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1979–80 Gold Cup

football tournament season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ118897911 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1979–80 Gold Cup was the 61st edition of the Gold Cup, a cup competition in Northern Irish football.

The tournament was won by Linfield, who defeated Ballymena United 2–1 in the final at Windsor Park to secure their 26th win.

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The public source identifies “1979–80 Gold Cup” as football tournament season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Gold, football and tournament.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Gold, football and tournament 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 Mar 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q118897911. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “1979–80 Gold Cup” 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.