1995–96 Primeira Divisão

Primeira Divisão
Season	1995–96
Champions	Porto 15th title
Relegated	Felgueiras Campomaiorense Tirsense
Champions League	Porto (group stage)
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Benfica (first round)
UEFA Cup	Sporting CP (first round) Boavista (first round) V. Guimarães (first round)
Matches played	306
Goals scored	797 (2.6 per match)
Top goalscorer	Domingos (25 goals)
Biggest home win	Sporting CP 7–1 Campomaiorense (18 September 1995)
Biggest away win	Leça 0–5 Belenenses (30 December 1995)
Highest scoring	Porto 6–3 Braga (3 March 1996)
← 1994–95 1996–97 →

Portuguese football 1995–96
Primeira Divisão (Tier 1)
Segunda Divisão de Honra (Tier 2)
Segunda Divisão (Tier 3)
Terceira Divisão (Tier 4)
Taça de Portugal (Cup)

The 1995–96 Primeira Divisão was the 62nd edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 19 August 1995 with a match between União de Leiria and Marítimo, and ended on 12 May 1996. Starting from this season, Portugal implemented the three points for a win rule, after FIFA formally adopted the system. The league was contested by 18 clubs with Porto as the defending champions.

Porto won the league and qualified for the 1996–97 UEFA Champions League group stage, Benfica qualified for the 1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round, and Sporting CP, Boavista and V. Guimarães qualified for the 1996–97 UEFA Cup; in opposite, União da Madeira, Beira-Mar and Vitória de Setúbal were relegated to the Liga de Honra. Domingos was the top scorer with 25 goals.

Promotion and relegation

Teams relegated to Liga de Honra

União da Madeira, Beira-Mar and Vitória de Setúbal, were consigned to the Liga de Honra following their final classification in 1994-95 season.

Teams promoted from Liga de Honra

The other three teams were replaced by Leça, Campomaiorense and Felgueiras from the Liga de Honra.

Teams

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Stadia and locations

Farense

Leiria

Belenenses
Benfica
Sporting

Estrela

Campomaiorense

Leça

Porto
Boavista
Salgueiros

Location of teams in Primeira Divisão 1995-96 (Mainland)

Marítimo

Location of teams in Primeira Divisão 1995-96 (Madeira)

Team	Head Coach	City	Stadium	1994–95 finish
Belenenses	João Alves	Lisbon	Estádio do Restelo	12th
Benfica	Artur Jorge	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	3rd
Boavista	Manuel José	Porto	Estádio do Bessa	9th
Braga	Manuel Cajuda	Braga	Estádio Primeiro de Maio	10th
Campomaiorense	Manuel Fernandes	Campo Maior	Estádio Capitão Cesar Correia	2nd in Divisão de Honra
Chaves	Vítor Urbano	Chaves	Estádio Municipal de Chaves	14th
Estrela da Amadora	Fernando Santos	Amadora	Estádio José Gomes	15th
Farense	Paco Fortes	Faro	Estádio de São Luís	5th
Felgueiras	Jorge Jesus	Felgueiras	Estádio Dr. Machado de Matos	3rd in Divisão de Honra
Gil Vicente	Bernardino Pedroto	Barcelos	Estádio Adelino Ribeiro Novo	13th
Leça	Fernando Festas	Leça da Palmeira	Estádio do Leça FC	1st in Divisão de Honra
Marítimo	Raul Águas	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	7th
Porto	Bobby Robson	Porto	Estádio das Antas	1st
Salgueiros	Mário Reis	Porto	Estádio Engenheiro Vidal Pinheiro	11th
Sporting	Carlos Queiroz	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade	2nd
Tirsense	José Romão	Santo Tirso	Estádio Abel Alves de Figueiredo	8th
União de Leiria	Vítor Manuel	Leiria	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa	6th
Vitória de Guimarães	Vítor Oliveira	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	4th

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Benfica	Artur Jorge	9 September 1995	6th	Mário Wilson	10 September 1995
Leça	Fernando Festas	1 October 1995	17th	António Pinto	2 October 1995
Chaves	Vítor Urbano	5 November 1995	17th	Joaquim Teixeira	6 November 1995
Campomaiorense	Manuel Fernandes	19 November 1995	18th	Diamantino Miranda	20 November 1995
Vitória de Guimarães	Vítor Oliveira	17 December 1995	6th	Manuel Machado	23 December 1995
Tirsense	José Romão	23 December 1995	18th	Eurico Gomes	30 December 1995
Vitória de Guimarães	Manuel Machado	13 January 1996	8th	Jaime Pacheco	14 January 1996
Sporting	Carlos Queiroz	17 February 1996	3rd	Fernando Mendes	18 February 1996
Marítimo	Raul Águas	10 March 1996	7th	Rui Vieira	10 March 1996
Chaves	Joaquim Teixeira	17 March 1996	17th	José Romão	18 March 1996
Sporting	Fernando Mendes	31 March 1996	4th	Octávio Machado	1 April 1996

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Porto !Porto (C)	34	26	6	2	84	20	+64	84	1996–97 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Benfica !Benfica	34	22	7	5	56	25	+31	73	1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup First round ¹
3	Sporting CP !Sporting CP	34	19	10	5	69	27	+42	67	1996–97 UEFA Cup First round
4	Boavista !Boavista	34	19	8	7	59	28	+31	65
5	Vitória de Guimarães !Vitória de Guimarães	34	19	5	10	55	39	+16	62
6	Belenenses !Belenenses	34	14	9	11	53	33	+20	51
7	União de Leiria !União de Leiria	34	14	5	15	38	50	−12	47
8	Braga !Braga	34	12	9	13	44	47	−3	45
9	Marítimo !Marítimo	34	12	7	15	39	53	−14	43
10	Farense !Farense	34	10	6	18	36	45	−9	36
11	Gil Vicente !Gil Vicente	34	9	9	16	31	49	−18	36
12	Salgueiros !Salgueiros	34	7	15	12	39	49	−10	36
13	Estrela da Amadora !Estrela da Amadora	34	7	14	13	35	50	−15	35
14	Leça !Leça	34	9	7	18	29	55	−26	34
15	Chaves !Chaves	34	9	7	18	38	56	−18	34
16	Felgueiras !Felgueiras (R)	34	8	9	17	29	47	−18	33	Relegation to 1996–97 Segunda Divisão de Honra
17	Campomaiorense !Campomaiorense (R)	34	10	3	21	32	69	−37	33
18	Tirsense !Tirsense (R)	34	7	10	17	30	53	−23	31

Source: Primeira Divisão
Rules for classification: 1st points, 2nd head-to-head, 3rd goals average
¹ Benfica qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as Portuguese Cup winners
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (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; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home ╲ Away	Belenenses !BEL	Benfica !BEN	Boavista !BOA	Braga !BRA	Campomaiorense !CPM	Chaves !CHA	Estrela da Amadora !EST	Farense !FAR	Felgueiras !FEL	Gil Vicente !GVI	Leça !LEÇ	Marítimo !MAR	Porto !POR	Salgueiros !SAL	Sporting CP !SCP	Tirsense !TIR	União de Leiria !ULE	Vitória de Guimarães !VGU
Belenenses !Belenenses		1–0	1–2	1–1	3–1	4–1	4–1	2–1	0–1	2–2	5–0	4–1	1–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	3–1	1–0
Benfica !Benfica	1–0		1–1	3–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	3–0	4–1	5–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	2–1	4–0	1–1
Boavista !Boavista	1–0	1–3		5–2	4–0	2–0	1–1	3–0	4–0	3–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	5–0	2–1
Braga !Braga	1–1	1–2	2–0		1–0	1–0	2–1	3–2	2–0	1–1	3–0	1–1	0–3	2–2	1–3	4–0	0–0	4–0
Campomaiorense !Campomaiorense	2–3	0–0	0–2	2–0		2–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	3–1	0–1	0–0	0–1	3–1	4–2	0–1
Chaves !Chaves	1–0	1–2	2–3	1–0	4–1		0–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–2	0–2	2–3	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–2
Estrela da Amadora !Estrela da Amadora	2–2	0–1	0–0	4–2	2–0	2–3		1–1	2–1	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–4	0–0
Farense !Farense	1–3	1–3	2–0	1–0	3–1	0–0	1–0		0–0	5–0	2–0	2–0	0–2	4–1	0–1	2–1	1–1	0–1
Felgueiras !Felgueiras	0–0	1–2	2–0	1–1	3–0	2–2	2–1	3–1		2–2	1–2	0–3	1–1	2–0	0–1	0–1	3–0	0–3
Gil Vicente !Gil Vicente	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–2	3–1	2–0	0–1	2–2	2–0		0–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–0	1–0	2–0
Leça !Leça	0–5	0–0	0–2	0–1	4–1	4–1	0–2	2–1	1–0	0–2		0–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	3–1	0–1	1–0
Marítimo !Marítimo	1–2	2–2	2–0	2–1	3–0	0–2	1–1	0–0	0–2	1–0	2–0		1–1	3–1	0–5	1–0	1–0	4–0
Porto !Porto	1–0	3–0	1–0	6–3	5–0	2–0	6–0	2–0	6–2	2–0	2–0	6–0		2–0	2–1	5–0	1–0	2–3
Salgueiros !Salgueiros	1–3	4–2	0–2	0–0	0–2	2–2	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–3	3–0	2–0	0–4		2–2	1–1	4–0	1–2
Sporting CP !Sporting CP	3–1	2–0	0–0	0–1	7–1	4–1	6–2	5–0	4–0	4–1	2–0	2–0	0–2	2–2		1–0	0–0	2–3
Tirsense !Tirsense	0–0	0–1	1–3	2–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–3	2–1	2–4	2–0	1–1		0–1	2–2
União de Leiria !União de Leiria	1–0	0–2	1–0	1–0	4–0	4–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–3	0–4	0–0	3–2	1–2	5–1		1–2
Vitória de Guimarães !Vitória de Guimarães	1–0	2–4	1–3	1–1	4–0	2–1	3–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	6–0	0–2	1–2	1–1	2–1	3–0

Source: Foradejogo (Portuguese)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Domingos	Porto	25
2	João Pinto	Benfica	18
3	Edinho	Guimarães	15
	Constantino Jardim	Leça
	Leoson Lewis	Felgueiras
6	Artur	Boavista	14
7	Maurício Cabedelo	Leiria	13
7	Edmilson	Porto	13
9	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink	Campomaiorense	12

Source: Footballzz^[2]

Footnotes

↑ "Teams". Footballzz.
↑ "Primeira Divisão 1994-95 – Top Scorers". Footballzz. Retrieved 21 May 2015.

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