1925–26 Prima Divisione

The 1925-26 Prima Divisione was the twenty-sixth edition of the Italian Football Championship and the fifth and last season branded Prima Divisione (before its re-brand to Divisione Nazionale). This season was the third from which the Italian Football Champions' celebrations included adorning the team jerseys in the subsequent season with a Scudetto. The 1925–26 Prima Divisione was the second Italian Football Championship won by Juventus and their first in the scudetto era.

Prima Divisione

1925–26 Juventus team
Season	1925–26
Champions	Juventus 2nd title
Relegated	Novara Udinese Pisa Legnano Reggiana Parma Mantova
Matches played	385
Goals scored	1,512 (3.93 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ferenc Hirzer (35 goals)
← 1924–25 1926–27 →

Format

All five seasons of Prima Divisione were scheduled as regional competitions, leading to a national final.

Northern League

Regular season

Udinese and Parma FC had been promoted from the Second Division.

Goal average was introduced eliminating the tie-breakers.

The Northern League decided to create the Serie A with 16 teams starting in 1926, so the last four teams of each group should be relegated.

However, just after the end of the regular season the fascists postponed thus project under protests of Southern clubs which would be excluded. They imposed a National Division of two groups instead, and all relegated clubs entered into an extraordinary qualification for the new tournament.

Group A

Classification

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1.	Bologna	22	17	4	1	74	20	+54	38	Qualified to the final
2.	Torino	22	16	4	2	67	28	+39	36
3.	Modena	22	11	3	8	45	30	+15	25
4.	Hellas Verona	22	10	5	7	58	48	+10	25
5.	Internazionale	22	10	5	7	44	38	+6	25
6.	Casale	22	9	4	9	42	32	+10	22
7.	Andrea Doria	22	9	3	10	37	50	-13	21
8.	Brescia	22	8	3	11	38	51	-15	19
9.	Novara	22	6	6	10	40	42	-2	18	Qualifications to the National Division
10.	Udinese	22	5	3	14	38	75	-37	13
11.	Pisa	22	5	2	15	23	65	-42	12
12.	Legnano	22	3	4	15	22	49	-27	10

Results table

Home \ Away	ADO	BOL	BRE	CAS	HEL	INT	LEG	MOD	NOV	PIS	TOR	UDI
Andrea Doria	—	3–3	4–1	3–2	3–2	2–0	3–1	2–1	2–2	5–1	0–0	3–2
Bologna	3–0	—	6–0	1–0	7–0	4–1	6–0	1–0	4–1	7–0	3–2	4–0
Brescia	5–0	1–2	—	2–1	3–2	0–1	2–0	2–2	4–1	2–0	3–4	3–1
Casale	2–0	0–1	2–0	—	3–2	3–3	5–0	4–0	1–1	4–0	2–3	2–1
Hellas Verona	5–1	2–2	4–2	4–3	—	1–0	4–1	0–2[1]	2–2	7–1	1–1	4–0
Internazionale	0–1	1–1	4–0	4–1	3–3	—	2–0	2–1	5–4	1–0	3–4	4–2
Legnano	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–2	1–3	1–1	—	0–1	0–0	4–1	1–2	6–1
Modena	6–0	0–0	3–2	2–3	3–2	3–0	2–0	—	4–1	6–2	1–1	5–1
Novara	3–1	1–2	5–1	0–0	1–2	1–1	3–1	0–1	—	2–0	0–2	6–3
Pisa	3–2	0–6	0–1	1–1	1–3	1–3	2–0	1–0	4–3	—	1–1	1–2
Torino	4–0	6–2	5–0	2–0	5–2	2–1	4–1	3–1	2–1	4–1	—	7–0
Udinese	3–2	1–7	3–3	2–1	3–3	3–4	2–2	3–1	0–2[1]	1–2	4–3	—

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.	Juventus	22	17	3	2	68	14	+54	37	Qualified to the final
2.	Cremonese	22	13	3	6	41	25	+16	29
3.	Genoa	22	13	2	7	48	29	+19	28
4.	Padova	22	11	3	8	55	33	+22	25
5.	Livorno	22	11	3	8	43	45	-2	25
6.	Sampierdarenese	22	10	3	9	38	43	-5	23
7.	Pro Vercelli	22	9	4	9	42	31	+11	22
8.	Milan	22	10	2	10	43	39	+4	22
9.	Reggiana	22	7	3	12	30	50	-20	17	Qualifications to the National Division
10.	Alessandria	22	7	2	13	41	48	-7	16
11.	Parma	22	5	2	15	23	58	-35	12
12.	Mantova	22	2	4	16	24	81	-57	8

Results table

Home \ Away	ALE	CRE	GEN	JUV	LIV	MAN	MIL	PAD	PAR	PRO	REG	SAM
Alessandria	—	2–3	1–0	1–3	1–0	9–0	4–3	0–2	2–0	1–1	6–0	5–0
Cremonese	3–0	—	1–0	0–0	8–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	3–0	4–2	1–0	2–1
Genoa	7–2	2–1	—	1–3	0–0	3–1	2–1	2–0	3–0	2–1	3–0	3–1
Juventus	4–0	4–0	2–0	—	3–0	8–1	6–0	3–2	6–0	2–1	5–0	4–0
Livorno	6–2	2–1	3–2	1–1	—	6–1	1–1	3–0	4–0	2–0	2–0	5–1
Mantova	7–1	0–0	2–5	0–5	0–2	—	0–2	0–2[1]	1–1	2–2	3–0	1–1
Milan	2–2	1–4	1–3	1–2	4–1	3–1	—	3–0	4–2	4–0	4–0	2–0
Padova	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–2	6–1	9–0	4–2	—	6–1	5–2	6–2	3–0
Parma	1–0	3–1	1–5	0–3	0–1	5–3	1–2	2–0	—	0–3	2–0	1–3
Pro Vercelli	1–0	4–0	2–0	0–1	7–0	3–0	3–1	1–1	2–2	—	3–0	2–0
Reggiana	2–1	0–2	2–2	2–0	5–2	4–0	0–1	4–1	2–0	3–2	—	1–1
Sampierdarenese	2–1	2–1	2–3	2–1	2–1	8–1	2–1	2–1	4–1	1–0	3–3	—

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

Finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bologna	● 2 points each ●	Juventus	2-2	0-0

Tie-break

Played on August 1, 1926, in Milan.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Bologna	1-2	Juventus

Juventus qualified for the National Finals.

Southern League

Main article: 1925–26 Lega Sud

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

National Finals

1st leg Date: 8 August 1926, 2nd leg Date: 22 August 1926

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Juventus	12-1	Alba Roma	7-1	5-0

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Ferenc Hirzer	Juventus	35
2	Angelo Schiavio	Bologna	28
3	Pietro Pastore	Juventus	26
4	Márton Bukovi	Alba Roma	25
5	Ernesto Ghisi	Internaples	20
	Adolfo Baloncieri	Torino
7	Giovanni Ferrari	Internaples	16

Qualification to the National Division

Round 1

Played on August 29

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Alessandria	6-1	Pisa
Legnano	2-0[2]	Udinese
Mantova	7-3[3]	Reggiana
Novara	4-0	Parma

Round 2

Played on September 5

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Alessandria	4-1	Legnano
Mantova	3-4[3]	Novara

Round 3

Played on September 12

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

Repetition

Played on September 19 in Turin

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Alessandria	3-1	Novara

Alessandria was qualified to the National Division.

References and sources

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