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Sri Lanka national football team results (1949–1979)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ25351912 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sri Lanka national football team fixtures and results between 1949 and 1979 are as follows:

Results

1949

1952

1953

1954

1955

1956

1963

1964

East Germany also played against Ceylon Army in 8 January ending in 0–14.

Editorial summary

“Sri Lanka national football team results (1949–1979)” enters the record as wikimedia list article. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lanka, national and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949, 1979, 1952, 1953—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lanka, national and football.
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Why this record matters

“Sri Lanka national football team results (1949–1979)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lanka, national and football provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25351912. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1949, 1979, 1952 and 1953.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sri Lanka national football team results (1949–1979)” 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.