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Bola de Prata (Portugal)

Primeira Liga award for the league top scorer

Summary

Primeira Liga award for the league top scorer

Field	Value
name	Bola de Prata
sport	Association football
competition	Primeira Liga
country	Portugal
presenter	A Bola
first	1952–53
firstwinner	POR Matateu
mostwins	POR Eusébio (7)
mostrecent	SWE Viktor Gyökeres

The Bola de Prata (Portuguese for Silver Ball) is a Primeira Liga award for the top scorer. In case two or more players have the same number of goals, the award goes to the footballer with the fewest games played. It was first awarded as a prize in the 1952–53 season by sports newspaper A Bola.

Héctor Yazalde holds the record for most goals in a single season, with 46, achieved in the 1973–74 season. Fernando Peyroteo recorded the highest goals-to-games ratio to win the award, 2.43, in 1937–38.

There have been 56 winners. Nineteen players have won the award in more than one occasion, with Eusébio having the record with seven wins. Eusébio also holds the record for most consecutive wins, with five. Rui Jordão, Paulinho Cascavel, Mário Jardel and Mehdi Taremi are the only players to win the award with two clubs.

Winners

§
Denotes the club were Primeira Liga champions in the same season
Primeira Liga record

Season	Player	Nationality	Club	Goals	Games
1934–35	Portugal	Sporting CP	14	14
1935–36	Portugal	Porto	21	14
1936–37	Portugal	Sporting CP	24	12
1937–38	Portugal	Sporting CP	34	14
1938–39	Portugal	Porto	18	14
1939–40	Portugal	Sporting CP	29	17
Kingdom of Yugoslavia	Porto	29	18
1940–41	Portugal	Sporting CP	29	14
1941–42	Portugal	Porto	36	21
1942–43	Portugal	Benfica	24	16
1943–44	Portugal	Vitória de Setúbal	28	18
1944–45	Portugal	Vitória de Setúbal	21	17
1945–46	Portugal	Sporting CP	39	21
1946–47	Portugal	Sporting CP	33	19	1.26
1947–48	Portugal	Porto	36	25
1948–49	Portugal	Sporting CP	30	23
1949–50	Portugal	Benfica	28	22
1950–51	Portugal	Sporting CP	29	23
1951–52	Portugal	Benfica	28	22
1952–53	Portugal	Belenenses	29	26
1953–54	Portugal	Sporting CP	31	23
1954–55	Portugal	Belenenses	32	26
1955–56	Portugal	Benfica	28	26
1956–57	Portugal	Benfica	30	25
1957–58	Portugal	CUF	23	21
1958–59	Portugal	Benfica	26	24
1959–60	Brazil	Vitória de Guimarães	25	25
1960–61	Portugal	Benfica	27	23
1961–62	Brazil	Porto	23	20
1962–63	Portugal	Benfica	26	21
1963–64	Portugal	Benfica	28	19
1964–65	Portugal	Benfica	28	20
1965–66	Portugal	Benfica	25	23
Portugal	Sporting CP	25	26
1966–67	Portugal	Benfica	31	26
1967–68	Portugal	Benfica	42	24
1968–69	Portugal	Académica de Coimbra	19	26
1969–70	Portugal	Benfica	20	22
1970–71	Portugal	Benfica	23	26
1971–72	Portugal	Benfica	27	26
1972–73	Portugal	Benfica	40	28
1973–74	Argentina	Sporting CP	46	29
1974–75	Argentina	Sporting CP	30	26
1975–76	Portugal	Benfica	30	28
1976–77	Portugal	Porto	26	28
1977–78	Portugal	Porto	25	25
1978–79	Portugal	Porto	27	29
1979–80	Portugal	Sporting CP	31	30
1980–81	Portugal	Benfica	20	29
1981–82	Portugal	Porto	27	30
1982–83	Portugal	Porto	36	29
1983–84	Portugal	Porto	21	23
Portugal	Benfica	21	26
1984–85	Portugal	Porto	39	30
1985–86	Portugal	Sporting CP	30	29
1986–87	Brazil	Vitória de Guimarães	22	30
1987–88	Brazil	Sporting CP	23	38
1988–89	Angola	Benfica	16	27
1989–90	Sweden	Benfica	33	32
1990–91	Portugal	Benfica	25	37
1991–92	Nigeria	Boavista	30	34
1992–93	Portugal	Sporting CP	18	34
1993–94	Nigeria	Vitória de Setúbal	21	28
1994–95	Morocco	Farense	21	31
1995–96	Portugal	Porto	25	29
1996–97	Brazil	Porto	30	31
1997–98	Brazil	Porto	26	30
1998–99	Brazil	Porto	36	32
1999–2000	Brazil	Porto	37	32
2000–01	Brazil	Porto	22	29
2001–02	Brazil	Sporting CP	42	30
2002–03	Senegal	Beira-Mar	18	31
Portugal	Benfica	18	33
2003–04	South Africa	Porto	20	29
2004–05	Brazil	Sporting CP	25	31
2005–06	Cameroon	Belenenses	17	26
2006–07	Brazil	Sporting CP	15	28
2007–08	Argentina	Porto	24	27
2008–09	Brazil	Nacional	20	28
2009–10	Paraguay	Benfica	26	29
2010–11	Brazil	Porto	23	26
2011–12	Paraguay	Benfica	20	29
Brazil	Braga	20	30
2012–13	Colombia	Porto	26	30
2013–14	Colombia	Porto	20	30
2014–15	Colombia	Porto	21	30
2015–16	Brazil	Benfica	32	34
2016–17	Netherlands	Sporting CP	34	31
2017–18	Brazil	Benfica	34	29
2018–19	Switzerland	Benfica	23	29
2019–20	Brazil	Benfica	18	32
Iran	Rio Ave	18	30
Portugal	Benfica	18	32
2020–21	Portugal	Sporting CP	23	32
2021–22	Uruguay	Benfica	26	28
	2022–23	Iran	Porto	22	33
	2023–24	Sweden	Sporting CP	29	33
	2024–25	Sweden	Sporting CP	39	33

Notes

Statistics

Multiple winners

Player	Club	Titles	Seasons
Portugal Eusébio	Benfica	7	1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66 (shared), 1966–67, 1967–68, 1969–70, 1972–73
Portugal Fernando Peyroteo	Sporting CP	6	1937–38, 1939–40 (shared), 1940–41, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1948–49
Portugal Fernando Gomes	Porto	6	1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1982–83, 1983–84 (shared), 1984–85
Portugal José Águas	Benfica	5	1951–52, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1958–59, 1960–61
Brazil Mário Jardel	Porto, Sporting CP	5	1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2001–02
Colombia Jackson Martínez	Porto	3	2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15
Portugal Manuel Soeiro	Sporting CP	2	1934–35, 1936–37
Portugal Julinho	Benfica	2	1942–43, 1959–50
Portugal Matateu	Belenenses	2	1952–53, 1954–55
Portugal Artur Jorge	Benfica	2	1970–71, 1971–72
Argentina Héctor Yazalde	Sporting CP	2	1973–74, 1974–75
Portugal Rui Jordão	Benfica, Sporting CP	2	1975–76, 1979–80
Portugal Nené	Benfica	2	1980–81, 1983–84 (shared)
Brazil Paulinho Cascavel	Vitória de Guimarães, Sporting CP	2	1986–87, 1987–88
Brazil Liédson	Sporting CP	2	2004–05, 2006–07
Paraguay Óscar Cardozo	Benfica	2	2009–10, 2011–12 (shared)
Brazil Jonas	Benfica	2	2015–16, 2017–18
Iran Mehdi Taremi	Rio Ave, Porto	2	2019–20 (shared), 2022–23
Sweden Viktor Gyökeres	Sporting CP	2	2023–24, 2024–25

Awards won by nationality

[[Eusébio]] won the Bola de Prata a record seven times.

Country	Total	Portugal	Brazil	Argentina	Colombia	Sweden	Nigeria	Iran	Paraguay	Yugoslavia	Angola	Morocco	Senegal	South Africa	Cameroon	Netherlands	Switzerland	Uruguay

Awards won by club

Club	Total	Benfica	Porto	Sporting CP	Vitória de Setúbal	Belenenses	Vitória de Guimarães	Académica de Coimbra	CUF	Boavista	Farense	Beira-Mar	Nacional	Braga	Rio Ave

References

(25 June 2015). "Portugal - List of Topscorers".
"Top scorers".

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