1979–80 Primeira Divisão

46th season of top-tier Portuguese football Football league season

Primeira Liga
Season	1979-80
Champions	Sporting CP 15th title
Relegated	União de Leiria Estoril Beira-Mar Rio Ave
European Cup	Sporting CP
Cup Winners' Cup	S.L. Benfica
UEFA Cup	Porto Boavista
Matches played	240
Goals scored	600 (2.5 per match)
Top goalscorer	Rui Jordão (31 goals)
← 1978–79 1980–81 →

Statistics of Portuguese Liga in the 1979–80 season.

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and Sporting Clube de Portugal won the championship.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sporting CP (C)	30	24	4	2	67	17	+50	52	Qualification to European Cup first round
2	Porto	30	22	6	2	59	9	+50	50	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
3	Benfica	30	19	7	4	79	21	+58	45	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup preliminary round
4	Boavista	30	15	7	8	44	30	+14	37	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
5	Belenenses	30	13	8	9	33	38	−5	34
6	Vitória de Guimarães	30	11	10	9	42	38	+4	32
7	Espinho	30	11	6	13	29	42	−13	28
8	Portimonense	30	10	6	14	32	49	−17	26
9	Braga	30	10	6	14	34	40	−6	26
10	Varzim	30	8	10	12	37	45	−8	26
11	Marítimo	30	9	8	13	25	37	−12	26
12	Vitória de Setúbal	30	9	5	16	29	41	−12	23
13	União de Leiria (R)	30	6	9	15	26	49	−23	21	Relegation to Segunda Divisão
14	Estoril (R)	30	5	11	14	18	37	−19	21
15	Beira-Mar (R)	30	5	10	15	24	46	−22	20
16	Rio Ave (R)	30	5	3	22	22	61	−39	13

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

Benfica qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as winners of the 1980 Taça de Portugal Final.

Home \ Away	BEM	BEL	BEN	BOA	BRA	ESP	EST	MAR	PTM	POR	RAV	SCP	ULE	VAR	VGU	VSE
Beira-Mar		1–1	0–3	1–0	0–2	1–1	3–1	2–3	1–1	0–4	2–0	0–1	1–1	2–2	3–3	0–0
Belenenses	1–0		0–3	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	5–1	1–4	2–1
Benfica	5–0	8–0		1–2	3–1	4–3	4–1	4–0	1–0	0–0	8–0	3–2	3–0	4–0	4–0	5–1
Boavista	1–1	2–1	1–1		1–0	4–0	1–0	2–1	5–1	0–1	1–0	2–2	3–0	1–1	0–0	5–1
Braga	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–0		2–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–2	2–3	2–3	0–0	3–1	2–1	3–1
Espinho	2–1	1–1	0–3	0–2	2–1		2–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	2–0	2–1	0–1
Estoril	3–1	1–1	0–2	0–0	0–1	1–1		0–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	0–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	0–0
Marítimo	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	3–1		1–0	0–1	1–0	0–3	5–0	1–0	1–1	2–0
Portimonense	1–0	1–2	0–2	2–0	3–1	1–1	4–0	3–1		0–4	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	4–5	1–0
Porto	3–0	3–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	2–0	6–0		1–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	4–0	3–1
Rio Ave	1–2	1–2	0–3	1–2	1–0	0–2	0–2	4–0	0–2	1–3		1–3	0–0	3–2	1–1	2–1
Sporting CP	2–0	2–0	3–1	4–1	2–1	4–0	2–0	4–1	2–0	1–0	5–0		3–0	3–0	2–0	4–1
União de Leiria	1–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	2–4	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–4	2–0	1–2		2–0	1–4	1–1
Varzim	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–2	3–2	0–0	0–0	3–0	5–1	0–0	3–0	0–0	4–2		1–1	3–1
Vitória de Guimarães	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–3	3–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	3–1	0–1	2–1	2–2		1–0
Vitória de Setúbal	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–1	3–1	3–0	1–0	0–1	4–0	0–2	2–0	0–3	1–0	4–0	1–0

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

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Rui Jordão	Sporting	31
2	Nené	Benfica	30
3	Fernando Gomes	Porto	23
4	Mundinho	Vitória de Guimarães	16
5	Reinaldo	Benfica	15
6	Júlio	Boavista	12
6	Manoel	Sporting	12
8	Mirobaldo	Portimonense	11
9	Chico Faria	Braga	10
9	Manuel Fernandes	Sporting	10

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v t e 1979–80 in Portuguese football
Domestic leagues	Primeira Divisão Segunda Divisão Terceira Divisão
Domestic cups	Taça de Portugal (Final) Supertaça de Portugal
European competitions	European Cup Cup Winners' Cup UEFA Cup
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Primeira Divisão	Benfica
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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