1997–98 Primeira Divisão

Primeira Divisão
Season	1997–98
Champions	Porto; 17th title
Relegated	Leça; Varzim; Belenenses
Champions League	Porto (group stage) ; Benfica (second qualifying round)
Cup Winners' Cup	Braga (first round)
UEFA Cup	V. Guimarães (first round); Sporting CP (first round) ; Marítimo (first round)
Intertoto Cup	Estrela da Amadora (third round)
Matches played	306
Goals scored	770 (2.52 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mário Jardel (26 goals)
Biggest home win	Benfica 7–1 Leça; (17 May 1998)
Biggest away win	0–4 ; (3 times)
Highest scoring	Porto 7–2 Salgueiros ; (10 May 1998)
	← 1996–97 1998–99 →

The 1997–98 Primeira Divisão was the 64th edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 25 August 1997 with a match between Varzim and Porto, and ended on 17 May 1998. The league was contested by 18 clubs with Porto as the defending champions.

Porto won the league and qualified for the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League group stage, along with Benfica, who qualified for the second round. Braga qualified for the 1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round, and V. Guimarães, Sporting CP and Marítimo qualified for the 1998–99 UEFA Cup; in opposite, Leça, Varzim and Belenenses were relegated to the Liga de Honra. Mário Jardel was the top scorer with 26 goals.

Promotion and relegation

Teams relegated to Liga de Honra

Espinho, União de Leiria and Gil Vicente, were consigned to the Liga de Honra following their final classification in 1996–97 season.

Teams promoted from Liga de Honra

The other three teams were replaced by Campomaiorense, Varzim and Académica from the Liga de Honra.

Teams

^[1]

Stadia and locations

Farense

Académica

Belenenses
Benfica
Sporting

Estrela

Campomaiorense

Leça

Porto
Boavista
Salgueiros

Location of teams in Primeira Divisão 1997-98 (Mainland)

Marítimo

class=notpageimage|

Location of teams in Primeira Divisão 1997-98 (Madeira)

Team	Head Coach	City	Stadium	1996–97 finish
Académica	Henrique Calisto	Coimbra	Estádio Cidade de Coimbra	3rd in Divisão de Honra
Belenenses	Mladenov	Lisbon	Estádio do Restelo	13th
Benfica	Manuel José	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	3rd
Boavista	Mário Reis	Porto	Estádio do Bessa	7th
Braga	Castro Santos	Braga	Estádio Primeiro de Maio	4th
Campomaiorense	Bernardino Pedroto	Campo Maior	Estádio Capitão Cesar Correia	1st in Divisão de Honra
Chaves	José Romão	Chaves	Estádio Municipal de Chaves	10th
Estrela da Amadora	Fernando Santos	Amadora	Estádio José Gomes	9th
Farense	Paco Fortes	Faro	Estádio de São Luís	11th
Leça	Rodolfo Reis	Leça da Palmeira	Estádio do Leça FC	14th
Marítimo	Augusto Inácio	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	8th
Porto	António Oliveira	Porto	Estádio das Antas	1st
Rio Ave	Carlos Brito	Vila do Conde	Estádio dos Arcos	15th
Salgueiros	Carlos Manuel	Porto	Estádio Engenheiro Vidal Pinheiro	6th
Sporting	Octávio Machado	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade	2nd
Varzim	Horácio Gonçalves	Póvoa de Varzim	Estádio do Varzim Sport Club	2nd in Divisão de Honra
Vitória de Guimarães	Jaime Pacheco	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	5th
Vitória de Setúbal	Manuel Fernandes	Setúbal	Estádio do Bonfim	12th

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Benfica	Manuel José	20 September 1997	11th	Mário Wilson	21 September 1997
Leça	Rodolfo Reis	28 September 1997	16th	Vítor Manuel	29 September 1997
Belenenses	Mladenov	5 October 1997	17th	Manuel Cajuda	6 October 1997
Campomaiorense	Bernardino Pedroto	19 October 1997	17th	João Alves	20 October 1997
Benfica	Mário Wilson	1 November 1997	5th	Graeme Souness	2 November 1997
Sporting	Octávio Machado	1 November 1997	4th	Francisco Vital	2 November 1997
Vitória de Guimarães	Jaime Pacheco	2 November 1997	3rd	Quinito	3 November 1997
Chaves	José Romão	9 November 1997	18th	Manuel Correia	10 November 1997
Vitória de Setúbal	Manuel Fernandes	9 November 1997	14th	Barrios	10 November 1997
Sporting	Francisco Vital	6 December 1997	5th	Vicente Cantatore	7 December 1997
Boavista	Mário Reis	12 December 1997	15th	Jaime Pacheco	13 December 1997
Salgueiros	Carlos Manuel	20 December 1997	6th	Dito	21 December 1997
Sporting	Vicente Cantatore	21 December 1997	5th	Carlos Manuel	22 December 1997
Académica Coimbra	Henrique Calisto	31 January 1997	15th	José Romão	15 February 1998
Chaves	Manuel Correia	11 January 1998	17th	Álvaro Magalhães	12 January 1998
Braga	Castro Santos	19 January 1998	10th	Alberto Pazos	20 January 1998
Varzim	Horácio Gonçalves	22 March 1998	16th	António Miranda	23 March 1998
Vitória de Setúbal	Barrios	5 April 1998	13th	Carlos Cardoso	6 April 1998

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Porto (C)	34	24	5	5	75	38	+37	77	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Benfica	34	20	8	6	62	29	+33	68	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
3	Vitória de Guimarães	34	17	8	9	42	25	+17	59	Qualification to UEFA Cup First round
4	Sporting CP	34	15	11	8	45	33	+12	56
5	Marítimo	34	16	8	10	44	35	+9	56
6	Boavista	34	15	10	9	54	31	+23	55
7	Estrela da Amadora	34	14	8	12	42	41	+1	50	Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round
8	Salgueiros	34	13	10	11	48	44	+4	49
9	Rio Ave	34	12	10	12	43	43	0	46
10	Braga	34	11	12	11	48	49	−1	45	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round^[a]
11	Campomaiorense	34	11	7	16	53	58	−5	40
12	Leça (R)	34	10	8	16	29	52	−23	38	Relegation to Segunda Divisão de Honra^[b]
13	Vitória de Setúbal	34	10	7	17	38	43	−5	37
14	Farense	34	8	13	13	41	50	−9	37
15	Académica	34	8	12	14	27	41	−14	36
16	Chaves	34	10	5	19	31	55	−24	35
17	Varzim (R)	34	6	11	17	26	51	−25	29	Relegation to Segunda Divisão de Honra
18	Belenenses (R)	34	5	9	20	22	52	−30	24	Relegation to Segunda Divisão de Honra

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

^ Braga qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as Portuguese Cup runners-up
^ Leça was demoted administratively

Results

Home \ Away	ACA	BEL	BEN	BOA	BRA	CPM	CHA	EST	FAR	LEÇ	MAR	POR	RAV	SAL	SCP	VAR	VGU	VSE
Académica		0–0	1–2	2–0	2–2	1–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–0
Belenenses	2–0		1–2	0–0	2–2	0–1	0–1	0–2	0–3	0–1	0–2	1–0	2–4	1–2	0–4	1–0	1–0	1–0
Benfica	1–1	2–1		1–2	3–0	4–0	3–1	2–2	3–1	7–1	3–1	3–0	2–1	2–2	0–0	4–0	1–0	2–0
Boavista	6–0	4–0	0–0		0–0	1–2	2–1	4–0	2–2	2–0	0–1	3–4	1–2	3–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	2–1
Braga	3–2	1–1	1–1	1–2		2–1	5–0	1–1	2–2	3–1	3–1	1–2	1–0	0–2	2–0	3–1	3–2	2–2
Campomaiorense	1–2	2–1	1–2	2–2	4–0		2–1	2–0	5–2	4–0	2–1	2–2	4–1	0–0	3–5	1–1	2–3	2–1
Chaves	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–3	1–2	1–0		2–0	2–2	0–1	1–0	2–2	0–2	0–0	3–2	2–1	1–2	1–3
Estrela da Amadora	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–2	1–0	2–1	4–1		2–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–2	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–0
Farense	0–0	3–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–1		1–1	0–2	1–2	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	2–0
Leça	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–3	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–4	2–1		1–1	2–3	2–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–3
Marítimo	4–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–0		3–2	3–2	1–4	0–1	2–1	0–1	1–0
Porto	2–1	2–0	2–0	3–2	4–0	3–0	3–1	4–0	5–2	3–1	2–1		2–0	7–2	1–1	4–3	1–0	1–0
Rio Ave	3–0	3–0	3–1	1–1	0–4	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–3	2–2	2–0	0–0		1–1	0–0	0–0	1–2	3–0
Salgueiros	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–0	5–2	2–0	2–1	4–1	0–0	2–0	1–3	5–1		0–2	3–1	0–0	1–1
Sporting CP	1–0	1–0	1–4	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–2	3–2	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–2	2–1		1–1	1–1	2–1
Varzim	1–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–0	0–4	0–2	1–3	0–2	0–1		1–2	1–0
Vitória de Guimarães	1–0	2–2	0–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	5–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	3–0	1–0	5–0		2–1
Vitória de Setúbal	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–2	5–1	2–1	1–2	2–1	4–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–3	2–0	1–1	0–0

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

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Mário Jardel	Porto	26
2	Nuno Gomes	Benfica	18
3	Ayew	Boavista	16
4	Isaías	Campomaiorense	14
4	Karoglan	Braga	14
6	Nandinho	Salgueirs	13
7	Gilmar	Vitória de Guimarães	12
	Constantino Jardim	Leça
	Artur Jorge Vicente	Braga
10	Vali Gasimov	Vitória de Setúbal	11
10	Alex Bunbury	Marítimo