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1948 Svenska Cupen

football tournament season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ4566342 ↗
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The 1948 Svenska Cupen was the eighth season of the main Swedish football Cup and for the first time was not competed for by Allsvenskan clubs, because of the Summer Olympics in London. The final was between two third division clubs and was held on 25 July 1948 at Olympia, Helsingborg. Råå IF won 6–0 against BK Kenty before an attendance of 9,852 spectators.

Preliminary round 1

For other results see SFS-Bolletinen - Matcher i Svenska Cupen.

Preliminary round 2

For other results see SFS-Bolletinen - Matcher i Svenska Cupen.

First round

For other results see SFS-Bolletinen - Matcher i Svenska Cupen.

Second round

The 8 matches in this round were played on 4 July 1948.

Quarter-finals

The 4 matches in this round were played on 11 July 1948.

Semi-finals

The semi-finals in this round were played on 18 July 1948.

Final

The final was played on 25 July 1948 at the Olympia Stadium.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1948 Svenska Cupen” as football tournament season. 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—1948—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Svenska, Cupen and football can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as football tournament season. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “1948 Svenska Cupen” 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.