1987–88 Primeira Divisão

Statistics of Portuguese Liga in the 1987/1988 season.

Primeira Liga

Season	1987-88
Champions	F.C. Porto 10th title
Relegated	O Elvas Varzim Salgueiros Rio Ave Académica Covilhã
European Cup	Porto (first round)
Cup Winners' Cup	V. Guimarães (first round)
UEFA Cup	Benfica (first round) Belenenses (first round) Sporting CP (first round)
Matches played	342
Goals scored	863 (2.52 per match)
Top goalscorer	Paulinho Cascavel (21 goals)
← 1986–87 1988–89 →

Overview

It was contested by 20 teams, and F.C. Porto won the championship.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Porto (C)	38	29	8	1	88	15	+73	66	Qualification to European Cup first round
2	Benfica	38	19	13	6	59	25	+34	51	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
3	Belenenses	38	18	12	8	52	38	+14	48
4	Sporting CP	38	17	13	8	62	41	+21	47
5	Boavista	38	16	14	8	42	25	+17	46
6	Espinho	38	13	14	11	42	38	+4	40
7	Chaves	38	13	14	11	51	31	+20	40
8	Vitória de Setúbal	38	15	10	13	56	43	+13	40
9	Marítimo	38	11	17	10	36	37	−1	39
10	Penafiel	38	10	18	10	36	45	−9	38
11	Braga	38	8	18	12	32	42	−10	34
12	Farense	38	12	10	16	36	50	−14	34
13	Portimonense	38	12	10	16	35	50	−15	34
14	Vitória de Guimarães	38	11	11	16	48	50	−2	33	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
15	O Elvas (R)	38	8	17	13	35	40	−5	33	Relegation to Segunda Divisão
16	Académica (R)	38	9	15	14	32	42	−10	33
17	Varzim (R)	38	7	16	15	31	52	−21	30
18	Rio Ave (R)	38	7	14	17	29	67	−38	28
19	Salgueiros (R)	38	6	13	19	31	62	−31	25
20	Covilhã (R)	38	5	11	22	30	70	−40	21

Source: RSSSF and footballzz.co.uk
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ACA	BEL	BEN	BOA	BRA	CHA	ESP	FAR	MAR	ELV	PEN	PTM	POR	RAV	SAL	SCP	SCO	VAR	VGU	VSE
Académica		0–0	2–4	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–1	1–3	3–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–0
Belenenses	1–0		2–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	4–1	1–0	2–1	3–1	4–2	0–0	3–0	2–2	2–3	2–0	2–2	2–0	2–1
Benfica	1–1	2–0		2–0	0–0	1–1	5–1	2–2	0–1	1–0	4–0	3–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	4–1	4–0	2–2	3–0	0–1
Boavista	1–0	0–0	1–1		1–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	3–0	0–1	6–0	2–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	3–0	1–0
Braga	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–3		1–0	0–1	2–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–1	1–1	2–2	2–2
Chaves	1–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–0		0–1	6–1	0–0	0–1	2–2	0–1	0–1	4–0	2–2	1–1	2–1	6–1	3–1	2–0
Espinho	0–2	2–1	0–1	2–0	2–2	2–1		1–0	3–2	6–0	0–0	2–3	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–3	4–1
Farense	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–1		1–1	1–3	2–0	2–0	0–1	0–0	2–1	0–2	7–0	1–0	2–1	0–0
Marítimo	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–3	1–1	0–3	0–0	1–1		1–0	0–0	1–1	0–2	0–0	3–0	2–3	1–1	3–1	1–0	1–0
O Elvas	1–1	2–3	0–0	1–2	0–0	0–2	4–1	0–0	1–1		0–0	3–0	2–3	0–0	3–0	0–0	5–0	0–0	0–0	1–1
Penafiel	2–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	3–0	0–0	2–1	3–2	1–2	0–0		0–0	0–0	4–1	0–0	4–0	3–2	2–1	0–0	0–0
Portimonense	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–3	1–1	3–0	1–1	0–1	0–0		0–0	5–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–2	0–4	1–0
Porto	1–0	7–1	3–0	2–0	3–0	3–1	1–0	4–0	2–0	4–0	2–0	1–0		5–0	5–0	2–0	4–0	3–0	3–1	1–0
Rio Ave	2–1	0–0	0–1	0–0	3–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	0–1	0–7		2–2	1–2	0–0	1–1	2–1	2–2
Salgueiros	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	2–2	0–1	1–5	1–0		2–4	2–2	1–0	0–0	0–4
Sporting CP	4–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	2–0	0–1	0–0	7–0	2–0	2–1	4–1	3–2		2–0	1–2	2–2	2–0
Sporting da Covilhã	0–1	1–2	0–3	2–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	3–1	1–2	1–2	0–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–2		1–0	1–2	2–2
Varzim	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–4	1–2	0–2	2–1	1–0	1–3	1–0		2–2	2–0
Vitória de Guimarães	3–0	0–1	0–2	0–3	1–1	0–0	0–1	3–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–1	0–0	4–1	3–0	3–2	2–0	3–0		1–3
Vitória de Setúbal	3–0	1–3	0–2	1–0	2–0	1–3	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	4–0	2–1	4–4	3–0	0–2	2–1	5–1	5–0	4–2

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Paulinho Cascavel	Sporting	23
2	Fernando Gomes	Porto	21
	Radoslav Zdravkov	Chaves
4	Manuel Fernandes	Vitória de Setúbal	16
	Aparício	Vitória de Setúbal
6	Ademir Alcântara	Vitória de Guimarães	15
	César	Penafiel
8	Mats Magnusson	Benfica	13
	Chico Faria	Belenenses
10	Rui Águas	Benfica	12
	Rui Barros	Porto
	António Sousa	Porto
	Forbs	Portimonense

External links

• Portugal 1987-88 - RSSSF (Jorge Miguel Teixeira)
• Portuguese League 1987/88 - footballzz.co.uk
• Portugal - Table of Honor - Soccer Library Archived 2019-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
• Portuguese Wikipedia - Campeonato Português de Futebol - I Divisão 1987/1988