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1887–88 Welsh Cup

football tournament season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ17103515 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1887–88 Welsh Cup was the 11th season of the Welsh Cup. The cup was won by Chirk AAA who defeated Newtown 5–0 in the final, at Owens Field, Chester Road, Wrexham.

First round

Second round

Third round

Semi-final

Final

References

Bibliography

Garland, Ian (1991). The History of the Welsh Cup 1877-1993. Bridge Books. ISBN 1-872424-37-6.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1887–88 Welsh Cup” is football tournament season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Welsh, football and tournament, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1887, 1991, 1877, 1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Welsh, football and tournament is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17103515. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1887, 1991, 1877 and 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “1887–88 Welsh Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.