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1977–78 Libyan Premier League

football league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 4, 2023
Entity authorityQ2951826 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1977–78 Libyan Premier League was the 14th edition of the competition since its inception in 1963. The competition reverted to its original format, where the winners of the three regional titles came together to determine the national champion. The regional champions were as follows:

Qurthabia (Southern champions)

Nasr (Eastern champions)

Ahly Tripoli (Western champions)

The three clubs played each other twice, home and away, and the club with the most points would be crowned national champions.

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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—1977, 1963—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Libyan, Premier and League is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1977–78 Libyan Premier 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.