1937–38 Divizia A

Divizia A

Season	1937–38
Champions	Ripensia Timişoara
Matches played	180
Goals scored	699 (3.88 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ludovic Thierjung (22)
Biggest home win	Chinezul 7–0 Petroșani Chinezul 7–0 Brăila Gloria 9–2 Vulturii Textila Ripensia 8–1 Dragoș Vodă Venus 7–0 CFR Brașov
Biggest away win	Dragoș Vodă 0–6 Venus
Highest scoring	Venus 9–3 U Cluj
← 1936–37 1938–39 →

The 1937–38 Divizia A was the twenty-sixth season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania.

Group 1

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Rapid București (A)	18	12	2	4	41	16	25	26	Advances to the final
2	AMEFA Arad	18	12	2	4	48	25	23	26
3	Victoria Cluj	18	10	3	5	40	25	15	23
4	Chinezul Timișoara	18	9	2	7	57	37	20	20
5	Phoenix Baia Mare	18	9	2	7	30	30	0	20
6	Unirea Tricolor București (R)	18	6	6	6	32	36	−4	18	Relegation to Divizia B
7	CA Oradea (R)	18	5	4	9	29	36	−7	14
8	Jiul Petroșani (R)	18	5	4	9	25	43	−18	14
9	Dacia Unirea Brăila (R)	18	4	2	12	21	48	−27	10
10	Olimpia CFR Satu Mare (R)	18	2	5	11	13	40	−27	9

Source: LT
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(A) Advance to a further round; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	AME	CAO	CHI	DUB	JIU	OLI	PHO	RAP	UTB	VCL
AMEF Arad	—	2–0	6–1	6–0	4–2	3–0	4–1	2–1	5–1	2–1
CA Oradea	2–1	—	1–4	4–0	3–1	5–0	1–4	1–2	0–0	1–2
Chinezul Timișoara	1–2	7–3	—	7–0	7–0	6–0	1–1	1–4	6–1	1–3
Dacia Unirea Brăila	4–2	1–2	2–6	—	1–0	1–1	2–3	1–0	1–2	2–2
Jiul Petroșani	1–2	3–3	2–2	3–1	—	1–0	3–1	0–1	4–2	2–1
Olimpia CFR Satu Mare	1–1	1–1	1–2	0–3	0–0	—	4–0	0–0	0–4	4–3
Phoenix Baia Mare	4–2	1–0	0–2	2–1	4–0	3–1	—	2–1	2–0	1–1
Rapid București	3–1	3–1	6–0	3–0	2–0	3–0	1–0	—	1–1	3–5
Unirea Tricolor București	2–2	1–1	3–2	3–1	3–3	2–0	3–0	1–4	—	1–2
Victoria Cluj	0–1	3–0	2–1	2–0	6–0	2–0	3–1	0–3	2–2	—

Source: LT
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Group 2

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Ripensia Timișoara (C)	18	15	0	3	63	25	38	30	Advances to the final
2	Venus București	18	13	3	2	64	16	48	29
3	Gloria Arad	18	9	6	3	41	24	17	24
4	Juventus București	18	7	5	6	30	31	−1	19
5	Sportul Studenţesc București	18	7	4	7	33	34	−1	18
6	Universitatea Cluj (R)	18	7	2	9	33	50	−17	16	Relegation to Divizia B
7	Vulturii Textila Lugoj (R)	18	6	2	10	24	41	−17	14
8	Crișana Oradea (R)	18	5	1	12	23	40	−17	11
9	CFR Brașov (R)	18	4	3	11	26	45	−19	11
10	Dragoș Vodă Cernăuți (R)	18	4	0	14	26	57	−31	8

Source: LT
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	CFB	CRI	DRA	GLA	JUV	RIP	SPO	UCJ	VEN	VUL
CFR Brașov	—	5–0	3–0	1–5	0–1	2–6	1–1	2–2	1–3	0–1
Crișana Oradea	3–1	—	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–2	2–1	4–1	2–3	2–4
Dragoș Vodă Cernăuți	3–4	5–3	—	1–3	2–3	1–3	3–2	2–0	0–6	2–0
Gloria Arad	1–1	1–0	2–0	—	1–1	4–1	3–0	5–0	1–1	9–2
Juventus București	2–0	2–1	4–1	5–1	—	0–2	1–1	4–1	0–2	2–2
Ripensia Timișoara	3–1	3–0	8–1	4–0	5–0	—	3–0	7–1	1–6	3–1
Sportul Studenţesc București	4–2	2–1	3–2	3–0	1–1	3–4	—	4–1	0–0	3–1
Universitatea Cluj	3–1	0–1	3–0	1–1	6–2	2–5	4–1	—	1–0	3–2
Venus București	7–0	5–0	7–2	1–1	3–1	0–1	4–1	9–3	—	5–1
Vulturii Textila Lugoj	0–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	3–2	1–3	0–1	0–2	—

Source: LT
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Final

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rapid București	0–4	Ripensia Timişoara	0–2	0–2

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Ludovic Thierjung	Chinezul Timișoara	22
2	Silviu Bindea	Ripensia Timişoara	21
	Fritz	Gloria Arad
4	Iuliu Bodola	Venus București	18
	Kostas Humis	Venus București
	Adalbert Marksteiner	Ripensia Timişoara

Champion squad

Ripensia Timişoara

Goalkeepers: Dumitru Pavlovici (19 / 0); Vilmos Zombori (1 / 0). Defenders: Rudolf Bürger (17 / 0); Francisc Agner (7 / 0); Vasile Chiroiu (14 / 0); Carol Regdom (2 / 0). Midfielders: Tibor Nagy (16 / 0); Rudolf Kotormány (15 / 2); Gal (15 / 0); Vasile Deheleanu (2 / 0); Schaff (1 / 0). Forwards: Silviu Bindea (18 / 21); Sándor Schwartz (9 / 3); Grațian Sepi (10 / 7); Adalbert Marksteiner (17 / 18); Cornel Lazăr (16 / 2); Ștefan Dobay (20 / 8); Zoltan Beke (7 / 1); Gheorghe Ciolac (6 / 1); Ioan Oprean (8 / 3);. (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) Manager: Sepp Pojar .