1937–38 in English football

none July 2020 July 2020 England 1937–38 Football League Arsenal Football League Second Division Aston Villa FA Cup Preston North End 1936–37 1938–39 yes The 1937–38 season was the 63rd season of competitive football in England. Overview Manchester City became the only team to have been relegated in the season after winning the league title as well as the only team to ever be relegated from the top tier of English football having scored the most goals in that particular season.Worst title defences https://www.talksport.com/magazine/features/121205/six-worst-title-defences-chelsea-man-city-blackburn-and-more-186844%3Famp Talksport 2016-11-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20161231080808/https://talksport.com/magazine/features/121205/six-worst-title-defences-chelsea-man-city-blackburn-and-more-186844%3Famp 2016-12-31 dead The points spread between the league champions, Arsenal, and the team that finished bottom of the league, West Bromwich Albion, was a mere 16 points.July 2020 Arsenal won the title (the club's fifth) on the final day of the season with a mere 52 points from 42 matches after beating Bolton Wanderers 5–0 at Highbury, while the table leaders after the penultimate round of fixtures, Wolverhampton Wanderers, lost 1–0 to 10-man Sunderland at Roker Park to be denied their first league title.The craziest season in English football – when the champions went down, and 'Lucky Arsenal' annoyed the nation https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/craziest-season-english-football-when-champions-went-down-and-lucky-arsenal-annoyed-nation#lj6bK0itWFYpF6rP.99 FourFourTwo 2018-08-05 Wolves, who finished as runners-up for the first time in their history, had to wait until 1953–54 to win their first English league title, although by that time they had once again been pipped to the title late in the season – by Liverpool in 1946-47.July 2020 Honours CompetitionWinnerRunner-upFirst DivisionArsenal (5)Wolverhampton WanderersSecond DivisionAston VillaManchester UnitedThird Division NorthTranmere RoversDoncaster RoversThird Division SouthMillwallBristol CityFA CupPreston North End (2)Huddersfield TownCharity ShieldManchester CitySunderlandHome ChampionshipENGSCO Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition Football League 1937–38 Football League First Division y First Division Second Division y Second Division Third Division North y Third Division North Third Division South y Third Division South Top goalscorers First Division Tommy Lawton (Everton) – 28 goalshttps://www.rsssf.org/tablese/engtops.html English League Leading Goalscorers RSSSF 2017-08-30 Second Division George Henson (Bradford Park Avenue) – 27 goals Third Division North Jack Roberts (Port Vale) – 28 goalshttps://www.rsssf.org/tablese/engtops.html English League Leading Goalscorers RSSSF 2017-08-30 Third Division South Harold Crawshaw (Mansfield Town) – 25 goals National team A tour to central Europe was successful as the England squad comprehensively beat Germany in front of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels in Berlin as well as defeating France in Paris. However, between these successes was another defeat; to Switzerland. The tour was considered very controversial as the players were instructed to give the German leaders the Nazi salute during the anthems before the kick-off of the match in Berlin. European tour 14 May 1938 GER 1935 3–6 ENG Rudi Gellesch, Jupp Gauchel, Hans Pesser Jackie Robinson 2, Cliff Bastin, Frank Broome, Stanley Matthews, Len Goulden Olympiastadion, Berlin 21 May 1938 SUI 2–1 ENG André Abegglen, Georges Aeby Cliff Bastin (P) Hardturm, Zürich 26 May 1938 FRA 2–4 ENG Auguste Jordan, Jean Nicolas Ted Drake 2, Frank Broome, Cliff Bastin (P) Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Paris References 1937 no:Engelsk 1. divisjon 1937–38