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1987–88 League of Ireland Premier Division

football league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ1751291 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1987–88 League of Ireland Premier Division was the third season of the League of Ireland Premier Division. The Premier Division was made up of 12 teams.

Overview

The Premier Division was contested by 12 teams and Dundalk F.C. won the championship.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1987–88 League of Ireland Premier Division” as football league season. 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—1987—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where League, Ireland and Premier 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.

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 Jun 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1751291. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1987.

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This entry incorporates text from “1987–88 League of Ireland Premier 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.