2001–02 Primeira Liga

The 2001–02 Primeira Liga was the 68th edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 11 August 2001 with a match between Varzim and Benfica, and ended on 6 May 2002. The league was contested by 18 clubs with Boavista as the defending champions.

Primeira Liga

Season	2001–02
Dates	10 August 2001 – 5 May 2002
Champions	Sporting CP 18th title
Relegated	Salgueiros Farense Alverca
Champions League	Sporting CP (third qualifying round) Boavista (second qualifying round)
UEFA Cup	Porto (first round)
Intertoto Cup	Belenenses (second round) União de Leiria (first round) Santa Clara (first round)
Matches played	306
Goals scored	818 (2.67 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mário Jardel (42 goals)
Biggest home win	União de Leiria 7–0 Salgueiros (9 December 2001)
Biggest away win	Paços de Ferreira 0–6 Sporting CP (27 October 2001)
Highest scoring	5–3 (2 times) 6-2 (1 time)
← 2000–01 2002–03 →

Sporting CP won the league and qualified for the 2002–03 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round, along with Boavista, who qualified for the second round. Porto and Leixões from the third division qualified for the 2002–03 UEFA Cup; in opposite, Salgueiros, Farense and Alverca were relegated to the Segunda Liga. Mário Jardel was the top scorer with 42 goals. Until 2021, this remained the last season where Sporting CP won the title and where neither Porto nor Benfica won before Sporting CP won the 2020–21 season ending their 19-year drought and 19-year reign of Porto and Benfica.

Promotion and relegation

Teams relegated to Segunda Liga

• Campomaiorense
• Desportivo das Aves
• Estrela da Amadora

Campomaiorense, Desportivo das Aves and Estrela da Amadora, were consigned to the Segunda Liga following their final classification in 2000–01 season.

Teams promoted from Segunda Liga

• Santa Clara
• Varzim
• Vitória de Setúbal

The other three teams were replaced by Santa Clara, Varzim and Vitória de Setúbal from the Segunda Liga.

Teams

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Stadia and locations

Farense

Varzim

Alverca

Beira-Mar

Gil Vicente

Leiria

Belenenses
Benfica
Sporting

Porto
Boavista
Salgueiros

Braga

P. Ferreira

V. Guimarães

V. Setúbal

Madeira: Marítimo

Azores: Santa Clara

Location of teams in Primeira Liga 2001-02 (Mainland)

Marítimo

Location of teams in Madeira 2001-2002 Liga

Santa Clara

Location of teams in Azores 2001-2002 Liga

Team	Head Coach	City	Stadium	2000–01 finish
Alverca	Carlos Pereira	Alverca	Complexo do Alverca	12th
Beira-Mar	António Sousa	Aveiro	Estádio Mário Duarte	8th
Belenenses	Marinho Peres	Lisbon	Estádio do Restelo	7th
Benfica	Toni	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	6th
Boavista	Jaime Pacheco	Porto	Estádio do Bessa	1st
Braga	Manuel Cajuda	Braga	Estádio Primeiro de Maio	4th
Farense	Alberto Pazos	Faro	Estádio de São Luís	13th
Marítimo	Nelo Vingada	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	11th
Paços de Ferreira	José Mota	Paços de Ferreira	Estádio da Mata Real	9th
Porto	Octávio Machado	Porto	Estádio das Antas	2nd
Salgueiros	Vítor Manuel	Porto	Estádio Engenheiro Vidal Pinheiro	10th
Santa Clara	Carlos Manuel	Ponta Delgada	Estádio de São Miguel	1st in Segunda Liga
Sporting CP	László Bölöni	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade	3rd
União de Leiria	José Mourinho	Leiria	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa	5th
Varzim	Rogério Gonçalves	Póvoa de Varzim	Estádio do Varzim Sport Club	2nd in Segunda Liga
Vitória de Guimarães	Augusto Inácio	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	15th
Vitória de Setúbal	Jorge Jesus	Setúbal	Estádio do Bonfim	3rd in Segunda Liga

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Santa Clara	Carlos Manuel	30 September 2001	15th	Manuel Fernandes	1 October 2001
Salgueiros	Vítor Manuel	5 November 2001	16th	Carlos Manuel	6 November 2001
Farense	Alberto Pazos	25 November 2001	13th	Jorge Castelo	26 November 2001
Varzim	Rogério Gonçalves	25 November 2001	18th	José Alberto Costa	26 November 2001
Benfica	Toni	23 December 2001	4th	Jesualdo Ferreira	28 December 2001
Alverca	Carlos Pereira	8 January 2002	16th	Vítor Manuel	9 January 2002
União de Leiria	José Mourinho	20 January 2002	4th	Mário Reis	21 January 2002
Porto	Octávio Machado	20 January 2002	5th	José Mourinho	21 January 2002
Vitória de Setúbal	Jorge Jesus	20 January 2002	17th	Luís Campos	21 January 2002
Farense	Jorge Castelo	23 February 2002	16th	Paco Fortes	24 February 2002
União de Leiria	Mário Reis	24 February 2002	4th	Vítor Pontes	25 February 2002

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sporting CP (C)	34	22	9	3	74	25	+49	75	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
2	Boavista	34	21	7	6	53	20	+33	70	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
3	Porto	34	21	5	8	66	34	+32	68	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4	Benfica	34	17	12	5	66	37	+29	63
5	Belenenses	34	17	6	11	54	44	+10	57	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
6	Marítimo	34	17	5	12	48	35	+13	56
7	União de Leiria	34	15	10	9	52	35	+17	55	Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
8	Paços de Ferreira	34	12	10	12	41	44	−3	46
9	Vitória de Guimarães	34	11	9	14	35	41	−6	42
10	Braga	34	10	12	12	43	43	0	42
11	Beira-Mar	34	10	9	15	48	56	−8	39
12	Gil Vicente	34	10	8	16	42	56	−14	38
13	Vitória de Setúbal	34	9	11	14	40	46	−6	38
14	Santa Clara	34	9	10	15	32	46	−14	37	Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
15	Varzim	34	8	8	18	27	55	−28	32
16	Salgueiros (R)	34	8	6	20	29	71	−42	30	Relegation to Segunda Liga
17	Farense (R)	34	7	7	20	29	63	−34	28
18	Alverca (R)	34	7	6	21	39	67	−28	27

Source: Primeira Divisão
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ALV	BEM	BEL	BEN	BOA	BRA	FAR	GVI	MAR	PAÇ	POR	SAL	STC	SCP	ULE	VAR	VGU	VSE
Alverca		2–0	0–1	1–3	1–2	0–3	1–0	1–4	0–2	1–0	0–1	1–2	3–1	1–3	1–1	4–2	3–2	1–1
Beira-Mar	6–2		0–3	3–3	0–3	4–2	2–1	2–2	2–0	0–2	2–0	1–1	0–1	1–2	2–1	4–0	0–0	1–0
Belenenses	1–1	1–5		1–1	0–2	1–1	4–0	1–0	0–1	1–2	3–0	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–0	3–2	2–1	1–1
Benfica	3–2	4–1	2–1		2–1	1–1	5–0	2–0	1–1	4–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	2–2	0–2	3–2	0–0	3–2
Boavista	2–0	3–0	2–0	1–0		3–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	5–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–2	0–0	4–1
Braga	5–3	3–2	2–3	0–1	0–2		4–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–4	0–0	6–0	2–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–1
Farense	2–1	1–0	2–2	0–2	1–2	2–2		3–2	2–1	1–1	0–3	2–1	1–0	1–3	0–1	1–1	0–1	2–2
Gil Vicente	2–2	2–1	3–2	0–2	0–3	2–1	3–1		1–1	1–1	2–5	3–2	1–3	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–1
Marítimo	5–0	3–1	0–2	3–2	0–0	4–1	1–0	2–1		0–1	1–3	4–0	1–0	0–2	3–0	1–1	2–0	3–1
Paços de Ferreira	2–2	0–0	3–1	2–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	2–1		1–2	6–0	2–1	0–6	1–2	0–0	0–0	1–0
Porto	0–0	2–3	1–2	3–2	4–1	0–0	2–0	2–1	2–1	1–0		3–0	5–3	2–2	2–1	3–0	3–0	3–0
Salgueiros	2–1	1–1	1–2	1–4	1–1	1–0	0–2	3–0	2–1	3–2	0–3		2–1	1–5	0–1	2–1	1–3	0–2
Santa Clara	2–1	0–0	2–3	0–0	0–2	1–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–1		0–3	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–0
Sporting CP	0–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–2	1–0	3–1	4–0	3–0	1–0	2–0	0–0		4–1	4–0	5–0	1–0
União de Leiria	2–1	4–1	3–0	1–1	0–1	3–1	4–1	2–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	7–0	2–2	1–1		0–1	2–1	0–0
Varzim	1–0	1–1	1–5	2–2	0–2	0–0	2–0	2–0	0–1	0–3	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–3	2–0		0–0	2–1
Vitória de Guimarães	2–0	0–0	2–1	1–4	2–0	2–1	3–1	0–2	1–3	1–1	2–0	3–0	1–0	0–1	2–4	4–0		0–0
Vitória de Setúbal	2–1	4–1	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	3–2	0–1	1–3	1–4	3–0	3–2	2–2	1–1	2–0	1–0

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

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[2]
1	Mário Jardel	Sporting CP	42
2	Derlei	União de Leiria	21
3	Fary Faye	Beira-Mar	18
4	Hugo Henrique	Vitória de Setúbal	16
5	Gaúcho	Marítimo	15
	Barata	Braga	15
7	Leonardo	Paços de Ferreira	14
8	Deco	Porto	13
	Mantorras	Benfica	13
10	Benni McCarthy	Porto	12
	João Pedro	Salgueiros	12