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1971–72 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ96362927 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1971–72 season saw Tottenham Hotspur compete in the First Division where they finished 6th in the table. It was also the season where they won the UEFA Cup for the first time beating Wolverhampton Wanderers in an all English final over two legs. In the FA Cup they reach the sixth round where they went away to Leeds United at Elland Road to lose 2–1. In the League Cup they reached the Semi–final where they were knocked out by Chelsea.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1971–72 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season” is season of football team. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tottenham, Hotspur and season, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1971—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Tottenham, Hotspur and season is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1971–72 Tottenham Hotspur 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.