On Sunday 18 October Rio Ave played against Benfica in their 4th game of the season. We are excited to announce that the shirts worn by the Rio Ave players are now available for fans to bid on.

This unique piece of memorabilia is the ultimate way of bringing a piece of the match to your home whilst you are unable to visit the stadium. 

This is not an opportunity you want to miss. Many fans will dream of having this green and white Nike shirt on their wall and now we are giving you the chance to make this dream a reality. 

Portugal’s two representatives in the group stage of the Europa League got their campaigns off to a highly satisfactory start.

Benfica beat Lech Poznan 4-2 in Poland, with Uruguayan striker Darwin Núñez bagging a hat-trick, while at the Quarry birthday boy Wenderson Galeno was the star of the show in Braga’s 3-0 victory over AEK Athens. 

Porto’s awful record in England continued last night as a 3-1 loss against Manchester City made it 18 defeats and 3 draws in 21 games in UEFA competitions in her majesty’s country.

The Dragons matched their opponents for over an hour of the match and even took the lead through a stunning individual goal by Luis Díaz, only to be undone by controversial penalty and free-kick awards, converted by Sergio Agüero and Ilkay Gündogan respectively. A fine strike by City substitute Ferran Torres saw the hosts run out 3-1 winners.

Conceição vented his anger at the officials after the match and also at counterpart Pep Guardiola, the two coaches having exchanged angry words during the encounter. 

As the proposal for a European Super League is hotly discussed throughout the football world, it is more important than ever that Portugal’s club sides snap out of their recent slump and start making an impact in UEFA competitions, if they don’t want to be definitively left behind.

Given Benfica and Porto’s rich past in the European Cup/Champions League, each club having won the world’s elite club competition twice, they will feel hard done by if overlooked when it comes to formulating any new continent-wide league. But recent results by Portuguese clubs have only lent weight to the argument that they are now in Europe’s second division. This week marks the start of efforts to invert that perception.