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The Portuguese football leagues are divided into divisions (divisões, singular – divisão). The top teams play in the Primeira Liga, named Liga NOS for sponsorship reasons. In each division, with rare exceptions, a team plays all other teams twice, once at home and once away. One can divide the competitions in professional and non-professional.
The main domestic football competition is the Primeira Liga, and the dominant Portuguese teams are S.L. Benfica, FC Porto and Sporting CP, which form the "Big Three" clubs in Portugal. Other clubs, such as C.F. Os Belenenses, Boavista FC, Vitória S.C., and S.C. Braga, have been contenders for the coveted place of fourth biggest club.
The Big Three (Portuguese: Os Três Grandes) is the nickname of the three most successful and biggest football clubs in Portugal. [1] The teams of S.L. Benfica, Sporting CP, both from Lisbon, and of FC Porto, from Porto, have a great rivalry and are usually the main contenders for the Primeira Liga title.
Portuguese football club stubs (180 P) Pages in category "Football clubs in Portugal" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 306 total.
These clubs dominate Portuguese football, and it has become typical for fans to support any of these teams as a "first club", with a local team probably coming afterwards, if at all. The "Big Three" have the highest average attendance ratings every season in Portugal, while many other teams, lacking support from the locals, have suffered from ...
Liga Portugal 18 clubs. ↓↑ 2 clubs + 1 club play-off 2 Liga Portugal 2 18 clubs. ↓↑ 2 clubs + 1 club play-off 3 Liga 3 20 clubs divided into 2 groups Serie A 10 clubs: Serie B 10 clubs: ↓↑ 4 clubs 4 Campeonato de Portugal 56 clubs divided into 4 groups Serie A 14 clubs: Serie B 14 clubs: Serie C 14 clubs: Serie D 14 clubs: ↓↑ 20 ...
This feat has only been achieved by Porto (furthermore twice) in the 1987–88 season, when it won the European Super Cup, Intercontinental Cup, Primeira Liga and Taça de Portugal, and in the 2010–11 season when it won the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, Primeira Liga, UEFA Europa League and Taça de Portugal. Teams below have made the Double:
Football clubs in Portugal (91 C, 306 P) N. Portugal national football team (8 C, 4 P) This page was last edited on 19 June 2023, at 22:16 (UTC). Text is available ...