1938–39 Czechoslovak First League

Czechoslovak First League
Season 1938–39
Champions

Czech:

Sparta Prague

Slovakia:

ŠK Bratislava

Relegated

Czech:

SK Libeň

Slovakia:

none

Top goalscorer

Czech:

Josef Bican (29 goals)

1939–40 (Czech)
1939–40 (Slovak) →

The 1938–39 Czechoslovak First League, officially the Statni Liga, was the 15th season of the Czechoslovak First League, the first tier of league football in Czechoslovakia.

The championship was won by Sparta Prague, the club's sixth Czechoslovak national championship.[1] Josef Bican was the league's top scorer with 29 goals.[2]

During the season Czechoslovakia experienced considerable political change which resulted in the eventual disestablishment of the country, and thereby the Czechoslovak First League, by the hands of Nazi Germany. In September 1938, through the Munich Agreement, Nazi Germany acquired the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. This was followed by the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939. As a consequence the Gauliga Sudetenland was established for ethnic German clubs while Czech and Slovak clubs competed in their own, separate competitions.[3]

The sole Slovak club in the league,ŠK Bratislava, was removed from the league and joined a new Slovak league, the Slovenská liga, in the newly-independent Slovak Republic. Czech clubs in what was now the German-annexed Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia continued their own league which was variously referred to as the Bohemia/Moravia championship, Národní liga (English: National league) or Česko-moravská liga (English: Bohemian-Moravian league).[1][4][5]

Bohemia and Moravia

The Czechoslovak First League continued its season after annexation by Germany, now with Czech clubs only. For the 1938–39 season Baťa Zlín and SK Libeň had been newly promoted to the league.[5]

PosClubPWDLFAPts
1Sparta Prague201523853032
2Slavia Prague201514863031
3SK Pardubice201325503428
4SK Plzeň20947535322
5Baťa Zlín20938505221
6SK Židenice20668334118
7SK Slezská Ostrava20749293918
8FK Viktoria Žižkov207310566017
9SK Kladno205312357513
10SK Náchod205213375612
11SK Libeň20321531758
League champion Relegated

Slovakia

The Slovenská liga was a new competition, formed after the disestablishment of Czechoslovakia.[5]

PosClubPWDLFAPts
1Sparta Považská Bystrica871034615
2ŠK Bratislava8710301115
3MŠK Žilina8602362012
4SK Rapid Trnava840429188
5ASC Juventus Topolcany840421188
6TTS Trenčín821519315
7AC Spišská Nová Ves820619414
8SK Slávia Prešov811612283
9ZTK Zvolen810714412
League champion Relegated

References

  1. 1 2 "Czechoslovakia - List of Champions". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  2. Jeřábek, Luboš (2007). Český a československý fotbal - lexikon osobností a klubů (in Czech). Prague, Czech Republic: Grada Publishing. p. 231. ISBN 978-80-247-1656-5.
  3. "Where's My Country? Czech clubs in the German football structure 1938-1944". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  4. "Czech Republic - List of Champions". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  5. 1 2 3 "Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic - List of League Tables". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 27 January 2016.

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