1993–94 Primeira Divisão

The 1993–94 Primeira Divisão was the 60th edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 22 August 1993 with a match between Estoril-Praia and Beira-Mar, and ended on 2 June 1994. The league was contested by 18 clubs with Porto as the defending champions.

Primeira Divisão

Season	1993–94
Champions	Benfica 30th title
Relegated	Paços de Ferreira Famalicão Estoril-Praia
Champions League	Benfica (group stage)
Cup Winners' Cup	Porto (first round)
UEFA Cup	Sporting CP (first round) Boavista (first round) Marítimo (first round)
Matches played	306
Goals scored	750 (2.45 per match)
Top goalscorer	Yekini (21 goals)
Biggest home win	Benfica 8–0 Famalicão (12 March 1994)
Biggest away win	Famalicão 0–5 Porto (20 February 1994)
Highest scoring	Sporting CP 3–6 Benfica (14 May 1994)
← 1992–93 1994–95 →

Benfica won their 30th league title and qualified for the 1994–95 UEFA Champions League group stage. Porto qualified for the 1994–95 European Cup Winners' Cup first round, and Sporting CP, Boavista and Marítimo qualified for the 1994–95 UEFA Cup; in opposite, Paços de Ferreira, Famalicão and Estoril-Praia were relegated to the Liga de Honra. Yekini was the top scorer with 21 goals.

Promotion and relegation

Teams relegated to Liga de Honra

• Tirsense
• Espinho
• Chaves

Tirsense, Espinho and Chaves, were consigned to the Liga de Honra following their final classification in 1992-93 season.

Teams promoted from Liga de Honra

• Estrela da Amadora
• União da Madeira
• Vitória de Setúbal

The other three teams were replaced by Estrela da Amadora, União da Madeira, Vitória de Setúbal from the Liga de Honra.

Teams

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Stadia and locations

 

 

Benfica
Sporting
Belenenses
E. Amadora

 

V. Setúbal

 

Beira-Mar

 

Estoril

 

Gil Vicente

 

P. Ferreira

 

Porto
Boavista
Salgueiros

 

Famalicão

 

Braga

 

V. Guimarães

 

Farense

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Location of teams in Primeira Divisão 1993-94 (Mainland)

 

 

Marítimo
U. Madeira

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Location of teams in Primeira Divisão 1993-94 (Madeira)

Team	Head Coach	City	Stadium	1992–93 finish
Beira-Mar	Zoran Filipovic	Aveiro	Estádio Mário Duarte	8th
Belenenses	Abel Braga	Lisbon	Estádio do Restelo	7th
Benfica	Toni	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	2nd
Boavista	Manuel José	Porto	Estádio do Bessa	4th
Braga	António Oliveira	Braga	Estádio Primeiro de Maio	12th
Estoril	Fernando Santos	Estoril	Estádio António Coimbra da Mota	13th
Estrela da Amadora	João Alves	Amadora	Estádio José Gomes	1st in Divisão de Honra
Famalicão	Piruta	Vila Nova de Famalicão	Estádio Municipal 22 de Junho	14th
Farense	Paco Fortes	Faro	Estádio de São Luís	6th
Gil Vicente	Vítor Oliveira	Barcelos	Estádio Adelino Ribeiro Novo	9th
Marítimo	Edinho	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	5th
Paços de Ferreira	Vítor Urbano	Paços de Ferreira	Estádio da Mata Real	10th
Porto	Tomislav Ivic	Porto	Estádio das Antas	1st
Salgueiros	Mário Reis	Porto	Estádio Engenheiro Vidal Pinheiro	15th
Sporting	Bobby Robson	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade	3rd
União da Madeira	Ernesto Paulo	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	2nd in Divisão de Honra
Vitória de Guimarães	Bernardino Pedroto	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	11th
Vitória de Setúbal	Raul Águas	Setúbal	Estádio do Bonfim	3rd in Divisão de Honra

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Belenenses	Abel Braga	16 October 1993	9th	José António	24 October 1993
Famalicão	Piruta	21 November 1993	17th	Abel Braga	28 November 1993
Sporting	Bobby Robson	30 November 1993	2nd	Carlos Queiroz	5 December 1993
Marítimo	Edinho	19 December 1993	6th	Paulo Autuori	30 December 1993
Porto	Tomislav Ivic	23 January 1994	3rd	Bobby Robson	6 February 1994
Belenenses	José António	23 January 1994	12th	José Romão	6 February 1994
Paços de Ferreira	Vítor Urbano	6 March 1994	14th	Jaime Pacheco	13 March 1994
Braga	António Oliveira	13 March 1994	12th	Prof. Neca	27 March 1994
Paços de Ferreira	Jaime Pacheco	8 May 1994	16th	Carlos Padrão	15 May 1994

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Benfica (C)	34	23	8	3	73	25	+48	54	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Porto	34	21	10	3	56	15	+41	52	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round^[a]
3	Sporting CP	34	23	5	6	71	29	+42	51	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4	Boavista	34	16	6	12	46	31	+15	38
5	Marítimo	34	13	12	9	45	40	+5	38
6	Vitória de Setúbal	34	14	6	14	56	42	+14	34
7	Vitória de Guimarães	34	11	11	12	30	31	−1	33
8	Farense	34	13	7	14	44	46	−2	33
9	Estrela da Amadora	34	9	15	10	39	36	+3	33
10	Gil Vicente	34	10	11	13	27	47	−20	31
11	Salgueiros	34	14	3	17	48	56	−8	31
12	União da Madeira	34	11	9	14	36	42	−6	31
13	Belenenses	34	12	6	16	39	51	−12	30
14	Beira-Mar	34	9	11	14	28	38	−10	29
15	Braga	34	9	10	15	33	43	−10	28
16	Paços de Ferreira (R)	34	7	12	15	31	49	−18	26	Relegation to Segunda Divisão de Honra
17	Famalicão (R)	34	7	8	19	26	72	−46	22
18	Estoril (R)	34	5	8	21	22	57	−35	18

Source: Primeira Divisão
Rules for classification: 1st points, 2nd head-to-head, 3rd goals average
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Porto qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as Portuguese Cup winners

Results

Home \ Away	BEM	BEL	BEN	BOA	BRA	EST	EdA	FAM	FAR	GVI	MAR	PAÇ	POR	SAL	SCP	UNI	VGU	VSE
Beira-Mar		1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	3–1	0–1	0–2	2–1	0–4	0–0	1–0	2–1
Belenenses	2–0		0–2	2–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	4–0	4–2	1–0	2–1	1–1	0–2	2–3	0–3	2–1	0–0	1–2
Benfica	1–0	3–0		3–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	8–0	4–1	0–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	4–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	2–0
Boavista	2–1	3–0	1–0		1–0	3–0	1–1	3–0	0–1	1–2	3–2	2–0	1–1	3–1	2–1	3–0	1–1	1–0
Braga	2–0	4–2	0–2	0–1		2–1	0–1	2–0	4–0	4–0	0–1	0–0	0–2	4–3	1–1	3–0	0–0	2–1
Estoril	1–0	1–0	0–3	0–2	1–1		3–3	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	0–1	2–3	0–2	0–2	2–1	0–2
Estrela da Amadora	2–2	2–2	0–1	1–1	1–1	3–0		2–0	1–2	3–0	1–1	3–1	0–0	3–1	0–4	2–0	0–1	0–0
Famalicão	2–1	2–3	1–5	0–3	1–0	1–0	0–2		2–1	3–0	0–2	4–1	0–5	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–1
Farense	2–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–2	1–0	5–0		4–2	0–0	3–0	1–0	4–1	0–1	4–1	0–1	2–1
Gil Vicente	1–1	0–3	0–3	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–0		1–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	2–1
Marítimo	0–2	1–2	1–1	1–0	4–0	1–1	0–0	3–2	5–2	0–0		3–3	1–0	2–1	2–1	3–2	2–0	0–0
Paços de Ferreira	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	3–1	2–2		0–2	0–2	1–2	1–1	2–2	1–1
Porto	0–0	1–0	3–3	1–0	5–0	3–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	3–0	2–0	0–0		1–0	2–0	4–1	1–1	2–0
Salgueiros	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	5–1	4–1	1–1	2–2	3–2	2–1	1–1	2–1	0–3		0–1	1–0	1–0	1–2
Sporting CP	1–0	3–1	3–6	3–1	2–0	3–1	3–0	3–0	3–1	6–0	1–1	3–1	0–1	2–1		1–0	3–0	2–1
União da Madeira	2–0	2–0	0–2	2–1	3–1	3–0	2–2	0–0	0–0	1–2	1–1	2–0	0–2	3–1	0–0		2–0	2–1
Vitória de Guimarães	1–2	3–0	1–2	1–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	3–0	2–2	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–4	2–0		1–0
Vitória de Setúbal	2–0	3–0	5–2	1–3	1–0	2–1	1–1	6–1	2–0	0–2	4–1	3–0	3–3	4–0	2–3	2–3	1–0

Source: Foradejogo (in Portuguese)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Yekini	Vitória Setúbal	21
2	Drulovic	Gil Vicente / Porto	18
3	Kostadinov	Porto	16
	Hassan	Farense
5	Balakov	Sporting	15
	Chiquinho Conde	Vitória Setúbal
	João Pinto	Benfica
9	Isaías	Benfica	12
10	Ziad	Vitória de Guimarães	11
	Ricardo Lopes	Estrela Amadora
	Jorge Andrade	Marítimo
	Ricardo Sá Pinto	Salgueiros

Source: Foradejogo^[2]

Footnotes

1. "Teams". Footballzz. Retrieved 2019-01-22.^{[dead link]}
2. "Primeira Divisão 1993-94 – Top Scorers". foradejogo. Retrieved 19 May 2015.

External links

• Portugal 1993-94 - RSSSF (Jorge Miguel Teixeira)
• Portuguese League 1993/94 - footballzz.co.uk
• Portugal - Table of Honor - Soccer Library 2019-10-10 at the Wayback Machine