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1998–99 Stockport County F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ17019448 ↗
Source-derived summary

During the 1998–99 English football season, Stockport County F.C. competed in the Football League First Division.

Season summary

In the 1998–99 season, Stockport finished in 16th place, winning just 3 of their final 14 matches. A 5–0 defeat at relegated Oxford United on the final day signalled the end of Megson's time at Edgeley Park.

Final league table

Results

Stockport County's score comes first

Legend

Football League First Division

FA Cup

League Cup

Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1998–99 Stockport County F.C. season” is season of football team. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Stockport, County and season, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Stockport, County and season is the immediate research focus.
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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 May 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17019448. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “1998–99 Stockport County 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.