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1956–57 Danish 1st Division

12th season of Danish 1st Division

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ572029 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1956–57 Danish 1st Division season was the 12th edition of Danish 1st Division annual football competition in Denmark. It was contested by 10 teams. The league adopted a calendar year season with a start in March and end in late October/early November; the league played an extra half-season.

Aarhus Gymnastikforening successfully defended its 1956 title by successfully pursuing its 1957 title.

Statistics of Danish 1st Division in the 1956/1957 season.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1956–57 Danish 1st Division” is 12th season of Danish 1st Division. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Danish, Division and 12th, 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—1956, 1957—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Danish, Division and 12th is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1956–57 Danish 1st Division” 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.