Primeira Liga

acme division in Portuguese football
For the Brazil regional cup with the same list, see Primeira Liga ( Brazil ). For the England regional cup with the same name translated into English, see Premier League
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The Primeira Liga ( [ pɾiˈmɐjɾɐ ˈliɣɐ ] ; english : Premier League ), besides known as Liga Portugal Bwin for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional association football division of the Portuguese football league system. It is organised and supervised by the Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional, besides known as Liga Portugal. As of the 2014–15 season, the Primeira Liga is contested by 18 teams, with the three lowest placed teams relegated to the LigaPro and replaced by the top-three non-reserve teams from this division. [ a ] Founded in 1934 as an experimental ( now official ) league called Campeonato da Liga da Primeira Divisão, it was named Campeonato Nacional da Primeira Divisão from 1938 until 1999, when it was changed to its stream name. Over 70 teams have competed in the Primeira Liga, but only five have been crowned champions. Among them, the “ Big Three “ teams – Benfica ( 37 wins ), Porto ( 29 wins ) and Sporting CP ( 19 wins ) – have won all but two Primeira Liga titles ; the other winners are Belenenses ( 1945–46 ) and Boavista ( 2000–01 ). [ 2 ] The Primeira Liga has increased its reputation in holocene years, occupying the one-sixth station of UEFA ‘s national league rank, as of 2021. It broke into the top five for the first base time in the 2011–12 temper, passing the french Ligue 1, one of the diachronic “ big five ” european leagues, for the first fourth dimension since 1990. The Primeira Liga besides reached a earth rank of fourth according to IFFHS ‘s 2011 rank. [ 3 ]

history [edit ]

Before the Portuguese football reform of 1938, an experimental competition on a round-basis was already being held – the Primeira Liga ( Premier League ) and the winners of that competition were named “ league champions ”. Despite that, a championship of Portugal in a knock-out cup format was the most popular and defined the Portuguese champion, although the winners of this contest nobelium long count as portuguese football champions. [ citation needed ] then, with the reform, a round-robin basis competition was implemented as the most important of the calendar and began defining the portuguese champion. From 1938 to 1999, the mention Campeonato Nacional da Primeira Divisão ( National Championship of the First Division ) or just Primeira Divisão ( First Division ), was used. [ citation needed ] Porto won the inaugural version of the newfangled league backing and successfully defended the championship in the future temper. In 1939–40 the tournament was expanded from eight to ten clubs, due to an administrative struggle between Porto and Académico do Porto, regarding a Regional Championship game that ended with merely 43 minutes after the start, and late repeated ( which FC Porto won ) according to Porto FA decision. FPF came out with a decision to satisfy both clubs, expanding the championship to 10 teams ( one more from Porto FA and another from Setúbal FA ) and annulling the leave from the repeat match. With this decision, FC Porto lost the Regional title and finished in 3rd, Leixões SC became the new regional ace, while Académico was second target. All 3 teams qualified for 1939–40 Primeira Divisão. [ 4 ] In the 1941–42 season, it was decided to expand the championship from eight to ten teams to admit Braga FA and Algarve FA champions ( until this season merely the top teams from Porto, Coimbra, Lisboa and Setúbal were admitted ). [ 5 ] Porto finished the regional championship in third invest again, which did not grant entrance into the Primeira Liga. however, a moment boom ( from 10 to 12 ) in the same season was decided, which allowed the baseball club to participate. [ 7 ] After the 1945–46 season, the qualifying system based on regional championships was abandoned and adopted a pyramid system, with relegations and promotions between the 3 tiers. The clubs in Primeira Divisão, Segunda Divisão and Terceira Divisão no long had to play their district championships on the lapp season as they had been doing since the first seasons of the Liga. [ 5 ] When the Portuguese League for Professional Football took see of the two nationally leagues in 1999, it was renamed “ Primeira Liga ” ( Premier League ). [ citation needed ]

“Big Three” performance over the last 10 seasons

Season
Benfica
Porto
Sporting
2011–12
2
1
4

2012–13
2
1
7

2013–14
1
3
2

2014–15
1
2
3

2015–16
1
3
2

2016–17
1
2
3

2017–18
2
1
3

2018–19
1
2
3

2019–20
2
1
4

2020–21
3
2
1

big Three [edit ]

“ The Big Three ” ( portuguese : Os Três Grandes ) is a nickname for the three most powerful sports clubs in Portugal. With the exception of Belenenses in 1945–46 and Boavista in 2000–01, only three clubs have won the Primeira Liga deed – Benfica ( 37 times ), Porto ( 29 ) and Sporting CP ( 19 ). These three clubs broadly end up sharing the acme three positions ( thus, appearing more frequently in UEFA competitions ) and are the merely club to have played in every season of the rival. These clubs dominate portuguese football, and it has become typical for fans to support any of these teams as a “ first golf club ”, with a local anesthetic team credibly coming afterwards, if at all. The “ boastfully three ” have the highest average attendance ratings every temper in Portugal, while many other teams, lacking subscribe from the locals, have suffered from hapless attendance. The miss of support for local teams is considered to be one of the independent reasons why Portuguese Football registers one of the worst attendance ratings in European Football ‘s best championships, alongside the broadcast of about all the games on television receiver. In other sports, the competition between the big club is besides considerable and it normally leads to arguments between the fans and players. [ citation needed ] Benfica is the baseball club with most league, cup and league cup titles, ampere well as the most domestic titles ( 81 ) and overall titles won ( 83 or 84, if the Latin Cup is taken into explanation ), including back-to-back european Cup trophies. Porto is the cabaret with most portuguese Super Cups and international titles won ( 7 ). Sporting CP holds the third base seat when it comes to the most league and cup titles. Benfica is the only portuguese clubhouse to have won two consecutive european Cup/UEFA Champions League titles, reaching ten-spot european finals : seven european Cups and three UEFA Cup/Europa League, and was runner-up in two intercontinental Cups. Porto is the lone Portuguese club since 1987 to have won any international competition ( excluding the UEFA Intertoto Cup ), gathering a sum of two european Cup/UEFA Champions Leagues, two UEFA Cup/Europa Leagues, one european Super Cup and two Intercontinental Cups and finished runner-up in one european Cup Winner ‘s Cup and three UEFA Super Cups. Sporting won one european Cup Winner ‘s Cup and was runner-up in one UEFA Cup. aside from the adult three, Braga won the end UEFA Intertoto Cup and was runner-up in one UEFA Europa League. [ 8 ] [ 9 ]
Galp Energia acquired the naming rights to the league in 2002, titling the division SuperLiga GalpEnergia. A four-year share with the austrian sports betting bwin was announced on 18 August 2005 amid questioning by the early gambling authorities in Portugal ( the Santa Casa district attorney Misericórdia and the Portuguese Casinos Association ), who claimed to hold the exclusive rights to legal gambling games in portuguese national territory. After holding the name Liga betandwin.com for the 2005–06 temper, the name was changed to bwin LIGA in July 2006. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] From the 2008–09 season to the 2009–10 temper the league was named Liga Sagres due to sponsorship from Sagres beer. In 2010, they renewed the sponsorship from Sagres, but besides got the sponsorship from ZON Multimédia. The league was named Liga ZON Sagres until 2013–14 after the sponsorship agreement between Sagres, ZON ( nowadays NOS ) and the league ended. In 2015, the league was named Liga NOS until 2020-21 season. [ 12 ] Since 2021, it is known as Liga Portugal Bwin .

Sponsorship names for seasons

2002–2005: SuperLiga GalpEnergia
2005–2006: Liga betandwin.com
2006–2008: bwin LIGA
2008–2010: Liga Sagres
2010–2014: Liga ZON Sagres
2014–2021: Liga NOS
2021–: Liga Portugal Bwin

official match ball [edit ]

contest [edit ]

Since the 2014–15 season, there are 18 clubs in the Primeira Liga, up from 16 in the previous seasons. During the course of a temper, each golf club plays all teams twice – once at their home stadium and once at their adversary ‘s stadium – for a full of 34 games. At the end of each season, the two lowest placed teams are relegated to the Segunda Liga and the top two teams from Segunda Liga are promoted to the Primeira Liga .

qualification for european competitions [edit ]

The crown teams in Primeira Liga modify for the UEFA Champions League, with the top two teams entering the group stage immediately. The third identify team enters the playoffs for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League ; if they fail to qualify, they enter the UEFA Europa League, along with the one-fourth placed team and the Taça de Portugal cup winners. If the Taça de Portugal cup winners qualify for the UEFA Champions League through league place, the position is given to the fifth placed team .

UEFA ranking [edit ]

UEFA League Ranking as of the 2020–21 season: [ 15 ]

Clubs [edit ]

Marítimo Location of teams in 2021–22 Primeira Liga (Madeira)Santa Clara Location of teams in 2021–22 Primeira Liga (Azores)

attendance [edit ]

Since the begin of the league, there are three clubs with an attendance much higher than the others : Benfica, Porto and Sporting CP. They have besides the biggest stadiums in Portugal, with more than 50,000 seats. other clubs, such as Vitória de Guimarães and Braga, besides have good attendances. Académica de Coimbra, Vitória de Setúbal, Boavista, Belenenses, and Marítimo are diachronic clubs, with more than 30 top-flight seasons, from the biggest portuguese cities, and have besides many supporters. however, they do not have big attendances nowadays. Their stadiums have between 10,000 and 30,000 seats. The 2017–18 season saw the follow average attendance by club : [ 17 ]

list of champions and exceed scorers [edit ]

Before 1995–96, the points were awarded in a format of two points for a win. In that season, Primeira Liga switched to the now standard three points for a win system.
(1) Porto saw six points subtracted for corruption allegations in the Apito Dourado,[18] but they recovered those points in July 2017.

performance by club [edit ]

All Primeira Liga champions have come from either Lisbon or Porto .

Club

Winners

runner-up
Winning seasons
runner-up seasons
Benfica

1935–36, 1936–37, 1937–38, 1941–42, 1942–43, 1944–45, 1949–50, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1993–94, 2004–05, 2009–10, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2018–19

1943–44, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1955–56, 1958–59, 1965–66, 1969–70, 1973–74, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1981–82, 1985–86, 1987–88, 1989–90, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1995–96, 1997–98, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2017–18, 2019–20

Porto

1934–35, 1938–39, 1939–40, 1955–56, 1958–59, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1987–88, 1989–90, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2017–18, 2019–20

1935–36, 1937–38, 1940–41, 1950–51, 1953–54, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1968–69, 1974–75, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1993–94, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2004–05, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2020–21

Sporting CP
19

1940–41, 1943–44, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1957–58, 1961–62, 1965–66, 1969–70, 1973–74, 1979–80, 1981–82, 1999–2000, 2001–02, 2020–21

1934–35, 1938–39, 1939–40, 1941–42, 1942–43, 1944–45, 1949–50, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1967–68, 1970–71, 1976–77, 1984–85, 1994–95, 1996–97, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2013–14, 2015–16

Belenenses
01

all-time Primeira Liga table [edit ]

The all-time Primeira Liga table is an overall phonograph record of all match results, points, and goals of every team that has played in Primeira Liga since its origin in 1934. The mesa is accurate as of the end of the 2020–21 temper. [ 19 ] For comparison, older seasons have been calculated according to the three-points-per-win rule .

Records [edit ]

team records [edit ]

In 1972–73, Benfica became the first team to win the Portuguese league without defeat, with 58 points in 30 games (28 wins and 2 draws), the best efficiency ever obtained (96.7%) where 2 points were awarded for a victory. In that season, Benfica set the Portuguese league and European leagues record for most consecutive victories (23) – 29 wins overall, between 1971–72 and 1972–73. Benfica also set the league record for the greatest margin of victory in points over the second-placed team (18 points) in a 2 points per win championship.
In 1977–78, Benfica completed the Portuguese league unbeaten for the second time (21 wins and 9 draws), despite finishing second.
From 24 October 1976 to 1 September 1978, Benfica set the record for the longest unbeaten run in the league: 56 matches.
In 1990–91, Benfica achieved the highest number of wins in a single season – 32 (out of 38 matches).
In 1998–99, Porto became the only team to win five consecutive titles.
In 2010–11, Porto won the Portuguese league without defeat, with 84 points in 30 games (27 wins and 3 draws), the best efficiency ever obtained (93.3%) where 3 points were awarded for a victory. That season, Porto also set the league record for the greatest margin of victory in points over the second-placed team (21 points) in a 3 points per win championship.
In 2012–13, Porto won the Portuguese league unbeaten for the second time (24 wins and 6 draws).
In 2015–16, Benfica achieved a record 88 points in the Portuguese league (29 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats in 34 games).
In 2017–18, Porto tied Benfica’s 88 points record (28 wins, 4 draws and 2 defeats in 34 games).
In 2020–21, Sporting CP set the record for the longest unbeaten run in a single season with 32 matches (25 wins and 7 draws) out of 34.

individual records [edit ]

Player transfer fees [edit ]

television [edit ]

2020–21 until 2022–23 [edit ]

The league is presently distributed internationally by Sportfive. [ 38 ]

portugal [edit ]

Within Portugal, Sport television broadcasts all live Primeira Liga matches except Benfica ‘s home matches which are circulate be on Benfica television receiver .

International broadcasters [edit ]

See besides [edit ]

Notes [edit ]

^[1] In the 2018–19 season, the three lowest placed teams were relegated to the LigaPro due to the integration of Gil Vicente in the Primeira Liga in the follow season. The portuguese Football Federation appealed to proceed with this consolidation a soon as possible .
^ plus €25 million in bonuses .

References [edit ]

Sources [edit ]

Tovar, Rui (2011). Almanaque do FC Porto 1893–2011 (in Portuguese). Alfragide: Caderno. ISBN 9789892315430.