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1980–81 Saudi Premier League

football league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ2949075 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1980–81 season was the fifth edition of the Saudi Premier League.

Overview

The league title was won once again by Al-Nassr for the second time in consecutive years and third time in overall.

Newly promoted sides Al-Riyadh and Al-Jabalain were initially relegated, though the Premier League and First Division would merge for the 1981–82 season, keeping them in the top flight for that year.

Clubs

Stadia and locations

Foreign players

League table

Promoted Al-Rawdah, Al-Wehda.

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The public source identifies “1980–81 Saudi Premier League” as football league season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Saudi, Premier and League.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 1981—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Saudi, Premier and League providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “1980–81 Saudi 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.