After months of extensive talks and cautious planning, fans of the Portuguese Primeira Liga can finally begin to countdown the hours ahead of its anticipated return, tomorrow night, registering its comeback with Gil Vicente’s away fixture versus Portimonense and FC Porto's renewed bid for the title away to FC Famalicão.
Taking a positive step towards normality, the football itself, after more than two months away and an enforced behind-closed-doors scenario, promises to be anything but your typical conclusion to a season.
As many Bundesliga clubs are beginning to find out, PortuGOAL explores the challenges and scenarios awaiting Liga NOS clubs once the ball finds its way back to the centre circle.
The Primeira Liga will not be implementing the post-COVID-19 exception of five substitutions per game ahead of next Wednesday's return to action after it failed to gain unanimous support for its implementation at a meeting with all its clubs, this Friday.
Over recent years, a number of high-profile Benfica players have made the move away from the Estádio da luz having established a big reputation in the Portuguese capital, seeking to take a step up in their careers. Ederson, Nélson Semedo, Raúl Jiménez and João Felix are just a few examples over the last few seasons.
The Portuguese Liga today released the schedule for nine of the remaining ten rounds of matches to complete the 2019/2020 season, interrupted in early March due to the Coronavirus pandemic. 
Benfica and Marítimo have become the first clubs to raise concerns over the relocation of fixtures upon the Primeira Liga's return to action, post-lockdown.