1994–95 Primeira Divisão Explained

Competition:Primeira Divisão
Season:1994–95
Winners:Porto
14th title
Relegated:União da Madeira
Beira-Mar
Vitória de Setúbal
Continentalcup1:Champions League
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:Porto (group stage)
Continentalcup2:Cup Winners' Cup
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers:Sporting CP (first round)
Continentalcup3:UEFA Cup
Continentalcup3 Qualifiers:Benfica (first round)
V. Guimarães (first round)
Farense (first round)
League Topscorer:Hassan (21 goals)
Biggest Home Win:Salgueiros 6–0 Estrela da Amadora
(25 February 1995)
Biggest Away Win:Chaves 0–4 Porto
(30 October 1994)
Highest Scoring:Porto 5–2 Salgueiros
(8 January 1995)
Matches:306
Total Goals:731
Prevseason:1993–94
Nextseason:1995–96

The 1994–95 Primeira Divisão was the 61st edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 21 August 1994 with a match between Belenenses and Estrela da Amadora, and ended on 28 May 1995. The league was contested by 18 clubs with Benfica as the defending champions.

Porto won the league and qualified for the 1995–96 UEFA Champions League group stage, Sporting qualified for the 1994–95 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round, and Benfica, Vitória de Guimarães and Farense qualified for the 1995–96 UEFA Cup; in opposite, União da Madeira, Beira-Mar and Vitória de Setúbal were relegated to the Liga de Honra. Hassan was the top scorer with 21 goals.

This was the final season in which two points were awarded for a win; going forward this changed to three points.

Promotion and relegation

Teams relegated to Liga de Honra

Paços de Ferreira, Famalicão and Estoril-Praia, were consigned to the Liga de Honra following their final classification in 1993–94 season.

Teams promoted from Liga de Honra

The other three teams were replaced by Tirsense, União de Leiria and Chaves from the Liga de Honra.

Teams

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Stadia and locations

TeamHead CoachCityStadiumdata-sort-type="number" 1993–94 finish
Beira-MarAveiroEstádio Mário Duarte14th
Belenenses José RomãoLisbonEstádio do Restelo13th
Benfica Artur JorgeLisbonEstádio da Luz1st
Boavista Manuel JoséPortoEstádio do Bessa4th
Braga Manuel CajudaBragaEstádio Primeiro de Maio15th
ChavesChavesEstádio Municipal de Chaves3rd in Divisão de Honra
Estrela da Amadora Acácio CasimiroAmadoraEstádio José Gomes9th
Farense Paco FortesFaroEstádio de São Luís8th
Gil Vicente Vítor OliveiraBarcelosEstádio Adelino Ribeiro Novo10th
Marítimo António JesusFunchalEstádio dos Barreiros5th
Porto Bobby RobsonPortoEstádio das Antas2nd
Salgueiros Mário ReisPortoEstádio Engenheiro Vidal Pinheiro11th
Sporting Carlos QueirozLisbonEstádio José Alvalade3rd
Tirsense Eurico GomesSanto TirsoEstádio Abel Alves de Figueiredo1st in Divisão de Honra
União de Leiria Vítor ManuelLeiriaEstádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa2nd in Divisão de Honra
União da Madeira Ernesto PauloFunchalEstádio dos Barreiros12th
Vitória de Guimarães QuinitoGuimarãesEstádio D. Afonso Henriques7th
Vitória de Setúbal Raul ÁguasSetúbalEstádio do Bonfim6th

Managerial changes

TeamOutgoing managerDate of vacancyPosition in tableIncoming managerDate of appointment
Vitória de Setúbal Raul Águas1 October 199418th Diamantino Miranda2 October 1994
Belenenses José Romão1 October 199416th João Alves2 October 1994
Vitória de Setúbal Diamantino Miranda6 November 199418th Abel Braga7 November 1994
Estrela da Amadora Acácio Casimiro20 November 199512th Fernando Santos20 November 1995
União da Madeira Ernesto Paulo27 November 199517th Arthur Bernardes28 November 1995
Vitória de Setúbal Abel Braga25 February 199518th Mourinho Félix26 February 1995
30 April 199517th Acácio Barreto1 May 1995

League table

Top goalscorers

RankPlayerClubGoals
1 HassanFarense21
2 DomingosPorto19
3 MarceloTirsense17
4 ArturBoavista16
5 EdmilsonSalgueiros15
6 IsaíasBenfica14
EdinhoChaves
Paulo AlvesMarítimo
9 Nélson BertolazziLeiria12
10 Alex BunburyMarítimo11
Source: Footballzz[2]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Teams. Footbalzz.
  2. Web site: Primeira Divisão 1994-95 – Top Scorers . Footballzz . 21 May 2015.