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1997–98 Bury F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ16823735 ↗
Source-derived summary

During the 1997–98 English football season, Bury F.C. competed in the Football League First Division.

Season summary

In the 1997–98 season, newly promoted Bury were battling against relegation for most of the campaign and were destined to be heading straight back down by the beginning of February where they sat in the bottom three with only 4 wins from 30 games, but from then on Bury went on an amazing nine game unbeaten run and winning 7 in their final 16 league games to secure survival against the odds.

Final league table

Results

Bury's score comes first

Legend

Football League First Division

FA Cup

League Cup

Squad

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bury, season and football providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “1997–98 Bury 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.