Blackpool Football Club is an English football club founded in 1887 and based in the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. For the 2015–16 English season, the team will be competing in League One, the third tier of professional football in England, after being relegated from the Championship the previous season. When they reached the Premier League, at the end of the 2009–10 campaign, Blackpool became the first club in English football to have won promotion from every division of the Football League via the play-off system.