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1998–99 Irish League

football league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ2949809 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1998–99 Irish League was the 98th edition of the Irish League, the highest level of league competition in Northern Irish football. The league consisted of 10 teams, and Glentoran won the championship.

Premier Division

League standings

Results

First Division

League standings

Promotion/relegation play-off

Cliftonville, who finished in the relegation play-off place, faced Ards, the 2nd-placed team in the First Division, in a two-legged tie for a place in next season's Irish League Premier Division.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1998–99 Irish League” as football league season. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Irish, League and football 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

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 Mar 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2949809. The first chronological checks are 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “1998–99 Irish League” 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.