1937–38 Yugoslav Football Championship

The 1937–38 Yugoslav Football Championship officially called State Championship (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: Državno prvenstvo; Serbian Cyrillic: Државно првенство), was the 15th season of the main association football competition in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

15th State Championship

Season	1937–38
Dates	22 August 1937 – 5 June 1938
Champions	HAŠK (1st title)
Matches played	90
Goals scored	318 (3.53 per match)
Top goalscorer	August Lešnik (17)
← 1936–37 1938–39 →

The defending champions were Građanski Zagreb, who finished third. The season was won by their cross-city rivals HAŠK. This was their first and only Yugoslav league title before the outbreak of World War II and the club's dissolution in 1945.

Top scorer was Građanski Zagreb's August Lešnik, who scored 17 goals in 16 appearances.

Teams

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

Managerial changes during season

• Hajduk Split – Karel Senecký replaced by Illés Spitz
• SK Jugoslavija – Franjo Giller replaced by Božidar Đorđević
• HAŠK – František Koželuh replaced by Zoltán Opata

League table

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

Source: rsssf.org
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

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

Source: DataSoccer.it
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Winning squad

Champions: HAŠK (Coach: František Koželuh; then Zoltán Opata)^[1]

• GK – Josip Žmara (18)
• GK – Borivoj Konstantinović (18)
• DF – Zeno Golac (18)
• DF – Nikola Pajević (18)
• DF – Ivica Gajer (17/1)
• DF – Stjepan Horvat (17/6)
• DF – Miroslav Pleše (3)
• FW – Ico Hitrec (18/14)
• FW – Ratko Kacian (18/8)
• FW – Milivoj Fink (16/2)
• FW –Nikola Duković (16/1)
• FW – Svetozar Peričić (6/4)
• FW – Ivan Medarić (6)
• FW – Mićel Kokić (6)
• FW – Antun Hrubec (3)

Top scorers

Final goalscoring position, number of goals, player/players and club.^[1]

• 17 goals – August Lešnik (Građanski)
• 14 goals – Ivan Hitrec (HAŠK)
• 13 goals – Blagoje Marjanović (BSK)
• 12 goals - Aleksandar Petrović (Jugoslavija)
• 11 goals – Svetislav Valjarević (BSK)
• 10 goals – Milan Antolković (Građanski)
• 9 goals – Ratomir Čabrić (BASK)
• 8 goals – Ratko Kacian (HAŠK), Aleksandar Tomašević (BASK)

See also

• Yugoslav Cup
• Yugoslav League Championship
• Football Association of Yugoslavia