The 1981 Taça de Portugal Final was the final match of the 1980–81 Taça de Portugal, the 41st season of the Taça de Portugal, the premier Portuguese

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cup competition organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The match was played on 6 June 1981 at the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, and opposed two Primeira Liga sides: Benfica and

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. Benfica defeated Porto 3–1 to claim the Taça de Portugal for a seventeenth time. In

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, the final was televised live on RTP. As a result of the ''Águias'' claiming both the league and cup double in the same season, cup runners-up Porto faced their cup final opponents in the

1981 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira The 1981 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was the 3rd edition of the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, the annual Portuguese football season-opening match contested by the winners of the previous season's top league and cup competitions (or cup r ...

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