2000–01 Primeira Liga

Primeira Liga
Season	2000–01
Dates	18 August 2000 – 27 May 2001
Champions	Boavista; 1st title
Relegated	Campomaiorense; Desportivo das Aves; Estrela da Amadora
Champions League	Boavista (group stage) ; Porto (second qualifying round)
UEFA Cup	Sporting CP (first round) ; Marítimo (qualifying round)
Matches played	306
Goals scored	807 (2.64 per match)
Top goalscorer	Pena (22 goals)
Biggest home win	Porto 6–0 Alverca ; (30 October 2000)
Biggest away win	Campomaiorense 0–5 Porto ; (18 September 2000)
Highest scoring	Braga 3–5 União de Leiria ; (27 May 2001)
	← 1999–2000 2001–02 →

The 2000–01 Primeira Liga was the 67th edition of the top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 19 August 2000 with a match between Braga and Vitória de Guimarães, and ended on 27 May 2001. The league was contested by 18 clubs, with Sporting CP as the defending champions.

Boavista won their first league title, becoming only the second champions from outside the Portuguese "Big Three" (Os Três Grandes) of Benfica, Porto and Sporting, after Belenenses in the 1945–46 season. Boavista qualified for the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League group stage along with Porto, who entered the second qualifying round. Sporting and Marítimo qualified for the 2001–02 UEFA Cup. At the bottom of the table, Campomaiorense, Desportivo das Aves and Estrela da Amadora were relegated to the Segunda Liga. Pena finished as the top scorer with 22 goals. This season saw also Benfica finish sixth, their lowest ever Primeira Liga position.

Promotion and relegation

Teams relegated to Segunda Liga

Vitória de Setúbal, Rio Ave and Santa Clara were consigned to the Segunda Liga after finishing as the bottom three teams in 1999–2000 season.

Teams promoted from Segunda Liga

The other three teams were replaced by Paços de Ferreira, Beira-Mar and Desportivo das Aves from the Segunda Liga.

Teams

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Stadia and locations

2000–01 Primeira Liga is located in Portugal

Belenenses
Benfica
Sporting

Estrela

Campomaiorense

Porto
Boavista
Salgueiros

Location of teams in Primeira Liga 2000-01 (Mainland)

Marítimo

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Location of teams in Primeira Liga 2000-01 (Madeira)

Team	Head Coach	City	Stadium	1999–00 finish
Alverca	Jesualdo Ferreira	Alverca	Complexo do Alverca	11th
Beira-Mar	António Sousa	Aveiro	Estádio Mário Duarte	2nd in Divisão de Honra
Belenenses	Marinho Peres	Lisbon	Estádio do Restelo	12th
Benfica	Jupp Heynckes	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	3rd
Boavista	Jaime Pacheco	Porto	Estádio do Bessa	4th
Braga	Manuel Cajuda	Braga	Estádio Primeiro de Maio	9th
Campomaiorense	Carlos Manuel	Campo Maior	Estádio Capitão Cesar Correia	13th
Desportivo das Aves	Manuel Gomes	Vila das Aves	Estádio do CD das Aves	3rd in Divisão de Honra
Estrela da Amadora	Quinito	Amadora	Estádio José Gomes	8th
Farense	Manuel Balela	Faro	Estádio de São Luís	14th
Marítimo	Nelo Vingada	Funchal	Estádio dos Barreiros	6th
Paços de Ferreira	José Mota	Paços de Ferreira	Estádio da Mata Real	1st in Divisão de Honra
Porto	Fernando Santos	Porto	Estádio das Antas	2nd
Salgueiros	Vítor Manuel	Porto	Estádio Engenheiro Vidal Pinheiro	15th
Sporting CP	Augusto Inácio	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade	1st
União de Leiria	Manuel José	Leiria	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa	10th
Vitória de Guimarães	Paulo Autuori	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	7th

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Benfica	Jupp Heynckes	18 September 2000	7th	José Mourinho	20 September 2000
Vitória de Guimarães	Paulo Autuori	18 November 2000	12th	Álvaro Magalhães	19 November 2000
Sporting CP	Augusto Inácio	25 November 2000	2nd	Fernando Mendes	26 November 2000
Desportivo das Aves	Manuel Gomes	3 December 2000	16th	Carlos Carvalhal	4 December 2000
Benfica	José Mourinho	5 December 2000	6th	Toni	6 December 2000
Sporting CP	Fernando Mendes	21 January 2001	3rd	Manuel Fernandes	22 January 2001
Estrela da Amadora	Quinito	26 January 2001	18th	Carlos Brito	27 January 2001
Vitória de Guimarães	Álvaro Magalhães	26 February 2001	14th	Augusto Inácio	27 February 2001
Campomaiorense	Carlos Manuel	11 March 2001	15th	Diamantino Miranda	12 March 2001

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Boavista (C)	34	23	8	3	63	22	+41	77	Qualification to Champions League first group stage
2	Porto	34	24	4	6	73	27	+46	76	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
3	Sporting CP	34	19	5	10	56	37	+19	62	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4	Braga	34	16	9	9	58	48	+10	57
5	União de Leiria	34	15	11	8	46	41	+5	56
6	Benfica	34	15	9	10	54	44	+10	54
7	Belenenses	34	14	10	10	43	36	+7	52
8	Beira-Mar	34	14	7	13	45	49	−4	49
9	Paços de Ferreira	34	12	12	10	47	39	+8	48
10	Salgueiros	34	13	4	17	41	55	−14	43
11	Marítimo	34	12	7	15	34	37	−3	43	Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round^[a]
12	Alverca	34	12	7	15	45	52	−7	43
13	Farense	34	10	9	15	37	47	−10	39
14	Gil Vicente	34	10	7	17	34	41	−7	37
15	Vitória de Guimarães	34	9	9	16	41	49	−8	36
16	Campomaiorense (R)	34	7	11	16	29	58	−29	32	Relegation to Segunda Liga
17	Desportivo das Aves (R)	34	4	10	20	31	68	−37	22
18	Estrela da Amadora (R)	34	4	7	23	30	57	−27	19

Source: Primeira Divisão
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Marítimo qualified for the UEFA Cup as Portuguese Cup runners-up

Results

Home \ Away	ALV	BEM	BEL	BEN	BOA	BRA	CPM	DAV	EST	FAR	GVI	MAR	PAÇ	POR	SAL	SCP	ULE	VGU
Alverca		0–1	0–3	2–1	1–2	4–1	2–1	5–1	3–1	0–1	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–3	0–3	3–1	0–1	1–3
Beira-Mar	0–0		2–2	1–3	2–4	3–0	0–0	1–0	3–3	0–2	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–3	3–2	0–1	3–1	3–2
Belenenses	1–0	0–1		1–0	2–2	2–1	1–1	5–0	0–3	4–2	1–3	1–0	0–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–0
Benfica	0–2	4–1	1–0		0–0	2–2	2–0	5–1	2–1	2–1	0–0	3–0	2–3	2–1	1–1	3–0	3–2	1–0
Boavista	5–1	1–0	2–0	1–0		1–2	3–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	5–0	1–0	4–0	4–1
Braga	1–1	3–3	2–0	3–1	1–0		4–0	2–0	1–1	3–0	3–1	2–1	2–2	2–1	2–0	3–2	3–5	1–0
Campomaiorense	0–4	0–2	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–1		0–0	4–1	1–0	1–0	2–2	2–1	0–5	2–3	1–0	1–1	0–1
Desportivo das Aves	0–0	2–3	0–1	4–4	1–2	2–1	2–2		3–2	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–3	3–4	1–1	0–3
Estrela da Amadora	1–2	1–1	0–2	1–2	0–0	0–1	4–0	0–0		1–2	2–1	0–1	1–1	2–3	1–0	1–2	1–2	0–2
Farense	2–0	1–2	3–1	2–2	2–2	1–0	1–3	1–0	2–0		1–1	1–2	2–4	1–3	2–1	2–1	1–1	1–1
Gil Vicente	1–2	3–0	2–1	3–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–0		2–0	3–1	2–2	0–2	0–2	2–0	4–1
Marítimo	2–1	2–1	1–2	3–0	1–1	2–0	3–0	2–1	2–1	1–1	1–0		1–1	0–1	0–1	0–2	2–1	1–0
Paços de Ferreira	2–2	3–2	2–2	0–0	0–2	4–2	0–1	2–0	4–1	1–1	2–0	2–1		1–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–1
Porto	6–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	4–0	3–2	3–1	4–0	2–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–1		5–1	2–2	3–0	2–0
Salgueiros	3–1	0–1	2–0	1–2	1–5	3–4	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–1		2–5	1–4	2–1
Sporting CP	1–1	2–1	2–1	3–0	0–0	1–2	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	3–1	1–0	1–3	0–1	2–0		4–0	3–1
União de Leiria	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	4–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–4	3–1	2–1	2–0		1–1
Vitória de Guimarães	2–2	1–1	1–1	0–4	1–2	0–0	3–0	2–2	4–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	0–1	2–2	1–2	1–4	0–1

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

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Pena	Porto	22
2	Pierre van Hooijdonk	Benfica	19
3	Rafael	Paços de Ferreira	17
4	João Tomás	Benfica	17
4	Hassan Nader	Farense	17
6	Miklós Fehér	Braga	14
6	Alberto Acosta	Sporting	14
8	Marcão	Belenenses	13
8	Derlei	União de Leiria	13
10	Zé Roberto	Braga	12

Sources: Footballzz^[2]^[3]

References

^ "Teams". Footballzz.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Primeira Liga 2000-01 – Top Scorers". Footballzz. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
^ Rui Tovar (2012). Almaneque do Benfica (in Portuguese). Portugal: Lua de Papel. ISBN 978-989-23-2087-8.

External links

[table_note_res_UCQR0.21783791492592-2] Marítimo qualified for the UEFA Cup as Portuguese Cup runners-up

[1] "Teams". Footballzz.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[3] "Primeira Liga 2000-01 – Top Scorers". Footballzz. Retrieved 27 May 2015.

[benfica-4] Rui Tovar (2012). Almaneque do Benfica (in Portuguese). Portugal: Lua de Papel. ISBN 978-989-23-2087-8.

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