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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 | ||
| Manager | Alusine ‘Bala’ Kargbo | ||
| 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 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.[1]
Mighty Blackpool have an intense rivalry with city rivals East End Lions.
- ^ Mighty Blackpool F.C. Sierra Leone BBC Archived 27 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine