Qualified as hosts: France
Qualified as holders: Italy
Group 1 [Germany, Sweden]
16.06.37 Stockholm Sweden 4-0 Finland 1.GERMANY 3 3 0 0 11- 1 6
20.06.37 Stockholm Sweden 7-2 Estonia 2.SWEDEN 3 2 0 1 11- 7 4
29.06.37 Helsinki Finland 0-2 Germany 3.Estonia 3 1 0 2 4-11 2
19.08.37 Turku Finland 0-1 Estonia 4.Finland 3 0 0 3 0- 7 0
29.08.37 Königsberg Germany 4-1 Estonia
21.11.37 Hamburg Germany 5-0 Sweden
Group 2 [Norway]
10.10.37 Oslo Norway 3-2 Ireland
07.11.37 Dublin Ireland 3-3 Norway
Group 3 [Poland]
10.10.37 Warszawa Poland 4-0 Yugoslavia
03.04.38 Beograd Yugoslavia 1-0 Poland
Group 4 [Romania]
Egypt withdrew, Romania had a walkover.
Group 5 [Switzerland]
01.05.38 Milano Switzerland 2-1 Portugal
Group 6 [Hungary]
1st round
22.01.38 Tel Aviv Palestina 1-3 Greece
20.02.38 Athinai Greece 1-0 Palestina
2nd round
25.03.38 Budapest Hungary 11-1 Greece
Group 7 [Czechoslovakia]
07.11.37 Sofia Bulgaria 1-1 Czechoslovakia
24.04.38 Praha Czechoslovakia 6-0 Bulgaria
Group 8 [Austria]
1st round
29.07.37 Riga Latvia 4-2 Lithuania
03.09.37 Kaunas Lithuania 1-5 Latvia
2nd round
05.10.37 Wien Austria 2-1 Latvia
Group 9 [Netherlands, Belgium]
28.11.37 Rotterdam Netherlands 4-0 Luxembourg
13.03.38 Luxembourg Luxembourg 2-3 Belgium
03.04.38 Antwerpen Belgium 1-1 Netherlands
Group 10 [Brazil]
Argentina withdrew, Brazil had a walkover.
Group 11 [Cuba]
Subgroup A
Mexico and USA withdrew.
Subgroup B
A tournament was announced for the second half of April 1938 between
Cuba, Colombia, Costa Rica and El Salvador, in a knock-out format
with each tie decided over three legs. Surinam (Dutch Guyana) were
excluded on 9 April 1938 for allegedly having not replied to
correspondence from the organisers, a decision against which Surinam
successfully protested. Later in April 1938, Colombia and El Salvador
withdrew, and a triangular tournament between Cuba, Costa Rica and
Surinam was to be played in Havana, from which Surinam withdrew for
financial reasons (requesting instead to play the match against the
Dutch East Indies for which the USA had meanwhile withdrawn, but this
was refused by the FIFA), and Costa Rica withdrew as well.
Cuba had a walkover.
Group 12 [Dutch East Indies]
Tie was to be decided over one match in Saigon in January 1938.
Japan withdrew, Dutch East Indies had a walkover.
NB: after Japan's withdrawal, FIFA ruled that the Dutch East Indies had to
play off against the USA for a place in the final tournament.
The match was scheduled for 26 May 1938 (Ascension Day) in Rotterdam
(Netherlands) but the USA withdrew at the end of April for financial
reasons (they had hoped to finance the trip to Europe with the profits
of a match against an English team on the occasion of the silver jubilee
of the American federation, but the English cancelled the match refusing
to play on a Sunday) and the Dutch Indies qualified by walkover.
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