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1978–79 French Division 1

41st season of French Division 1

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ1230993 ↗
Source-derived summary

RC Strasbourg won Division 1 season 1978/1979 of the French Association Football League with 56 points.

Participating teams

League table

Promoted from Division 2, who will play in Division 1 season 1979/1980

Stade Brest:Runner-up, winner of Division 2 group B

RC Lens:Third place, winner of barrages against Paris FC

FC Gueugnon:Champion of Division 2, winner of Division 2 group A, will not play in Division 1 season 1979/1980 because of its amateur status.

Editorial summary

“1978–79 French Division 1” enters the record as 41st season of French Division 1. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what French, Division and 41st 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—1978, 1979, 1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around French, Division and 41st.
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Why this record matters

“1978–79 French Division 1” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, French, Division and 41st provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1230993. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1978, 1979 and 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “1978–79 French Division 1” 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.