1955–56 Primeira Divisão

Statistics of Portuguese Liga in the 1955/1956 season.

Primeira Liga

Season	1955–56
Champions	FC Porto 4th title
Relegated	S.C. Braga
European Cup	FC Porto
Matches played	182
Goals scored	674 (3.7 per match)
← 1954–55 1956–57 →

Overview

Belenenses

Benfica

Sporting

Lusitano G.C.

Setúbal

Atlético

Porto

Barreirense

Covilhã

Caldas S.C.

S.C.U. Torreense

S.C. Braga

Académica de Coimbra

GD CUF

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Location of teams in the 1955–56 Liga

It was contested by 14 teams, and F.C. Porto won the championship.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Porto (C)	26	18	7	1	77	20	+57	43	Qualification to European Cup preliminary round
2	Benfica	26	19	5	2	76	31	+45	43
3	Belenenses	26	16	5	5	67	25	+42	37
4	Sporting CP	26	15	6	5	54	27	+27	36
5	Sporting da Covilhã	26	11	7	8	52	44	+8	29
6	Barreirense	26	8	7	11	40	60	−20	23
7	Torreense	26	7	8	11	32	42	−10	22
8	Lusitano de Évora	26	6	9	11	38	55	−17	21
9	Vitória de Setúbal	26	7	6	13	57	64	−7	20
10	CUF Barreiro	26	6	8	12	33	58	−25	20
11	Caldas	26	6	7	13	29	50	−21	19
12	Atlético CP	26	6	7	13	47	62	−15	19
13	Académica	26	8	3	15	36	52	−16	19
14	Braga (R)	26	5	3	18	36	84	−48	13	Relegation to Segunda Divisão

Source:
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ACA	ACP	BAR	BEL	BEN	BRA	CAL	CUF	LUS	POR	SCP	SCO	SCT	VSE
Académica		2–1	3–1	0–5	1–0	4–1	2–2	3–4	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–0	4–1	2–1
Atlético CP	4–2		3–2	1–1	1–4	4–0	1–1	7–2	3–3	2–2	0–2	3–2	0–0	3–1
Barreirense	3–1	3–2		1–0	2–4	7–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–4	2–3	1–1	1–1	1–0
Belenenses	3–1	5–2	3–0		2–2	7–2	3–1	3–0	5–0	0–1	2–1	4–1	5–1	3–3
Benfica	4–0	3–0	4–1	1–0		7–1	3–0	3–2	1–1	1–1	3–0	2–2	2–2	5–1
Braga	1–3	2–1	1–1	1–4	2–3		4–1	4–1	0–2	1–5	2–3	0–2	1–0	4–2
Caldas	2–1	1–0	0–1	0–2	0–1	0–0		3–0	3–1	3–3	0–2	2–0	2–2	3–1
CUF Barreiro	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–2	1–5	2–2	1–1		2–2	0–4	0–0	1–1	3–1	3–2
Lusitano Évora	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–2	0–1	4–3	7–3	1–1		0–3	1–1	4–0	2–1	2–2
Porto	3–0	2–0	10–1	1–1	3–0	4–0	5–0	3–1	4–1		3–1	5–1	2–0	4–1
Sporting CP	2–1	5–2	7–1	1–0	1–3	4–2	2–0	3–0	6–0	1–0		3–0	0–1	2–0
Sporting da Covilhã	3–0	2–2	4–0	2–0	2–4	4–1	3–0	2–1	1–0	2–2	1–1		2–1	7–1
Torreense	2–0	3–1	2–1	1–1	2–5	3–0	1–0	1–2	2–0	0–0	0–0	2–4		1–1
Vitória de Setúbal	2–1	9–2	2–3	0–4	3–5	6–1	3–0	2–0	5–1	1–1	2–2	3–3	3–1

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.