1987–88 Primeira Divisão

54th season of top-tier Portuguese football

Football league season

Primeira Liga
Season	1987-88
Champions	F.C. Porto 10th title
Relegated	O Elvas Varzim Salgueiros Rio Ave Académica Covilhã
European Cup	Porto (first round)
Cup Winners' Cup	V. Guimarães (first round)
UEFA Cup	Benfica (first round) Belenenses (first round) Sporting CP (first round)
Matches played	342
Goals scored	863 (2.52 per match)
Top goalscorer	Paulinho Cascavel (21 goals)
← 1986–87 1988–89 →

Statistics of Portuguese Liga in the 1987/1988 season.

Overview

It was contested by 20 teams, and F.C. Porto won the championship.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Porto (C)	38	29	8	1	88	15	+73	66	Qualification to European Cup first round
2	Benfica	38	19	13	6	59	25	+34	51	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
3	Belenenses	38	18	12	8	52	38	+14	48
4	Sporting CP	38	17	13	8	62	41	+21	47
5	Boavista	38	16	14	8	42	25	+17	46
6	Espinho	38	13	14	11	42	38	+4	40
7	Chaves	38	13	14	11	51	31	+20	40
8	Vitória de Setúbal	38	15	10	13	56	43	+13	40
9	Marítimo	38	11	17	10	36	37	−1	39
10	Penafiel	38	10	18	10	36	45	−9	38
11	Braga	38	8	18	12	32	42	−10	34
12	Farense	38	12	10	16	36	50	−14	34
13	Portimonense	38	12	10	16	35	50	−15	34
14	Vitória de Guimarães	38	11	11	16	48	50	−2	33	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
15	O Elvas (R)	38	8	17	13	35	40	−5	33	Relegation to Segunda Divisão
16	Académica (R)	38	9	15	14	32	42	−10	33
17	Varzim (R)	38	7	16	15	31	52	−21	30
18	Rio Ave (R)	38	7	14	17	29	67	−38	28
19	Salgueiros (R)	38	6	13	19	31	62	−31	25
20	Covilhã (R)	38	5	11	22	30	70	−40	21

Source: RSSSF^[1] and footballzz.co.uk^[2]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ACA	BEL	BEN	BOA	BRA	CHA	ESP	FAR	MAR	ELV	PEN	PTM	POR	RAV	SAL	SCP	SCO	VAR	VGU	VSE
Académica		0–0	2–4	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–1	1–3	3–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–0
Belenenses	1–0		2–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	4–1	1–0	2–1	3–1	4–2	0–0	3–0	2–2	2–3	2–0	2–2	2–0	2–1
Benfica	1–1	2–0		2–0	0–0	1–1	5–1	2–2	0–1	1–0	4–0	3–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	4–1	4–0	2–2	3–0	0–1
Boavista	1–0	0–0	1–1		1–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	3–0	0–1	6–0	2–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	3–0	1–0
Braga	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–3		1–0	0–1	2–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–1	1–1	2–2	2–2
Chaves	1–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–0		0–1	6–1	0–0	0–1	2–2	0–1	0–1	4–0	2–2	1–1	2–1	6–1	3–1	2–0
Espinho	0–2	2–1	0–1	2–0	2–2	2–1		1–0	3–2	6–0	0–0	2–3	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–3	4–1
Farense	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–1		1–1	1–3	2–0	2–0	0–1	0–0	2–1	0–2	7–0	1–0	2–1	0–0
Marítimo	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–3	1–1	0–3	0–0	1–1		1–0	0–0	1–1	0–2	0–0	3–0	2–3	1–1	3–1	1–0	1–0
O Elvas	1–1	2–3	0–0	1–2	0–0	0–2	4–1	0–0	1–1		0–0	3–0	2–3	0–0	3–0	0–0	5–0	0–0	0–0	1–1
Penafiel	2–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	3–0	0–0	2–1	3–2	1–2	0–0		0–0	0–0	4–1	0–0	4–0	3–2	2–1	0–0	0–0
Portimonense	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–3	1–1	3–0	1–1	0–1	0–0		0–0	5–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–2	0–4	1–0
Porto	1–0	7–1	3–0	2–0	3–0	3–1	1–0	4–0	2–0	4–0	2–0	1–0		5–0	5–0	2–0	4–0	3–0	3–1	1–0
Rio Ave	2–1	0–0	0–1	0–0	3–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	0–1	0–7		2–2	1–2	0–0	1–1	2–1	2–2
Salgueiros	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	2–2	0–1	1–5	1–0		2–4	2–2	1–0	0–0	0–4
Sporting CP	4–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	2–0	0–1	0–0	7–0	2–0	2–1	4–1	3–2		2–0	1–2	2–2	2–0
Sporting da Covilhã	0–1	1–2	0–3	2–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	3–1	1–2	1–2	0–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–2		1–0	1–2	2–2
Varzim	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–4	1–2	0–2	2–1	1–0	1–3	1–0		2–2	2–0
Vitória de Guimarães	3–0	0–1	0–2	0–3	1–1	0–0	0–1	3–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–1	0–0	4–1	3–0	3–2	2–0	3–0		1–3
Vitória de Setúbal	3–0	1–3	0–2	1–0	2–0	1–3	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	4–0	2–1	4–4	3–0	0–2	2–1	5–1	5–0	4–2

Source: ^[1]^[2]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[3]
1	Paulinho Cascavel	Sporting	23
2	Fernando Gomes	Porto	21
2	Radoslav Zdravkov	Chaves	21
4	Manuel Fernandes	Vitória de Setúbal	16
4	Aparício	Vitória de Setúbal	16
6	Ademir Alcântara	Vitória de Guimarães	15
6	César	Penafiel	15
8	Mats Magnusson	Benfica	13
8	Chico Faria	Belenenses	13
10	Rui Águas	Benfica	12
	Rui Barros	Porto
	António Sousa	Porto
	Forbs	Portimonense

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b "Portugal 1987-88 - RSSSF (Jorge Miguel Teixeira)". RSSSF. 2001. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
^ ^a ^b "Portuguese League 1987/88 - footballzz.co.uk". ZeroZero. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
^ "TheFinalBall Goalscorer statistics". TheFinalBall. Retrieved 20 April 2017.

External links

Portugal 1987-88 - RSSSF (Jorge Miguel Teixeira)
Portuguese League 1987/88 - footballzz.co.uk
Portugal - Table of Honor - Soccer Library Archived 2019-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
Portuguese Wikipedia - Campeonato Português de Futebol - I Divisão 1987/1988

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v t e 1987–88 in Portuguese football
Domestic leagues	Primeira Divisão Segunda Divisão Terceira Divisão
Domestic cups	Taça de Portugal (Final) Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
European competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup UEFA Cup Super Cup
Club seasons
Primeira Divisão	Benfica
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v t e 1987–88 in European football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '87 '88 England Faroe Islands '87 '88 Finland '87 '88 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '87 '88 Israel Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '87 '88 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union '87 '88 Spain Sweden '87 '88 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark England Faroe Islands '87 '88 Finland '87 '88 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '87 '88 Israel Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '87 '88 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Wales Yugoslavia
League cups	England Israel Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Scotland Soviet Union '87 '88
Supercups	West Germany
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Super Cup
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup Balkans Cup