| Competition: | The Football League |
| Season: | 1937–38 |
| Winners: | Arsenal |
| Prevseason: | 1936–37 |
| Nextseason: | 1938–39 |
The 1937–38 season was the 46th season of The Football League. Manchester City, champions in 1936–37, were relegated, the only time this has happened in the English top flight.
The tables and results below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website[1] and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79,[2] with home and away statistics separated.
Beginning with the season 1894–95, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded), or more properly put, goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals if they had scored more than they had conceded, whereas among teams who had conceded more than they had scored the system favoured teams who scored more. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976–77 season.
From the 1922–23 season, the bottom two teams of both Third Division North and Third Division South were required to apply for re-election.
| Competition: | First Division |
| Season: | 1937–38 |
| Winners: | Arsenal 5th English title |
| Relegated: | Manchester City West Bromwich Albion |
| League Topscorer: | Tommy Lawton (28 goals)[3] |
| Biggest Home Win: | (15 April 1938) |
| Biggest Away Win: | (29 January 1938) |
| Highest Scoring: | (15 April 1938) |
| Matches: | 462 |
| Total Goals: | 1430 |
| Prevseason: | 1936–37 |
| Nextseason: | 1938–39 |
| Competition: | Second Division |
| Season: | 1937–38 |
| Winners: | Aston Villa |
| Promoted: | Aston Villa Manchester United |
| Relegated: | Barnsley Stockport County |
| League Topscorer: | George Henson (27 goals) |
| Biggest Home Win: | (22 January 1938) |
| Biggest Away Win: | (13 November 1937) |
| Highest Scoring: | (1 January 1938) |
| Matches: | 462 |
| Total Goals: | 1346 |
| Prevseason: | 1936–37 |
| Nextseason: | 1938–39 |
| Competition: | Football League Third Division North |
| Season: | 1937–1938 |
| Winners: | Tranmere Rovers (1st title) |
| League Topscorer: | Jack Roberts (Port Vale), 28 |
| Continentalcup2: | Failed re-election |
| Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | None |
| Matches: | 462 |
| Total Goals: | 1401 |
| Nextseason: | 1938–39 |
| Competition: | Football League Third Division South |
| Season: | 1937–1938 |
| Winners: | Millwall (2nd title) |
| League Topscorer: | Harold Crawshaw (Mansfield Town), 25 |
| Continentalcup2: | Failed re-election |
| Matches: | 462 |
| Total Goals: | 1264 |
| Nextseason: | 1938–39 |