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2008 SANFL Grand Final

Australian rules football match

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 17, 2024
Entity authorityQ23019887 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2008 South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Grand Final saw the Central District Bulldogs defeat Glenelg by 42 points to claim the club's seventh premiership victory.

The match was played on Sunday 5 October 2008 at Football Park in front of a crowd of 34,128.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2008 SANFL Grand Final” is australian rules football match. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through SANFL, Grand and Final, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, SANFL, Grand and Final is the immediate research focus.
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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 Dec 17, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q23019887. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “2008 SANFL Grand 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.