Captain:

Home Grounds used:
Thorneyholme Road, Accrington

Away Grounds visited:
The Horsfield, Colne; The Watersheddings, Oldham; Blackburn Road, Rishton; Hard Ings Road, Keighley; Dill Hall Lane, Enfield; Lanehead, Bacup; The Worswick Memorial Ground, Rawtenstall; Blackburn Road, Oswaldtwistle; Station Road, Whalley; Barley Bank, Darwen; Acre Bottom, Ramsbottom

First XI playing record:
P 24     W 9     D 11     L 4

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

27 players appeared in First XI matches for Accrington in 1888:
JJ Bank; J Barnes; W Braithwaite; RG Calvert; C Child; CF Critchley; WR Cuttell; W Eastham; A Fletcher; E Hacking; C Hargreaves; J Hargreaves; JL Heys; J Hindle; JR Horne; R Horne; P Hughes; W Lord; T Parker; HJ Ramsbottom; J Sanderson; T Thompson; H Thornton; J Tweedale; F Whittaker; FK Whitworth; L Wilkinson.