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1950–51 Dundee F.C. season

Dundee 1950–51 football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ105418720 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1950–51 season was the forty-ninth season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division A, where the club would finish in 3rd place. Dundee would also compete in both the Scottish Cup and the Scottish League Cup. They would fail to make it out of the group stages in the League Cup, but would make it to the Quarter-finals in the Scottish Cup.

Scottish Division A

Statistics provided by Dee Archive.

League table

Scottish League Cup

Statistics provided by Dee Archive.

Group 2

Group 2 table

Scottish Cup

Statistics provided by Dee Archive.

Editorial summary

“1950–51 Dundee F.C. season” enters the record as dundee 1950–51 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—1950—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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“1950–51 Dundee F.C. season” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dundee, season and football provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “1950–51 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.