1938–39 Primeira Divisão

The 1938–39 Primeira Divisão season was the fifth season of top-tier football in Portugal. The competition was renamed Campeonato Nacional da Primeira Divisão (National Championship of the First Division) or Primeira Divisão for short.

Primeira Divisão

Season	1938–39
Champions	F.C. Porto 2nd title
Matches played	56
Goals scored	273 (4.88 per match)
← 1937–38 (Campeonato da Liga) 1939–40 →

Overview

Académica

Porto

Académico

Barreirense

Belenenses

Casa Pia

Benfica

Sporting

Location of teams in the 1938–39 Liga

It was contested by 8 teams, and F.C. Porto won the championship.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Porto (C)	14	10	3	1	57	20	+37	23
2	Sporting CP	14	10	2	2	44	17	+27	22
3	Benfica	14	9	3	2	44	24	+20	21
4	Belenenses	14	6	1	7	38	29	+9	13
5	Académica	14	4	3	7	27	39	−12	11
6	Barreirense	14	4	2	8	21	27	−6	10
7	Académico	14	5	0	9	30	61	−31	10
8	Casa Pia	14	1	0	13	12	56	−44	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	ACA	ACD	BAR	BEL	BEN	CPI	POR	SCP
Académica		5–4	3–1	0–0	3–3	4–0	1–2	2–2
Académico	6–2		3–2	3–1	3–4	1–0	1–12	2–5
Barreirense	3–2	6–0		0–2	1–1	3–1	0–0	0–3
Belenenses	8–1	7–2	1–2		2–3	7–1	1–3	0–2
Benfica	4–0	5–2	1–0	3–4		10–1	4–1	1–4
Casa Pia	0–2	1–3	2–1	2–3	0–1		1–2	2–4
Porto	3–1	4–0	6–1	5–2	3–3	10–0		2–1
Sporting CP	3–1	7–0	2–1	2–0	0–1	5–1	4–4

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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