1938 in association football

The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1938 throughout the world.

Winners club national championship

• Argentina: Independiente
• France: FC Sochaux-Montbéliard
• Germany: Hannover 96
• Italy: Internazionale Milano F.C.
• Netherlands: Feyenoord Rotterdam
• Paraguay: Olimpia Asunción
• Poland: Ruch Chorzów
• Romania: Ripensia Timișoara
• Scotland:
  • Scottish Cup: East Fife^[1]
• Turkey: Güneş SK
• Soviet Union: Spartak Moscow

Manchester City F.C. become the only team in history to be relegated the year after being champions of England.

International tournaments

• 1938 British Home Championship (October 23, 1937 – April 9, 1938)

  England

• FIFA World Cup in France (June 4 – 19 1938)
  1.   Italy
  2.   Hungary
  3.   Brazil
• 1938 Bolivarian Games
  1.   Peru
  2.   Bolivia
  3.   Ecuador

Births

• 1 February: Michael Collins, English former professional footballer^[2]
• 6 February: Graham Reed, English former professional footballer^[3]
• 14 March: Árpád Orbán, Hungarian footballer (died 2008)^[4][5]
• 17 March: Adolf Knoll, Austrian football player (died 2018)^[6]
• 24 March: Alan Collier, English former professional footballer^[7]
• 19 April: Stanko Poklepović, Croatian football player and manager (died 2018)
• 7 June: Armando Tobar, Chilean international footballer (died 2016)
• 25 June: Enver Yulgushov, Russian professional footballer and coach (died 2022)
• 26 June: Gene Gaines, American football (soccer) player
• 29 June:
  • József Gelei, Hungarian football player and manager
  • Giampaolo Menichelli, Italian winger
• 2 July: Marcel Artelesa, French international footballer (died 2016)
• 3 July: Sjaak Swart, Dutch footballer^[8]
• 6 July:
  • Uli Maslo, German football player and manager
  • Oleh Bazylevych, Ukrainian footballer, coach, and sport administrator (died 2018)
• 8 July: Vojtech Masný, Slovak football player
• 12 July: Lin Shllaku, Albanian footballer (died 2016)
• 28 July: Luis Aragonés, Spanish international football player and manager (died 2014)
• 28 August: Đorđe Pavlić, Yugoslavian international footballer (died 2015)
• 2 December: Luis Artime, Argentine internationalfootballer
• 9 December: Nikola Kotkov, Bulgarian international footballer (died 1971)
• 14 December: Willie Purvis, English professional footballer (died 2012)^[9]

Deaths

Main article: Deaths in 1938

Further information: Category:1938 deaths

References

1. "Scottish Cup Past Winners | Scottish Cup | Scottish FA". www.scottishfa.co.uk. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
2. "Mike Collins". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
3. "Graham Reed". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
4. "Arpad ORBAN - Olympic Football | Hungary". International Olympic Committee. June 13, 2016.
5. "Arpad Orban - Stats - titles won". www.footballdatabase.eu.
6. Wir trauern um Helmut Köglberger, Adolf Knoll und Alois Weinrich 2019-02-22 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
7. "Alan Collier". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
8. Geert-Jan Jacobs (August 15, 2018). "Sjaak Swart wil niet dood, hij wil voetballen". www.vi.nl.
9. "1938 in association football". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 5 March 2017.