2015–16 Primeira Liga

The 2015–16 Primeira Liga (also known as Liga NOS for sponsorship reasons) was the 82nd season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs. The fixtures were determined by draw on 4 July 2015.[3] The season began on 14 August 2015 and concluded on 15 May 2016.[4]

Primeira Liga

Season	2015–16
Champions	Benfica 35th title
Relegated	União da Madeira Académica
Champions League	Benfica Sporting CP Porto
Europa League	Braga Arouca Rio Ave
Matches played	306
Goals scored	831 (2.72 per match)
Best Player	Jonas[1]
Top goalscorer	Jonas (32 goals)
Best goalkeeper	Rui Patrício
Biggest home win	Benfica 6–0 Belenenses (11 September 2015) Paços de Ferreira 6–0 União da Madeira (12 December 2015) Benfica 6–0 Marítimo (6 January 2016)
Biggest away win	Vitória de Setúbal 0–6 Sporting CP (6 January 2016)
Highest scoring	Marítimo 5–2 Vitória de Setúbal (13 September 2015) Vitória de Guimarães 3–4 Marítimo (12 December 2015) Académica 4–3 Belenenses (14 December 2015) Moreirense 3–4 Vitória de Guimarães (6 January 2016) Tondela 3–4 Marítimo (21 February 2016) Belenenses 2–5 Sporting CP (4 April 2016) União da Madeira 3–4 Paços de Ferreira (17 April 2016)
Longest winning run	12 matches Benfica
Longest unbeaten run	14 matches Benfica Porto
Longest winless run	15 matches Vitória de Setúbal
Longest losing run	6 matches Académica Tondela
Highest attendance	64,235[2] Benfica 4–1 Nacional (15 May 2016)
Lowest attendance	705[2] Arouca 1–0 Estoril (6 January 2016)
Total attendance	3,313,851
Average attendance	10,830
← 2014–15 2016–17 →

Benfica won their third consecutive and 35th overall title, after beating Nacional 4–1 in their last match. They finished the league with a record 88 points in 34 matches (from 29 wins and one draw), two points more than runners-up Sporting CP.[5]

Tondela and União da Madeira entered the season as the two promoted teams from the 2014–15 Segunda Liga. On the last matchday, both teams were at risk of returning to the second division, but the combination of their results dictated União da Madeira's relegation alongside Académica.[5]

Teams

For the second consecutive season, the league was contested by a total of 18 teams, which included the best 16 sides from the 2014–15 season and two promoted from the 2014–15 Segunda Liga.

Tondela made their debut in the top flight of Portuguese football, after winning the 2014–15 Segunda Liga title. while runners-up União da Madeira returned for the first time since the 1994–95 season.[6] These two clubs replaced Gil Vicente, relegated after four seasons in the Primeira Liga, and Penafiel, who returned to the second division one season after being promoted.

For the first time since the 1990–91 season, the autonomous region of Madeira was again represented at the highest level of Portuguese football with three teams: União da Madeira, Marítimo and Nacional.

Stadia and locations

Belenenses
Benfica
Sporting CP

Boavista
Porto

Académica

Arouca

Braga

Estoril

Moreirense

P. Ferreira

Rio Ave

Tondela

V. Guimarães

V. Setúbal

Location of teams in 2015–16 Primeira Liga (Mainland)

Marítimo
Nacional
União

Location of teams in 2015–16 Primeira Liga (Madeira)

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity	2014–15 finish
Académica	Coimbra	Estádio Cidade de Coimbra	29,744	14th
Arouca	Arouca	Estádio Municipal de Arouca	5,000	16th
Belenenses	Lisbon	Estádio do Restelo	19,856	6th
Benfica	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	64,642	1st
Boavista	Porto	Estádio do Bessa	30,000	13th
Braga	Braga	Estádio Municipal de Braga	30,286	4th
Estoril	Estoril	Estádio António Coimbra da Mota	8,000	12th
Marítimo	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	7,200	9th
Moreirense	Moreira de Cónegos	Parque de Jogos Comendador Joaquim de Almeida Freitas	6,153	11th
Nacional	Funchal	Estádio da Madeira	5,586	7th
Paços de Ferreira	Paços de Ferreira	Estádio Capital do Móvel	6,404	8th
Porto	Porto	Estádio do Dragão	50,035	2nd
Rio Ave	Vila do Conde	Estádio dos Arcos	9,065	10th
Sporting CP	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade	50,044	3rd
Tondela	Tondela	Estádio João Cardoso	5,000	1st (SL)
União da Madeira	Funchal	Centro Desportivo da Madeira[upper-alpha 1]	2,500	2nd (SL)
Vitória de Guimarães	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	30,008	5th
Vitória de Setúbal	Setúbal	Estádio do Bonfim	13,468	15th

1. Due to lighting problems, União da Madeira played some TV broadcast home matches at Estádio da Madeira.

Personnel and sponsors

Team	Head manager	Manufacturer	Sponsors
Académica	Filipe Gouveia	Nike	EFAPEL
Arouca	Lito Vidigal	Joma	Banco BIC
Belenenses	Julio Velázquez	Lacatoni	Kia Motors
Benfica	Rui Vitória	Adidas	Emirates
Boavista	Erwin Sánchez	Erreà	Mestre da Cor
Braga	Paulo Fonseca	Lacatoni	—
Estoril	Fabiano	Nike	Banco BIC
Marítimo	Nelo Vingada	Nike	Santander Totta
Moreirense	Miguel Leal	cdt	—
Nacional	Manuel Machado	Hummel	Santander Totta
Paços de Ferreira	Jorge Simão	Lacatoni	Banco BIC
Porto	José Peseiro	New Balance	MEO
Rio Ave	Pedro Martins	Lacatoni	MEO
Sporting CP	Jorge Jesus	Macron	NOS
Tondela	Petit	cdt	Laboratórios BASI
União da Madeira	Luís Norton de Matos	Lacatoni	Museu CR7
Vitória de Guimarães	Sérgio Conceição	Nike	Banco BIC
Vitória de Setúbal	Quim Machado	Hummel	KIA

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
União da Madeira	Vítor Oliveira	Mutual consent	24 May 2015[7]	Pre-season	Luís Norton de Matos	9 June 2015[8]
Arouca	Pedro Emanuel	Contract expired	25 May 2015[9]		Lito Vidigal	1 June 2015[10]
Vitória de Setúbal	Bruno Ribeiro		26 May 2015[11]		Quim Machado	29 May 2015[12]
Tondela	Quim Machado	Resigned	27 May 2015[13]		Vítor Paneira	30 May 2015[14]
Belenenses	Jorge Simão	Contract expired	3 June 2015[15]		Ricardo Sá Pinto	9 June 2015[16]
Sporting CP	Marco Silva	Sacked	4 June 2015[17]		Jorge Jesus	5 June 2015[18]
Benfica	Jorge Jesus	Contract expired	4 June 2015[19]		Rui Vitória	15 June 2015[20]
Braga	Sérgio Conceição	Sacked	5 June 2015[21]		Paulo Fonseca	11 June 2015[22]
Paços de Ferreira	Paulo Fonseca	Signed by Braga	11 June 2015[22]		Jorge Simão	15 June 2015
Vitória de Guimarães	Rui Vitória	Signed by Benfica	15 June 2015[20]		Armando Evangelista	20 June 2015
Académica	José Viterbo	Resigned	20 September 2015[23]	18th	Filipe Gouveia	24 September 2015[24]
Vitória de Guimarães	Armando Evangelista	Resigned	21 September 2015[25]	13th	Sérgio Conceição	23 September 2015[26]
Tondela	Vítor Paneira	Resigned	6 October 2015[27]	16th	Rui Bento	6 October 2015[28]
Boavista	Petit	Resigned	28 November 2015[29]	14th	Erwin Sánchez	1 December 2015[30]
Tondela	Rui Bento	Resigned	8 December 2015[31]	18th	Petit	9 December 2015[32]
Belenenses	Ricardo Sá Pinto	Resigned	15 December 2015[33]	13th	Julio Velázquez	16 December 2015[34]
Porto	Julen Lopetegui	Sacked	8 January 2016[35]	3rd	Rui Barros	8 January 2016[35]
Marítimo	Ivo Vieira	Resigned	18 January 2016[36]	10th	Nelo Vingada	19 January 2016[37]
Porto	Rui Barros	Ended caretaking role	21 January 2016[38]	3rd	José Peseiro	21 January 2016[38]

Season summary

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Benfica (C)	34	29	1	4	88	22	+66	88	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Sporting CP	34	27	5	2	79	21	+58	86
3	Porto	34	23	4	7	67	30	+37	73	Qualification for the Champions League play-off round
4	Braga	34	16	10	8	54	35	+19	58	Qualification for the Europa League group stage[lower-alpha 1]
5	Arouca	34	13	15	6	47	38	+9	54	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round
6	Rio Ave	34	14	8	12	44	44	0	50
7	Paços de Ferreira	34	13	10	11	43	42	+1	49
8	Estoril	34	13	8	13	40	41	−1	47
9	Belenenses	34	10	11	13	44	66	−22	41
10	Vitória de Guimarães	34	9	13	12	45	53	−8	40
11	Nacional	34	10	8	16	40	56	−16	38
12	Moreirense	34	9	9	16	38	54	−16	36
13	Marítimo	34	10	5	19	45	63	−18	35
14	Boavista	34	8	9	17	24	41	−17	33
15	Vitória de Setúbal	34	6	12	16	40	61	−21	30[lower-alpha 2]
16	Tondela	34	8	6	20	34	54	−20	30[lower-alpha 2]
17	União da Madeira (R)	34	7	8	19	27	50	−23	29	Relegation to LigaPro
18	Académica (R)	34	5	10	19	32	60	−28	25

Source: Liga Portugal, Soccerway
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.
(Note: LPFP decided that only criteria 1, 5, 6 and 7 would be applied to establish the classification during the competition.)[39]
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.
Notes:

1. Braga qualified for the Europa League group stage by winning the 2015–16 Taça de Portugal.
2. Vitória de Setúbal ahead of Tondela on head-to-head record; Tondela–Vitória de Setúbal 1–3, Vitória de Setúbal–Tondela 0–1

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Benfica	1	8	4	3	3	3	5	8	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Sporting CP	5	6	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Porto	2	3	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Braga	4	9	5	6	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Arouca	3	1	3	5	7	7	9	9	9	11	11	8	9	8	8	6	7	8	9	8	8	7	5	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Rio Ave	9	4	7	11	6	6	3	3	3	5	5	6	5	7	7	7	6	7	7	7	7	8	6	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	8	6
Paços de Ferreira	7	7	8	4	8	10	7	5	7	9	6	7	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	6	6	8	8	9	7	8	8	7	7	7	6	6	7
Estoril	18	12	14	8	5	5	6	7	8	8	10	11	11	11	12	14	11	12	10	11	11	11	11	9	8	9	7	7	8	8	8	8	7	8
Belenenses	8	13	11	16	14	13	13	10	12	10	13	13	13	12	13	11	12	11	12	10	10	9	10	12	11	10	11	11	10	10	10	10	11	9
Vitória de Guimarães	17	15	16	13	13	15	15	14	11	13	12	9	10	9	9	9	8	6	6	6	5	5	7	7	7	8	9	9	11	11	11	11	9	10
Nacional	13	10	12	7	11	12	12	12	14	12	8	10	12	13	14	12	13	15	15	14	15	15	15	13	12	11	10	10	9	9	9	9	10	11
Moreirense	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	18	18	15	14	14	14	14	11	13	14	13	14	15	12	12	14	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	14	12
Marítimo	12	14	15	9	15	8	10	13	10	7	9	12	8	10	10	10	10	10	13	13	14	14	12	11	10	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	13
Boavista	10	5	10	14	9	9	11	11	13	14	15	16	16	16	17	17	17	17	17	16	16	16	16	16	17	16	16	16	15	15	14	14	13	14
Vitória de Setúbal	11	2	6	10	10	11	8	6	6	6	7	5	7	5	5	8	9	9	8	9	9	10	9	10	13	13	13	13	13	13	15	15	15	15
Tondela	14	16	13	15	16	16	16	16	16	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	17	16
União da Madeira	6	11	9	12	12	14	14	15	15	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	11	12	13	13	13	14	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	17
Académica	15	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	16	16	16	16	16	17	17	17	17	17	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	18	18	18

	Leader
	Relegation to 2016–17 LigaPro

Source:

Results

Home \ Away	ACA	ARO	BEL	BEN	BOA	BRA	EST	MAR	MOR	NAC	PAÇ	POR	RAV	SCP	TON	UNI	VGU	VSE
Académica		1–1	4–3	1–2	0–2	0–0	0–3	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	1–2	0–2	1–3	2–1	3–1	2–0	0–4
Arouca	3–2		2–2	1–0	3–2	0–0	1–0	4–1	1–2	3–0	2–2	1–3	0–0	0–1	1–1	3–0	2–2	1–0
Belenenses	1–1	0–2		0–5	1–0	3–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	2–2	0–2	1–2	3–3	2–5	2–1	1–0	3–3	0–3
Benfica	3–0	3–1	6–0		2–0	5–1	4–0	6–0	3–2	4–1	3–0	1–2	3–1	0–3	4–1	2–0	1–0	2–1
Boavista	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–1		0–0	1–1	0–1	0–3	0–1	0–1	0–5	1–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–2	4–0
Braga	3–0	0–0	4–0	0–2	4–0		2–0	5–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	3–1	5–1	0–4	3–0	2–0	3–3	3–2
Estoril	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–2	1–0	1–0		2–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–3	2–2	1–2	2–1	2–1	0–1	3–0
Marítimo	1–0	1–2	1–2	0–2	0–3	1–3	1–1		5–1	2–0	0–2	1–1	3–2	0–1	1–0	0–1	3–0	5–2
Moreirense	2–2	0–2	2–3	1–4	1–1	0–0	1–3	2–1		2–0	2–0	2–2	0–1	0–1	1–2	0–0	3–4	0–2
Nacional	2–0	2–2	2–2	1–4	0–0	2–3	4–1	3–1	0–1		3–0	1–2	1–0	0–4	3–1	1–0	3–2	1–1
Paços de Ferreira	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–3	0–1	1–0	2–0	2–2	0–0	3–1		1–0	0–3	1–3	1–4	6–0	0–1	2–1
Porto	3–1	1–2	4–0	1–0	4–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	3–2	4–0	2–1		1–1	1–3	0–1	3–2	3–0	2–0
Rio Ave	1–0	3–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–3	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–3		1–2	2–3	1–0	2–0	2–1
Sporting CP	3–2	5–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	3–2	1–0	3–1	3–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–0		2–2	2–0	5–1	5–0
Tondela	2–0	0–1	2–2	0–4	1–2	0–1	0–1	3–4	1–1	1–0	0–2	0–1	1–1	1–2		1–0	1–1	1–3
União da Madeira	3–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–1	0–1	3–0	3–4	0–4	1–2	1–0	2–0		0–0	2–2
Vitória de Guimarães	1–1	2–2	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	3–4	4–1	0–1	0–1	1–0	3–1	0–0	1–0	3–1		2–2
Vitória de Setúbal	2–1	0–0	0–1	2–4	2–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	2–2	0–6	0–1	2–2	2–2

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

Statistics

Top goalscorers

As of 15 May 2016[40][41]

Benfica's Jonas was the top scorer with 32 goals, winning the Bola de Prata.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Jonas	Benfica	32
2	Islam Slimani	Sporting CP	27
3	Kostas Mitroglou	Benfica	20
4	Léo Bonatini	Estoril	17
5	Rafael Martins	Moreirense	16
6	Bruno Moreira	Paços de Ferreira	14
7	Vincent Aboubakar	Porto	13
	Nathan Júnior	Tondela
9	Dyego Sousa	Marítimo	12
	Henrique Dourado	Vitória de Guimarães
	Diogo Jota	Paços de Ferreira
	André Claro	Vitória de Setúbal

Hat-tricks

Main article: List of Primeira Liga hat-tricks

As of 15 May 2016

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Islam Slimani	Sporting CP	Vitória de Guimarães	5–1[42]	4 October 2015
Jonas	Benfica	Nacional	1–4[43]	11 January 2016
Kostas Mitroglou	Benfica	Belenenses	0–5[44]	5 February 2016
Léo Bonatini	Estoril	Vitória de Setubal	3–0[45]	27 February 2016

Top assists

As of 15 May 2016[46]

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Nicolás Gaitán	Benfica	15
	Miguel Layún	Porto
3	Jonas	Benfica	12
4	Bryan Ruiz	Sporting CP	11
5	Iuri Medeiros	Moreirense	10
	João Mário	Sporting CP
7	Carlos Martins	Belenenses	9
	Salvador Agra	Nacional
	Maxi Pereira	Porto
10	Otávio	Vitória de Guimarães	8

Scoring

As of 15 May 2016

• First goal: João Mário, for Sporting CP vs Tondela (14 August 2015)
• Last goal: Salvador Agra, for Nacional vs Benfica (15 May 2016)
• Biggest home win:
  • Benfica 6–0 Belenenses (11 September 2015)
  • Paços de Ferreira 6–0 União da Madeira (12 December 2015)
  • Benfica 6–0 Marítimo (6 January 2016)
• Biggest away win:
  • Vitória de Setúbal 0–6 Sporting CP (6 January 2016)
• Highest scoring match: 7 goals
  • Marítimo 5–2 Vitória de Setúbal (13 September 2015)
  • Vitória de Guimarães 3–4 Marítimo (12 December 2015)
  • Académica 4–3 Belenenses (14 December 2015)
  • Moreirense 3–4 Vitória de Guimarães (6 January 2016)
  • Tondela 3–4 Marítimo (21 February 2016)
  • Belenenses 2–5 Sporting CP (4 April 2016)
  • União da Madeira 3–4 Paços de Ferreira (17 April 2016)
• Biggest winning margin: 6 goals
  • Benfica 6–0 Belenenses (11 September 2015)
  • Paços de Ferreira 6–0 União da Madeira (12 December 2015)
  • Benfica 6–0 Marítimo (6 January 2016)
  • Vitória de Setúbal 0–6 Sporting CP (6 January 2016)
• Most goals scored in a match by a team: 6 goals
  • Benfica 6–0 Belenenses (11 September 2015)
  • Paços de Ferreira 6–0 União da Madeira (12 December 2015)
  • Benfica 6–0 Marítimo (6 January 2016)
  • Vitória de Setúbal 0–6 Sporting CP (6 January 2016)

Match streaks

As of 15 May 2016[47]

• Longest winning run: 12 matches
  • Benfica, from matchday 23 (20 February 2016) to matchday 34 (15 May 2016)
• Longest unbeaten run: 14 matches
  • Benfica, from matchday 9 (30 October 2015) to matchday 21 (5 February 2016)
  • Porto, from matchday 1 (15 August 2015) to matchday 14 (20 December 2015)
• Longest winless run: 15 matches
  • Vitória de Setúbal, from matchday 20 (31 January 2016) to matchday 34 (14 May 2016)
• Longest losing run: 6 matches
  • Académica, from matchday 1 (17 August 2015) to matchday 6 (28 September 2015)
  • Tondela, from matchday 9 (30 October 2015) to matchday 14 (20 December 2015)
• Most consecutive draws: 5 matches
  • Arouca, from matchday 5 (20 September 2015) to matchday 9 (1 November 2015)

Discipline

As of 15 May 2016[48][49][50]

Club

• Most yellow cards: 113
  • Marítimo
• Most red cards: 19
  • Marítimo

Player

• Most yellow cards: 14
  • Alhassan Wakaso (Rio Ave)
  • Lucas Souza (Tondela)
• Most red cards: 3
  • Diego Carlos (Estoril)
  • Edgar Costa (Marítimo)
  • Rúben Ferreira (Marítimo)
  • Raul Silva (Marítimo)

Awards

Monthly awards

LPFP Player of the Month Month Player Club August/September[51] André André Porto October/November[52] André André Porto December[53] Islam Slimani Sporting CP January[54] Jonas Benfica February[55] Jonas Benfica March[56] Jonas Benfica April[57] João Mário Sporting CP

SJPF Young Player of the Month Month Player Club August/September[58] Danilo Pereira Porto October/November[59] Diogo Jota Paços de Ferreira December[60] Renato Sanches Benfica January[61] João Mário Sporting CP February[62] João Mário Sporting CP March[63] Diogo Jota Paços de Ferreira April[64] João Mário Sporting CP

Goal of the month

Month	Scorer	For	Against	Stadium	Date
August/September[65]	Suk Hyun-jun (KOR)	Vitória de Setúbal	Académica	Estádio Cidade de Coimbra	24 August 2015
October/November[66]	Yacine Brahimi (ALG)	Porto	Tondela	Estádio Municipal de Aveiro	28 November 2015
December[67]	Renato Sanches (POR)	Benfica	Académica	Estádio da Luz	4 December 2015
January[68]	Hugo Seco (POR)	Académica	Tondela	Estádio Cidade de Coimbra	10 January 2016
February[55]	Diogo Jota (POR)	Paços de Ferreira	Benfica	Estádio Capital do Móvel	20 February 2016
March [69]	Miguel Rosa (POR)	Belenenses	Braga	Estádio do Restelo	13 March 2016
April[70]	Edgar Costa (POR)	Marítimo	Nacional	Estádio dos Barreiros	2 April 2016

Attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Benfica	855,474	64,235	31,590	50,322	+18.2%^†
2	Sporting CP	679,790	49,699	30,057	39,988	+24.0%^†
3	Porto	549,512	49,209	16,297	32,324	+8.2%^†
4	Vitória de Guimarães	211,182	22,218	8,975	12,422	−15.9%^†
5	Braga	189,862	19,428	4,169	11,168	+10.1%^†
6	Marítimo	104,474	9,400	4,250	6,146	+36.2%^†
7	Boavista	103,263	22,834	3,653	6,074	+42.3%^†
8	Académica	91,012	26,444	2,170	5,354	+14.7%^†
9	Belenenses	75,833	13,109	1,183	4,461	+46.8%^†
10	Vitória de Setúbal	75,406	10,998	1,900	4,436	+40.7%^†
11	Tondela	56,499	22,003	909	3,323	+336.7%^1,3
12	Rio Ave	56,125	9,023	1,615	3,301	+16.7%^†
13	Estoril	50,008	7,836	827	2,942	+53.4%^†
14	Arouca	49,006	23,540	705	2,883	+82.2%^2
15	Paços de Ferreira	47,625	6,433	1,208	2,801	−4.7%^†
16	Nacional	42,327	4,753	1,318	2,490	+20.9%^†
17	União da Madeira	38,292	5,095	1,077	2,252	+98.1%^1,4
18	Moreirense	38,161	5,772	757	2,245	+10.7%^†
	League total	3,313,851	64,235	705	10,830	+7.2%^†

Source: LPFP[2]
Notes:
1. Team played last season in the Segunda Liga.
2. Arouca played one match at Estádio Municipal de Aveiro, with an attendance of 23,540 (Benfica) spectators.
3. Tondela played three matches at Estádio Municipal de Aveiro, with attendances of 22,003 (Sporting CP), 9,394 (Benfica) and 3,449 (Porto) spectators.
4. União da Madeira played five matches at Estádio da Madeira, with attendances of 1,408 (Vitória de Guimarães), 1,420 (Braga), 2,277 (Porto), 5,095 (Benfica) and 3,594 (Sporting CP) spectators.

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External links

• Primeira Liga at UEFA.com