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Teignmouth A.F.C.

football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ112061624 ↗
Source-derived summary

Teignmouth Association Football Club is a football club based in Teignmouth, England. They are currently members of the South West Peninsula League Premier Division East and play at Coombe Valley, Teignmouth.

History

Teignmouth were formed in 1946. In 1982, the club joined the South Western League, leaving six years later. In 1992, Teignmouth became founder members of the Devon County League, before being relegated into the South Devon League in 1999. In 2004, Teignmouth rejoined the Devon County League, winning the league in their first season back. In 2007, Teignmouth became founder members of the South West Peninsula League, being placed in the Division One East. In 2019, Teignmouth became founder members of the Devon League, winning the South West Division three years later.

In 2022, the club was admitted into the South West Peninsula League Premier Division East.

Ground

The club currently play at Coombe Valley, Teignmouth.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Teignmouth A.F.C.” is football club. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Teignmouth, football and club, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1946, 1982, 1992, 1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Teignmouth, football and club is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “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

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q112061624. Authority coordinates are 50.555, -3.510. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1946, 1982, 1992 and 1999.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Teignmouth A.F.C.” 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.