The following are the association football 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: 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)
FIFA World Cup in France (June 4 – 19 1938)
1938 Bolivarian Games
Births 1 February: Michael Collins, English former professional footballer 6 February: Graham Reed, English former professional footballer 14 March: Árpád Orbán, Hungarian footballer (died 2008) 17 March: Adolf Knoll, Austrian football player (died 2018)Wir trauern um Helmut Köglberger, Adolf Knoll und Alois Weinrich 24 March: Alan Collier, English former professional footballer 19 April: Stanko Poklepović, Croatian football player and manager (died 2018) 1 June: Dieter Klaußner, German former professional footballer 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 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 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)César Luis Menotti obituary 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)
Deaths
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