The 2017–18 Primeira Liga (also known as Liga NOS for sponsorship reasons) was the 84th season of the

Primeira Liga The Primeira Liga (; English: Premier League, also written as Liga Portugal 1), also known as Liga Portugal Bwin for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of the Portuguese football league system. Organised and supervised by the Liga Portugal, ...

, the top professional league for Portuguese

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clubs. Benfica were the defending champions for a fourth consecutive time, but they did not retain the title.

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became the new champions with two matches to spare, clinching their 28th league title. This was their first trophy in four years. Since Portugal dropped from fifth to seventh place in the UEFA association coefficient rankings at the end of 2016–17 season, only the two best-ranked teams could qualify for the

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(the champions entered directly into the group stage, and the runners-up entered the third qualifying round). The third and fourth-placed teams qualified respectively to the

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third and second qualifying rounds.

Teams

Eighteen teams competed in the league – the top sixteen teams from the 2016–17 season, as well as two teams promoted from the

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became the first club to be promoted on 23 April 2017 and will play in Primeira Liga for the first time since the 2010–11 season. On 21 May 2017, after a 2–1 win in Azores against Santa Clara, they were crowned champions. The other team promoted were runners-up Desportivo das Aves, following a 2–2 draw against

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on 30 April 2017. This will mark the return of the Vila das Aves' team to the top flight after a 10-season absence. The two promoted clubs replaced

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and Arouca. Nacional confirmed their relegation on 5 May 2017, 15 years after their promotion, when

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, who were also struggling to escape relegation, beat

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. On the last matchday, Arouca's 4–2 defeat against

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sealed their relegation, four seasons after having been promoted for the first time to Primeira Liga.

Stadia and locations

Personnel and sponsors

Managerial changes

Season summary

League table

Positions by round

Results

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Hat-tricks

;Note ⁴ Player scored 4 goals

Top assists

Clean sheets

Scoring

* First goal of the season: **

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, for

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vs Desportivo das Aves (6 August 2017) * Latest goal of the season: **

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, for Marítimo vs

(13 May 2018) * Biggest home win: **

6–0

(1 October 2017) * Biggest away win: **

0–6

(3 March 2018) * Highest scoring match: 7 goals **

5–2

(22 September 2017) **

6–1

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(21 October 2017) **

5–2

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(30 October 2017) * Biggest winning margin: 6 goals **

6–0

(1 October 2017) * Most goals scored in a match by a team: 6 goals **

6–0

(1 October 2017) **

6–1

(21 October 2017)

Match streaks

* Longest winning run: 9 matches ** Benfica, from matchday 21 (3 February 2018) to matchday 29 (7 April 2017) * Longest unbeaten run: 25 matches **

, from matchday 1 (6 August 2017) to matchday 25 (2 March 2018) * Longest winless run: 11 matches **

, from matchday 4 (27 August 2017) to matchday 14 (9 December 2017) * Longest losing run: 8 matches **

, from matchday 4 (27 August 2017) to matchday 11 (4 November 2017) * Most consecutive draws: 5 matches **

, from matchday 16 (4 January 2018) to matchday 20 (31 January 2018)

Discipline

Club

* Most yellow cards: 104 ** Feirense * Most red cards: 8 **

Player

* Most yellow cards: 14 **

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( Feirense) * Most red cards: 3 ** Marcão (

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) **

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( Belenenses)

Awards

Monthly awards

Liga Portugal

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SPJF Goal of the month

Annual awards

Liga Portugal

= Player of the Season

= The Player of the Season was awarded to

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(

= Manager of the Season

= The Manager of the Season was awarded to

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(

= Goal of the Season

= The Goal of the Season was awarded to Rodrigo Pinho ( Marítimo), against

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on 28 October 2017.

= Team of the Season

= The Team of the Season was: * Goalkeeper:

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(

) * Defence: Alex Telles (

), Felipe (

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(

), Ricardo Pereira (

) * Midfield:

(

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(

), Pizzi ( Benfica) * Attack:

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( Benfica),

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(

)

= Young Player of the Season

= The Young Player of the Year was awarded to

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( Benfica).

= Club Fair-Play Prize

= The Club Fair-Play Prize was awarded to Chaves.

= Player Fair-Play Prize

= The Player Fair-Play Prize was awarded to Casillas (

SPJF

Goal of the season

The goal of the season was disputed by all the previous winners of the monthly polls.

Attendances

References

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