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1952–53 League of Ireland

football league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2023
Entity authorityQ1763968 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1952–53 League of Ireland was the 32nd season of senior football in the Republic of Ireland.

St Patrick's Athletic were the defending champions.

Changes from 1951–52

No new teams were elected to the League.

Teams

Season overview

Shelbourne won their sixth title.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “1952–53 League of Ireland” as football league season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around League, Ireland and football.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1952, 1951—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with League, Ireland and football providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “1952–53 League of Ireland”, the useful work is to connect “football league season” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 27, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q1763968. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1952 and 1951.

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This entry incorporates text from “1952–53 League of Ireland” 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.