| Season | 1937–38 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 22 August 1937 – 5 June 1938 |
| Champions | HAŠK (1st title) |
| Matches | 90 |
| Goals | 318 (3.53 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | August Lešnik (17) |
1938–39 → | |
The1937–38 Yugoslav Football Championship officially calledState Championship (Serbo-Croatian andSlovene:Državno prvenstvo;Serbian Cyrillic:Државно првенство), was the 15th season of the mainassociation football competition in theKingdom of Yugoslavia.
The defending champions wereGrađanski Zagreb, who finished third. The season was won by their cross-city rivalsHAŠK. This was their first and only Yugoslav league title before the outbreak ofWorld War II and the club's dissolution in 1945.
Top scorer was Građanski Zagreb'sAugust Lešnik, who scored 17 goals in 16 appearances.
As of June 1938 and end of season
| Team | City | Managers | Ground |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASK | Belgrade |  Hans Bloch | |
| BSK | Beograd |  Sándor Nemes | |
| Concordia | Zagreb | Béla Virág & Božidar Ralić | Stadion Concordije |
| Građanski | Zagreb | Márton Bukovi | Stadion Građanskog |
| Hajduk | Split | Illés Spitz | Stari plac |
| HAŠK | Zagreb | Zoltán Opata | Stadion HAŠK |
| SK Jedinstvo | Belgrade | Branislav Sekulić | Stadion Jedinstva |
| SK Jugoslavija | Belgrade | Božidar Đorđević | Stadion Jugoslavije |
| SK Ljubljana | Ljubljana | Nedeljko Buljević | Stadion ob Tyrševi cesti |
| Slavija | Sarajevo | Branimir Porobić |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GAv | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HAŠK(C) | 18 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 40 | 20 | 2.000 | 26 |
| 2 | BSK | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 45 | 25 | 1.800 | 26 |
| 3 | Građanski Zagreb | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 54 | 23 | 2.348 | 25 |
| 4 | BASK | 18 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 36 | 33 | 1.091 | 18 |
| 5 | Slavija Sarajevo | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 25 | 28 | 0.893 | 18 |
| 6 | SK Jugoslavija | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 26 | 21 | 1.238 | 17 |
| 7 | Hajduk Split | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 31 | 38 | 0.816 | 17 |
| 8 | SK Jedinstvo | 18 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 36 | 0.361 | 12 |
| 9 | SK Ljubljana | 18 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 24 | 42 | 0.571 | 11 |
| 10 | Concordia(R) | 18 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 24 | 52 | 0.462 | 10 |
| Home \ Away | BAS | BSK | CON | GRA | HAJ | HŠK | JED | JUG | LJU | SLA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BASK | 2–4 | 6–0 | 2–5 | 3–3 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 6–2 | 2–0 | |
| BSK | 2–1 | 6–1 | 0–2 | 4–0 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 5–3 | 1–1 | |
| Concordia | 1–1 | 3–0 | 1–6 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 1–3 | |
| Građanski Zagreb | 9–2 | 1–3 | 5–1 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 6–0 | 3–2 | 5–1 | 0–0 | |
| Hajduk Split | 0–1 | 3–1 | 4–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 3–2 | 3–1 | |
| HAŠK | 2–0 | 1–2 | 4–1 | 2–2 | 6–1 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 4–1 | |
| SK Jedinstvo | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–4 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | |
| SK Jugoslavija | 0–4 | 0–0 | 5–1 | 3–1 | 5–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | |
| SK Ljubljana | 0–2 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 2–1 | |
| Slavija Sarajevo | 1–0 | 4–4 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 5–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 |
Champions:HAŠK (Coach:František Koželuh; thenZoltán Opata)[1]
Final goalscoring position, number of goals, player/players and club.[1]