The 2002 Taça de Portugal Final was the final match of the 2001–02 Taça de Portugal, the 62nd season of the

Taça de Portugal The Taça de Portugal (; "Cup of Portugal") is an annual association football competition and the premier knockout tournament in Portuguese football. For sponsorship reasons, it has been known as Taça de Portugal Placard since the 2015–16 seaso ...

, the premier Portuguese

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cup competition organized by the

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(FPF). The match was played on 12 May 2002 at the

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in Oeiras, and opposed third division side

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and

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. Sporting CP defeated Leixões 1–0 to claim their thirteenth Taça de Portugal. As Sporting CP claimed both league and cup double in the same season, cup runners-up

faced their cup final opponents in the

2002 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira The 2002 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was the 24th 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 ru ...

at the

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2001–02 in Portuguese football Sporting CP matches Leixões S.C.