1978–79 Primeira Divisão

45th season of top-tier Portuguese football Primeira Liga 1978-79 F.C. Porto 7th title FamalicãoBarreirenseAcadémica de CoimbraAcadémico de Viseu European Cup F.C. Porto Cup Winners' Cup Boavista UEFA Cup BenficaSporting CP 240 626 Fernando Gomes (27 goals) 1977–78 1979–80 Statistics of Portuguese Liga in the 1978–79 season. Overview It was contested by 16 teams, and F.C. Porto won the championship. League standings main WDL QR 5 2 POR Porto BEN Benfica SCP Sporting CP BRA Braga VAR Varzim VGU Vitória de Guimarães VSE Vitória de Setúbal BEL Belenenses BOA Boavista MAR Marítimo EST Estoril BEM Beira-Mar FAM Famalicão BAR Barreirense ACA Académica VIS Académico de Viseu 21 8 1 70 19 C 23 3 4 75 21 17 8 5 46 22 16 5 9 49 35 11 10 9 30 29 12 7 11 44 38 12 7 11 38 38 10 9 11 47 43 12 3 15 36 40 11 5 14 36 37 8 10 12 24 42 11 2 17 44 56 9 6 15 30 45 R 8 6 16 24 45 R 5 8 17 20 41 R 5 1 24 13 75 R green1 Qualification to European Cup first round EC blue1 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round UC UC yellow1 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round UCWC red1 Relegation to Segunda Divisão R R R R complete RSSSFPortugal 1978-79 - RSSSF (Jorge Miguel Teixeira) 2001 RSSSF https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/porthist197879.html 2012-04-25May 2026 Results main FBR grey ACA ACV BAR BEM BEL BEN BOA BRA EST FAM MAR POR SCP VAR VGU VSE Porto 1–0 0–0 3–2 3–0 1–1 5–1 4–0 0–0 3–1 2–0 6–1 2–1 4–1 3–0 6–1 Benfica 1–1 5–0 2–0 3–0 3–2 2–0 2–1 3–0 3–1 5–1 5–1 5–3 1–0 6–1 5–0 Sporting CP 0–0 0–1 2–0 2–0 3–0 2–1 5–1 2–0 1–0 4–0 3–0 3–0 2–0 1–0 2–0 Braga 3–1 0–2 1–1 2–0 2–0 1–1 2–1 3–1 3–0 3–0 3–2 1–0 2–0 3–0 4–0 Varzim 0–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 3–0 1–1 2–1 1–1 2–0 1–1 2–0 Vitória de Guimarães 1–3 1–2 1–1 0–1 3–1 5–0 1–1 3–1 0–2 3–1 2–1 3–1 0–0 3–0 1–0 Vitória de Setúbal 0–1 2–1 2–2 2–0 1–0 2–0 2–3 4–1 0–0 2–0 2–0 3–1 0–0 1–0 4–1 Belenenses 0–0 1–0 1–1 7–1 0–0 1–1 1–0 2–4 3–0 1–1 4–0 2–0 2–3 2–1 4–0 Boavista 1–2 0–1 2–0 2–1 0–1 0–3 2–1 2–2 1–0 1–0 4–1 3–0 0–3 1–0 5–0 Marítimo 0–1 2–1 2–3 1–1 1–0 1–2 4–1 1–0 2–2 3–0 1–2 3–0 4–0 0–0 2–0 Estoril 1–1 0–2 1–1 1–4 3–5 2–0 1–0 0–0 0–1 0–0 2–1 0–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 Beira-Mar 2–3 0–0 1–2 2–1 2–2 2–4 2–3 3–1 0–1 2–0 0–1 3–0 1–0 1–0 4–0 Famalicão 0–4 0–1 1–2 2–2 0–0 2–0 0–0 2–1 1–0 1–0 0–1 1–2 2–0 0–0 3–0 Barreirense 1–2 0–4 1–0 0–1 1–0 1–1 0–1 1–1 2–1 2–0 1–1 0–4 3–5 1–0 1–0 Académica 0–3 0–2 0–0 0–1 1–1 2–2 0–0 3–1 1–0 1–3 0–0 3–0 0–2 2–1 4–0 Académico de Viseu 0–5 2–6 0–1 1–1 1–0 0–1 2–1 1–3 1–0 1–2 0–3 0–3 0–1 1–0 1–0 complete May 2026 Season statistics Top goalscorers Rank Player Club GoalsMay 20261 POR Fernando Gomes Porto272 POR Nené Benfica253 POR António Oliveira Porto17 POR Reinaldo Benfica5 BRA Jeremias Vitória de Guimarães13 BRA China Marítimo7 GNB Arnaldo Silva Marítimo128 BRA Gomes Boavista11 BRA Lincoln Belenenses POR Lito Braga POR João Alves Benfica Footnotes External links Portugal 1978-79 - 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 Portuguese Wikipedia - Campeonato Português de Futebol - I Divisão 1978/1979 Category:Primeira Liga seasons Category:1978–79 in Portuguese football Portugal