23.8.13

Chinezul Timisoara



Chinezul Timisoara, founded in 1910, were named after Pavel Chinezul, a legendary Hungarian general who defeated the Ottomans in 1479. The club was formed by railway workers. Between 1911 and 1918 the team (as Temesvári Kinizsi) competed in the Hungarian league. After the 1914 -18 war the city of Timisoara became a part of Romania.
In 1922 Chinezul Timisoara won the first ever Romanian national championship. This was the first of 6 consecutive national title wins, a period of domination in Romanian football not equaled until the Steaua București era of the 1990s. 
The format of the championship was a knockout competition between 7 regional champions. These were:


Region
Champions
Arad
AMEF Arad
Bucharest
Tricolor Bucureşti
Braşov-Sibiu
Societatea Sportivă Sibiu
Bukovina
Polonia Cernăuţi
Cluj
Victoria Cluj
Oradea
Stăruinţa Oradea
Timişoara
Chinezul Timişoara

 None of these clubs is still in existence, and Cernăuţi is no longer in Romania, but is Czerniowce in Ukraine)
The tournament progressed as follows:

Polonia Cernăuţi
0
1
Tricolor Bucureşti
Chinezul Timişoara
3
0
Societatea Sportivă Sibiu
A default result : SSS forfeited the match
Stăruinţa Oradea
2
2
Victoria Cluj
Victoria Cluj
2
0
Stăruinţa Oradea (replay)
AMEF Arad bye


Chinezul Timişoara
2
1
AMEF Arad
Victoria Cluj
3
0
Tricolor Bucureşti
A default result : Tricolor forfeited the match

In the final Chinezul beat Victoria 5-1, future Romanian international Rudolf  Matek scoring 3 with Mihai Tänzer (who represented both Romania and Hungary) also getting a goal.