2020–21 Primeira Liga

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Primeira Liga 2020–21
Season information
Dates	18 September 2020 – 16 May 2021
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League
Europa League
Season statistics
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The 2020–21 Primeira Liga (also known as Liga NOS for sponsorship reasons) will be the 87th season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs. The season started on 20 September 2020 and it is scheduled to conclude on 16 May 2021.

Teams

• Nacional and Farense were promoted on 5 May 2020 to 2020-21 Primeira Liga by LPFP due to the suspension of the 2019–20 LigaPro due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal. This decision was made based on UEFA's recommendations, focusing on sporting merit. These two teams were first and second place of 2019–20 LigaPro in Matchday 24 with 50 and 48 points, respectively.

Stadia and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity	2019–20
Belenenses SAD	Oeiras	Estádio Nacional	37,593	15th
Benfica	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	64,642	2nd
Boavista	Porto	Estádio do Bessa	28,263	12th
Braga	Braga	Estádio Municipal de Braga	30,286	3rd
Famalicão	Vila Nova de Famalicão	Estádio Municipal 22 de Junho	5,307	6th
Farense	Faro	Estádio de São Luís	7,000	2nd 31(LP)
Gil Vicente	Barcelos	Estádio Cidade de Barcelos	12,504	10th
Marítimo	Funchal	Estádio do Marítimo	10,932	11th
Nacional	Funchal	Estádio da Madeira	5,132	1st 31(LP)
Moreirense	Moreira de Cónegos	Parque de Jogos Comendador Joaquim de Almeida Freitas	6,153	8th
Paços de Ferreira	Paços de Ferreira	Estádio Capital do Móvel	9,076	13th
Portimonense	Portimão	Estádio Municipal de Portimão	6,204	17th
Porto	Porto	Estádio do Dragão	50,033	1st
Rio Ave	Vila do Conde	Estádio dos Arcos	9,065	5th
Santa Clara	Ponta Delgada	Estádio de São Miguel	13,277	9th
Sporting CP	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade	50,095	4th
Tondela	Tondela	Estádio João Cardoso	5,000	14th
Vitória SC	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	30,000	7th

Personnel and sponsors

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit Manufacturer	Main Sponsor
Belenenses SAD	Petit		Lacatoni	Kia Motors
Benfica	Jorge Jesus	Jardel	Adidas	Emirates
Boavista	Vasco Seabra		Kelme	VITO Tools
Braga	Carlos Carvalhal	Fransérgio	Hummel	Betano
Famalicão	João Pedro Sousa		Macron	Porminho
Farense	Sérgio Vieira	Cássio Scheid	Adidas	Couteiro-Mor
Gil Vicente	Rui Almeida	Rúben Fernandes	Lacatoni	Las Kasas
Marítimo	Lito Vidigal	Edgar Costa	Nike
Nacional	Luís Freire	Rúben Micael	Hummel	Santander
Moreirense	Ricardo Soares	João Aurélio	CDT
Paços de Ferreira	Pepa		Joma	Aldro Energy
Portimonense	Paulo Sérgio	Jadson	Mizuno	Ceremony
Porto	Sérgio Conceição	Danilo Pereira	New Balance	MEO
Rio Ave	Mário Silva	Tarantini	Nike	MEO
Santa Clara	Daniel Ramos	Osama Rashid	Kelme	Santander
Sporting CP	Rúben Amorim	Sebastián Coates	Macron	NOS
Tondela	Pako Ayestarán		CDT	Cabriz
Vitória SC	Tiago Mendes	André André	Macron

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner	Date of vacancy	Pos in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Santa Clara	João Henriques	Mutual consent	24 July 2020	Pre-season	Daniel Ramos	28 July 2020
Vitória SC	Ivo Vieira		24 July 2020		Tiago Mendes	28 July 2020
Boavista	Daniel Ramos		25 July 2020		Vasco Seabra	30 July 2020
Rio Ave	Carlos Carvalhal		25 July 2020		Mário Silva	30 July 2020
Marítimo	José Gomes	Signed for Almería	27 July 2020		Lito Vidigal	30 July 2020
Braga	Artur Jorge	End of caretaker role	28 July 2020		Carlos Carvalhal	28 July 2020
Benfica	Nélson Veríssimo		1 August 2020		Jorge Jesus	3 August 2020
Tondela	Natxo González	Mutual Consent	5 August 2020		Pako Ayestarán	9 August 2020

Season summary

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sporting CP (C)	34	26	7	1	65	20	+45	85	Qualification for Champions League group stage
2	Porto	34	24	8	2	74	29	+45	80
3	Benfica	34	23	7	4	69	27	+42	76	Qualification for Champions League third qualifying round
4	Braga	34	19	7	8	53	33	+20	64	Qualification for Europa League group stage
5	Paços de Ferreira	34	15	8	11	40	41	−1	53	Qualification for Europa Conference League third qualifying round
6	Santa Clara	34	13	7	14	44	36	+8	46	Qualification for Europa Conference League second qualifying round
7	Vitória de Guimarães	34	12	7	15	37	44	−7	43
8	Moreirense	34	10	13	11	37	43	−6	43
9	Famalicão	34	10	10	14	40	48	−8	40
10	Belenenses SAD	34	9	13	12	25	35	−10	40
11	Gil Vicente	34	11	6	17	33	42	−9	39
12	Tondela	34	10	6	18	36	57	−21	36
13	Boavista	34	8	12	14	39	49	−10	36
14	Portimonense	34	9	8	17	34	41	−7	35
15	Marítimo	34	10	5	19	27	47	−20	35
16	Rio Ave (R)	34	7	13	14	25	40	−15	34	Qualification for Relegation play-offs
17	Farense (R)	34	7	10	17	31	48	−17	31	Relegation to Liga Portugal 2
18	Nacional (R)	34	6	7	21	30	59	−29	25

Source: Liga Portugal
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head away goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Matches won; 7) Goals scored; 8) Play-off.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	BEL	BEN	BOA	BRA	FAM	FAR	GIL	MAR	MOR	NAC	PAC	PTM	POR	RAV	STA	SPO	TON	VSC
Belenenses SAD	—	0–3	0–2	2–1	1–2	1–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	2–1	0–2	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–2	1–2	2–0	1–1
Benfica	2–0	—	2–0	2–3	2–0	3–2	1–2	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	2–0	2–1	4–3	2–0	0–0
Boavista	0–0	3–0	—	1–4	3–0	0–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	0–5	3–3	1–1	0–2	1–1	0–1
Braga	1–1	0–2	2–1	—	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–2	3–0	0–1	0–1	4–2	3–0
Famalicão	0–0	1–5	2–2	2–2	—	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–2	3–0	2–0	0–1	1–4	1–1	1–0	2–2	2–2	0–1
Farense	0–1	0–0	3–1	1–2	3–3	—	3–1	2–1	1–2	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–2
Gil Vicente	0–0	0–2	1–2	1–1	0–3	0–0	—	0–1	1–2	2–0	1–2	1–0	0–2	2–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	1–2
Marítimo	1–0	1–2	0–0	1–0	0–4	1–0	0–1	—	0–2	0–0	0–3	1–2	1–2	1–0	1–2	0–2	2–1	0–0
Moreirense	2–2	1–1	1–1	0–4	3–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	—	2–2	0–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–3	2–2
Nacional	0–0	1–3	3–3	1–2	2–1	2–3	2–1	1–2	0–1	—	1–1	1–5	0–1	1–2	1–3	0–2	2–0	1–0
Paços de Ferreira	1–0	0–5	1–1	2–0	2–0	0–2	0–2	1–1	3–0	2–1	—	0–0	3–2	2–0	2–1	0–2	2–1	2–1
Portimonense	1–0	1–5	1–2	0–0	0–0	2–0	4–1	0–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	—	1–2	0–0	1–2	0–2	3–0	3–0
Porto	4–0	1–1	2–2	3–1	3–2	5–1	1–0	2–3	3–0	2–0	2–0	3–1	—	2–0	2–1	0–0	4–3	1–0
Rio Ave	0–0	0–3	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–0	0–2	1–3	2–0	0–0	1–1	3–0	0–3	—	1–2	0–2	2–1	0–0
Santa Clara	2–0	1–1	3–3	0–1	1–2	4–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	5–1	3–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	—	1–2	1–1	0–4
Sporting CP	2–2	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	3–1	5–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	2–2	1–1	2–1	—	4–0	1–0
Tondela	1–3	0–2	3–1	0–4	1–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	2–3	1–0	0–2	1–1	2–0	0–1	—	0–2
Vitória de Guimarães	0–1	1–3	2–1	0–1	1–2	2–2	2–4	1–0	2–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	2–3	1–3	1–0	0–4	1–2	—

Source: Liga Portugal
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Relegation play-offs

The relegation play-offs took place on 26 and 30 May 2021.

All times are WEST (UTC+1).

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rio Ave	0–5	Arouca	0–3	0–2

26 May 2021 (2021-05-26) 21:45	Arouca	3–0	Rio Ave	Estádio Municipal de Arouca Attendance: 0 Referee: João Pinheiro
	Pité  43' Sema Velázquez  58' André Silva  75'	Report

30 May 2021 (2021-05-30) 19:00	Rio Ave	0–2	Arouca	Estádio dos Arcos Attendance: 0 Referee: Hugo Miguel
		Report	Arsénio  32' Sema Velázquez  59'

Arouca won 5–0 on aggregate and were promoted to 2021–22 Primeira Liga; Rio Ave were relegated to 2021–22 Liga Portugal 2.

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Pedro Gonçalves	Sporting CP	23
2	Haris Seferovic	Benfica	22
3	Mehdi Taremi	Porto	16
4	Mario González	Tondela	15
5	Carlos Jr.	Santa Clara	14
6	Sérgio Oliveira	Porto	13
7	Beto	Portimonense	11
8	Mateo Cassierra	Belenenses SAD	10

Hat-tricks

Main article: List of Primeira Liga hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Mario González	Tondela	Moreirense	3–2 (A)	17 April 2021
Pedro Gonçalves	Sporting CP	Marítimo	5–1 (H)	19 May 2021

Notes

(H) – Home team
(A) – Away team

Top assists

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Mehdi Taremi	Porto	11
2	Darwin Núñez	Benfica	10
3	Everton	Benfica	9
	Álex Grimaldo	Benfica
5	Otávio	Porto	8
6	Jesús Corona	Porto	7
	Alberth Elis	Boavista
	Ryan Gauld	Farense

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Antonio Adán	Sporting CP	19
2	Agustín Marchesín	Porto	16
3	Paweł Kieszek	Rio Ave	11
	Stanislav Kritsyuk	Belenenses SAD
5	Amir Abedzadeh	Marítimo	10
	Bruno Varela	Vitória de Guimarães
	Denis	Gil Vicente
8	Matheus	Braga	9
	Jordi	Paços de Ferreira
	Léo Jardim	Boavista
	Luiz Júnior	Famalicão
	Samuel Portugal	Portimonense
	Marco Pereira	Santa Clara

Discipline

Player

• Most yellow cards: 13
  • Nicolás Otamendi (Benfica)
  • Fábio Pacheco (Moreirense)
• Most red cards: 2
  • Salvador Agra (Tondela)
  • Chidozie Awaziem (Boavista)
  • David Carmo (Braga)
  • Júlio César (Nacional)
  • Rafael Defendi (Farense)
  • Fransérgio (Braga)
  • Javi García (Boavista)
  • Stanislav Kritsyuk (Belenenses)
  • Ygor Nogueira (Gil Vicente)

Club

• Most yellow cards: 102
  • Marítimo
• Most red cards: 10
  • Boavista

External links

• [ Official website]
• Portugal – List of Champions, RSSSF.com

2020–21 in Portuguese football
Domestic leagues
Primeira Liga (level 1) · Liga Portugal 2 (level 2) · Campeonato de Portugal (level 3)
Domestic cups
Taça de Portugal (Final) · Taça da Liga (Final) · Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
European competitions
Champions League (Final) · Europa League (Final)
2019–20                                                        2021–22