The 2007–08 Primeira Liga was the 74th edition of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs. It started on 17 August 2007 and ended on 11 May 2008, with the fixtures announced on 12 July 2007. Porto were the two-time defending champions, having won their 22nd title the previous season, and secured a third consecutive title for the second time in their history.
Porto and Sporting CP both qualified for the 2008–09 UEFA Champions League group stage; Benfica, Marítimo and Vitória de Setúbal qualified for the 2008–09 UEFA Cup; in the opposite direction, Boavista and União de Leiria were relegated to the Liga de Honra. Lisandro López was the top scorer with 24 goals.
Promotion and relegation
Teams relegated to Liga de Honra Desportivo das Aves Beira Mar
Desportivo das Aves and Beira-Mar were both consigned to Liga de Honra following their final classification in 2006–07.
Teams promoted from Liga de Honra Leixões Vitória de Guimarães
Desportivo das Aves and Beira-Mar will be replaced by two promoted teams from the Liga de Honra. The first is Leixões, who clinched the second level title, and are returning to the top level since their last participation in 1989. The other was Vitória de Guimarães, who managed to return to the Liga after a brief spell in the Liga de Honra.
Club information
Club Head coach City Stadium 2006–2007 season Académica Coimbra Estádio Cidade de Coimbra 13th Belenenses Lisbon Estádio do Restelo 5th Benfica Lisbon Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica (Estádio da Luz) 3rd Boavista Porto Estádio do Bessa – Século XXI 9th Braga Braga Estádio AXA (Estádio Municipal de Braga) 4th Estrela da Amadora Amadora Estádio José Gomes 10th União de Leiria Leiria Estádio Municipal de Leiria Dr. Magalhães Pessoa 7th Leixões Matosinhos Estádio do Mar 1st in the Liga de Honra Marítimo Funchal Estádio dos Barreiros 12th Nacional Funchal Estádio da Madeira 8th Naval 1° de Maio Figueira da Foz Estádio Municipal José Bento Pessoa 11th Paços de Ferreira Paços de Ferreira Estádio da Mata Real 6th Porto Porto Estádio do Dragão 1st Sporting CP Lisbon Estádio José Alvalade – Século XXI 2nd Vitória de Guimarães Guimarães Estádio D. Afonso Henriques 2nd in the Liga de Honra Vitória de Setúbal Setúbal Estádio do Bonfim 14th
Managerial changes ClubOutgoing managerDate of vacancyReplaced byDate of appointmentRefBenfica 20 August 2007 20 August 2007Fernando santos is fired (Portuguese) First day of Camacho (Portuguese)Académica 10 September 2007 Domingos Paciência11 September 2007Official announcement of Manuel Machado getting fired, Academia-oaf.pt, (Portuguese)Official announcement of the new manager, Academia-oaf.pt, (Portuguese)Naval 1° de Maio 16 September 2007 Ulisses Morais4 October 2007Benfica José Antonio Camacho9 March 2008 Fernando Chalana10 March 2008Camacho hands in Benfica notice; UEFA.com, 9 March 2008
League table
Results
Season statistics
Scoring First goal of the season: Derlei for Sporting CP against Académica (17 August 2007) Fastest goal in a match: Kanú (2 minutes) for Marítimo against Boavista (26 August 2007) Goal scored at the latest point in a match: Udo Nwoko (90'+3') for Leixões against Benfica (18 August 2007) Widest winning margin: Porto 6–0 Estrela da Amadora (28 April 2008) The first hat-trick: by Lito in Académica 3–3 Estrela da Amadora (4 November 2007) Most goals in a match: Benfica 6–1 Boavista (11 November 2007) Boavista 4–3 Paços de Ferreira (3 February 2008)
Cards First yellow card: Pedro Roma for Académica against Sporting CP (17 August 2007) First red card: Rodrigo Silva for Nacional against Estrela da Amadora (18 August 2007)
Top scorers
Rank Player Club Goals 1 Lisandro López Porto 24 2 Óscar Cardozo Benfica 13 3 Weldon Belenenses 12 4 Wesley Paços de Ferreira 11 Liédson Sporting CP Roland Linz Braga 7 Marcelinho Naval 10 8 Lito Académica 9 9 João Paulo União de Leiria 8 Jorge Ribeiro Boavista Ricardo Quaresma Porto José Pedro Belenenses Source:
Awards
Footballer of the Year NameTeamLeague StatsAppsGoals Lisandro LópezPorto2724
Monthly awards
SJPF Player of the Month MonthPlayerClubSeptember Rui Costa BenficaOctober Lucho González PortoNovember Jorge Ribeiro BoavistaDecember Peter Jehle BoavistaJanuary Lisandro López PortoFebruary Lisandro López PortoMarch Pitbull Vitória de SetúbalApril Luis Aguiar Académica
SJPF Young Player of the Month MonthPlayerClubSeptember Paulo Machado wins Young Player Award September (Portuguese) Paulo Machado LeixõesOctober João Moutinho Sporting CPNovember João Moutinho Sporting CPDecember Tiago Gomes Estrela da AmadoraJanuary Rui Patrício Sporting CPFebruary João Moutinho Sporting CPMarch João Moutinho Sporting CPApril Paulo Machado Leixões
SJPF Fair Play Award MonthClubSeptember Sporting CP
Source: sjpf.pt (Portuguese)
Attendances
# Club Average Highest 1 Porto 38,632 50,199 2 Benfica 37,558 60,116 3 Sporting 29,381 40,659 4 Vitória SC 19,578 30,000 5 Braga 15,614 25,745 6 Académica 6,872 19,068 7 Marítimo 5,825 8,440 8 Boavista 5,386 17,875 9 Leixões 5,039 12,710 10 Vitória FC 3,256 4,850 11 Os Belenenses 2,810 7,889 12 União de Leiria 2,253 8,960 13 Naval 2,216 4,981 14 Paços de Ferreira 2,045 3,390 15 CD Nacional 1,579 4,711 16 Estrela da Amadora 1,408 4,503 Source:
See also Apito Dourado
References
External links Calendar of the Portuguese League