1902–03 Catalan Football Championship

Catalan Football Championship 1902–03 20 November 1902 – 26 April 1903 Catalonia 11 Club Español (Copa Macaya)FC Barcelona (Copa Barcelona) 1 Hispania AC (Copa Macaya)Club Español (Copa Barcelona) Gustavo Green (7 goals) Joan Gamper (21 goals) 1901–02 1903–04 The 1902–03 Catalan Football Championship was the 3rd staging of the Championship of Catalonia.https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/cathist.html Spain – Final Tables Catalonia 20 May 2020 30 October 2022 27 July 2022 RSSSF https://web.archive.org/web/20220727001641/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/cathist.html live This season was peculiar because it comprised two different competitions held the same year. Due to disagreements between the reigning champion of the tournament, FC Barcelona, and some of the clubs invited, in 1902–03 two parallel competitions were held: an "official", the Copa Macaya organized by Hispania AC and an "unofficial", the Copa Barcelona organized by FC Barcelona. Both are currently recognized as official by the RFEF. Copa Macaya Summary The third and last edition of the Macaya Cup was to be contested by 5 teams: Club Espanyol, Hispania AC, FC Barcelona, Club Universitari and FC Internacional. The early resignations of Barcelona and Universitari were a severe blow to the competition, which turned it into a simple triangular tournament. In the end, Espanyol was the champion after beating Hispania 3–1 in a tiebreaker, with Gustavo Green netting twice.November 2022 Remarkably, Green won all three editions of the Copa Macaya with three different clubs (Hispania, Barça, and Español).http://www.cihefe.es/cuadernosdefutbol/2018/02/la-identidad-de-gustavo-green-desvelada-despues-de-120-anos/ La identidad de Gustavo Green desvelada después de 120 años Gustavo Green's identity revealed after 120 years es CIHEFE 17 January 2017 30 August 2022 29 July 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220729023020/http://www.cihefe.es/cuadernosdefutbol/2018/02/la-identidad-de-gustavo-green-desvelada-despues-de-120-anos/ live Table main WDL 2 Club Español Hispania AC FC Internacional FC Barcelona (withdrew) Universitary SC (withdrew) ESP 3 0 1 9 2 HIS 3 0 1 10 3 FCI 0 0 4 1 15 FCB 0 0 0 0 UNV 0 0 0 0 complete RSSSF QR yellow1 Champion C 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) fair-play points; 7) playoff match Results 30 November 1902 Hispania AC 0 – 2 Annulled FC Barcelona Steinberg Lassaletta Camp del carrer Muntaner Barcelona Degollada Barcelona won 2–0, but the result was later disallowed due to Barça fielding an ineligible player. 30 November 1902 Club Español 6 – 01 FC Internacional ? Barcelona 7 December 1902 FC Internacional 1 – 31 Hispania AC ? ? Barcelona 14 December 1902 Club Español 1 – 01 [ Report] Hispania AC ? Barcelona 4 January 1903 FC Internacional 0 – 11 Club Español ? Barcelona 11 January 1903 Hispania AC 6 – 01 FC Internacional ? Barcelona 25 January 1903 Hispania AC 2 – 11 Club Español ? ? Barcelona Play-off This championship was extremely competitive, in fact, Club Espanyol and Hispania AC finished level on points at 6, which meant that the title had to be decided in a playoff match that was held a few months later. 12 April 1903 Club Espanyol 3–1 Report Hispania AC Green García Girvan Barcelona, Catalonia Statistics Top Scorers Rank Player Team Goals 1 ESP Gustavo Green Club Español 7 2 SCO Geordie Girvan Hispania AC 2 3 ESP Sebastian Casanellas Club Español 1 ESP Emilio Sampere ESP Joaquín García Copa Barcelona Summary After their 2–0 win over Hispania AC in the Copa Macaya was declared invalid for fielding an ineligible player, thus losing two points, FC Barcelona withdrew from the tournament as the club considered the decision totally unfounded and unfair.https://elfutbolymasalla.com/la-copa-macaya-primer-campeonato-futbol-espana/ La Copa Macaya, el primer campeonato de fútbol de España The Copa Macaya, the first soccer championship in Spain en elfutbolymasalla.com 25 January 2018 17 November 2022 26 November 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20221126150017/http://elfutbolymasalla.com/la-copa-macaya-primer-campeonato-futbol-espana/ live The club then broke its relations with the Gymnastics Federation and decides to organize a tournament of their own: The Copa Barcelona.https://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/hd/viewer?oid=0028153374 Copa Football Club Barcelona es El cardo hemerotecadigital.bne.es 22 January 1903 31 October 2022 31 October 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20221031183108/https://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/hd/viewer?oid=0028153374 live https://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/hd/viewer?oid=0028153374&page=12 Bases del concurso Copa del F. C. Barcelona Bases of the FC Barcelona Cup contest es El cardo hemerotecadigital.bne.es 22 January 1903 31 October 2022 31 October 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20221031173053/https://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/hd/viewer?oid=0028153374&page=12 live Barça was able to pull this off because the club was clearly the most powerful and best organized club in Catalonia and one of the best in Spain, just like Madrid FC had done in the capital with the 1902 Copa de la Coronación. All the clubs of the city of Barcelona were invited, including the ones who were contesting the Copa Macaya, and the response from the clubs was much greater than expected, registering up to eleven teams, all of them from Barcelona, although three had to withdraw (X Sporting Club, Universitary SC and FC Catalònia) before the end of the tournament. The other five participating teams were Català FC, FC Internacional, Irish FC, Iberia FC and Salut FC. The Copa Barcelona is also considered an official tournament nowadays, being later recognized as the fourth edition of the Catalan Championship. So two rival competitions were organized (similar to the 1910 and 1913 editions of the Copa del Rey), and while Club Español won the third and last edition of the Copa Macaya after beating Hispania AC by 3–1 in the title-deciding play-off, Barcelona won the Copa Barcelona after a tough fight with Club Español, with whom he drew 2–2 both home and away, hedging out in the end by just two points. The tournament's board offers prizes to all participants thanks to the financial collaboration of the members of FC Barcelona, with contributions of at least two pesetas and forty cents each. All participants had a prize: A Cup valued at 250 pesetas for the winner; medals for the first three; a lineman's flag for the fourth; a regulation ball for fifth; goalkeeper gloves for the sixth; a bellows for the seventh and a whistle for the last.http://www.webdelcule.com/1899-96/1909.html Historia del FC Barcelona, Web de los Culés History of the FC Barcelona, Web of the Culés es www.webdelcule.com 17 November 2022 7 November 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20221107020031/http://www.webdelcule.com/1899-96/1909.html live The prizes may seem ridiculous, in view of today, but at that time it was quite a gesture of greatness for the tournament's board, since these objects were not easy to obtain and were highly valued. Joan Gamper was the star of the tournament and its top goal scorer with 21 goals, netting a 9-goal haul against X Sporting Club on 1 February 1903 and scoring the winner (0–1) against Hispania AC on 19 April 1903.https://players.fcbarcelona.com/es/partido/g0329-hispania-barcelona Hispània – Barcelona (0-1) – Copa Barcelona – 19/04/1903 www.fcbarcelona.com 17 November 2022 17 November 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20221117155029/https://players.fcbarcelona.com/es/partido/g0329-hispania-barcelona live Table main yes WDL 160 35 2 https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/cathist.html FCB ESP HIS CAT IRI INT IBE SAL FCX UNI CFC FC Barcelona Club Español FC Internacional Català FC Irish FC FC Internacional Ibèria SC Salut SC X Sporting Club Club Universitari Catalònia FC complete 12 2 0 45 10 C 11 2 1 34 7 9 1 4 30 18 8 0 6 35 26 4 2 8 25 24 3 3 8 14 28 3 1 10 10 25 0 1 13 6 61 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Q C S S S #ccffcc Champion #f9f9f9 (Nota Withdrew from the competition.) 2-2 6-1 2-1 3-1 6-0 7-0 (c/p) 2-2 2-0 1-0 2-0 (c/p) (c/p) 14-0 0-1 2-0 3-1 0-0 4-0 (c/p) (c/p) 2-4 0-7 3-6 6-1 1-0 2-0 7-0 1-4 (c/p) 0-3 1-2 2-4 1-0 7-0 (c/p) 1-4 0-4 0-1 0-0 2-2 5-2 0-8 (c/p) 5-1 (c/p) 0-3 (c/p) 2-1 (c/p) (c/p) 0-6 1-9 0-8 2-2 0-1 Notes Day 6: Iberia conceded the points due to the death of Ramon Irla i Serra, father of the president and captain of the club.http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.es/preview/1903/02/11/pagina-2/33390310/pdf.html Ibèria cedí els punts Iberia conceded the points es La Vanguardia 11 February 1903 30 October 2022 11 January 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230111142535/https://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1903/02/11/pagina-2/33390310/pdf.html live http://mdc.cbuc.cat/u?/portalarca,142956 Ramon Irla i Serra es Los Deportes 15 February 1903 30 October 2022 Day 8: Salut and Internacional gave up the points. Day 11: all three games were suspended due to rain. Irish, Iberia and Salut conceded the points. Day 15: Iberia conceded the points due to the death of the mother of the player Castillo.http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.es/preview/1903/03/31/pagina-3/33392206/pdf.html Castillo es La Vanguardia 31 March 1903 30 October 2022 11 January 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230111142537/https://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1903/03/31/pagina-3/33392206/pdf.html live http://mdc.cbuc.cat/u?/portalarca,143069 Ibèria cedí els punts Iberia conceded the points ca Los Deportes 5 April 1903 30 October 2022 Day 16: Salut gave up the points for Espanyol to be playing in the 1902 Copa de la Coronación in Madrid.http://mdc.cbuc.cat/u?/portalarca,143087 Salut cedí els punts Salut gives up the points es Los Deportes 12 April 1903 30 October 2022 Day 17: Hispania played with the second team to allow the first to contest the final of the Copa Macaya against Club Espanyol.http://mdc.cbuc.cat/u?/portalarca,143103 Hispania jugó con el segundo equipo Hispania played with the second team es Los Deportes 19 April 1903 30 October 2022 Results The list below only includes the matches played by Barcelona due to a lack of information about the remaining games. Round 1 11 January 1903 FC Barcelona 7 – 0 Ibèria SC Gamper Ossó Lassaletta Camp de la carretera d'Horta Barcelona Eduardo Alesson Round 3 25 January 1903 FC Barcelona 2 – 1 Català FC Gamper Camp de la carretera d'Horta Barcelona Eduardo Alesson Round 4 1 February 1903 FC Barcelona 13 – 0 * X Sporting Club Gamper Ossó Lassaletta Camp de la carretera d'Horta Barcelona Cusí Round 6 8 February 1903 FC Barcelona 6 – 0 FC Internacional Gamper Ossó Harris Camp de la carretera d'Horta Barcelona Round 8 22 February 1903 FC Barcelona Not played Salut SC Camp de la carretera d'Horta Barcelona Round 9 1 March 1903 FC Barcelona 6 – 1 Hispania AC Steinberg Lassaletta Meyer Ossó Camp de la carretera d'Horta Barcelona Emilio Sampere Round 10 8 March 1903 15:30 FC Barcelona 2 – 2 Club Español Gamper Steinberg Camp de la carretera d'Horta Barcelona 4.000 John Hamilton Round 12 19 March 1903 Irish FC 1 – 4 FC Barcelona Gamper Meyer Gass Barcelona Acha Round 13 22 March 1903 Català FC 2 – 4 FC Barcelona Gamper Steinberg Lassaletta Velódromo de la Bonanova Barcelona Mascaró Round 15 29 March 1903 FC Internacional Not played FC Barcelona Barcelona Round 16 5 April 1903 Ibèria SC 0 – 8 FC Barcelona Steinberg Gamper Parsons Barcelona Mascaró Round 17 12 April 1903 Salut SC Not played FC Barcelona Barcelona Round 2 13 April 1903 FC Barcelona 3 – 1 Irish FC Ossó Almasqué Camp de la carretera d'Horta Barcelona José Barroso Round 18 19 April 1903 Hispania AC 0 – 1 FC Barcelona Gamper Camp del carrer Muntaner Barcelona Ricardo Cabot Round 19 26 April 1903 Club Español 2 – 2 FC Barcelona García Gamper Harris Camp de l'Hospital Clínic Barcelona John Hamilton Not counted because X Sporting Club withdrew from the competition. Statistics Top Scorers Rank Player Team Goals 1 SWI Joan Gamper FC Barcelona 212 GER Udo Steinberg 6 ESP Luis de Ossó 4 ESP Bernardo Lassaletta 5 5 ENG Stanley Harris 32 SWI George Meyer 2 ESP Julià Mora Club Español ESP Ángel Ponz See also 1902–03 FC Barcelona season References 30em External links Federació Catalana de Futbol ca Category:Copa Catalunya seasons Category:1902–03 in Spanish football