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1981–82 Mansfield Town F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ73919750 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1981–82 season was Mansfield Town's 45th season in the Football League and 8th in the Fourth Division they finished in 20th position with 49 points.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1981–82 Mansfield Town F.C. season” as season of football team. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1981—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Mansfield, Town and season can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as season of football team. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 Feb 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q73919750. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1981.

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This entry incorporates text from “1981–82 Mansfield Town 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.