| Competition: | 15th State Championship |
| Season: | 1937–38 |
| Dates: | 22 August 1937 – 5 June 1938 |
| Winners: | HAŠK (1st title) |
| League Topscorer: | August Lešnik (17) |
| Matches: | 90 |
| Total Goals: | 318 |
| Prevseason: | 1936–37 |
| Nextseason: | 1938–39 |
The 1937–38 Yugoslav Football Championship officially called State Championship (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: Državno prvenstvo; Serbian: Државно првенство), was the 15th season of the main association football competition in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
The defending champions were Građanski Zagreb, who finished third. The season was won by their cross-city rivals HAŠK. This was their first and only Yugoslav league title before the outbreak of World War II and the club's dissolution in 1945.
Top scorer was Građanski Zagreb's August Lešnik, who scored 17 goals in 16 appearances.
As of June 1938 and end of season
| Team | City | Managers | Ground |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASK | Belgrade |  | |
| BSK | Beograd |  | |
| Concordia | Zagreb | & Božidar Ralić | Stadion Concordije |
| Građanski | Zagreb | | Stadion Građanskog |
| Hajduk | Split | | Stari plac |
| HAŠK | Zagreb | | Stadion HAŠK |
| SK Jedinstvo | Belgrade | Stadion Jedinstva | |
| SK Jugoslavija | Belgrade | Stadion Jugoslavije | |
| SK Ljubljana | Ljubljana | Stadion ob Tyrševi cesti | |
| Slavija | Sarajevo | ||
Champions:HAŠK (Coach: František Koželuh; then Zoltán Opata)[1]
Final goalscoring position, number of goals, player/players and club.[1]