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The following are the association football events of the year 1938 throughout the world.

Contents

• Winners club national championship
• International tournaments
• Births
• Deaths
• References

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: Celtic
• 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 ^[1]
• 6 February: Graham Reed, English former professional footballer ^[2]
• 14 March: Árpád Orbán, Hungarian footballer (died 2008) ^[3]
• 17 March: Adolf Knoll, Austrian football player (died 2018) ^[4]
• 24 March: Alan Collier, English former professional footballer ^[5]
• 19 April: Stanko Poklepović, Croatian football player and manager (died 2018)
• 1 June: Dieter Klaußner, German former professional footballer ^[6]
• 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
  • John Leiper, Scottish former footballer ^[7]
• 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)
• 22 October: César Luis Menotti, Argentine football player and manager (died 2024) ^[9]
• 2 December: Luis Artime, Argentine international footballer
• 9 December: Nikola Kotkov, Bulgarian international footballer (died 1971)
• 14 December: Willie Purvis, English professional footballer (died 2012) ^[10]

Deaths

References