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1958–59 Egyptian Premier League

football league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ106298689 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1958–59 Egyptian Premier League, was the ninth season of the Egyptian Premier League, the top Egyptian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1948. The season started on 3 October 1958 and concluded on 17 April 1959.

Defending champions Al Ahly won their 9th consecutive and 9th overall Egyptian Premier League title in the club history.

League table

(C)= Champions, (R)= Relegated, Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; ± = Goal difference; Pts = Points.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1958–59 Egyptian Premier League” is football league season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Egyptian, Premier and League, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 1948, 1959—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Egyptian, Premier and League is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “football league season” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

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 Feb 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q106298689. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1958, 1948 and 1959.

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This entry incorporates text from “1958–59 Egyptian Premier League” 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.