Lwów District League Explained

See main article: Lower Level Football Leagues in Interwar Poland. Lwów district football competitions (Polish: Lwówskie okręgowe rozgrywki w piłce nożnej) were a regional association football competitions on territory of Lwów Voivodeship, Tarnopol Voivodeship, and Stanisławów Voivodeship (1920-1934), Poland (then Second Polish Republic) in 1920–1939. The competitions were organized by the Lwówskie Okręgowych Związków Piłki Nożnej, Lwówskie OZPN.

The league was created in 1920, as the original four district leagues of the Polish Football Union and is considered a continuation of the Austrian Football Championship of Galicia in 1913–1914.

The competitions were conducted on territory of modern West Ukraine which during the World War II was annexed by the Soviet Union and added to the Soviet Ukraine (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic). The Lwów District League is considered to be a football precursor of the Lviv Oblast Football Federation championship in the modern Ukraine and the Subcarpathia Regional Division of the Polish Fifth League.

Winners of the league qualified to all-Polish championship among winners of all district leagues in Poland. In 1927, number of better Polish clubs organized all-Polish National League which was a predecessor of the today's Ekstraklasa. At the same time winners of the district league since then qualified to regional play-offs, a winner of which was advancing to the newly formed National League.

In 1928 and 1929, the Lwów District League temporarily administered the regional football competitions in Wołyń Voivodeship as Wołyń subgroup, which in 1930 officially formed the Wołyń District League.

Champions

List of the top tier's winners of the district league

Season Champions Runners-up Third place
  1. teams
Notes
1920 4 not finished
1921 2 only two teams
1922 5
1923 6
1924 6 relegation/promotion
1925 no competitions
1926 6 relegation/promotion
1927 6th Aviation Regiment Janina Złoczów 5 conflict with Przemyśl clubs
1928 AZS Lwów/Pogoń Stryj 10 relegation/promotion, two groups
1929 Janina Złoczów/Pogoń Stryj 10 relegation/promotion, two groups
1930 9 relegation/promotion
1931 Pogoń Stryj 8
1932 Drugi Sokół Lwów 13 relegation/promotion, two groups, two stages
1933 align=cefnter13 relegation/promotion, two groups, two stages
1934 Polonia Przemyśl 10 relegation/promotion (renamed)
1935 Pogoń Stryj 11 relegation/promotion
1936 10 two groups
1936–37 Ognisko Jarosław 12
1937–38 Polonia Przemyśl 14 relegation/promotion
1938–39 13 relegation/promotion
1939–40 11 not finished (only 2 rounds played)

Winners

Wołyń subgroup

Separate football competitions were established in 1928 in Wołyń Voivodeship under administration of the Lwów District Football Union (OZPN) as a separate subgroup out teams that previously competed in the Lublin District League. Winners of the newly established competitions were not allowed to the promotional play-offs.[1]

Season Champions Runners-up Third place
  1. teams
Notes
1928 4
1929 5

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Jan Goksiński. Futbol na Wołyniu. Sportowa Historia.pl. 2013-10-21