1921–22 Prima Categoria Explained

Competition:Prima Categoria
Season:1921–22
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Winners:Novese
1st title
Prevseason:1920–21
Nextseason:1922–23 1D →
1922–23 2D

The 1921–22 Prima Categoria season was won by Novese.

During the summer of 1921, a dispute between the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (FIGC) and the largest teams within the league arose. The teams asked for a reduction of the number of participants in the 1a Divisione.

Vittorio Pozzo developed a plan to accommodate the teams' requests, however, after a vote the plan was not passed; the smaller clubs feared that they would disappear if such a reduction was introduced.

This led to the creation of a new Italian football federation, the Confederazione Calcistica Italiana (CCI), who organised the 1921–22 Prima Divisione that ran concurrent to the FIGC championship.

This separation, however, only lasted one season and the following summer FIGC accepted a reduction in the league participants.

The 1921-22 FIGC winner was U.S. Novese.

Regulation

Tuscany was added to the main championship as the sixth region. The regional FAs remained with 48 clubs. The preliminary regional phase was the bulk of the tournament, with even twelve matchdays and regular regional football champions, while the following national phase was reduced to a spring tournament of two little groups and a final.

The main tournament was completely divided in six independent sections, and each region had its own football champions that joined the national championship.

Teams

Consequently to the controversy with the secessionist clubs, the Regional FAs quite respected the promotion rules. Only two clubs were added to the six rightful winners of the lower secondary regional tournaments.

Qualifications

Piedmont

Classification

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Team
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Promotion or relegation
1.Novese8620181+1714Qualified
2.US Torinese833279-29
3.Pastore Torino8242710-38Later to playoffs
4.Valenzana8215812-45
5.GC Cappuccini (E)8125614-84Merged with Pro Vercelli
6.Biellese--Retired

Results table

Liguria

Classification

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Team
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Promotion or relegation
1.Sampierdarenese10820257+1818Qualified
2.Speranza Savona105231717012
3.Rivarolese104241313010Later to playoffs
4.Sestrese103251713+48
5.SPES Genova103161120-97Later to Div2
6.GC Genova10217922-135

Results table

Lombardy

Group A

Classification
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Team
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Promotion or relegation
1.Como6411208+129Qualified
2.Chiasso6240115+68Later to Div2
3.Saronno622278-16
4.Varese6015724-171
Results table

Group B

Classification
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Team
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Promotion or relegation
1.Cremonese6420184+1410Qualified
2.Trevigliese6312910-17
3.Atalanta6303914-56
4.Stelvio (E)6015513-81Disbanded
Results table

Group C

Classification
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Team
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Promotion or relegation
1.Enotria Goliardo6420127+510Qualified
2.Monza62131011-15
2.Juventus Italia6213912-35
4.Casteggio620489-14
Results table

Group D

Classification
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Team
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Promotion or relegation
1.Esperia Como631284+47Qualified
2.Pavia62226606
2.Pro Patria et Libertate622257-26
4.A.C. Libertas (E)621357-25Disbanded
Results table

Final round

Classification
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Team
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Promotion or relegation
1.Esperia Como6411116+59Qualified
2.Cremonese6303129+36
3.Como621378-15Later to playoffs
4.Enotria Goliardo (E)6204613-74Later disbanded
Results table

Veneto

Classification

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Team
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Promotion or relegation
1.Petrarca Padova106221914+514Qualified
2.Udinese10442178+1112
3.Bentegodi Verona103342417+79Later to playoffs
3.Treviso103341019-99
5.Legnaghese102441115-48
6.Schio102441220-88

Results table

Emilia

Group A

Classification
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Team
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Promotion or relegation
1.Piacenza4220104+66Qualified
2.Parma421164+25
3.US Mantovana4013311-81Later to Div2
Results table

Group B

Classification
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Team
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Promotion or relegation
1.Virtus Bologna623184+47Qualified
2.SPAL614141+36
3.Carpi622254+16
4.Reggiana6213513-85
Results table
Qualification playoff
  • Played on 8 January 1922.
    Tie-breaker
  • Played on 15 January 1922 in Bologna.

    Relegation playoff

    Played on 22 and 29 January 1922.

    Since the aggregate rule wasn't applied, a tie-breaker was needed.

    Tie-breaker
  • Played on 5 February 1922 in Ferrara.

    Final round

    Classification
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    		Promotion or relegation
    1.SPAL6330125+79Qualified
    2.Virtus Bologna6321105+58
    3.Parma6123813-54Later to playoffs
    4.Piacenza6114714-73
    Results table

    Tuscany

    Classification

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    		Team
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    		Promotion or relegation
    1.Pro Livorno10712228+1415Qualified
    2.Lucca105322510+1513
    3.Libertas Firenze105231116-512Later to playoffs
    4.Viareggio105141816+211
    5.Prato101361018-85
    6.CS Firenze10127624-184

    Results table

    Semifinals

    Group A

    Classification

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    		Team
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    		Promotion or relegation
    1.Novese4310124+87Qualified
    2.Petrarca Padova41215504
    3.Pro Livorno (E)4013311-81Merged with AS Livorno

    Results table

    Group B

    Classification

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    		Team
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    		width=33GA
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    		Promotion or relegation
    1.Sampierdarenese421143+15Qualified
    1.SPAL421187+15
    3.Esperia Como402268-22

    Qualification playoff

    Played on April 30, 1922, in Milan.

    National Finals

    Played on May 7 and 14, 1922.

    Repetition
  • Played on May 21, 1922, in Cremona.

    References and sources

    Qualifications to the Northern League

    This FIGC was very poor, and risks of a general bankruptcy was real. The FIGC had a sole resource, its FIFA membership, during the talks that started with the Northern League.

    The rich League proposed that FIGC’s Prima Categoria became the Second Division of its CCI’s championship. An agreement was found in late June: the Colombo Compromise by the boss of newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport.

    The League imposed its idea of a 24 clubs First Division and a 48 clubs Second Division from 1923. The FIGC obtained a special 36 clubs championship for 1922-23, including champions and runner-ups of the disbanded Regional FAs. More, a third club of each regional FA could test its strength against a League bottom club.

    To respect as possible its clubs, the FIGC decided a test-match between the third and the forth clubs of each region. All other clubs went directly to Division Two.

    Played on July 2, 1922.

    Barrage

    On mid-July Sundays, the six FIGC’s qualification winners could try to match the Northern League’s six bottom clubs.

    Home/away matches on July 9 and 16.

    (*) Since the away goal rule wasn't applied, a tie-break was needed:

    Played on July 23, 1922, in Piacenza.

    Rivarolese and Pastore Turin were the sole two FIGC clubs which joined the regional champions and runners-up in the new First Division.

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