1978–79_Primeira_Divisão

Primeira Liga
Season	1978-79
Champions	F.C. Porto ; 7th title
Relegated	Famalicão; Barreirense; Académica de Coimbra; Académico de Viseu
European Cup	F.C. Porto
Cup Winners' Cup	Boavista
UEFA Cup	Benfica; Sporting CP
Matches played	240
Goals scored	626 (2.61 per match)
Top goalscorer	Fernando Gomes (27 goals)
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1978–79 Primeira Divisão

45th season of top-tier Portuguese football

Statistics of Portuguese Liga in the 1978–79 season.

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Porto (C)	30	21	8	1	70	19	+51	50	Qualification to European Cup first round
2	Benfica	30	23	3	4	75	21	+54	49	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
3	Sporting CP	30	17	8	5	46	22	+24	42	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4	Braga	30	16	5	9	49	35	+14	37
5	Varzim	30	11	10	9	30	29	+1	32
6	Vitória de Guimarães	30	12	7	11	44	38	+6	31
7	Vitória de Setúbal	30	12	7	11	38	38	0	31
8	Belenenses	30	10	9	11	47	43	+4	29
9	Boavista	30	12	3	15	36	40	−4	27	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
10	Marítimo	30	11	5	14	36	37	−1	27
11	Estoril	30	8	10	12	24	42	−18	26
12	Beira-Mar	30	11	2	17	44	56	−12	24
13	Famalicão (R)	30	9	6	15	30	45	−15	24	Relegation to Segunda Divisão
14	Barreirense (R)	30	8	6	16	24	45	−21	22
15	Académica (R)	30	5	8	17	20	41	−21	18
16	Académico de Viseu (R)	30	5	1	24	13	75	−62	11

Home \ Away	ACA	ACV	BAR	BEM	BEL	BEN	BOA	BRA	EST	FAM	MAR	POR	SCP	VAR	VGU	VSE
Académica		4–0	2–1	3–0	3–1	0–2	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–2	1–3	0–3	0–0	1–1	2–2	0–0
Académico de Viseu	1–0		1–0	0–3	1–3	2–6	1–0	1–1	0–3	0–1	1–2	0–5	0–1	1–0	0–1	2–1
Barreirense	1–0	1–0		0–4	1–1	0–4	2–1	0–1	1–1	3–5	2–0	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–1
Beira-Mar	1–0	4–0	1–0		3–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–1	3–0	2–0	2–3	1–2	2–2	2–4	2–3
Belenenses	2–1	4–0	2–3	4–0		1–0	2–4	7–1	1–1	2–0	3–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–0
Benfica	6–1	5–0	1–0	5–1	2–1		3–0	2–0	5–1	5–3	3–1	1–1	5–0	3–0	3–2	2–0
Boavista	1–0	5–0	0–3	4–1	2–2	0–1		2–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–2	2–0	0–1	0–3	2–1
Braga	3–0	4–0	2–0	3–2	2–1	0–2	3–1		3–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–1
Estoril	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	0–2	0–1	1–4		0–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	3–5	2–0	1–0
Famalicão	0–0	3–0	2–0	1–2	2–1	0–1	1–0	2–2	0–1		1–0	0–4	1–2	0–0	2–0	0–0
Marítimo	0–0	2–0	4–0	1–2	1–0	2–1	2–2	1–1	3–0	3–0		0–1	2–3	1–0	1–2	4–1
Porto	3–0	6–1	4–1	6–1	4–0	1–0	0–0	3–2	2–0	2–1	3–1		0–0	3–0	1–1	5–1
Sporting CP	1–0	2–0	2–0	3–0	5–1	0–1	2–0	2–0	4–0	3–0	1–0	0–0		2–0	3–0	2–1
Varzim	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	0–0	1–0		1–0	1–1
Vitória de Guimarães	3–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–2	3–1	0–1	3–1	3–1	0–2	1–3	1–1	3–1		5–0
Vitória de Setúbal	1–0	4–1	0–0	2–0	2–3	2–1	4–1	2–0	2–0	3–1	0–0	0–1	2–2	1–0	2–0

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[3]
1	Fernando Gomes	Porto	27
2	Nené	Benfica	25
3	António Oliveira	Porto	17
3	Reinaldo	Benfica	17
5	Jeremias	Vitória de Guimarães	13
5	China	Marítimo	13
7	Arnaldo Silva	Marítimo	12
8	Gomes	Boavista	11
	Lincoln	Belenenses
	Lito	Braga
	João Alves	Benfica

1978–79 Primeira Divisão