About: 1956–57 in English football

An Entity of Type: football league season, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org:8891

The 1956–57 season was the 77th season of competitive football in England. Manchester United won the First Division to become English football champions for the fifth time. Tottenham Hotspur were runners-up. In the Second Division it was Leicester City who finished in top spot, ahead of East Midlands rivals, Nottingham Forest. Hartlepools United finished as runners-up to Derby County in Third Division North, while in the Third Division South, Ipswich Town won the title ahead of Torquay United. The England national team won the British Home Championship, with Scotland the runners-up.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The 1956–57 season was the 77th season of competitive football in England. Manchester United won the First Division to become English football champions for the fifth time. Tottenham Hotspur were runners-up. In the Second Division it was Leicester City who finished in top spot, ahead of East Midlands rivals, Nottingham Forest. Hartlepools United finished as runners-up to Derby County in Third Division North, while in the Third Division South, Ipswich Town won the title ahead of Torquay United. Aston Villa won a record seventh FA Cup, beating Manchester United in the final and denying their opponents the chance of being the first double winners of the 20th century. The Charity Shield featured a Manchester derby, with United defeating City in the match. The England national team won the British Home Championship, with Scotland the runners-up. (en)
  • 1956/57 was het 59ste seizoen in de Engelse voetbalcompetitie. Manchester United werd voor de tweede keer op rij landskampioen. (nl)
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 5721284 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 21411 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1122654812 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:champions
  • Manchester United (en)
  • Leicester City (en)
dbp:country
  • England (en)
dbp:dchampions
  • Aston Villa (en)
dbp:division
dbp:domestic
dbp:flagicon
  • yes (en)
dbp:nextseason
  • 1957 (xsd:integer)
dbp:prevseason
  • 1955 (xsd:integer)
dbp:season
  • 1956 (xsd:integer)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • 1956/57 was het 59ste seizoen in de Engelse voetbalcompetitie. Manchester United werd voor de tweede keer op rij landskampioen. (nl)
  • The 1956–57 season was the 77th season of competitive football in England. Manchester United won the First Division to become English football champions for the fifth time. Tottenham Hotspur were runners-up. In the Second Division it was Leicester City who finished in top spot, ahead of East Midlands rivals, Nottingham Forest. Hartlepools United finished as runners-up to Derby County in Third Division North, while in the Third Division South, Ipswich Town won the title ahead of Torquay United. The England national team won the British Home Championship, with Scotland the runners-up. (en)
rdfs:label
  • 1956–57 in English football (en)
  • Engels voetbalkampioenschap 1956/57 (nl)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:season of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License