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How Mine F.C.

football club in Zimbabwe

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 19, 2024
Entity authorityQ15627333 ↗
Source-derived summary

How Mine Football Club was a football club based in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The club played in the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League before surrendering their license before the 2018 season. The team was sponsored by the How gold mine.

How Mine appeared in the 2017 Chibuku Cup final, losing 3–1 to Harare City.

Stadium

The team played in the 20,000-seat Luveve and White City Stadium in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “How Mine F.C.” as football club in Zimbabwe. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—2018, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Mine, football and club can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as football club in Zimbabwe. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Feb 19, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q15627333. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “How Mine F.C.” 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.