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2009–10 Bradford City A.F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ4615601 ↗
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The 2009–10 season was the 107th season in Bradford City A.F.C.'s history, their 95th in The Football League and 97th in the league system of English football. Their ninth-place finish in 2008–09 meant this season would be their third successive season in League Two.

This article covers the period from 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010.

League data

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Season results

League Two

FA Cup

League Cup

JPT Trophy

Season summary

Stuart McCall resigned as manager during the season, leaving Peter Taylor to take over the team. Taylor produced good results, notably wins away to Rochdale and Rotherham United.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2009–10 Bradford City A.F.C. season” is season of football team. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bradford, City and season, not as a finished interpretation.

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—2009, 2008, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Bradford, City and season is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “2009–10 Bradford City A.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.