2007–08 Primeira Liga

Primeira Liga
Season2007–08
Dates17 August 2007 – 11 May 2008
ChampionsPorto
(23rd title)
RelegatedBoavista
União de Leiria
Champions LeaguePorto
Sporting CP
Vitória de Guimarães
UEFA CupBenfica
Marítimo
Vitória de Setúbal
Matches played240
Goals scored554 (2.31 per match)
Best PlayerLisandro López
Top goalscorerLisandro López (24 goals)
Biggest home winPorto 6–0 Estrela da Amadora
(5 April 2008)
Biggest away winVitória de Guimarães 0–5 Porto
(27 April 2008)
Highest scoringBenfica 6–1 Boavista
(11 November 2007)
Boavista 4–3 Paços de Ferreira (3 February 2008)
Highest attendance60,116 (Benfica 0–1 Porto)
(1 December 2007)

The 2007–08 Primeira Liga was the 74th edition of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs. It started on 17 August 2007 and ended on 11 May 2008, with the fixtures announced on 12 July 2007. Porto were the two-time defending champions, having won their 22nd title the previous season, and secured a third consecutive title for the second time in their history.

Porto and Sporting CP were both qualified for the 2008–09 UEFA Champions League group stage; Benfica, Marítimo and Vitória de Setúbal qualified for the 2008–09 UEFA Cup; in opposite, Boavista and União de Leiria were relegated to the Liga de Honra. Lisandro López was the top scorer with 24 goals.

Promotion and relegation

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Teams relegated to Liga de Honra

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Desportivo das Aves and Beira-Mar were both consigned to Liga de Honra following their final classification in 2006–07.

Teams promoted from Liga de Honra

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Desportivo das Aves and Beira-Mar will be replaced by two promoted teams from the Liga de Honra. The first is Leixões, who clinched the second level title, and are returning to the top level since their last participation in 1989. The other was Vitória de Guimarães, who managed to return to the Liga after a brief spell in the Liga de Honra.

Club information

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Location of teams in the 2007-08 Liga
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Location of teams in Madeira
Club Head Coach City Stadium 2006–2007 season
Académica Portugal Domingos Paciência Coimbra Estádio Cidade de Coimbra 13th
Belenenses Portugal Jorge Jesus Lisbon Estádio do Restelo 5th
Benfica Portugal Fernando Chalana Lisbon Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica (Estádio da Luz) 3rd
Boavista Portugal Jaime Pacheco Porto Estádio do Bessa – Século XXI 9th
Braga Portugal Jorge Costa Braga Estádio AXA (Estádio Municipal de Braga) 4th
Estrela da Amadora Portugal Daúto Faquirá Amadora Estádio José Gomes 10th
União de Leiria Portugal Paulo Duarto Leiria Estádio Municipal de Leiria Dr. Magalhães Pessoa 7th
Leixões Portugal Carlos Brito Matosinhos Estádio do Mar 1st in the Liga de Honra
Marítimo Brazil Sebastião Lazaroni Funchal Estádio dos Barreiros 12th
Nacional Serbia Predrag Jokanović Funchal Estádio da Madeira 8th
Naval 1° de Maio Portugal Ulisses Morais Figueira da Foz Estádio Municipal José Bento Pessoa 11th
Paços de Ferreira Portugal José Mota Paços de Ferreira Estádio da Mata Real 6th
Porto Portugal Jesualdo Ferreira Porto Estádio do Dragão 1st
Sporting CP Portugal Paulo Bento Lisbon Estádio José Alvalade – Século XXI 2nd
Vitória de Guimarães Portugal Manuel Cajuda Guimarães Estádio D. Afonso Henriques 2nd in the Liga de Honra
Vitória de Setúbal Portugal Carlos Carvalhal Setúbal Estádio do Bonfim 14th

Managerial changes

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Club Outgoing manager Date of vacancy Replaced by Date of appointment Ref
Benfica Portugal Fernando Santos 20 August 2007 Spain José Antonio Camacho 20 August 2007 [1]
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Académica Portugal Manuel Machado 10 September 2007 Portugal Domingos Paciência 11 September 2007 [3]
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Naval 1° de Maio Portugal Francisco Chaló 16 September 2007 Portugal Ulisses Morais 4 October 2007 [5]
Benfica Spain José Antonio Camacho 9 March 2008 Portugal Fernando Chalana 10 March 2008 [6]

League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Porto[a] (C) 30 24 3 3 60 13 +47 75 Qualification to Champions League group stage
2 Sporting CP 30 16 7 7 46 28 +18 55
3 Vitória de Guimarães 30 15 8 7 35 31 +4 53 Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
4 Benfica 30 13 13 4 45 21 +24 52 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
5 Marítimo 30 14 4 12 39 28 +11 46
6 Vitória de Setúbal 30 11 12 7 37 33 +4 45
7 Braga 30 10 11 9 32 34 −2 41 Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round
8 Belenenses[b] 30 11 10 9 35 33 +2 40
9 Boavista (R) 30 8 12 10 32 41 −9 36 Relegation to Liga de Honra[c]
10 Nacional 30 9 8 13 23 28 −5 35
11 Naval 1º de Maio 30 9 7 14 26 45 −19 34
12 Académica 30 6 14 10 31 38 −7 32
13 Estrela da Amadora 30 6 13 11 29 41 −12 31
14 Leixões 30 4 14 12 27 37 −10 26
15 Paços de Ferreira[d] 30 6 7 17 31 49 −18 25
16 União de Leiria (R) 30 3 7 20 25 53 −28 16 Relegation to Liga de Honra
Source: BDFutbol
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Porto were docked 6 points due to attempted bribery of referees in the 2003–04 season.[7][8] However, the Council of Justice of the Portuguese Federation returned them in 2017.[9]
  2. ^ Belenenses were docked 3 points for fielding an ineligible player.
  3. ^ Boavista was relegated to Liga de Honra for next season due to bribery of referees in the 2003-04 season.[8] They were reinstated back to the top league, from the 3rd tier, in 2014[10][11]
  4. ^ Paços de Ferreira were originally relegated but stayed in the league because of Boavista being relegated over the bribery scandal.

Results

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Home \ Away ACA BEL BEN BOA EST LEI MAR NAC NAV PAÇ POR SCP BRA ULE VGU VSE
Académica 0–0 1–3 1–1 3–3 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 0–1 1–1 3–3 1–1 0–0 0–0
Belenenses 0–0 1–0 2–3 0–0 1–1 1–3 1–1 0–3[a] 1–0 1–2 1–0 0–2 2–1 1–1 5–0
Benfica 0–3 2–0 6–1 3–0 0–0 2–1 0–0 3–0 4–1 0–1 0–0 1–1 2–2 0–0 3–0
Boavista 0–0 2–4 0–0 2–1 0–0 0–2 1–0 2–0 4–3 0–0 2–0 0–0 3–1 3–2 3–3
Estrela da Amadora 3–1 0–2 0–0 0–0 2–0 1–1 0–1 3–1 1–0 2–2 0–2 1–1 4–2 4–1 0–1
Leixões 2–2 1–2 1–1 2–2 0–0 0–1 1–1 0–1 1–0 1–2 1–1 3–0 2–1 2–2 1–1
Marítimo 2–0 2–0 1–1 2–0 1–1 2–1 1–0 0–1 3–1 0–3 1–2 4–1 2–0 0–1 0–0
Nacional 0–3 1–2 0–3 2–0 0–0 1–0 0–2 2–0 1–2 1–0 0–0 0–1 2–0 1–0 0–0
Naval 1º de Maio 0–1 1–1 0–2 1–0 1–1 2–1 0–3 1–1 2–1 0–2 1–4 1–1 1–0 1–4 0–0
Paços de Ferreira 1–1 1–2 1–2 1–1 2–1 1–1 3–1 1–0 2–2 0–2 0–1 0–2 2–1 2–2 2–1
Porto 1–0 1–1 2–0 2–0 6–0 3–0 1–0 0–3 1–0 3–0 1–0 4–0 4–0 2–0 2–0
Sporting CP 4–1 1–0 1–1 2–1 2–0 2–0 2–1 4–1 4–1 2–1 2–0 2–0 1–1 3–0 2–2
Braga 2–1 1–1 0–0 0–0 2–1 0–0 2–1 1–0 1–1 2–1 1–2 3–0 0–1 0–0 2–3
União de Leiria 3–1 1–2 1–2 0–0 0–0 1–3 1–2 1–3 0–2 1–1 0–3 4–1 0–0 0–1 0–2
Vitória de Guimarães 2–1 1–0 1–3 1–0 4–0 2–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 0–5 2–0 1–0 2–1 1–1
Vitória de Setúbal 3–1 1–1 1–1 3–1 0–0 2–0 1–0 1–1 1–2 3–1 1–2 1–0 3–1 2–0 0–1
Source: www.lpfp.pt
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. ^ Belenenses 0–3 Naval was awarded after Belenenses was punished for fielding ineligible player

Season statistics

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Scoring

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Cards

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Top scorers

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Rank Player Club Goals
1 Argentina Lisandro López Porto 24
2 Paraguay Óscar Cardozo Benfica 13
3 Brazil Weldon Belenenses 12
4 Brazil Wesley Paços de Ferreira 11
Brazil Liédson Sporting CP
Austria Roland Linz Braga
7 Brazil Marcelinho Naval 10
8 Cape Verde Lito Académica 9
9 Portugal João Paulo União de Leiria 8
Portugal Jorge Ribeiro Boavista
Portugal Ricardo Quaresma Porto
Portugal José Pedro Belenenses

Source: Footballzz[12]

Awards

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Footballer of the Year

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Name Team League Stats
Apps Goals
Argentina Lisandro López Porto 27 24

Monthly awards

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SJPF Fair Play Award

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Month Club
September Sporting CP

Source: sjpf.pt[permanent dead link] (Portuguese)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Fernando santos is fired Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine (Portuguese)
  2. ^ First day of Camacho Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine (Portuguese)
  3. ^ Official announce of Manuel Machado get fired (Portuguese)
  4. ^ Official announce of the new manager (Portuguese)
  5. ^ Official announce of Francisco Chaló leaving
  6. ^ Camacho hands in Benfica notice; UEFA.com, 9 March 2008
  7. ^ FC Porto perde seis pontos UEFA (in Portuguese)
  8. ^ a b "Porto docked points, Boavista demoted". UEFA. 9 May 2008. Archived from the original on 12 May 2008. Retrieved 12 May 2008.
  9. ^ "Justiça desportiva iliba Pinto da Costa no caso Apito Final" [Sports justice exonerate Pinto da Costa in the Apito Final case] (in Portuguese). Jornal de Negócios. 15 July 2017. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  10. ^ "Boavista back in the top flight". theportugalnews.com. 18 April 2013. Archived from the original on 4 June 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  11. ^ "Boavista back in the top flight in 2013/14". portugoal.info. 6 April 2013. Archived from the original on 4 March 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  12. ^ "Primeira Liga 2007-08 – Top Scorers". Footballzz. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  13. ^ Paulo Machado wins Young Player Award September[permanent dead link] (Portuguese)
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