1922–23 Prima Divisione

The 1922-23 Prima Divisione was the twenty-third edition of the Italian Football Championship and the second branded Prima Divisione. In a highly political previous season of Italian football, two separate and rival Italian Football Championships were organised by disputing parties. Hence why 1922-23 Prima Divisione was the twenty-third edition and not twenty-second. The 1922–23 Prima Divisione was the eighth Italian Football Championship won by Genoa.

Prima Divisione

Season	1922–23
Champions	Genoa 8th title
Relegated	Mantova US Torinese Petrarca Padova Speranza Savona Derthona Rivarolese Esperia Como Udinese Lucchese US Milanese Pastore Torino Savona
← 1921–22 (FIGC) ← 1921–22 (CCI) 1923–24 →

Format

All five seassons of Prima Divisione were scheduled as regional competitions, leading to a national final. Due to the high numbers of participants, under the agreement with the Northern League, the FIGC had to organize a qualification tournament in July, in order to reduce them to three rounds of 12 sides each.

Northern League

From 1921-22 C.C.I. championship

• Alessandria - Alessandria
• Andrea Doria - Genoa
• Bologna - Bologna
• Casale - Casale Monferrato
• Genoa - Genoa
• Hellas Verona - Verona
• Juventus - Turin
• Legnano - Legnano
• Mantova - Mantua
• Milan - Milan
• Modena - Modena
• Novara - Novara
• Padova - Padua
• Pisa - Pisa
• Pro Vercelli - Vercelli
• Savona - Savona
• Torino - Turin
• U.S. Milanese - Milan

From 1921-22 F.I.G.C. championship

• Cremonese - Cremona
• Esperia Como - Como
• Lucca - Lucca
• Novese - Novi Ligure
• Petrarca Padova - Padua
• Sampierdarenese - Genoa
• Spal - Ferrara
• Speranza Savona - Savona
• U.S. Torinese - Turin
• Udinese - Udine
• Virtus Bologna - Bologna

After qualification

• Brescia - Brescia (CCI)
• Derthona - Tortona (CCI 2nd division)
• Internazionale - Milan (CCI)
• Livorno - Livorno (CCI + *)
• Pastore Torino - Turin (FIGC)
• Rivarolese - Genoa (FIGC)
• Spezia - La Spezia (CCI)

(*) This side is the result of the merger of U.S. Livorno (CCI) and Pro Livorno (FIGC).

Southern League

All the teams were from 1921-22 C.C.I. championship

• Alba Roma - Rome
• Anconitana - Ancona
• Audace Taranto - Taranto
• Bagnolese - Naples
• Cavese - Cava de' Tirreni
• Fortitudo Roma - Rome
• Internaples - Naples (*)
• Juventus Audax - Rome
• Lazio - Rome
• Lecce - Lecce
• Libertas Palermo - Palermo (*)
• Liberty Bari - Bari
• Messina - Messina (*)
• Palermo - Palermo
• Pro Italia Taranto - Taranto
• Savoia - Torre Annunziata
• Stabia - Castellammare di Stabia
• U.S. Romana - Rome

After qualification

• Roman - Rome

New club

• Ideale Bari - Bari

(*) These sides were the results of various mergers:

• Internaples was the result of the merger of Internazionale Napoli and Naples.
• Libertas Palermo was the result of the merger of the old Libertas Palermo and Azzurra Palermo.
• Messina was the result of the merger of S.C. Messina and Messinese.

Northern League

Regular season

Group winners went to the final phase. Four worst clubs of each group were relegated.

Group A

Classification

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1.	Pro Vercelli	22	17	2	3	49	14	+35	36	Qualified
2.	Torino	22	14	4	4	59	12	+47	32
3.	Sampierdarenese	22	12	4	6	37	22	+15	28
4.	Pisa	22	11	3	8	43	33	+10	25
5.	Hellas Verona	22	9	6	7	29	26	+3	24
6.	Casale	22	7	9	6	23	17	+6	23
7.	Internazionale	22	8	5	9	33	37	-4	21
7.	Virtus Bologna	22	8	5	9	15	22	-7	21
9.	Mantova (R)	22	6	6	10	18	27	-9	18	Relegated
10.	US Torinese (R)	22	6	4	12	23	41	-18	16
11.	PetrarcaPadova(R)	22	6	3	13	20	51	-31	15
12.	SperanzaSavona(R)	22	0	5	17	10	57	-47	5

Results table

Home \ Away	CAS	HEL	INT	MAN	PET	PIS	PRO	SAM	SPE	TOR	USN	VIR
Casale	—	3–0	1–0	1–0	4–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–0	2–0
Hellas Verona	1–1	—	0–2	2–0	2–1	1–2	0–0	1–1	3–1	1–0	3–0	1–0
Internazionale	1–1	3–2	—	2–3	4–0	2–0	1–5	4–2	3–0	2–2	1–0	0–2
Mantova	0–0	1–1	1–1	—	2–0	3–1	1–2	1–0	1–0	0–2[1]	1–1	0–0
Petrarca Padova	2–2	2–3	3–1	1–0	—	2–1	0–6	0–0	2–1	0–2	3–1	1–2
Pisa	2–2	0–2	2–2	4–1	2–0[2]	—	2–1	5–0	7–1	2–1	3–0	1–0
Pro Vercelli	3–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–1	—	1–0	3–0	2–1	5–0	1–1
Sampierdarenese	2–0	2–0	3–1	3–1	4–1	2–0	3–2	—	6–0	1–0	2–0	3–1
Speranza Savona	0–0	1–3	0–0	1–1	0–1	2–4	0–3	0–2	—	0–2	1–1	0–0
Torino	1–0	1–1	6–0	3–0	8–0	6–1	2–0	2–0	8–0	—	6–0	3–0
US Torinese	2–1	1–1	3–2	0–1	4–1	0–2[1]	1–3	1–0	3–2	1–1	—	4–0
Virtus Bologna	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	0–2	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	—

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	Promotion or relegation
1.	Genoa	22	17	5	0	61	18	+43	39	Qualified
2.	Legnano	22	13	6	3	37	19	+18	32
3.	Bologna	22	11	5	6	66	21	+45	27
4.	Milan	22	8	10	4	32	28	4	26
5.	Juventus	22	10	5	7	31	21	+10	25
6.	Cremonese	22	10	4	8	28	25	+3	24
6.	Modena	22	10	4	8	24	23	+1	24
8.	Spezia	22	5	9	8	20	29	-9	19	Relegation tie-breaker
9.	Derthona (R)	22	6	7	9	29	31	-2	19	Relegation tie-breaker
10.	Rivarolese (R)	22	7	4	11	28	49	-21	18	Relegated
11.	EsperiaComo(R)	22	1	4	17	11	49	-38	6
12.	Udinese (R)	22	1	3	18	14	68	-54	5

Results table

Home \ Away	BOL	CRE	DER	ESP	GEN	JUV	LEG	MIL	MOD	RIV	SPE	UDI
Bologna	—	3–0	2–2	5–0	1–2	4–1	5–1	0–2[1]	2–0	6–0	5–0	14–0
Cremonese	1–1	—	2–0	3–0	1–2	1–0	0–2	0–1	0–0	4–0	2–0	1–0
Derthona	1–1	0–2	—	3–1	1–3	1–2	1–1	0–0	1–0	3–1	0–1	5–0
Esperia Como	2–4	0–2[1]	0–4	—	2–8	0–1	0–1	1–4	0–1	1–2	0–0	3–2
Genoa	2–1	2–0	4–1	0–0	—	2–1	1–1	4–1	3–2	5–1	1–1	6–0
Juventus	2–2	3–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	—	1–0	2–2	4–0	5–0	0–0	2–0
Legnano	1–0	4–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	3–2	—	1–1	3–0	3–2	2–1	3–1
Milan	0–8	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–3	0–0	1–0	—	1–0	4–0	0–0	1–1
Modena	2–0[2]	1–1	1–0	2–0[2]	1–2	1–0	0–0	1–1	—	3–1	2–0	2–0
Rivarolese	0–0	2–3	4–1	2–0	0–4	2–0	0–2	1–1	2–0	—	2–2	3–1
Spezia	2–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–4	1–0	0–2[1]	2–1	2–3	0–0	—	5–0
Udinese	0–1	2–2	1–2	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–3	1–6	0–2	1–3	2–2	—

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

Relegation tie-breaker

Played on July 1, 1923, in Genoa.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Derthona	0-0[3]	Spezia

Tie-breaker

Played on July 8, 1923, in Genoa.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Derthona	2-3	Spezia

Group C

Classification

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1.	Padova	22	14	4	4	48	22	+26	32	Qualification tie-breaker
2.	Alessandria	22	14	4	4	35	15	+20	32	Qualification tie-breaker
3.	Livorno	22	13	4	5	43	19	+24	30
3.	SPAL	22	12	6	4	37	15	+22	30
5.	Novara	22	12	2	8	41	24	+17	26
6.	Andrea Doria	22	9	6	7	40	29	+11	24
7.	Brescia	22	8	4	10	34	28	+6	20
8.	Novese	22	5	9	8	26	32	-6	19
9.	Lucchese (R)	22	6	4	12	24	55	-31	16	Relegated
10.	US Milanese (R)	22	3	8	11	23	43	-20	14
11.	PastoreTorino(R)	22	4	3	15	16	53	-37	11
12.	Savona (R)	22	3	4	15	14	46	-32	10

Results table

Home \ Away	ALE	ADO	BRE	LIV	LUC	NOV	USN	PAD	PAS	SAV	SPA	USM
Alessandria	—	3–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	2–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	1–1
Andrea Doria	1–1	—	2–1	1–1	4–0	2–1	3–1	1–1	6–0	6–0	1–0	3–1
Brescia	1–1	0–0	—	2–1	4–0	2–0	3–1	1–2[4]	2–0	1–0	2–2[4]	4–0[4]
Livorno	2–0	2–0	4–1	—	8–0	2–1	3–0	2–1	3–0	2–1	1–0	5–0
Lucchese	0–2	2–2	1–0	0–1	—	1–2	1–1	3–0	2–0	3–1	2–2	2–0
Novara	2–3	7–0	1–0	2–0	3–1	—	4–1	2–0	4–1	3–0	1–1	1–0
Novese	0–2	1–0	0–0	1–1	4–1	2–0	—	1–2	3–1	1–2	1–1	2–2
Padova	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	6–1	2–1	2–2	—	11–1	3–1	1–1	2–0
Pastore Torino	1–1	2–0	4–1	1–3	1–2	0–1	0–2	0–2	—	1–0	1–0	0–0
Savona	0–1	0–5[4]	0–7[4]	1–0	1–1[4]	2–2	0–0	0–2	3–0	—	0–1	1–1
Spal	1–0	2–1	3–0	2–0	5–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	4–0	2–0[4]	—	3–0
US Milanese	1–3	1–1	3–1	1–1	5–1	1–2	1–1	0–3	2–2	2–1	1–3	—

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

Promotion tie-breaker

Played on June 3, 1923, in Milan.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Alessandria	1-2[3]	Padova

Padova qualified for the Final Round.

Final round

Classification

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Champions of Italy
1.	Genoa	4	3	1	0	8	2	+6	7	Qualified
2.	Pro Vercelli	4	1	1	2	5	5	0	3
3.	Padova	4	1	0	3	4	10	-6	2

Results table

Home \ Away	GEN	PAD	PRO
Genoa	—	3–1	1–0
Padova	0–3	—	3–1
Pro Vercelli	1–1	3–0	—

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

Southern League

Main article: 1922–23 Lega Sud

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

National Finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Genoa	6-1	Lazio	4-1	2-0

References and sources

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