1973–74 Primeira Divisão

Statistics of Portuguese Liga in the 1973–74 season.

Primeira Liga

Season	1973–74
Champions	Sporting CP 14th title
Matches played	240
Goals scored	691 (2.88 per match)
← 1972–73 1974–75 →

Overview

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

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sporting CP (C)	30	23	3	4	96	21	+75	49	Qualification to European Cup first round
2	Benfica	30	21	5	4	68	23	+45	47	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round[a]
3	Vitória de Setúbal	30	19	7	4	69	21	+48	45	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4	Porto	30	18	7	5	43	22	+21	43
5	Belenenses	30	17	6	7	56	34	+22	40
6	Vitória de Guimarães	30	10	11	9	36	34	+2	31
7	Farense	30	9	8	13	35	38	−3	26
8	CUF Barreiro	30	8	9	13	33	44	−11	25
9	Boavista	30	9	7	14	35	43	−8	25
10	Académica	30	8	7	15	29	45	−16	23
11	Olhanense	30	8	6	16	35	69	−34	22
12	Oriental	30	10	1	19	35	79	−44	21
13	Beira-Mar (R)	30	7	7	16	34	59	−25	21	Relegation to Segunda Divisão
14	Leixões	30	9	3	18	36	56	−20	21
15	Barreirense (R)	30	6	9	15	19	42	−23	21	Relegation to Segunda Divisão
16	Montijo (R)	30	7	6	17	32	61	−29	20

Source: RSSSF^[1] and footballzz.co.uk^[2]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Benfica qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as runners-up of the 1974 Taça de Portugal Final, because Taça de Portugal winners, Sporting qualified for the European Cup.

Results

Home \ Away	ACA	BAR	BEM	BEL	BEN	BOA	CUF	FAR	LEI	MON	OLH	ORI	POR	SCP	VGU	VSE
Académica		6–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–1	3–0	1–1	1–3	2–1	0–3
Barreirense	1–0		2–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–2	0–3	1–1	0–0
Beira Mar	1–1	3–2		1–2	1–1	0–0	2–0	3–1	3–2	3–1	4–2	2–3	1–2	1–1	0–1	0–3
Belenenses	6–0	1–0	4–1		1–2	4–1	2–1	3–1	4–3	3–0	3–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–1
Benfica	5–0	4–0	2–0	3–1		2–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	5–1	4–1	2–0	2–1	2–0	5–1	2–3
Boavista	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	2–0		0–1	1–0	2–2	4–0	2–0	3–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	0–1
CUF Barreiro	0–0	2–0	4–1	0–1	0–2	0–0		0–1	0–3	2–1	6–1	4–2	0–0	0–3	1–1	2–1
Farense	4–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–0	4–1	2–2		2–0	3–2	3–1	2–1	2–2	0–2	2–2	0–2
Leixões	1–0	1–0	4–0	1–1	0–1	2–0	3–1	0–0		4–2	3–1	1–3	2–0	0–3	0–2	0–1
Montijo	1–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	0–1	2–2	0–0	0–2	1–0		1–0	8–1	1–2	1–4	1–1	0–3
Olhanense	0–0	1–0	4–2	2–2	1–7	2–0	2–2	1–0	4–0	2–0		4–1	2–1	1–3	0–2	0–0
Oriental	0–3	2–1	0–1	2–3	1–3	3–1	3–2	1–0	3–2	1–1	2–0		1–3	0–7	1–0	0–3
Porto	1–0	1–0	3–0	2–0	2–1	4–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–0		1–1	3–0	2–0
Sporting CP	3–0	6–1	5–2	4–1	3–5	3–1	6–0	3–0	3–0	8–0	5–0	8–0	2–0		3–0	2–1
Vitória de Guimarães	1–0	0–0	3–0	1–1	0–0	0–2	2–0	1–1	5–0	1–0	3–1	4–1	0–0	0–1		1–4
Vitória de Setúbal	3–0	1–1	0–0	3–2	2–2	4–1	2–0	1–0	6–1	6–2	9–0	4–0	0–0	1–0	1–1

Source: ^[1][2]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[3]
1	Héctor Yazalde	Sporting	46
2	Duda	Vitória de Setúbal	24
3	Eusébio	Benfica	16
4	José Torres	Vitória de Setúbal	15
	Rui Jordão	Benfica
6	Abel	Porto	14
7	Mirobaldo	Farense	13
	Arnaldo	Fabril Barreiro
	Francisco González	Belenenses
10	Ademir	Olhanense	12