1937–38 Serie A

Serie A
Season	1937–38
Champions	Ambrosiana-Inter; 4th title
Relegated	Atalanta; Fiorentina
Matches played	240
Goals scored	617 (2.57 per match)
Top goalscorer	Giuseppe Meazza; (20 goals)
	← 1936–37 1938–39 →

The 1937-38 Serie A was the thirty-eighth edition of the Italian Football Championship and its ninth since 1929 re-branding to create Serie A. It was the fifteenth season from which the Italian Football Champions adorned their team jerseys in the subsequent season with a Scudetto. Ambrosiana-Inter were champions for the fourth time in their history. This was their second scudetto since the scudetto started being awarded in 1924 and their second win contested as Serie A. This was the first of two Inter punctuations of a run of four Bologna wins from six consecutive Serie A competitions until 1941.

Teams

Livorno and Atalanta had been promoted from Serie B.

Final classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Ambrosiana-Inter (C)	30	16	9	5	57	28	+29	41	1938 Mitropa Cup
2	Juventus	30	14	11	5	43	22	+21	39	1938 Mitropa Cup
3	Genova 1893	30	15	8	7	50	35	+15	38
4	Milan	30	13	12	5	43	27	+16	38
5	Bologna	30	14	9	7	46	34	+12	37
6	Triestina	30	12	12	6	35	22	+13	36
6	Roma	30	14	8	8	44	31	+13	36
8	Lazio	30	11	10	9	48	30	+18	32
8	Torino	30	12	8	10	39	37	+2	32
10	Napoli	30	8	12	10	37	39	−2	28
11	Liguria	30	8	8	14	33	42	−9	24
11	Livorno	30	8	8	14	29	45	−16	24
13	Bari	30	8	7	15	35	60	−25	23
14	Lucchese	30	5	11	14	28	55	−27	21
15	Atalanta (R)	30	4	8	18	22	50	−28	16	Relegation to Serie B
16	Fiorentina (R)	30	3	9	18	28	60	−32	15	Relegation to Serie B

Source: Panini. Genoa 3rd by draw.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	AMB	ATA	BAR	BOL	FIO	GEN	JUV	LAZ	LIG	LIV	LUC	MIL	NAP	ROM	TOR	TRI
Ambrosiana-Inter		1–0	9–2	2–0	5–1	0–0	2–1	3–1	2–1	3–1	4–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–2
Atalanta	1–1		0–0	1–2	1–1	3–4	0–1	0–0	2–0	1–3	1–0	0–0	2–0	0–2	2–1	0–3
Bari	0–2	2–1		0–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	5–1	0–0	1–1	2–1	2–3	3–1	2–0	0–0	0–0
Bologna	1–0	2–1	4–1		0–0	2–2	0–0	0–2	3–2	5–1	3–0	2–2	3–2	2–0	2–0	0–0
Fiorentina	0–3	4–0	1–1	2–1		1–2	1–1	1–1	3–1	1–2	0–0	0–1	1–3	1–4	1–2	2–2
Genova 1893	1–1	0–0	4–1	1–3	1–0		1–2	2–1	0–2	4–1	3–0	0–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–2
Juventus	2–1	5–0	3–1	0–0	5–2	1–2		1–1	0–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	3–0	2–0
Lazio	1–3	4–0	3–1	2–0	5–0	2–1	1–1		3–0	3–0	3–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	6–0	2–1
Liguria	3–1	2–1	5–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	1–3	2–1		1–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	0–3	1–2
Livorno	0–0	1–1	1–0	3–2	1–1	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–3		2–1	1–2	1–0	0–2	1–1	0–1
Lucchese	3–3	3–2	2–1	3–3	2–1	0–4	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1		1–1	2–2	2–0	2–2	1–0
Milan	1–0	3–0	5–1	0–1	3–1	2–2	1–1	2–2	2–1	1–0	4–0		3–1	1–0	0–1	0–0
Napoli	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	3–0	2–2	1–1	1–0	3–2	1–1	2–1	1–1		2–2	1–1	3–0
Roma	1–1	2–1	3–2	0–1	4–0	1–3	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	5–0	3–1	2–1		2–1	1–1
Torino	1–1	2–1	2–4	3–1	2–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	3–0	4–1	3–2	0–0	0–0	3–1		1–0
Triestina	1–1	0–0	6–0	3–1	2–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	0–2	0–0	0–0	3–0	0–0	1–0

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 (in Italian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Giuseppe Meazza	Ambrosiana-Inter	20
2	Guglielmo Trevisan	Triestina	18
3	Danilo Michelini	Roma	16
3	Aldo Boffi	Milan	16
5	Carlo Reguzzoni	Bologna	15
5	Silvio Piola	Lazio	15
7	Pietro Ferraris	Ambrosiana-Inter	14
8	Umberto Busani	Lazio	12
9	Bruno Maini	Bologna	11
9	Luciano Peretti	Liguria	11
11	Ermes Borsetti	Roma	10
12	Pietro Arcari	Genova 1893	9
	Giovanni Ferrari	Ambrosiana-Inter
	Angelo Bollano	Liguria

References and sources

Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005

External links

[1] - All results on RSSSF Website.

Serie A seasons
Prima Categoria	1897–98 1898–99 1899–1900 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 FIGC
Prima Divisione	1921–22 CCI 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26
Divisione Nazionale	1926–27 1927–28 1928–29
Serie A	1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43
Divisione Nazionale	1943–44 1944–45 1945–46
Serie A	1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25 2025–26
Wartime tournaments: 1916 Coppa Federale 1944 Alta Italia

1937–38 in European football
« 1936–37 1938–39 »
Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark England Estonia Finland '37 '38 France Germany (Finals) Greece Hungary Iceland '37 '38 Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Palestine Poland '37 '38 Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '37 '38 Sweden Switzerland Turkey (National Division '37 '38) Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Austria Bulgaria '38 Cyprus England France Germany '37 '38 Italy Latvia '37 '38 Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '37 '38 Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union '37 '38 Switzerland Wales
International competitions	Mitropa Cup '37 '38