1978–79 Primeira Divisão

45th season of top-tier Portuguese football Football league season

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)
← 1977–78 1979–80 →

Statistics of Portuguese Liga in the 1978–79 season.

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and F.C. Porto won the championship.

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

Source: RSSSF and footballzz.co.uk
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

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

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
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

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v t e 1978–79 in Portuguese football
Domestic leagues	Primeira Divisão Segunda Divisão Terceira Divisão
Domestic cups	Taça de Portugal (Final)
European competitions	European Cup Cup Winners' Cup UEFA Cup
Club seasons
Primeira Divisão	Benfica
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v t e 1978–79 in European football (UEFA)
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Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '78 '79 England Faroe Islands '78 '79 Finland '78 '79 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '78 '79 Israel Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '78 '79 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '78 '79 Spain Sweden '78 '79 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark England Faroe Islands '78 '79 Finland '78 '79 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '78 '79 Israel Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '78 '79 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Wales Yugoslavia
League cups	England Republic of Ireland Scotland Switzerland
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Super Cup
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup Balkans Cup '77–'78 '79–'80