This trophy, called Lombardy Cup, was offered in 1905 and after five victories, it was won by Milan in 1907. In 1910 the president of the Casteggio Foot Ball Club, Senator and Marquis Pierino Negrotto Cambiaso entrusted the Roman sculptor Pier Enrico Astorri with the creation of this enormous trophy (weighing a massive 48 kilograms!), the second Lombardy Cup.
The marquis was not only part of the corporate organization chart of Genoa, but also distinguished himself on both tennis and battle fields during various conflicts (colonial warfare in Africa and in the Great War).

The cup would have been the prerogative of those who had won it seven times, even if they did not hold it consecutively. The trophy was eventually won by Genoa twelve years after his first success (a shameful 12-1 at Casteggio), after the final victory for 3-1 over the Milanese Sports Union on September 24th 1922.

Genoa President George Fawcus offered a trophy to the winners of the Italian Championship; the first time this cup was won by Milan in 1901 with a 3-0 victory over Genoa, undefeated until that moment. The following three titles were won by the Rossoblù team (Genoa) and that sanctioned their definitive possession of the cup in 1904. During her visit to Genoa in October 1980 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain received the prestigious trophy as a reminder of the founding origins of the multi-sport association, the Genoa CFC. In actual fact, as Royal Protocol permits the Queen to accept gifts only from Heads of State, the trophy remained in Genoa, with the addition to the bidder's name and the name of the monarch

The cup, situated in the center of the room, was found and purchased recently by the Genoa Foundation 1893, in Miami, United States, after a long and mysterious journey. The trophy, put up as a prize by the Duke of Abruzzi Luigi Amedeo Savoia, was definitively awarded to Genoa after its victories in the first three national championships (1898, 1899, 1900). It immortalizes the first winning cycle of the first Italian Football team.

Before its discovery the only photographic evidence of the Cup - available to the Foundation - was that of a photo made available in 2006 by a relative of the player Henri Arthur Dapples to a member of the Museum's Historical Committee, Davide Rota. Without this black and white image nobody would know today how the trophy was, apart from, as documented by several articles of the time, the fact it was a silver cup, made by the goldsmith Cravero di Torino. The photograph came into the possession of the relative of Dapples because in 1909 the trophy had been handed over to the former center forward, as well as vice president of Genoa, as a pledge for a loan of 500 lire he made to the rossoblù association "before 1910", according to the minutes of the company.

The ball used in the first Football championship played in Italy in 1898 between two Turin teams (the "ancestors" of Torino and Juventus) and the Genoa Football and Athletic Club which, among other things, won that championship that was played in a single day and was called "Duca degli Abruzzi Cup Championship".

James Richardson Spensley studied Medicine and Surgery at the London Hospital; after graduating, in 1891, he practiced as an internal surgeon and assistant to Professor Down (the discoverer of the syndrome that bears his name). In 1896 James was sent to Genoa to assist of the crew members of the British coal ships that used to land there. Once in Genoa, where he spent 19 years, he quickly entered the society of the city. As an English gentleman and, above all, as a great sportsman, he enrolled in the recently founded Genoa Cricket and Athletic Club, and immediately proposed the extension of sports activities to football, becoming in fact the pioneer of football in Italy.

As an educated, eclectic and well-mannered man, James entertained people from all social classes at the tables of the cafés in the centre, discussing many different topics, from philosophy to mathematics, from ancient letters to hieroglyphics. In addition to the daily effort to visit and take care of the crews, he provided his work as a doctor free of charge to the poorest inhabitants of the Old Town, often also donating to his patients the money necessary for the therapies.
He knew everything about the historic centre and his neighbourhood: names of places, history, art, curiosities and he took pride in acting as a guide for his fellow countrymen when they were passing through Genoa. In 1910 he was one of the main promoters of Scouting in Italy.

The fundamental document for the history of Genoa and football in Italy consists of the Book of the Birth Certificate, which begins with the name of the society "Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club" and with the date of the foundation "Formed 7th September 1893", which took place in Via Palestro 10/4, which was at the time, the seat of the British Consulate. The book continues as a sort of double-entry book-keeping system with entries, represented by membership fees and, years later, by receipts for the matches played, and debits for management costs, material purchase and expenses for the organization of sport matches. The first names of Italian and Swiss members appear in 1898, on the eve of the foundation of the Italian Football Federation.