The 2013–14 Primeira Liga (also known as Liga ZON Sagres for sponsorship reasons) was the 80th season of the
Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
clubs. It began on 18 August 2013 and concluded on 11 May 2014. Sixteen teams contested the league, fourteen of which took part in the
previous season and two of which were promoted from the
Segunda Liga. On 20 April 2014,
Benfica won the Primeira Liga for a record 33rd time with a 2–0 victory over
Olhanense
Sporting Clube Olhanense () is a Portuguese sports club from Olhão, Algarve.
Its football team was founded on 27 April 1912 and currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal, the fourth tier of Portuguese football. It holds home matches at the ...
, with two matches to spare.
Teams
Stadia and locations
Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Managerial changes
League table
Positions by round
Results
Each team will play each other twice, once at home and once away. Giving a total of 30 matches per team to be played.
Relegation play-offs
Paços de Ferreira
Paços de Ferreira () is a city in the Porto District, in the north of Portugal. The population of the city in 2011 was 7491, while its municipality had 56,340 inhabitants, in an area of 70.99 km².
Sometimes referred to as the ''Capital do ...
, who finished 15th, faced
Desportivo das Aves, the fourth-placed side of the
2013–14 Segunda Liga (third-placed among non-reserve teams) for a two-legged play-off to decide the 18th team to compete in the expanded
2014–15 Primeira Liga. Paços de Ferreira defeated Desportivo das Aves 3–1 on aggregate to secure their presence in the next Primeira Liga season.
First leg
Second leg
Season statistics
Scoring
* First goal:
Paulo Vinícius for Braga against Paços de Ferreira (
''16 August 2013'')
* Largest winning margin: 5 goals
** Paços de Ferreira 0–5 Nacional
(''19 April 2014'')
* Highest scoring game: 7 goals
** Marítimo 3–4 Paços de Ferreira
(''28 September 2013'')
* Most goals scored in a match by a single team: 5 goals
** Sporting 5–1 Arouca
(''18 August 2013'')
** Paços de Ferreira 0–5 Nacional
(''19 April 2014'')
* Most goals scored in a match by a losing team: 3 goals
** Marítimo 3–4 Paços de Ferreira
(''28 September 2013'')
Top goalscorers
Source: LPFP
Hat-tricks
Clean sheets
Player
Club
* Most
clean sheets
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Shutouts are usuall ...
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** Benfica
* Fewest clean sheets: 4
** Paços de Ferreira
** Olhanense
Discipline
Player
*Most yellow cards: 13
**
Nuno Coelho (Arouca)
*Most red cards: 2
**
Deyverson (Belenenses)
Club
*Most yellow cards: 109
**Rio Ave
*Most red cards:
7
**Marítimo
**Estoril Praia
Television
This was the first season that
Sport TV did not broadcast any Benfica home matches. The club decided not to renew with rightsholders Olivedesportos and instead broadcast their home matches on their own channel,
Benfica TV.
RTP Internacional
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and
RTP África
RTP África is a Portuguese television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP). It is available in the Portuguese-speaking African countries, where it is available as a basic cable and s ...
broadcast one match per week, via satellite.
Awards
Monthly awards
SJPF Player of the Month
SJPF Young Player of the Month
References
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Primeira Liga seasons
Port
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