1961–62 Primeira Divisão

Statistics of Portuguese Liga in the 1961–62 season.

Overview

It was contested by 14 teams, and Sporting Clube de Portugal won the championship.

Location of teams in 1961–62 Primeira Liga

Details of the 14 participants are provided below:

Clubs	Seasons at this level	Settlements	Season joined league	Position in 1960/1961
Benfica	28 seasons	Lisbon	1934/1935	1
Sporting	28 seasons	Lisbon	1934/1935	2
FC Porto	28 seasons	Porto	1934/1935	3
Belenenses	28 seasons	Lisbon	1934/1935	5
Académica	27 seasons	Coimbra	1949/1950	7
Vitória Guimarães	18 seasons	Guimarães	1958/1959	4
Atlético	16 seasons	Lisbon	1959/1960	10
Sporting Covilhã	13 seasons	Covilhã	1958/1959	9
Olhanense	11 seasons	Olhão	1961/1962	Segunda Divisão
Lusitano Évora	10 seasons	Évora	1952/1953	11
CUF	9 seasons	Barreiro	1954/1955	6
Salgueiros	6 seasons	Porto	1960/1961	12
Leixões	5 seasons	Matosinhos	1959/1960	8
Beira Mar	1 season	Aveiro	1961/1962	Segunda Divisão

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sporting CP (C)	26	19	5	2	66	17	+49	43	Qualified for the European Cup
2	Porto	26	18	5	3	57	16	+41	41	Invited for the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
3	Benfica[lower-alpha 1]	26	14	8	4	69	38	+31	36	Qualified for the European Cup
4	CUF Barreiro	26	14	5	7	44	34	+10	33
5	Belenenses	26	12	7	7	51	35	+16	31	Invited for the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
6	Atlético CP	26	11	4	11	41	42	−1	26
7	Leixões	26	10	3	13	47	55	−8	23
8	Olhanense	26	8	6	12	33	41	−8	22
9	Vitória de Guimarães	26	9	4	13	44	47	−3	22
10	Académica de Coimbra	26	9	4	13	44	54	−10	22
11	Beira-Mar (R)	26	8	5	13	43	61	−18	21	Relegated to Segunda Divisão
12	Lusitano de Évora	26	9	2	15	31	42	−11	20
13	Sporting da Covilhã (R)	26	6	5	15	30	48	−18	17	Relegated to Segunda Divisão
14	Salgueiros (R)	26	2	3	21	17	87	−70	7	Relegated to Segunda Divisão

Source: RSSSF[1] and footballzz.co.uk[2]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Home \ Away	ACA	ACP	BEM	BEL	BEN	CUF	LEI	LUS	OLH	POR	SCP	SCO	SAL	VGU
Académica		2–2	7–1	2–1	3–1	0–1	5–2	2–0	1–2	0–2	0–3	0–0	8–1	3–0
Atlético CP	3–0		4–1	0–3	0–3	0–0	4–1	1–0	3–0	1–4	0–3	2–1	7–0	3–3
Beira-Mar	1–1	0–1		0–3	2–3	0–3	3–1	4–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	3–0	3–1
Belenenses	2–0	0–2	4–1		2–2	5–1	6–3	1–0	1–0	3–3	0–1	4–2	4–0	1–1
Benfica	4–2	2–1	8–1	0–0		1–1	7–1	3–1	4–2	1–1	3–3	1–1	8–1	1–0
CUF Barreiro	6–2	3–0	2–2	2–0	1–3		2–1	3–1	4–3	2–1	1–3	2–0	4–0	1–0
Leixões	5–0	2–0	3–2	1–1	1–2	2–1		3–0	2–0	0–0	2–1	2–1	5–0	2–3
Lusitano de Évora	5–0	0–1	2–1	1–3	0–1	0–0	4–0		2–1	0–2	1–3	3–0	2–1	4–1
Olhanense	2–2	3–1	6–2	3–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–1		1–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–0
Porto	1–0	4–1	2–0	5–0	2–1	5–0	3–1	4–0	4–0		0–2	2–0	1–0	3–0
Sporting CP	4–0	4–0	2–1	3–1	3–1	3–0	5–0	0–0	4–1	0–1		3–0	6–0	2–1
Sporting da Covilhã	1–2	1–0	3–4	1–1	2–1	0–2	2–1	1–2	2–0	1–4	0–2		4–2	4–2
Salgueiros	1–2	1–1	0–4	0–3	4–5	0–2	0–4	1–0	1–3	0–1	1–1	1–1		1–0
Vitória de Guimarães	3–0	1–3	2–3	1–1	2–2	2–0	3–2	5–2	2–0	1–0	1–3	3–1	6–1

Source: [1][2]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Azumir Veríssimo (Futebol Clube do Porto) was the top scorer of the season with 23 goals.

Rank	Player		Club	Goals
1	Azumir		FC Porto	23

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Top-level football seasons in Portugal
Campeonato da Liga	1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38
Primeira Divisão	1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99
Primeira Liga	1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
List of champions Top scorers

1961–62 in Portuguese football
Domestic leagues	Primeira Divisão Segunda Divisão Terceira Divisão
Domestic cups	Taça de Portugal (Final)
European competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup Fairs Cup
Club seasons
Primeira Divisão	Benfica
Summer transfers Winter transfers

1961–62 in European football (UEFA)
« 1960–61 1962–63 »
Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '61 '62 England Faroe Islands '61 '62 Finland '61 '62 France East Germany West Germany (Finals) Greece Hungary Iceland '61 '62 Israel Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Poland '61 '62 Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '61 '62 Spain Sweden '61 '62 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania '61 Austria Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark England Faroe Islands '61 '62 Finland '61 '62 France East Germany West Germany Greece Iceland '61 '62 Israel Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '61 '62 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '61 '62 Spain Switzerland Wales Yugoslavia
League cups	England Scotland
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final)
Non-UEFA competitions	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (Final) Intertoto Cup Balkans Cup '60–'61 '61–'63