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1947–48 Dundee United F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ30643518 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1947–48 season was the 41st year of football played by Dundee United, and covers the period from 1 July 1947 to 30 June 1948. United finished in fifteenth place in the Second Division.

Match results

Dundee United played a total of 38 competitive matches during the 1947–48 season.

Legend

All results are written with Dundee United's score first.

Editorial summary

“1947–48 Dundee United F.C. season” enters the record as season of football team. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dundee, United and season can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947, 1948—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dundee, United and season.
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“1947–48 Dundee United F.C. season” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dundee, United and season provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q30643518. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1947 and 1948.

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This entry incorporates text from “1947–48 Dundee United 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.