The 2024–25 Liga Portugal (also known as Liga Portugal Betclic[1] for sponsorship reasons) is the 91st season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs and the fourth season under the current Liga Portugal title. This is the eighth Primeira Liga season to use video assistant referee (VAR). Sporting CP are the defending champions, having won their 20th title the previous season.
Season | 2024–25 |
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Dates | 9 August 2024 – 18 May 2025 |
Matches played | 53 |
Goals scored | 124 (2.34 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Viktor Gyökeres (10 goals) |
Biggest home win | Porto 3–0 Gil Vicente (10 August 2024) Benfica 3–0 Casa Pia (17 August 2024) |
Biggest away win | Nacional 1–6 Sporting CP (17 August 2024) Farense 0–5 Sporting CP (23 August 2024) |
Highest scoring | Nacional 1–6 Sporting CP (17 August 2024) |
Longest winning run | 7 matches Sporting CP |
Longest unbeaten run | 7 matches Sporting CP |
Longest winless run | 4 matches Estoril Estrela Amadora Farense |
Longest losing run | 4 matches Farense |
← 2023–24 2025–26 →
All statistics correct as of 22 September 2024. |
Teams
editChanges
editSanta Clara (after one year absence), Nacional (after three years absence) and AVS (promoted for the first time in their history), were promoted from the 2023–24 Liga Portugal 2, replacing Vizela, Chaves and Portimonense (relegated after three, two and seven years on the top flight, respectively).
Stadia and locations
edit- ^ Estádio Pina Manique official stadium, not licensed for competition.
Personnel and sponsors
editManagerial changes
editTeam | Outgoing manager | Manner | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Porto | Sérgio Conceição | Resigned | 24 May 2024 | Pre-season | Vítor Bruno | 6 June 2024 | [2][3] |
Braga | Rui Duarte | End of interim spell | Daniel Sousa | 24 May 2024 | [4] | ||
Daniel Sousa | Sacked | 11 August 2024 | 8th | Carlos Carvalhal | 12 August 2024 | [5][6] | |
Benfica | Roger Schmidt | Sacked | 1 September 2024 | 7th | Bruno Lage | 5 September 2024 | [7] |
League table
editPos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sporting CP | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 2 | +23 | 21 | Qualification for the Champions League league stage |
2 | Porto | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 3 | +13 | 18 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round |
3 | Benfica | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 5 | +12 | 16 | Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round |
4 | Santa Clara | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 8 | +3 | 15 | Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round |
5 | Braga | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 14 | |
6 | Vitória de Guimarães | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 13 | |
7 | Famalicão | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 12 | |
8 | Moreirense | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 11 | −2 | 8 | |
9 | Casa Pia | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 8 | |
10 | AVS | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | −4 | 8 | |
11 | Rio Ave | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 12 | −7 | 7 | |
12 | Gil Vicente | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 12 | −5 | 7 | |
13 | Estoril | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | −6 | 6 | |
14 | Arouca | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 12 | −9 | 6 | |
15 | Estrela da Amadora | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | −5 | 5 | |
16 | Boavista | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 5 | Qualification for the Relegation play-off |
17 | Nacional | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | −8 | 5 | Relegation to Liga Portugal 2 |
18 | Farense | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 13 | −11 | 1 |
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head away goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Matches won; 7) Goals scored; 8) Play-off.
Results
editPositions by round
editThe table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.
Leader and qualified to Champions League | |
Qualification for Champions League | |
Qualification for Europa League | |
Qualification for UEFA Conference League | |
Qualification for relegation play-offs | |
Relegation to Liga Portugal 2 |
Statistics
editTop goalscorers
editRank | Player | Club | Goals[8] |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Viktor Gyökeres | Sporting | 10 |
2 | Galeno | Porto | 5 |
3 | Pedro Gonçalves | Sporting | 4 |
Kanya Fujimoto | Gil Vicente | ||
Samu Omorodion | Porto | ||
Vinícius Lopes | Santa Clara | ||
7 | Francisco Trincão | Sporting | 3 |
Clayton | Rio Ave | ||
Kikas | Estrela da Amadora | ||
Luís Asué | Moreirense | ||
Sorriso | Famalicão |
Hat-tricks
editPlayer | For | Against | Result | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Kanya Fujimoto | Gil Vicente | AVS | 4–2 (H) | 16 August 2024 |
Viktor Gyökeres | Sporting | Farense | 5–0 (A) | 23 August 2024 |
- Notes
(H) – Home team
(A) – Away team
Clean sheets
editRank | Player | Club | Clean
sheets[9] |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Diogo Costa | Porto | 5 |
2 | Ivan Zlobin | Famalicão | 4 |
3 | Bruno Varela | Vitória de Guimarães | 3 |
Joel Robles | Estoril | ||
Franco Israel | Sporting | ||
Anatoliy Trubin | Benfica | ||
Matheus | Braga | ||
Gabriel Batista | Santa Clara |
Awards
editMonthly awards
editMonth | Player of the Month | Goalkeeper of the Month | Defender of the Month | Midfielder of the Month | Forward of the Month | Manager of the Month | Goal of the Month | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Player | Club | Player | Club | Player | Club | Player | Club | Player | Club | Manager | Club | Player | Club | |
August | Viktor Gyökeres | Sporting | Bruno Varela | Vitória de Guimarães | Francisco Moura | Famalicão | Pedro Gonçalves | Sporting | Viktor Gyökeres | Sporting | Rúben Amorim | Sporting | Gustavo Sá | Famalicão |
Number of teams by district
editRank | District Football Associations | Number | Teams |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Braga | 5 | Braga, Famalicão, Gil Vicente, Moreirense and Vitória de Guimarães |
Lisbon | Benfica, Casa Pia, Estoril, Estrela da Amadora and Sporting CP | ||
3 | Porto | 4 | AVS, Boavista, Porto and Rio Ave |
4 | Faro | 1 | Farense |
Aveiro | Arouca | ||
Ponta Delgada | Santa Clara | ||
Funchal | Nacional |
Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ "Liga Portugal now is called Liga Portugal Betclic". Record. 5 June 2023. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ Pinto, Vítor; Barbosa, Nuno (27 May 2024). "Notícia Record: Sérgio Conceição abandona o FC Porto" [Record news: Sérgio Conceição leaves FC Porto]. Record (in Portuguese). Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ "Vítor Bruno é o novo treinador" [Vítor Bruno is the new manager] (in Portuguese). FC Porto. 6 June 2024. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- ^ "Daniel Sousa é o novo treinador do SC Braga" [Daniel Sousa is the new coach of SC Braga] (in Portuguese). S.C. Braga. 24 May 2024. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ "Comunicado | Daniel Sousa" [Announcement | Daniel Sousa] (in Portuguese). S.C. Braga. 11 August 2024. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
- ^ "Carlos Carvalhal é o novo treinador do SC Braga" [Carlos Carvalhal is the new coach of SC Braga] (in Portuguese). S.C. Braga. 12 August 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
- ^ "Benfica parts ways with coach Roger Schmidt after poor season start". Yahoo Sports. 1 September 2024. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
- ^ "Liga Portugal". LigaPortugal.pt/. Liga Portugal Betclic. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
- ^ "Clean Sheets – Liga Portugal". fotmob.com. Retrieved 13 August 2023.