1912–13 Prima Categoria

Prima Categoria
Season	1912–13
Champions	Pro Vercelli; 5th title
	← 1911–12 1913–14 →

The 1912–13 Prima Categoria season was won by Pro Vercelli.

For the first time, sides from southern Italy were admitted.

Regulation[]

Football in Italy expanded its popularity during the 10’s, but the expedition of the Italian football team to the Stockholm Olympics had a disappointing very poor result. In summer 1912, minor clubs took control over the Italian Football Federation, and imposed a championship reform. New vicepresidents Mr.Valvassori and Mr.Faroppa created a new format with more clubs but more groups, regionalising the tournament.

The round robin was abolished. The old main tournament was split in two groups of six clubs, with solely ten matchdays, while the Oriental group became a full member of the championship.

Best two clubs of each group went to the final group. Last clubs should be relegated.

An experimental Southern section was introduced.

Pre-league qualifications[]

For Piedmont group[]

Played on October 20, 1912, in Turin.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
	0–4	Novara

Novara was promoted.

For Lombardy-Liguria group[]

Round 1[]

Played on October 20, 1912.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Savona	3–1	Como
	2–1	Racing Libertas Milano

The match between Lambro Milano and Racing Libertas Milano was later canceled and repeated:

Repetition: Played on October 27, 1912.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Racing Libertas Milano	1–0 ^[1]

Round 2[]

Played on November 1, 1912.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Racing Libertas Milano	1–0	Savona

Racing Libertas was promoted.

For Latium group[]

Round 1[]

Played on October 20, 1912.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Alba Roma	1–2
Pro Roma	2–1

Round 2[]

Played on October 27, 1912.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Alba Roma	2–0

Verdicts[]

Novara, Racing Libertas Milan, Alba Roma, Juventus Audax Roma and Pro Roma were admitted to the 1a Categoria. The losers went to regional 2nd Category Promotion.

Main tournament[]

Piedmont[]

Classification[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Pro Vercelli	10	9	1	0	38	2	+36	19	Qualified for Final Round
2	Casale	10	5	3	2	15	8	+7	13	Qualified for Final Round
3	Torino	10	5	1	4	35	21	+14	11
4	Piemonte	10	5	0	5	16	37	−21	10
5	Novara	10	1	2	7	13	28	−15	4
6	Juventus (T)	10	1	1	8	14	35	−21	3	Re-elected

Source: Panini
(T) Qualified, but not yet to the particular phase indicated

Results table[]

Home \ Away	CSL	JUV	NOV	PIE	PVE	TOR
Casale		3–0	2–1	5–2	0–0	1–1
Juventus	0–1		3–0	1–2	0–4	6–8
Novara	0–0	3–3		7–1	0–6	1–2
Piemonte	3–1	3–1	1–0		1–7	2–1
Pro Vercelli	1–0	3–0	7–0	3–0		6–1
Torino	0–2	8–0	3–1	11–1	0–1

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio – La Storia 1898–2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 (in Italian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Liguria-Lombardy[]

Classification[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Milan	10	9	0	1	30	8	+22	18	Qualified for Final Group
2	Genoa	10	8	0	2	33	12	+21	16	Qualified for Final Group
3	Internazionale	10	6	0	4	24	14	+10	12
4	Andrea Doria	10	4	1	5	20	30	−10	9
5	US Milanese	10	1	2	7	8	25	−17	4
6	Racing Libertas Milan (T)	10	0	1	9	8	34	−26	1	Re-elected

Source: Panini
(T) Qualified, but not yet to the particular phase indicated

Results table[]

Home \ Away	ADO	GEN	INT	MIL	RAC
Andrea Doria		1–5	6–0	2–3	3–2	1–1
Genoa	6–0		0–1	4–1	5–1	4–0
Internazionale	5–1	2–3		1–2	5–0	2–0
Milan	7–0	4–0	1–0		2–0	6–0
Racing Libertas Milano	1–5	0–1	1–6	1–2		2–2
	0–1	2–5	0–2	0–2	3–0

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio – La Storia 1898–2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 (in Italian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Veneto-Emilia[]

Classification[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Vicenza	10	7	2	1	32	10	+22	16	Qualified for Final Group
1	Hellas Verona	10	8	0	2	28	10	+18	16	Qualified for Final Group
3	Venezia	10	6	2	2	28	6	+22	14
4	Volontari Venezia	10	3	2	5	19	29	−10	8
5	Bologna	10	2	0	8	14	30	−16	4
6	Modena (T)	10	1	0	9	6	42	−36	2	Re-elected

Source: Panini
(T) Qualified, but not yet to the particular phase indicated

Results table[]

Home \ Away	BOL	HEL	MOD	VEN	VIC
Bologna		1–2	1–0	0–1	2–4	9–0
Hellas Verona	3–0		8–0	2–0	4–1	3–2
Modena	1–0	1–4		0–2	0–4	0–5
Venezia	8–0	3–0	8–2		0–1	5–0
Vicenza	7–0	1–0	7–1	0–0		6–2
	4–1	1–2	3–1	1–1	1–1

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio – La Storia 1898–2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 (in Italian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final round[]

The results of the matches between sides that were in the same qualification rounds were valid also for the final round (but not the goals scored in those matches). Due to this, the sides began the final round with a point bonus:

Pro Vercelli: 3 points
Milan, Genoa, Hellas Verona, Vicenza: 2 points
Casale: 1 point

Classification[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Pro Vercelli (C)	10	8	2	0	22	1	+21	18	Champions and qualified
2	Genoa	10	6	1	3	21	13	+8	13
3	Milan	10	5	2	3	21	10	+11	12
4	Casale	10	4	3	3	22	13	+9	11
5	Vicenza	10	1	2	7	8	25	−17	4
6	Hellas Verona	10	1	0	9	7	39	−32	2

Source: Panini
(C) Champion

Note:solely 8 matches really played instead of 10.

Results table[]

Home \ Away	CSL	GEN	HEL	MIL	PVE	VIC
Casale		1–1	6–0	2–0	0–0	5–1
Genoa	1–0		5–0	2–0	0–1	1–0
Hellas Verona	2–5	0–4		0–3	0–5	4–1
Milan	4–0	4–0	5–1		0–0	1–1
Pro Vercelli	1–0	5–1	4–0	2–0		3–0
Vicenza	3–3	1–4	1–0	0–3	0–1

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio – La Storia 1898–2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 (in Italian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Southern Italy tournament[]

An experimental amatorial was also activated in Southern Italy.

Lazio advanced to the National Final.

National final[]

Played on 1 June 1913, in Genoa.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Pro Vercelli	6–0	Lazio

Footnotes[]

^ After extra time

References and sources[]

Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio – La Storia 1898–2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005

[1] After extra time

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