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1975–76 Dundee F.C. season

Dundee 1975–76 football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ106727278 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1975–76 season was the 74th season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in the rebranded Scottish Premier Division. In a tight relegation scrap, Dundee were relegated for the first time since the 1937–38 season due to inferior goal average. Domestically, Dundee would also compete in both the Scottish League Cup and the Scottish Cup, where they would be eliminated in the group stage of the League Cup, and by Falkirk in the 3rd round of the Scottish Cup. Dundee would also compete in the Anglo-Scottish Cup, where they would be knocked out by Motherwell in the 1st round of the Scottish Group.

Scottish Premier Division

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League table

Scottish League Cup

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Group 2

Group 2 table

Scottish Cup

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Editorial summary

“1975–76 Dundee F.C. season” enters the record as dundee 1975–76 football season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dundee, season and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1975, 1937—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dundee, season and football.
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“1975–76 Dundee F.C. season” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dundee, season and football 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 Nov 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q106727278. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1975 and 1937.

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This entry incorporates text from “1975–76 Dundee 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.