2005–06 Primeira Liga

The 2005–06 Primeira Liga was the 72nd edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 19 August 2005 with a match between Sporting CP and Belenenses and ended on 7 May 2006. The league was contested by 18 clubs with Benfica as defending champions.

Primeira Liga

Season	2005–06
Dates	19 August 2005 – 7 May 2006
Champions	Porto 21st title
Relegated	Gil Vicente Rio Ave Vitória de Guimarães Penafiel
Champions League	Porto Sporting CP Benfica
UEFA Cup	Braga Nacional Vitória de Setúbal
Matches played	306
Goals scored	681 (2.23 per match)
Average goals/game	2.23
Best Player	Ricardo Quaresma
Top goalscorer	Albert Meyong (17 goals)
Biggest home win	Braga 5–0 Rio Ave (17 February 2006)
Biggest away win	Maritimo 0–6 Vitória de Setúbal (20 November 2005)
Highest scoring	União de Leiria 5–2 Rio Ave (7 May 2006)
← 2004–05 2006–07 →

Porto and Sporting CP were both qualified for the 2005–06 UEFA Champions League group stage, and Benfica qualified for the UEFA Champions League qualifying round; Braga, Nacional and Vitória de Setúbal qualified for the 2006–07 UEFA Cup; in opposite, with the league dropping to 16 teams, four teams were relegated to the Liga de Honra; Gil Vicente, Rio Ave, Vitória de Guimarães and Penafiel. Meyong was the top scorer with 17 goals.

The season's first goal was scored by Rogério, who scored a 39th-minute goal for Sporting against Belenenses. The first yellow card of the season was given to Sporting's Fábio Rochemback in the opening game of the season, and the first red card was given to Benfica's João Pereira in his club's away draw against Académica de Coimbra.

Promotion and relegation

Teams relegated to Liga de Honra

• Moreirense
• Beira-Mar
• Estoril

Moreirense, Beira-Mar and Estoril were relegated to the Liga de Honra following their final classification in 2004–05 season.

Teams promoted from Liga de Honra

• Estrela da Amadora
• Paços de Ferreira
• Naval 1º de Maio

The other three teams were replaced by Estrela da Amadora, Paços de Ferreira and Naval 1º de Maio from the Liga de Honra.

Leiria

Estrela

Académica

Belenenses
Benfica
Sporting

Porto
Boavista

Braga

Penafiel

Naval

P. Ferreira

Guimarães

Setúbal

Rio Ave

Gil Vicente

Madeira: Marítimo / Nacional

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Location of teams in the 2005-06 Liga

Marítimo

Nacional

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Location of teams in the '2005-06 Liga

Club information

Club	Season's Last Head Coach	City	Stadium	2004–2005 season
Académica de Coimbra	Nelo Vingada	Coimbra	Estádio Cidade de Coimbra	14th
Belenenses	Carlos Carvalhal	Lisbon	Estádio do Restelo	9th
Benfica	Ronald Koeman	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	1st
Boavista	Carlos Brito	Porto	Estádio do Bessa – Século XXI	6th
Braga	Jesualdo Ferreira	Braga	Estádio Municipal de Braga – AXA	4th
Estrela da Amadora	Toni Conceição	Amadora	Estádio José Gomes	3rd in the Liga de Honra
Gil Vicente	Paulo Alves	Barcelos	Estádio Cidade de Barcelos	13th
União de Leiria	Jorge Jesus	Leiria	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa	15th
Penafiel	Luís Castro	Penafiel	Estádio Municipal 25 de Abril	11th
Marítimo	Ulisses Morais	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	7th
Nacional	Manuel Machado	Funchal	Estádio da Madeira	12th
Naval 1° de Maio	Rogério Gonçalves	Figueira da Foz	Estádio Municipal José Bento Pessoa	2nd in the Liga de Honra
Paços de Ferreira	José Mota	Paços de Ferreira	Estádio da Mata Real	1st in the Liga de Honra
Porto	Co Adriaanse	Porto	Estádio do Dragão	2nd
Sporting CP	Paulo Bento	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade – Século XXI	3rd
Rio Ave	João Eusébio	Vila do Conde	Estádio dos Arcos	8th
Vitória de Guimarães	Vítor Pontes	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	5th
Vitória de Setúbal	Hélio Sousa	Setúbal	Estádio do Bonfim	10th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Porto (C)	34	24	7	3	54	16	+38	79	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Sporting CP	34	22	6	6	50	24	+26	72
3	Benfica	34	20	7	7	51	29	+22	67	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
4	Braga	34	17	7	10	38	22	+16	58	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
5	Nacional	34	14	10	10	40	32	+8	52
6	Boavista	34	12	14	8	37	29	+8	50
7	União de Leiria	34	13	8	13	44	42	+2	47
8	Vitória de Setúbal	34	14	4	16	28	33	−5	46	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
9	Estrela da Amadora	34	12	9	13	31	33	−2	45
10	Marítimo	34	10	14	10	38	37	+1	44
11	Paços de Ferreira	34	11	9	14	38	49	−11	42
12	Gil Vicente (R)	34	11	7	16	37	42	−5	40	Relegation to Liga de Honra
13	Académica	34	10	9	15	37	48	−11	39
14	Naval 1º de Maio	34	11	6	17	35	48	−13	39
15	Belenenses	34	11	6	17	40	42	−2	39
16	Rio Ave (R)	34	8	10	16	34	53	−19	34	Relegation to Liga de Honra
17	Vitória de Guimarães (R)	34	8	10	16	28	41	−13	34
18	Penafiel (R)	34	2	9	23	21	61	−40	15

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

Results

Home \ Away	ACA	BEL	BEN	BOA	BRA	EST	GVI	MAR	NAV	NAC	PAÇ	PEN	POR	RAV	SCP	ULE	VGU	VSE
Académica		0–1	0–0	0–2	0–3	1–0	2–0	2–2	2–2	0–0	3–0	1–0	0–1	2–2	0–3	1–3	1–0	0–1
Belenenses	0–0		1–2	1–1	2–0	0–2	0–2	0–1	2–3	1–0	2–0	5–0	0–2	1–2	0–1	3–1	3–1	3–1
Benfica	3–0	0–0		1–0	1–0	2–0	0–2	2–2	0–0	1–0	2–0	4–0	1–0	2–2	1–3	4–0	2–1	1–0
Boavista	2–1	0–2	0–2		0–0	2–1	2–0	1–1	3–0	0–3	4–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–2	2–0	1–1	0–0
Braga	2–0	2–0	3–2	1–0		1–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–3	1–0	0–0	5–0	3–2	1–0	1–0	0–1
Estrela da Amadora	3–2	1–2	1–2	1–1	0–0		1–0	2–2	2–1	0–2	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	1–2	2–0	1–0
Gil Vicente	4–3	1–0	1–3	0–1	2–1	1–1		1–0	2–0	0–1	2–0	2–2	0–1	1–0	2–2	1–2	1–1	5–0
Marítimo	2–2	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–1		2–1	2–0	1–1	2–2	2–2	0–0	1–2	3–0	0–1	1–0
Naval 1º de Maio	0–1	2–1	1–1	2–2	0–1	2–0	1–4	2–0		3–1	1–0	4–1	2–3	1–0	0–2	0–2	0–0	0–3
Nacional	2–2	4–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	2–0	2–1	2–0		2–2	2–0	0–1	1–1	2–1	1–4	1–1	2–2
Paços de Ferreira	2–1	1–1	3–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–2	3–1	0–1		2–2	0–1	2–1	3–0	1–1	1–1	1–2
Penafiel	1–0	0–3	1–3	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	3–2	0–1	1–2	2–2		0–1	0–2	0–1	1–1	0–1	0–1
Porto	5–1	2–0	0–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	3–1		3–0	1–1	1–0	3–1	0–0
Rio Ave	1–4	2–1	0–1	1–1	1–2	2–1	1–0	2–2	0–1	0–2	2–2	2–0	0–0		1–3	1–2	3–1	1–0
Sporting CP	0–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	3–0	2–0	0–1	3–0		2–1	2–0	1–0
União de Leiria	0–2	2–2	3–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	3–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–3	5–2	0–1		1–0	0–2
Vitória de Guimarães	1–1	2–2	2–0	1–1	0–2	0–1	2–0	1–0	0–2	0–0	0–2	3–1	0–2	1–1	0–1	0–3		4–0
Vitória de Setúbal	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	4–1	1–1	0–1	2–0	0–2	1–0	1–2	2–0	0–1

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

Top goal scorers

Rank	Scorer	Goals	Team
1	Albert Meyong	17	Belenenses
2	Nuno Gomes	15	Benfica
	Liédson		Sporting CP
	João Tomás		Braga
5	André Pinto	14	Nacional
6	Joeano	13	Académica de Coimbra
7	Marek Saganowski	12	Vitória de Guimarães
8	Alexandre	10	Nacional
	Lucho González		Porto
	Gaúcho		Rio Ave

Awards

Footballer of the Year

The Footballer of the Year award was won by the Portuguese Ricardo Quaresma of Porto, for a second successive season.

Portuguese Golden Shoe

The Portuguese Golden Shoe award was won by the Cameroonian Albert Meyong of Belenenses, scoring 17 goals.

External links

• Portuguese Liga 2005-06 at rsssf.com