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1905–06 Irish League

football league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ2949681 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1905–06 Irish League was the 16th edition of the Irish League, the highest level of league competition in Irish football.

The league comprised eight teams, and Cliftonville and Distillery shared the championship after two drawn play-off matches could not separate the sides. Cliftonville won their 1st league title while Distillery won their 5th.

Season summary

Cliftonville and Distillery finished the league level with 19 points. The first playoff 26 May 1906 to decide the title was a 0–0 draw, and the replayed match on 30 May was a 2–2 draw. In June 1906, the League determined that rather than replay again, Cliftonville and Distillery would be joint holders of the league title.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1905–06 Irish League” is football league season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Irish, League and football, 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—1905, 1906—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Irish, League and football is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1905–06 Irish League” 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.