The 1937âÂÂ38 season was the 63rd season of competitive football in England.
Manchester City became the only team to have been relegated in the season after winning the league title as well as the only team to ever be relegated from the top tier of English football having scored the most goals in that particular season.
The points spread between the league champions, Arsenal, and the team that finished bottom of the league, West Bromwich Albion, was a mere 16 points.
Arsenal won the title (the club's fifth) on the final day of the season with a mere 52 points from 42 matches after beating Bolton Wanderers 5âÂÂ0 at Highbury, while the table leaders after the penultimate round of fixtures, Wolverhampton Wanderers, lost 1âÂÂ0 to 10-man Sunderland at Roker Park to be denied their first league title. Wolves, who finished as runners-up for the first time in their history, had to wait until 1953âÂÂ54 to win their first English league title, although by that time they had once again been pipped to the title late in the season â by Liverpool in 1946-47.
<small>Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition</small>
First Division
Second Division
Third Division North
Third Division South
A tour to central Europe was successful as the England squad comprehensively beat Germany in front of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels in Berlin as well as defeating France in Paris. However, between these successes was another defeat; to Switzerland. The tour was considered very controversial as the players were instructed to give the German leaders the Nazi salute during the anthems before the kick-off of the match in Berlin.