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Club Statistics

Highest Attendance 42,684

Record League Victory 10-0 v Stoke City, Division One, 14 Sept 1889

Record Cup Victory 26-0 v Hyde, FA Cup First Rnd, 15 Oct 1887

Record Defeat 0-7 v B*******l, Division One, 1 May 1948

Most League Points 95 Division Two 1999/2000

Most League Goals 100 Division Two 1927/1928

Highest League Scorer In A Season Ted Harper 37 Division Two 1932/1933

Highest League Goalscorer Tom Finney 187 1946-1960

Most League Apperances Alan Kelly 447 (1961-75)

Most Capped Player Tom Finney 76 England

Record Transfer Fee Received £5m Jon Macken to Man City (March 2002)

Record Transfer Fee Paid £1.5m David Healy from Man Utd (Dec 2000)

Club Honours

Founder Member of the Football League 1888

League Champions 1889, 1890

FA Cup Winners 1889, 1938

War Cup Winners 1941

FA Cup Finalists 1888, 1922, 1937, 1954, 1964

Lancashire Cup Winners 1887, 1893, 1895, 1900, 1996

Division One Runners Up 1891, 1892, 1893, 1906, 1953, 1958

Division Two Champions 1904, 1913, 1951, 2000*

Division Three Champions 1971, 1996*

*In 1991 Division One broke away from the football league to form the Premiership, thus Divisions Two, Three and Four became Divisions One, Two and Three respectively

In 2004 the football league was once again restructured, Divison One was renamed the Championship, whilst Divisons Two and Three became Leagues One and Two respectively