TheAragón Regional Championship was the topfootball competition in Aragón during the early years of the sport in the region, being unofficially organized asCampeonato de Aragón byIberia SC from 1917 to 1922, and then officially asCampeonato Regional de Aragón by theAragonese Football Federation from 1922 to 1940.^[1]

Between 1931 and 1936, the Aragón championship was held jointly with other regional Championships, such asCentro,Gipuzkoa,Navarre, andCastile and León.^[1]

Football began taking root in the region around 1903, and, like most football societies of the time, it had prominent British components.^[2] Unlike other areas where new clubs were gradually germinating, the practice of football in Aragon was trimmed down to just collegiate activity and the increasingly sporadic matches inZaragoza.^[2] The first important club did not emerge there until 1910, with the foundation ofZaragoza Foot-ball Club, which wore a white shirt and black pants, mainly established with students from the Zaragoza university exclusively attended by students from Aragonese,Biscay,La Rioja, andNavarre.^[2] This new entity, however, ended up disappearing after just a handful of meetings with the main representatives ofHuelva andPamplona.^[2]

It was university football that allowed this sport to advance very slowly, shaping innumerous ephemeral societies that disappeared almost instantly when their members finished their respective academic careers.^[2] When theFirst World War broke out, Spain, as a neutral territory with little openness to the continent, became a port for many soldiers, especially Germans returning from African campaigns, giving a great boost to the implementation of football in the region. At the beginning of 1917, the Abinzano brothers, Jesús and Julio, recently arrived fromArgentina, contactedJosé María Gayarre to establish a new club taking advantage of their extensive contacts with theColegio de El Salvador, governed by theJesuits.^[2] Gayarre, enthusiastic about the idea, gave them the uniforms that he still had fromSociedad Gimnástica Zaragozana, his previous endeavor in pioneering football, and thus, on one of the benches in the popularPlaza del Pilar, on Saturday, 24 March, theIberia Sport Club was formed, chaired byRicardo Ostalé.^[2][3]

Since its founding, Iberia, known as "the Wasps" due to their black-and-white uniform, was the great engine and lighthouse of football in Aragon, leading the handful of existing clubs in the region to unofficially organize what was the first attempt at a regional tournament.^[2][3] Iberia became its perpetual champion, becoming the Aragón Champion of the unofficial championships in 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, and 1921.^[1][2] However, a federation was necessary to aspire to greater tasks, and thus, Iberia's leaders, especially José María Gayarre andJosé María Muniesa, gave legal support to all regional football, with the foundation of theAragonese Football Federation on 13 September 1922, of which they were its first and second president, and hence making Iberia's voice heard throughout Spain.^[3] Two weeks later, on 28 September, the assembly met to draft the regulations and statutes of the federation, being definitively constituted on 1 October at the request of the national assembly.^[4]

Iberia then won the first official title after the creation of the regional Federation in 1923, following it up with six more titles in 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, and 1931,^[1][2][3] thus participating in those sixCopa del Rey editions, going no further than the round of 32 in each of the latter three occasions.^[3] However, it wasReal Sociedad Atlética Stadium, the winners of the 1924 and 1925 editions, who became the first club from Aragón to play in the Copa del Rey in 1924,^[5] two decades after the competition's foundation, losing at the first opportunity toFC Barcelona by a resounding, which shows the abyss between Aragonese football and that of the rest of the country at the time.^[6]

In 1931, clubs fromAragón were added to theGipuzkoa Championship and the name changed to the 'Gipuzkoa-Navarre-Aragón Combined Championship'; however, the Gipuzkoan teams remained dominant. In the 1934–35 seasons, the teams of Gipuzkoa and Navarre were integrated into the Basque Cup, while CD Logroño and the Aragón teams were integrated into a new 'Cantabria-Castile-Aragón Cup'. These tournaments were played for two years, until being interrupted by the outbreak of theSpanish Civil War. Like the others regional competitions, it held its final season in 1939–40 due to the suppression of all national regional championships following the consolidation of thenational league and itslower divisions.

During the years 1937 and 1938, the joint and regional championships were not held in these areas due to theSpanish Civil War. In 1939, a precarious Aragon Championship was organized in the national zone with groups of military teams, including theClub Aviación Nacional, who merged shortly after withAtlético Madrid to give rise toAtlético Aviación, with the exception of the Real Zaragoza and theHuelva Sports Club, civil groups.^[7][8][9]

In recent editions, only different categories of amateur teams were competed, in which the champion of the first category was no longer eligible to qualify for the Spanish Cup. Starting in 1940, the dissolutions of the regional championships began throughout Spain to make room for the lower divisions in a process of restructuring the football championships at the national level.

• Iberia Sport Club (7): 1923, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, and 1931.
• Real Sociedad Atlética Stadium (2): 1924 and 1925.
• Aviación Nacional (1): 1939.

First stage:

• Iberia Sport Club (4) 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, and 1921.
• Unión Deportiva (1): 1922.

Last stage:

• CD Discóbolo (1): 1941.
• Atlético Zaragoza (1): 1942.

• Aragon official football team
• Real Zaragoza

• Defunct football competitions in Spain
• Football in Aragon
• Sports leagues established in 1922
• Sports leagues disestablished in 1940
• 1922 establishments in Spain
• 1940 disestablishments in Spain
• History of football in Spain
• Sport in Zaragoza

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