1938 in sports
Years in association football
← 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 →
American football Aquatic sports Association football Athletics Badminton Baseball Basketball Canadian football Chess Climbing Combat sports Sumo Cricket 1937–38 1938 1938–39 Cycling Darts Equestrianism Esports Golf Gymnastics Ice sports Modern pentathlon Motorsport Paralympic sports Racquetball Sailing Skiing Rugby league‎ Rugby union Shooting Snooker 1937–38 1938–39 Squash Table tennis Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Weightlifting

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

Winners club national championship

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

International tournaments

1 February: Michael Collins, English former professional footballer^[2]
14 March: Árpád Orbán, Hungarian footballer (died 2008)^[3]^[4]
17 March: Adolf Knoll, Austrian football player (died 2018)^[5]
24 March: Alan Collier, English former professional footballer^[6]
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^[7]
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)^[8]

Further information: Category:1938 deaths

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

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