2024 Taça de Portugal final explained

Event:2023–24 Taça de Portugal
Team1:Sporting CP
Team1score:1
Team2:Porto
Team2score:2
Date:26 May 2024
Stadium:Estádio Nacional
City:Oeiras
Man Of The Match1a:Evanilson[1]
Fair Player1:Gonçalo Inácio
Referee:Fábio Veríssimo
Attendance:37,593
Previous:2023
Next:2025

The ‘”2024 Taça de Portugal final’” was the last match of the 2023–24 Taça de Portugal, which decided the winner of the 84th season of the Taça de Portugal, the premier knockout cup competition in Portuguese football.[2] It was played on 26 May 2024 at the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, between Primeira Liga sides Sporting CP and Porto.

Sporting played their thirtieth final in the competition, having last appeared in the 2019 final when they defeated Porto on penalties for their seventeenth title. Porto played the decisive match for the 34th time and third consecutive season, having beaten Braga in the previous season's final to lift the trophy for the 19th time. Sporting and Porto have previously played each other in the Taça de Portugal final on five occasions, with Porto winning three and Sporting winning their most recent meeting in 2019. Porto went on to successfully defend their title and secure a third consecutive title by defeating Sporting 2–1, after extra time.

Route to the final

SportingRoundPorto
OpponentResult2023–24 Taça de PortugalOpponentResult
CD Olivais e Moscavide3–1 (A)Third roundVilar de Perdizes 2–0 (A)
Dumiense8–0 (H)Fourth roundMontalegre4–0 (H)
Tondela4–0 (H)Fifth roundEstoril4–0 (A)
União de Leiria3–0 (A)Quarter-finalsSanta Clara2–1 (A)
Benfica2–1 (H)Semi-finalsVitória de Guimarães1–0 (A)
2–2 (A)3–1 (H)
Note: H = home fixture, A = away fixture

Match

Details

GK99 Diogo Costa
RB23 João Mário
CB97 Zé Pedro
CB31
LB18 Wendell
CM22 Alan Varela (c)
CM16 Nico González
RW10 Francisco Conceição
AM11 Pepê
LW13 Galeno
CF30 Evanilson
Substitutes:
GK14 Cláudio Ramos
DF52 Martim Fernandes
DF 2 Fábio Cardoso
CM 16
MF6 Stephen Eustáquio
MF6 Romário Baró
FW70 Gonçalo Borges
FW9
FW19
Manager:
Sérgio Conceição
GK51 Diogo Pinto
CB3 St. Juste
CB4 Sebastián Coates (c)
CB25 Gonçalo Inácio
RM11 Nuno Santos
CM42 Morten Hjulmand
CM5 Hidemasa Morita
LM20 Geny Catamo
AM17 Francisco Trincão
AM8 Pedro Gonçalves
CF9 Viktor Gyökeres
Substitutes:
GK99 Francisco Silva
DF47 Ricardo Esgaio
DF13 Luís Neto
DF26 Ousmane Diomande
DF35 Eduardo Quaresma
MF23 Daniel Bragança
MF80 Koba Koindredi
FW10 Marcus Edwards
FW20 Paulinho
Manager:
Rúben Amorim
Man of the Match:
Evanilson
Fair Player of the Match:
Gonçalo Inácio

Assistant referees


Pedro Martins
Hugo Marques
Fourth official


André Narciso
Video assistant referee


João Pinheiro
Assistant video assistant referees


Fábio Melo
Luciano Maia

Match rules
  • 90 minutes
  • 30 minutes of extra time if necessary
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level
  • Seven named substitutes
  • Maximum of five substitutions, with a sixth allowed in extra time

Notes and References

  1. Web site: OEvanilson foi o melhor em campo. FPF. pt. Portuguese Football Federation. 26 May 2024. 24 September 2024.
  2. Web site: Formato Taça Placard. Portuguese Football Federation. pt. Taça de Portugal format. PDF. 5 August 2021. 10 August 2021.