88th season of top-tier Portuguese football
Football league season
The 2024–22 Liga
Portugal (also known as Liga Portugal Bwin[2] for sponsorship reasons) 🍎 was the 88th
season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association
football clubs, and the first 🍎 season under the current Liga Portugal title. This was
the fifth Primeira Liga season to use video assistant referee (VAR). 🍎 The start and end
dates for the season were released on 21 May 2024,[3] and the fixtures were released on
🍎 8 July 2024.[4]
Sporting CP were the defending champions, having won their nineteenth
Primeira Liga and their first title since the 🍎 2001–02 season at the previous season.
Estoril, Vizela and Arouca joined as the promoted clubs from the 2024–21 Liga Portugal
🍎 2. They replaced Farense, Nacional and Rio Ave, which were relegated to Liga Portugal 2
the previous season.
This season saw 🍎 the return of full capacity crowds, after the
final third of the 2024–20 and the entirety of the 2024–21 seasons 🍎 were held with
limited or no attendance due to the restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in
Portugal.[5]
Porto secured their 🍎 30th league title with one match remaining, following
a 1–0 away victory over rivals Benfica on 7 May 2024.[6]
Teams [ 🍎 edit ]
Eighteen teams
compete in the league – the top fifteen teams from the previous season and three teams
promoted 🍎 from the LigaPro: Estoril,[7] Vizela[8] and Arouca.[9]
Changes [ edit
]
Estoril (promoted after a three-year absence) and Vizela (promoted after a 🍎 36-year
absence) were promoted from the 2024–21 Liga Portugal 2 (finishing 1st and 2nd places),
replacing Farense and Nacional (both 🍎 relegated after only one year in the top
flight).
Arouca (promoted after a four-year absence) was promoted after finishing in
3rd 🍎 place in 2024–21 Liga Portugal 2 and winning the Promotion play-offs against Rio
Ave (relegated after thirteen years in the 🍎 top flight).
Stadia and locations [ edit
]
Marítimo class=notpageimage| Location of teams in 2024–22 Primeira Liga
(Madeira)
Santa Clara class=notpageimage| Location of 🍎 teams in 2024–22 Primeira Liga
(Azores)
Managerial changes [ edit ]
League table [ edit ]
Rules for classification: 1)
Points; 2) Head-to-head 🍎 points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head away
goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Matches won; 7) Goals scored; 8) 🍎 Play-off.
(C)
Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes: Source: Liga Portugal Rules for classification: 1)
Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) 🍎 Head-to-head away
goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Matches won; 7) Goals scored; 8)
Play-off.Champions;RelegatedNotes:
a b c Since the winners 🍎 of the 2024–22 Taça de
Portugal , Porto, qualified for the Champions League based on league position, the spot
awarded 🍎 to the fourth-placed team (Europa Conference League third qualifying round) was
passed to the fifth-placed team, and the spot awarded 🍎 to the fifth-placed team (Europa
Conference League second qualifying round) was passed to the sixth-placed team. a b
Head-to-head points: 🍎 Famalicão 4, Estoril 1. a b c d Head-to-head points: Marítimo 10,
Paços de Ferreira 8, Boavista 7, Portimonense 6.
Relegation 🍎 play-offs [ edit ]
The
relegation play-offs took place on 21 and 29 May 2024 between Moreirense who finished
16th in 🍎 the Primeira Liga and Chaves who finished 3rd in Liga Portugal 2.
All times are
WEST (UTC+1).
Team 1 Agg. Tooltip Aggregate 🍎 score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg Chaves 2–1
Moreirense 2–0 0–1
Chaves won 2–1 on aggregate and were promoted to 🍎 2024–23 Primeira
Liga; Moreirense were relegated to 2024–23 Liga Portugal 2.
Results [ edit ]
Statistics
[ edit ]
Top goalscorers [ edit 🍎 ]
Notes
(H) – Home team
(A) – Away team
Top assists [
edit ]
Clean sheets [ edit ]
Discipline [ edit ]
Player [ edit 🍎 ]
Club [ edit ]
Most
yellow cards: 118 Vitória de Guimarães
Most red cards: 11 Belenenses SAD
Awards [ edit
]
Monthly awards [ 🍎 edit ]
Annual awards [ edit ]
Costa Pepe Porro Mbemba Reis Otávio
Vitinha Nunes Horta Taremi Núñez [40]
Number of teams by 🍎 district [ edit ]
Notes [ edit
]
^ Some league matches played were played behind closed doors without any spectators
or 🍎 with a limited capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal
