The 1923 Yugoslav Football Championship, officially called State Championship (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: Državno prvenstvo; ), was the first season of national association football competition in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which later came to be known as Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
At this point there was no league championship in the modern sense, as the competition was held in a single-legged cup format, with participating clubs qualifying via regional playoffs entered by winners of six regional football sub-federations. Only the final was played over two legs.
The champions were 1. HŠK Građanski from Zagreb, who beat SAŠK from Sarajevo 5–3 in the final tie.
Qualified clubs
JSD Bačka (Subotica Football Subassociation) Građanski Zagreb (Zagreb Football Subassociation) Hajduk Split (Split Football Subassociation) SK Ilirija (Ljubljana Football Subassociation) SK Jugoslavija (Belgrade Football Subassociation) SAŠK Sarajevo (Sarajevo Football Subassociation)
Tournament Quarter-finals
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|2 September 1923
Semi-finals
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|23 September 1923
Final
|colspan="5" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|30 September/1 October 1923
Winning squad Champions:
HŠK GrađanskiRekordi i zanimljivosti YU fudbalskih šampionata 1923-1978;Jugoslovenska fudbalska revija Gool, August 1978 (coach: Arthur Gaskell)
Dragutin Vrđuka Fritz Ferderber Miho Remec Jaroslav Schiffer Dragutin Vragović Rudolf Rupec Rudolf Hitrec Dragutin Babić Stjepan Pasinek Antun Pavleković Franjo Mantler Emil Perška Bela Šefer Stebl Gec
Top scorers Final goalscoring position, number of goals, player/players and club.Gola istina: kraljevi strelaca by Živko Bojanić, pag. 14 1 - 4 goals - Dragan Jovanović (Jugoslavija) 2 - 3 goals - Jakupec (SAŠK) 3 - 2 goals - Franz Mantler, Dragutin Babić, Emil Perška (all Građanski Zagreb), Nedžad Sulejmanpašić and Dragutin Sieber (SAŠK)
See also Yugoslav Cup Yugoslav Football Championship Football Association of Yugoslavia
References
External links Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables Serbian Digital Library (Newspaper Politika: Archive (1904-1941)