List of Portuguese football champions


Primeira Liga Experimental
Primeira Divisão
Primeira Liga
Founded
1934
Number of Teams
18
Current Champions
Benfica
Country
Portugal
Most successful club
Benfica

The Portuguese football champions are the winners of the highest competition in Portuguese football, which is the Primeira Liga.

History

The first competition that defined the Portuguese football champion was called Championship of Portugal. It corresponds to today's Portuguese Cup and was held in a knock-out basis.
In 1934, an experimental league was created as the new top-tier football in Portugal. Despite that, the first national competition was still called ; the Primeira Liga winners are considered the National Champions.
From the 1938–39 season on, Championship of Portugal was named Taça de Portugal, and the Primeira Liga was named National Championship of the First Division, usually called First Division. Since 1999, the First Division has again been named Premier League.
FC Porto were the first club to be crowned League champions, in the 1934–35 season. They had also won the first Championship of Portugal, in the 1921–22 season.
S.L. Benfica, with 37 titles, have been crowned champions more times than any other club and dominated the league during the 1960s and 1970s. Benfica are followed by Porto with 28 titles, who dominated in the 1990s and 2000s, who in turn are followed by Sporting CP with 18 titles, they dominated in the 1940s and 1950s. C.F. Os Belenenses and Boavista F.C. are the only two other clubs that have managed to win the league once. All five clubs are from the two largest cities, of Lisbon and Porto respectively.

List of champions and top scorers

All Primeira Liga champions have come from either Lisbon or Porto.
ClubWinnersSecond placeWinning years and Second place years
Benfica37291936, 1937, 1938, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Porto29271935, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1951, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Sporting18211935, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2016
Belenenses
1
3
1937, 1946, 1955, 1973
Boavista
1
3
1976, 1999, 2001, 2002
Académica de Coimbra–
1
1967
Vitória de Setúbal–
1
1972
Braga–
1
2010

Performance by city

Five clubs have been champions, from a total of 2 cities.
CityNumber of TitlesClubs
Lisbon
56
Benfica, Sporting, Belenenses
Porto
30
Porto, Boavista

Doubles, Trebles and Quadruples

, called Dobradinha in Portuguese, means winning the Primeira Liga and the Taça de Portugal in the same season. The first double was achieved by Sporting CP in 1941 and the most recent by Benfica in 2017.
The Treble, called Triplete in Portuguese, usually refers either winning the domestic treble of Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal and Taça da Liga or winning a UEFA competition, the Primeira Liga and Taça de Portugal in the same season. The Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira does not count. Benfica is the only Portuguese club to have achieved a domestic treble by winning the Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal and Taça da Liga in 2014, and Porto is the only Portuguese club to have achieved a continental treble by winning the Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal and UEFA Cup in 2003, and by winning the Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal and UEFA Europa League in 2011.
The Quadruple, called Quadriplete in Portuguese, refers to winning 4 titles in the same season. This feat has only been achieved by Porto in the 1987–88 season, when it won the European Super Cup, Intercontinental Cup, Primeira Liga and Taça de Portugal, and in the 2010–11 season when it won the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Primeira Liga, UEFA Europa League and Taça de Portugal.
Teams below have made the Double:
YearWinnerTrophies
1940-41SportingPrimeira Divisão, Taça de Portugal
1942-43BenficaPrimeira Divisão, Taça de Portugal
1947-48Sporting Primeira Divisão, Taça de Portugal
1953-54Sporting Primeira Divisão, Taça de Portugal
1954-55Benfica Primeira Divisão, Taça de Portugal
1955-56PortoPrimeira Divisão, Taça de Portugal
1956-57Benfica Primeira Divisão, Taça de Portugal
1963-64Benfica Primeira Divisão, Taça de Portugal
1968-69Benfica Primeira Divisão, Taça de Portugal
1971-72Benfica Primeira Divisão, Taça de Portugal
1973-74Sporting Primeira Divisão, Taça de Portugal
1980-81Benfica Primeira Divisão, Taça de Portugal
1981-82Sporting Primeira Divisão, Taça de Portugal
1982-83Benfica Primeira Divisão, Taça de Portugal
1986-87Benfica Primeira Divisão, Taça de Portugal
1987-88Porto Primeira Divisão, Taça de Portugal
1997-98Porto Primeira Divisão, Taça de Portugal
2001-02Sporting Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal
2002-03Porto Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal
2005-06Porto Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal
2008-09Porto Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal
2010-11Porto Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal
2013-14Benfica Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal
2016-17Benfica Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal

Teams below have made the Treble:
YearWinnerTrophies
2002-03PortoPrimeira Liga, Taça de Portugal, UEFA Cup
2010-11Porto Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal, UEFA Europa League
2013-14BenficaPrimeira Liga, Taça de Portugal, Taça da Liga

The below teams have made the Quadruple:
YearWinnerTrophies
1987-88PortoIntercontinental Cup, European Super Cup, Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal
2010-11Porto Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal, UEFA Europa League