1973–74 Primeira Divisão

Statistics of Portuguese Liga in the 1973–74 season.

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and Sporting Clube de Portugal won the championship.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sporting CP (C)	30	23	3	4	96	21	+75	49	Qualification to European Cup first round
2	Benfica	30	21	5	4	68	23	+45	47	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round^[a]
3	Vitória de Setúbal	30	19	7	4	69	21	+48	45	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4	Porto	30	18	7	5	43	22	+21	43	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
5	Belenenses	30	17	6	7	56	34	+22	40
6	Vitória de Guimarães	30	10	11	9	36	34	+2	31
7	Farense	30	9	8	13	35	38	−3	26
8	CUF Barreiro	30	8	9	13	33	44	−11	25
9	Boavista	30	9	7	14	35	43	−8	25
10	Académica	30	8	7	15	29	45	−16	23
11	Olhanense	30	8	6	16	35	69	−34	22
12	Oriental	30	10	1	19	35	79	−44	21
13	Beira-Mar (R)	30	7	7	16	34	59	−25	21	Relegation to Segunda Divisão
14	Leixões	30	9	3	18	36	56	−20	21
15	Barreirense (R)	30	6	9	15	19	42	−23	21	Relegation to Segunda Divisão
16	Montijo (R)	30	7	6	17	32	61	−29	20	Relegation to Segunda Divisão

Source: RSSSF^[1] and footballzz.co.uk^[2]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Benfica qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as runners-up of the 1974 Taça de Portugal Final, because Taça de Portugal winners, Sporting qualified for the European Cup.

Home \ Away	ACA	BAR	BEM	BEL	BEN	BOA	CUF	FAR	LEI	MON	OLH	ORI	POR	SCP	VGU	VSE
Académica		6–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–1	3–0	1–1	1–3	2–1	0–3
Barreirense	1–0		2–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–2	0–3	1–1	0–0
Beira Mar	1–1	3–2		1–2	1–1	0–0	2–0	3–1	3–2	3–1	4–2	2–3	1–2	1–1	0–1	0–3
Belenenses	6–0	1–0	4–1		1–2	4–1	2–1	3–1	4–3	3–0	3–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–1
Benfica	5–0	4–0	2–0	3–1		2–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	5–1	4–1	2–0	2–1	2–0	5–1	2–3
Boavista	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	2–0		0–1	1–0	2–2	4–0	2–0	3–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	0–1
CUF Barreiro	0–0	2–0	4–1	0–1	0–2	0–0		0–1	0–3	2–1	6–1	4–2	0–0	0–3	1–1	2–1
Farense	4–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–0	4–1	2–2		2–0	3–2	3–1	2–1	2–2	0–2	2–2	0–2
Leixões	1–0	1–0	4–0	1–1	0–1	2–0	3–1	0–0		4–2	3–1	1–3	2–0	0–3	0–2	0–1
Montijo	1–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	0–1	2–2	0–0	0–2	1–0		1–0	8–1	1–2	1–4	1–1	0–3
Olhanense	0–0	1–0	4–2	2–2	1–7	2–0	2–2	1–0	4–0	2–0		4–1	2–1	1–3	0–2	0–0
Oriental	0–3	2–1	0–1	2–3	1–3	3–1	3–2	1–0	3–2	1–1	2–0		1–3	0–7	1–0	0–3
Porto	1–0	1–0	3–0	2–0	2–1	4–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–0		1–1	3–0	2–0
Sporting CP	3–0	6–1	5–2	4–1	3–5	3–1	6–0	3–0	3–0	8–0	5–0	8–0	2–0		3–0	2–1
Vitória de Guimarães	1–0	0–0	3–0	1–1	0–0	0–2	2–0	1–1	5–0	1–0	3–1	4–1	0–0	0–1		1–4
Vitória de Setúbal	3–0	1–1	0–0	3–2	2–2	4–1	2–0	1–0	6–1	6–2	9–0	4–0	0–0	1–0	1–1

Source: ^[1]^[2]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[3]
1	Héctor Yazalde	Sporting	46
2	Duda	Vitória de Setúbal	24
3	Eusébio	Benfica	16
4	José Torres	Vitória de Setúbal	15
4	Rui Jordão	Benfica	15
6	Abel	Porto	14
7	Mirobaldo	Farense	13
	Arnaldo	Fabril Barreiro
	Francisco González	Belenenses
10	Ademir	Olhanense	12

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v t e 1973–74 in Portuguese football
Domestic leagues	Primeira Divisão Segunda Divisão Terceira Divisão
Domestic cups	Taça de Portugal (Final)
European competitions	European Cup Cup Winners' Cup UEFA Cup
Club seasons
Primeira Divisão	Benfica
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v t e 1973–74 in European football (UEFA)
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Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '73 '74 England Faroe Islands '73 '74 Finland '73 '74 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '73 '74 Israel Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '73 '74 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '73 '74 Spain Sweden '73 '74 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark England Faroe Islands '73 '74 Finland '73 '74 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '73 '74 Israel Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '73 '74 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Wales Yugoslavia '73 '74
League cups	England Republic of Ireland Scotland Switzerland
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Super Cup
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup Balkans Cup '73 '74