2010–11 Liga de Honra

Liga de Honra
Season	2010–11
Champions	Gil Vicente
Promoted	Gil Vicente; Feirense;
Relegated	Varzim; Fátima;
Matches played	240
Goals scored	594 (2.48 per match)
Top goalscorer	Bock (15)
	← 2009–10 2011–12 →

The 2010–11 Liga de Honra season was the 21st season of the second-tier football in Portugal. A total of 16 teams will contest the league, 12 of which already contested in the 2009–10, and two of which were promoted from the Portuguese Second Division, and two of which were relegated from 2009–10. The official ball is Adidas Jabulani.

Changes in 2010–11

Team changes

Teams relegated from 2009–10 Primeira Liga

15th Place: Belenenses
16th Place: Leixões

Teams promoted to 2010–11 Portuguese Liga

Champions: Beira-Mar
Runners-up: Portimonense

Teams promoted from 2009–10 Segunda Divisão

Champions: Arouca
Runners-up: Moreirense

Teams relegated to 2010–11 Segunda Divisão

15th Place: Chaves
16th Place: Carregado

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity
Arouca	Arouca	Estádio Municipal de Arouca	2,500
Belenenses	Lisbon	Estádio do Restelo	32,500
Covilhã	Covilhã	Complexo Desportivo da Covilhã	3,000
Desportivo das Aves	Vila das Aves	Estádio do CD das Aves	10,250
Estoril Praia	Estoril	Estádio António Coimbra da Mota	8,000
Fátima	Fátima	Estádio Municipal de Fátima	1,545
Feirense	Santa Maria da Feira	Estádio Marcolino de Castro	4,667
Freamunde	Freamunde	Campo Sport Clube Freamunde	5,000
Gil Vicente	Barcelos	Estádio Cidade de Barcelos	12,374
Moreirense	Moreira de Cónegos	Comendador Joaquim De Almeida Freitas	9,000
Leixões	Matosinhos	Estádio do Mar	16,035
Oliveirense	Oliveira de Azeméis	Estádio Carlos Osório	9,100
Penafiel	Penafiel	Estádio Municipal 25 de Abril	7,000
Santa Clara	Ponta Delgada	Estádio de São Miguel	15,277
Trofense	Trofa	Estádio do Clube Desportivo Trofense	3,164
Varzim	Póvoa de Varzim	Estádio do Varzim SC	11,000

Personnel and kits

Team	Head Coach	Captain	Kit Manufacturer	Shirt Sponsor
Arouca	Henrique Nunes	Jorge Leitão	Lacatoni	Estabelecimentos Cavadinha
Belenenses	José Mota		Macron	MetLife
Sporting da Covilhã	João Pinto		Desportreino	Natura IMB Hotels
Desportivo das Aves	Micael Sequeira		Alitecno	Transportes Freitas
Estoril Praia	Vinícius Eutrópio		Nike	Casino Estoril
Fátima	Diamantino Miranda		Lacatoni	Lena Construções
Feirense	Quim Machado		Hummel	Patrícios
Freamunde	Nicolau Vaqueiro		Lacatoni	Capital do Móvel
Gil Vicente	Paulo Alves		MadSport	GIVEC
Moreirense	Jorge Casquilha		Lacatoni
Leixões	Litos		SportZone	CEPSA
Oliveirense	Pedro Miguel		Macron	Grupo Simoldes
Penafiel	Lázaro Oliveira		Desportreino	RESTRADAS
Santa Clara	Bruno Moura		Lacatoni	Açoreana Seguros
Trofense	Porfírio Amorim		Lacatoni	Ricon
Varzim	Eduardo Esteves		Lacatoni

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment
Estoril	Professor Neca	Contract expired	8 May 2010	Pre-season	Vinícius Eutrópio	14 May 2010
Freamunde	Jorge Regadas	Contract expired	8 May 2010		Nicolau Vaqueiro	10 June 2010
Fátima	Rui Vitória	Resigned	2 June 2010		Diamantino Miranda	22 June 2010
Belenenses	Baltemar Brito	Sacked	6 July 2010		Rui Gregório	10 July 2010
Belenenses	Rui Gregório	Sacked	26 October 2010	6th	José Mota	28 October 2010
Fátima	Diamantino Miranda	Resigned	20 November 2010	14th	João Sousa	20 November 2010
Fátima	João Sousa	Resigned	9 February 2011	16th	Ricardo Moura	9 February 2011
Sporting da Covilhã	João Pinto	Resigned	15 February 2011	15th	Tulipa	22 February 2011

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Gil Vicente (C, P)	30	15	10	5	55	38	+17	55	Promotion to Primeira Liga
2	Feirense (P)	30	17	4	9	41	31	+10	55	Promotion to Primeira Liga
3	Trofense	30	15	9	6	41	27	+14	54
4	Oliveirense	30	12	9	9	36	35	+1	45
5	Arouca	30	11	10	9	47	41	+6	43
6	Leixões	30	10	12	8	35	27	+8	42
7	Moreirense	30	10	10	10	36	41	−5	40
8	Desportivo das Aves	30	10	10	10	35	31	+4	40
9	Santa Clara	30	10	8	12	26	29	−3	38
10	Estoril	30	9	11	10	36	31	+5	38
11	Freamunde	30	8	13	9	37	39	−2	37
12	Penafiel	30	9	9	12	37	44	−7	36
13	Belenenses	30	8	11	11	33	36	−3	35
14	Sporting da Covilhã	30	9	5	16	32	48	−16	32
15	Varzim (R)	30	6	13	11	38	48	−10	31	Relegation to Segunda Divisão
16	Fátima (R)	30	5	8	17	29	49	−20	23	Relegation to Segunda Divisão

Source: Liga Orangina (Liga Honra)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

GVI 3–2 FEI; FEI 0–1 GIV
MFC 1–0 DAV; DAV 2–2 MFC
STC 1–0 ESP; ESP 0–2 STC

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Team ╲ Round
Gil Vicente	2	1	2	1	1	1	1	2	3	5	7	6	6	5	4	5	5	7	4	5	3	4	4	4	3	3	2	2	2	1
Feirense	10	12	5	5	2	4	3	6	9	7	1	1	1	2	5	6	4	4	3	3	4	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	2
Trofense	13	5	9	10	8	5	4	1	2	3	4	2	4	4	1	3	2	1	2	1	2	2	3	3	2	2	3	3	3	3
Oliveirense	4	10	11	12	11	13	12	9	6	4	5	3	2	1	2	1	1	2	1	2	1	1	1	1	4	4	4	4	4	4
Arouca	6	11	13	8	7	2	6	4	1	1	2	4	3	3	3	2	3	3	5	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	8	6	5
Leixões	13	5	9	9	8	6	7	8	5	2	3	5	5	8	7	7	8	8	10	10	7	6	6	6	6	6	7	5	5	6
Moreirense	4	7	3	7	3	7	8	10	12	13	14	11	12	7	8	10	13	13	11	11	11	10	10	11	11	11	12	9	10	7
Desportivo das Aves	6	2	7	13	13	8	9	12	13	15	15	13	10	6	6	4	6	5	8	8	9	7	8	8	7	7	5	6	7	8
Santa Clara	6	14	15	14	14	10	10	7	11	8	10	9	11	10	12	15	12	10	9	7	8	8	9	9	8	8	8	7	8	9
Estoril Praia	15	4	8	2	4	3	2	5	8	10	8	7	9	13	11	9	7	5	6	4	6	9	7	7	9	9	9	10	12	10
Freamunde	10	15	16	16	16	12	14	14	14	12	13	14	15	14	14	11	11	9	7	8	10	11	12	10	10	10	10	11	9	11
Penafiel	1	3	1	3	5	9	5	3	4	6	6	10	8	11	13	8	10	12	13	13	13	12	13	13	13	12	11	12	11	12
Belenenses	6	13	6	11	10	14	15	15	16	14	12	15	14	12	10	13	9	11	12	12	12	13	11	12	12	13	13	13	13	13
Sporting da Covilhã	2	9	4	6	12	15	13	11	7	9	11	12	13	15	15	14	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	14	14	15	15	14	14	14
Varzim	12	16	14	15	15	16	16	13	10	11	9	8	7	9	9	12	14	14	14	14	14	14	15	16	15	14	14	15	15	15
Fátima	15	7	12	4	6	11	11	16	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	14	15	16	16	16	16	16	16

Source: LPFP.pt (in Portuguese)
= Leader; = 2nd place; = 3rd place

Results

Home \ Away	ARO	BEL	DAV	ESP	FAT	FEI	FRM	GVI	LEI	MOR	OLI	PEN	STC	SCO	TRO	VAR
Arouca		1–1	1–3	0–0	3–0	2–2	1–0	2–2	1–0	3–0	0–0	6–3	1–0	2–0	1–3	3–3
Belenenses	1–0		1–1	0–1	1–1	1–2	3–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	3–3	2–0	0–0	1–3	0–1	4–2
Desportivo das Aves	3–2	2–0		2–1	2–0	0–2	2–1	1–2	2–2	2–2	3–0	0–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–1
Estoril Praia	5–2	1–1	2–0		2–0	0–1	1–1	1–3	0–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	0–2	3–1	2–2	0–0
Fátima	1–0	4–2	0–0	2–2		1–2	2–2	1–3	0–2	2–2	1–2	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–2	1–0
Feirense	2–1	1–0	0–3	1–0	2–1		0–0	0–1	0–0	2–1	2–3	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–1
Freamunde	2–2	2–2	1–0	2–2	2–1	2–1		0–1	3–3	1–0	0–0	1–4	1–0	5–1	1–0	0–0
Gil Vicente	1–1	1–1	4–2	2–1	3–1	3–2	1–1		0–0	2–1	0–1	4–1	3–0	1–1	2–1	2–2
Leixões	0–2	1–0	0–0	1–1	3–0	2–1	3–1	2–0		0–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–1	1–2	3–4
Moreirense	3–2	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–5	2–1	1–1	0–0		2–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–4	3–2
Oliveirense	2–2	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–4	1–0	1–1		2–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–1
Penafiel	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	3–2	2–2	1–4	1–1	3–2		1–1	1–1	1–1	2–0
Santa Clara	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	3–1	2–1	1–0	1–2	0–3		3–1	0–1	0–0
Sporting da Covilhã	2–3	2–0	1–0	0–1	3–0	0–3	1–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–3	0–0	0–1		0–2	1–2
Trofense	0–1	1–2	2–0	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	2–2	0–0	1–0	3–2	1–0	3–2	2–1		2–1
Varzim	1–0	1–2	1–1	2–2	0–4	2–0	0–2	1–3	1–1	1–1	1–1	3–4	0–0	5–2	0–0

Source: Liga Orangina (Liga Honra)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Stats

Top goalscorers

Position	Player	Club	Goals
1	Bock	Freamunde	15
2	Henry Antchouet	Moreirense	12
3	Kiko	Arouca	11
	Jérémie N'Jock	Arouca	11
	Miguel Rosa	Belenenses	11
6	Alex Afonso	Estoril	10
	Rafael Lopes	Varzim	10
	Zé Luís	Gil Vicente	10
	Michel	Penafiel	10
10	Abdoulaye Ba	Covilhã	9
	Luis Carlos	Gil Vicente	9
	Hugo Moreira	Santa Clara	9
	Oliveira	Leixões	9
	Roberto	Feirense	9

List of 2010–11 transfers

[table_hth_GVI0.045245953390955-20] GVI 3–2 FEI; FEI 0–1 GIV

[table_hth_MOR0.045245953390955-21] MFC 1–0 DAV; DAV 2–2 MFC

[table_hth_STC0.045245953390955-22] STC 1–0 ESP; ESP 0–2 STC