1994–95 Primeira Divisão

Primeira Divisão
Season	1994–95
Champions	Porto; 14th title
Relegated	União da Madeira; Beira-Mar; Vitória de Setúbal
Champions League	Porto (group stage)
Cup Winners' Cup	Sporting CP (first round)
UEFA Cup	Benfica (first round); V. Guimarães (first round); Farense (first round)
Matches played	306
Goals scored	731 (2.39 per match)
Top goalscorer	Hassan (21 goals)
Biggest home win	Salgueiros 6–0 Estrela da Amadora; (25 February 1995)
Biggest away win	Chaves 0–4 Porto; (30 October 1994)
Highest scoring	Porto 5–2 Salgueiros; (8 January 1995)
	← 1993–94 1995–96 →

The 1994–95 Primeira Divisão was the 61st edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 21 August 1994 with a match between Belenenses and Estrela da Amadora, and ended on 28 May 1995. The league was contested by 18 clubs with Benfica as the defending champions.

Porto won the league and qualified for the 1995–96 UEFA Champions League group stage, Sporting qualified for the 1994–95 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round, and Benfica, Vitória de Guimarães and Farense qualified for the 1995–96 UEFA Cup; in opposite, União da Madeira, Beira-Mar and Vitória de Setúbal were relegated to the Liga de Honra. Hassan was the top scorer with 21 goals.

This was the final season in which two points were awarded for a win; going forward this changed to three points.

Promotion and relegation

Teams relegated to Liga de Honra

Paços de Ferreira, Famalicão and Estoril-Praia, were consigned to the Liga de Honra following their final classification in 1993–94 season.

Teams promoted from Liga de Honra

The other three teams were replaced by Tirsense, União de Leiria and Chaves from the Liga de Honra.

Teams

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Stadia and locations

Farense

Leiria

Belenenses
Benfica
Sporting

V. Setúbal

Estrela

Beira-Mar

Porto
Boavista
Salgueiros

Location of teams in Primeira Divisão 1994-95 (Mainland)

Marítimo
U. Madeira

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Location of teams in Primeira Divisão 1994-95 (Madeira)

Team	Head Coach	City	Stadium	1993–94 finish
Beira-Mar	Rodolfo Reis	Aveiro	Estádio Mário Duarte	14th
Belenenses	José Romão	Lisbon	Estádio do Restelo	13th
Benfica	Artur Jorge	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	1st
Boavista	Manuel José	Porto	Estádio do Bessa	4th
Braga	Manuel Cajuda	Braga	Estádio Primeiro de Maio	15th
Chaves	Vítor Urbano	Chaves	Estádio Municipal de Chaves	3rd in Divisão de Honra
Estrela da Amadora	Acácio Casimiro	Amadora	Estádio José Gomes	9th
Farense	Paco Fortes	Faro	Estádio de São Luís	8th
Gil Vicente	Vítor Oliveira	Barcelos	Estádio Adelino Ribeiro Novo	10th
Marítimo	António Jesus	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	5th
Porto	Bobby Robson	Porto	Estádio das Antas	2nd
Salgueiros	Mário Reis	Porto	Estádio Engenheiro Vidal Pinheiro	11th
Sporting	Carlos Queiroz	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade	3rd
Tirsense	Eurico Gomes	Santo Tirso	Estádio Abel Alves de Figueiredo	1st in Divisão de Honra
União de Leiria	Vítor Manuel	Leiria	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa	2nd in Divisão de Honra
União da Madeira	Ernesto Paulo	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	12th
Vitória de Guimarães	Quinito	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	7th
Vitória de Setúbal	Raul Águas	Setúbal	Estádio do Bonfim	6th

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Vitória de Setúbal	Raul Águas	1 October 1994	18th	Diamantino Miranda	2 October 1994
Belenenses	José Romão	1 October 1994	16th	João Alves	2 October 1994
Vitória de Setúbal	Diamantino Miranda	6 November 1994	18th	Abel Braga	7 November 1994
Estrela da Amadora	Acácio Casimiro	20 November 1995	12th	Fernando Santos	20 November 1995
União da Madeira	Ernesto Paulo	27 November 1995	17th	Arthur Bernardes	28 November 1995
Vitória de Setúbal	Abel Braga	25 February 1995	18th	Mourinho Félix	26 February 1995
Beira-Mar	Rodolfo Reis	30 April 1995	17th	Acácio Barreto	1 May 1995

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Porto (C)	34	29	4	1	73	15	+58	62	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Sporting CP	34	23	9	2	59	21	+38	55	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round^[a]
3	Benfica	34	21	5	8	61	28	+33	47	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4	Vitória de Guimarães	34	16	10	8	54	43	+11	42
5	Farense	34	16	5	13	44	38	+6	37
6	União de Leiria	34	13	10	11	41	44	−3	36
7	Marítimo	34	12	11	11	41	45	−4	35
8	Tirsense	34	14	6	14	35	34	+1	34
9	Boavista	34	12	8	14	40	49	−9	32
10	Braga	34	11	10	13	34	42	−8	32
11	Salgueiros	34	11	7	16	43	50	−7	29
12	Belenenses	34	10	7	17	30	39	−9	27
13	Gil Vicente	34	7	13	14	30	40	−10	27
14	Chaves	34	10	7	17	33	49	−16	27
15	Estrela da Amadora	34	6	14	14	27	40	−13	26
16	União da Madeira (R)	34	7	10	17	30	54	−24	24	Relegation to Segunda Divisão de Honra
17	Beira-Mar (R)	34	8	5	21	33	54	−21	21
18	Vitória de Setúbal (R)	34	3	13	18	25	45	−20	19

Source: Primeira Divisão
Rules for classification: 1st points, 2nd head-to-head, 3rd goals average
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Sporting qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as Portuguese Cup winners

Results

Home \ Away	BEM	BEL	BEN	BOA	BRA	CHA	EST	FAR	GVI	MAR	POR	SAL	SCP	TIR	ULE	UNI	VGU	VSE
Beira-Mar		3–2	1–2	3–1	2–0	4–2	2–0	1–3	0–0	1–0	0–2	1–2	0–1	1–0	2–2	1–1	2–3	1–1
Belenenses	3–0		1–1	3–1	0–1	3–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–2	1–0	0–1	0–1	0–0	3–0	1–2	1–0
Benfica	2–0	2–1		4–1	1–1	5–0	3–1	2–1	0–1	3–0	1–1	3–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	3–1	1–3	1–0
Boavista	1–0	1–0	1–3		0–0	1–4	2–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	3–1	1–1	0–0
Braga	1–0	4–2	0–2	1–2		1–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–2	1–4	2–1	0–2	0–0	2–0	2–0	3–1	2–1
Chaves	3–2	0–0	0–1	3–1	1–0		1–0	1–2	2–1	1–1	0–4	0–1	1–2	0–0	1–1	5–1	1–1	0–0
Estrela da Amadora	1–1	2–3	0–0	1–0	4–0	1–1		2–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	4–0	0–2	0–0	2–3	1–1	1–1	0–0
Farense	3–0	1–0	4–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	2–0		2–0	4–0	0–3	1–0	0–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	3–0	2–0
Gil Vicente	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	3–2	2–0	1–1	1–1		3–2	0–1	0–0	1–2	0–1	1–1	0–0	2–2	3–0
Marítimo	3–2	3–0	0–3	2–0	1–1	4–1	0–0	2–1	1–0		2–1	2–2	0–2	1–0	2–0	1–0	2–3	3–2
Porto	3–0	1–0	2–1	4–2	2–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	4–1		5–2	1–1	2–0	4–0	3–0	3–0	2–0
Salgueiros	2–1	1–0	1–2	2–1	0–0	3–1	6–0	0–3	1–1	0–0	1–2		2–3	0–2	2–2	0–2	0–0	3–2
Sporting CP	2–0	2–1	1–0	2–2	3–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–0		2–0	4–0	4–0	2–0	2–2
Tirsense	2–0	3–0	1–3	2–1	1–0	0–1	3–1	3–0	3–1	0–1	0–2	1–3	1–1		2–1	2–0	3–3	1–0
União de Leiria	3–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	5–0	3–0	2–2	0–2	2–1	0–3	1–0		1–2	2–1	1–0
União da Madeira	1–0	0–1	0–2	1–1	0–0	0–1	0–1	3–0	2–0	2–2	0–0	0–4	1–1	1–1	1–0		3–3	3–0
Vitória de Guimarães	1–0	3–0	1–3	2–0	4–2	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–1	0–0	0–1	3–1	2–2	1–0	3–0	2–1		1–1
Vitória de Setúbal	1–0	0–0	1–2	1–3	0–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–3	1–2	1–1	1–2	2–2	4–1	1–0

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

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Hassan	Farense	21
2	Domingos	Porto	19
3	Marcelo	Tirsense	17
4	Artur	Boavista	16
5	Edmilson	Salgueiros	15
6	Isaías	Benfica	14
	Edinho	Chaves
	Paulo Alves	Marítimo
9	Nélson Bertolazzi	Leiria	12
10	Alex Bunbury	Marítimo	11

Source: Footballzz^[2]

Footnotes

^ "Teams". Footbalzz.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Primeira Divisão 1994-95 – Top Scorers". Footballzz. Retrieved 21 May 2015.

External links

[table_note_res_UCWC10.32009581537922-2] Sporting qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as Portuguese Cup winners

[1] "Teams". Footbalzz.^{[permanent dead link]}

[3] "Primeira Divisão 1994-95 – Top Scorers". Footballzz. Retrieved 21 May 2015.

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v t e 1994–95 in Portuguese football
Domestic leagues	Primeira Divisão Segunda Divisão de Honra Segunda Divisão B Terceira Divisão
Domestic cups	Taça de Portugal (Final) Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
European competitions	Champions League Cup Winners' Cup UEFA Cup
Club seasons
Primeira Divisão	Benfica
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v t e 1994–95 in European football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Armenia '94 '95 Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina (Herzeg-Bosnia) Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '94 '95 Finland '94 '95 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '94 '95 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '94 '95 Latvia '94 '95 Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '94 '95 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia '94 '95 San Marino Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '94 '95 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales FR Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '94 '95 Finland '94 '95 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '94 '95 Israel Italy Latvia '94 '95 Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '94 '95 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales FR Yugoslavia
League cups	England Finland '94 '95 France Israel Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Scotland Wales
Supercups	England Germany Italy
UEFA competitions	Champions League (Qualifying, Group stage, knockout stage, Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Super Cup
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup