The 2012–13 Taça da Liga was the sixth edition of the
Taça da Liga
The Taça da Liga (), known outside Portugal as Portuguese League Cup, is an annual football club competition organised by the Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional (LPFP) for teams competing in the Primeira Liga and LigaPro, the top two tier ...
, the Portuguese
football
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league cup competition. It was organized by the
Portuguese League for Professional Football
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(LPFP) and contested between the 32 clubs competing in the
2012–13 Primeira Liga
The 2012–13 Primeira Liga (also known as Liga ZON Sagres for sponsorship reasons) was the 79th season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs. It began on 19 August 2012 and concluded on 19 M ...
and
2012–13 Segunda Liga
The 2012–13 Segunda Liga was the 23rd season of the second-tier of football in Portugal. This season marked a series of changes in the league overall. The league's name was changed back to Segunda Liga from the previous Liga de Honra. A total o ...
, the top two
tiers of Portuguese football. The first matches were played on 28 July 2012, and
the final
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was played on
Estádio Cidade de Coimbra
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The stadium was rebuilt, expanded, and modernized to host some UEF ...
in
Coimbra
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The fourth-largest urban area in Portugal after Lisbon, Porto Metropolitan Area, Porto, and Bra ...
, on 13 April 2013.
Braga
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eliminated the holders and four-time winners
Benfica in a penalty shootout in the semi-finals. In the final, they defeated
Porto
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1–0 to win their first title in the competition.
Format
The competition format for the 2012–13 edition consists of three rounds plus a knockout phase. In the first round, only teams competing in the
2012–13 Segunda Liga
The 2012–13 Segunda Liga was the 23rd season of the second-tier of football in Portugal. This season marked a series of changes in the league overall. The league's name was changed back to Segunda Liga from the previous Liga de Honra. A total o ...
(excluding reserve teams from Primeira Liga clubs) take part. The sixteen teams are drawn into four groups of four teams, where each team plays against the other three in a single
round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the second round.
In the second round, the eight teams that qualified from the previous round are joined by the six Primeira Liga teams placed 9th to 14th in
the previous season and the two teams promoted to
2012–13 Primeira Liga
The 2012–13 Primeira Liga (also known as Liga ZON Sagres for sponsorship reasons) was the 79th season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs. It began on 19 August 2012 and concluded on 19 M ...
. Two-legged home-and-away fixtures are played between Segunda Liga teams qualifying from the first round and Primeira Liga teams entering this round, and the winner advances to the third round.
The third round features the eight winners of the previous round the remaining eight Primeira Liga teams, ranked 1st to 8th in the previous season. Similarly to the first round, the sixteen teams are drawn into four groups of four teams, according to a seeding based on their classification in the previous season. Each team plays against the other three in a single round-robin format, and only the group winners advance to the knockout phase. The knockout phase consists of semi-finals and one final, both decided in one-legged fixtures. The final match is played at a neutral venue.
Teams
The 32 teams competing in the two professional tiers of Portuguese football for the 2012–13 season are eligible to participate in this competition. For Primeira Liga teams, the final league position in the previous season determines if they enter in the second or third round of the Taça da Liga.
;Key:
*Nth: League position in the 2011–12 season
*P1: Promoted to the Primeira Liga
*P2: Promoted to the Segunda Liga
*R1: Relegated to the Segunda Liga
;Notes:
*
Sporting da Covilhã
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finished 15th in the 2011–12 Segunda Liga, in position to be relegated to the
Second Division
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for the 2012–13 season. However, as
União de Leiria
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– which were relegated from the Primeira Liga, together with
Feirense
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– were unable to fulfill the LPFP requirements mandatory for entry in professional competitions, they were further relegated to the Second Division and Covilhã was invited to take União de Leiria's place.
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Portimonense
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finished 16th (last) in the 2011–12 Segunda Liga, in position to be relegated to the Second Division for the 2012–13 season. However, as
2011–12 Second Division champions
Varzim were unable to fulfill the LPFP requirements mandatory for entry in professional competitions, they were not promoted to the Segunda Liga, together with
Tondela
Tondela () is a municipality in the central Portuguese subregion of Dão-Lafões. The population in 2011 was 28,946, in an area of 371.22 km².
History
Local writer and intellectual Amadeu Ferraz de Carvalho (1876–1951) wrote of the munic ...
, and so Portimonense were invited to take Varzim's place.
Schedule
All draws were held at the LPFP headquarters in
Porto
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, except the draw for the first round, which was done at the
Palácio do Freixo
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The residence was order constructed in the middle of the 18th century, by Nicolau Nasoni ...
in Porto, during the draw ceremony for the LPFP competitions.
First round
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Second round
Third round
The draw for the third round took place on 5 November 2012 at the LPFP headquarters in
Porto
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. The third round group phase matches took place between December 2012 and January 2013.
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Knockout phase
Semi-finals
Final
Statistics
Top goalscorers
References
External links
Official webpageOfficial regulationOfficial statistics
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2012-13
2012–13 European domestic association football cups
2012–13 in Portuguese football