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1962–63 A Group

19th season of top-tier football league in Bulgaria

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ2706116 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1962–63 A Group was the 15th season of the A Football Group, the top Bulgarian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1948.

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, including the defending champions CSKA Sofia which had won the championship for the last nine seasons consecutively. Spartak Plovdiv won the championship.

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“1962–63 A Group” enters the record as 19th season of top-tier football league in Bulgaria. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Group, 19th 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—1962, 1948—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Group, 19th and season.
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“1962–63 A Group” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Group, 19th and season provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Feb 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2706116. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1962 and 1948.

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This entry incorporates text from “1962–63 A Group” 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.