The 2023–24 Liga Portugal (also known as Liga Portugal Betclic for sponsorship reasons) is the 90th season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese

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clubs and the third season under the current

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title. This is the seventh Primeira Liga season to use video assistant referee (VAR). Since Portugal dropped from sixth to seventh place in the UEFA association coefficient rankings at the end of 2022–23 season, only the two best-ranked teams can qualify for the

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(the champions enter directly into the group stage, and the runners-up enter the third qualifying round). The Taca de Portugal winner qualified to the

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group stage while the third-placed team qualify to the

second qualifying round. The fourth-placed team, meanwhile, qualify to the

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second qualifying round.

Teams

Changes

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, Farense (after an one and two years absence, respectively), and

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(promoted for the first time in history in its current form founded in 2020 or after a fourteen-year absence if counting the club that disolved in 2011 due to bankruptcy) were promoted from the

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, replacing Marítimo,

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, and Santa Clara (relegated after thirty-eight, four, and five years on the top flight, respectively). This season marks the first season of top-flight Portuguese football since the 1984-85 season where no teams from the

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or Madeira have taken part.

Stadia and locations

* Estádio Pina Manique official stadium, not licensed for competition

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: 6 ** Dener (

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) ** Paulo Victor ( Chaves) ** Pedro Tiba (

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) * Most red cards: 2 **

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( Chaves) ** Riccieli ( Famalicão) ** Tiago Morais ( Boavista)

Club

* Most yellow cards: 43 **

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* Most red cards: 6 ** Arouca ** Famalicão

Awards

Monthly awards

Number of teams by district

Notes

References

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