1998–99 Primeira Divisão

The 1998–99 Primeira Divisão was the 65th edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 23 August 1998 with a match between Chaves and Académica Coimbra, and ended on 30 May 1999. The league was contested by 18 clubs with Porto as the defending champions.

Primeira Divisão

Season	1998–99
Champions	Porto 18th title
Relegated	Beira-Mar Chaves Académica
Champions League	Porto (group stage) Boavista (third qualifying round)
UEFA Cup	Benfica (first round) Sporting CP (first round) Vitória de Setúbal (first round)
Matches played	306
Goals scored	810 (2.65 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mário Jardel (36 goals)
Biggest home win	Porto 7–0 Beira-Mar (24 January 1999)
Biggest away win	Campomaiorense 0–5 Benfica (29 November 1998) Académica 0–5 Alverca (3 April 1999)
Highest scoring	Porto 7–1 Académica Coimbra (16 May 1999) Chaves 4–4 Farense (21 February 1999) Salgueiros4–4 Beira-Mar (30 May 1999)
← 1997–98 1999–2000 (Primeira Liga) →

Porto won the league and qualified for the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League group stage, along with Boavista, who qualified for the third round. With the extinction of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, the Taça de Portugal winner qualified for the UEFA Cup, so Beira-Mar joined Benfica, Sporting CP and Vitória de Setúbal in the 1999-2000 UEFA Cup; in opposite, Beira-Mar, Chaves and Académica Coimbra were relegated to the Liga de Honra. Mário Jardel was the top scorer with 36 goals.

Promotion and relegation

Teams relegated to Liga de Honra

• Leça
• Varzim
• Belenenses

Leça, Varzim and Belenenses, were consigned to the Liga de Honra following their final classification in 1997–98 season.

Teams promoted from Liga de Honra

• União de Leiria
• Beira-Mar
• Alverca

The other three teams were replaced by União de Leiria, Beira-Mar, Alverca from the Liga de Honra.

Teams

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Stadia and locations

Farense

Alverca

Leiria

Académica

Benfica
Sporting
Estrela

Campomaiorense

Beira-Mar

Porto
Boavista
Salgueiros

Braga

Rio Ave

V. Guimarães

Chaves

V. Setúbal

Location of teams in Primeira Divisão 1998-99 (Mainland)

Marítimo

Location of teams in Primeira Divisão 1998-99 (Madeira)

Team	Head Coach	City	Stadium	1997–98 finish
Académica Coimbra	Raul Águas	Coimbra	Estádio Cidade de Coimbra	15th
Alverca	Mário Wilson	Alverca	Complexo do Alverca	3rd in Divisão de Honra
Beira-Mar	António Sousa	Aveiro	Estádio Mário Duarte	2nd in Divisão de Honra
Benfica	Graeme Souness	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	2nd
Boavista	Jaime Pacheco	Porto	Estádio do Bessa	6th
Braga	Vítor Oliveira	Braga	Estádio Primeiro de Maio	10th
Campomaiorense	João Alves	Campo Maior	Estádio Capitão Cesar Correia	11th
Chaves	Horácio Gonçalves	Chaves	Estádio Municipal de Chaves	16th
Estrela da Amadora	Jorge Jesus	Amadora	Estádio José Gomes	7th
Farense	Paco Fortes	Faro	Estádio de São Luís	14th
Marítimo	Augusto Inácio	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	5th
Porto	Fernando Santos	Porto	Estádio das Antas	1st
Rio Ave	Carlos Brito	Vila do Conde	Estádio dos Arcos	9th
Salgueiros	Dito	Porto	Estádio Engenheiro Vidal Pinheiro	8th
Sporting CP	Mirko Jozic	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade	4th
União de Leiria	Mário Reis	Leiria	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa	1st in Divisão de Honra
Vitória de Guimarães	Zoran Filipovic	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	3rd
Vitória de Setúbal	Carlos Cardoso	Setúbal	Estádio do Bonfim	13th

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Braga	Vítor Oliveira	25 October 1998	9th	Carlos Manuel	26 October 1998
Campomaiorense	João Alves	29 November 1998	18th	José Pereira	30 November 1998
Marítimo	Augusto Inácio	20 December 1998	16th	Nelo Vingada	21 December 1998
Chaves	Horácio Gonçalves	3 January 1999	17th	Augusto Inácio	4 January 1999
Vitória de Guimarães	Zoran Filipovic	3 January 1999	10th	Quinito	4 January 1999
Farense	Paco Fortes	5 February 1999	14th	João Alves	6 February 1999
Académica Coimbra	Raul Águas	7 February 1999	18th	Gregório Freixo	8 February 1999
Braga	Carlos Manuel	26 February 1999	10th	Manuel Cajuda	27 February 1999
Alverca	Mário Wilson	28 February 1999	17th	José Romão	1 March 1999
Chaves	Augusto Inácio	26 April 1999	17th	Rodríguez Vaz	14 May 1999
Benfica	Graeme Souness	2 May 1999	3rd	Shéu	3 May 1999

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Porto (C)	34	24	7	3	85	26	+59	79	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Boavista	34	20	11	3	57	29	+28	71	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
3	Benfica	34	19	8	7	71	29	+42	65	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4	Sporting CP	34	17	12	5	64	32	+32	63
5	Vitória de Setúbal	34	15	8	11	37	38	−1	53
6	União de Leiria	34	14	10	10	36	29	+7	52
7	Vitória de Guimarães	34	14	8	12	53	41	+12	50
8	Estrela da Amadora	34	11	12	11	33	40	−7	45
9	Braga	34	10	12	12	38	50	−12	42
10	Marítimo	34	10	11	13	44	45	−1	41
11	Farense	34	10	9	15	39	54	−15	39
12	Salgueiros	34	7	17	10	45	55	−10	38
13	Campomaiorense	34	10	7	17	41	51	−10	37
14	Alverca	34	8	11	15	36	50	−14	35
15	Rio Ave	34	8	11	15	26	47	−21	35
16	Beira-Mar (R)	34	6	15	13	36	53	−17	33	UEFA Cup first round and relegation to Segunda Liga[a]
17	Chaves (R)	34	5	10	19	39	70	−31	25	Relegation to Segunda Liga
18	Académica (R)	34	4	9	21	30	70	−40	21

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

1. Beira-Mar qualified for the UEFA Cup as Portuguese Cup winners

Results

Home \ Away	ACA	ALV	BEM	BEN	BOA	BRA	CPM	CHA	EST	FAR	MAR	POR	RAV	SAL	SCP	ULE	VGU	VSE
Académica		0–5	1–0	0–3	2–3	1–1	1–5	1–2	2–2	2–1	1–3	0–2	1–1	0–1	2–2	0–1	1–1	2–0
Alverca	2–1		1–1	0–2	0–0	0–0	2–1	3–1	0–1	1–3	3–0	1–5	0–1	1–1	3–2	0–2	2–1	1–0
Beira-Mar	0–2	2–1		1–1	1–1	4–2	2–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	2–1	1–2	4–1	2–2	1–1	0–0	1–1
Benfica	3–0	2–2	3–0		0–3	4–1	1–1	4–1	2–0	5–0	3–1	1–1	3–1	5–0	3–3	0–0	3–1	2–0
Boavista	3–1	3–0	2–1	2–1		1–0	2–1	4–1	2–1	3–0	1–2	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–2	1–0	2–0	1–1
Braga	2–2	0–0	2–1	2–1	1–2		0–2	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	3–3	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–4	2–1	3–0
Campomaiorense	2–1	2–2	4–1	0–5	1–1	2–0		4–1	3–0	3–1	0–2	0–2	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–3	1–0	1–2
Chaves	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–4	1–1	1–2	3–2		4–1	4–4	1–1	0–4	0–0	1–1	2–2	1–2	2–3	1–2
Estrela da Amadora	2–1	1–0	1–2	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	2–1		2–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–1	5–0
Farense	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–2	0–2	2–1	2–1	1–1		0–0	0–3	0–1	2–1	1–3	1–1	1–2	1–1
Marítimo	4–1	3–3	1–1	1–0	3–0	3–0	0–1	2–2	1–1	1–3		0–1	2–0	2–2	1–3	3–2	1–0	0–1
Porto	7–1	3–1	7–0	3–1	0–2	1–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–0		4–0	4–1	3–2	3–1	2–0	6–0
Rio Ave	1–1	0–0	1–1	0–2	0–2	1–2	3–1	1–1	1–1	2–2	2–1	1–1		2–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–1
Salgueiros	1–1	0–0	4–4	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	4–2	2–2	1–3	5–1		2–1	0–0	3–2	1–0
Sporting CP	5–0	2–0	0–0	1–2	1–1	4–1	3–0	2–1	3–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	3–1		2–0	3–0	0–0
União de Leiria	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	3–1	3–1	0–1	2–1	1–0	2–2	2–0	1–0	0–3		0–1	0–1
Vitória de Guimarães	1–1	3–1	3–0	0–2	2–3	5–1	2–0	6–1	3–0	1–0	1–1	3–2	3–0	3–3	1–1	0–0		2–0
Vitória de Setúbal	1–0	4–0	0–0	1–0	1–3	3–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	3–1	1–2	1–2	3–0	1–1	1–0	1–0

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

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Mário Jardel	Porto	36
2	Nuno Gomes	Benfica	24
3	Demétrius	Campomaiorense	16
	Silva	Braga
5	Ayew	Boavista	15
	Timofte	Boavista
	Alex Bunbury	Marítimo
8	Chiquinho Conde	Vitória Setúbal	14
	Zahovic	Porto
10	Yordanov	Sporting	13
	Edmilson	Vitória de Guimarães

Source: Footballzz^[2]

See also

• 1998–99 in Portuguese football