1909 Italian Football Championship

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Campionato Federale di Prima Categoria
1909 Societa Ginnastica Pro Vercelli.jpg
1909 Pro Vercelli's squad
Season1908–09
Champions Pro Vercelli
2nd title
Top goalscorerAmilcare Pizzi (9)
1908
1909–10

The 1909 Italian Football Championship season was won by Pro Vercelli.

Contents

In this season, as in the previous one, two championships of Prima Categoria were played:

  1. Federal Championship, the first tournament where foreign players (if they lived in Italy) were also allowed to play; the winners would be proclaimed Campioni Federali (Federal Champions) [1]
  2. Italian Championship, the second tournament where only Italian players were allowed to play; the winners would be proclaimed Campioni Italiani (Italian Champions)

The winner of Federal Championship was Pro Vercelli. They won as a prize Coppa Oberti.

The winner of Italian Championship was Juventus. They won as a prize Coppa Buni.

However, the "spurious international teams" (the clubs composed mostly of foreign players), adversing the autarchical policy of the FIF, decided to withdraw from Italian Championship in order to make the Federal competition the most relevant tournament and to diminish the Italian one. More, Pro Vercelli's victory of the Federal Championship (where Juventus was soon eliminated) with an all-Italian squad transformed the Italian Championship into a meaningless tournament. The dissenters' strategy worked out: the failure of the Italian Championship won by Juventus forced the Federation to later recognized the Federal Champions of Pro Vercelli as "Campioni d'Italia 1909", disavowing the other tournament.

Federal Championship

Qualifications

Liguria

Played on 17 January and 7 February
Team 1 Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
Andrea Doria Bandiera blu e bianca con scudo di San Giorgio.svg 4-4 600px Rosso e Blu con striscia Bianco e croce Rossa su sfondo Bianco.png Genoa 1-13-3
Tie-break
Played on 21 February on neutral ground
Team 1 Score Team 2
Andrea Doria Bandiera blu e bianca con scudo di San Giorgio.svg 1-2 600px Rosso e Blu con striscia Bianco e croce Rossa su sfondo Bianco.png Genoa

Lombardy

Classification
PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1 US Milanese 220051+44Qualified for Semi-Finals
2 Milan 21013412
3 Internazionale 20022530
Source: Panini
Results
Played on 10, 17 and 24 January
Team 1 Score Team 2
Milan Bianco e Rosso (Croce) e Rosso e Nero (Strisce).svg 3-2 600px Nero e Azzurro (Strisce)2.png Internazionale
US Milanese 600px chequered White Black.svg 3-1 Bianco e Rosso (Croce) e Rosso e Nero (Strisce).svg Milan
Internazionale 600px Nero e Azzurro (Strisce)2.png 0-2 600px chequered White Black.svg US Milanese

Piedmont

Round 1
Played on 10 and 17 January
Team 1 Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
Juventus 600px Nero e Bianco (Strisce).png 3-2 Flag - Garnet with white bull.svg Torino 0-13-1

Due to the fact that both teams won a match (aggregate total was not applied), a tie break was needed.

Repetition
Played on 24 January on Juventus ground
Team 1 Score Team 2
Juventus 600px Nero e Bianco (Strisce).png 0-1 Flag - Garnet with white bull.svg Torino

Torino advanced to Round 2.

Round 2
Played on 7 February and 14 March
Team 1 Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
Pro Vercelli 600px Bianco con croce sottile Rossa.png 3-1 Flag - Garnet with white bull.svg Torino 2-11-0

Veneto

Venezia was the only registered team.

Semifinals

Lombardy-Veneto

Played on 21 February and 28 March
Team 1 Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
Venezia 600px Verde e Nero in diagonale.png 3-18 600px chequered White Black.svg US Milanese 1-72-11

Piedmont-Liguria

Played on 21 and 28 March
Team 1 Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
Pro Vercelli 600px Bianco con croce sottile Rossa.png 4-3 600px Rosso e Blu con striscia Bianco e croce Rossa su sfondo Bianco.png Genoa 3-21-1

Final

Played on 4 and 25 April
Team 1 Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
Pro Vercelli 600px Bianco con croce sottile Rossa.png 4-2 600px chequered White Black.svg US Milanese 2-02-2

Italian Championship

References and sources

  1. "La gran finale del Campionato Federale". La Stampa. 22 February 1908. p. 5. Retrieved 17 April 2012.

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