2023–24 Primeira Liga

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Primeira Liga 2024–25
Season information
Dates	11 August 2023–19 May 2024
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League
Europa League
Conference League
Season statistics
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The 2023–24 Liga Portugal (also known as Liga Portugal Betclic for sponsorship reasons) was the 90th season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs and the third season under the current Liga Portugal title. This is the seventh Primeira Liga season to use video assistant referee (VAR).

Since Portugal dropped from sixth to seventh place in the UEFA association coefficient rankings at the end of 2022–23 season, only the two best-ranked teams can qualify for the UEFA Champions League (the champions enter directly into the group stage, and the runners-up enter the third qualifying round). The Taca de Portugal winner qualified to the UEFA Europa League group stage while the third-placed team qualify to the UEFA Europa League second qualifying round. The fourth-placed team, meanwhile, qualify to the UEFA Europa Conference League second qualifying round.

Teams

Changes

Moreirense, Farense (after an one and two years absence, respectively), and Estrela da Amadora (promoted for the first time in history in its current form founded in 2020 or after a fourteen-year absence if counting the club that disolved in 2011 due to bankruptcy) were promoted from the 2022–23 Liga Portugal 2, replacing Marítimo, Paços de Ferreira, and Santa Clara (relegated after thirty-eight, four, and five years on the top flight, respectively).

This season marks the first season of top-flight Portuguese football since the 1984-85 season where no teams from the Azores islands or Madeira have taken part.

Stadia and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity	2022–23
Arouca	Arouca	Estádio Municipal de Arouca	5,000	5th
Benfica	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	64,642	1st
Boavista	Porto	Estádio do Bessa	28,263	9th
Braga	Braga	Estádio Municipal de Braga	30,286	3rd
Casa Pia	Lisbon	Estádio Municipal de Rio Maior*	7,000	10th
Chaves	Chaves	Estádio Municipal Eng.º Manuel Branco Teixeira	8,400	7th
Estoril	Estoril	Estádio António Coimbra da Mota	8,015	14th
Estrela da Amadora	Amadora	Estádio José Gomes	9,288	3rd (LP2)
Famalicão	Vila Nova de Famalicão	Estádio Municipal 22 de Junho	5,307	8th
Farense	Faro	Estádio de São Luís	7,000	2nd (LP2)
Gil Vicente	Barcelos	Estádio Cidade de Barcelos	12,504	13th
Moreirense	Moreira de Cónegos	Parque de Jogos Comendador Joaquim de Almeida Freitas	6,153	1st (LP2)
Portimonense	Portimão	Estádio Municipal de Portimão	6,204	15th
Porto	Porto	Estádio do Dragão	50,033	2nd
Rio Ave	Vila do Conde	Estádio dos Arcos	5,300	12th
Sporting CP	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade	50,095	4th
Vitória de Guimarães	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	30,000	6th
Vizela	Vizela	Estádio do FC Vizela	6,000	11th

• Estádio Pina Manique official stadium, not licensed for competition

Personnel and sponsors

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit Manufacturer	Main Sponsor
Arouca	Daniel Ramos	David Simão	Skita	Construções Carlos Pinho
Benfica	Roger Schmidt	Nicolás Otamendi	Adidas	Emirates
Boavista	Petit	Sebastián Pérez	Kelme	Placard
Braga	Artur Jorge	Ricardo Horta	Puma	Moosh
Casa Pia	Filipe Martins	Vasco Fernandes	Adidas	ESC Online
Chaves	Moreno	João Correia	Lacatoni	Forte de São Francisco Hotel
Estoril	Vacant	Dani Figueira	Kappa	Solverde
Estrela da Amadora	Sérgio Vieira	Kialonda Gaspar	Lacatoni	My Football Club
Famalicão	João Pedro Sousa	Riccieli	Macron	Placard
Farense	José Mota	Fabrício Isidoro	Lacatoni	Placard
Gil Vicente	Vítor Campelos	Rúben Fernandes	Lacatoni	Barcelos Tourism
Moreirense	Rui Borges	André Luís	CDT	Placard
Portimonense	Paulo Sérgio	Carlinhos	Mizuno	McDonald's
Porto	Sérgio Conceição	Pepe	New Balance	Betano
Rio Ave	Luís Freire	Vítor Gomes	Puma	MEO
Sporting CP	Rúben Amorim	Sebastián Coates	Nike	Betano
Vitória de Guimarães	Paulo Turra	André André	Macron	Placard
Vizela	Pablo Villar	Samu	Puma	Vizela Tourism

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner	Date of vacancy	Pos in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Arouca	Armando Evangelista	Signed by Goiás	29 May 2023	Pre-season	Daniel Ramos	29 May 2023
Vizela	Manuel Tulipa	Mutual consent	31 May 2023		Pablo Villar	2 June 2023
Moreirense	Paulo Alves	End of contract	11 May 2023		Rui Borges	1 July 2023
Chaves	Vítor Campelos		2 June 2023		José Gomes	16 June 2023
Estoril	Ricardo Soares	Signed by Beijing Guoan	6 June 2023		Álvaro Pacheco	19 June 2023
Gil Vicente	Daniel Sousa	End of contract	26 June 2023		Vítor Campelos	30 June 2023
Vitória de Guimarães	Moreno	Resigned	13 August 2023	9th	Paulo Turra	21 August 2023
Chaves	José Gomes	Sacked	19 September 2023	18th	Moreno	21 September 2023
Estoril	Álvaro Pacheco		24 September 2023	17th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Porto	6	5	1	0	10	5	+5	16	Qualification for the Champions League league phase
2	Benfica	6	5	0	1	16	7	+9	15	Qualification for Champions League third qualifying round
3	Sporting CP	5	4	1	0	10	4	+6	13	Qualification for Europa League second qualifying round
4	Boavista	6	4	1	1	15	10	+5	13	Qualification for Conference League second qualifying round
5	Famalicão	6	3	2	1	5	3	+2	11
6	Braga	6	3	1	2	14	11	+3	10
7	Vitória de Guimarães	6	3	1	2	6	7	−1	10
8	Casa Pia	6	2	3	1	7	4	+3	9
9	Moreirense	6	2	1	3	6	9	−3	7
10	Gil Vicente	6	2	0	4	14	11	+3	6
11	Farense	6	2	0	4	9	8	+1	6
12	Arouca	6	1	3	2	8	9	−1	6
13	Rio Ave	5	1	2	2	5	6	−1	5
14	Vizela	6	1	2	3	8	11	−3	5
15	Estrela da Amadora	6	1	2	3	5	8	−3	5
16	Portimonense	6	1	2	3	6	15	−9	5	Qualification for Relegation play-offs
17	Estoril	6	1	1	4	12	15	−3	4	Relegation to Liga Portugal 2
18	Chaves	6	0	1	5	6	19	−13	1

Updated to match(es) played on 24 September 2023. Source: [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

Home \ Away	ARO	BEN	BOA	BRA	CAS	CHA	EST	AMA	FAM	FAR	GIL	MOR	PTM	POR	RAV	SPO	VSC	VIZ
Arouca	—				0–1		4–3						1–1
Benfica		—						2–0						a		a	4–0
Boavista		3–2	—		1–1	4–1
Braga			4–1	—					1–2							1–1
Casa Pia					—										1–1	1–2	0–0
Chaves				2–4		—	2–2					1–2
Estoril			1–2				—								2–0			2–2
Estrela da Amadora							2–1	—						0–1			0–1
Famalicão	1–0								—	1–0		0–0
Farense				3–1	0–3	5–0				—
Gil Vicente		2–3					5–3				—		5–0
Moreirense				2–3						1–0		—		1–2
Portimonense		1–3	1–4					1–1					—
Porto	1–1	a								2–1	2–1			—		a
Rio Ave						2–0			1–1					1–2	—
Sporting CP		a							1–0			3–0		a		—		3–2
Vitória de Guimarães											2–1		1–2				—	2–0
Vizela	2–2	1–2									1–0							—

Updated to match(es) played on 24 September 2023. Source: [2]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Róbert Boženík	Boavista	5
2	Paulinho	Sporting	4
	Ángel Di María	Benfica
3	12 players		2

Top assists

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	David Simão	Arouca	3
	Maxime Dominguez	Gil Vicente
	Álvaro Djaló	Braga
	Rafa Silva	Benfica
	João Camacho	Moreirense

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Bruno Varela	Vitória de Guimarães	3
	Luiz Júnior	Famalicão
	Ricardo Batista	Casa Pia
4	Samuel Soares	Benfica	2
	Antonio Adán	Sporting
	Kewin	Moreirense

Discipline

Player

• Most yellow cards: 4
  • Renato Pantalon (Rio Ave)
  • Lawrence Ofori (Moreirense)

• Most red cards: 1
  • Eboue Kouassi (Arouca)
  • Wendell (Porto)
  • Ygor Nogueira (Chaves)
  • Bruno Langa (Chaves)
  • Bruno Lourenço (Boavista)
  • Matías Rocha (Arouca)
  • Miguel Lopes (Estrela da Amadora)
  • Nuno Santos (Vitória de Guimarães)
  • Pablo (Famalicão)
  • Petar Musa (Benfica)
  • Tomás Silva (Vizela)

Club

• Most yellow cards: 19
  • Porto
• Most red cards: 3
  • Arouca

External links

• Official webpage

2023–24 in Portuguese football
Domestic leagues
Primeira Liga (level 1) · Liga Portugal 2 (level 2) · Liga 3 (level 3)
Domestic cups
Taça de Portugal (Final) · Taça da Liga (Final) · Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
European competitions
Champions League (Final) · Europa League (Final) · Europa Conference League (Final)
2022–23                                                        2024–25