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1928–29 Bradford City A.F.C. season

English football club season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ96361533 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1928–29 Bradford City A.F.C. season was the 22nd in the club's history.

The club finished 1st in Division Three North, and reached the 4th round of the FA Cup. The club won promotion back to Division Two.

Sources

Frost, Terry (1988). Bradford City A Complete Record 1903-1988. Breedon Books Sport. ISBN 0-907969-38-0.

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This entry incorporates text from “1928–29 Bradford City A.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.