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2002 FA Trophy final

football match

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ4600014 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2002 FA Trophy Final was the 33rd final of the Football Association's cup competition for levels 5–8 of the English football league system. The match was contested by Stevenage Borough and Yeovil Town on 12 May 2002 at Villa Park in Birmingham.

Yeovil won the match 2–0 to win the competition for the first time in their history.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “2002 FA Trophy final” as football match. 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—2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Trophy, final and football can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as football match. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4600014. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “2002 FA Trophy final” 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.