1938 in Brazilian football explained

Country:	Brazil
Soccer:	no
Season:	1938
Prevseason:	1937
Nextseason:	1939
Flagicon:	yes

The following article presents a summary of the 1938 football (soccer) season in Brazil, which was the 37th season of competitive football in the country.

Campeonato Paulista

Final Standings

Position	Team	Points	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
1	Corinthians	17	10	7	3	0	19	8	11
2	São Paulo	14	10	6	2	2	30	13	17
3	Portuguesa Santista	13	10	6	1	3	22	13	9
4	Palestra Itália-SP	12	10	5	2	3	21	22	-1\|-!5\|Juventus\|9\|10\|4\|1\|5\|14\|15\|-1
6	Santos	9	10	4	1	5	22	18	4
7	Portuguesa	8	10	4	0	6	20	18	2
8	Hespanha	8	10	4	0	6	15	18	-3\|-!9\|São Paulo Railway\|8\|10\|3\|2\|5\|19\|23\|-4
10	Ypiranga-SP	7	10	4	0	6	15	23	-8\|-!11\|Luzitano\|4\|10\|2\|0\|8\|12\|38\|-26

Corinthians declared as the Campeonato Paulista champions.

State championship champions

State

Champion

State

Champion

Acre

-||Paraíba|Botafogo-PB|-|Alagoas|CRB||Paraná|Ferroviário-PR|-|Amapá|-||Pernambuco|Sport Recife|-|Amazonas|Rio Negro||Piauí|-|-|Bahia|Bahia
Botafogo-BA⁽¹⁾||Rio de Janeiro|Fluminense de Niterói|-|Ceará|Fortaleza||Rio de Janeiro (DF)|Fluminense|-|Espírito Santo|Rio Branco-ES||Rio Grande do Norte|ABC|-|Goiás|-||Rio Grande do Sul|Guarany de Bagé|-|Maranhão|Tupan||Rondônia|-

Mato Grosso

-||Santa Catarina|CIP|-|Minas Gerais|Atlético Mineiro||São Paulo|Corinthians|-|Pará|Tuna Luso||Sergipe|not disputed|}

⁽¹⁾In 1938, two different Bahia State Championship competitions were contested. Bahia won one of the competitions while Botafogo-BA won the other.

Brazil national team

The following table lists all the games played by the Brazil national football team in official competitions and friendly matches during 1938.

width=12%	Date	width=12%	Opposition	width=1%	Result	width=7%	Score	width=26%	Brazil scorers	width=18%	Competition
June 5, 1938		W	6-5	Leônidas da Silva (3), Romeu Pellicciari, Perácio (2)	World Cup
June 12, 1938		D	1-1	Leônidas da Silva	World Cup
June 14, 1938		W	2-1	Leônidas da Silva, Roberto	World Cup
June 16, 1938		L	1-2	Romeu Pellicciari	World Cup
June 19, 1938		W	4-2	Leônidas da Silva (2), Romeu Pellicciari, Perácio	World Cup

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