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

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at the time required); initially the title was awarded to HSV (since Nürnberg had caused the abandonment), but this was revoked after an appeal by Nürnberg; another appeal by HSV followed, and at an extraordinary general meeting of the German FA they were awarded the title again, but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
• Iceland: Fram
• Poland: Pogoń Lwów
• Scotland: For fuller coverage, see 1921-22 in Scottish football.
  • Scottish Division One – Celtic
  • Scottish Division Two – Alloa Athletic
  • Scottish FA Cup – Greenock Morton

International tournaments

• 1922 British Home Championship (October 22, 1921 – April 8, 1922)

 Scotland

• South American Championship 1922 in Brazil (September 17, 1922 – October 22, 1922)

 Brazil

Births

• October 08: Nils Liedholm (Swedish footballer) (d. 2007)
• November 29: Raimundo Pérez Lezama (Spanish footballer)

Deaths