1979–80 Primeira Divisão

Primeira Liga
Season1979-80
ChampionsSporting CP
15th title
RelegatedUnião de Leiria
Estoril
Beira-Mar
Rio Ave
European CupSporting CP
Cup Winners' CupS.L. Benfica
UEFA CupPorto
Boavista
Matches played240
Goals scored600 (2.5 per match)
Top goalscorerRui Jordão (31 goals)

Statistics of Portuguese Liga in the 1979–80 season.

Overview

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

League standings

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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[a]
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) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Benfica qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as winners of the 1980 Taça de Portugal Final.

Results

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Home \ Away BEM BEL BEN BOA BRA ESP EST MAR PTM POR RAV SCP ULE VAR VGU VSE
Beira-Mar 1–1 0–3 1–0 0–2 1–1 3–1 2–3 1–1 0–4 2–0 0–1 1–1 2–2 3–3 0–0
Belenenses 1–0 0–3 1–0 2–0 2–0 1–2 1–0 1–1 0–1 1–0 2–1 2–1 5–1 1–4 2–1
Benfica 5–0 8–0 1–2 3–1 4–3 4–1 4–0 1–0 0–0 8–0 3–2 3–0 4–0 4–0 5–1
Boavista 1–1 2–1 1–1 1–0 4–0 1–0 2–1 5–1 0–1 1–0 2–2 3–0 1–1 0–0 5–1
Braga 1–0 1–1 1–1 2–0 2–1 0–0 1–0 0–0 0–2 2–3 2–3 0–0 3–1 2–1 3–1
Espinho 2–1 1–1 0–3 0–2 2–1 2–1 1–0 2–1 2–0 1–0 0–1 2–1 2–0 2–1 0–1
Estoril 3–1 1–1 0–2 0–0 0–1 1–1 0–0 1–0 0–0 2–0 0–1 0–1 0–0 1–1 0–0
Marítimo 1–0 0–0 1–1 1–1 0–0 0–0 3–1 1–0 0–1 1–0 0–3 5–0 1–0 1–1 2–0
Portimonense 1–0 1–2 0–2 2–0 3–1 1–1 4–0 3–1 0–4 2–1 0–0 1–1 1–0 4–5 1–0
Porto 3–0 3–0 2–1 2–0 1–0 3–0 3–0 2–0 6–0 1–1 1–1 1–0 2–1 4–0 3–1
Rio Ave 1–2 1–2 0–3 1–2 1–0 0–2 0–2 4–0 0–2 1–3 1–3 0–0 3–2 1–1 2–1
Sporting CP 2–0 2–0 3–1 4–1 2–1 4–0 2–0 4–1 2–0 1–0 5–0 3–0 3–0 2–0 4–1
União de Leiria 1–1 0–0 1–1 3–1 2–4 2–1 1–1 1–0 0–1 0–4 2–0 1–2 2–0 1–4 1–1
Varzim 1–0 1–1 2–0 1–2 3–2 0–0 0–0 3–0 5–1 0–0 3–0 0–0 4–2 1–1 3–1
Vitória de Guimarães 0–1 1–0 0–0 1–3 3–0 1–0 3–0 1–1 2–0 0–0 3–1 0–1 2–1 2–2 1–0
Vitória de Setúbal 0–0 0–1 0–0 0–1 3–1 3–0 1–0 0–1 4–0 0–2 2–0 0–3 1–0 4–0 1–0
Source: [1][2]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

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Top goalscorers

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

Footnotes

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  1. ^ a b "Portugal 1979-80 - RSSSF (Jorge Miguel Teixeira)". RSSSF. 2001. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
  2. ^ a b "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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