1938–39 Yugoslav Football Championship
| Season | 1938–39 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 7 August 1938 – 30 April 1939 |
| Champions | BSK (5th title) |
| Matches played | 132 |
| Goals scored | 443 (3.36 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | August Lešnik (22) |
← 1937–38 1939–40 → | |
The 1938–39 Yugoslav Football Championship, officially called State Championship (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: Državno prvenstvo; Serbian Cyrillic: Државно првенство) was the 16th season of the main association football competition in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
The championship was played in a round-robin league format, featuring 12 clubs which qualified either directly or through playoffs organized by various regional football associations. Five out of the previous six national champions took part in this season (with only Concordia Zagreb missing).
The defending champions were HAŠK, who finished fifth. First place was won by BSK from Belgrade, who won their fifth Yugoslav title with 5 points ahead of runners-up Građanski Zagreb. This was BSK's fifth national title, having previously won four in the period from 1931 to 1936, and it proved to be their last before the outbreak of World War II.
Top scorer was August Lešnik, then a 24-year-old seasoned forward for Građanski Zagreb, who scored 22 goals in 19 appearances, including five in a home game against Slavija Sarajevo in April 1939.