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1949–50 Aberdeen F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ27958657 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1949–50 season was Aberdeen's 38th season in the top flight of Scottish football and their 39th season overall. Aberdeen competed in the Scottish League Division One, Scottish League Cup, and the Scottish Cup.

Results

Division A

Final standings

Scottish League Cup

Group 1

Group 1 final table

Scottish Cup

Squad

Appearances & Goals

References

Kevin Stirling. Aberdeen A Centenary History 1903-2003. Desert Island Books 2002.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1949–50 Aberdeen F.C. season” as season of football team. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949, 1903, 2003, 2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Aberdeen, season and football can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as season of football team. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q27958657. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1949, 1903, 2003 and 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “1949–50 Aberdeen 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.