2016–17 Primeira Liga

Primeira Liga 2016–17
Season information
Winners	Benfica 36th title
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League	Benfica Porto Sporting CP
Europa League	Vitória de Guimarães Braga
Season statistics
Matches played	164
Goals scored	387
Top goalscorer	Bas Dost (31 goals)
Biggest home win	Porto 7–0 Nacional (4 March 2017)
Biggest away win	Nacional 0–4 Porto (1 October 2016) Feirense 0–4 Porto (11 December 2016)
Highest scoring	Vitória 5–3 Paços (26 August 2016) Braga 6–2 Feirense (28 November 2016)
← 2015–16	2017–18 →

The 2016–17 Primeira Liga (also known as Liga NOS for sponsorship reasons) is the 83rd season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs.

Benfica successfully defended their title, winning the league for a fourth consecutive season and 36th time.

Teams

For the third consecutive season, the league is contested by a total of 18 teams, which include the best 16 sides from the 2015–16 season and two promoted from the 2015–16 LigaPro.

Porto B won the 2015–16 LigaPro title on 8 May 2016, but as the reserve team of Primeira Liga side Porto they were ineligible for promotion, which meant that the third-placed team would be promoted instead. On the same day, Chaves drew 1–1 with Portimonense to secure the return to the top flight of Portuguese football, 17 years after their last appearance in the 1998–99 season. On the final matchday, Feirense secured the third place and last promotion slot after drawing 1–1 with Chaves; they return to the Primeira Liga four years after their last appearance in the 2011–12 season.

The two promoted clubs replaced Académica and União da Madeira. Académica confirmed their relegation on 7 May 2016, after a run of 14 consecutive seasons in the Primeira Liga, following a goalless draw against Braga. On the last matchday, União da Madeira's 2–1 defeat against Rio Ave also sealed their relegation, one season after having been promoted.

Stadia and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity	2015–16 finish
Arouca	Arouca	Estádio Municipal de Arouca	5,000	5th
Belenenses	Lisbon	Estádio do Restelo	19,856	9th
Benfica	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	64,642	1st
Boavista	Porto	Estádio do Bessa	30,000	14th
Braga	Braga	Estádio Municipal de Braga	30,286	4th
Chaves	Chaves	Estádio Municipal Eng. Manuel Branco Teixeira	8,000	2nd (LP)
Estoril	Estoril	Estádio António Coimbra da Mota	8,000	8th
Feirense	Santa Maria da Feira	Estádio Marcolino de Castro	5,401	3rd (LP)
Marítimo	Funchal	Estádio do Marítimo	10,600	13th
Moreirense	Moreira de Cónegos	Parque de Jogos Comendador Joaquim de Almeida Freitas	6,153	12th
Nacional	Funchal	Estádio da Madeira	5,586	11th
Paços de Ferreira	Paços de Ferreira	Estádio Capital do Móvel	6,404	7th
Porto	Porto	Estádio do Dragão	50,035	3rd
Rio Ave	Vila do Conde	Estádio dos Arcos	9,065	6th
Sporting CP	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade	50,044	2nd
Tondela	Tondela	Estádio João Cardoso	5,000	16th
Vitória de Guimarães	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	30,008	10th
Vitória de Setúbal	Setúbal	Estádio do Bonfim	13,468	15th

Personnel and sponsors

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit Manufacturer	Sponsors
Arouca	Jorge Leitão	Nuno Coelho	Joma	Banco BIC
Belenenses	Domingos Paciência	Gonçalo Brandão	Lacatoni	Kia Motors
Benfica	Rui Vitória	Luisão	adidas	Emirates
Boavista	Miguel Leal	Idris	Lacatoni	Mestre da Cor
Braga	Jorge Simão	Alan	Lacatoni	Visit Braga
Chaves	Ricardo Soares	Nélson Lenho	Lacatoni	Chaves - Capital Termal
Estoril	Pedro Emanuel	Diogo Amado	Nike	Banco BIC
Feirense	Nuno Manta		Legea	Mestre da Cor
Marítimo	Daniel Ramos	Fransérgio	Nike	Santander Totta
Moreirense	Petit		CDT	—
Nacional	João de Deus	Rui Correia	Hummel	Santander Totta
Paços de Ferreira	Vasco Seabra		Lacatoni	Fixpaços
Porto	Nuno Espírito Santo	Héctor Herrera	New Balance]	MEO
Rio Ave	Luís Castro	Tarantini	adidas	MEO
Sporting CP	Jorge Jesus	Adrien Silva	Macron	NOS
Tondela	Pepa	Kaká	CDT	Laboratórios BASI
Vitória de Guimarães	Pedro Martins		Macron	Shirt sponsor varies from match to match
Vitória de Setúbal	José Couceiro	Frederico Venâncio	Hummel	Kia Motors

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Chaves	Vítor Oliveira	Mutual consent	10 May 2016	Pre-season	Jorge Simão	21 May 2016
Rio Ave	Pedro Martins	Mutual consent	17 May 2016		Capucho	20 May 2016
Vitória de Setúbal	Quim Machado	Mutual consent	18 May 2016		José Couceiro	25 May 2016
Vitória de Guimarães	Sérgio Conceição	Mutual consent	18 May 2016		Pedro Martins	25 May 2016
Moreirense	Miguel Leal	Contract expired	19 May 2016		Pepa	20 May 2016
Paços de Ferreira	Jorge Simão	Mutual consent	21 May 2016		Carlos Pinto	25 May 2016
Marítimo	Nelo Vingada	Contract expired	23 May 2016		Paulo César Gusmão	1 June 2016
Porto	José Peseiro	Sacked	30 May 2016		Nuno Espírito Santo	1 June 2016
Braga	Paulo Fonseca	Signed by Shakhtar Donetsk	31 May 2016		José Peseiro	6 June 2016
Marítimo	Paulo César Gusmão	Mutual consent	19 September 2016	17th	Daniel Ramos	22 September 2016
Belenenses	Julio Velázquez	Mutual consent	5 October 2016	8th	Quim Machado	6 October 2016
Boavista	Erwin Sánchez	Sacked	10 October 2016	13th	Miguel Leal	11 October 2016
Rio Ave	Capucho	Sacked	10 November 2016	13th	Luís Castro	14 November 2016
Moreirense	Pepa	Sacked	21 November 2016	16th	Leandro Mendes (caretaker)	22 November 2016
Moreirense	Leandro Mendes (caretaker)	Ended caretaking role	28 November 2016	18th	Augusto Inácio	28 November 2016
Paços de Ferreira	Carlos Pinto	Sacked	28 November 2016	15th	Vasco Seabra	28 November 2016 (as caretaker) 13 December 2016 (confirmed)
Estoril	Fabiano Soares	Sacked	11 December 2016	11th	Filipe Pedro (caretaker)	11 December 2016
Braga	José Peseiro	Sacked	15 December 2016	4th	Abel Ferreira (caretaker)	15 December 2016
Estoril	Filipe Pedro (caretaker)	Ended caretaking role	15 December 2016	11th	Pedro Gómez Carmona	15 December 2016
Chaves	Jorge Simão	Signed by Braga	19 December 2016	7th	Carlos Pires (caretaker)	19 December 2016
Braga	Abel Ferreira (caretaker)	Ended caretaking role	19 December 2016	3rd	Jorge Simão	19 December 2016
Feirense	José Mota	Sacked	20 December 2016	17th	Nuno Manta (caretaker)	20 December 2016 (as caretaker) 30 December 2016 (confirmed)
Chaves	Carlos Pires (caretaker)	Ended caretaking role	20 December 2016	8th	Ricardo Soares	20 December 2016
Nacional	Manuel Machado	Mutual consent	28 December 2016	16th	Predrag Jokanović	30 December 2016
Tondela	Petit	Resigned	9 January 2017	18th	Pepa	10 January 2017
Estoril	Pedro Gómez Carmona	Resigned	8 March 2017	15th	Pedro Emanuel	8 March 2017
Moreirense	Augusto Inácio	Mutual consent	20 March 2017	16th	Petit	20 March 2017
Nacional	Predrag Jokanović	Mutual consent	21 March 2017	18th	João de Deus	21 March 2017
Arouca	Manuel Machado	Mutual consent	21 March 2017	14th	Jorge Leitão	21 March 2017
Belenenses	Quim Machado	Sacked	18 April 2017	12th	Domingos Paciência	18 April 2017

Season summary

League table

2016–17 Primeira Liga table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Benfica  (C)	34	25	7	2	72	18	+54	82	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Porto	34	22	10	2	71	19	+52	76
3	Sporting CP	34	21	7	6	68	36	+32	70	Qualification to Champions League play-off round
4	Vitória de Guimarães	34	18	8	8	50	39	+11	62	Qualification to Europa League group stage
5	Braga	34	15	9	10	51	36	+15	54	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
6	Marítimo	34	13	11	10	34	32	+2	50
7	Rio Ave	34	14	7	13	41	39	+2	49
8	Feirense	34	14	6	14	31	45	−14	48
9	Boavista	34	10	13	11	33	36	−3	43
10	Estoril	34	10	8	16	36	42	−6	38
11	Chaves	34	8	14	12	35	42	−7	38
12	Vitória de Setúbal	34	10	8	16	30	39	−9	38
13	Paços de Ferreira	34	8	12	14	32	45	−13	36
14	Belenenses	34	9	9	16	27	45	−18	36
15	Moreirense	34	8	9	17	33	48	−15	33
16	Tondela	34	8	8	18	29	52	−23	32
17	Template:Fb team Arouca (R)	34	9	5	20	33	57	−24	32	Relegation to LigaPro
18	Nacional  (R)	34	4	9	21	22	58	−36	21

Updated to games played on 21 May 2017
Source: Liga Portugal
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

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	2	4	2	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Porto	1	1	6	4	3	3	2	2	2	2	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Sporting CP	5	2	1	1	2	2	3	3	4	3	2	2	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Vitória de Guimarães	12	8	5	9	10	5	6	5	5	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4
Braga	7	7	4	2	4	4	4	4	3	5	3	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5
Marítimo	17	18	14	14	17	13	9	8	11	9	9	7	9	7	8	8	6	7	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Rio Ave	13	13	10	6	5	6	7	7	7	11	7	6	6	6	6	6	8	10	9	9	9	10	10	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
Feirense	4	10	13	10	7	9	10	9	8	13	14	16	17	17	15	16	15	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	11	9	10	11	9	8	8	8	8
Boavista	3	6	7	11	12	14	13	12	10	8	11	13	13	14	10	9	11	9	10	11	11	9	9	10	10	8	10	11	10	10	9	9	9	9
Estoril	16	17	17	17	14	17	14	15	16	12	8	9	11	13	14	14	14	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	15	14	12	10
Chaves	10	11	8	8	6	8	5	6	6	6	6	8	7	8	7	7	7	6	8	7	7	7	7	7	8	9	8	8	8	8	10	10	10	11
Vitória de Setúbal	6	5	3	5	8	11	12	11	9	7	10	14	10	11	9	11	10	8	6	8	8	8	8	11	11	12	11	9	9	11	12	11	13	12
Paços de Ferreira	9	12	15	15	11	10	11	10	12	14	15	12	14	12	13	13	13	14	15	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	14	12	11	12	14	13
Belenenses	15	15	11	7	9	7	8	13	13	10	12	10	8	9	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	9	9	10	12	12	12	13	13	13	11	14
Moreirense	8	3	9	12	13	16	18	17	15	16	18	15	16	16	17	15	16	15	14	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15
Tondela	18	14	16	16	18	18	17	16	18	18	16	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	18	18	18	17	17	17	18	18	18	17	17	17	17	16
Template:Fb team Arouca	14	9	12	13	16	15	16	18	17	17	13	11	12	10	12	10	9	11	11	10	10	11	12	12	14	14	14	14	13	15	14	15	15	17
Nacional	11	16	18	18	15	12	15	14	14	15	17	18	15	15	16	17	17	17	17	18	17	17	17	18	18	18	17	17	17	18	18	18	18	18

Last updated: 21 May 2017
Source: Liga Portugal

	Leader
	Relegation to 2017–18 LigaPro

Statistics

Top goalscorers

As of 13 May 2017

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Bas Dost	Sporting CP	31
2	Tiquinho Soares	Porto	19
3	Konstantinos Mitroglou	Benfica	15
	André Silva	Porto
5	Jonas	Benfica	13
	Moussa Marega	Vitória de Guimarães
6	Welthon	Paços de Ferreira	11
	Rui Fonte	Braga
9	Pizzi	Benfica	10
10	Hernâni	Vitória de Guimarães	8

Hat-tricks

Main article: List of Primeira Liga hat-tricks

As of 11 March 2017

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Okacha Hamzaoui	Nacional	Feirense	0–3	02016-09-24-24 September 2016
Diogo Jota	Porto	Nacional	0–4	02016-10-01-1 October 2016
Moussa Marega	Vitória de Guimarães	Rio Ave	0–3	02016-10-30-30 October 2016
Jorginho	Arouca	Moreirense	1–4	02016-12-17-17 December 2016
Bas Dost4	Sporting CP	Tondela	1–4	02017-03-11-11 March 2017
Bas Dost	Sporting CP	Boavista	4–0	02017-04-08-8 April 2017
Bas Dost	Sporting CP	Braga	3–2	02017-04-30-30 April 2017

Top assists

As of 14 April 2017

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Pizzi	Benfica	8
	Gelson	Sporting CP
	Alex Telles	Porto
	Wilson Eduardo	Braga
5	Iuri Medeiros	Boavista	7
	Pedro Santos	Braga
7	Nélson Semedo	Benfica	6
	Moussa Marega	Vitória de Guimarães
	Otávio Monteiro	Porto
	Mateus	Arouca
	Raphinha	Vitória de Guimarães
	Eduardo Salvio	Benfica
	Patrick	Marítimo

Scoring

As of 27 January 2017

• First goal: Marcelo, for Rio Ave vs Porto (12 August 2016)
• Biggest home win:
  • Benfica 4–0 Feirense (2 October 2016)
  • Braga 6–2 Feirense (28 November 2016)
  • Benfica 4–0 Tondela (22 January 2017)
  • Benfica 5–0 Vitória de Guimarães (13 May 2017)
• Biggest away win:
  • Nacional 0–4 Porto (1 October 2016)
  • Feirense 0–4 Porto (11 December 2016)
• Highest scoring match: 8 goals
  • Vitória de Guimarães 5–3 Paços de Ferreira (26 August 2016)
  • Braga 6–2 Feirense (28 November 2016)
• Biggest winning margin: 7 goals
  • Porto 7–0 Nacional (4 March 2017)
• Most goals scored in a match by a team: 7 goals
  • Porto 7–0 Nacional (4 March 2017)

Match streaks

As of 27 January 2017

• Longest winning run: 7 matches
  • Benfica, from matchday 3 (27 August 2016) to matchday 9 (28 October 2016)
• Longest unbeaten run: 30 matches
  • Porto, from matchday 4 (10 September 2016) to matchday 33 (14 May 2017)
• Longest winless run: 9 matches
  • Feirense, from matchday 6 (24 September 2016) to matchday 14 (19 December 2016)
• Longest losing run: 6 matches
  • Estoril, from matchday 13 (9 December 2016) to matchday 18 (22 January 2017)
• Most consecutive draws: 4 matches
  • Chaves, from matchday 9 (31 October 2016) to matchday 12 (4 December 2016)

Discipline

As of 23 January 2017

Club

• Most yellow cards: 53
  • Feirense
• Most red cards: 5
  • Moreirense
  • Nacional

Player

• Most yellow cards: 8
  • Vítor Bruno (Feirense)
• Most red cards: 2
  • Ângelo Neto (Moreirense)
  • Tobias Figueiredo (Nacional)
  • Rúben Semedo (Sporting CP)

Awards

Monthly awards

SJPF Player of the Month Month Player Club August/September October/November December January February March April

SJPF Young Player of the Month Month Player Club Vote percentage August/September Gelson Sporting CP 19.23% October/November Gonçalo Guedes Benfica 15.75% December Gelson Sporting CP 16.34% January André Silva Porto 14.26% February Nélson Semedo Benfica 25.11% March João Carvalho Vitória de Setúbal 19.97% April

Goal of the month

Month	Scorer	For	Against	Stadium	Date	Vote percentage
August	Pedro Santos	Braga	Vitória de Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	14 August 2016	43.56%
September	Salvador Agra	Nacional	Marítimo	Estádio da Madeira	16 September 2016	55.56%
October	Yacine Brahimi	Porto	Arouca	Estádio do Dragão	22 October 2016	40.74%
November	Renato Santos	Boavista	Rio Ave	Estádio dos Arcos	5 November 2016	37.04%
December	Bruno César	Sporting	Vitória de Setúbal	Estádio José Alvalade	3 December 2016	31.75%
January	Roberto	Moreirense	Feirense	Parque Joaquim de Almeida Freitas	2 February 2017	50.55%
February	Hernâni	Vitória de Guimarães	Belenenses	Estádio do Restelo	19 February 2017	30.56%
March	Zainadine Júnior	Marítimo	Arouca	Estádio do Marítimo	19 March 2017	55.56%
April	Victor Lindelöf	Benfica	Sporting	Estádio José Alvalade	22 April 2017	27.77%

Attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Benfica	390,748	63,312	51,566	55,821	0.10927626087993+10.9%†
2	Sporting CP	388,328	49,399	40,027	43,148	0.079023707112134+7.9%†
3	Porto	277,491	50,019	22,208	34,686	0.073072639524811+7.3%†
4	Vitória de Guimarães	140,646	26,985	12,953	17,581	0.41531154403478+41.5%†
5	Braga	73,298	11,328	7,543	9,162	-0.82037965616046−17.9%†
6	Marítimo	45,746	10,320	4,150	6,535	0.063293198828506+6.3%†
7	Boavista	42,070	9,958	4,182	5,259	-0.86582153440896−13.4%†
8	Belenenses	34,982	12,236	1,309	4,997	0.12015243219009+12.0%†
9	Rio Ave	38,945	8,357	2,116	4,327	0.31081490457437+31.0%†
10	Chaves	26,852	8,000	1,885	3,357	0.22697368421053+22.6%1
11	Paços de Ferreira	25,643	6,271	1,384	3,205	0.14423420207069+14.4%†
12	Vitória de Setúbal	24,464	7,245	2,081	3,058	-0.68935978358882−31.0%†
13	Feirense	20,877	4,635	1,099	2,610	1.4904580152672+149.0%1
14	Nacional	22,972	5,017	1,126	2,552	0.024899598393574+2.4%†
15	Estoril	17,765	7,429	953	2,221	-0.7549286199864−24.5%†
16	Tondela	16,985	4,973	1,090	2,123	-0.63888052964189−36.1%†
17	Template:Fb team Arouca	14,247	5,351	740	1,781	-0.61775927852931−38.2%†
18	Moreirense	11,394	3,810	640	1,424	-0.63429844097996−36.5%†
	League total	1,613,453	63,312	640	11,205	0.034626038781163+3.4%†

Updated to games played on 9 January 2017
Source: Liga Portugal
Notes:
1. Played last season in LigaPro.

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