The following are the football (soccer) 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: Scottish Cup: East Fife 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 14 March: Árpád Orbán, Hungarian footballer (died 2008) 17 March: Adolf Knoll, Austrian football player (died 2018) 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 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) Deaths References Association football by year