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1971 Merdeka Tournament

international football competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ4574552 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1971 Merdeka Tournament was held from 4 to 21 August 1971 with 12 participating teams.

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Eleventh place

Ninth place

Seventh place

Fifth place

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

Third place

Final

References

Morrison, Neil. "Merdeka Tournament 1971 (Malaysia)".

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “1971 Merdeka Tournament” as international football competition. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Merdeka, Tournament and international.

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—1971—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Merdeka, Tournament and international providing the first useful test.
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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 Jul 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4574552. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1971.

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This entry incorporates text from “1971 Merdeka Tournament” 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.