1908 Italian Football Championship

Campionato Italiano di Prima Categoria
Season 1908
Champions Pro Vercelli
1st title
← 1907
1909 →

The 1908 Italian Football Championship season was won by Pro Vercelli.

In this season, two championships of Prima Categoria were played:

  1. Italian Championship, the main tournament where only Italian players were allowed to play; the winners would be proclaimed Campioni d'Italia (Italian Champions)
  2. Federal Championship, a secondary tournament where foreign players (if they lived in Italy) were also allowed to play; the winners would be proclaimed Campioni Federali (Federal Champions)[1]

The winner of Italian Championship was Pro Vercelli. They won as prize Coppa Buni.

The winner of Federal Championship was Juventus. They won as prize Coppa Spensley.

However, only Pro Vercelli's title is officially recognized by the Italian Football Federation, while the Federal Championship won by Juventus was later forgotten by FIGC, due to the boycott made by the "spurious international teams" (the clubs composed mostly of foreign players).

Italian Championship

Qualifications

Piedmont

Played on March 1 and 8
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Pro Vercelli 3-1 Juventus 1-1 2-0

Liguria

Andrea Doria was the only registered team.

Lombardy

U.S. Milanese was the only registered team.

Final round

Final classification

Pos Team Pld Won Drw Lst Pts GF GA GD Notes
1Pro Vercelli4220642+2Champions
2U.S. Milanese4211573+4
3Andrea Doria40131410-6

Results

Team 1  Score  Team 2
U.S. Milanese 5-1 Andrea Doria
Pro Vercelli 0-0 U.S. Milanese
Andrea Doria 1-2 Pro Vercelli
Pro Vercelli 1-1 Andrea Doria
U.S. Milanese 0-1 Pro Vercelli
Andrea Doria 1-2 U.S. Milanese

Champion

Italian Football Championship
1908 Winners
S.G. Pro Vercelli
1st Title

Pro Vercelli

Federal Championship

Genoa and Torino didn't enter in the competition. Milan withdrew from the tournament on January 1, 1908, in order to protest against FIF.

Final

Played on January 19 and February 23
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
A. Doria Italy 1-3 Italy Juventus 0-3 1-0

Classification

Pos Team Pld Won Drw Lst Pts GF GA GD Notes
1Juventus2101231+2Champions
After playoff.
2Andrea Doria2101213-2Second place
After playoff.
N/AMilan--------Withdrew.

Playoff (Turin, March 16)

Team 1  Score  Team 2
Juventus Italy 2-2 Italy A. Doria

Cancelled and repeated for a mistake made by the referee during the match

Playoff (Torino, May 10)

Team 1  Score  Team 2
Juventus Italy 5-1 Italy A. Doria
  • Juventus Federal Champions

Juventus didn't receive Coppa Spensley as prize because Milan, the club who won the Cup in 1906 and 1907, refused to give the Cup to Juventus and gave it to Spensley and Genoa in order to protest against FIF. In the Federal Assembly of 1908 FIF decided to assign permanently Spensley Cup to Milan.

References and sources

  • Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005
  • Carlo Chiesa, La grande storia del calcio italiano, 2nd episode: Juve, scippati due titoli! Inter, l'atroce beffa (1908-1910, pp. 17–32, Guerin Sportivo #5 (May 2012).
  • Online digitalized Archive of newspaper La Stampa of Turin.

References

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


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