1909 Italian Football Championship

Campionato Federale di Prima Categoria
Season 1909
Champions Pro Vercelli
2nd title
← 1908

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

In this season, as in the previous one, 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 Juventus. They won as prize Coppa Buni.

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

However, the "spurious international teams" (the clubs composed mostly of foreign players), adversing the autarchical policy of the FIF, decide to withdraw from Italian Championship in order to make the Federal competition the most relevant tournament, and to diminish the Italian one. 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 January 17 and February 7
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Andrea Doria 4-4 Genoa 1-1 3-3
Tie-break
Played on February 21 on neutral ground
Team 1  Score  Team 2
Andrea Doria 1-2 Genoa

Lombardy

Classification
Pos Team Pld Won Drw Lst Pts GF GA GD Notes
1U.S. Milanese2200451+4Qualified for Semi-Finals
2Milan2101234-1
3Internazionale2002025-3
Results
Played on January 10, 17 and 24
Team 1  Score  Team 2
Milan 3-2 Internazionale
U.S. Milanese 3-1 Milan
Internazionale 0-2 U.S. Milanese

Piedmont

Round 1
Played on January 10 and 17
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Juventus 3-2 Torino 0-1 3-1

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

Repetition
Played on January 24 on Juventus ground
Team 1  Score  Team 2
Juventus 0-1 Torino

Torino advanced to Round 2.

Round 2
Played on February 7 and March 14
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Pro Vercelli 3-1 Torino 2-1 1-0

Veneto

Venezia was the only registered team.

Semifinals

Lombardy-Veneto

Played on February 21 and March 28
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Venezia 3-18 U.S. Milanese 1-7 2-11

Piedmont-Liguria

Played on March 21 and 28
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Pro Vercelli 4-3 Genoa 3-2 1-1

Final

Played on April 4 and 25
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Pro Vercelli 4-2 U.S. Milanese 2-0 2-2

Champion

Italian Football Championship
1909 Winners
S.G. Pro Vercelli
2nd Title

Pro Vercelli

Italian Championship

Qualifications

Piedmont

  • Round 1
  • March 28: Juventus-Torino 2-0 (forfait)

Round 2

  • April 25: Juventus-Piemonte 1-0[2]

Round 3

  • May 2: Juventus-Pro Vercelli 2-0 (forfait)

Qualified: Juventus.

Lombardy

  • March 28: US Milanese-Milan 2-0 (forfait)
Note: According to La Stampa, this match was planned for March 28 but likely this match wasn't played for forfait of Milan. In fact, according to La Stampa in March 28 Milan played against Torino for the Palla Dapples (Dapples Ball) tournament, not in the Italian Championship against USM.

Qualified: US Milanese.

Liguria

  • May 2: Genoa-A. Doria 0-2 (forfait)

Semifinals

Played on May 9, 16 and 23.

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Andrea Doria 5 - 5 Juventus 3 - 1[3] 2 - 4[4]
Vicenza 1 - 10 US Milanese 1 - 2 0 - 8[5]
  • Playoff (at Milan):
    • May 23, 1909: JUVENTUS - Andrea Doria 1 - 0 aet[6]

Final

May 30 and June 6

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Juventus 3 - 2 US Milanese 1 - 1 2 - 1[7]

Italian Champions: Juventus.

Juventus won also as prize for the victory Coppa Buni, but this title isn't currently recognized by FIGC as "scudetto".

References and sources

  1. ↑ "La gran finale del Campionato Federale". La Stampa. 22 February 1908. p. 5. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  2. ↑ According to Chiesa, on April 4 was played this match: Juventus-Piemonte 0-0 but this match was never played at that date. The source is Chiesa, op. cit., but Chiesa made some mistake at reporting results and according to La Stampa in April 4 Piemonte played at Genoa against the reserves team of Genoa for the Seconda Categoria Federal Championship Finals, so it's impossible that Piemonte played in the same day two championship matches in two different cities.
  3. ↑ La Stampa, ed. (10 May 1909). "L'Andrea Doria vince la semifinale del Campionato Italiano". p. 4. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  4. ↑ La Stampa, ed. (17 May 1909). "Il campionato italiano. La gara di ieri a Torino". p. 5. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  5. ↑ La Stampa, ed. (24 May 1909). "La Juventus batte l'Andrea Doria a Milano". p. 5. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  6. ↑ La Stampa, ed. (24 May 1909). "La Juventus batte l'Andrea Doria a Milano". p. 5. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  7. ↑ La Stampa, ed. (7 June 1909). "Il F.C. Juventus vince il Campionato Italiano". p. 5. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
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  • Carlo Chiesa, La grande storia del calcio italiano Chapter 2: Juve, scippati due titoli! Inter, l'atroce beffa (1908-1910), pp. 17–32, Guerin Sportivo #5, May 2012.
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