1922–23 Prima Divisione

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The 1922–23 Prima Divisione season was won by Genoa.

Prima Divisione
Season	1922–23
Champions	Genoa 8th title
Relegated	Mantova US Torinese Petrarca Padova Speranza Savona Derthona Rivarolese Esperia Como Udinese Lucchese US Milanese Pastore Torino Savona
← 1921–22 (FIGC) ← 1921–22 (CCI) 1923–24 →

Due to the high numbers of participants, under the agreement with the Northern League, the FIGC had to organize a qualification tournament in July, in order to reduce them to three rounds of 12 sides each.

From 1921-22 C.C.I. championship

From 1921-22 F.I.G.C. championship

Cremonese - Cremona
Esperia Como - Como
Lucca - Lucca
Novese - Novi Ligure
Petrarca Padova - Padua
Sampierdarenese - Genoa
Spal - Ferrara
Speranza Savona - Savona
U.S. Torinese - Turin
Udinese - Udine
Virtus Bologna - Bologna

After qualification

Brescia - Brescia (CCI)
Derthona - Tortona (CCI 2nd division)
Internazionale - Milan (CCI)
Livorno - Livorno (CCI + *)
Pastore Torino - Turin (FIGC)
Rivarolese - Genoa (FIGC)
Spezia - La Spezia (CCI)

(*) This side is the result of the merger of U.S. Livorno (CCI) and Pro Livorno (FIGC).

All the teams were from 1921-22 C.C.I. championship

Alba Roma - Rome
Anconitana - Ancona
Audace Taranto - Taranto
Bagnolese - Naples
Cavese - Cava de' Tirreni
Fortitudo Roma - Rome
Internaples - Naples (*)
Juventus Audax - Rome
Lazio - Rome
Lecce - Lecce
Libertas Palermo - Palermo (*)
Liberty Bari - Bari
Messina - Messina (*)
Palermo - Palermo
Pro Italia Taranto - Taranto
Savoia - Torre Annunziata
Stabia - Castellammare di Stabia
U.S. Romana - Rome

After qualification

Roman - Rome

New club

Ideale Bari - Bari

(*) These sides were the results of various mergers:

Internaples was the result of the merger of Internazionale Napoli and Naples.
Libertas Palermo was the result of the merger of the old Libertas Palermo and Azzurra Palermo.
Messina was the result of the merger of S.C. Messina and Messinese.

Group winners went to the final phase. Four worst clubs of each group were relegated.

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1.	Pro Vercelli	22	17	2	3	49	14	+35	36	Qualified
2.	Torino	22	14	4	4	59	12	+47	32
3.	Sampierdarenese	22	12	4	6	37	22	+15	28
4.	Pisa	22	11	3	8	43	33	+10	25
5.	Hellas Verona	22	9	6	7	29	26	+3	24
6.	Casale	22	7	9	6	23	17	+6	23
7.	Internazionale	22	8	5	9	33	37	-4	21
7.	Virtus Bologna	22	8	5	9	15	22	-7	21
9.	Mantova (R)	22	6	6	10	18	27	-9	18	Relegated
10.	US Torinese (R)	22	6	4	12	23	41	-18	16
11.	PetrarcaPadova(R)	22	6	3	13	20	51	-31	15
12.	SperanzaSavona(R)	22	0	5	17	10	57	-47	5

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1.	Genoa	22	17	5	0	61	18	+43	39	Qualified
2.	Legnano	22	13	6	3	37	19	+18	32
3.	Bologna	22	11	5	6	66	21	+45	27
4.	Milan	22	8	10	4	32	28	4	26
5.	Juventus	22	10	5	7	31	21	+10	25
6.	Cremonese	22	10	4	8	28	25	+3	24
6.	Modena	22	10	4	8	24	23	+1	24
8.	Spezia	22	5	9	8	20	29	-9	19	Relegation tie-breaker
9.	Derthona (R)	22	6	7	9	29	31	-2	19	Relegation tie-breaker
10.	Rivarolese (R)	22	7	4	11	28	49	-21	18	Relegated
11.	EsperiaComo(R)	22	1	4	17	11	49	-38	6
12.	Udinese (R)	22	1	3	18	14	68	-54	5

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation tie-breaker

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Played on July 1, 1923, in Genoa.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Derthona	0-0^[3]	Spezia

Tie-breaker: Played on July 8, 1923, in Genoa.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Derthona	2-3	Spezia

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1.	Padova	22	14	4	4	47	21	+26	32	Qualification tie-breaker
2.	Alessandria	22	14	4	4	34	14	+20	32	Qualification tie-breaker
3.	Livorno	22	13	4	5	43	19	+24	30
3.	SPAL	22	12	6	4	37	15	+22	30
5.	Novara	22	12	2	8	41	24	+17	26
6.	Andrea Doria	22	9	6	7	40	29	+11	24
7.	Brescia	22	8	4	10	34	28	+6	20
8.	Novese	22	5	9	8	26	32	-6	19
9.	Lucchese (R)	22	6	4	12	24	55	-31	16	Relegated
10.	US Milanese (R)	22	3	8	11	23	43	-20	14
11.	PastoreTorino(R)	22	4	3	15	16	53	-37	11
12.	Savona (R)	22	3	4	15	14	46	-32	10

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion tie-breaker

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Played on June 3, 1923, in Milan.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Alessandria	1-2^[3]	Padova

Padova qualified for the Final Round.

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Champions of Italy
1.	Genoa	4	3	1	0	8	2	+6	7	Qualified
2.	Pro Vercelli	4	1	1	2	5	5	0	3
3.	Padova	4	1	0	3	4	10	-6	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

The Southern League was a separate amatorial league, still divided in five regions. The winner were Lazio Rome.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Genoa	6-1	Lazio	4-1	2-0

References and sources

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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Decided by the FIGC.
^ ^a ^b ^c Forfeit
^ ^a ^b After extra time.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Matches repeated for irregular positions of some players. The original risults were:Brescia-Padova 1-0; Brescia-Spal 3-0; Brescia-U.S. Milanese 0-0; Savona-Andrea Doria 1-0; Savona-Brescia 1-0; Savona-Lucchese 3-1; Spal-Savona 2-1