Football League Third Division North

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The Football League Third Division North was a regional tier of the English Football League system that operated in the early to mid-20th century, featuring lower-division professional clubs from the north of England.

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Label Occurrences
Football League Third Division North canonical 6

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf defunct football league
former division of the English Football League
competitionFormat double round-robin
competitionType men's football league
concurrentExistenceWith Football League Third Division South NERFINISHED
country England
dissolved 1958
domesticCupParticipation FA Cup NERFINISHED
establishedBy expansion of The Football League
geographicRestriction clubs from the north of England
governingBody The Football League Management Committee NERFINISHED
historicalEra interwar period
post-World War II period
inception 1921
leagueLevel third tier
location England
lowerTierRelativeTo Football League First Division NERFINISHED
Football League Second Division NERFINISHED
matchPointsSystem 1 point for a draw
2 points for a win
mostChampionships Doncaster Rovers F.C. NERFINISHED
mostChampionshipsNumber 3
notableClub Accrington Stanley F.C. (1891) NERFINISHED
Carlisle United F.C. NERFINISHED
Chesterfield F.C. NERFINISHED
Hartlepools United F.C. NERFINISHED
Lincoln City F.C. NERFINISHED
Rochdale A.F.C. NERFINISHED
Stockport County F.C. NERFINISHED
Tranmere Rovers F.C. NERFINISHED
Wigan Borough F.C. NERFINISHED
numberOfTeamsAtDissolution 24
numberOfTeamsAtFormation 20
parallelDivisionWith Football League Third Division South NERFINISHED
partOf The Football League NERFINISHED
promotionTo Football League Second Division NERFINISHED
reasonForAbolition reorganization of the Football League into national divisions
reasonForCreation to accommodate more professional clubs from northern England
regionServed Northern England NERFINISHED
relegationTo non-league football
replacedBy Football League Fourth Division NERFINISHED
Football League Third Division NERFINISHED
seasonEndTypicalMonth May
seasonStartTypicalMonth August
seasonStructure annual league competition
sport association football
status professional
tieBreakerMethod goal average

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: Football League Third Division North
Description of subject: The Football League Third Division North was a regional tier of the English Football League system that operated in the early to mid-20th century, featuring lower-division professional clubs from the north of England.

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Stalybridge Celtic F.C. formerLeague Football League Third Division North
Nelson F.C. leagueParticipation Football League Third Division North
Nelson F.C. formerLeague Football League Third Division North
Workington A.F.C. formerDivision Football League Third Division North
Football League Third Division South parallelTo Football League Third Division North
Bradford Park Avenue A.F.C. formerLeagueMembership Football League Third Division North