1922 IN FOOTBALL (SOCCER)

The following are the 'football (soccer)' events of the year '1922' throughout the world.

Contents

Events

Winners club national championship

International tournaments

Births

Deaths

Events

Winners club national championship

★ Belgium: Germinal Beerschot

★ Denmark: Kjøbenhavns Boldklub

★ England: Liverpool F.C.

★ Germany: The 1922 championship was not awarded. Hamburger SV and 1.FC Nürnberg had qualified for the final and played two matches, which finished 2-2 and 1-1, both after extra time. The second match was abandoned after Nürnberg had only 7 players left (8 were at the time required); initially the title was awarded to HSV (since Nürnberg had caused the abandonment), but this was revoked after an appeal by Nürnberg; another appeal by HSV followed, and at an extraordinary general meeting of the German FA they were awarded the title again, but they declined to accept it.

★ Greece: 1913 to 1922 - no championship titles due to the First World War and the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922.

★ Hungary: MTK Hungária FC

★ Poland: Pogon Lwow

★ Scotland: ''For fuller coverage, see 1921-22 in Scottish football.''

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★ Scottish Division One – Celtic

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★ Scottish Division Two – Alloa Athletic

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★ Scottish FA Cup – Greenock Morton

International tournaments

★ 1922 British Home Championship (October 22 1921 – April 8 1922)
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Births

★ October 08: Nils Liedholm (Swedish footballer)

★ November 29: Raimundo Pérez Lezama (Spanish footballer)

Deaths