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1938–39 Yugoslav Football Championship

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16th State Championship
Season1938–39
Dates7 August 1938 – 30 April 1939
ChampionsBSK (5th title)
Matches played132
Goals scored443 (3.36 per match)
Top goalscorerAugust Lešnik (22)

The 1938–39 Yugoslav Football Championship, officially called State Championship (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: Državno prvenstvo; Serbian Cyrillic: Државно првенство) was the 16th season of the main association football competition in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

The championship was played in a round-robin league format, featuring 12 clubs which qualified either directly or through playoffs organized by various regional football associations. Five out of the previous six national champions took part in this season (with only Concordia Zagreb missing).

The defending champions were HAŠK, who finished fifth. First place was won by BSK from Belgrade, who won their fifth Yugoslav title with 5 points ahead of runners-up Građanski Zagreb. This was BSK's fifth national title, having previously won four in the period from 1931 to 1936, and it proved to be their last before the outbreak of World War II.

Top scorer was August Lešnik, then a 24-year-old seasoned forward for Građanski Zagreb, who scored 22 goals in 19 appearances, including five in a home game against Slavija Sarajevo in April 1939.

Teams

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The national league was expanded from 10 to 12 clubs for the 1938–39 season. The previous season's last place finisher, HŠK Concordia, were relegated, while the other top nine clubs earned an automatic spot in this year's edition.

The remaining three spots were filled with winners of three zonal qualifying playoffs. At the time, football in Yugoslavia was governed by 14 regional sub-federations, usually centered around a major city and named after it. Most of these organized a local championship, with winners entering the qualifying playoff.

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Location of teams in the 1938–39 Yugoslav championship

As of April 1939 and end of season

Team City Managers Ground
BASK Belgrade Kingdom of Yugoslavia Milutin Ivković
BSK Beograd Hungary István Mészáros
Građanski Zagreb Hungary Márton Bukovi Stadion Građanskog
SK Gragjanski Skopje Kingdom of Yugoslavia Dušan Marković
Hajduk Split Hungary Illés Spitz Stari plac
HAŠK Zagreb Hungary Zoltán Opata Stadion HAŠK
SK Jedinstvo Belgrade Kingdom of Yugoslavia Branislav Sekulić Stadion Jedinstva
SK Jugoslavija Belgrade Hungary Gyula Feldmann Stadion Jugoslavije
SK Ljubljana Ljubljana Kingdom of Yugoslavia Nedeljko Buljević Stadion ob Tyrševi cesti
Slavija Sarajevo
Slavija Varaždin Austria Karl Mütsch
SK Zemun Zemun Kingdom of Yugoslavia Hans Šnajder
Managerial changes during season

League

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GAv Pts
1 BSK (C) 22 17 3 2 67 14 4.786 37
2 Građanski Zagreb 22 14 4 4 53 17 3.118 32
3 SK Jugoslavija 22 12 4 6 37 24 1.542 28
4 Hajduk Split 22 11 5 6 51 30 1.700 27
5 HAŠK 22 10 5 7 41 27 1.519 25
6 SK Jedinstvo 22 8 4 10 35 40 0.875 20
7 Slavija Sarajevo 22 7 5 10 34 43 0.791 19
8 BASK 22 6 7 9 27 36 0.750 19
9 SK Ljubljana 22 7 4 11 23 41 0.561 18
10 Građanski Skopje 22 7 2 13 31 57 0.544 16
11 Sparta Zemun 22 5 3 14 21 60 0.350 13
12 Slavija Varaždin 22 4 2 16 23 54 0.426 10
Source: rsssf.org
(C) Champions

Results

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Home \ Away BAS BSK GRS GRZ HAJ HŠK JED JUG LJU SLS SLV SPZ
BASK 0–5 6–2 2–1 3–1 0–0 1–4 3–2 1–1 1–1 3–1 0–1
BSK 2–0 3–1 0–1 2–0 2–2 4–0 1–2 5–0 4–1 9–0 4–0
Građanski Skopje 1–0 1–2 1–4 2–5 3–5 1–1 2–0 2–1 4–1 2–1 1–1
Građanski Zagreb 2–2 1–2 2–1 3–0 1–1 5–0 1–1 6–0 6–0 3–1 4–0
Hajduk Split 3–0 2–2 4–1 0–1 3–1 3–2 3–0 4–0 2–2 5–1 6–0
HAŠK 1–1 0–1 8–0 0–1 1–2 1–5 3–0 2–0 2–1 0–0 2–0
SK Jedinstvo 3–3 0–4 1–2 0–2 1–1 2–1 1–2 4–1 2–2 1–0 3–0
SK Jugoslavija 1–0 1–1 2–0 2–1 1–0 0–2 0–1 2–0 3–0 0–0 7–0
SK Ljubljana 2–0 1–2 1–2 0–0 2–1 2–0 2–0 0–0 0–0 3–1 3–2
Slavija Sarajevo 3–0 1–2 3–2 2–1 1–2 1–2 3–1 2–4 2–0 3–1 3–1
Slavija Varaždin 0–0 0–5 2–0 2–4 1–1 1–2 1–3 3–4 3–1 2–1 2–3
Sparta Zemun 0–1 0–5 4–1 0–3 3–3 1–5 1–0 0–3 2–3 1–1 1–0
Source: DataSoccer.it
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Winning squad

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Champions:

BSK Beograd (manager: Sándor Nemes; then István Mészáros)[1]

Top scorers

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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "1938–39 Yugoslavia". Ex-Yu Fudbal. Archived from the original on 13 January 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
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