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Levin AFC

football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ111915545 ↗
Source-derived summary

Levin AFC are a football club from New Zealand based in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of the North Island. Its home ground is at Donnelly Park, Adkin Avenue in the town of Levin.

The club joined the Central Federation League in 2020.

Levin AFC has competed for the Chatham Cup since 1970, reaching the fourth round twice in 1986 and 1989.

Levin joined the Central League in 1976 and later won the Third Division in 1991. The club last competed in the Central League in 1997.

In 1969, under its original name Levin United, the club claimed the world record for Cot Pushing.

Honours

• 1991 Central League Division Three Champions.

Editorial summary

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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—2020, 1970, 1986, 1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Levin, football and club is the immediate research focus.
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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 Jan 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q111915545. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1970, 1986 and 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from “Levin AFC” 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.