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1983–84 Newcastle United F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 16, 2024
Entity authorityQ4581463 ↗
Source-derived summary

During the 1983–84 season, Newcastle United participated in the Football League Second Division. They finished 3rd and were promoted automatically to the First Division.

Former England captain Kevin Keegan was the leading scorer with 27 league goals, 28 in all competitions. He retired as a player following the final match of the season.

Squad

Substitute appearances indicated in brackets

League table

Results

Second Division

Milk Cup

FA Cup

References

Bibliography

Rothmans Football Yearbook 1984-85 (Editor: Peter Dunk). London: Rothmans/Queen Anne Press.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1983–84 Newcastle United 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—1983, 1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Newcastle, United and season can be independently traced.
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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.

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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 Nov 16, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4581463. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1983 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “1983–84 Newcastle United 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.