# 1998–99 Primeira Divisão

The 1998–99 Primeira Divisão was the 65th edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 23 August 1998 with a match between Chaves and Académica Coimbra, and ended on 30 May 1999. The league was contested by 18 clubs with Porto as the defending champions.
Porto won the league and qualified for the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League group stage, along with Boavista, who qualified for the third round. With the extinction of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, the Taça de Portugal winner qualified for the UEFA Cup, so Beira-Mar joined Benfica, Sporting CP and Vitória de Setúbal in the 1999-2000 UEFA Cup; in opposite, Beira-Mar, Chaves and Académica Coimbra were relegated to the Liga de Honra. Mário Jardel was the top scorer with 36 goals.

## Promotion and relegation
### Teams relegated to Liga de Honra

* Leça
* Varzim
* Belenenses
Leça, Varzim and Belenenses, were consigned to the Liga de Honra following their final classification in 1997–98 season.

### Teams promoted from Liga de Honra

* União de Leiria
* Beira-Mar
* Alverca
The other three teams were replaced by União de Leiria, Beira-Mar, Alverca from the Liga de Honra.

## Teams
### Stadia and locations

| Team | Head Coach | City | Stadium | 1997–98 finish |
| Académica Coimbra | Raul Águas | Coimbra | Estádio Cidade de Coimbra | 15th |
| Alverca | Mário Wilson | Alverca | Complexo do Alverca | 3rd in Divisão de Honra |
| Beira-Mar | António Sousa | Aveiro | Estádio Mário Duarte | 2nd in Divisão de Honra |
| Benfica | Graeme Souness | Lisbon | Estádio da Luz | 2nd |
| Boavista | Jaime Pacheco | Porto | Estádio do Bessa | 6th |
| Braga | Vítor Oliveira | Braga | Estádio Primeiro de Maio | 10th |
| Campomaiorense | João Alves | Campo Maior | Estádio Capitão Cesar Correia | 11th |
| Chaves | Horácio Gonçalves | Chaves | Estádio Municipal de Chaves | 16th |
| Estrela da Amadora | Jorge Jesus | Amadora | Estádio José Gomes | 7th |
| Farense | Paco Fortes | Faro | Estádio de São Luís | 14th |
| Marítimo | Augusto Inácio | Funchal | Estádio dos Barreiros | 5th |
| Porto | Fernando Santos | Porto | Estádio das Antas | 1st |
| Rio Ave | Carlos Brito | Vila do Conde | Estádio dos Arcos | 9th |
| Salgueiros | Dito | Porto | Estádio Engenheiro Vidal Pinheiro | 8th |
| Sporting CP | Mirko Jozic | Lisbon | Estádio José Alvalade | 4th |
| União de Leiria | Mário Reis | Leiria | Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa | 1st in Divisão de Honra |
| Vitória de Guimarães | Zoran Filipovic | Guimarães | Estádio D. Afonso Henriques | 3rd |
| Vitória de Setúbal | Carlos Cardoso | Setúbal | Estádio do Bonfim | 13th |

### Managerial changes

| Team | Outgoing manager | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
| Braga | Vítor Oliveira | 25 October 1998 | 9th | Carlos Manuel | 26 October 1998 |
| Campomaiorense | João Alves | 29 November 1998 | 18th | José Pereira | 30 November 1998 |
| Marítimo | Augusto Inácio | 20 December 1998 | 16th | Nelo Vingada | 21 December 1998 |
| Chaves | Horácio Gonçalves | 3 January 1999 | 17th | Augusto Inácio | 4 January 1999 |
| Vitória de Guimarães | Zoran Filipovic | 3 January 1999 | 10th | Quinito | 4 January 1999 |
| Farense | Paco Fortes | 5 February 1999 | 14th | João Alves | 6 February 1999 |
| Académica Coimbra | Raul Águas | 7 February 1999 | 18th | Gregório Freixo | 8 February 1999 |
| Braga | Carlos Manuel | 26 February 1999 | 10th | Manuel Cajuda | 27 February 1999 |
| Alverca | Mário Wilson | 28 February 1999 | 17th | José Romão | 1 March 1999 |
| Chaves | Augusto Inácio | 26 April 1999 | 17th | Rodríguez Vaz | 14 May 1999 |
| Benfica | Graeme Souness | 2 May 1999 | 3rd | Shéu | 3 May 1999 |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Porto (C) | 34 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 85 | 26 | +59 | 79 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Boavista | 34 | 20 | 11 | 3 | 57 | 29 | +28 | 71 | Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round |
| 3 | Benfica | 34 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 71 | 29 | +42 | 65 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 4 | Sporting CP | 34 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 64 | 32 | +32 | 63 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 5 | Vitória de Setúbal | 34 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 37 | 38 | −1 | 53 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 6 | União de Leiria | 34 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 36 | 29 | +7 | 52 | |
| 7 | Vitória de Guimarães | 34 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 53 | 41 | +12 | 50 | |
| 8 | Estrela da Amadora | 34 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 33 | 40 | −7 | 45 | |
| 9 | Braga | 34 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 38 | 50 | −12 | 42 | |
| 10 | Marítimo | 34 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 44 | 45 | −1 | 41 | |
| 11 | Farense | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 39 | 54 | −15 | 39 | |
| 12 | Salgueiros | 34 | 7 | 17 | 10 | 45 | 55 | −10 | 38 | |
| 13 | Campomaiorense | 34 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 41 | 51 | −10 | 37 | |
| 14 | Alverca | 34 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 36 | 50 | −14 | 35 | |
| 15 | Rio Ave | 34 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 26 | 47 | −21 | 35 | |
| 16 | Beira-Mar (R) | 34 | 6 | 15 | 13 | 36 | 53 | −17 | 33 | UEFA Cup first round and relegation to Segunda Liga |
| 17 | Chaves (R) | 34 | 5 | 10 | 19 | 39 | 70 | −31 | 25 | Relegation to Segunda Liga |
| 18 | Académica (R) | 34 | 4 | 9 | 21 | 30 | 70 | −40 | 21 | Relegation to Segunda Liga |
* ↑ Beira-Mar qualified for the UEFA Cup as Portuguese Cup winners

## Results

| Home \ Away | ACA | ALV | BEM | BEN | BOA | BRA | CPM | CHA | EST | FAR | MAR | POR | RAV | SAL | SCP | ULE | VGU | VSE |
| Académica | | 0–5 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 1–5 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 |
| Alverca | 2–1 | | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 3–0 | 1–5 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 |
| Beira-Mar | 0–2 | 2–1 | | 1–1 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 4–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 |
| Benfica | 3–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | | 0–3 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 5–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 5–0 | 3–3 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 |
| Boavista | 3–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | | 1–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 |
| Braga | 2–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | | 0–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 3–3 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–4 | 2–1 | 3–0 |
| Campomaiorense | 2–1 | 2–2 | 4–1 | 0–5 | 1–1 | 2–0 | | 4–1 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 1–2 |
| Chaves | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–4 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 3–2 | | 4–1 | 4–4 | 1–1 | 0–4 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 2–3 | 1–2 |
| Estrela da Amadora | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 5–0 |
| Farense | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | | 0–0 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 |
| Marítimo | 4–1 | 3–3 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–3 | | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–3 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 |
| Porto | 7–1 | 3–1 | 7–0 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | | 4–0 | 4–1 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 6–0 |
| Rio Ave | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 |
| Salgueiros | 1–1 | 0–0 | 4–4 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 2–2 | 1–3 | 5–1 | | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 1–0 |
| Sporting CP | 5–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | | 2–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 |
| União de Leiria | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–3 | | 0–1 | 0–1 |
| Vitória de Guimarães | 1–1 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 2–3 | 5–1 | 2–0 | 6–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 3–3 | 1–1 | 0–0 | | 2–0 |
| Vitória de Setúbal | 1–0 | 4–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | |

## Top goalscorers

| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Mário Jardel | Porto | 36 |
| 2 | Nuno Gomes | Benfica | 24 |
| 3 | Demétrius | Campomaiorense | 16 |
| 3 | Silva | Braga | 16 |
| 5 | Ayew | Boavista | 15 |
| 5 | Timofte | Boavista | 15 |
| 5 | Alex Bunbury | Marítimo | 15 |
| 8 | Chiquinho Conde | Vitória Setúbal | 14 |
| 8 | Zahovic | Porto | 14 |
| 10 | Yordanov | Sporting | 13 |
| 10 | Edmilson | Vitória de Guimarães | 13 |
Source: Footballzz