Proposals for an Italian football cup were made many times before WWI, without a tournament coming to pass.
The fixture assignments for the first Coppa Italia were difficult given the number of teams admitted to the tournament (37), which did not allow for a normal knockout format.
With the victory of the outsider Vado which competed in the Promozione, the Ligurians became the first club to win the country's premier national domestic tournament cup.
The club won the competition despite not playing in the top division; an achievement that has only ever been equaled on one other occasion in the tournament's history, by Naples in the 1961–62 Coppa Italia.
Liguria Veneto Toscana The most important Julian teams took part in a regional tournament called "Coppa Giulia", separated from the national Prima Categoria Liguria Veneto Toscana Treviso received a bye due to a drawing; Libertas Firenze and Pro Livorno received byes due to fixture congestion.