1979–80 Primeira Divisão

Statistics of Portuguese Liga in the 197980 season.

Primeira Liga
Season1979-80
ChampionsSporting CP
15th title
Matches played240
Goals scored600 (2.5 per match)

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and Sporting Clube de Portugal won the championship.

League standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Sporting CP (C) 30 24 4 2 67 17 +50 52 Qualification to European Cup first round
2 Porto 30 22 6 2 59 9 +50 50 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
3 Benfica 30 19 7 4 79 21 +58 45 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup preliminary round[lower-alpha 1]
4 Boavista 30 15 7 8 44 30 +14 37 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
5 Belenenses 30 13 8 9 33 38 5 34
6 Vitória de Guimarães 30 11 10 9 42 38 +4 32
7 Espinho 30 11 6 13 29 42 13 28
8 Portimonense 30 10 6 14 32 49 17 26
9 Braga 30 10 6 14 34 40 6 26
10 Varzim 30 8 10 12 37 45 8 26
11 Marítimo 30 9 8 13 25 37 12 26
12 Vitória de Setúbal 30 9 5 16 29 41 12 23
13 União de Leiria (R) 30 6 9 15 26 49 23 21 Relegation to Segunda Divisão
14 Estoril (R) 30 5 11 14 18 37 19 21
15 Beira-Mar (R) 30 5 10 15 24 46 22 20
16 Rio Ave (R) 30 5 3 22 22 61 39 13
Source: RSSSF[1] and footballzz.co.uk[2]
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.
Notes:
  1. Benfica qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as winners of the 1980 Taça de Portugal Final.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank Player Club Goals[3]
1 Rui Jordão Sporting 31
2 Nené Benfica 30
3 Fernando Gomes Porto 23
4 Mundinho Vitória de Guimarães 16
5 Reinaldo Benfica 15
6 Júlio Boavista 12
Manoel Sporting
8 Mirobaldo Portimonense 11
9 Chico Faria Braga 10
Manuel Fernandes Sporting

Footnotes

  1. "Portugal 1979-80 - RSSSF (Jorge Miguel Teixeira)". RSSSF Archive. 2001. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
  2. "Portuguese League 1979/80 - footballzz.co.uk". ZeroZero. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
  3. "TheFinalBall Goalscorer statistics". TheFinalBall. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
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