1979–80 Primeira Divisão

46th season of top-tier Portuguese football Primeira Liga 1979–80 Sporting CP 15th title União de LeiriaEstorilBeira-MarRio Ave European Cup Sporting CP Cup Winners' Cup S.L. Benfica UEFA Cup PortoBoavista 240 600 Rui Jordão (31 goals) 1978–79 1980–81 Statistics of Portuguese Liga in the 1979–80 season. Overview It was contested by 16 teams, and Sporting Clube de Portugal won the championship. League standings main WDL 5 QR 2 SCP Sporting CP POR Porto BEN Benfica BOA Boavista BEL Belenenses VGU Vitória de Guimarães SES Espinho PTM Portimonense BRA Braga VAR Varzim MAR Marítimo VSE Vitória de Setúbal ULE União de Leiria EST Estoril BEM Beira-Mar RAV Rio Ave 24 4 2 67 17 C 22 6 2 59 9 19 7 4 79 21 15 7 8 44 30 13 8 9 33 38 11 10 9 42 38 11 6 13 29 42 10 6 14 32 49 10 6 14 34 40 8 10 12 37 45 9 8 13 25 37 9 5 16 29 41 6 9 15 26 49 R 5 11 14 18 37 R 5 10 15 24 46 R 5 3 22 22 61 R green1 Qualification to European Cup first round EC blue1 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round UC UC yellow1 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup preliminary round Benfica qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as winners of the 1980 Taça de Portugal Final. UCWC red1 Relegation to Segunda Divisão R R R R complete RSSSFPortugal 1979-80 - RSSSF (Jorge Miguel Teixeira) 2001 RSSSF https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/porthist197980.html 2012-04-25 Results main FBR grey BEM BEL BEN BOA BRA ESP EST MAR PTM POR RAV SCP ULE VAR VGU VSE Sporting CP 1–0 3–1 4–1 2–0 2–0 4–0 2–0 2–1 3–0 4–1 4–1 3–0 2–0 2–0 5–0 Porto 1–1 2–1 2–0 3–0 4–0 3–0 6–0 1–0 2–1 2–0 3–1 1–0 3–0 3–0 1–1 Benfica 3–2 0–0 1–2 8–0 4–0 4–3 1–0 3–1 4–0 4–0 5–1 3–0 4–1 5–0 8–0 Boavista 2–2 0–1 1–1 2–1 0–0 4–0 5–1 1–0 1–1 2–1 5–1 3–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 Belenenses 2–1 0–1 0–3 1–0 1–4 2–0 1–1 2–0 5–1 1–0 2–1 2–1 1–2 1–0 1–0 Vitória de Guimarães 0–1 0–0 0–0 1–3 1–0 1–0 2–0 3–0 2–2 1–1 1–0 2–1 3–0 0–1 3–1 Espinho 0–1 2–0 0–3 0–2 1–1 2–1 2–1 2–1 2–0 1–0 0–1 2–1 2–1 2–1 1–0 Portimonense 0–0 0–4 0–2 2–0 1–2 4–5 1–1 3–1 1–0 3–1 1–0 1–1 4–0 1–0 2–1 Braga 2–3 0–2 1–1 2–0 1–1 2–1 2–1 0–0 3–1 1–0 3–1 0–0 0–0 1–0 2–3 Varzim 0–0 0–0 2–0 1–2 1–1 1–1 0–0 5–1 3–2 3–0 3–1 4–2 0–0 1–0 3–0 Marítimo 0–3 0–1 1–1 1–1 0–0 1–1 0–0 1–0 0–0 1–0 2–0 5–0 3–1 1–0 1–0 Vitória de Setúbal 0–3 0–2 0–0 0–1 0–1 1–0 3–0 4–0 3–1 4–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 0–0 2–0 União de Leiria 1–2 0–4 1–1 3–1 0–0 1–4 2–1 0–1 2–4 2–0 1–0 1–1 1–1 1–1 2–0 Estoril 0–1 0–0 0–2 0–0 1–1 1–1 1–1 1–0 0–1 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 3–1 2–0 Beira-Mar 0–1 0–4 0–3 1–0 1–1 3–3 1–1 1–1 0–2 2–2 2–3 0–0 1–1 3–1 2–0 Rio Ave 1–3 1–3 0–3 1–2 1–2 1–1 0–2 0–2 1–0 3–2 4–0 2–1 0–0 0–2 1–2 complete May 2026 Season statistics Top goalscorers Rank Player Club GoalsMay 20261 POR Rui Jordão Sporting312 POR Nené Benfica303 POR Fernando Gomes Porto234 BRA Mundinho Vitória de Guimarães165 POR Reinaldo Benfica156 POR Júlio Boavista12 BRA Manoel Sporting8 BRA Mirobaldo Portimonense119 POR Chico Faria Braga10 POR Manuel Fernandes Sporting Footnotes External links Portugal 1979–80 - 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 1979/1980 Category:Primeira Liga seasons Category:1979–80 in Portuguese football Portugal