2023–24 Primeira Liga
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Season | 2023–24 |
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Dates | 11 August 2023 – 19 May 2024 |
Champions | Sporting CP 20th title |
Relegated | Vizela Chaves Portimonense (via play-off) |
Champions League | Sporting CP Benfica |
Europa League | Porto Braga |
Conference League | Vitória de Guimarães |
Matches played | 306 |
Goals scored | 877 (2.87 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Viktor Gyökeres (29 goals) |
Biggest home win | Sporting CP 8–0 Casa Pia (29 January 2024) |
Biggest away win | Rio Ave 0–4 Moreirense (1 October 2023) Boavista 0–4 Arouca (3 December 2023) Vizela 0-4 Casa Pia (31 March 2024) |
Highest scoring | Gil Vicente 5–3 Estoril (17 September 2023) Sporting CP 8–0 Casa Pia (29 January 2024) Portimonense 3–5 Braga (1 April 2024) |
Longest winning run | 8 matches Sporting CP |
Longest unbeaten run | 22 matches Benfica |
Longest winless run | 11 matches Boavista |
Longest losing run | 7 matches Arouca |
Highest attendance | 62,247 Benfica 1–0 Porto (29 September 2023) |
Lowest attendance | 944 Moreirense 1–4 Casa Pia (8 January 2024) |
Total attendance | 2,776,394 (233 matches) |
Average attendance | 11,916 |
← 2022–23 2024–25 → |
The 2023–24 Liga Portugal (also known as Liga Portugal Betclic[1] 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 was the seventh Primeira Liga season to use video assistant referee (VAR). Benfica were the defending champions, having won their 38th title the previous season.
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 Taça 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.[2][3]
On 5 May, Sporting CP were confirmed as champions with two matches to spare following Benfica's 2–0 away defeat to Famalicão, clinching the club's 20th league title and first since the 2020–21 season.
Teams
[edit]Changes
[edit]Moreirense, Farense (after a 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 dissolved 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 league season marked the first time since 1984–85 to have no teams from the Azores or Madeira islands in the top-flight.
Stadia and locations
[edit]- Estádio Pina Manique official stadium, not licensed for competition
Personnel and sponsors
[edit]Managerial changes
[edit]Team | Outgoing manager | Manner | Date of vacancy | Pos in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment | Ref. |
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Arouca | ![]() | Signed by Goiás | 29 May 2023 | Pre-season | ![]() | 29 May 2023 | [4] |
Vizela | ![]() | Mutual agreement | 31 May 2023 | ![]() | 2 June 2023 | [5] | |
Moreirense | ![]() | End of contract | 11 May 2023 | ![]() | 1 July 2023 | [6] | |
Chaves | ![]() | 2 June 2023 | ![]() | 16 June 2023 | [7] | ||
Estoril | ![]() | Signed by Beijing Guoan | 6 June 2023 | ![]() | 19 June 2023 | [8] | |
Gil Vicente | ![]() | End of contract | 26 June 2023 | ![]() | 30 June 2023 | [9] | |
Vitória de Guimarães | ![]() | Resigned | 13 August 2023 | 9th | ![]() | 21 August 2023 | [10] |
Chaves | ![]() | Sacked | 19 September 2023 | 18th | ![]() | 21 September 2023 | [11] |
Estoril | ![]() | 24 September 2023 | 17th | ![]() | 25 September 2023 | [12] | |
Vitória de Guimarães | ![]() | 3 October 2023 | 6th | ![]() | 4 October 2023 | [13] | |
Casa Pia | ![]() | Resigned | 12 November 2023 | 15th | ![]() | 21 November 2023 | [14] |
Arouca | ![]() | Sacked | 15 November 2023 | 18th | ![]() | 15 November 2023 | [15] |
Boavista | ![]() | Resigned | 12 December 2023 | 10th | ![]() | 29 December 2023 | [16] |
Vizela | ![]() | 18 December 2023 | 17th | ![]() | 19 December 2023 | [17] | |
Casa Pia | ![]() | Sacked | 15 February 2024 | 16th | ![]() | 16 February 2024 | [18] |
Famalicão | ![]() | Mutual agreement | 19 March 2024 | 8th | ![]() | 20 March 2024 | [19] |
Braga | ![]() | Signed by Botafogo | 3 April 2024 | 4th | ![]() | 3 April 2024 | |
Boavista | ![]() | Resigned | 16 April 2024 | 12th | ![]() | 16 April 2024 |
League table
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sporting CP (C) | 34 | 29 | 3 | 2 | 96 | 29 | +67 | 90 | Qualification for the Champions League league phase[a] |
2 | Benfica | 34 | 25 | 5 | 4 | 77 | 28 | +49 | 80 | |
3 | Porto | 34 | 22 | 6 | 6 | 63 | 27 | +36 | 72 | Qualification for the Europa League league phase[b] |
4 | Braga | 34 | 21 | 5 | 8 | 71 | 50 | +21 | 68 | Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round[c] |
5 | Vitória de Guimarães | 34 | 19 | 6 | 9 | 52 | 38 | +14 | 63 | Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round[c] |
6 | Moreirense | 34 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 36 | 35 | +1 | 55 | |
7 | Arouca | 34 | 13 | 7 | 14 | 54 | 50 | +4 | 46 | |
8 | Famalicão | 34 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 37 | 41 | −4 | 42 | |
9 | Casa Pia | 34 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 38 | 50 | −12 | 38 | |
10 | Farense | 34 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 46 | 51 | −5 | 37[d] | |
11 | Rio Ave | 34 | 6 | 19 | 9 | 38 | 43 | −5 | 37[d] | |
12 | Gil Vicente | 34 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 42 | 52 | −10 | 36 | |
13 | Estoril | 34 | 9 | 6 | 19 | 49 | 58 | −9 | 33[e] | |
14 | Estrela da Amadora | 34 | 7 | 12 | 15 | 33 | 53 | −20 | 33[e] | |
15 | Boavista | 34 | 7 | 11 | 16 | 39 | 62 | −23 | 32[f] | |
16 | Portimonense (R) | 34 | 8 | 8 | 18 | 39 | 72 | −33 | 32[f] | Qualification for the Relegation play-off |
17 | Vizela (R) | 34 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 36 | 66 | −30 | 26 | Relegation to Liga Portugal 2 |
18 | Chaves (R) | 34 | 5 | 8 | 21 | 31 | 72 | −41 | 23 |
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.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
- ^ Since Atalanta, the winners of the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League, qualified for the Champions League via league position, Benfica was promoted from the Champions League third qualifying round to the league phase, as the team with the highest coefficient out of all the teams in Champions League qualifying.
- ^ Porto qualified for the Europa League league phase by winning the 2023–24 Taça de Portugal.
- ^ a b Since the 2023–24 Taça de Portugal winners, Porto, finished in top three, the spot given to the third-placed team (Europa League second qualifying round) was passed to the fourth-placed team, and the spot given to the fourth-placed team (Conference League second qualifying round) was passed to the fifth-placed team.
- ^ a b Head-to-head points: Farense 4, Rio Ave 1.
- ^ a b Head-to-head away goals scored: Estoril 1, Estrela da Amadora 0.
- ^ a b Head-to-head points: Boavista 4, Portimonense 1.
Relegation play-offs
[edit]The relegation play-offs will take place between Portimonense, who finished 16th in the Primeira Liga, and AVS which finished 3rd in Liga Portugal 2.
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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AVS | 4–2 | Portimonense | 2–1 | 2–1 |
AVS won 4–2 on aggregate and were promoted to 2024–25 Primeira Liga; Portimonense were relegated to 2024–25 Liga Portugal 2.
Results
[edit]Statistics
[edit]Top goalscorers
[edit]Rank | Player | Club | Goals[20] |
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1 | ![]() | Sporting | 29 |
2 | ![]() | Braga | 21 |
3 | ![]() | Arouca | 20 |
4 | ![]() | Famalicão | 15 |
![]() | Sporting | ||
![]() | Vizela | ||
![]() | Arouca | ||
8 | ![]() | Chaves | 14 |
![]() | Benfica | ||
10 | ![]() | Porto | 13 |
![]() | Farense |
Hat-tricks
[edit]Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Chaves | Gil Vicente | 4–2 (H) | 7 October 2023 |
![]() | Braga | Portimonense | 6–1 (H) | 4 November 2023 |
![]() | Arouca | Gil Vicente | 3–0 (H) | 16 December 2023 |
![]() | Sporting | Boavista | 6–1 (H) | 17 March 2024 |
- Notes
(H) – Home team
(A) – Away team
Clean sheets
[edit]Rank | Player | Club | Clean sheets[21] |
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1 | ![]() | Porto | 14 |
2 | ![]() | Benfica | 13 |
![]() | Moreirense | ||
4 | ![]() | Casa Pia | 10 |
5 | ![]() | Sporting | 9 |
![]() | Rio Ave | ||
![]() | Gil Vicente | ||
8 | ![]() | Vitória de Guimarães | 8 |
![]() | Estoril | ||
![]() | Famalicão |
Discipline
[edit]Player
[edit]Club
[edit]Awards
[edit]Monthly awards
[edit]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 | |||||||
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Player | Club | Player | Club | Player | Club | Player | Club | Player | Club | Manager | Club | Player | Club | |
August | ![]() | Sporting | ![]() | Vitória de Guimarães | ![]() | Porto | ![]() | Boavista | ![]() | Sporting | ![]() | Boavista | ![]() | V. Guimarães |
September | ![]() | Sporting | ![]() | Famalicão | ![]() | Sporting | ![]() | Benfica | ![]() | Sporting | ![]() | Sporting | ![]() | Benfica |
October/November | ![]() | Benfica | ![]() | Moreirense[note 1] | ![]() | Farense | ||||||||
December | ![]() | Farense | ![]() | Sporting | ![]() | Sporting | ![]() | Famalicão | ||||||
January | ![]() | Porto | ![]() | Braga | ![]() | Vitória de Guimarães | ||||||||
February | ![]() | Arouca | ![]() | Farense | ![]() | Benfica | ![]() | Benfica | ![]() | Arouca | ![]() | Arouca | ![]() | Famalicão |
March | ![]() | Vitória de Guimarães | ![]() | Vitória de Guimarães | ![]() | Porto | ![]() | Vitória de Guimarães | ![]() | Sporting | ![]() | Casa Pia | ||
April | ![]() | Sporting | ![]() | Farense | ![]() | Sporting | ![]() | Sporting | ![]() | Sporting | ![]() | Vitória de Guimarães |
Annual awards
[edit]Team of the Year[26] |
Team of the Year | |||||
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Goalkeeper | ![]() | ||||
Defence | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
Midfield | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Attack | ![]() |
Number of teams by district
[edit]Rank | District Football Associations | Number | Teams |
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1 | ![]() | 6 | Braga, Famalicão, Gil Vicente, Moreirense, Vitória de Guimarães and Vizela |
2 | ![]() | 5 | Benfica, Casa Pia, Estoril, Estrela da Amadora and Sporting CP |
3 | ![]() | 3 | Boavista, Porto and Rio Ave |
4 | ![]() | 2 | Farense and Portimonense |
5 | ![]() | 1 | Arouca |
![]() | Chaves |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Aguilar was awarded the prize, due to Rui Borges not having the required coaching level to manage Moreirense
References
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