The Southern League was the amatorial
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championship
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Championship systems
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Title match system
In this sys ...
in
Southern Italy
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during the 20's of the 20th century.
The 1922–23 season was the first one organized within the
Italian Football Federation
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. The winner had the honor to play against the Northern Champions.
The League took over the former CCI Regional championship, maintaining the goal to improve the quality of the game in the area. Southern semifinals with six matchdays were introduced following the limitation of the regional phase to ten matchdays.
Qualifications
Marche
Anconitana was the only subscribed team and advanced directly to the semifinals.
Lazio
Classification
Results table
Campania
Classification
Puteolana retired and disbanded.
Results table
Apulia
Classification
Results table
Sicily
A previous qualification tournament, with home and away matches, started without
FIGC
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's permission and was declared void. Anyway, the three sides had ended the tournament with 2 points each.
Classification
Results
Semifinals
Group A
Pro Italia Taranto had to retire from the championship due to lack of players: most of the players were soldiers and
Taranto
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Founded by Spartans ...
's military command denied them to play in this tournament and against civilian sides again.
Classification
Results table
Group B
Classification
Results table
Finals
Footnotes
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Football in Italy