1898 Italian Football Championship

1st sports season

Top 8 1898 Italian Football Championship related articles

1 Serie A

Serie A, also called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa Campioni d'Italia. It has been operating as a round-robin tournament for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had been organized by the Direttorio Divisioni Superiori until 1943 and the Lega Calcio until 2010, when the Lega Serie A was created for the 2010–11 season. Serie A is regarded as one of the best football leagues in the world and it is often depicted as the most tactical and defensively sound national league. Serie A was the world's second-strongest national league in 2014 according to IFFHS. Serie A is ranked third among European leagues according to UEFA's league coefficient, behind La Liga and the Premier League and ahead of the Bundesliga and Ligue 1, which is based on the performance of Italian clubs in the Champions League and the Europa League during the previous five years. Serie A led the UEFA ranking from 1986 to 1988 and from 1990 to 1999.More

2 Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country consisting of a peninsula delimited by the Alps and several islands surrounding it. Italy is located in south-central Europe, and is considered part of western Europe. A unitary parliamentary republic with Rome as its capital, the country covers a total area of 301,340 km² (116,350 sq mi) and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. Italy has a territorial enclave in Switzerland (Campione) and a maritime exclave in Tunisian waters (Lampedusa). With around 60 million inhabitants, Italy is the third-most populous member state of the European Union.More

3 Italian Football Federation

The Italian Football Federation, known colloquially as Federcalcio, is the governing body of football in Italy. It is based in Rome and the technical department is in Coverciano, Florence.More

4 Serie A

5 Turin

Turin is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is mainly on the western bank of the Po River, below its Susa Valley, and is surrounded by the western Alpine arch and Superga Hill. The population of the city proper is 866,425 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 1.7 million inhabitants. The Turin metropolitan area is estimated by the OECD to have a population of 2.2 million.More

6 Genoa

Genoa is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of Genoa, which in 2015 became the Metropolitan City of Genoa, had 855,834 resident persons. Over 1.5 million people live in the wider metropolitan area stretching along the Italian Riviera.More

7 Velodrome Humbert I

Velodrome Humbert I commonly known in Italian as Velodromo Umberto I, was an early cycling velodrome and, from 1898, a football ground in Turin. The velodrome was named in honour of then King Humbert I of Savoy. During its time in use it was used by several clubs, it was located within the La Crocetta neighbourhood of Turin, within the Corso Re Umberto park near Mauriziano hospital.More

8 Genoa C.F.C.

Genoa Cricket and Football Club, commonly referred to as Genoa, is an Italian professional football club based in Genoa, Liguria that competes in the Serie A. Established on 7 September 1893, it is Italy's oldest football team, and the oldest Italian football team still active to this day, with over 125 years of history.More

Italian Football Championship
The trophy
Season	1897–98
Champions	Genoa 1st title
Matches played	3
Goals scored	8 (2.67 per match)
1899 →

The 1898 Italian Football Championship was a major event in the footballing history of Italy. It was the first FIGC-endorsed league competition which is considered an official predecessor of Serie A.

The winners

It was a knock-out tournament involving three clubs from Turin and one from Genoa. All three matches were played at the Velodromo Umberto I in Turin on 8 May, over the course of the one day.^[1] The winner of this first-ever season was Genoa.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Internazionale Torino	2-1	FBC Torinese
Ginnastica Torino	0-2	Genoa

Final

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Internazionale Torino	1-2(aet)	Genoa

References

^ Modena, Panini Edizioni (2005). Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004.

v t e Serie A
2020–21 clubs	Atalanta Benevento Bologna Cagliari Crotone Fiorentina Genoa Hellas Verona Internazionale Juventus Lazio Milan Napoli Parma Roma Sampdoria Sassuolo Spezia Torino Udinese
Former clubs	Alessandria Ancona Ascoli Avellino Bari Brescia Carpi Casale Catania Catanzaro Cesena Chievo Como Cremonese Empoli Foggia Frosinone Lecce Lecco Legnano Livorno Lucchese Mantova Messina Modena Novara Padova Palermo Pescara Perugia Piacenza Pisa Pistoiese Pro Patria Pro Vercelli Reggiana Reggina Salernitana Siena SPAL Ternana Treviso Triestina Varese Venezia Vicenza
Organisations	Lega Serie A Defunct: Lega Calcio Direttorio Superiore Lega Nord
Competition	Teams winners Players foreign Managers Stadia Broadcasters
Statistics and awards	Records Team of the Year Footballer of the Year Coach of the Year Goalkeeper of the Year Referee of the Year Football Club of the Year Italian Footballer of the Year Foreign Footballer of the Year Young Footballer of the Year Defender of the Year Top scorers Players with 100+ goals Hat-tricks
Finances	Richest clubs: Deloitte list Forbes' list
History	Divisione Nazionale
Associated competitions	Coppa Italia Supercoppa Italiana Serie B Serie C Serie D European UEFA Champions League UEFA Europa League

v t e Serie A seasons
Campionato Italiano di Football	1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903
Prima Categoria	1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 (FIGC)
Prima Divisione	1921–22 (CCI) 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26
Divisione Nazionale	1926–27 1927–28 1928–29
Serie A	1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43
Divisione Nazionale	1943–44 1944–45 1945–46
Serie A	1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21
Wartime tournaments: 1916 Coppa Federale • 1944 Alta Italia

v t e Football in Italy
Italian Football Federation
National teams	Italy B team C team Olympic team Under-21 Under-21 B team Under-20 Under-19 Under-18 Under-17 Under-16 Under-15 Italy women
Leagues	Lega Serie A Lega Serie B Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico Lega Nazionale Dilettanti Lega Calcio defunct Direttorio Divisioni Superiori defunct Lega Nord defunct
League competitions	Serie A Prima Divisione defunct Divisione Nazionale defunct Serie B Seconda Divisione defunct Serie C Lega Pro Prima Divisione defunct Lega Pro Seconda Divisione defunct Serie D Eccellenza Promozione Prima Categoria Seconda Categoria Terza Categoria
Cup competitions	Coppa Italia Supercoppa Italiana Coppa Italia Serie C Supercoppa di Serie C Supercoppa di Lega di Seconda Divisione defunct Coppa Italia Serie D Coppa Italia Dilettanti
Youth competitions	Leagues Campionato Primavera 1 Campionato Primavera 2 Campionato Nazionale Dante Berretti Campionato Juniores Nazionali Coppa Italia Primavera Supercoppa Primavera Torneo di Viareggio
Women's competitions	Serie A Coppa Italia Supercoppa Italiana
Awards	Gran Galà del Calcio AIC Serie A Awards Italian Football Hall of Fame
Lists	List of clubs List of clubs by honours won Clubs in international competitions
Miscellaneous	Totonero 1980 Totonero 1986 Italian Law 91/1981, Article 18B financial doping scandals Anglo-Italian Cup Caso Genoa Calciopoli 2011–12 Italian football scandal 2015 Italian football scandal Article 52 of N.O.I.F. Scudetto Capocannoniere Italian Football Confederation
Venues Records Competitions Trophies and awards Rivalries

v t e 1897–98 in European football
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