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2005–06 United Counties League

football league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ104876999 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2005–06 United Counties League season was the 99th in the history of the United Counties League, a football competition in England.

Premier Division

The Premier Division featured 21 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with one new club:

St Ives Town, promoted from Division One

League table

Division One

Division One featured 16 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with two new clubs:

Daventry Town, relegated from the Premier Division

Wellingborough Town, joined from the Northamptonshire Senior Youth League

Also, Eye United changed name to Peterborough Northern Star.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “2005–06 United Counties League” as football league season. 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—2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where United, Counties and League can be independently traced.
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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

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q104876999. The first chronological checks are 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “2005–06 United Counties 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.