The 1921–22

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season was won by

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. The CCI Italian Football Championship was formed during the

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of 1921, as a result of a dispute between the ''

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'' and the main teams. The teams asked for a reduction of the number of participants in the ''First Category''.

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, the Italian

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, 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) The 1921–22 Prima Categoria season was won by Novese. During the Summer of 1921, a dispute between the ''Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio'' (FIGC) and the strongest teams within the league arose. The teams asked for a reduction of the number ...

that ran concurrently. The 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 test-match against the two best clubs of the Second Division.

Group A

=Classification

=Results table

Group B

=Classification

=Results table

Finals

:''Played on May 7 and 14, 1922.''

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.''

Test-matches

:''Played on July 2, 1922.'' (*) This match was invalidated due to a referee's technical error. The match was repeated a week later: :''Played on July 9, 1922, in

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.'' Vicenza were relegated to

1922–23 Seconda Divisione Seconda Divisione 1922–23 was the lower championship of the Lega Nord. Differently from the higher championship, it was structured on six local groups. Teams All clubs of former Prima Categoria which did not get a place for the new Prima Di ...

. 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

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.'' Libertas Firenze and

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forfeited.

Extra Round 2

:''Played on September 24, 1922, in

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.''

References and sources

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

Footnotes

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