2007–08 Primeira Liga

The 2007–08 Primeira Liga was the 74th edition of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs. It started on 17 August 2007 and ended on 11 May 2008, with the fixtures announced on 12 July 2007. Porto were the two-time defending champions, having won their 22nd title the previous season, and secured a third consecutive title for the second time in their history.

Primeira Liga

Season	2007–08
Dates	17 August 2007 – 11 May 2008
Champions	Porto (23rd title)
Relegated	Boavista União de Leiria
Champions League	Porto Sporting CP Vitória de Guimarães
UEFA Cup	Benfica Marítimo Vitória de Setúbal
Matches played	240
Goals scored	554 (2.31 per match)
Best Player	Lisandro López
Top goalscorer	Lisandro López (24 goals)
Biggest home win	Porto 6–0 Estrela da Amadora (5 April 2008)
Biggest away win	Vitória de Guimarães 0–5 Porto (27 April 2008)
Highest scoring	Benfica 6–1 Boavista (11 November 2007) Boavista 4–3 Paços de Ferreira (3 February 2008)
Highest attendance	60,116 (Benfica 0–1 Porto) (1 December 2007)
← 2006–07 2008–09 →

Porto and Sporting CP were both qualified for the 2008–09 UEFA Champions League group stage; Benfica, Marítimo and Vitória de Setúbal qualified for the 2008–09 UEFA Cup; in opposite, Boavista and União de Leiria were relegated to the Liga de Honra. Lisandro López was the top scorer with 24 goals.

Promotion and relegation

Teams relegated to Liga de Honra

• Desportivo das Aves
• Beira Mar

Desportivo das Aves and Beira-Mar were both consigned to Liga de Honra following their final classification in 2006–07.

Teams promoted from Liga de Honra

• Leixões
• Vitória de Guimarães

Desportivo das Aves and Beira-Mar will be replaced by two promoted teams from the Liga de Honra. The first is Leixões, who clinched the second level title, and are returning to the top level since their last participation in 1989. The other was Vitória de Guimarães, who managed to return to the Liga after a brief spell in the Liga de Honra.

Club information

Leiria

Estrela

Académica

Porto
Boavista

Braga

Leixões

Naval

Paços

V. Guimarães

V. Setúbal

Madeira: Marítimo / Nacional

Belenenses

Benfica

Sporting CP

Location of teams in the 2007-08 Liga

Marítimo

Nacional

Location of teams in Madeira

Club	Head Coach	City	Stadium	2006–2007 season
Académica	Domingos Paciência	Coimbra	Estádio Cidade de Coimbra	13th
Belenenses	Jorge Jesus	Lisbon	Estádio do Restelo	5th
Benfica	Fernando Chalana	Lisbon	Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica (Estádio da Luz)	3rd
Boavista	Jaime Pacheco	Porto	Estádio do Bessa – Século XXI	9th
Braga	Jorge Costa	Braga	Estádio AXA (Estádio Municipal de Braga)	4th
Estrela da Amadora	Daúto Faquirá	Amadora	Estádio José Gomes	10th
União de Leiria	Paulo Duarto	Leiria	Estádio Municipal de Leiria Dr. Magalhães Pessoa	7th
Leixões	Carlos Brito	Matosinhos	Estádio do Mar	1st in the Liga de Honra
Marítimo	Sebastião Lazaroni	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	12th
Nacional	Predrag Jokanović	Funchal	Estádio da Madeira	8th
Naval 1° de Maio	Ulisses Morais	Figueira da Foz	Estádio Municipal José Bento Pessoa	11th
Paços de Ferreira	José Mota	Paços de Ferreira	Estádio da Mata Real	6th
Porto	Jesualdo Ferreira	Porto	Estádio do Dragão	1st
Sporting CP	Paulo Bento	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade – Século XXI	2nd
Vitória de Guimarães	Manuel Cajuda	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	2nd in the Liga de Honra
Vitória de Setúbal	Carlos Carvalhal	Setúbal	Estádio do Bonfim	14th

Managerial changes

Club	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Ref
Benfica	Fernando Santos	20 August 2007	José Antonio Camacho	20 August 2007	[1] [2]
Académica	Manuel Machado	10 September 2007	Domingos Paciência	11 September 2007	[3] [4]
Naval 1° de Maio	Francisco Chaló	16 September 2007	Ulisses Morais	4 October 2007	[5]
Benfica	José Antonio Camacho	9 March 2008	Fernando Chalana	10 March 2008	[6]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Porto[a] (C)	30	24	3	3	60	13	+47	75	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Sporting CP	30	16	7	7	46	28	+18	55
3	Vitória de Guimarães	30	15	8	7	35	31	+4	53	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
4	Benfica	30	13	13	4	45	21	+24	52	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
5	Marítimo	30	14	4	12	39	28	+11	46
6	Vitória de Setúbal	30	11	12	7	37	33	+4	45
7	Braga	30	10	11	9	32	34	−2	41	Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round
8	Belenenses[b]	30	11	10	9	35	33	+2	40
9	Boavista (R)	30	8	12	10	32	41	−9	36	Relegation to Liga de Honra[c]
10	Nacional	30	9	8	13	23	28	−5	35
11	Naval 1º de Maio	30	9	7	14	26	45	−19	34
12	Académica	30	6	14	10	31	38	−7	32
13	Estrela da Amadora	30	6	13	11	29	41	−12	31
14	Leixões	30	4	14	12	27	37	−10	26
15	Paços de Ferreira[d]	30	6	7	17	31	49	−18	25
16	União de Leiria (R)	30	3	7	20	25	53	−28	16	Relegation to Liga de Honra

Source: BDFutbol
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Porto were docked 6 points due to attempted bribery of referees in the 2003–04 season.^[7][8] However, the Council of Justice of the Portuguese Federation returned them in 2017.^[9]
2. Belenenses were docked 3 points for fielding an ineligible player.
3. Boavista was relegated to Liga de Honra for next season due to bribery of referees in the 2003-04 season.^[8] They were reinstated back to the top league, from the 3rd tier, in 2014^[10][11]
4. Paços de Ferreira were originally relegated but stayed in the league because of Boavista being relegated over the bribery scandal.

Results

Home \ Away	ACA	BEL	BEN	BOA	EST	LEI	MAR	NAC	NAV	PAÇ	POR	SCP	BRA	ULE	VGU	VSE
Académica		0–0	1–3	1–1	3–3	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	3–3	1–1	0–0	0–0
Belenenses	0–0		1–0	2–3	0–0	1–1	1–3	1–1	0–3[a]	1–0	1–2	1–0	0–2	2–1	1–1	5–0
Benfica	0–3	2–0		6–1	3–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	3–0	4–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	2–2	0–0	3–0
Boavista	0–0	2–4	0–0		2–1	0–0	0–2	1–0	2–0	4–3	0–0	2–0	0–0	3–1	3–2	3–3
Estrela da Amadora	3–1	0–2	0–0	0–0		2–0	1–1	0–1	3–1	1–0	2–2	0–2	1–1	4–2	4–1	0–1
Leixões	2–2	1–2	1–1	2–2	0–0		0–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	3–0	2–1	2–2	1–1
Marítimo	2–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–1		1–0	0–1	3–1	0–3	1–2	4–1	2–0	0–1	0–0
Nacional	0–3	1–2	0–3	2–0	0–0	1–0	0–2		2–0	1–2	1–0	0–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	0–0
Naval 1º de Maio	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–3	1–1		2–1	0–2	1–4	1–1	1–0	1–4	0–0
Paços de Ferreira	1–1	1–2	1–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	2–2		0–2	0–1	0–2	2–1	2–2	2–1
Porto	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	6–0	3–0	1–0	0–3	1–0	3–0		1–0	4–0	4–0	2–0	2–0
Sporting CP	4–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	2–1	4–1	4–1	2–1	2–0		2–0	1–1	3–0	2–2
Braga	2–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–2	3–0		0–1	0–0	2–3
União de Leiria	3–1	1–2	1–2	0–0	0–0	1–3	1–2	1–3	0–2	1–1	0–3	4–1	0–0		0–1	0–2
Vitória de Guimarães	2–1	1–0	1–3	1–0	4–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–5	2–0	1–0	2–1		1–1
Vitória de Setúbal	3–1	1–1	1–1	3–1	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	3–1	1–2	1–0	3–1	2–0	0–1

Source: www.lpfp.pt
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. Belenenses 0–3 Naval was awarded after Belenenses was punished for fielding ineligible player

Season statistics

Scoring

• First goal of the season: Derlei for Sporting CP against Académica (17 August 2007)
• Fastest goal in a match: Kanú (2 minutes) for Marítimo against Boavista (26 August 2007)
• Goal scored at the latest point in a match: Udo Nwoko (90'+3') for Leixões against Benfica (18 August 2007)
• Widest winning margin: Porto 6–0 Estrela da Amadora (28 April 2008)
• The first hat-trick: by Lito in Académica 3–3 Estrela da Amadora (4 November 2007)
• Most goals in a match:
  • Benfica 6–1 Boavista (11 November 2007)
  • Boavista 4–3 Paços de Ferreira (3 February 2008)

Cards

• First yellow card: Pedro Roma for Académica against Sporting CP (17 August 2007)
• First red card: Rodrigo Silva for Nacional against Estrela da Amadora (18 August 2007)

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Lisandro López	Porto	24
2	Óscar Cardozo	Benfica	13
3	Weldon	Belenenses	12
4	Wesley	Paços de Ferreira	11
	Liédson	Sporting CP
	Roland Linz	Braga
7	Marcelinho	Naval	10
8	Lito	Académica	9
9	João Paulo	União de Leiria	8
	Jorge Ribeiro	Boavista
	Ricardo Quaresma	Porto
	José Pedro	Belenenses

Source: Footballzz^[12]

Awards

Footballer of the Year

Name	Team	League Stats
		Apps	Goals
Lisandro López	Porto	27	24

Monthly awards

SJPF Player of the Month Month Player Club September Rui Costa Benfica October Lucho González Porto November Jorge Ribeiro Boavista December Peter Jehle Boavista January Lisandro López Porto February Lisandro López Porto March Pitbull Vitória de Setúbal April Luis Aguiar Académica

SJPF Young Player of the Month Month Player Club September[13] Paulo Machado Leixões October João Moutinho Sporting CP November João Moutinho Sporting CP December Tiago Gomes Estrela da Amadora January Rui Patrício Sporting CP February João Moutinho Sporting CP March João Moutinho Sporting CP April Paulo Machado Leixões

SJPF Fair Play Award

Month	Club
September	Sporting CP

Source: sjpf.pt (Portuguese)

See also

• Apito Dourado