2024–25 Primeira Liga

The 2024–25 Liga Portugal (also known as Liga Portugal Betclic for sponsorship reasons) is 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 are the defending champions, having won their 20th title the previous season.

Primeira Liga

Season	2024–25
Dates	9 August 2024 – 18 May 2025
Matches played	23
Goals scored	61 (2.65 per match)
Top goalscorer	Viktor Gyökeres (7 goals)
Biggest home win	Porto 3–0 Gil Vicente (10 August 2024) Benfica 3–0 Casa Pia (17 August 2024)
Biggest away win	Nacional 1–6 Sporting CP (17 August 2024) Farense 0–5 Sporting CP (23 August 2024)
Highest scoring	Nacional 1–6 Sporting CP (17 August 2024)
Longest winning run	4 matches Sporting CP
Longest unbeaten run	4 matches Braga Sporting CP
Longest winless run	4 matches Estoril Estrela Amadora Farense
Longest losing run	4 matches Farense
← 2023–24 2025–26 → All statistics correct as of 24 August 2024.

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

Braga

Famalicão

Gil Vicente

Moreirense

V. Guimarães

Lisbon

Estoril

Estrela Amadora

Boavista

Porto

Rio Ave

AVS

Farense

Arouca

Lisbon teams:
Benfica
Casa Pia
Sporting CP

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Location of teams in 2024–25 Primeira Liga

Benfica

Sporting CP

Casa Pia

Est. Amadora

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Lisbon area teams

Nacional

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Location of teams in 2024–25 Primeira Liga (Madeira)

Santa Clara

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Location of teams in 2024–25 Primeira Liga (Azores)

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity	2023–24
Arouca	Arouca	Estádio Municipal de Arouca	5,600	7th
AVS	Vila das Aves	Estádio do CD Aves	8,560	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	7,000	9th
Estoril	Estoril	Estádio António Coimbra da Mota	5,100	13th
Estrela da Amadora	Amadora	Estádio José Gomes	9,288	14th
Famalicão	Vila Nova de Famalicão	Estádio Municipal 22 de Junho	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	Parque 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	30,029	5th

Personnel and sponsors

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit Manufacturer	Main Sponsor
Arouca	Gonzalo García	David Simão	Skita	Construções Carlos Pinho
AVS	Vítor Campelos	Nenê	Adidas
Benfica	Bruno Lage	Nicolás Otamendi	Adidas	Emirates
Boavista	Cristiano Bacci	Sebastián Pérez	Kelme	Placard
Braga	Carlos Carvalhal	Ricardo Horta	Puma	Moosh
Casa Pia	João Pereira	Ângelo Neto	Adidas	ESC Online
Estoril	Vasco Seabra	Dani Figueira	Kappa	Solverde
Estrela da Amadora	Filipe Martins	Miguel Lopes	Umbro	Various Sponsors
Famalicão	Armando Evangelista	Riccieli	Macron	Placard
Farense	José Mota	Marco Matias	Lacatoni	Placard
Gil Vicente	Bruno Pinheiro	Rúben Fernandes	Lacatoni	Barcelos Tourism
Moreirense	César Peixoto	Pedro Amador	CDT	Placard
Nacional	Tiago Margarido	João Aurélio	Hummel	Solverde
Porto	Vítor Bruno	Alan Varela	New Balance	Betano
Rio Ave	Luís Freire	Vítor Gomes	Puma	Solverde
Santa Clara	Vasco Matos	Ricardinho	Umbro	Solverde
Sporting CP	Rúben Amorim	Morten Hjulmand	Nike	Betano
Vitória de Guimarães	Rui Borges	Bruno Varela	Macron	Placard

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment	Ref.
Braga	Rui Duarte	End of interim spell	24 May 2024	Pre-season	Daniel Sousa	24 May 2024
	Daniel Sousa	Sacked	11 August 2024	8th	Carlos Carvalhal	12 August 2024
Benfica	Roger Schmidt	Sacked	1 September 2024	7th	Bruno Lage	5 September 2024

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sporting CP	5	5	0	0	19	2	+17	15	Qualification for the Champions League league stage
2	Porto	5	4	0	1	9	3	+6	12	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
3	Vitória de Guimarães	5	4	0	1	6	2	+4	12	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
4	Benfica	5	3	1	1	9	4	+5	10	Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round
5	Famalicão	5	3	1	1	8	3	+5	10
6	Santa Clara	5	3	0	2	9	8	+1	9
7	Braga	5	2	2	1	5	4	+1	8
8	Moreirense	5	2	1	2	8	9	−1	7
9	AVS	5	2	1	2	6	7	−1	7
10	Gil Vicente	5	1	3	1	5	6	−1	6
11	Casa Pia	5	2	0	3	4	7	−3	6
12	Rio Ave	5	2	0	3	3	6	−3	6
13	Estoril	5	1	2	2	2	5	−3	5
14	Boavista	4	1	1	2	1	2	−1	4
15	Nacional	5	1	1	3	4	9	−5	4
16	Arouca	5	1	0	4	2	8	−6	3	Qualification for the Relegation play-off
17	Estrela da Amadora	4	0	1	3	1	6	−5	1	Relegation to Liga Portugal 2
18	Farense	5	0	0	5	2	12	−10	0

Updated to match(es) played on 15 September 2024. 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		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1–0	–	–	–	0–3	0–1
AVS	–		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1–1	–	1–0	–	–	1–0
Benfica	–	–		–	–	3–0	–	1–0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	4–1	–	–
Boavista	–	–	–		0–1	–	0–0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Braga	–	–	–	–		–	–	1–1	–	–	–	3–1	–	–	–	–	–	0–2
Casa Pia	–	–	–	0–1	–		–	–	–	–	–	3–1	–	–	–	0–2	–	–
Estoril	–	–	–	–	–	–		–	–	–	0–0	–	1–0	–	–	1–4	–	–
Estrela da Amadora	–	–	–	–	–	0–1	–		0–3	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Famalicão	–	–	2–0	1–0	–	–	–	–		–	1–1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Farense	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		–	1–2	–	–	–	–	0–5	–
Gil Vicente	–	4–2	–	–	0–0	–	–	–	–	–		–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Moreirense	3–1	–	1–1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		–	–	–	–	–	–
Nacional	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2–0	–	–		–	–	–	1–6	–
Porto	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2–1	3–0	–	–		2–0	–	–	–
Rio Ave	1–0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1–0	–	–	–	–		–	–	–
Santa Clara	–	2–1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0–2	–		–	–
Sporting CP	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2–0	3–1	–		–
Vitória de Guimarães	–	–	–	–	–	–	1–0	–	2–1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–

Updated to match(es) played on 15 September 2024. 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.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Sporting CP	3	1	1	1
Porto	2	3	2	2
Vitória de Guimarães	7	5	8	3
Famalicão	4	2	3	4
Santa Clara	1	7	5	5
Braga	9	6	4	6
Benfica	16	8	6	7
Moreirense	5	4	7	8
Rio Ave	15	11	13	9
Gil Vicente	17	10	9	10
Boavista	6	9	11	11
AVS	8	12	10	12
Nacional	11	14	16	13
Arouca	13	16	12	14
Casa Pia	14	18	17	15
Estoril	18	17	15	16
Estrela da Amadora	10	13	14	17
Farense	12	15	18	18

	Leader and qualified to Champions League
	Qualification for Champions League
	Qualification for Europa League
	Qualification for UEFA Conference League
	Qualification for relegation play-offs
	Relegation to Liga Portugal 2

Updated to match(es) played on 19 August 2024. Source: ligaportugalbetclic Primeira Liga

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Viktor Gyökeres	Sporting	7
2	Pedro Gonçalves	Sporting	3
	Kanya Fujimoto	Gil Vicente
	Galeno	Porto
	Luís Asué	Moreirense

Hat-tricks

Main article: List of Primeira Liga 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

Notes

(H) – Home team
(A) – Away team

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Diogo Costa	Porto	3
2	Anatoliy Trubin	Benfica	2
	Bruno Varela	Vitória de Guimarães
	Ivan Zlobin	Famalicão

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	Rúben Amorim	Sporting	N/A	N/A

Number of teams by district

Rank	District Football Associations	Number	Teams
1	Braga	5	Braga, Famalicão, Gil Vicente, Moreirense and Vitória de Guimarães
	Lisbon		Benfica, Casa Pia, Estoril, Estrela da Amadora and Sporting CP
3	Porto	4	AVS, Boavista, Porto and Rio Ave
4	Faro	1	Farense
	Aveiro		Arouca
	Ponta Delgada		Santa Clara
	Funchal		Nacional