2006–07 Primeira Liga

The 2006–07 Primeira Liga (also known as BWINLIGA for sponsorship reasons) was the 73rd edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 27 August 2006 with a match between Vitória de Setúbal and Académica and ended on 20 May 2007. The league was contested by 16 clubs, with Porto as defending champions.

Primeira Liga

Season	2006–07
Dates	25 August 2006 – 20 May 2007
Champions	Porto (22nd title)
Relegated	Beira-Mar Desportivo das Aves
Champions League	Porto Sporting CP Benfica
UEFA Cup	Braga Belenenses Paços de Ferreira
Matches played	240
Goals scored	554 (2.31 per match)
Best Player	Simão
Top goalscorer	Liédson (15 goals)
Biggest home win	5–1 (3 times)
Biggest away win	Beira-Mar 0–5 Porto (25 February 2007)
Highest scoring	Nacional 3–4 Desportivo das Aves (15 April 2007)
← 2005–06 2007–08 →

Porto and Sporting CP were both qualified for the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League group stage, while Benfica qualified for the UEFA Champions League qualifying round. Braga, Belenenses and Paços de Ferreira qualified for the 2007–08 UEFA Cup. Beira-Mar and Desportivo das Aves were relegated to the Liga de Honra. Liédson was the top scorer with 15 goals.

Promotion and relegation

Teams relegated to Liga de Honra

• Penafiel
• Rio Ave
• Vitória de Guimarães
• Gil Vicente

The professional competitions shrunk from 18 to 16 clubs following last season's promotions and relegations' modifications. Penafiel, Rio Ave, Vitória de Guimarães were relegated to the Liga de Honra.

In June 2006, Belenenses, who finished 15th in the previous season, were scheduled to be relegated. However, the Lisbon team presented a complaint to the Portuguese League for Professional Football regarding the use of a non-registered player (Mateus) by 13th-placed Gil Vicente. The penalty pretended by Belenenses would result in Gil Vicente being relegated in their place. This claim generated a series of appeals and controversial statements to the media. The decision has been taken on 23 August and made Belenenses stay in the Portuguese Liga while Gil Vicente were relegated to the Liga de Honra.

Teams promoted from Liga de Honra

• Beira-Mar
• Desportivo das Aves

Beira-Mar and Desportivo das Aves were promoted to the Liga.

Leiria

Estrela

Académica

Belenenses
Benfica
Sporting CP

Porto
Boavista

Braga

Beira-Mar

Naval

P. Ferreira

Aves

V. de Setúbal

Madeira: Marítimo / Nacional

Location of teams in the 2006-07 Liga

Marítimo

Nacional

Location of teams in the '2006-07 Liga

Club information

Club	Season's Last Head Coach	City	Stadium	2005–06 season
Académica	Nelo Vingada	Coimbra	Estádio Cidade de Coimbra	14th
Beira-Mar	Paco Soler	Aveiro	Estádio Municipal de Aveiro	1st in the Liga de Honra
Belenenses	Jorge Jesus	Lisbon	Estádio do Restelo	15th
Benfica	Fernando Santos	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	3rd
Boavista	Pedro Barny	Porto	Estádio do Bessa – Século XXI	6th
Braga	Jorge Costa	Braga	Estádio Municipal de Braga – AXA	4th
Desportivo das Aves	Professor Neca	Santo Tirso	Estádio do CD das Aves	2nd in the Liga de Honra
Estrela da Amadora	Daúto Faquirá	Amadora	Estádio José Gomes	9th
Marítimo	Ulisses Morais	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	10th
Nacional	Predrag Jokanović	Funchal	Estádio da Madeira	5th
Naval 1° de Maio	Mariano Barreto	Figueira da Foz	Estádio Municipal José Bento Pessoa	13th
Paços de Ferreira	José Mota	Paços de Ferreira	Estádio da Mata Real	11th
Porto	Jesualdo Ferreira	Porto	Estádio do Dragão	1st
Sporting CP	Paulo Bento	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade – Século XXI	2nd
União de Leiria	Paulo Duarte	Leiria	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa	7th
Vitória de Setúbal	Carlos Cardoso	Setúbal	Estádio do Bonfim	8th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Porto (C)	30	22	3	5	65	20	+45	69	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Sporting CP	30	20	8	2	54	15	+39	68
3	Benfica	30	20	7	3	55	20	+35	67	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
4	Braga	30	14	8	8	35	30	+5	50	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
5	Belenenses	30	15	4	11	36	29	+7	49
6	Paços de Ferreira	30	10	12	8	31	36	−5	42
7	União de Leiria	30	10	11	9	25	27	−2	41	Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round
8	Nacional	30	11	6	13	41	38	+3	39
9	Estrela da Amadora	30	9	8	13	23	36	−13	35
10	Boavista	30	8	11	11	32	34	−2	35
11	Marítimo	30	8	8	14	30	44	−14	32
12	Naval 1º de Maio	30	7	11	12	28	37	−9	32
13	Académica	30	6	8	16	28	46	−18	26
14	Vitória de Setúbal	30	5	9	16	21	45	−24	24
15	Beira-Mar (R)	30	4	11	15	28	55	−27	23	Relegation to Liga de Honra
16	Desportivo das Aves (R)	30	5	7	18	22	42	−20	22

Source: rsssf.com
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	ACA	BEM	BEL	BEN	BOA	BRA	DAV	EST	MAR	NAV	NAC	PAÇ	POR	SCP	ULE	VSE
Académica		3–1	1–1	0–2	0–2	0–1	2–0	2–0	1–2	1–2	1–3	0–2	1–2	0–2	0–0	0–1
Beira-Mar	0–1		1–2	2–2	1–0	0–3	2–2	2–0	2–2	1–3	1–1	1–1	0–5	3–3	1–0	1–1
Belenenses	1–2	2–0		1–2	0–2	2–0	1–0	3–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	2–0	0–1	0–0	0–1	2–0
Benfica	2–0	3–0	4–0		0–0	0–0	4–1	3–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	3–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	3–0
Boavista	2–2	3–0	0–0	3–0		0–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–4	3–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–1
Braga	4–2	0–0	2–1	3–1	2–2		1–0	2–1	1–4	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–1	0–1	0–1	0–0
Desportivo das Aves	2–2	0–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	0–1		0–1	1–1	2–0	3–1	0–1	0–2	0–2	0–1	1–2
Estrela da Amadora	3–3	2–2	1–0	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–0		1–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	0–3	0–1	1–1	1–0
Marítimo	0–0	2–1	1–4	0–3	1–2	1–2	0–0	2–1		1–1	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–1	2–1	1–0
Naval 1º de Maio	0–1	2–1	2–3	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	2–0	0–1		0–0	1–1	0–2	0–1	2–1	1–2
Nacional	4–0	3–0	2–1	0–2	2–0	0–0	3–4	1–0	3–2	1–1		5–1	1–2	0–1	2–1	1–0
Paços de Ferreira	1–1	1–0	0–2	1–1	2–0	3–2	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–1		1–1	1–1	0–0	1–0
Porto	2–1	3–0	3–1	3–2	2–0	1–0	4–1	0–1	3–0	4–0	2–0	4–0		0–1	2–1	5–1
Sporting CP	1–0	2–0	4–0	0–2	3–2	3–0	0–0	3–1	4–0	4–0	5–1	0–1	1–1		2–0	3–1
União de Leiria	2–0	2–2	0–1	0–4	0–0	1–0	3–1	0–0	1–0	2–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–0		1–1
Vitória de Setúbal	1–1	1–3	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–3	1–1	1–1	0–3	0–3	1–2

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

Monthly awards

SJPF Player of the Month Month Player Club September[1] Modou Sougou União de Leiria October[2] Simão Benfica November[3] Ricardo Quaresma Porto December[4] Ricardo Quaresma Porto January[5] Quim Benfica February[6] Simão Benfica March[7] Ânderson Polga Sporting CP April[8] Liédson Sporting CP May[9] Leandro Romagnoli Sporting CP

SJPF Young Player of the Month Month Player Club September October[10] João Moutinho Sporting CP November[11] João Moutinho Sporting CP December[12] Ruben Amorim Belenenses January[13] Silvestre Varela Vitória de Setúbal February[14] Silvestre Varela Vitória de Setúbal March[15] Yannick Djaló Sporting CP April[16] Miguel Veloso Sporting CP May[17] Nani Sporting CP

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[18]
1	Liédson	Sporting CP	15
2	Dady	Belenenses	12
3	Adriano	Porto	11
	Simão	Benfica
5	Fabrizio Miccoli	Benfica	10
	Hélder Postiga	Porto
	Roland Linz	Boavista
	Nei	Naval
9	Lucho González	Porto	9
10	Alecsandro	Sporting CP	8
	Lisandro López	Porto
	Wender	Braga
	José Pedro	Belenenses

See also

• Liga de Honra 2006-07
• 2006–07 Portuguese football season