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SC Mirandela

Portuguese association football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ3493849
Source-derived summary

Sport Clube de Mirandela (Mirandela) is a Portuguese football club based in the city of Mirandela, in northeast Portugal (Trás-os-Montes region).

Background

Mirandela currently plays in the Segunda Divisão Zona Norte, which is the third tier of Portuguese football. The club was founded in 1926 and they play their home matches at the Estádio São Sebastião in Mirandela. The stadium is able to accommodate 3,500 spectators.

The club is affiliated to Associação de Futebol de Bragança and has entered the national cup competition known as Taça de Portugal on many occasions.

Appearances

Segunda Divisão: 9

Terceira Divisão: 42

Season to season

League and cup history

Honours

Terceira Divisão, Série A: 2007/08, 2010/11

Current squad

As of 24 December 2021

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “SC Mirandela” is portuguese association football club. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mirandela, Portuguese and association, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1926, 2007, 2010, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1926. For this dossier, Mirandela, Portuguese and association is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “portuguese association football club” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3493849. VIAF identifies the subject as 149488079. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1926, 2007, 2010 and 2021.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “SC Mirandela”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow SC Mirandela primary sources, SC Mirandela archive and Mirandela research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “SC Mirandela”?
  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from SC Mirandela” 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.