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Gönyeli S.K.

professional association football club based in Turkey

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ1407698 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gönyeli Spor Kulübü is a Turkish Cypriot professional football club based in Gönyeli, North Nicosia. It was founded in 1948. The club colours are red and white.

Stadium

The club's home stadium is Gönyeli Ali Naci Karacan Stadı, named for journalist Ali Naci Karacan.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Gönyeli S.K.” as professional association football club based in Turkey. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Gönyeli, professional and association.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1948. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Gönyeli, professional and association providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Gönyeli S.K.”, the useful work is to connect “professional association football club based in Turkey” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1407698. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1948.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Three-step research path

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  2. Expand the search: follow Gönyeli S.K. primary sources, Gönyeli S.K. archive and Gönyeli research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Gönyeli S.K.” 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.