Captain:

Home Grounds used:
Thorneyholme Road, Accrington

Away Grounds visited:
Turf Moor, Burnley; Butcher Meadow, Rochdale; Acre Bottom, Ramsbottom; Bentgate, Haslingden; Dill Hall Lane, Enfield; Lanehead, Bacup; Barley Bank, Darwen; Centre Vale, Todmorden; Blackburn Road, Rishton; Hard Ings Road, Keighley; Seedhill, Nelson; Beckfoot Ground, Bingley

First XI playing record:
P 25     W 9     D 9     L 7

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

38 players appeared in First XI matches for Accrington in 1883:
JJ Bank; W Barker; R Barrett; WT Bond; W Boothman; W Boothman; WE Bosomworth; RG Calvert; T Calvert; G Chadwick; GE Clegg; Constable; CF Critchley; W Cropper; JS Dewhurst; R Dewhurst; Doughty; W Eastham; E Hacking; J Hargreaves; J Hindle; R Hindle; Hitchen; Marshall; JA Moore; Pullan; H Ramsbottom; H Ramsbottom; WB Rhodes; C Riding; J Roberts; A Rogers; J Sanderson; JC Shaw; E Smith; C Whalley; F Whittaker; WJ Whittaker.