2021–22 Primeira Liga

	League stub This article about 2021–22 Primeira Liga is a stub, an article too short to provide more than rudimentary information about a subject. You can help The Football Database Wiki by expanding it.

Primeira Liga 2021–22
Season information
Dates	6 August 2021–15 May 2022
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League
Europa League
Season statistics
Matches played	133
Goals scored	361
Average	2.71
Top goalscorer	Darwin Núñez Luis Díaz (13 goals)
Biggest home win	Benfica 7–1 Marítimo (19 December 2021)
Biggest away win	B SAD 0–7 Benfica (27 November 2021)
Highest scoring	Benfica 7–1 Marítimo (19 December 2021)
← 2020–21	2022–23 →

The 2021–22 Primeira Liga (also known as Liga Portugal Bwin for sponsorship reasons) is the 88th season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs. This was the fifth Primeira Liga season to use video assistant referee (VAR). The start and end dates for the season were released on 21 May 2021, and the fixtures were released on 8 July 2021.

Sporting CP are the defending champions, having won their nineteenth Primeira Liga and their first title since the 2001–02 season at the previous season.

This season saw the return of full capacity crowds, after the final third of the 2019–20 and the entirety of the 2020–21 seasons were held with limited or no attendance due to the restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal.

Teams

Eighteen teams compete in the league – the top fifteen teams from the previous season and three teams promoted from the LigaPro: Estoril, Vizela and Arouca.

Changes

Estoril (promoted after a three-year absence) and Vizela (promoted after a 36-year absence) were promoted from the 2020–21 Liga Portugal 2 (finishing 1st and 2nd places), replacing Farense and Nacional (both relegated after only one year in the top flight).

Arouca (promoted after a four-year absence) was promoted after finishing in 3rd place in 2020-21 Liga Portugal 2 and winning the Promotion play-offs against Rio Ave (relegated after thirteen years in the top flight).

Stadia and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity	2020–21
Arouca	Arouca	Estádio Municipal de Arouca	5,000	3rd (LP)
Belenenses SAD	Oeiras	Estádio Nacional	37,593	10th
Benfica	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	64,642	3rd
Boavista	Porto	Estádio do Bessa	28,263	13th
Braga	Braga	Estádio Municipal de Braga	30,286	4th
Estoril	Estoril	Estádio António Coimbra da Mota	8,015	1st (LP)
Famalicão	Vila Nova de Famalicão	Estádio Municipal 22 de Junho	5,307	9th
Gil Vicente	Barcelos	Estádio Cidade de Barcelos	12,504	11th
Marítimo	Funchal	Estádio do Marítimo	10,932	15th
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	5th
Portimonense	Portimão	Estádio Municipal de Portimão	6,204	14th
Porto	Porto	Estádio do Dragão	50,033	2nd
Santa Clara	Ponta Delgada	Estádio de São Miguel	13,277	6th
Sporting CP	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade	50,095	1st
Tondela	Tondela	Estádio João Cardoso	5,000	12th
Vitória de Guimarães	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	30,000	7th
Vizela	Vizela	Estádio do FC Vizela	6,000	2nd (LP)

Personnel and sponsors

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit Manufacturer	Main Sponsor
Arouca	Armando Evangelista	Thales Oleques	Skita	Construções Carlos Pinho
Belenenses SAD	Petit	Afonso Taira	Kelme	Betway
Benfica	Jorge Jesus	Pizzi	Adidas	Emirates
Boavista	João Pedro Sousa	Rafael Bracali	Kelme	Placard
Braga	Carlos Carvalhal	Fransérgio	Hummel	Betano
Estoril	Bruno Pinheiro	Joãozinho	Kappa	Solverde
Famalicão	Ivo Vieira	Gustavo Assunção	Macron	Placard
Gil Vicente	Ricardo Soares	Rúben Fernandes	Lacatoni
Marítimo	Julio Velázquez	Edgar Costa	Nike	Betano
Moreirense	João Henriques	Lazar Rosić	CDT	Placard
Paços de Ferreira	Jorge Simão	Marco Baixinho	Joma	Solverde
Portimonense	Paulo Sérgio	Pedro Sá	Mizuno	Ceremony
Porto	Sérgio Conceição	Pepe	New Balance	MEO
Santa Clara	Daniel Ramos	Anderson Carvalho	Kelme	Solverde
Sporting CP	Rúben Amorim	Sebastián Coates	Nike	Betano
Tondela	Pako Ayestarán	João Pedro	CDT	Cabriz
Vitória de Guimarães	Pepa	André André	Macron	Placard
Vizela	Álvaro Pacheco	Marcos Paulo	Lacatoni	Vizela Tourism

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner	Date of vacancy	Pos in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Paços de Ferreira	Pepa	Signed by Vitória de Guimarães	1 July 2021	Pre-season	Jorge Simão	1 July 2021
Vitória de Guimarães	Moreno (caretaker)	End of caretaker spell	1 July 2021		Pepa	1 July 2021
Boavista	Jesualdo Ferreira	Mutual consent	1 July 2021		João Pedro Sousa	1 July 2021
Santa Clara	Daniel Ramos		7 October 2021	15th	Nuno Campos	12 October 2021
B SAD	Petit		19 October 2021	17th	Filipe Cândido	19 October 2021
Marítimo	Julio Velázquez	Sacked	11 November 2021	17th	Vasco Seabra	14 November 2021
Boavista	João Pedro Sousa	Mutual consent	30 November 2021	11th	Petit	30 November 2021
Moreirense	João Henriques		30 November 2021	16th	Lito Vidigal	4 December 2021
Pacos de Ferreira	Jorge Simão	Sacked	11 December 2021	13th	César Peixoto	16 December 2021
Santa Clara	Nuno Campos		13 December 2021	14th	Tiago Sousa (caretaker)	13 December 2021
Famalicão	Ivo Vieira		19 December 2021	16th	Rui Pedro Silva	19 December 2021

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Porto (C)	34	29	4	1	86	22	+64	91	Qualification for Champions League group stage
2	Sporting CP	34	27	4	3	73	23	+50	85
3	Benfica	34	23	5	6	78	30	+48	74	Qualification for Champions League third qualifying round
4	Braga	34	19	8	7	52	31	+21	65	Qualification for Europa League group stage
5	Gil Vicente	34	13	12	9	47	42	+5	51	Qualification for Europa Conference League third qualifying round
6	Vitória de Guimarães	34	13	9	12	50	41	+9	48	Qualification for Europa Conference League second qualifying round
7	Santa Clara	34	9	13	12	38	54	−16	40
8	Famalicão	34	9	12	13	45	51	−6	39
9	Estoril	34	9	12	13	36	43	−7	39
10	Marítimo	34	9	11	14	39	44	−5	38
11	Paços de Ferreira	34	9	11	14	29	44	−15	38
12	Boavista	34	7	17	10	39	52	−13	38
13	Portimonense	34	10	8	16	31	45	−14	38
14	Vizela	34	7	12	15	37	58	−21	33
15	Arouca	34	7	10	17	30	54	−24	31
16	Moreirense (R)	34	7	8	19	33	51	−18	29	Qualification for Relegation play-offs
17	Tondela (R)	34	7	7	20	41	67	−26	28	Relegation to Liga Portugal 2
18	Belenenses SAD (R)	34	5	11	18	23	55	−32	26

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

• Since the winners of the 2021–22 Taça de Portugal, Porto, qualified for the Champions League based on league position, the spot awarded to the fourth-placed team (Europa Conference League third qualifying round) was passed to the fifth-placed team, and the spot awarded to the fifth-placed team (Europa Conference League second qualifying round) was passed to the sixth-placed team.
• Jump up to:a b Head-to-head points: Famalicão 4, Estoril 1.
• Jump up to:a b c d Head-to-head points: Marítimo 10, Paços de Ferreira 8, Boavista 7, Portimonense 6.

Statistics

Top goalscorers

As of 5 December 2021

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Darwin Núñez	Benfica	13
	Luis Díaz	Porto
3	Fran Navarro	Gil Vicente	9
	Ricardo Horta	Braga
5	Simon Banza	Famalicão	8
6	Mehdi Taremi	Porto	7
	Rafa Silva	Benfica
8	André Franco	Estoril	6
	Marcus Edwards	Vitória de Guimarães
	João Pedro	Tondela

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Mehdi Taremi	Porto	Tondela	3–1 (A)	23 October 2021
João Pedro	Tondela	Marítimo	4–2 (H)	7 November 2021
Darwin Núñez	Benfica	B SAD	7–0 (A)	27 November 2021
Darwin Núñez	Benfica	Famalicão	4–1 (A)	13 December 2021

Notes

(H) – Home team
(A) – Away team

Top assists

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Rafa Silva	Benfica	13
2	Otávio	Porto	7
3	Mehdi Taremi	Porto	5
4	Fábio Vieira	Porto	4
	Pêpê	Famalicão
	Iuri Medeiros	Braga
	Pedrinho	Gil Vicente
	Ibrahima Camará	Moreirense
	Ricardo Esgaio	Sporting
	Pablo Sarabia	Sporting
	Paulinho	Sporting
	André Franco	Estoril

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Antonio Adán	Sporting CP	10
2	Samuel Portugal	Portimonense	7
	Matheus	Braga
	Diogo Costa	Porto
5	Odysseas Vlachodimos	Benfica	5
	André Ferreira	Paços de Ferreira
7	Matouš Trmal	Vitória de Guimarães	4
8	Victor Braga	Arouca	3
	Dani Figueira	Estoril
	Pedro Trigueira	Tondela
	Paulo Victor	Marítimo
	Rafael Bracali	Boavista

Discipline

Player

• Most yellow cards: 8
  • Willyan Rocha (Portimonense)
• Most red cards: 2
  • Alfa Semedo (Vitória de Guimarães)
  • Allano (Santa Clara)

Club

• Most yellow cards: 57
  • Marítimo
• Most red cards: 4
  • Santa Clara

External links

• Official webpage