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:

Dzerzhynets Voroshylovhrad, Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk, Stal Kryvyi Rih
Kharchovyk Odesa, Dynamo-2 Kyiv, Lokomotyv Kharkiv

Relegated: Stal Kostiantynivka, Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv

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

Druha Hrupa

Promoted: Stal Voroshylovsk, Kharchovyk Tyraspol, Avanhard Druzhkivka
Stakhanovets Sergo withdrew before the start

Tretia Hrupa

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

Promoted:

Stal Makiivka, Berdychiv, Ordzhonikidze, Konotop, Sumy, Kremenchuk, Chystiakove
Voznesensk, Berdyansk, Starobilsk, Krasnyi Luch, Kirovo, Sloviansk
Stakhanovets Krasnoarmiysk, Novohrad-Volynskyi, Korosten, Synelnykove, Uman, Koziatyn, Melitopol
Artemivsk
Smila, z-d im. Lenina Verkhniy, Stakhanovets Lysychansk, Lokomotyv Lozova

Zone 1 (East)

;Subgroup A
;Subgroup B

Berdyansk excluded

;Zone 1 finalKrasnyi Luch — Melitopol 3:0

Zone 2 (West)

;Subgroup A
;Subgroup B

Koziatyn excluded

;Zone 2 finalMohyliv-Podilskyi — Berdychiv 1:0

Zone 3 (Centre)

;Subgroup A

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

;Subgroup B

	Team	1	2	3	4
1	Poltava		3:1
?	Konotop
?	Sumy
?	Smila

;Zone 3 finalPoltava — 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 : Dynamo Kyiv, Dynamo Odesa, Stakhanovets Stalino, Silmash Kharkiv, Lokomotyv Kyiv, Spartak Kharkiv

Withdrawn

Stal Dnipropetrovsk, Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk, Stal Dnipropetrovsk, Lokomotyv Dnipropetrovsk, Traktor Kharkiv, Dynamo Kharkiv, Spartak Kyiv
UDKA Kiev, z-d im. Stalina Stalino, z-d KinAp Odesa, Stalinets Kharkiv, Vympel Kyiv, Sudnobudivnyk-2 Mykolaiv, Stakhanovets Serho, Mariupol, Rubizhne, Stalinets Kharkiv, Shostka