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1981–82 Scottish First Division

football league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ4580230 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1981–82 Scottish First Division season was won by Motherwell by ten points over nearest rival Kilmarnock.

League table

Promotion

Motherwell and Kilmarnock finished 1st and second respectively and were promoted to the 1982–83 Scottish Premier Division.

Relegation

East Stirlingshire and Queen of the South F.C. finished 13th and 14th respectively and were relegated to the 1982–83 Scottish Second Division.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1981–82 Scottish First Division” as football league season. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 1982—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Scottish, First and Division 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 football league season. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Aug 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4580230. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1981 and 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “1981–82 Scottish First Division” 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.