1921–22 Prima Divisione

Prima Divisione
Season	1921–22 (CCI)
Champions	Pro Vercelli; 7th title
Relegated	Vicenza; Venezia
	← 1920–21 1922–23 →

The 1921–22 Prima Divisione season was won by Pro Vercelli.

The CCI Italian Football Championship was formed during the summer of 1921, as a result of a dispute between the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio and its strongest teams.

The teams asked for a reduction of the number of participants in the First Category. Vittorio Pozzo, the Italian football coach, developed a plan to accommodate the teams' requests but, after a vote, the plan did not pass: 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 CCI (Italian Football Confederation, in Italian Confederazione Calcistica Italiana), that organized a championship concurrent with the FIGC championship.

This separation only lasted one season and the following summer, FIGC accepted the proposal to reduce the number of participants and subsequently recognized the CCI championship as an official scudetto, alongside their own 1921–22 Prima Categoria (FIGC) that ran concurrently.

The 1921-22 CCI winner was S.G. Pro Vercelli.

Northern League

As a private league, the Northern League was composed by the 24 richest clubs of 1920–21 Prima Categoria.

Regular season

Group winners went to the final. Under original regulations, bottom clubs went to a salvation play-off against the two best clubs of the Second Division.

Group A

Classification

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualifications
1.	Pro Vercelli	22	17	2	3	61	14	+47	36	Qualified
2.	Novara	22	12	6	4	47	19	+28	32
3.	Bologna	22	11	5	6	44	22	+22	27
4.	Mantova	22	11	2	9	40	34	+6	24
5.	Andrea Doria	22	11	1	10	36	32	+4	23
6.	Juventus	22	7	8	7	27	32	-5	22
6.	Hellas Verona	22	10	2	10	29	36	-7	22
8.	US Milanese	22	6	8	8	24	29	-5	20
9.	Milan	22	7	4	11	29	36	-7	18
10.	Livorno	22	8	3	11	23	42	-18	17	Extra play-off
11.	Spezia	22	5	6	11	21	31	-10	16	Extra play-off
12.	Vicenza (R)	22	2	3	17	18	73	-55	7	First play-off

Results table

Home \ Away	ADO	BOL	HEL	JUV	LIV	MAN	MIL	NOV	PRO	SPE	USM	VIC
Andrea Doria	—	1–2	5–2	6–2	3–1	4–2	1–2	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	3–0
Bologna	0–1	—	4–1	1–1	5–0	2–0	4–0	2–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	11–1
Hellas Verona	2–0	0–2	—	1–2	3–0	2–1	2–1	0–4	0–1	3–2	2–1	3–1
Juventus	2–0	1–1	2–0	—	3–1	1–2	0–0	0–1	1–7	2–2	1–2	1–0
Livorno	3–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	—	1–5	3–2	0–2	1–2	0–0	1–1	2–1
Mantova	1–0	1–0	3–0	0–1	2–1	—	2–1	2–2	1–2	4–0	0–2	6–2
Milan	0–0	2–1	0–1	1–3	1–2	2–2	—	0–5	1–0	0–1	2–0	7–0
Novara	4–0	1–1	2–2	2–1	1–0	3–1	3–2	—	0–1	1–0	1–1	4–2
Pro Vercelli	3–0	4–0	3–2	1–1	5–1	5–0	5–0	1–0	—	1–0	3–0	10–0
Spezia	2–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	3–2	1–2	0–0	1–3	—	1–1	1–2
US Milanese	2–4	1–1	0–0	2–0	2–1	0–2	0–0	2–2	1–2	2–1	—	2–1
Vicenza	0–3	1–2	0–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–3	0–6	1–1	2–2	2–1	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Group B

Classification

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualifications
1.	Genoa	22	16	5	1	61	13	+48	37	Qualified
2.	Alessandria	22	9	10	3	41	24	+17	28
3.	Pisa	22	12	3	7	53	28	+27	27
4.	Modena	22	12	2	8	34	33	+1	26
5.	Padova	22	10	3	9	30	36	-6	23
6.	Casale	22	7	6	9	33	27	+6	20
6.	Legnano	22	7	6	9	28	29	-1	20
6.	Savona	22	9	2	11	28	33	-5	20
6.	Torino	22	6	8	8	21	29	-8	20
10.	Venezia (R)	22	7	3	12	19	45	-36	17	Extra play-off
11.	Brescia	22	6	3	13	19	33	-14	15	Extra play-off
12.	Internazionale	22	3	5	14	29	66	-37	11	First and extra play-offs

Results table

Home \ Away	ALE	BRE	CAS	GEN	INT	LEG	MOD	PAD	PIS	SAV	TOR	VEN
Alessandria	—	2–2	1–1	1–1	5–0	3–1	1–0	3–1	3–0	3–0	2–0	5–2
Brescia	0–1	—	4–0	0–1	3–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–2	3–0	1–0	0–3
Casale	0–0	4–0	—	3–2	7–0	0–1	6–0	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	3–0
Genoa	2–2	1–0	5–0	—	2–0	2–0	7–0	7–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	7–0
Internazionale	2–2	4–3	1–3	1–4	—	2–2	1–2	3–4	2–2	2–0	0–1	2–0
Legnano	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–3	6–0	—	0–0	3–1	4–2	2–1	1–1	3–0
Modena	2–0^[1]	1–0	2–1	1–1	5–1	2–0	—	2–1	2–1	2–0	3–0	4–1
Padova	3–1	2–0	1–1	0–1	2–2	2–1	2–1	—	2–1	3–1	1–1	1–0
Pisa	3–2	5–0	2–0	1–1	7–2	4–0	4–1	3–1	—	4–0	4–1	5–0
Savona	1–1	2–0^[1]	2–0	1–1	3–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	3–1	—	3–1	3–0
Torino	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–2	2–2	2–0	3–2	2–0	0–2	2–0	—	1–1
Venezia	2–2	2–0	1–0	1–5	1–0	1–0	0–2^[2]	0–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Finals

Played on May 7 and 14, 1922.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Pro Vercelli	2-1	Genoa	0–0	2–1

Southern League

The Southern League was a separate amatorial league, still divided in five regions. The winner were Fortitudo Rome.

National Finals

Played on June 11 and 18, 1922.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Fortitudo Roma	2-8	Pro Vercelli	0-3	2-5

Play-offs

Played on July 2, 1922.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Derthona	3-1(*)	Vicenza

(*) This match was invalidated due to a referee's technical error. The match was repeated a week later:

Played on July 9, 1922, in Legnano.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Derthona	4-0	Vicenza

Vicenza were relegated to 1922–23 Seconda Divisione.

Internazionale received a walkover as their opponents Sport Club Nazionale Lombardia went bankrupt and disbanded.

Barrage

The CCI was very rich but it suffered the lack of international recognition by the FIFA, so an agreement with the FIGC was found. On July 9 and 16, Inter and Derthona and the other four bottom clubs of the Northern League were challenged by six FIGC’s clubs.

Venezia was the sole CCI club to be relegated to the 1922–23 Seconda Divisione following the defeat by FIGC’s Rivarolese. Spezia was re-elected when CCI’s Livorno bought and merged with its FIGC's counterpart Pro Livorno, freeing a slot.

Extra matches

After U.S. Livorno and Pro Livorno's merger, a spot in the Prima Divisione was freed and extra-rounds had to be organized.

Extra Round 1

Played on September 17, 1922.^[3]

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Sestrese	1-0	Venezia
Spezia	3-0	Treviso

Extra Round 2

Played on September 24, 1922, in Reggio Emilia.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Sestrese	1-2	Spezia

References and sources

Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b Forfeit.
^ Decided by the CCI.
^ Libertas Firenze and Piacenza forfeited.

[forfeit-1] Forfeit.

[cci-2] Decided by the CCI.

[3] Libertas Firenze and Piacenza forfeited.

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