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News, views and information concerning domestic football in Portugal and Portuguese clubs competing in Europe.
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Porto, Benfica, or Sporting: who has truly dominated Portuguese football in the last decade?
Think of Portuguese football, and three clubs would immediately come to mind: Benfica, Porto, and Sporting. There is hardly any league in Europe...
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Talk of the Town: Club Sport Marítimo
PortuGOAL’s “Talk of the Town” feature is back, with a long overdue trip to one of Portugal’s island clubs. After three years out of the limelight,...
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“Marítimo is Madeira and Madeira is Marítimo” – club president Carlos André Gomes
In 2023, Carlos André Gomes won a snap presidential election in convincing fashion, months after CS Marítimo were relegated from Liga Portugal for...
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The promotion of Club Sport Marítimo 2025/26: individual report card
As mentioned in the article entitled The resurgence of Club Sport Marítimo (written at an important interjection in the Liga Portugal 2 campaign),...
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History of Marítimo / club fact file
For an isolated island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that accounts for less than 2.5% of the population of Portugal, Madeira has played a...
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37 years later… Académico de Viseu are back in the big time!
Académico de Viseu’s last participation in the Primeira Liga was 37 years ago. In the 1988/1989 season, Académico de Viseu, formerly called Clube...
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Liga Portugal team of the season 2025-26
It’s that time of the year again when we look back at the Portuguese football season as a whole and select our best XI from the Primeira Liga. Chief...
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Torreense and Casa Pia play out cagey draw in promotion-relegation playoff first leg
The stakes were high in Torres Vedras this afternoon and it showed with both the hosts and the visitors Casa Pia focusing foremost on not making...
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Taça da Liga Reform: does Portugal’s League Cup know what it wants to be?
The Taça da Liga has changed shape again, and once more the reform raises the same uncomfortable question: what exactly is Portugal’s League Cup...
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The business side of Portuguese football: why transfers and sponsorships matter more than ever
Portuguese football has always had to operate differently from Europe’s richest leagues. Liga Portugal clubs cannot usually compete with the Premier...