1990–91 Primeira Divisão

57th season of top-tier Portuguese football Primeira Divisão 1990–91 Benfica29th title TirsenseVitória de SetúbalEstrela da AmadoraBelenensesNacional European Cup Benfica (first round) Cup Winners' Cup Porto (first round) UEFA Cup Sporting CP (first round)Boavista (first round)Salgueiros (first round) Rui Águas (25 goals) Chaves 6–0 Beira-Mar(28 April 1991) Penafiel 2–5 Sporting CP(26 August 1990) Tirsense 4–4 Boavista(12 January 1991) Braga 6–2 Nacional (2 February 1991) 380 874 1989–90 1991–92 The 1990–91 Primeira Divisão was the 57th edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 19 August 1990 with a match between Farense and Nacional, and ended on 26 May 1991. The league was contested by 20 clubs with Porto as the defending champions. Benfica qualified for the 1991–92 European Cup first round, Porto qualified for the 1991–92 European Cup Winners' Cup first round, and Sporting CP, Boavista and Salgueiros qualified for the 1991–92 UEFA Cup first round; in opposite, Tirsense, Vitória de Setúbal, Estrela da Amadora, Belenenses and Nacional were relegated to the Liga de Honra. Rui Águas was the top scorer with 25 goals. Promotion and relegation Teams relegated to Liga de Honra Portimonense Feirense Portimonense and Feirense were consigned to the Liga de Honra following their final classification in 1989-90 season. Teams promoted from Liga de Honra Salgueiros Gil Vicente Farense Famalicão The other two teams were replaced by Salgueiros, Gil Vicente, Farense and Famalicão from the Liga de Honra, as the league increase from 18 to 20 teams. Teams March 2026 Stadia and locations Portugal Location of teams in Primeira Divisão 1990-91 (Mainland) right 250 Portugal 38.713811 -9.139386 BenficaSporting CPBelenenses top Portugal 40.633725 -8.652419 Beira-Mar bottom Portugal 38.752036 -9.227967 E. Amadora right Portugal 41.533333 -8.616667 Gil Vicente left Portugal 41.750869 -7.464604 Desp. Chaves right Portugal 41.162142 -8.621953 PortoBoavistaSalgueiros left Portugal 41.401307 -8.522572 Famalicão left Portugal 41.343785 -8.482071 Tirsense right Portugal 41.544167 -8.421944 Braga top Portugal 41.45 -8.3 V. Guimarães Portugal 41.211891 -8.277566 Penafiel right Portugal 37.022865 -7.928334 Farense bottom Portugal 38.531000 -8.891000 V. Setúbal bottom Portugal Madeira right 250 Location of teams in Primeira Divisão 1990-91 (Madeira) 32.645561 -16.928331 MarítimoUnião MadeiraNacional bottom Team Head coach City Stadium1989–90 finish Beira-Mar Portugal Vítor Urbano Aveiro Estádio Mário Duarte 11th Belenenses Belgium Henri Depireux Lisbon Estádio do Restelo 6th Benfica Sweden Sven-Göran Eriksson Lisbon Estádio da Luz 2nd Boavista Portugal João Alves Porto Estádio do Bessa 8th Braga Portugal Raul Águas Braga Estádio Primeiro de Maio 12th Chaves Portugal Manuel Barbosa Chaves Estádio Municipal de Chaves 5th Estrela da Amadora Portugal Manuel Fernandes Amadora Estádio José Gomes 13th Famalicão Brazil Abel Braga Vila Nova de Famalicão Estádio Municipal 22 de Junho 4th in Segunda Divisão Farense Spain Paco Fortes Faro Estádio de São Luís 3rd in Segunda Divisão Gil Vicente Portugal Rodolfo Reis Barcelos Estádio Adelino Ribeiro Novo 2nd in Segunda Divisão Marítimo Portugal Ferreira da Costa Funchal Estádio dos Barreiros 10th Nacional Brazil Jair Picerni Funchal Estádio dos Barreiros 14th Penafiel Portugal Joaquim Teixeira Penafiel Estádio Municipal 25 de Abril 15th Porto Portugal Artur Jorge Porto Estádio das Antas 1st Salgueiros Serbia and Montenegro Zoran Filipovic Porto Estádio Engenheiro Vidal Pinheiro 1st in Segunda Divisão Sporting CP Brazil Marinho Peres Lisbon Estádio José Alvalade 3rd Tirsense Portugal Prof. Neca Santo Tirso Estádio Abel Alves de Figueiredo 9th União da Madeira Portugal Rui Mâncio Funchal Estádio dos Barreiros 16th Vitória de Guimarães Brazil Paulo Autuori Guimarães Estádio D. Afonso Henriques 4th Vitória de Setúbal POR José Romão Setúbal Estádio do Bonfim 7th Managerial changes TeamOutgoing managerDate of vacancyPosition in tableIncoming managerDate of appointment Vitória de Guimarães Brazil Paulo Autuori 23 September 1990 13th Uruguay Pedro Rocha 24 September 1990 Marítimo Portugal Ferreira da Costa 23 September 1990 17th Brazil Paulo Autuori 24 September 1990 Penafiel Portugal Joaquim Teixeira 30 September 1990 20th Portugal Vítor Manuel 1 October 1990 Braga Portugal Raul Águas 28 October 1990 19th Portugal Carlos Garcia 29 October 1990 Belenenses Belgium Henri Depireux 21 October 1990 19th BRA Antônio Lopes 1 November 1990 Boavista Portugal João Alves 14 November 1990 5th POR Raul Águas 9 December 1990 Vitória de Setúbal POR José Romão 2 December 1990 19th POR Quinito 3 December 1990 Chaves Portugal Manuel Barbosa 23 December 1990 18th POR José Romão 24 December 1990 Belenenses BRA Antônio Lopes 6 January 1991 18th BRA Moisés Andrade 7 January 1991 Vitória de Guimarães Uruguay Pedro Rocha 12 January 1991 12th POR João Alves 13 January 1991 Estrela da Amadora Portugal Manuel Fernandes 27 January 1991 15th Portugal Jesualdo Ferreira 28 January 1991 Nacional Brazil Jair Picerni 2 February 1991 17th Portugal Manuel de Oliveira 3 February 1991 Nacional Portugal Manuel de Oliveira 14 April 1991 20th Portugal Amaro Cavalcante 15 April 1991 League table main WDL 5 QR 2 BEN Benfica POR Porto SCP Sporting CP BOA Boavista SAL Salgueiros BEM Beira-Mar BRA Braga CHA Chaves VGU Vitória de Guimarães MAR Marítimo FAR Farense UNI União da Madeira GVI Gil Vicente FAM Famalicão PEN Penafiel TIR Tirsense VSE Vitória de Setúbal EST Estrela da Amadora BEL Belenenses NAC Nacional 32 5 1 89 18 C 31 5 2 77 22 24 8 6 58 23 15 11 12 53 46 12 12 14 32 48 12 12 14 40 49 13 8 17 42 45 10 14 14 49 52 12 10 16 31 40 14 6 18 46 47 12 10 16 37 48 9 15 14 30 51 11 11 16 34 46 11 11 16 33 41 12 9 17 34 51 10 13 15 39 50 R 11 10 17 53 53 R 9 14 15 37 46 R 10 9 19 27 38 R 8 11 19 33 60 R green1 Qualification to European Cup first round EC1 yellow1 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round Porto qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as Portuguese Cup winners ECWC1 blue1 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round UC1 UC1 UC1 red1 Relegation to Segunda Divisão de Honra R R R R R complete 1st points, 2nd head-to-head, 3rd goals average Primeira Divisão Results main FBR grey BEM BEL BEN BOA BRA CHA EST FAM FAR GVI MAR NAC PEN POR SAL SCP TIR UNI VGU VSE Beira-Mar 1–1 0–1 2–0 1–0 2–1 2–1 1–0 0–0 0–0 1–0 1–0 3–0 1–2 1–1 0–1 3–2 4–1 1–0 1–0 Belenenses 2–2 0–2 2–0 1–1 2–0 2–1 0–0 1–0 3–0 1–2 2–3 1–0 0–1 2–0 0–1 1–1 0–1 1–0 2–1 Benfica 3–0 2–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 4–0 1–0 2–0 3–0 3–1 3–0 2–0 2–2 4–0 1–1 5–0 4–1 2–0 2–0 Boavista 1–1 1–0 1–2 2–0 2–0 3–0 2–2 2–0 2–1 1–0 4–0 5–0 1–1 0–0 0–3 1–1 1–1 0–0 2–1 Braga 2–1 2–0 1–3 5–2 1–1 1–0 1–0 4–2 1–2 3–1 6–2 2–0 0–1 3–0 0–1 1–2 1–2 0–0 2–3 Chaves 6–0 2–0 0–3 0–1 0–1 1–3 3–1 4–2 1–1 3–1 1–1 2–2 1–2 1–0 2–2 1–1 2–1 1–0 4–3 Estrela da Amadora 2–0 1–0 1–4 1–0 2–0 0–0 1–1 0–1 5–2 0–2 3–0 1–0 1–2 1–1 1–2 1–1 0–0 2–0 2–2 Famalicão 2–1 3–0 1–3 0–3 4–1 1–1 1–1 2–3 1–0 1–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 2–1 0–1 2–1 1–0 2–1 0–0 Farense 3–2 0–0 2–2 1–2 0–0 2–0 3–0 1–0 2–0 1–2 2–1 2–0 0–1 5–0 0–1 2–0 0–0 2–0 2–0 Gil Vicente 0–0 2–1 2–3 4–1 0–0 2–2 1–1 1–0 2–1 2–0 2–0 0–0 0–2 0–0 2–1 0–0 1–1 0–0 1–0 Marítimo 2–2 1–0 0–2 1–1 0–1 2–2 1–1 1–0 3–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 1–2 0–2 1–0 2–2 2–1 1–2 2–1 Nacional 0–0 0–1 0–2 1–1 1–0 2–0 0–0 1–3 3–1 2–1 0–0 1–1 2–3 1–1 0–2 0–0 1–2 3–1 1–1 Penafiel 3–0 1–0 1–1 2–1 2–0 2–0 2–1 0–0 4–1 0–2 1–1 1–2 0–0 1–0 2–5 1–0 3–0 1–0 2–1 Porto 2–1 0–0 0–2 3–1 2–0 3–1 2–0 2–0 1–0 2–0 3–1 1–2 2–0 3–0 2–0 2–1 5–0 5–0 4–1 Salgueiros 2–1 0–0 0–2 2–0 0–0 1–0 2–1 3–1 1–0 1–0 0–0 1–1 1–0 1–3 0–0 1–0 3–0 0–0 1–0 Sporting CP 2–0 1–0 0–2 2–1 3–0 1–1 1–0 2–0 0–1 2–0 0–0 3–0 2–0 0–2 5–1 1–0 2–0 3–0 1–0 Tirsense 2–0 1–0 1–3 4–4 1–0 0–2 1–1 2–0 3–2 1–2 1–0 3–1 2–2 1–2 2–1 0–0 0–1 1–0 1–1 União da Madeira 2–2 1–1 0–2 0–2 1–1 1–1 0–0 2–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 3–0 1–3 2–2 0–2 0–0 0–0 1–1 Vitória de Guimarães 1–1 1–0 0–2 0–1 0–0 1–1 0–0 0–1 2–0 2–0 1–0 3–1 3–0 0–2 2–1 1–1 1–0 2–0 4–2 Vitória de Setúbal 1–1 2–0 2–0 2–0 0–1 1–1 1–1 0–0 2–1 3–1 5–2 2–0 3–0 0–2 3–1 3–3 3–0 0–1 2–3 complete Foradejogo pt Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals 1 POR Rui Águas Benfica 25 2 POR Domingos Porto 24 3 POR Fernando Gomes Sporting 22 4 NGA Ricky Estrela da Amadora 15 5 NGA Yekini Vitória de Setúbal 13 BRA Jorge Andrade Boavista 7 BRA Geraldão Porto 12 SRB Curcic Farense 9 CRO Rudi Chaves 11 BRA Marlon Brandão Boavista POR Tozé Salgueiros Source: March 2026 Attendances # Club Average 1 Benfica 42,368 2 Porto 32,947 3 Sporting 30,368 4 Beira-Mar 11,605 5 Braga 10,368 6 Vitória SC 10,105 7 Boavista 10,000 8 Famalicão 9,842 9 Farense 9,553 10 Marítimo 8,842 11 Vitória FC 8,184 12 Estrela 8,026 13 Os Belenenses 7,658 14 Gil Vicente 7,368 15 Penafiel 7,316 16 Tirsense 6,132 17 Salgueiros 5,789 18 Chaves 5,737 19 CD Nacional 4,684 20 CF União 3,247 Source:Historical attendances https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/prt/aveprt91.htm 2026-07-10 www.european-football-statistics.co.uk References External links Portugal 1990-91 - RSSSF (Jorge Miguel Teixeira) Portugal - Table of Honor - Soccer Library https://web.archive.org/web/20191010211315/http://soccerlibrary.free.fr/por_ft.pdf 2019-10-10 Category:Primeira Liga seasons Port Category:1990–91 in Portuguese football