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1961–62 Irish League

football tournament edition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ2949758 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1961–62 Irish League was the 61st edition of the Irish League, the highest level of league competition in Northern Irish football. The league consisted of 12 teams, and Linfield won the championship after a 3-1 playoff win over Portadown.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “1961–62 Irish League” as football tournament edition. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Irish, League and football.

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—1961—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Irish, League and football providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “1961–62 Irish League”, the useful work is to connect “football tournament edition” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2949758. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1961.

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This entry incorporates text from “1961–62 Irish League” 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.