1981–82 Primeira Divisão

48th season of top-tier Portuguese football Football league season

Primeira Liga
Season	1981–82
Champions	Sporting CP 16th title
Relegated	Penafiel Académico de Viseu Belenenses União de Leiria
European Cup	Sporting CP (first round)
Cup Winners' Cup	Sporting Braga (first round)
UEFA Cup	Benfica (first round) Porto (first round)
Matches played	240
Goals scored	563 (2.35 per match)
Top goalscorer	Jacques (27 goals)
← 1980–81 1982–83 →

Statistics of Portuguese Liga in the 1981–82 season.

Overview

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

C.F. Os Belenenses, who had co-founded the league in 1934 with Sporting, S.L. Benfica and F.C. Porto, was relegated for the first time.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sporting CP (C)	30	19	8	3	66	26	+40	46	Qualification to European Cup first round
2	Benfica	30	20	4	6	60	22	+38	44	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
3	Porto	30	17	9	4	46	17	+29	43	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4	Vitória de Guimarães	30	13	12	5	42	22	+20	38
5	Rio Ave	30	13	8	9	26	31	−5	34
6	Portimonense	30	12	8	10	35	24	+11	32
7	Braga	30	11	8	11	34	42	−8	30	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup preliminary round
8	Vitória de Setúbal	30	9	10	11	30	35	−5	28
9	Boavista	30	10	6	14	36	37	−1	26
10	Espinho	30	7	11	12	32	42	−10	25
11	Amora	30	6	12	12	29	37	−8	24
12	Estoril	30	7	10	13	30	41	−11	24
13	Penafiel (R)	30	9	5	16	20	37	−17	23	Relegation to Segunda Divisão
14	Académico de Viseu (R)	30	9	5	16	24	52	−28	23
15	Belenenses (R)	30	5	10	15	28	48	−20	20
16	União de Leiria (R)	30	8	4	18	25	50	−25	20

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

Home \ Away	ACV	AMO	BEL	BEN	BOA	BRA	ESP	EST	PEN	PTM	POR	RAV	SCP	ULE	VGU	VSE
Académico de Viseu		0–0	2–0	0–2	1–0	2–0	0–0	3–0	1–0	3–0	0–1	0–0	0–2	2–1	2–0	2–0
Amora	4–2		2–1	1–0	0–0	5–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	2–1	2–3	2–0	2–2	0–1
Belenenses	2–0	0–0		1–4	1–0	0–0	4–0	2–1	1–1	2–2	0–1	0–0	1–3	1–0	2–2	1–1
Benfica	3–0	2–1	3–1		2–0	3–0	5–1	3–0	1–0	2–0	3–1	3–0	1–1	3–0	1–0	2–1
Boavista	6–1	2–0	2–1	2–1		0–1	5–0	1–0	4–0	1–3	0–6	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–1
Braga	5–0	2–0	1–1	1–3	2–2		2–1	2–1	2–0	0–3	1–1	1–0	0–2	3–1	2–0	1–1
Espinho	4–1	4–2	2–0	1–2	0–0	0–1		2–1	3–0	0–0	0–0	5–1	0–1	3–1	0–0	0–0
Estoril	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–1		2–0	2–1	1–1	0–0	0–3	2–0	2–2	4–2
Penafiel	1–0	1–0	3–1	0–3	1–0	0–1	2–0	3–1		0–1	0–0	2–0	0–2	3–1	0–0	0–1
Portimonense	4–0	1–1	5–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	1–2	0–0		1–1	0–1	2–0	2–0	0–0	2–0
Porto	3–0	1–1	3–0	2–1	2–1	3–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–0		1–2	2–0	3–0	0–0	2–1
Rio Ave	1–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	3–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–2		0–0	2–0	2–1	1–0
Sporting CP	4–0	3–0	2–2	3–1	3–3	3–1	1–1	3–2	6–0	1–0	1–0	7–1		2–2	2–2	4–1
União de Leiria	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–3	1–0	4–0	2–2	2–1	2–1	0–1	1–3	1–0	0–2		1–0	0–0
Vitória de Guimarães	3–0	4–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	3–1	0–0	4–1		5–0
Vitória de Setúbal	4–0	1–0	1–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	2–0	1–1

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

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Jacques	Porto	27
2	Rui Jordão	Sporting	26
3	Nené	Benfica	24
4	Joaquim Rocha	Vitória de Guimarães	16
5	Manuel Fernandes	Sporting	15
6	Caio Cambalhota	Amora	14
7	António Oliveira	Sporting	12
	N'Habola	União de Leiria
	Norton de Matos	Portimonense
10	José Abrantes	Estoril	10

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v t e 1981–82 in Portuguese football
Domestic leagues	Primeira Divisão Segunda Divisão Terceira Divisão
Domestic cups	Taça de Portugal (Final) Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
European competitions	European Cup Cup Winners' Cup UEFA Cup
Club seasons
Primeira Divisão	Benfica
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v t e 1981–82 in European football (UEFA)
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Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '81 '82 England Faroe Islands '81 '82 Finland '81 '82 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '81 '82 Israel Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '81 '82 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '81 '82 Spain Sweden '81 '82 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark England Faroe Islands '81 '82 Finland '81 '82 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '81 '82 Israel Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '81 '82 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union '81 '82 Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Wales Yugoslavia
League cups	England Republic of Ireland Scotland
Super cups	Soviet Union '81
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final)
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup Balkans Cup '80–'81 '81–'83