1912–13 Prima Categoria
The 1912-13 Prima Categoria season was the sixteenth of the Italian Football Championship and the tenth since the re-brand to Prima Categoria. Champions for the fifth time in six seasons, were Pro Vercelli.
Regulation
Football in Italy expanded its popularity during the 10’s, but the expedition of the Italian football team to the Stockholm Olympics had a disappointing very poor result. In summer 1912, minor clubs took control over the Italian Football Federation, and imposed a championship reform. New vicepresidents Mr.Valvassori and Mr.Faroppa created a new format with more clubs but more groups, regionalising the tournament.The competition was expanded from 14 Northern Italian clubs to over 30 clubs, including Central and Southern Italian clubs to make it the most genuinely national Italian Football Championship so far. Two regional round robin tournaments took place, each initially sub-divided into three further sub-tournaments.
The old main tournament was split in two groups of six clubs, with solely ten matchdays, while the Oriental group became a full member of the championship.
Best two clubs of each group went to the final group. Last clubs should be relegated.
An experimental Southern section was introduced.
Pre-league qualifications
For Piedmont group
Novara was promoted.For Lombardy-Liguria group
Round 1
The match between Lambro Milano and Racing Libertas Milano was later canceled and repeated:;Repetition
Round 2
Racing Libertas was promoted.Verdicts
Novara, Racing Libertas Milan, Alba Roma, Juventus Audax Roma and Pro Roma were admitted to the 1a Categoria. The losers went to regional 2nd Category Promotion.Main tournament
Final round
The results of the matches between sides that were in the same qualification rounds were valid also for the final round. Due to this, the sides began the final round with a point bonus:- Pro Vercelli: 3 points
- Milan, Genoa, Hellas Verona, Vicenza: 2 points
- Casale: 1 point