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1998–99 Primeira Divisão

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Season
  
1998–99

Champion
  
FC Porto

Matches played
  
306

Champions
  
Porto18th title

Goals scored
  
810

1998–99 Primeira Divisão

Champions League
  
Porto (group stage)Boavista (third qualifying round)

UEFA Cup
  
Benfica (first round)Sporting CP (first round)Vitória de Setúbal (first round)

Top goalscorer
  
Mário Jardel (36 goals)

Biggest home win
  
Porto 7–0 Beira-Mar(24 January 1999)

Relegated
  
S.C. Beira-Mar, G.D. Chaves, Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F.

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1997–98 Primeira Divisão

The 1998–99 Primeira Divisão was the 65th edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 23 August 1998 with a match between Chaves and Académica Coimbra, and ended on 30 May 1999. The league was contested by 18 clubs with Porto as the defending champions.

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Porto won the league and qualified for the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League group stage, along with Boavista, who qualified for the third round. With the extinction of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, the Taça de Portugal winner qualified for the UEFA Cup, so Beira-Mar joined Benfica, Sporting CP and Vitória de Setúbal in the 1999-2000 UEFA Cup; in opposite, Beira-Mar, Chaves and Académica Coimbra were relegated to the Liga de Honra. Mário Jardel was the top scorer with 36 goals.

Teams relegated to Liga de Honra

  • Leça
  • Varzim
  • Belenenses

    • Leça, Varzim and Belenenses, were consigned to the Liga de Honra following their final classification in 1997-98 season.

    Teams promoted from Liga de Honra

  • União de Leiria
  • Beira-Mar
  • Alverca

    • The other three teams were replaced by União de Leiria, Beira-Mar, Alverca from the Liga de Honra.

    League table

    Source: Primeira Divisão
    Rules for classification: 1st points, 2nd head-to-head, 3rd goals average
    1 Beira-Mar qualified for the UEFA 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

    References

    1998–99 Primeira Divisão Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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