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1959 Úrvalsdeild

football league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ1061146 ↗
Source-derived summary

Statistics of Úrvalsdeild in the 1959 season.

Overview

1959 was the 48th league championships in Iceland, six teams played and for the first time teams met both home and away. KR won the championship. KR's Þórólfur Beck was the top scorer with 11 goals.

Final league table

Results

Each team played every opponent once home and away for a total of 10 matches.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1959 Úrvalsdeild” is football league season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Úrvalsdeild, football and league, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1959—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Úrvalsdeild, football and league is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1959 Úrvalsdeild” 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.