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2012–13 Doncaster Rovers F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ4627936 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2012–13 season was Doncaster Rover's 10th consecutive season in The Football League. Doncaster were relegated at the end of the 2011–12 season, ending a four-year stay in the Championship. They finished the season as Champions thus gaining promotion back to the second tier.

League One

Standings

Results summary

Result round by round

Squad

Detailed Overview

As of 25 February 2013

Statistics

As of 28 April 2013

Captains

Last updated: 28 April 2012Source: Competitive match reports.

Competitive matches only

Matches started as captain only

Country: FIFA nationality; No.: Squad number; P: Position; Name: Player name; No. Games: Number of games started as captain.

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“2012–13 Doncaster Rovers F.C. season” enters the record as season of football team. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Doncaster, Rovers and season can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “2012–13 Doncaster Rovers 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.