Prior to the FCA's founding, football competitions had been organised by the Hellenic Amateur Athletic Association, the Committee of the Olympic Games, or local clubs.
As evidenced by the association's name, it originally included clubs from Athens and Piraeus, however it eventually sought to attain a nationwide status, even staging a national final between the champions of Athens-Piraeus and Thessaloniki in 1923.
The FCA quickly got to work, staging Greece's first major football competition in 10 years, with the help of the Athens branch of the YMCA.
Between these 2 tournaments, 1870 Zappas Olympian Ioannis Psichas became chairman and the FCA was renamed to the Greece Football Clubs Association.
These clubs came from Smyrna, where football was more developed up to 1922; Manolis Marsellos, 3-times Panionian Games gold medallist was chosen as the Association's new chairman.