1990–91 Primeira Divisão

57th season of top-tier Portuguese football Football league season

Primeira Divisão
Season	1990–91
Champions	Benfica 29th title
Relegated	Tirsense Vitória de Setúbal Estrela da Amadora Belenenses Nacional
European Cup	Benfica (first round)
Cup Winners' Cup	Porto (first round)
UEFA Cup	Sporting CP (first round) Boavista (first round) Salgueiros (first round)
Matches played	342
Goals scored	874 (2.56 per match)
Top goalscorer	Rui Águas (25 goals)
Biggest home win	Chaves 6–0 Beira-Mar (28 April 1991)
Biggest away win	Penafiel 2–5 Sporting CP (26 August 1990)
Highest scoring	Tirsense 4–4 Boavista (12 January 1991) Braga 6–2 Nacional (2 February 1991)
← 1989–90 1991–92 →

The 1990–91 Primeira Divisão was the 57th edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 19 August 1990 with a match between Farense and Nacional, and ended on 26 May 1991. The league was contested by 20 clubs with Porto as the defending champions.

Benfica qualified for the 1991–92 European Cup first round, Porto qualified for the 1991–92 European Cup Winners' Cup first round, and Sporting CP, Boavista and Salgueiros qualified for the 1991–92 UEFA Cup first round; in opposite, Tirsense, Vitória de Setúbal, Estrela da Amadora, Belenenses and Nacional were relegated to the Liga de Honra. Rui Águas was the top scorer with 25 goals.

Promotion and relegation

Teams relegated to Liga de Honra

Portimonense and Feirense were consigned to the Liga de Honra following their final classification in 1989-90 season.

Teams promoted from Liga de Honra

The other two teams were replaced by Salgueiros, Gil Vicente, Farense and Famalicão from the Liga de Honra, as the league increase from 18 to 20 teams.

Teams

Stadia and locations

Benfica
Sporting CP
Belenenses

Porto
Boavista
Salgueiros

V. Setúbalclass=notpageimage| Location of teams in Primeira Divisão 1990-91 (Mainland)

Marítimo
União Madeira
Nacionalclass=notpageimage| Location of teams in Primeira Divisão 1990-91 (Madeira)

Team	Head Coach	City	Stadium	1989–90 finish
Beira-Mar	Vítor Urbano	Aveiro	Estádio Mário Duarte	11th
Belenenses	Henri Depireux	Lisbon	Estádio do Restelo	6th
Benfica	Sven-Göran Eriksson	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	2nd
Boavista	João Alves	Porto	Estádio do Bessa	8th
Braga	Raul Águas	Braga	Estádio Primeiro de Maio	12th
Chaves	Manuel Barbosa	Chaves	Estádio Municipal de Chaves	5th
Estrela da Amadora	Manuel Fernandes	Amadora	Estádio José Gomes	13th
Famalicão	Abel Braga	Vila Nova de Famalicão	Estádio Municipal 22 de Junho	4th in Segunda Divisão
Farense	Paco Fortes	Faro	Estádio de São Luís	3rd in Segunda Divisão
Gil Vicente	Rodolfo Reis	Barcelos	Estádio Adelino Ribeiro Novo	2nd in Segunda Divisão
Marítimo	Ferreira da Costa	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	10th
Nacional	Jair Picerni	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	14th
Penafiel	Joaquim Teixeira	Penafiel	Estádio Municipal 25 de Abril	15th
Porto	Artur Jorge	Porto	Estádio das Antas	1st
Salgueiros	Zoran Filipovic	Porto	Estádio Engenheiro Vidal Pinheiro	1st in Segunda Divisão
Sporting CP	Marinho Peres	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade	3rd
Tirsense	Prof. Neca	Santo Tirso	Estádio Abel Alves de Figueiredo	9th
União da Madeira	Rui Mâncio	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	16th
Vitória de Guimarães	Paulo Autuori	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	4th
Vitória de Setúbal	José Romão	Setúbal	Estádio do Bonfim	7th

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Vitória de Guimarães	Paulo Autuori	23 September 1990	13th	Pedro Rocha	24 September 1990
Marítimo	Ferreira da Costa	23 September 1990	17th	Paulo Autuori	24 September 1990
Penafiel	Joaquim Teixeira	30 September 1990	20th	Vítor Manuel	1 October 1990
Braga	Raul Águas	28 October 1990	19th	Carlos Garcia	29 October 1990
Belenenses	Henri Depireux	21 October 1990	19th	Antônio Lopes	1 November 1990
Boavista	João Alves	14 November 1990	5th	Raul Águas	9 December 1990
Vitória de Setúbal	José Romão	2 December 1990	19th	Quinito	3 December 1990
Chaves	Manuel Barbosa	23 December 1990	18th	José Romão	24 December 1990
Belenenses	Antônio Lopes	6 January 1991	18th	Moisés Andrade	7 January 1991
Vitória de Guimarães	Pedro Rocha	12 January 1991	12th	João Alves	13 January 1991
Estrela da Amadora	Manuel Fernandes	27 January 1991	15th	Jesualdo Ferreira	28 January 1991
Nacional	Jair Picerni	2 February 1991	17th	Manuel de Oliveira	3 February 1991
Nacional	Manuel de Oliveira	14 April 1991	20th	Amaro Cavalcante	15 April 1991

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Benfica (C)	38	32	5	1	89	18	+71	69	Qualification to European Cup first round
2	Porto	38	31	5	2	77	22	+55	67	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Sporting CP	38	24	8	6	58	23	+35	56	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4	Boavista	38	15	11	12	53	46	+7	41
5	Salgueiros	38	12	12	14	32	48	−16	36
6	Beira-Mar	38	12	12	14	40	49	−9	36
7	Braga	38	13	8	17	42	45	−3	34
8	Chaves	38	10	14	14	49	52	−3	34
9	Vitória de Guimarães	38	12	10	16	31	40	−9	34
10	Marítimo	38	14	6	18	46	47	−1	34
11	Farense	38	12	10	16	37	48	−11	34
12	União da Madeira	38	9	15	14	30	51	−21	33
13	Gil Vicente	38	11	11	16	34	46	−12	33
14	Famalicão	38	11	11	16	33	41	−8	33
15	Penafiel	38	12	9	17	34	51	−17	33
16	Tirsense (R)	38	10	13	15	39	50	−11	33	Relegation to Segunda Divisão de Honra
17	Vitória de Setúbal (R)	38	11	10	17	53	53	0	32
18	Estrela da Amadora (R)	38	9	14	15	37	46	−9	32
19	Belenenses (R)	38	10	9	19	27	38	−11	29
20	Nacional (R)	38	8	11	19	33	60	−27	27

Source: Primeira Divisão
Rules for classification: 1st points, 2nd head-to-head, 3rd goals average
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Porto qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as Portuguese Cup winners

Results

Home \ Away	BEM	BEL	BEN	BOA	BRA	CHA	EST	FAM	FAR	GVI	MAR	NAC	PEN	POR	SAL	SCP	TIR	UNI	VGU	VSE
Beira-Mar		1–1	0–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–2	1–1	0–1	3–2	4–1	1–0	1–0
Belenenses	2–2		0–2	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	3–0	1–2	2–3	1–0	0–1	2–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–1
Benfica	3–0	2–0		1–1	2–0	1–0	4–0	1–0	2–0	3–0	3–1	3–0	2–0	2–2	4–0	1–1	5–0	4–1	2–0	2–0
Boavista	1–1	1–0	1–2		2–0	2–0	3–0	2–2	2–0	2–1	1–0	4–0	5–0	1–1	0–0	0–3	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–1
Braga	2–1	2–0	1–3	5–2		1–1	1–0	1–0	4–2	1–2	3–1	6–2	2–0	0–1	3–0	0–1	1–2	1–2	0–0	2–3
Chaves	6–0	2–0	0–3	0–1	0–1		1–3	3–1	4–2	1–1	3–1	1–1	2–2	1–2	1–0	2–2	1–1	2–1	1–0	4–3
Estrela da Amadora	2–0	1–0	1–4	1–0	2–0	0–0		1–1	0–1	5–2	0–2	3–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–0	2–0	2–2
Famalicão	2–1	3–0	1–3	0–3	4–1	1–1	1–1		2–3	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	0–0
Farense	3–2	0–0	2–2	1–2	0–0	2–0	3–0	1–0		2–0	1–2	2–1	2–0	0–1	5–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	2–0	2–0
Gil Vicente	0–0	2–1	2–3	4–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	1–0	2–1		2–0	2–0	0–0	0–2	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–0
Marítimo	2–2	1–0	0–2	1–1	0–1	2–2	1–1	1–0	3–1	1–0		1–0	1–0	1–2	0–2	1–0	2–2	2–1	1–2	2–1
Nacional	0–0	0–1	0–2	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	1–3	3–1	2–1	0–0		1–1	2–3	1–1	0–2	0–0	1–2	3–1	1–1
Penafiel	3–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	4–1	0–2	1–1	1–2		0–0	1–0	2–5	1–0	3–0	1–0	2–1
Porto	2–1	0–0	0–2	3–1	2–0	3–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	3–1	1–2	2–0		3–0	2–0	2–1	5–0	5–0	4–1
Salgueiros	2–1	0–0	0–2	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	3–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–3		0–0	1–0	3–0	0–0	1–0
Sporting CP	2–0	1–0	0–2	2–1	3–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	3–0	2–0	0–2	5–1		1–0	2–0	3–0	1–0
Tirsense	2–0	1–0	1–3	4–4	1–0	0–2	1–1	2–0	3–2	1–2	1–0	3–1	2–2	1–2	2–1	0–0		0–1	1–0	1–1
União da Madeira	2–2	1–1	0–2	0–2	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	1–3	2–2	0–2	0–0		0–0	1–1
Vitória de Guimarães	1–1	1–0	0–2	0–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	3–1	3–0	0–2	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–0		4–2
Vitória de Setúbal	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	3–1	5–2	2–0	3–0	0–2	3–1	3–3	3–0	0–1	2–3

Source: Foradejogo (in Portuguese)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Rui Águas	Benfica	25
2	Domingos	Porto	24
3	Fernando Gomes	Sporting	22
4	Ricky	Estrela da Amadora	15
5	Yekini	Vitória de Setúbal	13
5	Jorge Andrade	Boavista	13
7	Geraldão	Porto	12
7	Curcic	Farense	12
9	Rudi	Chaves	11
	Marlon Brandão	Boavista
	Tozé	Salgueiros

Source: Foradejogo

References

"Teams". Footballzz.
"Primeira Divisão 1990-91 – Top Scorers". Footballzz. Retrieved 2 June 2015.

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