1939–40 Primeira Divisão

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The 1939–40

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

Setúbal FA) and annulling the result from the repetition match. With this decision, FC Porto lost the Regional title and finished third; Leixões SC became the new regional champion, ahead second-placed Académico. All three teams qualified for the 1939–40 Primeira Divisão.[2]

Overview

Leixões
Setúbal
Académico
Barreirense
1939–40 Primeira Divisão
Belenenses
Carcavelinhos
Benfica
Sporting
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Location of teams in the 1939–40 Divisão

It was contested by 10 teams, and

F.C. Porto
won the championship.

League standings

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

Results

Home \ Away
ACA
 ACD BAR BEL BEN CAR LEI POR SCP VSE
Académica
 5–2 5–1 2–2 5–4 2–2 3–1 0–2 2–5 5–0
Académico 8–2 0–1 2–3 1–5 1–3 0–0 0–2 0–1 1–0
Barreirense 2–0 1–1 2–2 0–1 1–0 4–1 2–3 0–0 3–1
Belenenses 5–0 6–1 6–0 2–0 1–0 9–0 0–1 0–0 8–0
Benfica 4–1 1–0 5–1 4–2 3–2 7–2 2–3 1–3 9–1
Carcavelinhos 0–4 3–2 2–3 1–5 1–3 5–2 2–3 2–5 0–0
Leixões 3–3 1–2 0–1 1–3 3–3 4–1 2–5 2–9 1–1
Porto 6–0 6–1 5–1 3–2 4–2 6–0 5–1 4–2 11–0
Sporting CP 6–1 11–2 7–3 4–1 3–1 4–0 8–1 4–3 12–0
Vitória de Setúbal 1–2 2–0 0–1 0–1 0–3 0–2 1–1 0–4 0–3
Source: [citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

References

  1. ^ Tovar 2011, p. 191.
  2. ^ Stadium Newspaper, 10 January 1940

Sources

  • Tovar, Rui (2011). Almanaque do FC Porto 1893–2011 (in Portuguese). Alfragide: Caderno.
    ISBN 9789892315430
    .
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