1921–22 Divizia A

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The 1921–22 season of the Romanian Football Championship was the tenth edition of the top-level football league of Romania and it also marked the inception of Romania's first official national football championship, which featured teams from across the entire territory of Greater Romania. Chinezul Timișoara became champions for the first time in their history.

The Romanian National Football Championship
Season1921–22
ChampionsChinezul Timișoara[1]

The competition was structured in two phases: an initial regional phase, with its own tournament, followed by a knockout stage featuring the regional champions to determine the national champion. The inaugural championship involved 7 regional champions, representing Arad, Bucharest, Timișoara, Brașov and Sibiu (with separate competitions in the fall, but with the consolidation of the best teams into a new championship in the spring), Cluj (including Târgu Mureș), Oradea (Oradea Mare, as it was called at the time, including Satu Mare, Carei, and Salonta) and Cernăuți. While regional matches were played in a home-and-away format, the final tournament matches were held as knockout games on the home ground of one of the competing teams.

Regional champions

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Region Team
Arad AMEF Arad
Bucharest Tricolor București
BrașovSibiu Societatea Gimnastică Sibiu
Cernăuţi Polonia Cernăuți
ClujMureș Victoria Cluj
Oradea Mare Stăruința Oradea
Timișoara Chinezul Timișoara

The national phase of the Romanian Football Championship

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Quarter-finals

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Tie no Home team Score Away team
1 Polonia Cernăuți 0–1 Tricolor București
2 Victoria Cluj 2–2 Stăruința Oradea
Replay Victoria Cluj 0–0 Stăruința Oradea
Replay Victoria Cluj 2–0 Stăruința Oradea
3 Chinezul Timișoara w/o 1 Societatea Gimnastică Sibiu
4 AMEF Arad bye 2

1 The team from Sibiu failed to appear, so by administrative decision they forfeited the game.

2 The team from Arad received a bye from the quarterfinals.


Polonia Cernăuți0–1Tricolor București
Fianu   55'

Victoria Cluj2–2Stăruința Oradea
Barabás II   16'   56' Ströck II   32'
Bartha   66'

Replay

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Replay

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Victoria Cluj2–0Stăruința Oradea
Barta   20' (pen)
Cipcigan   80'

Semi-finals

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Tie no Home team Score Away team
1 Chinezul Timișoara 2–1 AMEF Arad
2 Victoria Cluj w/o 3 Tricolor București

3 The team from Bucharest failed to appear, so by administrative decision they forfeited the game.


Chinezul Timișoara2–1AMEF Arad
Frech II   44'
Steiner   78'
Csapó   73'

Final

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Home team Score Away team
Chinezul Timișoara 5–1 Victoria Cluj

References

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