Gradanski Zagreb
Six clubs participated in a knockout tournament to decide the inaugural national championship.
HSK Gradanski Zagreb
Founded in 1911, a multi sports club with an emphasis on Croatian identity. Gradanski won the Zagreb Regional Championship 6 times between 1919 and 1928.
JSD Bačka
The oldest club in Yugoslavia, founded by members of the Croat/Bunjevac community in the city of Subotica in 1901. They used to compete in the southern section of the Austro-Hungarian league.
SASK
Sarajevo amaterski športski klub- Sarajevo is in modern day Bosnia Herzegovina.
Hajduk Split
Founded in Prague by a group of students from Split in 1911. The clubs Croatian nationalist tendencies were reflected in the name- a Hajduk being a partisan fighter against firstly the Ottoman Turks and latterly the Austrian Empire.
SK Ilirija
Slovenian club from Ljubljana founded in 1911. Initially they played Zagreb based clubs because there were only 2 established clubs in Slovenia - Ilirija and Slovan. After 1918 football developed in Slovenia, and Ilirija won 12 Slovenian titles between 1920 and 1935.
SK Jugoslavija
Serbian multi-sports club from Belgrade, originally founded as SK Velika Srbija (Great Serbia) in 1913,
changing its name to Jugoslavija in 1919.
First round:
Jugoslavija 2-1 Backa
SASK 4-3 Hajduk
Gradanski 2-1 Ilirija
Semi finals:
Jugoslavija 3-4 SASK
Gradanski bye
Final: Gradanski 1-1 SASK
replay: Gradanski 4-2 SASK
Gradanski were coached by former Bolton Wanderers player Arthur Gaskell.
Dragan Jovanović of Jugoslavija was the competition's top scorer with 4 goals. In an 8 year career with the club he scored 331 goals in 252 matches.