| Season | 2007–08 |
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| Champions | Porto |
| Relegated | Boavista União de Leiria |
| Champions League | Porto Sporting CP Vitória de Guimarães |
| UEFA Cup | Benfica Marítimo Vitória de Setúbal |
| Matches played | 240 |
| Goals scored | 554 (2.31 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Lisandro López (24) |
| Highest attendance | 60,116 (Benfica 0–1 Porto) (1 December 2007) |
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2008–09 →
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The 2007-08 Portuguese Liga season was the 74th since its establishment, and started on 17 August 2007. The fixtures (or schedule of games to be played) were announced in 12 July 2007. FC Porto were the defending champions, having won their 21st title the previous season. The season ended on 11 May 2008. The first goalscorer of the season was Derlei, who scored a 25th minute goal for Sporting Clube de Portugal against Académica de Coimbra in an early kick-off that ended 4-1 for Sporting. The first red card of the season was given to Nacional's Rodrigo Silva after elbowing Carlos Alexandre Cardoso's face in their opening game of the season. Porto defended successfully the championship title, winning their 23rd championship, the 3rd in a row, in the 25th fixture after a 6-0 win over Estrela da Amadora. On 27 April 2008, União de Leiria were relegated for losing 3-1 at home to fellow strugglers Leixões.
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Desportivo das Aves and Beira-Mar were both consigned to Liga de Honra following their final classification in 2006-07.
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 1st 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 | Outgoing manager | Date of vacancy | Replaced by | Date of appointment | Ref |
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| Benfica | Fernando Santos | 20 August 2007 | José Antonio Camacho | 20 August 2007 | [1] [2] |
| Académica de Coimbra | Manuel Machado | 10 September 2007 | Domingos Paciência | 11 September 2007 | [3] [4] |
| Naval 1° de Maio | Francisco Chaló | 16 September 2007 | Ulisses Morais | 4 October 2007 | [5] |
| Pos |
Team |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Porto (C) | 30 | 24 | 3 | 3 | 60 | 13 | +47 | 69* | 2008–09 UEFA 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 | 2008–09 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round |
| 4 | Benfica | 30 | 13 | 13 | 4 | 45 | 21 | +24 | 52 | 2008–09 UEFA Cup First round |
| 5 | Marítimo | 30 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 38 | 26 | +12 | 46 | |
| 6 | Vitória de Setúbal | 30 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 37 | 33 | +4 | 45 | |
| 7 | Sporting de Braga | 30 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 32 | 34 | −2 | 41 | 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup Third round |
| 8 | Belenenses | 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 37 | 33 | +4 | 40** | |
| 9 | Boavista (R) | 30 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 32 | 41 | −9 | 36*** | Relegation to the Liga de Honra |
| 10 | Nacional | 30 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 23 | 28 | −5 | 35 | |
| 11 | Naval 1º de Maio | 30 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 26 | 47 | −21 | 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 | 30 | 6 | 7 | 17 | 31 | 49 | −18 | 25**** | |
| 16 | União de Leiria (R) | 30 | 3 | 7 | 20 | 25 | 53 | −28 | 16 | Relegation to the Liga de Honra |
Updated to games played on May 10, 2008
Source: [1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
*Porto were deducted 6 points due to alleged attempted bribery of referees in the 2003-04 season.[6] Despite legal courts having rejected the evidence used in the process, the league has not reinstated those points.
**Belenenses were deducted 3 points for fielding an ineligible player.
***Boavista will be relegated to Liga de Honra for next season due to bribery of referees in the 2003-04 season.[6]
****Paços de Ferreira were originally relegated but will stay in the league due to Boavista being relegated over the bribery scandal.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
| 2007–08 BWINLIGA Winners |
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FC Porto 23rd Title |
| Home \ Away1 | 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 | 0–32 | 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 | |
| Sporting de 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 |
Updated to games played on 11 May 2008
Source: [www.lpfp.pt/]
1The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
2Belenenses 0-3 Naval was awarded after Belenenses was punished for fielding ineligible player .
Last updated: 3 March 2009; Source: zerozero.pt (Portuguese)
| Name | Team | League Stats | ||
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| Apps | Goals | |||
| Lisandro López | Porto | 27 | 24 | |
SJPF Player of the Month
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SJPF Young Player of the Month
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| Month | Club |
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| September | Sporting |
Source: sjpf.pt (Portuguese)
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