1922 in association football
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The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1922 throughout the world.
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Events
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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 Nuremberg 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 Nuremberg had only 7 players left (8 were at the time required); initially the title was awarded to HSV (since Nuremberg had caused the abandonment), but this was revoked after an appeal by Nuremberg; another appeal by HSV followed, and at an extraordinary general meeting of the German FA they were awarded the title again, but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
- Iceland: Fram
- Poland: Pogoń Lwów
- Scotland: For fuller coverage, see 1921-22 in Scottish football.
International tournaments
- 1922 British Home Championship (October 22, 1921 – April 8, 1922)
- South American Championship 1922 in Brazil (September 17, 1922 – October 22, 1922)
Births
- January 6 – Eusebio Tejera, Uruguayan international footballer (died 2002)
- February 13 – Jean Lechantre, French international footballer and coach (died 2015)
- April 5 – Tom Finney, English international footballer (died 2014)
- May 7: Ingvar Rydell, Swedish international footballer (died 2013)
- June 22: Osvaldo Fattori, Italian international footballer
- October 8: Nils Liedholm, Swedish international footballer (died 2007)
- November 29: Raimundo Pérez Lezama, Spanish international footballer (died 2007))
Deaths
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