Captain:

Home Grounds used:
Thorneyholme Road, Accrington

Away Grounds visited:
Turf Moor, Burnley; Lanehead, Bacup; Thrum Hall, Halifax; Hard Ings Road, Keighley; Cliffe Park, Great Harwood; Dill Hall Lane, Enfield; Alexandra Meadows, Blackburn; Blackburn Road, Oswaldtwistle; Egerton Street, Denton; Bentgate, Haslingden; Hare Hill, Littleborough; Wagon Lane, Bingley; Buckley Wells, Bury

First XI playing record:
P 19     W 9     D 5     L 5

Click on this link for the season's First XI scorecards and results

27 players appeared in First XI matches for Accrington in 1881:
JJ Bank; J Blackburn; WT Bond; W Boothman; W Boothman; RG Calvert; CF Critchley; W Eastham; J Hargreaves; Hickling; J Hindle; G Holgate; E Kay; R Kay; JA Moore; G Nash; W Parker; WB Rhodes; C Riding; J Roberts; J Sanderson; T Shooter; A Tattersall; FJ Whatmough; WJ Whittaker; W Wright; J Yates.