1984–85 Primeira Divisão

Statistics of Portuguese Liga in the 1984/1985 season.

Primeira Liga

Season	1984-85
Champions	F.C. Porto 8th title
Relegated	Rio Ave Farense Varzim Vizela
European Cup	F.C. Porto
Cup Winners' Cup	Benfica
UEFA Cup	Sporting CP (first round) Boavista (first round) Portimonense (first round)
Matches played	240
Goals scored	669 (2.79 per match)
Top goalscorer	Fernando Gomes (39 goals)
← 1983–84 1985–86 →

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and F.C. Porto won the championship.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Porto (C)	30	26	3	1	78	13	+65	55	Qualification to European Cup first round
2	Sporting CP	30	19	9	2	72	26	+46	47	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
3	Benfica	30	18	7	5	65	28	+37	43	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round[a]
4	Boavista	30	13	11	6	37	26	+11	37	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
5	Portimonense	30	14	8	8	51	41	+10	36
6	Belenenses	30	11	8	11	40	46	−6	30
7	Académica	30	12	5	13	45	47	−2	29
8	Braga	30	9	10	11	46	43	+3	28
9	Vitória de Guimarães	30	9	7	14	33	39	−6	25
10	Penafiel	30	7	11	12	25	42	−17	25
11	Vitória de Setúbal	30	7	11	12	35	50	−15	25
12	Salgueiros	30	8	7	15	40	56	−16	23
13	Rio Ave (R)	30	7	9	14	27	43	−16	23	Relegation to Segunda Divisão
14	Farense (R)	30	7	8	15	21	49	−28	22
15	Varzim (R)	30	2	13	15	23	49	−26	17
16	Vizela (R)	30	4	7	19	31	71	−40	15

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

1. Benfica qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as Portuguese Cup winners

Results

Home \ Away	ACA	BEL	BEN	BOA	BRA	FAR	PEN	PTM	POR	RAV	SAL	SCP	VAR	VGU	VSE	VIZ
Académica		0–0	1–2	1–1	2–1	2–0	5–0	1–0	0–3	2–1	2–0	2–3	0–0	3–1	0–0	1–3
Belenenses	4–1		0–3	2–2	1–1	2–1	2–1	2–0	0–1	1–1	4–3	0–3	3–1	2–1	2–2	2–0
Benfica	3–2	4–1		0–0	2–0	6–0	2–1	5–1	0–1	2–0	3–0	3–1	5–1	0–0	4–3	5–1
Boavista	2–0	1–0	0–0		2–1	3–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–3	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–2	2–2
Braga	2–0	2–0	2–2	2–2		3–1	1–1	1–1	2–3	1–1	4–0	1–1	4–1	1–1	3–0	4–2
Farense	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–0		1–0	0–0	1–2	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	3–1	3–1	1–0
Penafiel	0–3	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–0		1–1	0–1	2–0	4–3	2–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–1
Portimonense	2–1	2–1	0–0	2–1	2–1	3–1	4–0		1–3	3–1	4–3	0–0	4–0	0–0	4–2	4–1
Porto	4–1	5–1	2–0	3–0	2–1	5–0	3–0	4–1		3–0	2–0	0–0	5–1	2–1	4–0	9–1
Rio Ave	1–0	1–0	2–2	0–3	3–2	2–1	0–0	1–2	0–3		0–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	2–0
Salgueiros	0–1	1–2	2–3	0–2	1–1	3–1	2–1	1–0	0–1	2–0		2–6	2–2	2–1	1–0	4–1
Sporting CP	4–4	2–0	1–0	2–1	8–1	2–0	1–1	3–2	0–0	3–2	4–1		3–0	3–0	4–0	4–0
Varzim	2–4	1–2	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	4–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–0	0–2		0–0	1–1	1–1
Vitória de Guimarães	2–1	2–2	1–4	1–2	0–1	4–0	1–0	0–1	0–2	3–2	4–3	0–1	1–0		3–1	3–0
Vitória de Setúbal	5–1	2–2	2–2	2–1	0–2	3–0	1–1	2–2	0–3	1–0	0–0	0–4	0–0	1–0		2–0
Vizela	1–2	1–2	1–2	0–2	2–1	0–0	2–2	2–3	0–0	1–0	2–3	2–5	1–1	1–2	2–1

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

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[3]
1	Fernando Gomes	Porto	39
2	Michael Manniche	Benfica	16
	Serge Cadorin	Portimonense
	Manuel Fernandes	Sporting
5	Djão	Belenenses	13
	Tonanha	Salgueiros
	Pedro Xavier	Académica de Coimbra
	Zinho	Braga
9	Eldon	Portugal	11
	Jaime Magalhães	Porto
	José Ribeiro	Académica de Coimbra