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The 2023–24 Liga Portugal (also known as Liga Portugal Betclic [1] for sponsorship reasons) was the 90th season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs and the third season under the current Liga Portugal title. This was the seventh Primeira Liga season to use video assistant referee (VAR).
The 2024–25 Liga Portugal (also known as Liga Portugal Betclic [1] for sponsorship reasons) is the 91st season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs and the fourth season under the current Liga Portugal title. This is the eighth Primeira Liga season to use video assistant referee (VAR).
The league was named Liga ZON Sagres until 2013–14 after the sponsorship agreement between Sagres, ZON (now NOS) and the league ended. In 2015, the league was named Liga NOS until the 2020–21 season. [15] From 2021 to 2023, it was known Liga Portugal Bwin. Since 2023, it is called Liga Portugal Betclic. Sponsorship names for seasons
The 2022–23 Liga Portugal (also known as Liga Portugal Bwin [2] for sponsorship reasons) was the 89th season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs, and the second season under the current Liga Portugal title. This was the sixth Primeira Liga season to use video assistant referee (VAR).
The 2024–25 Taça da Liga is the eighteenth edition of the Taça da Liga (also known as Allianz Cup for sponsorship reasons), a football league cup competition organised by the Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional and contested exclusively by clubs competing in the two professional divisions of Portuguese football – the top-tier Primeira Liga and the second-tier Liga Portugal 2.
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 and being at the time crowned Portuguese Champions, they are not recognized as Champions any longer.
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 2017–18 Primeira Liga (also known as Liga NOS for sponsorship reasons) was the 84th season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs. Benfica were the defending champions for a fourth consecutive time, but they did not retain the title.