2009–10 Primeira Liga

The 2009–10 Primeira Liga (also known as the Liga Sagres for sponsorship reasons) was the 76th season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs. It began on 16 August 2009 and ended on 9 May 2010.

Primeira Liga

Season	2009–10
Dates	14 August 2009 – 9 May 2010
Champions	Benfica 32nd title
Relegated	Leixões Belenenses
Champions League	Benfica Braga
Europa League	Porto Sporting CP Marítimo
Matches played	240
Goals scored	601 (2.5 per match)
Best Player	David Luiz
Top goalscorer	Óscar Cardozo (26 goals)[1]
Biggest home win	Benfica 8–1 V. Setúbal (31 August 2009)[2]
Biggest away win	Marítimo 0–5 Benfica (17 January 2010)[3]
Highest scoring	Benfica 8–1 V. Setúbal (31 August 2009)[2] (9 goals)
Longest winning run	Benfica 9 games (13 February 2010 – 24 April 2010)
Longest unbeaten run	Benfica 19 games (1 November 2009 – 24 April 2010)
Longest losing run	Belenenses 7 games (17 January 2010 – 7 March 2010)
Highest attendance	Benfica 2–1 Rio Ave (64,103) (9 May 2010)[4]
Lowest attendance	Naval 1–0 Leiria (397) (12 March 2010)[5]
Average attendance	10,901
← 2008–09 2010–11 →

Benfica won their 32nd league title after a 2–1 home victory over Rio Ave on the last matchday.^[6][7] Benfica striker Óscar Cardozo was the top scorer with 26 goals.

Changes from 2008–09

Team changes

Trofense have been relegated to the Liga de Honra after finishing the 2008–09 season in 16th and last place. Trofense were to be accompanied by Belenenses, who finished in 15th place. Belenenses were ending a ten-year stretch in the Portuguese top-level league, while Trofense returned to the Liga da Honra after just one year in the top flight.

Estrela da Amadora, however, who finished last season in 11th place, have been relegated for economic problems to the Liga Vitalis. Therefore, Belenenses' relegation has been reversed and they will participate in the Liga Sagres once more.^[8]

The relegated teams were replaced by Liga Vitalis 2008–09 champions Olhanense and runners-up União de Leiria. Olhanense returned to the top-flight after 34 years, while Leiria was back after a one-year hiatus.

Structural changes

Based on UEFA coefficients, Portugal finished in tenth place of the UEFA country ranking after the 2008–09 season.^[9] As a result, the Portuguese league will lose one qualification spot for the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League. The third-placed team will now qualify for the third qualification round instead of the play-off round. The fourth-placed team will enter the competition in the second qualification round while the fifth place will not initially qualify for any European competitions via league placement. However, this may change during the course of the season depending on the league performance of both 2009–10 Cup of Portugal finalists.

Team overview

Académica

Sp. Braga

V. Guimarães

U. Leiria

Leixões

Naval

Olhanense

P. Ferreira

Porto

Rio Ave

V. Setúbal

Madeira Islands
 (see below)

Belenenses

Benfica

Sporting CP

Location of teams in Liga Sagres 2009–10

Marítimo

Nacional

Location of teams in Liga Sagres 2009–10

Stadia and locations

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity	2008 Season
Académica	Coimbra	Estádio Cidade de Coimbra	30,210	7th in Liga Sagres
Belenenses	Lisbon	Estádio do Restelo	32,500	15th in Liga Sagres
Benfica	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	65,400	3rd in Liga Sagres
Braga	Braga	Estádio Municipal de Braga	30,152	5th in Liga Sagres
Leixões	Matosinhos	Estádio do Mar	16,035	6th in Liga Sagres
Marítimo	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	8,922	9th in Liga Sagres
Nacional	Funchal	Estádio da Madeira	5,132	4th in Liga Sagres
Naval 1º de Maio	Figueira da Foz	Estádio Municipal José Bento Pessoa	12,630	13th in Liga Sagres
Olhanense	Olhão	Estádio José Arcanjo	10,000	Liga Vitalis champion
Paços de Ferreira	Paços de Ferreira	Estádio da Mata Real	5,255	10th in Liga Sagres
Porto	Porto	Estádio do Dragão	50,399	Liga Sagres champion
Rio Ave	Vila do Conde	Estádio dos Arcos	12,815	12th in Liga Sagres
Sporting CP	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade	50,080	2nd in Liga Sagres
União de Leiria	Leiria	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa	30,000	Liga Vitalis runner-up
Vitória de Guimarães	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	30,165	8th in Liga Sagres
Vitória de Setúbal	Setúbal	Estádio do Bonfim	25,000	14th in Liga Sagres

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Captain	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Académica	Lito	André Villas-Boas	Lacatoni	Dolce Vita
Belenenses	José Pedro	Toni Conceição	Lacatoni	n/a
Benfica	Nuno Gomes	Jorge Jesus	Adidas	Front: TMN (home) / MEO (away) | Back: Sagres
Braga	Vandinho	Domingos Paciência	Macron	AXA
Leixões	Zé Manel	Fernando Castro Santos	Sport Zone	Cepsa
Marítimo	Bruno	Mitchell van der Gaag	Lacatoni	BANIF
Nacional	Bruno Patacas	Manuel Machado	Legea	BANIF
Naval 1º de Maio	Carlitos	Augusto Inácio	Desportreino	Motéis Algarve Sol
Olhanense	Toy	Jorge Costa	Sport Zone	n/a
Paços de Ferreira	Paulo Sousa	Ulisses Morais	Diadora	Capital do Móveis: Paços de Ferreira
Porto	Bruno Alves	Jesualdo Ferreira	Nike	Front: TMN (home) / MEO (away) | Back: Super Bock
Rio Ave	José Gaspar	Carlos Brito	Lacatoni	Nassica: Vila do Conde
Sporting CP	João Moutinho	Carlos Carvalhal	Puma	Front: TMN (home) / MEO (away) | Back Super Bock
União de Leiria	Marco Soares	Lito Vidigal	Legea	n/a
Vitória de Guimarães	Flávio Meireles	Paulo Sérgio	Lacatoni	Finibanco
Vitória de Setúbal	Sandro	Manuel Fernandes	Lacatoni	n/a

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing	Manner	Date	Table	Incoming	Date
Naval 1º de Maio	Ulisses Morais[10]	Sacked	7 September 2009	15th	Augusto Inácio[11]	12 September 2009
Vitória de Setúbal	Carlos Azenha[12]	Resigned	14 September 2009	16th	Quim1[13]	17 September 2009
Marítimo	Carlos Carvalhal[14]	Resigned	28 September 2009	11th	Mitchell van der Gaag[15]	28 September 2009
Académica	Rogério Gonçalves[16]	Resigned	3 October 2009	16th	Zé Nando1[17]	4 October 2009
Vitória de Guimarães	Nelo Vingada[18]	Resigned	7 October 2009	12th	Basílio Marques1[19]	8 October 2009
Académica	Zé Nando	Replaced	13 October 2009	16th	André Villas-Boas[20]	13 October 2009
Vitória de Guimarães	Basílio Marques	Replaced	13 October 2009	12th	Paulo Sérgio[21]	13 October 2009
Paços de Ferreira	Paulo Sérgio[22]	Left to sign with Vitória de Guimarães	16 October 2009	10th	Ulisses Morais[23]	16 October 2009
União de Leiria	Manuel Fernandes[24]	Left to sign with Vitória de Setúbal	19 October 2009	9th	Lito Vidigal	21 October 2009
Vitória de Setúbal	Quim	Replaced	21 October 2009	15th	Manuel Fernandes[25]	21 October 2009
Sporting CP	Paulo Bento[26]	Resigned	6 November 2009	7th	Leonel Pontes1	6 November 2009
Sporting CP	Leonel Pontes	Replaced	15 November 2009	8th	Carlos Carvalhal[27]	15 November 2009
Nacional	Manuel Machado[28]	Health issues	30 November 2009	4th	José Augusto1[29]	30 November 2009
Nacional	José Augusto	Replaced	13 December 2009	4th	Predrag Jokanović1[30]	13 December 2009
Belenenses	João Carlos Pereira[31]	Resigned	21 December 2009	16th	Toni Conceição[32]	23 December 2009
Nacional	Predrag Jokanović	Replaced	26 January 2010	5th	Manuel Machado[33]	26 January 2010
Leixões	José Mota[34]	Resigned	9 February 2010	15th	Fernando Castro Santos[35]	9 February 2010

¹ Interim coach

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Benfica (C)	30	24	4	2	78	20	+58	76	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Braga	30	22	5	3	48	20	+28	71	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
3	Porto	30	21	5	4	70	26	+44	68	Qualification to Europa League play-off round[a]
4	Sporting CP	30	13	9	8	42	26	+16	48	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
5	Marítimo	30	11	8	11	42	43	−1	41[b]	Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round
6	Vitória de Guimarães	30	11	8	11	31	34	−3	41[b]
7	Nacional	30	10	9	11	36	46	−10	39
8	Naval 1º de Maio	30	10	6	14	20	35	−15	36
9	União de Leiria	30	9	8	13	35	41	−6	35[c]
10	Paços de Ferreira	30	8	11	11	32	37	−5	35[c]
11	Académica	30	8	9	13	37	42	−5	33
12	Rio Ave	30	6	13	11	22	33	−11	31
13	Olhanense	30	5	14	11	31	46	−15	29
14	Vitória de Setúbal	30	5	10	15	29	57	−28	25
15	Belenenses (R)	30	4	11	15	23	44	−21	23	Relegation to Liga de Honra
16	Leixões (R)	30	5	6	19	25	51	−26	21

Source: LPFP
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Porto qualified for the play-off round of 2010–11 UEFA Europa League after winning the 2009–10 Taça de Portugal.
2. Marítimo ahead of Vitória de Guimarães on head-to-head record; Vitória de Guimarães–Marítimo 1–2, Marítimo–Vitória de Guimarães 0–1.
3. União de Leiria ahead of Paços de Ferreira on head-to-head record; Paços de Ferreira–União de Leiria 0–1, União de Leiria–Paços de Ferreira 2–1.

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Académica	16	14	14	14	15	16	16	16	16	16	12	13	12	12	10	11	12	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11
Belenenses	11	5	7	10	11	12	14	11	10	14	13	12	13	16	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15
Benfica	9	3	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Braga	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Leixões	14	15	12	12	8	13	8	9	11	15	14	14	14	14	16	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	16
Marítimo	3	2	4	9	10	11	7	7	8	5	5	5	6	9	9	9	8	6	7	7	10	10	11	8	9	9	7	7	7	5
Nacional	6	13	13	13	9	6	5	6	5	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	6	7	6	8	7	8	9	10	8	8	6	6	6	7
Naval 1º de Maio	10	16	15	15	16	15	11	15	9	11	11	9	10	10	11	12	11	12	12	12	11	11	8	9	10	10	9	10	8	8
Olhanense	12	8	9	7	7	10	13	14	15	13	15	15	15	15	14	13	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	13	13
Paços de Ferreira	8	9	10	11	13	8	9	12	12	10	10	11	11	11	12	10	10	10	10	9	6	7	6	7	7	7	10	9	10	10
Porto	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Rio Ave	4	6	5	4	5	4	6	5	4	6	7	7	5	8	8	8	9	9	9	10	9	9	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	12
Sporting CP	2	10	6	5	4	5	4	4	7	8	6	6	7	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
União de Leiria	7	7	8	6	6	7	9	8	6	7	8	8	8	6	7	6	5	5	5	5	8	6	7	6	6	6	8	8	9	9
Vitória de Guimarães	13	12	11	8	12	9	12	10	13	9	9	10	9	7	6	7	7	8	8	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	6
Vitória de Setúbal	15	11	16	16	14	14	15	13	14	12	16	16	16	13	13	15	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	14	14

	Leader
	2nd place
	3rd place

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results

Home \ Away	ACA	BEL	BEN	BRA	LEI	MAR	NAC	NAV	OLH	PAÇ	POR	RAV	SCP	ULE	VGU	VSE
Académica		1–1	2–3	0–2	2–0	2–4	3–3	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–2	0–0	2–0	3–0
Belenenses	1–2		0–4	1–3	1–3	2–2	0–1	2–0	0–0	0–3	0–3	0–0	0–4	5–2	0–1	0–0
Benfica	4–0	1–0		1–0	5–0	1–1	6–1	1–0	5–0	3–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	3–0	3–1	8–1
Braga	1–0	3–1	2–0		3–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–2	2–0
Leixões	1–3	0–0	0–4	1–1		1–2	2–4	1–0	2–2	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–2	3–2	3–1	1–2
Marítimo	0–0	3–3	0–5	1–2	1–0		1–1	1–2	5–2	3–1	1–0	0–1	3–2	1–0	0–1	2–0
Nacional	4–3	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	2–1		1–1	1–1	1–1	0–4	1–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–1
Naval 1º de Maio	0–1	1–0	2–4	0–4	1–0	2–1	0–0		0–0	1–0	1–3	3–2	0–1	1–0	0–0	0–1
Olhanense	2–1	1–3	2–2	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–0		1–1	0–3	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–2	2–2
Paços de Ferreira	2–1	0–0	1–3	0–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–3	2–2		1–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	0–0	5–3
Porto	3–2	1–1	3–1	5–1	4–1	4–1	3–0	3–0	2–2	1–1		2–1	1–0	3–2	3–0	2–0
Rio Ave	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–5	1–2	0–1		2–2	0–2	0–0	1–0
Sporting CP	1–2	0–0	0–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	3–2	0–1	3–2	1–0	3–0	5–0		0–1	3–1	2–1
União de Leiria	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–2	2–1	0–0	1–2	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–4	1–1	1–1		0–1	3–3
Vitória de Guimarães	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–2	2–0	3–0	1–1	1–2	1–4	1–0	1–1	2–2		2–2
Vitória de Setúbal	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–0	1–0	3–2	2–1	0–1	0–0	0–1	2–5	2–2	0–2	0–4	0–0

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

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Position	Player	Club	Goals
1	Óscar Cardozo	Benfica	26
2	Radamel Falcao	Porto	25
3	Liédson	Sporting CP	13
4	Edgar	Nacional	12
	Cássio	União de Leiria	12
	Djalmir	Olhanense	12
	Albert Meyong	Braga	12
8	Javier Saviola	Benfica	11
9	William	Paços de Ferreira	10
	Ladji Keita	Vitória de Setúbal	10

Source: Liga Sagres – Top Goalscorers (Portuguese)

Awards

Monthly awards

SJPF Player of the Month Month Player Club September[36] Alan Braga October[37] Djalma Marítimo November[38] João Tomás Rio Ave December[39] Javier Saviola Benfica January[40] Mossoró Braga February[41] Júlio Coelho Paços de Ferreira March[42] Liédson Sporting CP April[43] Ángel Di María Benfica

SJPF Young Player of the Month Month Player Club September[44] André Castro Olhanense October[45] Fábio Coentrão Benfica November[46] Fábio Faria Rio Ave December[47] Fábio Faria Rio Ave January[48] André Castro Olhanense February[49] André Castro Olhanense March[50] Fábio Coentrão Benfica April[51] Fábio Coentrão Benfica

SJPF Fair Play Award Month Club September[52] Académica October[53] Braga November[54] Naval December[55] Marítimo January[56] Braga February[57] Benfica March[58] Paços de Ferreira April[59] Nacional

Annual awards

LPFP Primeira Liga Player of the Year

The LPFP Primeira Liga Player of the Year was awarded to David Luiz of Benfica.^[60]

LPFP Primeira Liga Breakthrough Player of the Year

The LPFP Primeira Liga Breakthrough Player of the Year was awarded to Fábio Coentrão of Benfica.^[60]

LPFP Primeira Liga Manager of the Year

The LPFP Primeira Liga Manager of the Year was awarded to Jorge Jesus of Benfica.^[60]

LPFP Primeira Liga Breakthrough Manager of the Year

The LPFP Primeira Liga Breakthrough Manager of the Year was awarded to André Villas-Boas of Académica.^[60]

See also

• 2009–10 Liga de Honra
• 2009–10 Taça de Portugal
• 2009–10 Taça da Liga
• List of 2009–10 Portuguese Liga transfers