1938 in association football

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

[edit] Winners club national championship

• Argentina: Independiente
• Italy: Internazionale Milano F.C.
• Netherlands: Feyenoord Rotterdam
• Paraguay: Olimpia Asunción
• Poland: Ruch Chorzów

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Births

• December 9 – Nikola Kotkov, Bulgarian footballer (d. 1971)

[edit] Deaths

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