List of FC Porto seasons
is a Portuguese sports club founded in 1893 in Porto. Its association football team played its first competitive matches in 1911, when it took part and won the first edition of the José Monteiro da Costa Cup. Two years later, the club began competing in the Campeonato do Porto, a regional championship organised by the Porto Football Association. In 1921–22, Porto won the inaugural Campeonato de Portugal, a nationwide competition to determine the Portuguese champions from among the winners of the different regional championships.
The Primeira Liga was established in 1934–35 as an experimental nationwide competition played in a league format, and was contested in parallel with the Campeonato de Portugal. Porto were its first winners and repeated the triumph in 1938–39, when it became the official top-tier championship in place of the Campeonato de Portugal, which was converted into the Taça de Portugal. Porto is one of three clubs, together with Benfica and Sporting CP, to have never been relegated from the Primeira Liga since its establishment. Between 1940 and 1978, Porto endured the darkest period of its league history, during which they collected only two titles, and recorded an all-time low ninth place. Since incumbent president Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa took office in 1982, Porto have experienced routine league success, winning the competition 22 times in 38 seasons – five of them in succession, a record in Portuguese football. They achieved their first league and cup double in 1956, and have repeated it six more times.
Porto's debut in international competitions took place in 1956–57, when they competed in the second edition of the European Cup. They reached their first European final in 1984, losing the Cup Winners' Cup to Juventus, and won their first European silverware three years later, beating Bayern Munich in the 1987 European Cup Final. The following season, Porto collected the European Super Cup and Intercontinental Cup trophies. In 2003, they won the UEFA Cup for the first time, becoming the only Portuguese team to have won any of these three international trophies.
As of the 2019–20 season, Porto have won 78 major honours, which include 29 Primeira Liga, 17 Taça de Portugal, 21 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, four Campeonato de Portugal, two European Cup/UEFA Champions League, two UEFA Cup/Europa League, one UEFA Super Cup, and two Intercontinental Cup.
This list details the club's competitive performance and achievements for each season since 1911, and provides statistics and top scorers for domestic championships.
Key
Table headers- Pos = Final position
- P = Matches played
- W = Matches won
- D = Matches drawn
- L = Matches lost
- GF = Goals for
- GA = Goals against
- Pts = Points
- Reg = Regional championship
- Prim = Primeira Liga / Primeira Divisão
‡ | Top league scorer |
§ | Top scorer of all European leagues |
Results and rounds
- or = Champion or Winner
- or = Runner-up
- GS / GS2 = Group stage / Second Group stage
- PO = Play-offs
- PR = Preliminary round
- Q3 = Third qualifying round
- QF = Quarter-finals
- R16 / R32 / R64 = Round of 16, 32 and 64
- R1 / R2 / R3 / R4 = First, second, third and fourth round
- SF = Semi-finals
Seasons