1926 Yugoslav Football Championship

The 1926 National Championship (Serbo-Croato-Slovenian: Državno prvenstvo 1926 / Државно првенство 1926) was a football competition held within the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. The two dominant teams of pre-World War II Yugoslav football, Jugoslavija and Građanski, began laying the foundations of the next seven decades of a deeply rooted rivalry between Zagreb and Belgrade. Both teams dominated the competition with comfortable margins, but were quite evenly matched in the finals.

Tournament

Quarter finals

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Građanski Zagreb	7–1	Ilirija
Bačka Subotica	2–12	Jugoslavija
SAŠK	1–2	Hajduk Split
Slavija Osijek	bye

Semi finals

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Građanski Zagreb	7–0	Slavija Osijek
Jugoslavija	5–1	Hajduk Split

Final

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Građanski Zagreb	2–1	Jugoslavija

Winning squad

Champions:

GRAĐANSKI ZAGREB (coach: Imre Poszony)

• Maksimilijan Mihalčić
• Franz Mantler
• Miho Remec
• Miroslav Arnold
• Rudolf Rupec
• Dragutin Vragović
• Géza Ábrahám
• Rudolf Hitrec
• Emil Perška
• Franjo Giler
• Luka Vidnjević

Top scorers

Final goalscoring position, number of goals, player/players and club.^[1]

• 1 - 8 goals - Dušan Petković (Jugoslavija)
• 2 - 6 goals - Franjo Giler (Građanski Zagreb)
• 3 - 5 goals - Dragan Jovanović (Jugoslavija)

See also

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