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2000–01 Stockport County F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ4598346 ↗
Source-derived summary

During the 2000–01 English football season, Stockport County F.C. competed in the Football League First Division.

Season summary

Stockport started the 2000–01 season poorly and were sitting 23rd in the table with just two wins at the middle of November. However, a run from mid-March resulted in Stockport winning five of their remaining nine league games to again narrowly avoid relegation, finishing 19th overall.

Final league table

Results

Stockport County's score comes first

Legend

Football League First Division

FA Cup

League Cup

First-team squad

Squad at end of season

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Left club during season

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Reserve squad

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “2000–01 Stockport County F.C. season” as season of football team. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Stockport, County and season can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as season of football team. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4598346. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “2000–01 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.