The 1927-28 Divisione Nazionale was the twenty-eighth edition of the
Italian Football Championship
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. This was the second of three seasons of the Italian Football Championship re-branded to
Divisione Nazionale
Divisione Nazionale ''(National Division)'' was the name of the first level of the Italian Football Championship from 1926 to 1929.
History
The competition was the evolution of former Prima Divisione ''(First Division)'' which had two main proble ...
. It was also the fifth season from which the Italian Football Champions' adorned their team jerseys in the subsequent season with a
Scudetto
The ''scudetto'' (; Italian for 'little shield') is a decoration having the colors of the flag of Italy which is sewn onto the jersey of the Italian sports clubs that won the highest level championship of their respective sport in the previous ...
. The 1927–28 Divisione Nazionale season was the first Italian Football Championship won by
Torino
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.
Format
Divisione Nazionale was organised into two non-geographical round robin contests. In 1927-28 it was contested by 19 Northern Italian clubs plus
SS Lazio
(; ; ''Lazio Sport Club'') is an Italian professional sports club based in Rome, most known for its Football club (association football), football activity. The society, founded in 1900, plays in the Serie A and have spent most of their hist ...
,
AS Roma
Associazione Sportiva Roma (''Rome Sport Association''; Italian pronunciation: Help:IPA/Italian, ) is a professional Association football, football club based in Rome, Italy. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma has participated in the top tier ...
and
SSC Napoli
Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli (), commonly known as SSC Napoli or simply Napoli, is an Italian professional football club based in Naples, Campania that currently competes in the Serie A, the highest league of Italian football. Napoli are am ...
. The top four teams from each of they two round robins then decided the championship via a round robin finals contest.
Novara
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,
Pro Patria,
Reggiana and
Lazio
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joined from the lower First Division. Some clubs in
Rome
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and
Genoa
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were merged. Newly formed
AS Roma
Associazione Sportiva Roma (''Rome Sport Association''; Italian pronunciation: Help:IPA/Italian, ) is a professional Association football, football club based in Rome, Italy. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma has participated in the top tier ...
(from three merged clubs) and
SSC Napoli
Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli (), commonly known as SSC Napoli or simply Napoli, is an Italian professional football club based in Naples, Campania that currently competes in the Serie A, the highest league of Italian football. Napoli are am ...
joined the championship as special guests by order of the fascist authorities, to allow a wider representation of
Southern Italy
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The term "" today mostly refers to the regions that are associated with the people, lands or cultu ...
.
First phase
Group A
Classification
Results table
Group B
Classification
Results table
Final round
Classification
Results table
Top goalscorers
References and sources
*''Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004'', Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005
Footnotes
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Serie A seasons
Italy
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1927–28 in Italian football leagues