Pixels: | 150 |
Season: | 2023–24 |
Dates: | 11 August 2023 – 19 May 2024 |
Winners: | Sporting CP 20th title |
Competition: | Primeira Liga |
Relegated: | Vizela Chaves Portimonense (via play-off) |
Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Sporting CP Benfica |
Continentalcup2: | Europa League |
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | Porto Braga |
Continentalcup3: | Conference League |
Continentalcup3 Qualifiers: | Vitória de Guimarães |
Matches: | 306 |
Total Goals: | 877 |
League Topscorer: | 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 Wins: | 8 matches Sporting CP |
Longest Unbeaten: | 22 matches Benfica |
Longest Winless: | 11 matches Boavista |
Longest Losses: | 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) |
Attendance: | 2,776,394 |
Prevseason: | 2022–23 |
Nextseason: | 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.
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.
Team | Manager | Captain | Kit Manufacturer | Main Sponsor | |
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Arouca | Daniel Sousa | David Simão | Skita | Construções Carlos Pinho | |
Benfica | Roger Schmidt | ![]() | Adidas | Emirates | |
Boavista | Jorge Simão | ![]() | Kelme | Placard | |
Braga | Rui Duarte | Ricardo Horta | Puma | Moosh | |
Casa Pia | Gonçalo Santos | ![]() | Adidas | ESC Online | |
Chaves | Moreno | ![]() | Lacatoni | Forte de São Francisco Hotel | |
Estoril | Vasco Seabra | Dani Figueira | Kappa | Solverde | |
Estrela da Amadora | Sérgio Vieira | Kialonda Gaspar | Umbro | Various Sponsors | |
Famalicão | Armando Evangelista | ![]() | Macron | Placard | |
Farense | José Mota | ![]() | Lacatoni | Placard | |
Gil Vicente | Tozé Marreco | Rúben Fernandes | Lacatoni | Barcelos Tourism | |
Moreirense | Rui Borges | Pedro Amador | CDT | Placard | |
Portimonense | Paulo Sérgio | ![]() | Mizuno | Ceremony | |
Porto | Sérgio Conceição | Pepe | New Balance | Betano | |
Rio Ave | Luís Freire | Vítor Gomes | Puma | Solverde | |
Sporting CP | Rúben Amorim | Sebastián Coates | Nike | Betano | |
Vitória de Guimarães | Álvaro Pacheco | André André | Macron | Placard | |
Vizela | ![]() | Samu | Kappa | Solverde |
Team | Outgoing manager | 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 | [4] |
Vizela | Manuel Tulipa | Mutual agreement | 31 May 2023 | Pablo Villar | 2 June 2023 | [5] | |
Moreirense | Paulo Alves | End of contract | 11 May 2023 | Rui Borges | 1 July 2023 | [6] | |
Chaves | Vítor Campelos | 2 June 2023 | José Gomes | 16 June 2023 | [7] | ||
Estoril | Ricardo Soares | Signed by Beijing Guoan | 6 June 2023 | Álvaro Pacheco | 19 June 2023 | [8] | |
Gil Vicente | Daniel Sousa | End of contract | 26 June 2023 | Vítor Campelos | 30 June 2023 | [9] | |
Vitória de Guimarães | Moreno | Resigned | 13 August 2023 | 9th | ![]() | 21 August 2023 | [10] |
Chaves | José Gomes | Sacked | 19 September 2023 | 18th | Moreno | 21 September 2023 | [11] |
Estoril | Álvaro Pacheco | 24 September 2023 | 17th | Vasco Seabra | 25 September 2023 | [12] | |
Vitória de Guimarães | ![]() | 3 October 2023 | 6th | Álvaro Pacheco | 4 October 2023 | [13] | |
Casa Pia | Filipe Martins | Resigned | 12 November 2023 | 15th | Pedro Moreira | 21 November 2023 | [14] |
Arouca | Daniel Ramos | Sacked | 15 November 2023 | 18th | Daniel Sousa | 15 November 2023 | [15] |
Boavista | Petit | Resigned | 12 December 2023 | 10th | Ricardo Paiva | 29 December 2023 | [16] |
Vizela | Pablo Villar | 18 December 2023 | 17th | ![]() | 19 December 2023 | [17] | |
Casa Pia | Pedro Moreira | Sacked | 15 February 2024 | 16th | Gonçalo Santos | 16 February 2024 | [18] |
Famalicão | João Pedro Sousa | Mutual agreement | 19 March 2024 | 8th | Armando Evangelista | 20 March 2024 | [19] |
Braga | Artur Jorge | Signed by Botafogo | 3 April 2024 | 4th | Rui Duarte | 3 April 2024 | |
Boavista | Ricardo Paiva | Resigned | 16 April 2024 | 12th | Jorge Simao | 16 April 2024 | |
The relegation play-offs took place between Portimonense, who finished 16th in the Primeira Liga, and AVS which finished 3rd in Liga Portugal 2.
AVS won 4–2 on aggregate and were promoted to 2024–25 Primeira Liga; Portimonense were relegated to 2024–25 Liga Portugal 2.
Rank | Player | Club | Goals[20] |
---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | Sporting | 29 |
2 | ![]() | Braga | 21 |
3 | ![]() | Arouca | 20 |
4 | ![]() | Famalicão | 15 |
Paulinho | Sporting | ||
Samuel Essende | Vizela | ||
![]() | Arouca | ||
8 | ![]() | Chaves | 14 |
Rafa Silva | Benfica | ||
10 | ![]() | Porto | 13 |
![]() | Farense |
See main article: List of Primeira Liga hat-tricks.
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 |
Rank | Player | Club | Cleansheets[21] |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Diogo Costa | Porto | 14 |
2 | ![]() | Benfica | 13 |
![]() | Moreirense | ||
4 | Ricardo Batista | Casa Pia | 10 |
5 | ![]() | Sporting | 9 |
![]() | Rio Ave | ||
![]() | Gil Vicente | ||
8 | ![]() | Vitória de Guimarães | 8 |
![]() | Estoril | ||
Famalicão |
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 | Paulinho | Sporting | ![]() | Vitória de Guimarães | ![]() | Porto | Gaius Makouta | Boavista | Paulinho | Sporting | Petit | Boavista | Tiago Silva | V. Guimarães |
September | ![]() | Sporting | ![]() | Famalicão | ![]() | Sporting | João Neves | Benfica | ![]() | Sporting | Rúben Amorim | Sporting | ![]() | Benfica |
October/November | António Silva | Benfica | Tiago Aguilar | Moreirense | Rafael Barbosa | Farense | ||||||||
December | Ricardo Velho | Farense | Gonçalo Inácio | Sporting | Rúben Amorim | Sporting | Théo Fonseca | Famalicão | ||||||
January | Diogo Costa | Porto | Rodrigo Zalazar | Braga | João Mendes | Vitória de Guimarães | ||||||||
February | ![]() | Arouca | Ricardo Velho | Farense | António Silva | Benfica | João Neves | Benfica | ![]() | Arouca | Daniel Sousa | Arouca | ![]() | Famalicão |
March | Jota Silva | Vitória de Guimarães | ![]() | Vitória de Guimarães | Pepe | Porto | Jota Silva | Vitória de Guimarães | Rúben Amorim | Sporting | ![]() | Casa Pia | ||
April | ![]() | Sporting | Ricardo Velho | Farense | Gonçalo Inácio | Sporting | Pedro Gonçalves | Sporting | ![]() | Sporting | Tomás Händel | Vitória de Guimarães |
Award | Winner | Club | |
---|---|---|---|
Player of the Season[26] | ![]() | Sporting | |
Manager of the Season | Rúben Amorim | Sporting | |
Top scorer | ![]() | Sporting | |
Goal of the Season | João Mendes | Vitória de Guimarães |
Team of the Year[27] |
Team of the Year | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Goalkeeper | Ricardo Velho (Farense) | |||||
Defence | Costinha (Rio Ave) | Sebastián Coates (Sporting) | Ousmane Diomande (Sporting) | Gonçalo Inácio (Sporting) | ||
Midfield | Jota Silva (Vitória de Guimarães) | João Neves (Benfica) | Morten Hjulmand (Sporting CP) | Pedro Gonçalves (Sporting CP) | ![]() | |
Attack | ![]() |
Rank | District Football Associations | Number | Teams |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Braga | 6 | Braga, Famalicão, Gil Vicente, Moreirense, Vitória de Guimarães and Vizela |
2 | Lisbon | 5 | Benfica, Casa Pia, Estoril, Estrela da Amadora and Sporting CP |
3 | Porto | 3 | Boavista, Porto and Rio Ave |
4 | Faro | 2 | Farense and Portimonense |
5 | Aveiro | 1 | Arouca |
Chaves |
SL Benfica drew the highest average home attendance in the 2023-24 edition of the Primeira Liga.