1934–35 Campeonato da Liga

The 1934–35 Campeonato da Liga season was the first season of top-tier football in Portugal. Although that, the most important national competition (in a knock-out cup format) was still called Portuguese Championship, until 1938, the competition was considered not very competitive with a reduced number of matches played by each team. So a new competition, in round-robin format was created ind 1934, with 8 clubs. Although at time the winner of the Portuguese Championship was considered the National Champion, later, the winner of Campeonato da Liga 1934–35 would be considered the first National Champion.^[1][2]

Primeira Liga

Season	1934–35
Champions	Porto 1st title
Matches played	56
Goals scored	258 (4.61 per match)
Biggest home win	Porto 7-0 Académico do Porto Belenenses 7-0 Académico do Porto
Biggest away win	Académica de Coimbra 0-6 Sporting CP
Highest scoring	Porto 7-4 União Lisboa
1935–36 →

Overview

Académica

FC Porto

Académico

Setúbal

Belenenses

U. Lisboa

Benfica

Sporting

Location of teams in the 1934–35 Liga

For the tournament, there were invited 8 clubs from the 4 major Portuguese District Football Associations: 4 teams from Lisbon FA, 2 from Porto FA, 1 from Setúbal FA and 1 from Coimbra FA. F.C. Porto won the championship. There were no relegations or promotions, since qualification was based on the results of the Regional Championships.^[3]

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Porto (C)	14	10	2	2	43	19	+24	22
2	Sporting CP	14	8	4	2	39	20	+19	20
3	Benfica	14	8	3	3	41	23	+18	19
4	Belenenses	14	8	2	4	45	20	+25	18
5	Vitória de Setúbal	14	7	2	5	26	24	+2	16
6	União Lisboa	14	3	2	9	30	49	−19	8
7	Académico	14	2	2	10	20	54	−34	6
8	Académica	14	1	1	12	14	49	−35	3

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	ACA	ACD	BEL	BEN	POR	SCP	UNL	VSE
Académica		2–1	0–5	2–2	2–4	0–6	1–3	0–1
Académico	3–2		3–2	1–4	0–3	2–3	3–3	3–6
Belenenses	4–0	7–0		2–1	1–1	1–1	7–3	3–0
Benfica	4–1	7–2	5–3		3–0	1–1	2–1	3–1
Porto	7–1	7–0	1–0	2–1		4–2	7–4	3–2
Sporting CP	5–1	3–0	1–3	3–1	2–2		5–0	1–1
União Lisboa	1–0	5–2	2–6	2–2	0–2	4–5		1–3
Vitória de Setúbal	3–2	0–0	2–1	2–5	1–0	0–1	4–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

References

1. "O FC Porto venceria o jogo após prolongamento (3x1), sagrando-se o primeiro campeão de Portugal". zerozero,pt. 20 December 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
2. "Portuguese FA confirms Sporting has only 18 national titles". observador,pt. 16 December 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
3. Pesquisa – Jornal Record