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1978–79 Primeira Divisão

45th season of top-tier Portuguese football

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ2276986 ↗
Source-derived summary

Statistics of Portuguese Liga in the 1978–79 season.

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and F.C. Porto won the championship.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1978–79 Primeira Divisão” as 45th season of top-tier Portuguese football. 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—1978—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Primeira, Divisão and 45th can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 45th season of top-tier Portuguese football. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 May 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2276986. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1978.

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This entry incorporates text from “1978–79 Primeira Divisão” 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.