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Pepe León

Spanish football club president

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ6292688 ↗
Source-derived summary

José "Pepe" León Gómez (26 February 1936 – 9 July 2026) was a Spanish football club president who was a three-time chairman of Real Betis Balompié.

Biography

León was born in Dos Hermanas, Seville on 26 February 1936. He made his fortune as an industrialist.

In January 2021, he was given a fine and suspended sentence by a Spanish court for irregularities during his tenure.

León died on 9 July 2026, at the age of 90.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Pepe León” as spanish football club president. 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—1936, 2026, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1935-03-23. The account is most persuasive where Pepe, León and Spanish can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as spanish football club president. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Jul 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6292688. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1936, 2026 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pepe León” 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.