2024–25 Primeira Liga

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Primeira Liga 2024–25
Season information
Dates	9 August 2024–18 May 2025
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League
Europa League
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The 2024–25 Liga Portugal (also known as Liga Portugal Betclic for sponsorship reasons) was 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 were the defending champions, having won their 20th title the previous season.

Teams

Changes

Santa 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

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity	2023–24
Arouca	Arouca	Estádio Municipal de Arouca	5,600	7th
AVS	Vila das Aves	Estádio do CD Aves	6,230	3rd (LP2)
Benfica	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	64,642	2nd
Boavista	Porto	Estádio do Bessa	28,263	15th
Braga	Braga	Estádio Municipal de Braga	30,286	4th
Casa Pia	Lisbon	Estádio Municipal de Rio Maior	6,925	9th
Estoril	Estoril	Estádio António Coimbra da Mota	8,000	13th
Estrela da Amadora	Amadora	Estádio José Gomes	9,288	14th
Famalicão	Vila Nova de Famalicão	Estádio Municipal de Famalicão	5,186	8th
Farense	Faro	Estádio de São Luís	7,000	10th
Gil Vicente	Barcelos	Estádio Cidade de Barcelos	12,046	12th
Moreirense	Moreira de Cónegos	Estádio Comendador Joaquim de Almeida Freitas	6,150	6th
Nacional	Funchal	Estádio da Madeira	5,200	2nd (LP2)
Porto	Porto	Estádio do Dragão	50,033	3rd
Rio Ave	Vila do Conde	Estádio dos Arcos	5,300	11th
Santa Clara	Ponta Delgada	Estádio de São Miguel	12,500	1st (LP2)
Sporting CP	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade	50,095	1st
Vitória de Guimarães	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	30,000	5th

Personnel and sponsors

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit Maker	Sponsors
				Main	Other
Arouca	Vasco Seabra	David Simão	Skita	Construções Carlos Pinho	List Front: None Back: Castro Electrónica, Bluetooth - Imp. exp. telem., Lda Sleeves: None Shorts: PontoPT
AVS	Rui Ferreira	Guillermo Ochoa	Adidas	Mercainox	List Front: Tectoave Back: AUTONI - Pneus e Óleos, Lda, GoDrive Rent a Car Sleeves: GuimaGold Hotel Shorts: RE/MAX, Auditiv
Benfica	Bruno Lage	Nicolás Otamendi	Adidas	Emirates	List Front: None Back: Sagres Sleeves: Betano Shorts: None
Boavista	Lito Vidigal	Sebastián Pérez	Kelme	None	List Front: Cerveja Nortada Back: Estrella Galicia, Auditiv Sleeves: FC Car Automóveis Shorts: None
Braga	Carlos Carvalhal	Ricardo Horta	Puma	Moosh Portugal	List Front: Só Barroso Back: AMCO Intermediários de Crédito, Piscinas Soleo Sleeves: Auditiv Shorts: 2045 Segurança
Casa Pia	João Pereira	José Fonte	Adidas	ESC Online	List Front: Hospital da Luz Back: Val Hala Mediação Imobiliária, Meltino Café Sleeves: Silogia Shorts: Domino's
Estoril	Ian Cathro	Eliaquim Mangala	Kappa	Solverde.pt	List Front: None Back: Gelpeixe, Volkswagen Financial Services Sleeves: OK Mobility Shorts: None
Estrela da Amadora	José Faria	Miguel Lopes	Umbro	Correio da Manha	List Front: Marcos Car SA Back: ESC Online Sleeves: Hospital da Luz Shorts: None
Famalicão	Hugo Oliveira	Enea Mihaj	Macron	Placard.pt	List Front: None Back: Mercainox, Hyundai Motors Sleeves: Falual Group Shorts: JMF SA, Enif Comunicação e Publicidade
Farense	Tozé Marreco	Marco Matias	Lacatoni	Placard.pt	List Front: Tcars Back: AP Eva Senses, MSCAR Sleeves: Aditiv Shorts: Barao Rodrigues, BF Security
Gil Vicente	Bruno Pinheiro	Rúben Fernandes	Lacatoni	GoldenPark	List Front: Barcelos Back: Mercainox, H.M Motor Sleeves: LuxSteel360 Shorts: None
Moreirense	César Peixoto	Marcelo	CDT	Placard.pt	List Front: None Back: None Sleeves: JMM Group Shorts: None
Nacional	Tiago Margarido	João Aurélio	Hummel	Solverde.pt	List Front: None Back: Cerveja Coral, Madeira tão tua Sleeves: None Shorts: None
Porto	Martín Anselmi	Iván Marcano	New Balance	Betano	List Front: None Back: Super Bock Sleeves: Super Bock (in UEFA matches) Shorts: None
Rio Ave	Petit	Vítor Gomes	Puma	Solverde.pt	List Front: None Back: UZO, Confirent Rent a Car Sleeves: None Shorts: None
Santa Clara	Vasco Matos	Gabriel Batista	Umbro	Lebull	List Front: Cerveja Quinas Back: Açores Sleeves: Ilha Verde Rent a Car Shorts: Hospital CUF
Sporting CP	Rui Borges	Morten Hjulmand	Nike	Betano	List Front: None Back: Super Bock Sleeves: Super Bock (in UEFA matches) Shorts: None
Vitória de Guimarães	Luís Freire	Bruno Varela	Macron	Placard.pt	List Front: NorteCar Back: UZO, GuimarãeShopping Sleeves: Chanceplus Shorts: MOOD Imobiliária

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Porto	Sérgio Conceição	Resigned	24 May 2024	Pre-season	Vítor Bruno	6 June 2024
Braga	Rui Duarte	End of interim spell			Daniel Sousa	24 May 2024
	Daniel Sousa	Sacked	11 August 2024	8th	Carlos Carvalhal	12 August 2024
Benfica	Roger Schmidt		1 September 2024	7th	Bruno Lage	5 September 2024
Estrela da Amadora	Filipe Martins	Resigned	22 September 2024	17th	José Faria	23 September 2024
Farense	José Mota	Mutual agreement	24 September 2024	18th	Tozé Marreco	25 September 2024
Arouca	Gonzalo García		28 October 2024	14th	Vasco Seabra	29 October 2024
Rio Ave	Luís Freire	Sacked	5 November 2024		Petit	6 November 2024
Sporting CP	Ruben Amorim	Signed by Manchester United	11 November 2024	1st	João Pereira	11 November 2024
AVS	Vítor Campelos	Sacked	12 November 2024	13th	Daniel Ramos	15 November 2024
Famalicão	Armando Evangelista		2 December 2024	8th	Ricardo Silva (caretaker)	3 December 2024
	Ricardo Silva (caretaker)	End of caretaker spell	3 December 2024		Hugo Oliveira	10 December 2024
Sporting CP	João Pereira	Sacked	25 December 2024	2nd	Rui Borges	26 December 2024
Vitória de Guimarães	Rui Borges	Signed by Sporting CP	26 December 2024	6th	Daniel Sousa
Porto	Vítor Bruno	Sacked	20 January 2025	3rd	José Tavares (caretaker)	20 January 2025
	José Tavares	End of caretaker spell	27 January 2025		Martín Anselmi	27 January 2025

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sporting CP	23	16	5	2	61	20	+41	53	Qualification for the Champions League league stage
2	Benfica	23	17	2	4	53	18	+35	53	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
3	Porto	23	14	5	4	47	19	+28	47	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
4	Braga	23	14	5	4	39	20	+19	47	Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round
5	Santa Clara	23	12	3	8	25	23	+2	39
6	Casa Pia	23	10	6	7	30	28	+2	36
7	Estoril	23	9	7	7	30	35	−5	34
8	Vitória de Guimarães	23	7	11	5	31	26	+5	32
9	Famalicão	23	7	10	6	26	24	+2	31
10	Moreirense	23	7	5	11	28	35	−7	26
11	Rio Ave	23	6	8	9	25	38	−13	26
12	Arouca	23	6	7	10	23	36	−13	25
13	Nacional	23	6	5	12	21	31	−10	23
14	Gil Vicente	23	5	7	11	23	35	−12	22
15	Estrela da Amadora	23	5	6	12	19	34	−15	21
16	AVS	23	3	11	9	19	34	−15	20	Qualification for the Relegation play-off
17	Farense	23	3	7	13	15	33	−18	16	Relegation to Liga Portugal 2
18	Boavista	23	2	6	15	14	40	−26	12

Updated to match(es) played on 24 February 2025. Source: Liga Portugal
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	AVS	BEN	BOA	BRA	CAS	EST	AMA	FAM	FAR	GIL	MOR	NAC	POR	RAV	STA	SPO	VSC
Arouca		1–1	0–2		1–2					2–2	1–1	1–0	1–0		1–1	1–0	0–3	0–1
AVS			1–1		0–1			1–1	2–3	0–0	1–0		1–1	0–5	1–0	1–2	2–2	1–0
Benfica				3–0	1–2	3–0	3–0	1–0	4–0		5–1	3–2		4–1	5–0	4–1	a	1–0
Boavista	1–3	0–0	0–3		0–1	2–3	0–0	0–1	0–2	1–1		0–2			0–2
Braga				3–0		1–2	2–2	1–1	3–3	2–0	2–0	3–1	1–0		4–0		2–4	0–2
Casa Pia	3–1	1–1	3–1	0–1				1–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	3–1	1–0			0–2		1–1
Estoril	4–1	0–0		2–1		0–2			2–1		0–0	2–2	1–0		2–1	1–4	0–3	1–0
Estrela da Amadora	2–1		2–3	2–2	0–1	0–1	2–4		0–3			2–1	2–0		1–0	0–0		2–2
Famalicão	0–0		2–0	1–0				0–0		1–2	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–1		1–2	0–3	0–0
Farense	0–1		1–2				1–0	1–0			0–1	1–2	0–2	0–1	1–2		0–5	2–2
Gil Vicente		4–2		1–2	0–0	1–1	1–2	3–0	0–2				2–1	3–1	1–1		0–0
Moreirense	3–1	1–1	1–1		1–2	3–2			0–0	0–0	3–2			0–3		1–0	2–1
Nacional	1–2	3–1	0–2	0–0	0–3		2–2			2–0		1–0		2–0		2–0	1–6
Porto	4–0		a	4–0	2–1	2–0	4–0	2–0		2–1	3–0				2–0	1–1	1–1	1–1
Rio Ave	1–0	1–1				2–2	2–2		1–1	1–0		3–2	2–1	2–2			0–3	2–2
Santa Clara		2–1	0–1	1–0	0–2	2–1	2–3	1–0		0–0	2–1			0–2	1–0			1–0
Sporting CP	2–2	3–0	1–0	3–2		2–0		5–1		3–1			2–0	2–0	3–1	0–1
Vitória de Guimarães	2–2	2–0		2–2	0–0		1–0		2–1		4–0	1–0	2–2	0–3			4–4

Updated to match(es) played on 24 February 2025. Source: Liga Portugal
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	Viktor Gyökeres	Sporting	23
2	Samu Aghehowa	Porto	13
3	Clayton	Rio Ave	11
4	Bruma	Braga Benfica	8
	Galeno	Porto
	Vangelis Pavlidis	Benfica
	Cassiano	Casa Pia
	Francisco Trincão	Sporting
9	Alejandro Marqués	Estoril	7
	Angel Di Maria	Benfica
	Vinícius Lopes	Santa Clara
	Ricardo Horta	Braga

Hat-tricks

Player	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
Kerem Aktürkoğlu	Benfica	Rio Ave	5–0 (H)	27 October 2024
Samu Aghehowa	Porto	AVS	5–0 (A)	28 October 2024
Viktor Gyökeres4	Sporting	Estrela da Amadora	5–1 (H)	1 November 2024
Viktor Gyökeres	Sporting	Vitória de Guimarães	4–4 (A)	3 January 2025
Leandro Barreiro	Benfica	Famalicão	4–0 (H)	17 January 2025

Notes

(H) – Home team
(A) – Away team
⁴ Player scored four goals.

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Diogo Costa	Porto	12
2	Anatoliy Trubin	Benfica	10
3	Bruno Varela	Vitória de Guimarães	8
	Gabriel Batista	Santa Clara
5	Franco Israel	Sporting	7
	Matheus	Braga
	Lucas França	Nacional

Discipline

Player

• Most yellow cards: 9
  • Santi García (Gil Vicente)
• Most red cards: 2
  • Sebastián Pérez (Boavista)
  • Ousmane Diomande (Sporting CP)

Club

• Most yellow cards: 72
  • Santa Clara
• Most red cards: 6
  • Boavista

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	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	Ruben Amorim	Sporting	Gustavo Sá	Famalicão
September/October	Kerem Aktürkoğlu	Benfica	Diogo Costa	Porto		Porto	Kanya Fujimoto	Gil Vicente	Kerem Aktürkoğlu	Benfica			Nuno Santos	Vitória de Guimarães
November	Ángel Di María	Benfica	Gabriel Batista	Santa Clara	Tomás Araújo	Benfica	Morten Hjulmand	Sporting	Ángel Di María	Benfica	Bruno Lage	Benfica	Elves Baldé	Farense
December	Samu Aghehowa	Porto	Patrick Sequeira	Casa Pia	Alberto Baio	Vitória de Guimarães	Nico González	Porto	Samu Aghehowa	Porto	Vítor Bruno	Porto	Miguel Menino	Farense
January	João Carvalho	Estoril	Cezary Miszta	Rio Ave	Ousmane Diomande	Sporting	João Carvalho	Estoril	Clayton	Rio Ave	Ian Cathro	Estoril	Francisco Trincão	Sporting

See also

• 2024–25 Liga Portugal 2
• 2024–25 Liga 3
• 2024–25 Campeonato de Portugal
• 2024–25 Taça de Portugal

External links

• Official webpage

2024–25 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) · Conference League (Final)
2023–24                                                        2025–26