1994–95 Primeira Divisão

The 1994–95 Primeira Divisão was the 61st edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 21 August 1994 with a match between Belenenses and Estrela da Amadora, and ended on 28 May 1995. The league was contested by 18 clubs with Benfica as the defending champions.

Primeira Divisão
Season1994–95
ChampionsPorto
14th title
RelegatedUnião da Madeira
Beira-Mar
Vitória de Setúbal
Champions LeaguePorto (group stage)
Cup Winners' CupSporting CP (first round)
UEFA CupBenfica (first round)
V. Guimarães (first round)
Farense (first round)
Matches played306
Goals scored731 (2.39 per match)
Top goalscorerHassan (21 goals)
Biggest home winSalgueiros 6–0 Estrela da Amadora
(25 February 1995)
Biggest away winChaves 0–4 Porto
(30 October 1994)
Highest scoringPorto 5–2 Salgueiros
(8 January 1995)

Porto won the league and qualified for the 1995–96 UEFA Champions League group stage, Sporting qualified for the 1994–95 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round, and Benfica, Vitória de Guimarães and Farense qualified for the 1995–96 UEFA Cup; in opposite, União da Madeira, Beira-Mar and Vitória de Setúbal were relegated to the Liga de Honra. Hassan was the top scorer with 21 goals.

Promotion and relegation

Teams relegated to Liga de Honra

Paços de Ferreira, Famalicão and Estoril-Praia, were consigned to the Liga de Honra following their final classification in 1993–94 season.

Teams promoted from Liga de Honra

The other three teams were replaced by Tirsense, União de Leiria and Chaves from the Liga de Honra.

Teams

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Stadia and locations
Location of teams in Primeira Divisão 1994-95 (Mainland)
Location of teams in Primeira Divisão 1994-95 (Madeira)
Team Head Coach City Stadium 1993–94 finish
Beira-Mar Rodolfo Reis Aveiro Estádio Mário Duarte 14th
Belenenses José Romão Lisbon Estádio do Restelo 13th
Benfica Artur Jorge Lisbon Estádio da Luz 1st
Boavista Manuel José Porto Estádio do Bessa 4th
Braga Manuel Cajuda Braga Estádio Primeiro de Maio 15th
Chaves Vítor Urbano Chaves Estádio Municipal de Chaves 3rd in Divisão de Honra
Estrela da Amadora Acácio Casimiro Amadora Estádio José Gomes 9th
Farense Paco Fortes Faro Estádio de São Luís 8th
Gil Vicente Vítor Oliveira Barcelos Estádio Adelino Ribeiro Novo 10th
Marítimo António Jesus Funchal Estádio dos Barreiros 5th
Porto Bobby Robson Porto Estádio das Antas 2nd
Salgueiros Mário Reis Porto Estádio Engenheiro Vidal Pinheiro 11th
Sporting Carlos Queiroz Lisbon Estádio José Alvalade 3rd
Tirsense Eurico Gomes Santo Tirso Estádio Abel Alves de Figueiredo 1st in Divisão de Honra
União de Leiria Vítor Manuel Leiria Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa 2nd in Divisão de Honra
União da Madeira Ernesto Paulo Funchal Estádio dos Barreiros 12th
Vitória de Guimarães Quinito Guimarães Estádio D. Afonso Henriques 7th
Vitória de Setúbal Raul Águas Setúbal Estádio do Bonfim 6th

Managerial changes
Team Outgoing manager Date of vacancy Position in table Incoming manager Date of appointment
Vitória de Setúbal Raul Águas 1 October 1994 18th Diamantino Miranda 2 October 1994
Belenenses José Romão 1 October 1994 16th João Alves 2 October 1994
Vitória de Setúbal Diamantino Miranda 6 November 1994 18th Abel Braga 7 November 1994
Estrela da Amadora Acácio Casimiro 20 November 1995 12th Fernando Santos 20 November 1995
União da Madeira Ernesto Paulo 27 November 1995 17th Arthur Bernardes 28 November 1995
Vitória de Setúbal Abel Braga 25 February 1995 18th Mourinho Félix 26 February 1995
Beira-Mar Rodolfo Reis 30 April 1995 17th Acácio Barreto 1 May 1995

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Porto (C) 34 29 4 1 73 15 +58 62 Qualification to Champions League group stage
2 Sporting CP 34 23 9 2 59 21 +38 55 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round[lower-alpha 1]
3 Benfica 34 21 5 8 61 28 +33 47 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4 Vitória de Guimarães 34 16 10 8 54 43 +11 42
5 Farense 34 16 5 13 44 38 +6 37
6 União de Leiria 34 13 10 11 41 44 −3 36
7 Marítimo 34 12 11 11 41 45 −4 35
8 Tirsense 34 14 6 14 35 34 +1 34
9 Boavista 34 12 8 14 40 49 −9 32
10 Braga 34 11 10 13 34 42 −8 32
11 Salgueiros 34 11 7 16 43 50 −7 29
12 Belenenses 34 10 7 17 30 39 −9 27
13 Gil Vicente 34 7 13 14 30 40 −10 27
14 Chaves 34 10 7 17 33 49 −16 27
15 Estrela da Amadora 34 6 14 14 27 40 −13 26
16 União da Madeira (R) 34 7 10 17 30 54 −24 24 Relegation to Segunda Divisão de Honra
17 Beira-Mar (R) 34 8 5 21 33 54 −21 21
18 Vitória de Setúbal (R) 34 3 13 18 25 45 −20 19
Source: Primeira Divisão
Rules for classification: 1st points, 2nd head-to-head, 3rd goals average
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.
Notes:
  1. Sporting qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as Portuguese Cup winners

Results
Home \ Away BEM BEL BEN BOA BRA CHA EST FAR GVI MAR POR SAL SCP TIR ULE UNI VGU VSE
Beira-Mar 3–2 1–2 3–1 2–0 4–2 2–0 1–3 0–0 1–0 0–2 1–2 0–1 1–0 2–2 1–1 2–3 1–1
Belenenses 3–0 1–1 3–1 0–1 3–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 0–2 1–0 0–1 0–1 0–0 3–0 1–2 1–0
Benfica 2–0 2–1 4–1 1–1 5–0 3–1 2–1 0–1 3–0 1–1 3–0 1–2 1–0 1–1 3–1 1–3 1–0
Boavista 1–0 1–0 1–3 0–0 1–4 2–1 2–1 1–1 1–0 1–2 1–0 1–1 2–0 2–0 3–1 1–1 0–0
Braga 1–0 4–2 0–2 1–2 1–0 2–0 0–0 1–1 2–2 1–4 2–1 0–2 0–0 2–0 2–0 3–1 2–1
Chaves 3–2 0–0 0–1 3–1 1–0 1–0 1–2 2–1 1–1 0–4 0–1 1–2 0–0 1–1 5–1 1–1 0–0
Estrela da Amadora 1–1 2–3 0–0 1–0 4–0 1–1 2–1 1–1 1–1 0–1 4–0 0–2 0–0 2–3 1–1 1–1 0–0
Farense 3–0 1–0 4–1 1–0 0–1 2–0 2–0 2–0 4–0 0–3 1–0 0–2 1–0 1–1 2–1 3–0 2–0
Gil Vicente 0–1 1–1 1–0 1–2 3–2 2–0 1–1 1–1 3–2 0–1 0–0 1–2 0–1 1–1 0–0 2–2 3–0
Marítimo 3–2 3–0 0–3 2–0 1–1 4–1 0–0 2–1 1–0 2–1 2–2 0–2 1–0 2–0 1–0 2–3 3–2
Porto 3–0 1–0 2–1 4–2 2–0 2–0 0–0 2–0 1–0 4–1 5–2 1–1 2–0 4–0 3–0 3–0 2–0
Salgueiros 2–1 1–0 1–2 2–1 0–0 3–1 6–0 0–3 1–1 0–0 1–2 2–3 0–2 2–2 0–2 0–0 3–2
Sporting CP 2–0 2–1 1–0 2–2 3–1 1–0 0–1 1–1 1–0 2–0 0–1 1–0 2–0 4–0 4–0 2–0 2–2
Tirsense 2–0 3–0 1–3 2–1 1–0 0–1 3–1 3–0 3–1 0–1 0–2 1–3 1–1 2–1 2–0 3–3 1–0
União de Leiria 3–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 2–1 1–0 1–0 5–0 3–0 2–2 0–2 2–1 0–3 1–0 1–2 2–1 1–0
União da Madeira 1–0 0–1 0–2 1–1 0–0 0–1 0–1 3–0 2–0 2–2 0–0 0–4 1–1 1–1 1–0 3–3 3–0
Vitória de Guimarães 1–0 3–0 1–3 2–0 4–2 1–0 1–0 2–0 3–1 0–0 0–1 3–1 2–2 1–0 3–0 2–1 1–1
Vitória de Setúbal 1–0 0–0 1–2 1–3 0–0 0–1 0–0 1–1 0–1 0–0 2–3 1–2 1–1 1–2 2–2 4–1 1–0
Source: Foradejogo (in Portuguese)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers
Rank Player Club Goals
1 Hassan Farense 21
2 Domingos Porto 19
3 Marcelo Tirsense 17
4 Artur Boavista 16
5 Edmilson Salgueiros 15
6 Isaías Benfica 14
Edinho Chaves
Paulo Alves Marítimo
9 Nélson Bertolazzi Leiria 12
10 Alex Bunbury Marítimo 11

Source: Footballzz[2]

Footnotes
  1. "Teams". Footbalzz.
  2. "Primeira Divisão 1994-95 – Top Scorers". Footballzz. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
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