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The Campeonato Regional Sur (''South Regional Championship''), sometimes known as the ''Copa de Andalucía'', was an annual
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competition for clubs based in the
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region of Spain between 1915 and 1940, organised by the Southern Football Federation.Spain - List of Champions of Sur (Campeonato Regional Sur)
Carles Lozano Ferrer,
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, 5 July 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2022
La Copa de Andalucía 1932/33
Ernesto Alba, Cuadernos de Fútbol 141 , 1 September 2015 (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 April 2022


History

Matches had been played to decide a champion of
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on an informal basis since 1910, with
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winning three editions of a tournament which the club themselves organised, before Español de Cádiz did likewise on two occasions. Following disputes in other regions, the
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had decided that the national cup competition, the
Copa del Rey The Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey, commonly known as Copa del Rey or simply La Copa and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–36) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–76), is an annual knockout footbal ...
, would be contested by winners of the various regions of the country from the 1914 edition onwards, and it became necessary to arrange a formal Andalusian championship to provide an entrant. The Southern Football Federation (''Federación Regional Sur'', later the Royal Andalusian Football Federation - ''Real Federación Andaluza de Fútbol'') was formed to organise the new competition. The first championship was won by Español de Cádiz, but they declined to enter the
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; from then on,
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were the region's dominant force, with only occasional interruptions to their runs of victories. Initially open to all clubs paying a small fee, in 1921 the top division was set based on the previous season's performance, with entries to the second division requiring approval by the Federation assembly. Generally the top division contained a single group with the bottom club being relegated, while the lower division was played with geographical splits (either on a
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or an Eastern/Upper and Western/Lower sub-regional basis), though occasionally the top division had groups and a regional championship play-off. From 1926, the runners-up in each region also entered the Copa del Rey. In the early 1930s, following the inception of
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, several merged or unified regional competitions were held, and in Andalusia this manifested as the ''Campeonato Mancomunado Castilla-Sur'' with teams from the
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region, i.e. the
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, in 1932–33 and 1933–34 (the capital teams held the upper hand in both seasons), followed by the ''Campeonato Supraregional Levante-Sur'' with teams from the Levante region, i.e. the
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, in 1934–35 – Sevilla did not win this league but qualified for the
1935 Copa del Presidente de la República The Copa del Presidente de la República 1935 ''(President of the Republic's Cup)'' was the 35th staging of the Copa del Rey, the Spanish football cup competition. The competition started in March 1935 and concluded on June 30, 1935, with the Fina ...
and went on to win it, the first club from the region to do so (city rivals Betis had lost in the 1931 final and became the first Andalusian club to win the national Liga title in the same year as Sevilla's Copa victory, the only occasion the region provided the winners of both competitions in the same season). In 1935–36 the championship reverted to Andalusia only, with all six of the top division participants qualifying for the
1936 Copa del Presidente de la República The Copa del Presidente de la República 1936 ''(President of the Republic's Cup)'' was the 36th staging of the Copa del Rey, the Spanish football cup competition. The competition started in February, 1936 and concluded on June 21, 1936, with the ...
. The
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then caused almost all football to be cancelled for two years, with two final editions of the regional championship being played in early 1939 (Sevilla went on to win the 1939 Torneo Nacional – the one-season name for the national competition before it was re-titled the ''Copa del Generalísimo'' for
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) and in 1939–40 before they were abolished as a cup qualification method across Spain, having declined in prestige over the previous decade (some continued to be contested on a local basis for some time).


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Summary of Champions


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See also

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References

{{Copa del Rey seasons Defunct football competitions in Spain Football in Andalusia Recurring sporting events established in 1915 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1940 1915 establishments in Spain 1940 disestablishments in Spain History of football in Spain