2010–11 Primeira Liga

The 2010–11 Primeira Liga (also known as Liga ZON Sagres for sponsorship reasons) was the 77th season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs. It began on 15 August 2010 and ended on 14 May 2011. A total of 16 teams contested the league, 14 of which already took part in the previous season and two of which were promoted from the Liga de Honra. Benfica were the defending champions but finished runners-up to Porto, who won their 25th league title in the club's first-ever unbeaten season. Porto's forward Hulk was the top scorer with 23 goals.

Primeira Liga

Season	2010–11
Dates	13 August 2010 – 14 May 2011
Champions	Porto 25th title
Relegated	Portimonense Naval 1º de Maio
Champions League	Porto Benfica
Europa League	Sporting CP Braga Vitória de Guimarães Nacional
Matches played	240
Goals scored	584 (2.43 per match)
Best Player	Hulk
Top goalscorer	Hulk (23 goals)[1]
Best goalkeeper	Helton
Biggest home win	Porto 5–0 Benfica Braga 5–0 Académica
Biggest away win	P. Ferreira 1–6 Rio Ave
Highest scoring	Benfica 5–2 Rio Ave Portimonense 3–4 V. Setúbal P. Ferreira 1–6 Rio Ave
Longest winning run	Porto 16 games (6 December 2010 – 1 May 2011)
Longest unbeaten run	Porto 30 games (14 August 2010 – 14 May 2011)
Longest losing run	Rio Ave 5 games (18 December 2010 – 6 February 2011)
Highest attendance	Benfica 2–1 Marítimo (54,991) (27 February 2011)
Lowest attendance	Naval 1–1 Portimonense (316) (22 January 2011)
Total attendance	2,419,683[2]
Average attendance	10,082[2]
← 2009–10 2011–12 →

Teams

Belenenses and Leixões were relegated at the end of the 2009–10 season after finishing in the bottom two places of the table. Belenenses ended an 11-year spell at the highest level of Portuguese football,^[3] while Leixões returned to the Liga de Honra after three years.^[4]

The two relegated teams were replaced by Liga de Honra champions Beira-Mar and runners-up Portimonense. Beira-Mar returned to the top-level league after three years of absence,^[5] and Portimonense made their first appearance in their league since being relegated at the end of the 1989–90 season.^[6]

Team summaries

Académica

Beira-Mar

Braga

V. Guimarães

U. Leiria

Naval

Olhanense

P. Ferreira

Portimonense

Porto

Rio Ave

V. Setúbal

Madeira Islands
 (see below)

Benfica

Sporting

Location of teams in Liga Zon Sagres 2010–11

Marítimo

Nacional

Location of teams in Liga Zon Sagres 2010–11

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity	2009–10 season
Académica	Coimbra	Estádio Cidade de Coimbra	30,210	11th
Beira-Mar	Aveiro	Estádio Municipal de Aveiro	30,127	Liga de Honra Champion
Benfica	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	65,400	Champion
Braga	Braga	Estádio Municipal de Braga	30,152	Runner-up
Marítimo	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	8,922	5th
Nacional	Funchal	Estádio da Madeira	5,132	7th
Naval 1º de Maio	Figueira da Foz	Estádio Municipal José Bento Pessoa	12,630	8th
Olhanense	Olhão	Estádio José Arcanjo	10,000	13th
Paços de Ferreira	Paços de Ferreira	Estádio da Mata Real	5,255	10th
Portimonense	Portimão	Estádio Municipal de Portimão	9,544	Liga de Honra Runner-up
Porto	Porto	Estádio do Dragão	50,399	3rd
Rio Ave	Vila do Conde	Estádio dos Arcos	12,815	12th
Sporting CP	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade	50,080	4th
União de Leiria	Leiria	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa	30,000	9th
Vitória de Guimarães	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	30,165	6th
Vitória de Setúbal	Setúbal	Estádio do Bonfim	25,000	14th

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Académica de Coimbra	Ulisses Morais	Orlando	Lacatoni	EFAPEL
Beira-Mar	Rui Bento	Hugo	Joma	Diatosta
Benfica	Jorge Jesus	Nuno Gomes	Adidas	tmn · meo
Sporting de Braga	Domingos Paciência	Vandinho	Macron	AXA
Marítimo	Pedro Martins	João Guilherme	Lacatoni	Banif
Nacional	Ivo Vieira	Bruno Patacas	Joma	Banif
Naval 1º de Maio	Carlos Mozer	Nicolas Godemèche	Desportreino	Hotéis Algarve Sol
Olhanense	Daúto Faquirá	Rui Duarte	Lacatoni	Ria Shopping
Paços de Ferreira	Rui Vitória	Manuel José	Lacatoni	Capital do Móvel
Portimonense	Carlos Azenha	Ricardo Pessoa	Macron	Kia · visitportimao.com
Porto	André Villas-Boas	Helton	Nike	tmn · meo
Rio Ave	Carlos Brito	Gaspar	Lacatoni	Nassica
Sporting CP	José Couceiro	Daniel Carriço	Puma	tmn · meo
União de Leiria	Pedro Caixinha	Marco Soares	Joma	Kia
Vitória de Guimarães	Manuel Machado	Nilson	Lacatoni	Finibanco
Vitória de Setúbal	Bruno Ribeiro	Ricardo Silva	Lacatoni	Kia

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment
União de Leiria	Lito Vidigal	Sacked	7 July 2010[7]	Off-season	Pedro Caixinha	10 July 2010[8]
Marítimo	Mitchell van der Gaag	Sacked	14 September 2010[9]	15th	Pedro Martins	14 September 2010[10]
Naval 1º de Maio	Victor Zvunka	Sacked	27 September 2010[11]	14th	Rogério Gonçalves	6 October 2010[12]
Académica	Jorge Costa	Resigned	21 December 2010	9th	José Guilherme	27 December 2010[13]
Naval 1º de Maio	Rogério Gonçalves	Sacked	19 December 2010	16th	Carlos Mozer	30 December 2010[14]
Portimonense	Litos	Sacked	28 December 2010[15]	16th	Carlos Azenha	29 December 2010[16]
Académica	José Guilherme	Resigned	20 February 2011[17]	13th	Ulisses Morais	22 February 2011[18]
Sporting CP	Paulo Sérgio	Resigned	26 February 2011[19]	3rd	José Couceiro	26 February 2011[20]
Beira-Mar	Leonardo Jardim	Resigned	28 February 2011[21]	10th	Rui Bento	1 March 2011[22]
Vitória de Setúbal	Manuel Fernandes	Sacked	1 March 2011[23]	14th	Bruno Ribeiro	1 March 2011[24]
Nacional	Predrag Jokanović	Sacked	13 March 2011[25]	7th	Ivo Vieira	13 March 2011[26]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Porto (C)	30	27	3	0	73	16	+57	84	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Benfica	30	20	3	7	61	31	+30	63	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
3	Sporting CP	30	13	9	8	41	31	+10	48	Qualification to Europa League play-off round
4	Braga	30	13	7	10	45	33	+12	46
5	Vitória de Guimarães	30	12	7	11	36	37	−1	43	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
6	Nacional	30	11	9	10	28	31	−3	42	Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round[a]
7	Paços de Ferreira	30	10	11	9	35	42	−7	41
8	Rio Ave	30	10	8	12	35	33	+2	38
9	Marítimo	30	9	8	13	33	32	+1	35[b]
10	União de Leiria	30	9	8	13	25	38	−13	35[b]
11	Olhanense	30	7	13	10	24	34	−10	34[c]
12	Vitória de Setúbal	30	8	10	12	29	42	−13	34[c]
13	Beira-Mar	30	7	12	11	32	36	−4	33
14	Académica	30	7	9	14	32	48	−16	30
15	Portimonense (R)	30	6	7	17	29	49	−20	25	Relegation to Liga de Honra
16	Naval 1º de Maio (R)	30	5	8	17	26	51	−25	23

Source: LPFP (in Portuguese)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head away goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Matches won; 7) Goals scored; 8) Play-off.
(Note: LPFP decided that only criteria 1, 5, 6 and 7 would be applied to establish the classification during the competition.)^[27]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. The 2010–11 Taça de Portugal competition was won by Champions League-qualified side Porto. Since cup runners-up Vitória de Guimarães secured a place in the European competitions via league position, the spot allocation for the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League effectively reverted to league positions.
2. Marítimo ahead of União de Leiria on head-to-head record; Marítimo–União de Leiria 1–1, União de Leiria–Marítimo 1–3
3. Olhanense ahead of Vitória de Setúbal on head-to-head record; Olhanense–Vitória de Setúbal 3–1, Vitória de Setúbal–Olhanense 0–0

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
Porto	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Benfica	11	14	11	13	8	5	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Sporting CP	12	7	3	5	7	8	10	7	4	6	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	3	4	3
Braga	1	3	2	4	5	3	6	4	6	7	10	7	8	7	7	7	7	5	6	7	7	6	4	4	3	3	3	4	3	4
Vitória de Guimarães	7	10	5	2	2	4	4	5	3	2	3	3	4	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	6	5	5	6	5	7	5	5
Nacional	3	2	4	8	11	12	9	11	8	4	5	8	6	6	6	5	5	6	9	9	6	7	7	7	6	5	6	5	6	6
Paços de Ferreira	3	5	7	6	6	10	8	9	10	12	12	11	12	12	11	11	10	10	8	5	4	4	5	6	7	8	8	8	7	7
Rio Ave	12	12	15	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	12	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	12	11	10	11	12	9	7	7	6	8	8
Marítimo	12	15	16	15	15	15	15	14	13	13	14	14	10	11	13	9	11	12	12	11	13	13	12	10	8	9	9	9	9	9
União de Leiria	7	10	13	9	12	9	5	10	12	11	9	6	5	4	4	6	6	8	5	6	8	8	8	8	10	11	11	11	10	10
Olhanense	7	9	6	7	3	6	3	6	7	8	7	9	11	10	9	10	9	7	7	8	9	9	10	11	13	12	12	12	12	11
Vitória de Setúbal	3	5	9	12	10	7	11	8	9	10	11	13	14	14	12	13	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	12
Beira-Mar	7	13	8	11	9	13	13	12	11	9	8	10	9	8	8	8	8	9	10	10	10	11	9	9	11	10	10	10	11	13
Académica	2	4	10	3	4	2	7	3	5	5	6	5	7	9	10	12	12	11	11	13	12	12	13	13	12	13	13	13	14	14
Portimonense	16	16	14	10	13	11	12	13	14	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	15	15	16	16	16	16	15	15
Naval 1º de Maio	12	7	12	14	14	14	14	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	16	16	15	15	15	15	16	16

	Leader
	2nd place
	3rd place

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results

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

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

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Position	Player	Club	Goals
1	Hulk	Porto	23
2	Radamel Falcao	Porto	16
	João Tomás	Rio Ave	16
4	Óscar Cardozo	Benfica	12
5	Baba Diawara	Marítimo	11
6	Edgar	V. Guimarães	10
	Silvestre Varela	Porto	10
8	Carlão	Leiria	9
	Pitbull	V. Setúbal	9
	Mario Rondón	Paços de Ferreira	9
	Javier Saviola	Benfica	9
	Leandro Tatu	Beira-Mar	9

Updated as of games played on 14 May 2011.
Source: LPFP (in Portuguese)

Awards

Monthly awards

SJPF Player of the Month Month Player Club September[28] Hulk Porto October[29] Hulk Porto November[30] João Tomás Rio Ave December Hulk Porto January Hulk Porto February[31] Diego Vitória de Setúbal March[32] Diego Vitória de Setúbal April Rui Patrício Sporting CP

SJPF Young Player of the Month Month Player Club September[33] Fábio Coentrão Benfica October[34] Daniel Candeias Portimonense November[35] Rui Patrício Sporting CP December[36] André Santos Sporting CP January[37] Pizzi Paços de Ferreira February[38] Rui Sampaio Beira-Mar March[39] Rui Patrício Sporting CP April[40] Rui Patrício Sporting CP

SJPF Fair Play Award

Month	Club
September[41]	Nacional
October[42]	Sporting CP
November[43]	Olhanense
December
January
February[44]	Vitória de Guimarães
March[45]	União de Leiria
April[46]	Naval 1º de Maio

List of 2010–11 transfers

Main articles: List of Portuguese football transfers summer 2010 and List of Portuguese football transfers winter 2011