1934–35 Campeonato da Liga
# 1934–35 Campeonato da Liga

The 1934–35 Campeonato da Liga season was the first season of top-tier football in Portugal. Although that, the most important national competition (in a knock-out cup format) was still called Portuguese Championship, until 1938, the competition was considered not very competitive with a reduced number of matches played by each team. So a new competition, in round-robin format was created ind 1934, with 8 clubs. Although at time the winner of the Portuguese Championship was considered the National Champion, later, the winner of Campeonato da Liga 1934–35 would be considered the first National Champion.

## Overview

For the tournament, there were invited 8 clubs from the 4 major Portuguese District Football Associations: 4 teams from Lisbon FA, 2 from Porto FA, 1 from Setúbal FA and 1 from Coimbra FA. F.C. Porto won the championship. There were no relegations or promotions, since qualification was based on the results of the Regional Championships.

## League standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Porto (C) | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 43 | 19 | +24 | 22 |
| 2 | Sporting CP | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 39 | 20 | +19 | 20 |
| 3 | Benfica | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 41 | 23 | +18 | 19 |
| 4 | Belenenses | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 45 | 20 | +25 | 18 |
| 5 | Vitória de Setúbal | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 26 | 24 | +2 | 16 |
| 6 | União Lisboa | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 30 | 49 | −19 | 8 |
| 7 | Académico | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 20 | 54 | −34 | 6 |
| 8 | Académica | 14 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 14 | 49 | −35 | 3 |

## Results

| Home \ Away | ACA | ACD | BEL | BEN | POR | SCP | UNL | VSE |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Académica | | 2–1 | 0–5 | 2–2 | 2–4 | 0–6 | 1–3 | 0–1 |
| Académico | 3–2 | | 3–2 | 1–4 | 0–3 | 2–3 | 3–3 | 3–6 |
| Belenenses | 4–0 | 7–0 | | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 7–3 | 3–0 |
| Benfica | 4–1 | 7–2 | 5–3 | | 3–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 |
| Porto | 7–1 | 7–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | | 4–2 | 7–4 | 3–2 |
| Sporting CP | 5–1 | 3–0 | 1–3 | 3–1 | 2–2 | | 5–0 | 1–1 |
| União Lisboa | 1–0 | 5–2 | 2–6 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 4–5 | | 1–3 |
| Vitória de Setúbal | 3–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–5 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 4–1 | |
