1991–92 Primeira Divisão

The 1991–92 Primeira Divisão was the 58th edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 18 August 1991 with a match between Desp. Chaves and Estoril, and ended on 16 May 1992. The league was contested by 18 clubs with Benfica as the defending champions.

Primeira Divisão

Season	1991–92
Champions	Porto 12th title
Relegated	Torreense Penafiel União da Madeira
Champions League	Porto (first round)
Cup Winners' Cup	Boavista (first round)
UEFA Cup	Benfica (first round) Sporting CP (first round) Vitória de Guimarães (first round)
Matches played	306
Goals scored	692 (2.26 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ricky (30 goals)
Biggest home win	Torreense 8–1 Estoril (2 May 1992)
Biggest away win	União da Madeira 1–5 Sporting CP (22 February 1992)
Highest scoring	Torreense 8–1 Estoril (2 May 1992)
← 1990–91 1992–93 →

Porto qualified for the 1992–93 UEFA Champions League first round, Boavista qualified for the 1992–93 European Cup Winners' Cup first round, and Benfica, Sporting CP and Vitória de Guimarães qualified for the 1992–93 UEFA Cup first round; in opposite, Torreense, Penafiel and União da Madeira were relegated to the Liga de Honra. Ricky was the top scorer with 30 goals.

Promotion and relegation

Teams relegated to Liga de Honra

• Tirsense
• Vitória de Setúbal|
• Estrela da Amadora
• Belenenses
• Nacional

Tirsense, Vitória de Setúbal, Estrela da Amadora, Belenenses and Nacional were consigned to the Liga de Honra following their final classification in 1990-91 season where five teams were relegated due to the reduction of teams.

Teams promoted from Liga de Honra

• Paços de Ferreira
• Estoril
• Torreense

The other five teams were replaced by Paços de Ferreira, Estoril and Torreense from the Liga de Honra.

Teams

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Stadia and locations

Benfica
Sporting

Beira-Mar

Estoril

Gil Vicente

Desp. Chaves

P. Ferreira

Porto
Boavista
Salgueiros

Famalicão

Torreense

Braga

V. Guimarães

Penafiel

Farense

Location of teams in Primeira Divisão 1991-92 (Mainland)

Marítimo
União Madeira

Location of teams in Primeira Divisão 1991-92 (Madeira)

Team	Head Coach	City	Stadium	1990–91 finish
Beira-Mar	Vítor Urbano	Aveiro	Estádio Mário Duarte	6th
Benfica	Sven-Göran Eriksson	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	1st
Boavista	Manuel José	Porto	Estádio do Bessa	4th
Braga	Carlos Garcia	Braga	Estádio Primeiro de Maio	11th
Chaves	José Romão	Chaves	Estádio Municipal de Chaves	8th
Estoril	Fernando Santos	Estoril	Estádio António Coimbra da Mota	2nd in Divisão de Honra
Famalicão	Josip Skoblar	Vila Nova de Famalicão	Estádio Municipal 22 de Junho	14th
Farense	Paco Fortes	Faro	Estádio de São Luís	11th
Gil Vicente	António Oliveira	Barcelos	Estádio Adelino Ribeiro Novo	13th
Marítimo	Paulo Autuori	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	10th
Paços de Ferreira	Vítor Oliveira	Paços de Ferreira	Estádio da Mata Real	1st in Divisão de Honra
Penafiel	Vítor Manuel	Penafiel	Estádio Municipal 25 de Abril	15th
Porto	Carlos Alberto Silva	Porto	Estádio das Antas	1st
Salgueiros	Zoran Filipović	Porto	Estádio Engenheiro Vidal Pinheiro	5th
Sporting	Marinho Peres	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade	3rd
Torreense	Manuel Cajuda	Torres Vedras	Estádio Manuel Marques	3rd in Divisão de Honra
União da Madeira	Rui Mâncio	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	12th
Vitória de Guimarães	João Alves	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	9th

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Braga	Carlos Garcia	8 December 1991	12th	José Manuel Gouveia	9 December 1991
Sporting	Marinho Peres	8 March 1992	3rd	Dominguez	9 March 1992
Famalicão	Josip Skoblar	8 March 1992	16th	Prof. Neca	9 March 1992
Braga	José Manuel Gouveia	29 March 1992	11th	Vítor Manuel	30 March 1992
Penafiel	Vítor Manuel	29 March 1992	16th	Henrique Calisto	30 March 1992

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Porto (C)	34	24	8	2	58	11	+47	56	Qualification to Champions League first round
2	Benfica	34	17	12	5	62	23	+39	46	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
3	Boavista	34	16	12	6	45	27	+18	44	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round[a]
4	Sporting CP	34	18	8	8	56	26	+30	44	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
5	Vitória de Guimarães	34	14	13	7	46	35	+11	41
6	Farense	34	12	11	11	35	33	+2	35
7	Marítimo	34	12	11	11	40	38	+2	35
8	Beira-Mar	34	11	10	13	32	41	−9	32
9	Chaves	34	10	10	14	36	45	−9	30
10	Estoril	34	10	10	14	34	54	−20	30
11	Braga	34	12	5	17	41	49	−8	29
12	Paços de Ferreira	34	10	9	15	31	45	−14	29
13	Gil Vicente	34	11	7	16	26	42	−16	29
14	Famalicão	34	9	10	15	27	40	−13	28
15	Salgueiros	34	7	14	13	27	35	−8	28
16	Torreense (R)	34	8	11	15	36	43	−7	27	Relegation to Segunda Divisão de Honra
17	Penafiel (R)	34	7	11	16	30	47	−17	25
18	União da Madeira (R)	34	9	6	19	30	58	−28	24

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

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

Results

Home \ Away	BEM	BEN	BOA	BRA	CHA	ESP	FAM	FAR	GVI	MAR	PAÇ	PEN	POR	SAL	SCP	SCT	UNI	VGU
Beira-Mar		2–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–4	3–0	2–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–2
Benfica	3–0		0–1	2–0	4–1	2–2	2–1	1–1	5–0	2–0	4–0	1–1	2–3	1–1	2–0	0–0	6–0	2–0
Boavista	3–2	1–0		2–1	4–4	5–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	3–0	1–1
Braga	2–1	0–2	1–2		3–1	1–3	1–0	4–1	2–1	2–0	3–1	1–2	0–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–2	2–1
Chaves	3–0	1–0	3–0	1–2		1–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	4–1	0–2	1–1
Estoril Praia	1–0	0–2	0–0	1–0	1–1		2–1	3–1	0–1	1–1	3–1	2–1	0–2	0–2	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–0
Famalicão	1–1	0–0	0–0	3–1	1–0	2–1		0–1	2–0	2–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	2–1	0–0	2–0	2–0	1–4
Farense	0–0	2–2	0–0	3–1	1–1	2–0	1–0		1–0	3–1	1–0	4–1	0–0	1–1	0–2	1–0	1–0	3–0
Gil Vicente	2–0	0–1	1–3	2–3	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–0		1–1	1–2	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–3	2–1	2–1	0–2
Marítimo	0–0	0–4	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	3–1	1–1	4–0		1–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–1	3–1
Paços de Ferreira	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	3–0	1–2	0–1	1–0	0–1	2–1		2–1	0–3	2–1	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–1
Penafiel	2–2	2–2	0–0	2–1	1–0	4–3	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–0		0–2	2–0	0–2	1–0	1–1	0–1
Porto	4–1	0–0	2–0	2–0	4–1	5–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	3–1	2–0	2–1		2–0	0–0	5–0	3–0	1–0
Salgueiros	1–1	1–1	1–1	3–0	1–1	3–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–1		1–1	1–1	1–0	0–1
Sporting CP	3–1	0–0	1–1	4–2	3–0	1–0	3–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	2–1	3–1	0–2	3–0		4–0	3–0	0–1
Torreense	1–0	1–3	1–0	0–0	0–1	8–1	6–1	1–1	0–2	2–2	2–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–2		2–0	1–1
União da Madeira	2–1	0–1	2–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–2	4–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	2–2	2–1	1–5	2–0		0–2
Vitória de Guimarães	1–1	1–3	2–0	2–1	4–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	0–0	3–1	1–1	2–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–1

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

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Ricky	Boavista	30
2	Jorge Cadete	Sporting	25
3	Ziad Tlemçani	Vitória de Guimarães	15
	Chiquinho Conde	Braga
5	Isaías	Benfica	12
6	Djamel Menad	Famalicão	11
	Rosário	Torreense
8	Nikola Spasov	Paços de Ferreira	10
	Edmilson	Marítimo
	Tihomir Rudež	Chaves
	Emil Kostadinov	Porto

Source: Foradejogo^[2]