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Czechoslovak First League
Season	1938–39
Dates	21 August 1938 – 11 June 1939
Champions	Czech: Sparta Prague; Slovakia: ŠK Bratislava;
Relegated	Czech: SK Libeň; Slovakia: none;
Top goalscorer	Czech: Josef Bican (29 goals)
	← 1937–38 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]

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts
1	Sparta Prague (C)	20	15	2	3	85	30	2.833	32
2	Slavia Prague	20	15	1	4	86	30	2.867	31
3	SK Pardubice	20	13	2	5	50	34	1.471	28
4	SK Plzeň	20	9	4	7	53	53	1.000	22
5	Baťa Zlín	20	9	3	8	50	52	0.962	21
6	SK Židenice	20	6	6	8	33	41	0.805	18
7	Slezská Ostrava	20	7	4	9	29	39	0.744	18
8	Viktoria Žižkov	20	7	3	10	56	60	0.933	17
9	SK Kladno	20	5	3	12	35	75	0.467	13
10	SK Náchod	20	5	2	13	37	56	0.661	12
11	SK Libeň (R)	20	3	2	15	31	75	0.413	8

Source: ^[5]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ZLÍ	KLA	LIB	NÁC	PAR	PLZ	ŽID	SLA	OST	SPA	VŽI
Baťa Zlín		3–4	4–3	0–2	6–2	2–0	2–1	2–0	3–1	2–5	5–3
SK Kladno	2–2		3–2	2–1	0–1	5–2	2–2	0–10	1–1	2–5	3–1
SK Libeň	1–3	3–2		0–3	1–4	1–3	1–2	2–9	0–1	0–3	5–3
SK Náchod	5–1	6–1	5–2		0–1	2–4	1–3	1–3	2–2	0–4	2–3
SK Pardubice	5–1	4–1	2–0	5–1		5–1	2–2	1–0	2–1	2–3	3–1
SK Plzeň	3–3	10–1	2–1	5–1	2–2		2–1	1–0	4–1	1–4	4–6
SK Židenice	4–1	4–0	2–2	1–1	1–0	1–2		0–0	3–2	2–7	0–6
Slavia Prague	4–1	6–3	10–1	5–2	3–0	10–1	4–1		4–2	0–5	6–4
Slezská Ostrava	1–1	5–1	1–1	2–1	1–3	2–1	1–0	1–3		1–0	2–1
Sparta Prague	4–3	4–1	11–2	8–1	8–3	2–2	3–1	0–1	5–0		4–4
Viktoria Žižkov	2–5	3–1	2–3	4–0	1–3	3–3	2–2	2–8	3–1	2–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Slovakia

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

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts
1	Sparta Považská Bystrica (C)	8	7	1	0	34	6	5.667	15
2	ŠK Bratislava	8	7	1	0	30	11	2.727	15
3	MŠK Žilina	8	6	0	2	36	20	1.800	12
4	Rapid Trnava	8	4	0	4	29	18	1.611	8
5	Juventus Topoľčany	8	4	0	4	21	18	1.167	8
6	TTS Trenčín	8	2	1	5	19	31	0.613	5
7	Spišská Nová Ves	8	2	0	6	19	41	0.463	4
8	Slávia Prešov	8	1	1	6	12	28	0.429	3
9	ZTK Zvolen	8	1	0	7	14	41	0.341	2

Source: ^[5]
(C) Champions

References

^ ^a ^b "Czechoslovakia - List of Champions". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
^ 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.
^ "Where's My Country? Czech clubs in the German football structure 1938-1944". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
^ "Czech Republic - List of Champions". Rsssf.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic - List of League Tables". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 27 January 2016.