Season 1995–96 Champions League Porto (group stage) Top goalscorer Domingos (25 goals) Champion FC Porto Matches played 306 | Champions Porto
15th title UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Benfica (first round) Start date 1995 Goals scored 797 | |
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UEFA Cup Sporting CP (first round)
Boavista (first round)
V. Guimarães (first round) Relegated FC Felgueiras, S.C. Campomaiorense, F.C. Tirsense People also search for 1994–95 Primeira Divisão | ||
The 1995–96 Primeira Divisão was the 62nd edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 19 August 1995 with a match between União de Leiria and Marítimo, and ended on 12 May 1996. Starting from this season, Portugal implemented the three points for a win rule, after FIFA formally adopted the system. The league was contested by 18 clubs with Porto as the defending champions.
Contents
- Teams relegated to Liga de Honra
- Teams promoted from Liga de Honra
- League table
- Results
- Top goalscorers
- References
Porto won the league and qualified for the 1996–97 UEFA Champions League group stage, Benfica qualified for the 1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round, and Sporting CP, Boavista and V. Guimarães qualified for the 1996–97 UEFA Cup; in opposite, União da Madeira, Beira-Mar and Vitória de Setúbal were relegated to the Liga de Honra. Domingos was the top scorer with 25 goals.
Teams relegated to Liga de Honra
União da Madeira, Beira-Mar and Vitória de Setúbal, were consigned to the Liga de Honra following their final classification in 1994-95 season.
Teams promoted from Liga de Honra
The other three teams were replaced by Leça, Campomaiorense and Felgueiras from the Liga de Honra.
League table
Source: Primeira Divisão
Rules for classification: 1st points, 2nd head-to-head, 3rd goals average
1 Benfica qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as Portuguese Cup winners
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Results
Source: Foradejogo (Portuguese)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Top goalscorers
Source: Footballzz