The 1921–22 season of the Romanian Football Championship was the tenth edition of the top-level football league of Romania and it also marked the inception of Romania's first official national football championship, which featured teams from across the entire territory of Greater Romania. Chinezul Timișoara became champions for the first time in their history.
The competition was structured in two phases: an initial regional phase, with its own tournament, followed by a knockout stage featuring the regional champions to determine the national champion. The inaugural championship involved 7 regional champions, representing Arad, Bucharest, Timișoara, Brașov and Sibiu (with separate competitions in the fall, but with the consolidation of the best teams into a new championship in the spring), Cluj (including Târgu Mureș), Oradea (Oradea Mare, as it was called at the time, including Satu Mare, Carei, and Salonta) and Cernăuți. While regional matches were played in a home-and-away format, the final tournament matches were held as knockout games on the home ground of one of the competing teams.
Regional champions Region Team Arad AMEF Arad Bucharest Tricolor București Brașov–Sibiu Societatea Gimnastică Sibiu Cernăuţi Polonia Cernăuți Cluj–Mureș Victoria Cluj Oradea Mare Stăruința Oradea Timișoara Chinezul Timișoara
The national phase of the Romanian Football Championship
Quarter-finals
Tie noHome teamScoreAway team1Polonia Cernăuți0–1Tricolor București2Victoria Cluj2–2Stăruința OradeaReplayVictoria Cluj0–0Stăruința OradeaReplayVictoria Cluj2–0Stăruința Oradea3Chinezul Timișoaraw/o 1Societatea Gimnastică Sibiu4AMEF Aradbye 2
1 The team from Sibiu failed to appear, so by administrative decision they forfeited the game.
2 The team from Arad received a bye from the quarterfinals.
Replay
Replay
Semi-finals
Tie noHome teamScoreAway team1Chinezul Timișoara2–1AMEF Arad2Victoria Clujw/o 3Tricolor București
3 The team from Bucharest failed to appear, so by administrative decision they forfeited the game.
Final
Home teamScoreAway teamChinezul Timișoara5–1Victoria Cluj
Champion squad Chinezul TimișoaraGoalkeepers: Adalbert Ritter. Defenders: Kondor, Balázs Hoksary. Midfielders: Fenyvessy, Gheorghe Tóth-Bedö, Rainak. Forwards: Bruno Steiner, Frech I, Rudolf Matek, Mihai Tänzer, Carol Frech II. (the players that played the final)
Manager: Frontz Dőme .
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