1991–92 Primeira Divisão
Season | 1991–92 |
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Champions | Porto 12th title |
Relegated | Torreense Penafiel União da Madeira |
Champions League | Porto (First round) |
Cup Winners' Cup | Boavista (first round) |
UEFA Cup | Benfica (first round) Sporting CP (first round) Vitória de Guimarães (first round) |
Matches played | 306 |
Goals scored | 692 (2.26 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Ricky (30 goals) |
Biggest home win | Torreense 8–1 Estoril (2 May 1992) |
Biggest away win | União da Madeira 1–5 Sporting CP (22 February 1992) |
Highest scoring | Torreense 8–1 Estoril (2 May 1992) |
← 1990–91 1992–93 → |
The 1991–92 Primeira Divisão was the 58th edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 18 August 1991 with a match between Desp. Chaves and Estoril, and ended on 16 May 1992. The league was contested by 18 clubs with Benfica as the defending champions.
Porto qualified for the 1992–93 UEFA Champions League first round, Boavista qualified for the 1992–93 European Cup Winners' Cup first round, and Benfica, Sporting CP and Vitória de Guimarães qualified for the 1992–93 UEFA Cup first round; in opposite, Torreense, Penafiel and União da Madeira were relegated to the Liga de Honra. Ricky was the top scorer with 30 goals.
Promotion and relegation
Teams relegated to Liga de Honra
Tirsense, Vitória de Setúbal, Estrela da Amadora, Belenenses and Nacional were consigned to the Liga de Honra following their final classification in 1990-91 season where five teams were relegated due to the reduction of teams.
Teams promoted from Liga de Honra
The other five teams were replaced by Paços de Ferreira, Estoril and Torreense from the Liga de Honra.
Teams
Stadia and locations
Managerial changes
Team | Outgoing manager | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
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Braga | ![]() |
8 December 1991 | 12th | ![]() |
9 December 1991 |
Sporting | ![]() |
8 March 1992 | 3rd | ![]() |
9 March 1992 |
Famalicão | ![]() |
8 March 1992 | 16th | ![]() |
9 March 1992 |
Braga | ![]() |
29 March 1992 | 11th | ![]() |
30 March 1992 |
Penafiel | ![]() |
29 March 1992 | 16th | ![]() |
30 March 1992 |
League table
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | Porto (C) | 34 | 24 | 8 | 2 | 58 | 11 | +47 | 56 | Qualification to Champions League first round |
2 | Benfica | 34 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 62 | 23 | +39 | 46 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
3 | Boavista | 34 | 16 | 12 | 6 | 45 | 27 | +18 | 44 | Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round[a] |
4 | Sporting CP | 34 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 56 | 26 | +30 | 44 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
5 | Vitória de Guimarães | 34 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 46 | 35 | +11 | 41 | |
6 | Farense | 34 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 35 | 33 | +2 | 35 | |
7 | Marítimo | 34 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 40 | 38 | +2 | 35 | |
8 | Beira-Mar | 34 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 32 | 41 | −9 | 32 | |
9 | Chaves | 34 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 36 | 45 | −9 | 30 | |
10 | Estoril | 34 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 34 | 54 | −20 | 30 | |
11 | Braga | 34 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 41 | 49 | −8 | 29 | |
12 | Paços de Ferreira | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 31 | 45 | −14 | 29 | |
13 | Gil Vicente | 34 | 11 | 7 | 16 | 26 | 42 | −16 | 29 | |
14 | Famalicão | 34 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 27 | 40 | −13 | 28 | |
15 | Salgueiros | 34 | 7 | 14 | 13 | 27 | 35 | −8 | 28 | |
16 | Torreense (R) | 34 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 36 | 43 | −7 | 27 | Relegation to Segunda Divisão de Honra |
17 | Penafiel (R) | 34 | 7 | 11 | 16 | 30 | 47 | −17 | 25 | |
18 | União da Madeira (R) | 34 | 9 | 6 | 19 | 30 | 58 | −28 | 24 |
Rules for classification: 1st points, 2nd head-to-head, 3rd goals average
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
- ^ Boavista qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as Portuguese Cup winners
Results
Top goalscorers
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
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1 | ![]() |
Boavista | 30 |
2 | ![]() |
Sporting | 25 |
3 | ![]() |
Vitória de Guimarães | 15 |
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Braga | ||
5 | ![]() |
Benfica | 12 |
6 | ![]() |
Famalicão | 11 |
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Torreense | ||
8 | ![]() |
Paços de Ferreira | 10 |
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Marítimo | ||
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Chaves | ||
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Porto |
Source: Foradejogo[2]
Footnotes
- ^ "Teams". Footballzz.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Primeira Divisão 1991-92 – Melhores Marcadores". foradejogo. Retrieved 2 June 2015.