Following disputes in other regions, the Royal Spanish Football Federation had decided that the national cup competition, the Copa del Rey, would be contested by winners of the various regions of the country from the 1914 edition onwards, and it became necessary to arrange a formal Andalusian championship to provide an entrant.
[2] The first championship was won by Español de Cádiz, but they declined to enter the 1916 Copa del Rey; from then on, Sevilla were the region's dominant force, with only occasional interruptions to their runs of victories.
[2] In the early 1930s, following the inception of La Liga, several merged or unified regional competitions were held, and in Andalusia this manifested as the Campeonato Mancomunado Castilla-Sur with teams from the Centro region, i.e. the Community of Madrid, in 1932–33 and 1933–34 (the capital teams held the upper hand in both seasons),[2] followed by the Campeonato Supraregional Levante-Sur with teams from the Levante region, i.e. the Valencian Community, in 1934–35[1] – Sevilla did not win this league but qualified for the 1935 Copa del Presidente de la República and went on to win it, the first club from the region to do so (city rivals Betis had lost in the 1931 final and became the first Andalusian club to win the national Liga title in the same year as Sevilla's Copa victory, the only occasion the region provided the winners of both competitions in the same season).
In 1935–36 the championship reverted to Andalusia only, with all six of the top division participants qualifying for the 1936 Copa del Presidente de la República.
The Spanish Civil War then caused almost all football to be cancelled for two years, with two final editions of the regional championship being played in early 1939 (Sevilla went on to win the 1939 Torneo Nacional – the one-season name for the national competition before it was re-titled the Copa del Generalísimo for Francisco Franco) and in 1939–40 before they were abolished as a cup qualification method across Spain, having declined in prestige over the previous decade (some continued to be contested on a local basis for some time).