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1991–92 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ4587423 ↗
Source-derived summary

During the 1991–92 English football season, Queens Park Rangers F.C. competed in the Football League First Division.

Season summary

In the 1991–92 First Division campaign, QPR finished 11th in the league and ensured their place as founder members of the new Premier League, which began the following season. Their manager Gerry Francis oversaw one of QPR's most famous victories, the 4–1 win over leaders Manchester United at Old Trafford broadcast live on terrestrial television on New Year's Day 1992. The hat-trick scored by Dennis Bailey in that game was the last time the feat was achieved by an away player in league football at Old Trafford until 2021.

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Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1991–92 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season” is season of football team. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Queens, Park and Rangers, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1991, 1992, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Queens, Park and Rangers is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “season of football team” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

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 May 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4587423. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1991, 1992 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “1991–92 Queens Park Rangers 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.