The 2022–23 Primeira Liga (also known as Liga Portugal Bwin for sponsorship reasons) is the 89th season of the

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, the top professional league for Portuguese

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clubs, and the second season under the current

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title. This is the sixth Primeira Liga season to use video assistant referee (VAR).

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are the defending champions, having won their 30th Primeira Liga at the previous season.

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and Chaves joined as the promoted clubs from the

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replacing

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and B–SAD, which were relegated to

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. As the

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was held between 20 November and 18 December 2022 due to the climatic conditions of the host country Qatar, the league featured an extended pause during the season. As national team players had to be released by their clubs on 14 November 2022, the last Primeira Liga matchday before the break was scheduled for 13 November (matchday 13). The league resumed nine weeks later on 28 December.

Teams

Changes

(promoted after a one-year absence),

(promoted after a 83-year absence) and Chaves (promoted after a three-year absence) were promoted from the

(finishing first, second and third places), replacing

(relegated after eight years),

(relegated after seven years) and

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(never relegated before).

Stadia and locations

Personnel and sponsors

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Hat-tricks

;Notes (H) – Home team
(A) – Away team

Top assists

Clean sheets

Discipline

Player

* Most yellow cards: 10 ** Ibrahima Bamba (Vitória de Guimarāes) ** Matchoi Djaló (Paços de Ferreira) * Most red cards: 2 **

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(Boavista) ** Maracás (Paços de Ferreira) ** Sikou Niakaté (Braga) **

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(Arouca)

Club

* Most yellow cards: 76 **

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* Most red cards: 7 **

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Awards

Monthly awards

Number of teams by district

References

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