The 1908 Italian Football Championship season was won by
Pro Vercelli
Football Club Pro Vercelli 1892, commonly referred to as Pro Vercelli, is an Italian football club based in Vercelli, Piedmont. The club is mostly renowned as one of the most successful teams in the early football era of Italy, with seven natio ...
.
In this season, two championships of ''Prima Categoria'' were played:
#''Italian Championship'', the main tournament where only Italian players were allowed to play; the winners were proclaimed ''Campioni d'Italia'' (Italian Champions)
#''Federal Championship'', a secondary tournament where foreign players (if they lived in Italy) were also allowed to play; the winners would be proclaimed ''Campioni Federali'' (Federal Champions)
The winner of Italian Championship was
Pro Vercelli
Football Club Pro Vercelli 1892, commonly referred to as Pro Vercelli, is an Italian football club based in Vercelli, Piedmont. The club is mostly renowned as one of the most successful teams in the early football era of Italy, with seven natio ...
. They won as prize ''Coppa Buni''.
The winner of Federal Championship was
Juventus. They did not receive the ''Spensley Cup'' after the general boycott of the tournament.
In fact, only Pro Vercelli's title is officially recognized by the
Italian Football Federation, while the Federal Championship won by Juventus was later annulled by FIGC, due to the boycott made by the "spurious international teams" (the clubs composed mostly of foreign players).
Italian Championship
Qualifications
Piedmont
:''Played on March 1 and 8''
Liguria
Andrea Doria
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As the ruler of Genoa, Doria reformed the Re ...
was the only registered team.
Lombardy
US Milanese was the only registered team.
Final round
Final classification
Results
Federal Championship
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1908 Italian Federal Football Championship
References and sources
*''Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004'', Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005
*Carlo Chiesa, ''La grande storia del calcio italiano'', 2nd episode: ''Juve, scippati due titoli! Inter, l'atroce beffa (1908-1910'', pp. 17–32, ''Guerin Sportivo'' #5 (May 2012).
*Online digitalized Archive of newspaper ''La Stampa'' of Turin.
References
1908
Events
January
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1907–08 in European association football leagues
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