1937–38 Serie B

Serie B

Season	1937–38
Champions	Novara 2nd title
← 1936–37 1938–39 →

Alessandria

Anconitana

Brescia

Cremonese

Messina

Modena

Novara

Padova

Pisa

Palermo

P. Vercelli

Sanremese

Spezia

Taranto

Venezia

Verona

Vigevano

Serie B 1937-38 team distribution

The Serie B 1937–38 was the ninth tournament of this competition played in Italy since its creation.

Teams

Sanremese, Vigevano, Padova, Anconitana and Taranto had been promoted from Serie C, while Novara and Alessandria had been relegated from Serie A.

Events

The league was expanded to seventeen clubs to allow a wider representation of Southern Italy.

Final classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Novara (P, C)	32	16	11	5	57	23	2.478	43	Serie A after tie-breaker
1	Modena (P)	32	18	7	7	54	32	1.688	43
3	Alessandria	32	18	7	7	62	34	1.824	43	Promotion tie-breaker
4	Padova	32	18	4	10	49	33	1.485	40
5	Anconitana	32	15	8	9	44	31	1.419	38
6	Pisa	32	15	7	10	54	51	1.059	37
7	Palermo	32	15	5	12	46	43	1.070	35
7	Venezia	32	13	9	10	49	47	1.043	35
9	Sanremese	32	13	8	11	42	37	1.135	34
10	Verona	32	12	9	11	37	31	1.194	33
11	Pro Vercelli	32	13	6	13	54	40	1.350	32
12	Vigevano	32	9	12	11	33	39	0.846	30
13	Spezia	32	9	8	15	34	47	0.723	26
14	Brescia (R)	32	7	7	18	30	47	0.638	21	Relegation to Serie C
14	Cremonese (R)	32	6	9	17	28	50	0.560	21
16	Taranto (R)	32	6	6	20	24	64	0.375	18
17	Messina (R)	32	4	7	21	27	75	0.360	14

Source: Panini
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Results

Home \ Away	ALE	ANC	BRE	CRE	MES	MOD	NOV	PAD	PAL	PIS	PVE	SNR	SPE	TAR	VEN	HEL	VIG
Alessandria		2–2	4–1	6–1	5–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	4–0	2–1	3–1	4–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	3–1
Anconitana	1–0		2–1	0–0	4–0	1–3	0–0	2–0	1–2	1–0	0–1	1–1	3–1	7–0	1–1	0–0	0–1
Brescia	1–2	1–0		1–1	4–0	2–2	0–2	0–2	1–1	1–3	1–0	0–2	2–1	3–2	2–4	0–2	3–1
Cremonese	1–4	3–1	0–0		5–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–2	3–1	2–2	1–1	1–2	1–0	0–2	0–0	0–2
Messina	1–2	0–2	0–0	3–2		0–1	1–3	0–1	1–2	3–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	5–3	2–4	1–1	0–0
Modena	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–1	3–2		3–0	3–1	4–0	2–0	2–0	1–2	3–2	2–1	0–0	2–1	3–0
Novara	1–1	4–0	2–0	1–0	4–1	4–1		2–0	3–2	2–0	0–1	6–0	2–0	5–0	1–1	4–0	1–1
Padova	2–0	1–0	1–0	3–1	2–0	3–2	1–1		5–1	5–1	0–2	2–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	7–2
Palermo	1–1	0–2	1–1	2–0	2–0	0–2	1–1	3–0		7–3	2–0	3–0	2–1	4–2	3–0	1–0	0–0
Pisa	2–0	5–0	1–0	3–0	2–0	2–2	2–0	0–0	1–0		4–2	3–1	3–1	3–0	3–1	1–0	2–2
Pro Vercelli	1–2	0–2	2–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–3	0–0	0–1	9–0		1–0	4–2	7–0	5–1	2–1	1–1
Sanremese	5–0	0–1	1–1	4–0	4–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	3–1	2–1	1–1		0–0	2–0	1–0	1–3	1–0
Spezia	1–1	2–3	0–1	1–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–1		1–1	1–1	2–1	0–2
Taranto	0–4	0–2	1–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	2–2	1–3	1–0	0–0	1–2	1–0	1–2		1–1	0–1	2–2
Venezia	1–3	0–2	1–0	2–2	3–1	1–3	1–0	3–1	1–0	3–3	3–1	1–3	5–3	1–0		2–0	3–0
Hellas Verona	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–1	6–0	2–1	2–1	1–1	3–1	1–1	1–2	2–0	3–0	1–0	0–0		1–1
Vigevano	1–1	0–1	2–1	3–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	0–1	1–2	2–1	0–0	2–0	0–1	3–1	0–0

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 (in Italian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion tie-breaker

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Alessandria	0–3	Modena
Alessandria	2–3	Novara

The match Modena-Novara was not played because it wouldn't have influenced the verdict. Modena and Novara were both awarded champions and promoted to Serie A.

References and sources

• Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005