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1888–89 Derby County F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ4556322 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1888–89 season was Derby County's first season in the Football League which had just been founded. Because of this they became one of the founder members of the Football League. They finished in 10th position with 16 points.

Final league table

Results

Derby County's score comes first

Legend

Football League

FA Cup

Appearances

See also

1888–89 in English football

List of Derby County F.C. seasons

References

Brown, Tony (2010). The Football League Match by Match 1888–89 to 1892–93. SoccerData. ISBN 978-1-899468-44-7.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1888–89 Derby County F.C. season” is season of football team. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Derby, County and season, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1888, 2010, 1892—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Derby, County and season is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4556322. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1888, 2010 and 1892.

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This entry incorporates text from “1888–89 Derby County F.C. season” 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.