The Italian Football Championship

Italian Football Championship

The Italian Football Championship was the most senior football championship in Italy from the 1897/1898 season to the 1921/1922 season. In that last season, a concurrent championship, the Prima Divisione, was played by the richest clubs, which wanted to improve their income with a more elitarian...

 of 1898 was a major event in the footballing history of Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

. It was the first FIGC endorsed league competition which is considered an official predecessor of Serie A

Serie A

Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...

. It was held at Velodromo Umberto I in Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

 on 8 May, all three games were played over the course of the one day. The winner of this first ever season was Genoa

Genoa C.F.C.

Genoa Cricket and Football Club, commonly referred to simply as Genoa , is a professional Italian football club based in the city of Genoa, Liguria...

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Semifinals

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Final

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Champions

Italian Football Championship Italian Football Championship The Italian Football Championship was the most senior football championship in Italy from the 1897/1898 season to the 1921/1922 season. In that last season, a concurrent championship, the Prima Divisione, was played by the richest clubs, which wanted to improve their income with a more elitarian... 1898 Winners
Genoa C.F.C. Genoa C.F.C. Genoa Cricket and Football Club, commonly referred to simply as Genoa , is a professional Italian football club based in the city of Genoa, Liguria... 1st Title

Genoa:
1	William Baird
2	Ernesto De Galleani
3	Fausto Ghigliotti
4	Edoardo Pasteur I
5	James Richardson Spensley James Richardson Spensley Dr James Richardson Spensley was an English doctor, footballer, manager, Scout Leader and medic from Stoke Newington, London. He is considered to be one of the "Fathers of Italian football", due to his association with Genoa CFC and his contribution to the modern day variation of the game in Italy...  (c)
6	Ettore Wallys Ghiglione
7	Robert Al Leaver
8	Giovanni Bocciardo
9	Henri Arthur Dapples
10	Silvio Piero Bertollo
11	John Quertier Le Pelley