2012–13 Primeira Liga

The 2012–13 Primeira Liga (also known as Liga ZON Sagres for sponsorship reasons) was the 79th season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs. It began on 19 August 2012 and concluded on 19 May 2013.^[4] Sixteen teams contested the league, fourteen of which took part in the previous season and two of which were promoted from the Liga de Honra. Porto were the defending champions and secured their third consecutive and 27th overall title, after completing their second unbeaten season in three years. Porto striker Jackson Martínez was the top scorer with 26 goals.

Primeira Liga

Season	2012–13
Dates	17 August 2012 – 19 May 2013
Champions	Porto 27th title
Relegated	Moreirense Beira-Mar
Champions League	Porto Benfica Paços de Ferreira
Europa League	Vitória de Guimarães Braga Estoril
Matches played	240
Goals scored	667 (2.78 per match)
Best Player	Nemanja Matić
Top goalscorer	Jackson Martínez (26 goals)[1]
Best goalkeeper	Helton
Biggest home win	Porto 5–0 Marítimo Vitória de Setúbal 5–0 Moreirense Porto 5–0 Gil Vicente Benfica 5–0 Gil Vicente Benfica 6–1 Rio Ave
Biggest away win	Vitória de Setúbal 0–5 Benfica Moreirense 0–5 Paços de Ferreira
Highest scoring	Braga 4–4 Olhanense Vitória de Setúbal 3–5 Rio Ave
Longest winning run	Benfica 9 games (28 September 2012 – 6 January 2013; 17 February – 29 April 2013)
Longest unbeaten run	Porto 30 games (19 August 2012 – 19 May 2013)
Longest winless run	Moreirense 14 games (2 September 2012 – 27 January 2013)
Longest losing run	Vitória de Setúbal 5 games (2 March – 7 April 2013)
Highest attendance	62,553[2] Benfica 2–0 Sporting CP (21 April 2013)
Lowest attendance	1,221[2] Paços de Ferreira 1–1 Moreirense (19 August 2012)
Total attendance	2,343,284[3]
Average attendance	9,764[3]
← 2011–12 2013–14 →

Teams

A total of sixteen teams contested the league, fourteen of which were present in the 2011–12 Primeira Liga and two of which were promoted from the 2011–12 Liga de Honra. The two relegated teams after the 2011–12 season were Feirense and União de Leiria, which returned to the Liga de Honra after one and three years, respectively, in the top level. Replacing them in the top-flight division were 2011–12 Liga de Honra champions Estoril and runners-up Moreirense, both returning after a seven-year absence. Estoril contested their 21st season in the Primeira Liga, while Moreirense participated only for the fourth time.

Stadia and locations

Académica

Braga

Estoril

Gil Vicente

Porto

Rio Ave

Beira-Mar

V. Setúbal

Olhanense

Madeira Islands (see below)

V. Guimarães

Moreirense

P. Ferreira

Benfica

Sporting CP

Location of teams in the 2012–13 Liga ZON Sagres

Marítimo

Nacional

Location of teams in the 2012–13 Liga ZON Sagres

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity	2011–12	Current spell
Académica	Coimbra	Estádio Cidade de Coimbra	30,210	13th	2002–03
Benfica	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	65,467	2nd	1934–35
Beira-Mar	Aveiro	Estádio Municipal de Aveiro	30,127	12th	2010–11
Braga	Braga	Estádio Municipal de Braga	30,152	3rd	1974–75
Estoril	Estoril	Estádio António Coimbra da Mota	8,000	Liga de Honra, 1st	2012–13
Gil Vicente	Barcelos	Estádio Cidade de Barcelos	12,374	9th	2011–12
Marítimo	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	8,922	5th	1985–86
Moreirense	Moreira de Cónegos	Parque de Jogos Comendador Joaquim de Almeida Freitas	9,000	Liga de Honra, 2nd	2012–13
Nacional	Funchal	Estádio da Madeira	5,132	7th	2002–03
Olhanense	Olhão	Estádio José Arcanjo	11,622	8th	2009–10
Paços de Ferreira	Paços de Ferreira	Estádio da Mata Real	5,255	10th	2005–06
Porto	Porto	Estádio do Dragão	50,399	Champion	1934–35
Rio Ave	Vila do Conde	Estádio dos Arcos	12,815	14th	2008–09
Sporting CP	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade	50,080	4th	1934–35
Vitória de Guimarães	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	30,165	6th	2007–08
Vitória de Setúbal	Setúbal	Estádio do Bonfim	18,692	11th	2004–05

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Académica	Pedro Emanuel	Orlando	Nike	EFAPEL
Beira-Mar	Costinha	Hugo Vieira	Hummel	32 Group
Benfica	Jorge Jesus	Luisão	Adidas	MEO (H) / TMN (A)
Braga	José Peseiro	Alan	Macron	AXA
Estoril	Marco Silva	Vagner	Joma	Gelpeixe
Gil Vicente	Paulo Alves	Paulo Arantes	Macron	Carnes Campicarn
Marítimo	Pedro Martins	Briguel	Lacatoni	Banif
Moreirense	Augusto Inácio	Francisco Castro	Cdt
Nacional	Manuel Machado	Moreno	Hummel	Banif
Olhanense	Manuel Cajuda	Rui Duarte	Lacatoni	Casais, SA
Paços de Ferreira	Paulo Fonseca	Filipe Anunciação	Lacatoni	Capital do Móvel
Porto	Vítor Pereira	Helton	Nike	MEO (H) / TMN (A)
Rio Ave	Nuno Espírito Santo	José Gaspar	Lacatoni	ASC ENGENHARIA E CONSTRUÇÃO
Sporting CP	Jesualdo Ferreira	Rui Patrício	Puma	TMN (H) / MEO (A)
Vitória de Guimarães	Rui Vitória	Alex	Lacatoni	Espaço Guimarães / Smile.Up / Super Bock
Vitória de Setúbal	José Mota	Ricardo Silva	Lacatoni	Kia

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Paços de Ferreira	Henrique Calisto	Resigned	12 May 2012	Paulo Fonseca	25 May 2012	Pre-season
Sporting CP	Ricardo Sá Pinto	Resigned	5 October 2012[5]	Oceano	5 October 2012[6]	7th
Nacional	Pedro Caixinha	Sacked	11 October 2012[7]	Manuel Machado	13 October 2012[8]	14th
Sporting CP	Oceano	Replaced	24 October 2012	Franky Vercauteren	24 October 2012[9]	12th
Olhanense	Sérgio Conceição	Resigned	7 January 2013[10]	Manuel Cajuda	8 January 2013[11]	8th
Sporting CP	Franky Vercauteren	Resigned	7 January 2013[12]	Jesualdo Ferreira	7 January 2013[13]	12th
Moreirense	Jorge Casquilha	Resigned	30 January 2013[14]	Augusto Inácio	30 January 2013[15]	16th
Beira-Mar	Ulisses Morais	Resigned	16 February 2013[16]	Costinha	18 February 2013[17]	15th
Académica	Pedro Emanuel	Sacked	7 April 2013[18]	Sérgio Conceição	8 April 2013[19]	14th
Olhanense	Manuel Cajuda	Resigned	1 May 2013[20]	Bruno Saraiva	1 May 2013[21]	15th

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Porto (C)	30	24	6	0	70	14	+56	78	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Benfica	30	24	5	1	77	20	+57	77
3	Paços de Ferreira	30	14	12	4	42	29	+13	54	Qualification for the Champions League play-off round
4	Braga	30	16	4	10	60	44	+16	52	Qualification for the Europa League play-off round
5	Estoril	30	13	6	11	47	37	+10	45	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round
6	Rio Ave	30	12	6	12	35	42	−7	42[a]
7	Sporting CP	30	11	9	10	36	36	0	42[a]
8	Nacional	30	11	7	12	45	51	−6	40[b]
9	Vitória de Guimarães	30	11	7	12	36	47	−11	40[b]	Qualification for the Europa League group stage[c]
10	Marítimo	30	9	11	10	34	45	−11	38
11	Académica	30	6	10	14	33	45	−12	28
12	Vitória de Setúbal	30	7	5	18	30	55	−25	26
13	Gil Vicente	30	6	7	17	31	54	−23	25[d]
14	Olhanense	30	5	10	15	26	42	−16	25[d]
15	Moreirense (R)	30	5	9	16	30	51	−21	24	Relegation to Segunda Liga
16	Beira-Mar (R)	30	5	8	17	35	55	−20	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.)^[22]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Rio Ave ahead of Sporting CP on head-to-head record; Rio Ave–Sporting CP 2–1, Sporting CP–Rio Ave 0–1
2. Nacional ahead of Vitória de Guimarães on head-to-head record; Nacional–Vitória de Guimarães 2–1, Vitória de Guimarães–Nacional 1–3
3. Vitória de Guimarães qualified for the group stage of 2013–14 UEFA Europa League after winning the 2012–13 Taça de Portugal.
4. Gil Vicente ahead of Olhanense on head-to-head record; Gil Vicente–Olhanense 2–0, Olhanense–Gil Vicente 2–2

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	11	2	2	1	2	1	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1
Benfica	5	1	1	2	1	2	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2
Paços de Ferreira	9	9	4	4	6	9	6	5	4	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Braga	5	3	6	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Estoril	15	11	11	5	5	11	14	8	6	6	6	6	7	6	7	7	8	6	8	7	7	8	5	6	5	6	5	6	5	5
Rio Ave	16	7	8	13	11	5	4	4	5	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	9	8	10	8	8	8	6
Sporting CP	11	12	12	7	7	12	10	13	10	8	9	10	12	8	8	9	9	10	9	11	10	10	10	8	7	9	7	7	7	7
Nacional	5	14	16	15	13	15	15	16	14	9	10	11	14	9	12	11	11	11	11	9	9	9	9	7	10	7	9	9	9	8
Vitória de Guimarães	11	15	14	9	14	7	5	6	8	7	7	7	6	7	6	6	6	8	7	8	8	6	7	10	9	5	6	5	6	9
Marítimo	2	6	5	8	12	6	9	11	12	13	8	9	10	10	9	10	10	7	6	6	6	7	8	5	6	8	10	10	10	10
Académica	3	8	9	11	4	8	8	10	13	14	15	15	11	14	10	8	7	9	10	12	12	12	12	12	13	13	13	11	11	11
Vitória de Setúbal	5	16	15	10	9	10	11	7	7	10	11	15	15	12	15	15	15	14	12	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	12	12	12
Gil Vicente	11	10	10	14	8	4	7	9	11	12	13	13	13	15	11	13	12	12	13	13	13	13	14	15	12	12	12	13	13	13
Olhanense	1	5	7	12	15	14	13	12	9	11	12	12	8	13	14	12	13	13	14	14	14	14	15	13	14	14	14	14	14	14
Moreirense	9	4	3	6	10	13	12	14	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	13	14	15	15	15	16	15	15
Beira-Mar	3	13	13	16	16	16	16	15	16	16	14	8	9	11	13	14	14	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	16	16

	Leader
	2013–14 UEFA Champions League Group stage
	2013–14 UEFA Champions League Play-off round
	2013–14 UEFA Europa League Play-off round
	2013–14 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round
	Relegation to 2013–14 Segunda Liga

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results

Home \ Away	ACA	BEM	BEN	BRA	ESP	GVI	MAR	MOR	NAC	OLH	PAÇ	POR	RAV	SCP	VGU	VSE
Académica		3–1	2–2	1–4	0–2	2–2	2–3	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–3	1–2	1–1	1–2	4–2
Beira-Mar	3–3		0–1	3–3	0–1	1–0	4–2	1–1	2–2	0–1	0–2	0–2	3–1	1–4	2–2	1–1
Benfica	1–0	2–1		2–2	1–1	5–0	4–1	3–1	3–0	2–0	3–0	2–2	6–1	2–0	3–0	3–0
Braga	1–0	3–1	1–2		3–0	3–1	2–0	1–0	1–3	4–4	2–3	0–2	4–1	2–3	3–2	4–1
Estoril	2–0	2–1	1–3	2–1		1–2	3–1	2–0	4–0	3–3	1–1	1–2	1–3	3–1	2–0	3–0
Gil Vicente	2–1	1–2	0–3	1–3	1–3		4–2	4–3	1–2	2–0	0–1	0–0	0–1	2–3	0–0	0–0
Marítimo	0–2	1–1	1–2	0–2	2–1	0–0		1–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1
Moreirense	2–2	3–0	0–2	2–3	1–1	0–0	0–1		3–1	1–1	0–5	0–3	0–1	2–2	0–1	2–1
Nacional	2–1	2–4	2–2	3–2	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–2		3–1	3–3	1–3	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–2
Olhanense	0–0	1–0	0–2	0–1	2–1	2–2	0–0	2–2	1–2		1–2	2–3	1–0	0–2	1–2	0–1
Paços de Ferreira	1–0	1–1	1–2	2–0	1–0	3–2	2–2	1–1	1–1	0–0		0–2	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–0
Porto	2–1	4–0	2–1	3–1	2–0	5–0	5–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–0		2–1	2–0	4–0	2–0
Rio Ave	0–0	2–1	0–1	1–1	0–2	2–1	0–1	0–1	2–1	0–1	0–0	2–2		2–1	1–3	2–1
Sporting CP	0–0	1–0	1–3	1–0	2–2	2–1	0–1	3–2	2–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–1		1–1	2–1
Vitória de Guimarães	2–0	2–1	0–4	0–2	2–2	3–1	1–1	1–0	1–3	2–0	2–2	0–4	0–1	0–0		2–1
Vitória de Setúbal	0–1	1–0	0–5	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–4	5–0	0–2	1–0	0–0	0–3	3–5	2–1	2–3

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

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[23]
1	Jackson Martínez	Porto	26
2	Lima	Benfica	20
3	Óscar Cardozo	Benfica	17
4	Ricky van Wolfswinkel	Sporting CP	14
5	Albert Meyong	Vitória de Setúbal	13
	Eder	Braga	13
	Edinho	Académica	13
	Nabil Ghilas	Moreirense	13
9	Steven Vitória	Estoril	11
10	James Rodríguez	Porto	10
	Eduardo Salvio	Benfica	10
	Luís Leal	Estoril	10

Hat-tricks

Main article: List of Primeira Liga hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Luís Leal	Estoril	Marítimo	3–1	24 September 2012
João Tomás	Rio Ave	Vitória de Setúbal	3–5	25 November 2012
Albert Meyong	Vitória de Setúbal	Rio Ave	3–5	25 November 2012
Óscar Cardozo	Benfica	Sporting CP	1–3	10 December 2012
Óscar Cardozo	Benfica	Marítimo	4–1	15 December 2012
Edinho	Académica	Vitória de Setúbal	4–2	5 January 2013
Albert Meyong	Vitória de Setúbal	Moreirense	5–0	13 January 2013
Jackson Martínez	Porto	Vitória de Guimarães	4–0	2 February 2013
Lima	Benfica	Rio Ave	6–1	30 March 2013
Ricky van Wolfswinkel	Sporting CP	Braga	2–3	1 April 2013

Awards

Monthly awards

SJPF Player of the Month Month Player Club August/September[24] James Rodríguez Porto October/November[25] Jackson Martínez Porto December/January[26] Nemanja Matić Benfica February[27] Jackson Martínez Porto March[28] Lima Benfica April[29] Nemanja Matić Benfica

SJPF Young Player of the Month Month Player Club August/September[30] Miguel Lourenço Vitória de Setúbal October/November[31] Flávio Ferreira Académica December/January[32] David Simão Marítimo February[33] Josué Paços de Ferreira March[34] Tiago Ilori Sporting CP April[35] Amido Baldé Vitória de Guimarães

See also

• List of Portuguese football transfers summer 2012
• List of Portuguese football transfers winter 2012–13