League Position
4/18Portuguese League · 20 pts after matchday 13
4/18Portuguese League · 20 pts after matchday 13The Kit–No kit on file for 1997/98
Around the Date
| # | Club | P | W | D | L | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  FC Porto | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | +18 | 31 |
| 2 |  Vitória SC | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | +11 | 25 |
| 3 |  Rio Ave | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | +5 | 24 |
| 4 |  SL Benfica | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | +5 | 20 |
| 5 |  Sporting CP | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | +3 | 20 |
| 6 |  Est. Amadora | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | -1 | 19 |
| 7 |  SC Salgueiros | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 18 |
| 8 |  Campomaiorense | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 18 |
| 9 |  Marítimo | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 18 |
| 10 |  SC Braga | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | -2 | 16 |
| 11 |  Leça FC | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | -2 | 16 |
| 12 |  Farense | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | -3 | 15 |
| 13 |  Varzim | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | -7 | 15 |
| 14 |  Académica OAF | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | -3 | 14 |
| 15 |  Boavista FC | 13 | 2 | 7 | 4 | -3 | 13 |
| 16 |  Vitória FC | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | -4 | 13 |
| 17 |  Belenenses | 13 | 1 | 6 | 6 | -8 | 9 |
| 18 |  GD Chaves | 13 | 2 | 2 | 9 | -12 | 8 |
After matchday 13, the last one completed by this day.
Squad 27
1Michel Preud’homme12Sergei Ovchinnikov24Paulo Lopes2Tahar El-Khalej3Jorge Soares4Carlos Gamarra5Paulo Madeira13Ronaldo16Scott Minto18Abdelkrim El-Hadrioui36José Sousa6Tiago9Nica Panduru10Erwin Sánchez15Amaral22Calado23Edgar25Karel Poborsky26Luís Carlos27Serhiy Kandaurov34Duda7Paulo Nunes8João Vieira Pinto11Martin Pringle14Leônidas21Nuno Gomes28Brian Deane
Already gone by then: José Soares, Bruno Basto, Gaston Taument, Bruno Caires, Jordão, Hugo Leal, Anderson Luiz
The squad registered for the season, less the players who had not arrived yet or had already left by this day according to our transfer records. Appearances and goals count official matches only. Line-ups and goal records before 2016/17 are incomplete, so older numbers can be low.