# 1985–86 Primeira Divisão

Statistics of Portuguese Liga in the 1985/1986 season.

## Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and F.C. Porto won the championship.

## League standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Porto (C) | 30 | 22 | 5 | 3 | 64 | 20 | +44 | 49 | Qualification to European Cup first round |
| 2 | Benfica | 30 | 21 | 5 | 4 | 54 | 13 | +41 | 47 | Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round |
| 3 | Sporting CP | 30 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 64 | 20 | +44 | 46 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 4 | Vitória de Guimarães | 30 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 51 | 29 | +22 | 40 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 5 | Boavista | 30 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 44 | 29 | +15 | 36 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 6 | Chaves | 30 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 28 | 38 | −10 | 29 | |
| 7 | Portimonense | 30 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 29 | 32 | −3 | 28 | |
| 8 | Belenenses | 30 | 7 | 14 | 9 | 27 | 30 | −3 | 28 | |
| 9 | Braga | 30 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 34 | 47 | −13 | 26 | |
| 10 | Académica | 30 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 28 | 38 | −10 | 25 | |
| 11 | Salgueiros | 30 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 37 | −16 | 25 | |
| 12 | Marítimo | 30 | 8 | 6 | 16 | 26 | 50 | −24 | 22 | |
| 13 | Desportivo das Aves (R) | 30 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 25 | 42 | −17 | 22 | Relegation to Segunda Divisão |
| 14 | Vitória de Setúbal (R) | 30 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 32 | 42 | −10 | 22 | Relegation to Segunda Divisão |
| 15 | Penafiel (R) | 30 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 16 | 38 | −22 | 18 | Relegation to Segunda Divisão |
| 16 | Sporting da Covilhã (R) | 30 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 23 | 61 | −38 | 17 | Relegation to Segunda Divisão |
* ↑ Benfica qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as Portuguese Cup winners

## Results

| Home \ Away | ACA | BEL | BEN | BOA | BRA | CHA | DAV | MAR | PEN | PTM | POR | SAL | SCP | SCO | VGU | VSE |
| Académica | | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 1–4 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 |
| Belenenses | 1–2 | | 0–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 |
| Benfica | 1–0 | 1–0 | | 1–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 4–0 | 9–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 5–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 |
| Boavista | 4–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | | 3–1 | 1–0 | 5–1 | 5–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 2–1 |
| Braga | 3–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 |
| Chaves | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 4–2 |
| Desportivo das Aves | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–3 | | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 |
| Marítimo | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–3 | 1–0 |
| Penafiel | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| Portimonense | 2–2 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 |
| Porto | 3–0 | 5–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 5–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 4–2 | 3–1 | 4–0 | | 2–0 | 2–1 | 4–2 | 1–0 | 5–0 |
| Salgueiros | 2–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | | 2–2 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 1–0 |
| Sporting CP | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 6–0 | 4–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | | 6–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 |
| Sporting da Covilhã | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–5 | | 0–0 | 1–1 |
| Vitória de Guimarães | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 5–3 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 4–3 | 5–0 | | 1–0 |
| Vitória de Setúbal | 1–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 4–2 | 4–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 2–2 | |

## Season statistics
### Top goalscorers

| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Manuel Fernandes | Sporting | 30 |
| 2 | Paulinho Cascavel | Vitória de Guimarães | 25 |
| 3 | Fernando Gomes | Porto | 20 |
| 4 | Armando | Salgueiros | 14 |
| 4 | Michael Manniche | Benfica | 14 |
| 6 | Serge Cadorin | Portimonense | 13 |
| 7 | Rabah Madjer | Porto | 12 |
| 8 | Rui Águas | Benfica | 10 |
| 8 | César | Vitória de Setúbal | 10 |
| 8 | Fernando Cruz | Vitória de Setúbal | 10 |

## Footnotes

* 1 2 "Portugal 1985-86 - RSSSF (Jorge Miguel Teixeira)". RSSSF. 2001. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
* 1 2 "Portuguese League 1985/86 - footballzz.co.uk". ZeroZero. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
* ↑ "TheFinalBall Goalscorer statistics". TheFinalBall. Retrieved 20 April 2017.