1923 Yugoslav Football Championship

The 1923 Yugoslav Football Championship, officially called State Championship (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: Državno prvenstvo; Serbian Cyrillic: Државно првенство), 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.

Bačka

Građanski

Hajduk

Ilirija

Jugoslavija

SAŠK

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Locations of teams in 1923 Yugoslav First League

• JSD Bačka (Subotica Football Subassociation)
• Građanski Zagreb (Zagreb Football Subassociation)
• Hajduk Split (Split Football Subassociation)
• Ilirija Ljubljana (Ljubljana Football Subassociation)
• SK Jugoslavija Belgrade (Belgrade Football Subassociation)
• SAŠK Sarajevo (Sarajevo Football Subassociation)

Champions:

HŠK Građanski^[1] (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

Final goalscoring position, number of goals, player/players and club.^[2]

• 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)

• Yugoslav Cup
• Yugoslav League Championship
• Football Association of Yugoslavia

• Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables
• Serbian Digital Library (Newspaper Politika: Archive (1904-1941)