The Italian Football Championship was the most senior football

Football (soccer)

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 championship in Italy

Italy

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 from the 1897/1898

Italian Football Championship 1898

The Italian Football Championship of 1898 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. It was held at Velodromo Umberto I in Turin on 8 May, all three games were played over the...

 season to the 1921/1922

Italian Football Championship 1921-22

In season 1921-22 two concurrent football championships were organized: one by the FIGC and one by the CCI....

 season. In that last season, a concurrent championship, the Prima Divisione

Prima Divisione

Prima Divisione was the name of the first level of the Italian Football Championship from 1921 to 1926. The competition was initially founded in opposition to the FIGC by the richest clubs of Northern Italy, which disagreed the old format of the championship, based on plethoric regional groups...

, was played by the richest clubs, which wanted to improve their income with a more elitarian league. The division system was generally adopted by FIGC in 1922, seven years before another reform which replaced the divisions with the series, creating the Serie A

Serie A

Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...

 championship for the 1929/1930

Serie A 1929-30

The Serie A 1929–30 was the 30th football tournament in Italy. Internazionale won its third Scudetto as Ambrosiana.-Final classification:-Results:...

 season.

The championship, unlike Serie A

Serie A

Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...

 was for most seasons, structured with many local groups. The winners of each of these groups went on to a playoff with the eventual winners being declared champions. Genoa CFC were declared the first champions after defeating Internazionale Torino

Torino F.C.

Torino Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Torino, is a professional Italian football club based in Turin, Piedmont, that was founded in 1906. The club has spent most of its history in the top tier in Italian football....

in the final, 3-1 after extra time.

Statistics and records from the Italian Football Championship seasons are generally included with Serie A when talking about Serie A records as a whole.