectation Supporter loyalty, passion, patience, affluence, temperament, expectations and media prediction Now liveResearched FM23+ supporter values and the predicted league finish are displayed where exported; computed supporter-type percentages are deliberately absent.
  • derby Derby record and history Now liveRecorded results are oriented to this club; dates and reputation remain missing where unrecorded.
  • club across versions Reputation across versions Partial exportRaw reputation history is live. Squad value and average ability across versions are not implemented; reputation-scale integration is also pending.
  • club_kit, club_kit_part, kit_display_type, kit_style Kit seasons, parts and patterns Partial exportThe page shows legacy kit rows and colour slots. Modern exports now identify parts, goalkeeper kits and style lookups; drawings have not integrated them, and numbering differs by era.

Reviewed 30 September 2026 against the current schema and page implementation. “Now live” means implemented where data is recorded; “Exported; UI pending” means the schema has data this page does not yet use. Tables and coverage vary by version. Missing values stay blank.