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The 1995–96 Primeira Divisão was the 62nd edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 19 August 1995 with a match between
União de Leiria União Desportiva de Leiria (), commonly known as União de Leiria, is a Portuguese professional Association football, football club based in Leiria. Founded on 6 June 1966, it currently plays in the Liga Portugal 2, holding home matches at Está ...
and Marítimo, and ended on 12 May 1996. Starting from this season, Portugal implemented the
three points for a win Three points for a win is a standard used in many sports leagues and group tournaments, especially in association football, in which 3 points are awarded to the team winning a match, with no points awarded to the losing team. If the game is draw ...
rule, after FIFA formally adopted the system. The league was contested by 18 clubs with
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as the defending champions. Porto won the league and qualified for the
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group stage, Benfica qualified for the
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first round, and
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, Boavista and V. Guimarães qualified for the
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; in opposite,
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,
Beira-Mar Sport Clube Beira-Mar (), commonly known as Beira-Mar, is a Portuguese sports club based in Aveiro, Portugal. Its Association football, football team currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal (league), Campeonato de Portugal, the fourth natio ...
and
Vitória de Setúbal Vitoria or Vitória may refer to: People * Francisco de Vitoria (c. 1483–1546), a Spanish Renaissance theologian * Alberto Vitoria (1956–2010), Spanish footballer * Rui Vitória (born 1970), Portuguese retired footballer * Sofia Vitória (bor ...
were relegated to the
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. Domingos was the top scorer with 25 goals.


Promotion and relegation


Teams relegated to

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*
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*
Beira-Mar Sport Clube Beira-Mar (), commonly known as Beira-Mar, is a Portuguese sports club based in Aveiro, Portugal. Its Association football, football team currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal (league), Campeonato de Portugal, the fourth natio ...
*
Vitória de Setúbal Vitoria or Vitória may refer to: People * Francisco de Vitoria (c. 1483–1546), a Spanish Renaissance theologian * Alberto Vitoria (1956–2010), Spanish footballer * Rui Vitória (born 1970), Portuguese retired footballer * Sofia Vitória (bor ...
União da Madeira, Beira-Mar and Vitória de Setúbal, were consigned to the Liga de Honra following their final classification in 1994–95 season.


Teams promoted from Liga de Honra

* Leça * Campomaiorense *
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The other three teams were replaced by Leça, Campomaiorense and Felgueiras from the Liga de Honra.


Teams


Stadia and locations


Managerial changes


League table


Results


Top goalscorers

Source: Footballzz


Footnotes


External links


Portugal 1995-96 - RSSSF (Jorge Miguel Teixeira)

Portuguese League 1995/96 - footballzz.co.uk

Portugal - Table of Honor - Soccer Library
* Portuguese Wikipedia - Campeonato Português de Futebol - I Divisão 1995/1996 {{DEFAULTSORT:1995-96 Primeira Divisao Primeira Liga seasons
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1995–96 in Portuguese football