The committee was composed by The tournament began on September 18, 1927, with the match Czechoslovakia-Austria, which ended 2–0.

The Austrian team complained in this occasion that the referee seemed not sufficiently impartial or fair.

On March 3, 1929, Italy beat Czechoslovakia 4–2, losing 3–0 to the Austrians barely a month later, on April 7, in Vienna.

[8] On April 14 Hungary beats Switzerland 5–4, and the Swiss team surrenders again to the Czechs (4–1) on 5 May.

The match was played on May 11, 1930, in Budapest, and it is reported that Italy's trainer, Vittorio Pozzo brought his players to visit World War I battlefields before playing the last and decisive game of the tournament, perhaps wishing to bring back memories of their own participation, just 13 years earlier, in the fight against Austro-Hungarian soldiers.