2002–03 Primeira Liga
Season | 2002–03 |
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Champions |
Porto 19th title |
Relegated |
Varzim Santa Clara Setúbal |
Champions League |
Porto (group stage) Benfica (third qualifying round) |
UEFA Cup |
Sporting CP (first round) Leiria (qualifying round) |
Matches played | 306 |
Goals scored | 806 (2.63 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Fary (18 goals) |
Biggest home win |
Benfica 7–0 Paços de Ferreira (10 November 2002) |
Biggest away win |
Marítimo 0–5 Setúbal (22 September 2002) |
Highest scoring |
5–3 (2 times) 6–2 (1 time) |
← 2001–02 2003–04 → |
Portuguese football 2002–03 |
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Primeira Liga (Tier 1) |
Segunda Liga (Tier 2) |
Segunda Divisão (Tier 3) |
Terceira Divisão (Tier 4) |
Taça de Portugal (Cup) |
The 2002–03 Primeira Liga was the 69th edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 25 August 2002 with a match between Varzim and Paços de Ferreira, and ended on 1 June 2003. The league was contested by 18 clubs with Sporting CP as the defending champions.
Porto won the league and qualified for the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League group stage, along with Benfica, who qualified for the third round. Sporting and União de Leiria qualified for the 2003–04 UEFA Cup. In opposite, Varzim, Santa Clara and Vitória de Setúbal were relegated to the Segunda Liga. Faye Fary was the top scorer with 18 goals.
Promotion and relegation
Teams relegated to Segunda Liga
Salgueiros, Farense and Alverca, were consigned to the Segunda Liga following their final classification in 2001–02 season.
Teams promoted from Segunda Liga
The other three teams were replaced by Moreirense, Académica and Nacional from the Segunda Liga.
Teams
Stadia and locations
Managerial changes
Team | Outgoing manager | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
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Académica de Coimbra | 26 October 2002 | 18th | 26 October 2002 | ||
Santa Clara | 17 November 2002 | 16th | 18 November 2002 | ||
Benfica | 24 November 2002 | 3rd | 25 November 2002 | ||
Benfica | 1 December 2002 | 3rd | 2 December 2002 | ||
Vitória de Setúbal | 3 February 2003 | 16th | 4 February 2003 | ||
Belenenses | 9 February 2003 | 10th | 10 February 2003 | ||
Varzim | 8 March 2003 | 10th | 9 March 2003 | ||
Vitória de Setúbal | 9 March 2003 | 17th | 10 March 2003 | ||
Braga | 6 April 2003 | 14th | 20 April 2003 |
League table
Pos |
Team |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | Porto (C) | 34 | 27 | 5 | 2 | 73 | 26 | +47 | 86 | 2003–04 UEFA Champions League Group stage |
2 | Benfica | 34 | 23 | 6 | 5 | 74 | 27 | +47 | 75 | 2003–04 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round |
3 | Sporting CP | 34 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 52 | 38 | +14 | 59 | 2003–04 UEFA Cup First round |
4 | Vitória de Guimarães | 34 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 47 | 46 | +1 | 50 | |
5 | União de Leiria | 34 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 49 | 47 | +2 | 49 | 2003–04 UEFA Cup Qualifying round 1 |
6 | Paços de Ferreira | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 40 | 47 | −7 | 45 | |
7 | Marítimo | 34 | 13 | 5 | 16 | 36 | 48 | −12 | 44 | |
8 | Gil Vicente | 34 | 13 | 5 | 16 | 42 | 53 | −11 | 44 | |
9 | Belenenses | 34 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 47 | 48 | −1 | 43 | |
10 | Boavista | 34 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 32 | 31 | +1 | 43 | |
11 | Nacional | 34 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 40 | 46 | −6 | 40 | |
12 | Moreirense | 34 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 42 | 46 | −4 | 39 | |
13 | Beira-Mar | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 43 | 50 | −7 | 39 | |
14 | Braga | 34 | 8 | 14 | 12 | 34 | 47 | −13 | 38 | |
15 | Académica | 34 | 8 | 13 | 13 | 38 | 48 | −10 | 37 | |
16 | Varzim (R) | 34 | 10 | 6 | 18 | 38 | 51 | −13 | 36 | Relegation to 2003–04 Segunda Liga |
17 | Santa Clara (R) | 34 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 39 | 54 | −15 | 35 | |
18 | Vitória de Setúbal (R) | 34 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 40 | 53 | −13 | 31 |
Source: Primeira Liga
Rules for classification:
1st points, 2nd head-to-head, 3rd goals average
1 Leiria qualified for the UEFA Cup as Portuguese Cup runners-up
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Results
Home \ Away[1] | ACA | BEM | BEL | BEN | BOA | BRA | GVI | MAR | MOR | NAC | PAÇ | POR | STC | SCP | ULE | VAR | VGU | VSE |
Académica | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 0–2 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | |
Beira-Mar | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 3–3 | 2–2 | 5–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 5–3 | |
Belenenses | 2–0 | 3–2 | 2–4 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | |
Benfica | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 7–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 1–1 | |
Boavista | 4–1 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | |
Braga | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–4 | 1–0 | |
Gil Vicente | 1–1 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 3–5 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | |
Marítimo | 2–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2–3 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–5 | |
Moreirense | 1–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 | |
Nacional | 3–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | |
Paços de Ferreira | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 1–3 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 3–3 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | |
Porto | 4–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 5–2 | 2–1 | 5–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 | |
Santa Clara | 0–0 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 4–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | |
Sporting CP | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 3–4 | |
União de Leiria | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–4 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | |
Varzim | 0–3 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 3–2 | |
Vitória de Guimarães | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 1–4 | 0–2 | 5–0 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 2–3 | 1–0 | |
Vitória de Setúbal | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–6 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 2–4 | 1–2 |
Source: Foradejogo (Portuguese)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Top goalscorers
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
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1 | Beira-Mar | 18 | |
2 | Benfica | 18 | |
3 | Nacional | 16 | |
4 | Marítimo | 15 | |
5 | Porto | 13 | |
Benfica | |||
7 | União de Leiria | 12 | |
Braga | |||
9 | Gil Vicente | 11 | |
Sporting | |||
Académica | |||
Beira-Mar |
Footnotes
- ↑ "Teams". Footballzz.
- ↑ "Primeira Liga 2002-03 – Top Scorers". Footballzz. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
- ↑ Statistics at Futebol365