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1927–28 Dundee F.C. season

Dundee 1927–28 football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ105418700 ↗
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The 1927–28 season was the thirty-third season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One. After a poor start, manager Alec McNair was replaced by Sandy MacFarlane in his 2nd stint, who led the Dark Blues to finish in 14th place. Dundee would also compete in the Scottish Cup, where they would make it to the 3rd round before being knocked out by Dunfermline Athletic. The club would also wear black shorts occasionally as a change kit.

Scottish Division One

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League table

Scottish Cup

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“1927–28 Dundee F.C. season” enters the record as dundee 1927–28 football season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dundee, season and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1927—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dundee, season and football.
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This entry incorporates text from “1927–28 Dundee 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.