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football
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championship
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Southern Italy
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during the 1920s.
The 1921–22 season was the inaugural one of the rebranded league, organized within the
Italian Football Confederation
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. The winner had the honor to play against the Northern Champions.
The League took over the former FIGC Regional championship to improve their quality, adding new regions as Apulia, Sicily and the Marches. As the first step, the League decided to reduce the regional tournaments to ten matchdays for 1922–23 to improve the inter-league playoffs.
Qualifications
Lazio
Tiberis Roma and Vittoria Roma were excluded after 5 rounds, due to irregularities in their subscriptions.
These matches were invalidated:
Classification
Results table
Relegation tie-breaker in Rome, July 2, 1922: Roman-Audace 2–1.
Marche
Football was activated in the Marches in this season.
Group A
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Later all clubs merged into new
A.C. Maceratese.
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Group B
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Later Folgore merged with
A.C. Ancona
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.
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Final round
The results of the matches between sides that were in the same qualification round were valid also for the final round (but not the goals scored in those matches). Due to this,
Anconitana and Helvia Recina started the round with a 4-point bonus.
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Campania
Classification
Results table
Apulia
Classification
Results table
Sicily
Azzurra Palermo and US Catanese were excluded before the start of the championship.
Libertas Palermo,
SC Messina and
Vigor Trapani retired during the championship and all their remaining matches were considered
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Classification
Results table
Finals
Round 1
:''Played on May 14, 1922, in
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:''Played on May 21, 1922, in
Torre Annunziata
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Round 2
:''Played on May 28, 1922, in
Torre Annunziata
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Audace Taranto retired before the end of the match.
Round 3
:''Played on June 4, 1922, in
Rome
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Puteolana folded after the match.
Footnotes
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1921–22 in Italian football
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Defunct football leagues in Italy
Sports leagues established in 1921