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Before the creation of the Primeira Liga, there was a competition called Championship of Portugal (Campeonato de Portugal), created in 1922 as the first competition of Portuguese football. However, despite its name, it corresponds to today's Portuguese Cup (Taça de Portugal) and was held in a knock-out basis. Therefore, its winners are not ...
Association football (Portuguese: futebol), the most popular sport in Portugal, has a long and storied history in the country, following its introduction in 1875 in cities such as Funchal, Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra by English merchants and Portuguese students arriving back home from studying in England. This led to the establishment of local ...
The 2024–25 Campeonato de Portugal is the twelfth season of Portuguese football's renovated fourth-tier league, since the merging of the Segunda Divisão and Terceira Divisão in 2013, and the ninth season under the current Campeonato de Portugal title.
Licensed from Sport TV. Taça de Portugal: RTP1 Two matches per stage and final live until 2025-26 European Qualifiers: RTP1 Live coverage of Portugal NT's qualifying matches for the UEFA Euro 2024. UEFA Nations League: RTP1 Portugal matches plus final. Until (at least) 2022-2023. UEFA Friendlies RTP1 Live coverage of Portugal matches until (at ...
The Championship of Portugal was turned into the Portuguese Cup, this time with all clubs in the nation (except for those in the colonies).The Premier League (a round-basis experimental league) was transformed into the National Championship of the First Division (Campeonato Nacional da Primeira Divisão), or just First Division (Primeira Divisão) with the major clubs.
The winner of each district league is promoted to the fourth national tier, the Campeonato de Portugal. Moreover, all district leagues provide access to their correspondent district cup, and the winner of the district cup, along with the second-placed team in the district league, is allowed to participate in the next season's Portuguese Cup.
The Campeonato de Portugal was introduced in 2013 as the new third-level championship, under the name Campeonato Nacional de Seniores (Seniors National Championship), replacing both the Segunda Divisão and Terceira Divisão (former third and fourth divisions, respectively). On 22 October 2015, it adopted its current naming.
In 1991, it changed its name to Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Professional and in the year 2020, changed the name into the current one. The LP is responsible for the organisation and supervision of the top two leagues , Liga Portugal , Liga Portugal 2 and of the Taça da Liga , a knockout cup competition limited to the clubs competing in these ...