1938 in association football

Years in football (soccer):	1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years:	1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941

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

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of 11 players. It is played by approximately 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to outscore the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal. The team with the higher number of goals wins the game.More

Winners club national championship

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

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Manchester City F.C.

Manchester City Football Club is an English football club based in Manchester that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's , it became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894. The club's home ground is the City of Manchester Stadium in east Manchester, to which it moved in 2003, having played at Maine Road since 1923. The club adopted their sky blue home shirts in 1894 in the first season of the club's current iteration, that have been used ever since.More

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

17 March: Adolf Knoll, Austrian football player (died 2018)^[1]
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
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
6 July:
- Uli Maslo, German football player and manager
- Oleh Bazylevych, Ukrainian footballer, coach, and sport administrator
8 July: Vojtech Masný, Slovak football player
12 July: Lin Shllaku, Albanian footballer
28 July: Luis Aragonés, Spanish international football player and manager (died 2014)
28 August: Đorđe Pavlić, Yugoslavian international footballer (died 2015)
9 December: Nikola Kotkov, Bulgarian international footballer (died 1971)

Deaths

References

^ Wir trauern um Helmut Köglberger, Adolf Knoll und Alois Weinrich (in German)

[1] Wir trauern um Helmut Köglberger, Adolf Knoll und Alois Weinrich (in German)

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Years in football (soccer):	1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years:	1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941

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