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Galician Championship

football league

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ8257787 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Galician Championship was an official regional football tournament in Spain, contested between teams from Galicia. The Galician Football Federation, founded in 1909, was responsible for regulating both the tournament and football in the Galician region from the 1913–14 season onwards. Seven championships had been held before this time, but these are not considered official as the federation was not yet established. These earlier championships were organized by Real Vigo Sporting Club after receiving a silver cup donated by King Alfonso XIII of Spain.

Results

Unofficial Championship of Galicia

Championship of Galicia (Campeonato Regional de Galicia)

Notes:

‡ The 1915–16 championship was not played due to conflicts between the clubs. Real Fortuna FC Vigo called themselves as champions while the other clubs played the Campeonato de Honor. In the final Real Vigo Sporting defeated Deportivo Auténtico FC Coruña.

Champions

Notes: Unofficial Championship of Galicia are not taken into account.

See also

Galicia official football team

Galician Amateur Championship

RC Celta de Vigo

External links

Official website at RFEF.es. Archived 11 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Galician Championship” is football league. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Galician, Championship and football, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1909, 1913, 1915, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1913. For this dossier, Galician, Championship and football is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “football league” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8257787. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1909, 1913, 1915 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Galician Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.