2024 Taça da Liga final explained

2024 Taça da Liga Final
Event:	2023–24 Taça da Liga
Team1:	Braga
Team1score:	1
Team2:	Estoril
Team2score:	1
Details:	Braga won 5–4 on penalties
Date:	27 January 2024
Stadium:	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa
City:	Leiria
Referee:	Fábio Veríssimo
Attendance:	18,998
Previous:	2023
Next:	2025

The 2024 Taça da Liga final was the final match of the 2023–24 Taça da Liga, the seventeenth season of the Taça da Liga. It was played on 27 January 2024 at Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa.

The competition involved the 34 clubs playing in the top two tiers of the Portuguese football league system – 18 from Primeira Liga and 16 from Liga Portugal 2 – during the 2022–23 season. Reserve sides of Primeira Liga teams that played in the 2023–24 Primeira Liga were excluded from the competition.

Braga and Estoril faced off for the first time in the first final involving both teams, with Estoril making into their first cup final since the 1944 Taça de Portugal final. In the final, Braga won the final 5–4 after a penalty shootout, thus becoming only the third team (after Benfica and Sporting CP) in the competition's history to win the Taça da Liga for their third time.

Background

This season featured the return of the final four format with both the semi-finals and the final being played over a space of a few days in the same venue. The Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa hosted all matches. Braga made their fifth appearance in the Taça da Liga final after their last final in 2021, where they were defeated by Sporting CP 2–1.^[1] ^[2] Estoril made into their first appearance in any national competition final in the club's history in 80 years, with their last cup final being in the 1944 Taça de Portugal final, where they lost to Benfica.^[3]

Route to the final

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).

Braga

Round

Estoril

Opponent

Result

Stadium

First round

Opponent

Result

Stadium

Bye

Paços de Ferreira

2–0 (H)

Estádio António Coimbra da Mota

Opponent

Result

Stadium

Second round

Opponent

Result

Stadium

Bye

Belenenses

5–1 (H)

Estádio António Coimbra da Mota

Opponent

Result

Stadium

Third round

Opponent

Result

Stadium

Casa Pia

1–1 (H)

Estádio Municipal de Braga

Matchday 1

2–1 (A)

3–1 (A)

Matchday 2

3–1 (H)

Estádio António Coimbra da Mota

Group A winners

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Braga	2	1	1	0	4	2	+2	4
Casa Pia	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1	4
Nacional	2	0	0	2	2	5	-3	0

Final standings

Group D winners

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Estoril	2	2	0	0	5	2	+3	6
Porto	2	1	0	1	3	4	-1	3
Leixões	2	0	0	2	2	4	–2	0

Opponent

Result

Stadium

Knockout phase

Opponent

Result

Stadium

Benfica

1–1 (5–4p) (N)

Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa

Semi-finals

Sporting CP

1–0 (N)

Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa

Match

Details


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GK	1	Matheus
RB	2
CB	6
CB	15	Paulo Oliveira
LB	26
CM	18
CM	28
RW	14
AM	16
LW	21	Ricardo Horta (c)
CF	9
Substitutes:
GK	12	Tiago Sá
DF	17
DF	5
DF	55	Francisco Chissumba
MF	8
MF	90	Djibril Soumaré
MF	22
FW	20
FW	11
Manager:
Artur Jorge



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GK	14	Dani Figueira (c)
CB	23
CB	3	Bernardo Vital
CB	22	Eliaquim Mangala
LM	79
CM	82
CM	83
RM	78
RW	10
CF	11
LW	33	João Marques
Substitutes:
GK	31	Marcelo Carné
DF	2
DF	5
MF	64
MF	8
FW	91
FW	9
FW	20	João Carlos
FW	29
Manager:

Assistant referees

Pedro Martins
Hugo Marques
Fourth official

Hélder Carvalho
Video assistant referee

Luís Godinho
Assistant video assistant referee

Hugo Miguel

Match rules

90 minutes.
Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
Seven named substitutes.
Maximum of three substitutions.

Notes and References

Web site: Spanish Pedro Porro gives Sporting de Portugal the League Cup . . January 23, 2021 . January 23, 2021 . January 23, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210123221519/https://www.lavanguardia.com/deportes/20210123/6193895/espanol-pedro-porro-da-sporting-portugal-copa-liga.html . live .
News: Ribeiro . Patrick . Sporting defend their Taça da Liga title in second-half turnaround versus Benfica . 15 February 2022 . PortuGOAL . 29 January 2022.
News: Taça da Liga: Estoril Praia chega à segunda final 80 anos depois ao afastar 'besta negra' . 25 September 2024 . O Jogo . 24 January 2024.