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The 2017–18 Primeira Liga (also known as Liga NOS for sponsorship reasons) was the 84th season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs. Benfica are the defending champions for a fourth season in a row. Since Portugal dropped from sixth to ninth place in the UEFA association coefficient rankings at the end of 2016-17 season, the league has lost its UEFA Europa League group stage round berth. Further, the champions will still have to enter directly to UEFA Champions League group stage, but the 2nd placed team will have to begin in the third qualifying round. In addition, three teams have been dropped to two teams, while the the third- and fourth-placed teams will begin at the third and second qualifying round, respectively, of the 2018-19 UEFA Europa League.
Teams[]
Eighteen teams will compete in the league – the top sixteen teams from the previous season, as well as two teams promoted from the LigaPro.
Portimonense became the first club to be promoted on 23 April 2017 and will play in Primeira Liga for the first time since the 2010–11 season. On 21 May 2017, after a 2–1 win in Azores against Santa Clara, they were crowned champions. The other team promoted were runners-up Desportivo das Aves, following a 2–2 draw against União da Madeira on 30 April 2017. This will mark the return of the Vila das Aves' team to the top flight after a 10-season absence.
The two promoted clubs replaced Nacional and Arouca. Nacional confirmed their relegation on 5 May 2017, 15 years after their promotion, when Moreirense, who were also struggling to escape relegation, beat Braga. On the last matchday, Arouca's 4–2 defeat against Estoril sealed their relegation, four seasons after having been promoted for the first time to Primeira Liga.
Stadia and locations[]
Team | Location | Stadium | Capacity | 2016–17 finish |
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Belenenses | Lisbon | Estádio do Restelo | 19,856 | 14th |
Benfica | Lisbon | Estádio da Luz | 64,642 | 1st |
Boavista | Porto | Estádio do Bessa | 30,000 | 9th |
Braga | Braga | Estádio Municipal de Braga | 30,286 | 5th |
Chaves | Chaves | Estádio Municipal Eng. Manuel Branco Teixeira | 8,000 | 11th |
Desportivo das Aves | Vila das Aves | Estádio do CD Aves | 5,441 | LP) | 2nd (
Estoril | Estoril | Estádio António Coimbra da Mota | 8,000 | 10th |
Feirense | Santa Maria da Feira | Estádio Marcolino de Castro | 5,401 | 8th |
Marítimo | Funchal | Estádio do Marítimo | 10,600 | 6th |
Moreirense | Moreira de Cónegos | Parque de Jogos Comendador Joaquim de Almeida Freitas | 6,153 | 15th |
Paços de Ferreira | Paços de Ferreira | Estádio Capital do Móvel | 6,404 | 13th |
Porto | Porto | Estádio do Dragão | 50,035 | 2nd |
Portimonense | Portimão | Estádio Municipal de Portimão | 6,000 | LP) | 1st (
Rio Ave | Vila do Conde | Estádio dos Arcos | 9,065 | 7th |
Sporting CP | Lisbon | Estádio José Alvalade | 50,044 | 3rd |
Tondela | Tondela | Estádio João Cardoso | 5,000 | 16th |
Vitória de Guimarães | Guimarães | Estádio D. Afonso Henriques | 30,008 | 4th |
Vitória de Setúbal | Setúbal | Estádio do Bonfim | 13,468 | 12th |
Personnel and sponsors[]
Team | Manager | Captain | Kit Manufacturer | Sponsors |
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Belenenses | Domingos Paciência | Gonçalo Silva | Lacatoni | Kia Motors |
Benfica | Rui Vitória | Luisão | adidas | Emirates |
Boavista | Miguel Leal | Idris | Lacatoni | Mestre da Cor |
Braga | Abel Ferreira | Alan | Lacatoni | Invest in Braga |
Chaves | Luís Castro | Nuno André Coelho | Lacatoni | Chaves - Capital Termal |
Desportivo das Aves | Ricardo Soares | Nélson Lenho | Macron | MEO |
Estoril | Pedro Emanuel | Diogo Amado | Nike | Banco BIC |
Feirense | Nuno Manta | Cris Santos | Legea | Mestre da Cor |
Marítimo | Daniel Ramos | Edgar Costa | Nike | Santander Totta |
Moreirense | Manuel Machado | André Micael | CDT | — |
Paços de Ferreira | Vasco Seabra | Ricardo | Lacatoni | Fixpaços |
Portimonense | Vítor Oliveira | Ricardo Pessoa | Mizuno | McDonald's Portimão |
Porto | Sérgio Conceição | Iván Marcano | New Balance | MEO |
Rio Ave | Miguel Cardoso | Tarantini | adidas | MEO |
Sporting CP | Jorge Jesus | Adrien Silva | Macron | NOS |
Tondela | Pepa | Kaká | CDT | Laboratórios BASI |
Vitória de Guimarães | Pedro Martins | Josué Sá | Macron | Shirt sponsor varies from match to match |
Vitória de Setúbal | José Couceiro | Frederico Venâncio | Hummel | Kia Motors |
Managerial changes[]
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
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Porto | Nuno Espírito Santo | Resigned | 22 May 2017 | Pre-season | Sérgio Conceição | 8 June 2017 |
Desportivo das Aves | José Mota | Resigned | 23 May 2017 | Ricardo Soares | 27 May 2017 | |
Rio Ave | Luís Castro | Mutual consent | 24 May 2017 | Miguel Cardoso | 12 June 2017 | |
Moreirense | Petit | Mutual consent | 26 May 2017 | Manuel Machado | 27 May 2017 | |
Chaves | Ricardo Soares | Resigned | 27 May 2017 | Luís Castro | 1 June 2017 | |
Boavista | Miguel Leal | Resigned | 13 September 2017 | 16th | Jorge Simão | 14 September 2017 |
League table[]
Pos |
Team | Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
Qualification or relegation |
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1 | Porto (C) | 34 | 28 | 4 | 2 | 82 | 18 | +64 | 88 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
2 | Benfica | 34 | 25 | 6 | 3 | 80 | 22 | +58 | 81 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round |
3 | Sporting CP | 34 | 24 | 6 | 4 | 63 | 24 | +39 | 78 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
4 | Braga | 34 | 24 | 3 | 7 | 74 | 29 | +45 | 75 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round |
5 | Rio Ave | 34 | 15 | 6 | 13 | 40 | 42 | −2 | 51 | Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round |
6 | Chaves | 34 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 47 | 55 | −8 | 47 | |
7 | Marítimo | 34 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 36 | 49 | −13 | 47 | |
8 | Boavista | 34 | 13 | 6 | 15 | 35 | 44 | −9 | 45 | |
9 | Vitória de Guimarães | 34 | 13 | 4 | 17 | 45 | 56 | −11 | 43 | |
10 | Portimonense | 34 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 52 | 60 | −8 | 38 | |
11 | Tondela | 34 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 41 | 50 | −9 | 38 | |
12 | Belenenses | 34 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 33 | 46 | −13 | 37 | |
13 | Desportivo das Aves | 34 | 9 | 7 | 18 | 36 | 51 | −15 | 34 | |
14 | Vitória de Setúbal | 34 | 7 | 11 | 16 | 39 | 62 | −23 | 32 | |
15 | Moreirense | 34 | 8 | 8 | 18 | 29 | 50 | −21 | 32 | |
16 | Feirense | 34 | 9 | 4 | 21 | 32 | 48 | −16 | 31 | |
17 | Paços de Ferreira (R) | 34 | 7 | 9 | 18 | 33 | 59 | −26 | 30 | Relegation to LigaPro |
18 | Estoril (R) | 34 | 8 | 6 | 20 | 29 | 61 | −32 | 30 |
Source: Liga Portugal
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament
Statistics[]
Top goalscorers[]
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Top assists[]
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Own goals[]
Rank | Player | Club | Own goals |
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1 | Cris Santos | Feirense | 1 |
Lisandro López | Benfica | ||
Gonçalo Paciência | Vitória Setúbal | ||
David Bruno | Tondela |
Scoring[]
- As of 19 August 2017
- First goal of the season:
- Gelson Martins, for Sporting CP vs Desportivo das Aves (6 August 2017)
- Biggest home win:
- Benfica 5–0 Belenenses (19 August 2017)
- Biggest away win:
- Vitória de Guimarães 0–5 Sporting CP (19 August 2017)
- Highest scoring match: 5 goals
- Vitória de Guimarães 3–2 Chaves (10 August 2017)
- Vitória de Guimarães 0–5 Sporting CP (19 August 2017)
- Tondela 2–3 Estoril (19 August 2017)
- Benfica 5–0 Belenenses (19 August 2017)
- Biggest winning margin: 5 goals
- Vitória de Guimarães 0–5 Sporting CP (19 August 2017)
- Benfica 5–0 Belenenses (19 August 2017)
- Most goals scored in a match by a team: 5 goals
- Vitória de Guimarães 0–5 Sporting CP (19 August 2017)
- Benfica 5–0 Belenenses (19 August 2017)
Match streaks[]
- As of 13 August 2017
- Longest winning run: 5 matches
- Sporting CP, from matchday 1 (6 August 2017) to matchday 5 (8 September 2017)
- Porto, from matchday 1 (9 August 2017) to matchday 5 (9 September 2017)
- Longest unbeaten run: 5 matches
- Sporting CP, from matchday 1 (6 August 2017) to matchday 5 (8 September 2017)
- Porto, from matchday 1 (9 August 2017) to matchday 5 (9 September 2017)
- Benfica, from matchday 1 (9 August 2017) to matchday 5 (9 september 2017)
- Longest winless run: 5 matches
- Chaves, from matchday 1 (7 August 2017) to matchday 5 (9 September 2017)
- Paços de Ferreira, from matchday 1 (8 August 2017) to matchday 4 (26 August 2017)
- Longest losing run: 4 matches
- Portimonense, from matchday 2 (13 August 2017) to matchday 5 (8 September 2017)
- Most consecutive draws: 2 matches
- Vitória de Setúbal, from matchday 3 (20 August 2017) to matchday 4 (25 August 2017)
- Moreirense, from matchday 1 (6 August 2017) to matchday 2 (12 August 2017)
- Feirense, from matchday 1 (7 August 2017) to matchday 2 (12 August 2017)
- Paços de Ferreira, from matchday 3 (26 August 2017) to matchday 4 (9 September 2017)
Discipline[]
- As of 15 August 2017
Club[]
- Most yellow cards: 6
- Most red cards: 2
Player[]
- Most yellow cards: 2
- Sérgio Barge (Feirense)
- Murilo Freitas (Tondela)
- Wesley Dias (Estoril)
- João Vigário (Vitória de Guimarães)
- Matheus Pereira (Chaves)
- Most red cards: 1
- Vasco Fernandes (Vitória de Setúbal)
- Wesley Dias (Estoril)
- João Vigário (Vitória de Guimarães)
- Josué Sá (Vitória de Guimarães)
Primeira Liga seasons |
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2017–18 in Portuguese football |
Domestic leagues |
Primeira Liga (level 1) · LigaPro (level 2) · Campeonato de Portugal (level 3) |
Domestic cups |
Taça de Portugal (Final) · Taça da Liga (Final) · Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira |
European competitions |
2016–17 2018–19 |
2017–18 in European football (UEFA) |
Domestic leagues |
Albania · Andorra · Armenia · Austria · Azerbaijan · Belarus '17 '18 · Belgium · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Bulgaria · Croatia · Cyprus · Czech Republic · Denmark · England · Estonia '17 '18 · Faroe Islands '17 '18 · Finland '17 '18 · France · Georgia '17 '18 · Germany · Gibraltar · Greece · Hungary · Iceland '17 '18 · Israel · Italy · Kazakhstan '17 '18 · Latvia '17 '18 · Lithuania '17 '18 · Luxembourg · Macedonia · Malta · Moldova · Montenegro · Netherlands · Northern Ireland · Norway '17 '18 · Poland · Portugal · Republic of Ireland '17 '18 · Romania · Russia · San Marino · Scotland · Serbia · Slovakia · Slovenia · Spain · Sweden '17 '18 · Switzerland · Turkey · Ukraine · Wales |
Domestic cups |
Albania · Andorra · Armenia · Austria · Azerbaijan · Belarus · Belgium · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Bulgaria · Croatia · Cyprus · Czech Republic · Denmark · England · Estonia · Faroe Islands '17 '18 · Finland '17 '18 · France · Georgia · Germany · Gibraltar · Greece · Hungary · Iceland '17 '18 · Israel · Italy · Kazakhstan '17 '18 · Latvia · Liechtenstein · Lithuania · Luxembourg · Macedonia · Malta · Moldova · Montenegro · Netherlands · Northern Ireland · Norway '17 '18 · Poland · Portugal · Republic of Ireland '17 '18 · Romania · Russia · San Marino · Scotland · Serbia · Slovakia · Slovenia · Spain · Sweden · Switzerland · Turkey · Ukraine · Wales |
League cups |
England · Estonia · Finland '17 '18 · France · Gibraltar · Hungary · Iceland '17 '18 · Israel · Latvia · Northern Ireland · Portugal · Republic of Ireland '17 '18 · Romania · Scotland · Wales |
Supercups |
Albania · Andorra · Armenia · Azerbaijan · Belarus · Belgium · Bulgaria · Cyprus · Czech Republic · England · Estonia · Faroe Islands · France · Georgia · Germany · Gibraltar · Hungary · Iceland · Israel · Italy · Kazakhstan · Lithuania · Macedonia · Malta · Moldova · Netherlands · Northern Ireland · Poland · Portugal · Republic of Ireland '17 '18 · Romania · Russia · San Marino · Slovakia · Slovenia · Spain · Sweden · Turkey · Ukraine |
UEFA competitions |
Champions League (qualifying phase and play-off round · group stage · knockout phase · Final) |
International competitions |
2018 FIFA World Cup (UEFA qualification) · 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup |
Portugal |