1996–97 Primeira Divisão

Primeira Divisão
Season	1996–97
Champions	Porto 16th title
Relegated	Espinho União de Leiria Gil Vicente
Champions League	Porto (group stage) Sporting CP (second qualifying round)
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Boavista (first round)
UEFA Cup	Benfica (first round) Braga (first round) V. Guimarães (first round)
Matches played	306
Goals scored	721 (2.36 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mário Jardel (30 goals)
Biggest home win	Boavista 7–0 Gil Vicente (27 April 1997)
Biggest away win	Espinho 0–5 Porto (26 October 1996)
Highest scoring	4–3 (3 times) 5–2 (2 times)
← 1995–96 1997–98 →

Portuguese football 1996–97
Primeira Divisão (Tier 1)
Segunda Divisão de Honra (Tier 2)
Segunda Divisão (Tier 3)
Terceira Divisão (Tier 4)
Taça de Portugal (Cup)

The 1996–97 Primeira Divisão was the 63rd edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 25 August 1996 with a match between Benfica and Braga, and ended on 15 June 1997. The league was contested by 18 clubs with Porto as the defending champions.

Porto won the league and qualified for the 1997–98 UEFA Champions League group stage, along with Sporting CP, who qualified for the second round, Boavista qualified for the 1997–98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round, and Benfica, Braga and V. Guimarães qualified for the 1997–98 UEFA Cup; in opposite, Espinho, União de Leiria and Gil Vicente were relegated to the Liga de Honra. Mário Jardel was the top scorer with 30 goals.

Promotion and relegation

Teams relegated to Liga de Honra

Felgueiras, Campomaiorense and Tirsense, were consigned to the Liga de Honra following their final classification in 1995-96 season.

Teams promoted from Liga de Honra

The other three teams were replaced by Rio Ave, Vitória de Setúbal and Espinho from the Liga de Honra.

Teams

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Stadia and locations

Farense

Leiria

Belenenses
Benfica
Sporting

Estrela

Leça

Porto
Boavista
Salgueiros

Location of teams in Primeira Divisão 1996-97 (Mainland)

Marítimo

Location of teams in Primeira Divisão 1996-97 (Madeira)

Team	Head Coach	City	Stadium	1995–96 finish
Belenenses	Quinito	Lisbon	Estádio do Restelo	6th
Benfica	Paulo Autuori	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	2nd
Boavista	Zoran Filipovic	Porto	Estádio do Bessa	4th
Braga	Manuel Cajuda	Braga	Estádio Primeiro de Maio	8th
Chaves	José Romão	Chaves	Estádio Municipal de Chaves	15th
Espinho	Zinho	Espinho	Estádio Comendador Manuel Violas	3rd in Divisão de Honra
Estrela da Amadora	Fernando Santos	Amadora	Estádio José Gomes	13th
Farense	Paco Fortes	Faro	Estádio de São Luís	10th
Gil Vicente	Bernardino Pedroto	Barcelos	Estádio Adelino Ribeiro Novo	11th
Leça	Rodolfo Reis	Leça da Palmeira	Estádio do Leça FC	14th
Marítimo	Marinho Peres	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	9th
Porto	António Oliveira	Porto	Estádio das Antas	1st
Rio Ave	Henrique Calisto	Vila do Conde	Estádio dos Arcos	1st in Divisão de Honra
Salgueiros	Carlos Manuel	Porto	Estádio Engenheiro Vidal Pinheiro	12th
Sporting	Robert Waseige	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade	3rd
União de Leiria	Vítor Manuel	Leiria	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa	7th
Vitória de Guimarães	Jaime Pacheco	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	5th
Vitória de Setúbal	Mário Reis	Setúbal	Estádio do Bonfim	2nd in Divisão de Honra

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
União de Leiria	Vítor Manuel	20 October 1996	17th	Eurico Gomes	21 October 1996
Belenenses	Quinito	27 October 1996	15th	Vítor Manuel	28 October 1996
Marítimo	Marinho Peres	17 November 1996	12th	Manuel José	18 November 1996
Boavista	Zoran Filipovic	19 November 1996	10th	João Alves	20 November 1996
Gil Vicente	Bernardino Pedroto	1 December 1996	17th	Fernando Festas	2 December 1996
Sporting	Robert Waseige	12 December 1996	3rd	Octávio Machado	20 December 1996
Rio Ave	Henrique Calisto	22 December 1996	18th	Carlos Brito	23 December 1996
Boavista	João Alves	12 January 1997	10th	Mário Reis	27 January 1997
União de Leiria	Eurico Gomes	19 January 1997	16th	Quinito	20 January 1997
Benfica	Paulo Autuori	19 January 1997	2nd	Mário Wilson	20 January 1997
Marítimo	Manuel José	26 January 1997	12th	Rui Vieira	27 January 1997
Benfica	Mário Wilson	26 January 1997	3rd	Manuel José	27 January 1997
Vitória de Setúbal	Mário Reis	26 January 1997	7th	Mourinho Félix	27 January 1997
Marítimo	Rui Vieira	16 February 1997	11th	Augusto Inácio	17 February 1997
Vitória de Setúbal	Mourinho Félix	10 March 1997	11th	Manuel Fernandes	11 March 1997
Gil Vicente	Fernando Festas	23 March 1997	18th	José Marconi	24 March 1997
Espinho	Zinho	11 May 1996	16th	Edmundo Duarte	12 May 1996

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Porto !Porto (C)	34	27	4	3	80	24	+56	85	1997–98 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Sporting CP !Sporting CP	34	22	6	6	55	19	+36	72	1997–98 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
3	Benfica !Benfica	34	17	7	10	49	30	+19	58	1997–98 UEFA Cup First round
4	Braga !Braga	34	15	10	9	39	40	−1	55
5	Vitória de Guimarães !Vitória de Guimarães	34	15	8	11	51	46	+5	53
6	Salgueiros !Salgueiros	34	14	10	10	49	48	+1	52
7	Boavista !Boavista	34	12	13	9	62	39	+23	49	1997–98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup First round ¹
8	Marítimo !Marítimo	34	13	8	13	39	38	+1	47
9	Estrela da Amadora !Estrela da Amadora	34	12	11	11	39	38	+1	47
10	Chaves !Chaves	34	12	10	12	39	45	−6	46
11	Farense !Farense	34	10	12	12	34	34	0	42
12	Vitória de Setúbal !Vitória de Setúbal	34	10	10	14	38	42	−4	40
13	Belenenses !Belenenses	34	10	10	14	37	50	−13	40
14	Leça !Leça	34	9	9	16	33	42	−9	36
15	Rio Ave !Rio Ave	34	8	11	15	35	42	−7	35
16	Espinho !Espinho (R)	34	9	6	19	27	56	−29	33	Relegation to 1997–98 Segunda Divisão de Honra
17	União de Leiria !União de Leiria (R)	34	8	6	20	25	53	−28	30
18	Gil Vicente !Gil Vicente (R)	34	4	7	23	29	74	−45	19

Source: Primeira Divisão
Rules for classification: 1st points, 2nd head-to-head, 3rd goals average
¹ Boavista 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	Chaves !CHA	Espinho !ESP	Estrela da Amadora !EST	Farense !FAR	Gil Vicente !GVI	Leça !LEÇ	Marítimo !MAR	Porto !POR	Rio Ave !RAV	Salgueiros !SAL	Sporting CP !SCP	União de Leiria !ULE	Vitória de Guimarães !VGU	Vitória de Setúbal !VSE
Belenenses !Belenenses		1–0	2–4	1–2	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–2	1–1	0–4	2–0	0–2	2–1	0–0	2–2	1–0	1–1	2–1
Benfica !Benfica	1–2		1–1	1–1	3–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–2	0–0	3–4	1–0	1–0	0–2	5–1
Boavista !Boavista	1–1	1–1		3–0	0–1	0–2	2–2	1–1	7–0	0–0	3–1	0–2	2–0	5–0	2–1	3–0	2–2	0–0
Braga !Braga	3–1	1–1	1–0		3–0	2–1	1–2	2–1	4–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–2	2–1
Chaves !Chaves	2–2	3–1	2–1	5–2		1–0	1–0	1–1	4–1	1–0	2–1	2–4	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–1
Espinho !Espinho	0–1	0–3	0–0	0–1	1–1		2–1	1–0	1–0	0–2	1–0	0–5	1–2	1–1	1–3	1–0	1–4	0–3
Estrela da Amadora !Estrela da Amadora	2–2	1–1	2–5	3–1	3–0	2–0		2–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	2–2	0–0	2–1	0–1	0–1	2–0	2–0
Farense !Farense	0–2	1–2	2–0	2–2	0–2	3–1	1–0		2–1	0–0	1–0	1–2	2–1	1–1	0–0	4–0	1–0	1–1
Gil Vicente !Gil Vicente	1–2	0–3	2–4	1–1	3–0	1–0	0–1	1–1		1–0	1–2	0–3	2–2	1–3	0–3	3–4	1–1	0–0
Leça !Leça	3–2	1–5	1–3	0–0	3–2	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–1		1–0	2–4	3–2	3–1	0–1	3–0	1–1	0–2
Marítimo !Marítimo	1–0	2–0	2–2	1–1	3–3	1–0	2–0	1–0	6–0	0–1		0–2	1–0	3–1	1–2	2–0	1–2	3–2
Porto !Porto	2–1	3–1	1–0	5–0	2–0	3–0	0–0	2–0	3–0	2–1	4–1		2–2	1–2	1–2	2–0	3–1	2–2
Rio Ave !Rio Ave	4–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–3	2–0	0–0	0–2	2–0	2–3	0–1		1–1	3–4	3–1	1–1	1–0
Salgueiros !Salgueiros	1–2	0–1	3–2	3–0	1–0	5–0	3–3	2–1	3–2	1–0	0–0	0–1	1–3		0–3	3–0	0–0	3–2
Sporting CP !Sporting CP	3–1	1–0	3–1	1–0	2–0	4–0	0–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	3–0	0–1	2–0	4–0		0–0	4–1	2–1
União de Leiria !União de Leiria	3–1	0–2	1–1	1–2	0–1	2–2	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	0–3	1–0	0–1	1–0		2–3	0–0
Vitória de Guimarães !Vitória de Guimarães	1–0	1–0	0–4	0–0	4–1	2–4	3–1	3–2	4–2	3–0	0–1	0–4	2–0	1–2	0–1	3–0		3–0
Vitória de Setúbal !Vitória de Setúbal	2–0	0–2	2–2	1–1	1–0	0–2	1–2	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–3	1–1	1–1	1–0	4–1	4–0

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	Mário Jardel	Porto	30
2	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink	Boavista	20
3	Gaúcho	Estrela da Amadora	16
4	Constantino Jardim	Leça	15
4	Nuno Gomes	Boavista	15
6	Karoglan	Braga	14
7	Gilmar	Vitória de Guimarães	13
8	Edmilson	Marítimo	12
9	Edmilson	Porto	11
10	Marcos Severo	Salgueiros	10

Source: Footballzz^[2]

Footnotes

↑ "Teams". Footballzz.
↑ "Primeira Divisão 1996-97 – Top Scorers". Footballzz. Retrieved 22 May 2015.

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