1939–40 Primeira Divisão

Primeira Divisão
Season	1939–40
Champions	F.C. Porto
Matches played	90
Goals scored	431 (4.79 per match)
← 1938–39 1940–41 →

The 1939–40 Primeira Divisão season was the sixth season of top-tier football in Portugal. The season was marked by a controversy regarding the teams qualified from Porto FA Regional Championship.^[1]

Due to an administrative battle between FC Porto and Académico do Porto regarding a Regional Championship game that ended with only 43 minutes after the start and later repeated (which FC Porto won) according to a Porto FA decision, the Portuguese Federation came out with a decision to satisfy both clubs, expanding Primeira Divisão to 10 teams (one more from Porto FA and another from Setúbal FA) and annulling the result from the repetition match. With this decision, FC Porto lost the Regional title and finished in 3rd, Leixões SC became the new regional champion, while Académico was 2nd place. All 3 teams qualified for the 1939–40 Primeira Divisão.^[2]

Overview

Location of teams in the 1939–40 Divisão

It was contested by 10 teams, and F.C. Porto won the championship. Porto won the title on the by beating Benfica in the season's last game.^[3]

League standings


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Porto !Porto (C)	18	17	0	1	76	21	+55	34
2	Sporting CP !Sporting CP	18	15	2	1	87	23	+64	32
3	Belenenses !Belenenses	18	11	3	4	58	21	+37	25
4	Benfica !Benfica	18	11	1	6	58	34	+24	23
5	Barreirense !Barreirense	18	8	3	7	27	39	−12	19
6	Académica !Académica	18	7	3	8	42	54	−12	17
7	Carcavelinhos !Carcavelinhos	18	4	2	12	26	49	−23	10
8	Académico !Académico	18	3	2	13	24	53	−29	8
9	Leixões !Leixões	18	1	5	12	26	70	−44	7
10	Vitória de Setúbal !Vitória de Setúbal	18	1	3	14	7	67	−60	5

1939–40 I Divisão Winners
FC Porto 3rd Title

Notes

↑ Tovar 2011, p. 191.
↑ Stadium Newspaper, 10 January 1940
↑ http://www.zerozero.pt/jogo.php?id=6034

References

Top-level football seasons in Portugal

Experimental Primeira Liga	1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38

Primeira Divisão	1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99

Primeira Liga	1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

1939–40 in European football

« 1938–39 1940–41 »

Domestic leagues	Austria Bohemia and Moravia Bulgaria Cyprus Denmark England Estonia Finland '39 '40 Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '39 '40 Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Palestine Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Slovakia Soviet Union '39 '40 Spain Sweden Switzerland Yugoslavia

Domestic cups	Bulgaria '39 '40 Cyprus Estonia France Germany '39 '40 Greece Hungary Italy Latvia '39 Luxembourg Malta Northern Ireland Norway '39 '40 Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Spain '39 '40 Switzerland

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