The Direttorio Divisioni Inferiori Nord (
Italian
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for ''Directory of Lower Northern Divisions'') was an Italian
football
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organization during the
Fascist era. It was created in 1926 on the provision of the ''Viareggio Charter'' on the ashes of the dissolved and ephemeral ''League of Minor Societies'', it was based in
Genoa
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and it had jurisdiction over the championship of
Second Division
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of
Northern Italy
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, and over the interregional finals of
Third Division. It assigned to its champions a title represented by a tricolor ribbon placed on the players' arms.
It was an authoritarian organization modeled on the regime guidelines, its members being appointed by the president of the
FIGC
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. The first president was Mr. Moraglia.
storiapiacenza
/ref> It was dissolved in 1930 under an even more intense centralizing policy.
Organic
* 1926 - 1927: 30 teams
* 1927 - 1928: 60 teams
* 1928 - 1929: 84 teams
* 1929 - 1930: 80 teams
Notes
Sources and bibliography
* Il Littoriale, newspaper library of CONI
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