1938 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR

The 1938 Football Championship of UkrSSR were part of the 1938 Soviet republican football competitions in the Soviet Ukraine. In 1938 the All-Union level went through major changes when there was formed one "Super League" which many "teams of masters" from Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv lost their status.

The defending champions were Spartak Dnipropetrovsk.

Persha Hrupa
Promoted: Relegated: Stal Kostiantynivka, Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
 * (Druha Hrupa) Dzerzhynets Voroshylovhrad, Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk, Stal Kryvyi Rih
 * (debut) Kharchovyk Odesa, Dynamo-2 Kyiv, Lokomotyv Kharkiv

Replaced: Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv and Sudnobudivnyk-2 Mykolaiv → Dynamo Mykolaiv

Druha Hrupa
Promoted: Stal Voroshylovsk (Tretia Hrupa), Kharchovyk Tyraspol (Tretia Hrupa), Avanhard Druzhkivka (Hrupa Pyat A)

Stakhanovets Sergo withdrew before the start

Tretia Hrupa
All lower groups were restructured and groups below the 3rd were consolidated into Tretia Hrupa.

Promoted:
 * (whole Chetverta Hrupa except Shostka) Stal Makiivka, Berdychiv, Ordzhonikidze, Konotop, Sumy, Kremenchuk, Chystiakove
 * (whole Hrupa Pyat A except Mariupol) Voznesensk, Berdyansk, Starobilsk, Krasnyi Luch, Kirovo, Sloviansk
 * (whole Hrupa Pyat B except Rubizhne) Stakhanovets Krasnoarmiysk, Novohrad-Volynskyi, Korosten, Synelnykove, Uman, Koziatyn, Melitopol
 * (returning) Artemivsk
 * (debut) Smila, z-d im. Lenina Verkhniy, Stakhanovets Lysychansk, Lokomotyv Lozova

Zone 1 (East)

 * Subgroup A


 * Subgroup B


 * Berdyansk excluded


 * Zone 1 final
 * Krasnyi Luch — Melitopol 3:0

Zone 2 (West)

 * Subgroup A


 * Subgroup B


 * Koziatyn excluded
 * Zone 2 final
 * Mohyliv-Podilskyi — Berdychiv 1:0

Zone 3 (Centre)

 * Subgroup A


 * Kremenchuk was excluded for no show to matches with Kherson and Voznesensk.


 * Subgroup B


 * Zone 3 final
 * Poltava — Znannia Kherson 3:2

Zone 4 (East)

 * Subgroup A


 * Subgroup B


 * Zone 4 final
 * z-d im. Lenina Verkhniy — Lokomotyv Lozova ?:?

Ukrainian clubs at the All-Union level

 * Group A (6): Dynamo Kyiv, Dynamo Odesa, Stakhanovets Stalino, Silmash Kharkiv, Lokomotyv Kyiv, Spartak Kharkiv

Withdrawn

 * (all-Union level) Stal (z-d im. Lenina) Dnipropetrovsk (1936), Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk (1937), Stal (z-d im. Petrovskoho) Dnipropetrovsk (1937), Lokomotyv Dnipropetrovsk (1937), Traktor Kharkiv (1937), Dynamo Kharkiv (1937), Spartak Kyiv (1937)
 * (Republican) UDKA Kiev (1936), z-d im. Stalina Stalino (1936), z-d KinAp Odesa (1936), Stalinets Kharkiv (1937), Vympel Kyiv (1937), Sudnobudivnyk-2 Mykolaiv (1937), Stakhanovets Serho (1937), Mariupol (1937), Rubizhne (1937), Stalinets Kharkiv (1937), Shostka (1937)