The 1923 Prva Liga held in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was the first nation-wide domestic football competition. At this point there was no league championship in the modern sense as the competition was held in a single-legged cup format, with participating clubs qualifying via regional playoffs organised by regional football subfederations.

Qualified clubs

• JSD Bačka (Subotica Football Subfederation)
• Građanski Zagreb (Zagreb Football Subfederation)
• Hajduk Split
  HNK Hajduk Split
  HNK Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split or simply Hajduk, is a Croatian football club founded in 1911 and based in the city of Split. The club's home ground since 1979 is the 35,000-seater Poljud Stadium and the team's traditional home colours are white shirts with blue shorts and...
  
   (Split Football Subfederation)
• Ilirija Ljubljana
  NK Olimpija Ljubljana (1911)
  NK Olimpija Ljubljana was a Slovenian association football club based in Ljubljana. The club had traced its origin back to 1911 when it was originally founded as SK Ilirija. It had gone through a series of mergers in the first half of the 20th century before adopting the name Olimpija in 1962...
  
   (Ljubljana Football Subfederation)
• SK Jugoslavija Belgrade
  SK Jugoslavija
  Sportski klub Jugoslavija, commonly known as SK Jugoslavija was a Serbian football club from Belgrade. It was originally formed as SK Velika Srbija in 1913 and changed its name to SK Jugoslavija in 1919.-History:...
  
   (Belgrade Football Subfederation)
• SAŠK Sarajevo
  NK SAŠK Napredak
  NK Famos-SAŠK Napredak is a football club from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It came into existence in 2000 through the merger of SAŠK with NK Napredak ....
  
   (Sarajevo Football Subfederation)

Quarter finals

Tie no	Date	Home team	Score	Away team
1	02.09.1923	Jugoslavija SK Jugoslavija Sportski klub Jugoslavija, commonly known as SK Jugoslavija was a Serbian football club from Belgrade. It was originally formed as SK Velika Srbija in 1913 and changed its name to SK Jugoslavija in 1919.-History:...	2–1	Bačka NK Backa 1901 FK Bačka 1901 is a football club from the city of Subotica in Bačka, autonomous province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia. The club is the oldest in Vojvodina as well as Serbia, and also, it was the oldest club of former Yugoslavia...
2	02.09.1923	SAŠK NK SAŠK Napredak NK Famos-SAŠK Napredak is a football club from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It came into existence in 2000 through the merger of SAŠK with NK Napredak ....	4–3	Hajduk
3	02.09.1923	Ilirija	1–2	Građanski

Semi finals

Tie no	Date	Home team	Score	Away team
1	23.09.1923	SAŠK NK SAŠK Napredak NK Famos-SAŠK Napredak is a football club from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It came into existence in 2000 through the merger of SAŠK with NK Napredak ....	4–3	Jugoslavija SK Jugoslavija Sportski klub Jugoslavija, commonly known as SK Jugoslavija was a Serbian football club from Belgrade. It was originally formed as SK Velika Srbija in 1913 and changed its name to SK Jugoslavija in 1919.-History:...
Građanski received a bye Bye (sports) A bye, in sports and other competitive activities, most commonly refers to the practice of allowing a player or team to advance to the next round of a playoff tournament without playing...

Final

Tie no	Date	Home team	Score	Away team
1	30.09.1923	Građanski	1–1	SAŠK NK SAŠK Napredak NK Famos-SAŠK Napredak is a football club from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It came into existence in 2000 through the merger of SAŠK with NK Napredak ....
replay	01.10.1923	Građanski	4–2	SAŠK NK SAŠK Napredak NK Famos-SAŠK Napredak is a football club from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It came into existence in 2000 through the merger of SAŠK with NK Napredak ....

Champions

HŠK Građanski (coach: Arthur Gaskell)

Dragutin Vrđuka
Fritz Ferderber
Miho Remec
Jaroslav Schiffer
Dragutin Vragović

Dragutin Vragović

Dragutin Vragović was a Croatian footballer who spent the majority of his career with Građanski Zagreb in the 1920s. Vragović won two Yugoslav championships with Građanski and was also member of the Yugoslav squad at the 1920 and 1924 Olympic tournaments.Vragović was known as a reliable utility...

Rudolf Rupec

Rudolf Rupec

Rudolf Rupec was a Croatian footballer who played for the national teams of Austria and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes....

Rudolf Hitrec

Rudolf Hitrec

Rudolf Hitrec was a Croatian footballer and international manager.He played for Concordia Zagreb from 1919 to 1921 and Građanski Zagreb from 1921 to 1930. He won the national championship of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1923, 1926 and 1928.Hitrec played for the Yugoslav national...

Dragutin Babić

Dragutin Babić

Dragutin Babić was a Croatian footballer who represented the national team of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes at the 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics.-References:*...

Stjepan Pasinek
Antun Pavleković
Franjo Mantler
Emil Perška

Emil Perška

Emil Perška was a Croatian footballer. He was born in Zagreb and spent the majority of his career with Građanski Zagreb, with whom he won three Yugoslav championships in the 1920s. He was also a member of the Yugoslav squad at the 1920, 1924 and 1928 Olympic tournaments.Born in Zagreb in...

Bela Šefer

See also

• Yugoslav Cup
  Yugoslav Cup
  The Yugoslav Cup, officially the Marshal Tito Cup, was one of two major football competitions in the former Yugoslavia, the other one being the Yugoslav League Championship. The Yugoslav Cup took place after the league championships when every competitive league in Yugoslavia had finished, in order...
  
  
• Yugoslav League Championship
• Football Association of Yugoslavia
  Football Association of Yugoslavia
  The Football Association of Yugoslavia was the governing body of football in Yugoslavia, based in Belgrade, with a major administrative branch in Zagreb....
  
  

External links

• Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables
• Serbian Digital Library (Newspaper Politika: Archive (1904-1941)