The 1926 National Championship ( Serbo-Croato-Slovenian: Državno prvenstvo 1926 / Државно првенство 1926) was a football competition held within the

Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Kraljevina Jugoslavija, Краљевина Југославија; sl, Kraljevina Jugoslavija) was a state in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 ...

. The two dominant teams of pre-

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

Yugoslav football, Jugoslavija and Građanski, began laying the foundations of the next seven decades of a deeply rooted rivalry between

Zagreb Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slov ...

and Belgrade. Both teams dominated the competition with comfortable margins, but were quite evenly matched in the finals.

Tournament

Quarter finals

Semi finals

Final

Winning squad

Champions: GRAĐANSKI ZAGREB (coach: Imre Poszony) * Maksimilijan Mihalčić *Franz Mantler *Miho Remec *Miroslav Arnold * Rudolf Rupec *Dragutin Vragović * Géza Ábrahám *

Rudolf Hitrec Rudolf Hitrec (12 April 1903 in Zagreb – 13 January 1970 in Zagreb) was a Croatian footballer and international manager. Club career He played for Concordia Zagreb from 1919 to 1921 and Građanski Zagreb from 1921 to 1930. He won the nationa ...

*Emil Perška *

Franjo Giler Franjo Giler (1 September 1907 – 20 December 1943) was a Yugoslav footballer. He was part of Yugoslavia's team at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Club career Born in Sremska Mitrovica,

*Luka Vidnjević

Top scorers

Final goalscoring position, number of goals, player/players and club.Gola istina: kraljevi strelaca
by Živko Bojanić, pag. 18 *1 - 8 goals - Dušan Petković (Jugoslavija) *2 - 6 goals -

Franjo Giler Franjo Giler (1 September 1907 – 20 December 1943) was a Yugoslav footballer. He was part of Yugoslavia's team at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Club career Born in Sremska Mitrovica,

(Građanski Zagreb) *3 - 5 goals - Dragan Jovanović (Jugoslavija)

References

External links

Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables
{{1926–27 in European football (UEFA) 1 Yugoslav Football Championship