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1908–09 Plymouth Argyle F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ4558953 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1908–09 season was the sixth competitive season in the history of Plymouth Argyle Football Club.

Competitions

Southern League

Table

FA Cup

Results

References

General

Knight, Brian (1989). Plymouth Argyle: A Complete Record 1903–1989. Derby: Breedon Books. ISBN 0-907969-40-2.

Danes, Ryan (2009). Plymouth Argyle: The Complete Record. Plymouth: Breedon Books. ISBN 978-1-85983-710-8.

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“1908–09 Plymouth Argyle F.C. season” enters the record as season of football team. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Plymouth, Argyle and season can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1908–09 Plymouth Argyle 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.