The 2007–08

Taça de Portugal The Taça de 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 Generali Tranquilidade since the 2024–25 seaso ...

was the 68th edition of the Portuguese

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knockout tournament, organized by the

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(FPF). The 2007–08 Taça de Portugal began on 2 September 2007. The final was played on 18 May 2008 at the

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Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries,

were the previous holders, having defeated Belenenses 1–0 in the previous season's final. Sporting CP regained the Taça de Portugal by defeating Porto, 2–0 in the final to win there fifteenth Taça de Portugal. By winning the Taça de Portugal, Sporting CP qualified for the

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Format and schedule

* Os Marítimos (IV) did not participate in the competition. * Marítimo B (III) was unable to compete in the domestic cup competition due to the possibility of encountering their senior side in the competition.

Teams

Primeira Liga

* Académica de Coimbra * Belenenses * Benfica * Boavista *

Braga Braga (; ) is a cities of Portugal, city and a Municipalities of Portugal, municipality, capital of the northwestern Portugal, Portuguese Braga (district), district of Braga and of the historical and cultural Minho Province. Braga Municipality ...

* Estrela da Amadora *

Leixões The Port of Leixões (, ) is one of Portugal's major seaports, located 4 km north of the mouth of the Douro River, in Matosinhos municipality, near the city of Porto. Leixões Sport Club, commonly known simply as ''Leixões'', is Matosinh ...

* Marítimo *

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Paços de Ferreira Paços de Ferreira () is a city in the Porto District, in the north of Portugal. The population of the city in 2011 was 7491, while its municipality had 56,340 inhabitants, in an area of 70.99 km². Sometimes referred to as the ''Capital do ...

Porto Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto c ...

Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries,

* União de Leiria * Vitória de Guimarães * Vitória de Setúbal

Liga de Honra

Beira-Mar Sport Clube Beira-Mar (), commonly known as Beira-Mar, is a Portuguese sports club based in Aveiro, Portugal. Its Association football, football team currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal (league), Campeonato de Portugal, the fourth natio ...

* Desportivo das Aves *

Estoril Estoril () is a town in the civil parish of Cascais e Estoril of the Portuguese Municipality of Cascais, on the Portuguese Riviera. It is a popular tourist destination, with hotels, beaches, and the Casino Estoril. It has been home to numero ...

* Fátima * Feirense * Freamunde *

Gil Vicente Gil Vicente (; c. 1465c. 1536), called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus," often refe ...

* Gondomar *

Olhanense Sporting Clube Olhanense (), commonly known as Olhanense, is a Portuguese sports club from Olhão, Algarve. Its football team was founded on 27 April 1912 and currently plays in the Algarve Football Association First Division, the fifth tier of ...

Penafiel Penafiel ( or ) is a Municipalities of Portugal, municipality and former bishopric (now a Latin Catholic titular see) in the Norte Region, Portugal, northern Portugal, Portuguese Porto District, district of Porto. Capital of the Tâmega Subregion ...

* Portimonense * Rio Ave * Santa Clara * Trofense * Varzim *

Vizela Vizela () is a municipality in the Braga District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 23,736, in an area of 24.70 km². The present mayor is Vitor Hugo Salgado, elected as an independent. The municipal holiday is March 19. History In Au ...

Second Division

;Série A * Camacha * Chaves *

Fafe Fafe (), officially the City of Fafe (), is a city and municipality in the northern Portuguese district of Braga. The population in 2021 was 48,502, in an area of approximately . The city itself had a population of 15,703 in 2011. The present ma ...

* Ribeirão * Lixa *

Lousada Lousada () is a town and municipality of the Porto district, in northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 47,387, in an area of 96.08 km². It includes the site of Ancient Magnetum (Portuguese Magneto), in the civil parish Meinedo, which ...

Machico Machico () is a municipality, parish and city in the southeast part of the island of Madeira Island, Madeira, in the Autonomous Region of Madeira. The easternmost municipality on the island, it is also the third-most populous area with a populati ...

* Maria da Fonte * Merelinense * Moreirense * Portosantense * Tirsense *

União da Madeira União is the Portuguese word for Union. It may refer to: *the Brazilian federal government *União do Vegetal, a church known for its usage of Hoasca as tea * Brazilian frigate ''União'' (F45), a general-purpose ''Niterói'' class frigate launc ...

* Valdevez ;Série B * Avanca * Caniçal *

Esmoriz Esmoriz () is a Portuguese city located south of Porto. It is a ''freguesia'' ("parish") of the municipality of Ovar, and part of the Região de Aveiro. The population in 2011 was 11,448, in an area of 9.17 km². Esmoriz was given city statu ...

* Fiães * Infesta * Leça *

Lusitânia Lourosa Viriato may refer to: * Lusitânia, Portuguese name of Lusitania, an ancient Iberian Roman province located where modern Portugal and part of western Spain lie. * Lusitânia, proper name of star HD 45652 HD 45652 is a star with an exoplan ...

* Oliveirense * Pontassolense * Ribeira Brava * Sporting de Espinho * Vila Meã ;Série C *

Abrantes Abrantes () is a concelho, municipality in the central Médio Tejo Subregion, Médio Tejo subregion of Portugal. The population was 39,325, in an area of . The municipality includes several parishes divided by the Tagus River, which runs through ...

* Anadia * Benfica Castelo Branco * Caldas * Eléctrico *

Nelas Nelas () is a municipality located in the Centro Region of continental Portugal. The population in 2011 was 14,037, in an area of 125.71 km². History Settlement of the territory of Nelas dates back to the settlement by Neolithic and Stone ...

Oliveira do Bairro Oliveira do Bairro () is a town and a municipality in the district of Aveiro in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 47,729, in an area of 335.27 km2. It had 16,994 eligible voters in 2006. The town itself had a population of 3,077 in 2001. ...

* Pampilhosa * Penalva do Castelo * Rio Maior * Sátão * Sporting da Covilhã * Torreense * Tourizense ;Série D * Atlético CP * Carregado * Juventude Évora * Lagoa * Louletano * Lusitânia * Madalena * Mafra * Messinense *

Odivelas Odivelas () is a municipality in the Lisbon metropolitan area, Portugal. The municipality is located 8 km northwest of the center of Lisbon. Predominantly a residential suburb, the population in 2021 was 148 034, in an area of 26.54 km2 (one of t ...

* Olivais Moscavide * Operário * Pinhalnovense * Real

Third Division

;Série A * Vieira *

Mirandela Mirandela (), officially the City of Mirandela (), is a city and a municipality in northeastern Portugal. The city itself is contained by the Mirandela parish, which had a population of 11,397. The population of the municipality in 2021 was 21,38 ...

* Vianense * Mondinense * Joane * Bragança * Marinhas *

Macedo de Cavaleiros Macedo de Cavaleiros () is a city and municipality in northeastern Portugal, in Bragança District. The population in 2011 was 15,776, in an area of 699.14 km2. History During antiquity, the region was occupied by the Celts, then Romans an ...

* Vidago * Valenciano *

Amares Amares (), officially Town of Amares (), is a List of municipalities of Portugal, municipality in Braga District, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 18,889, in an area of 81.95 km2. Amares limits to the north and northeast with the municipa ...

* Prado * Brito * Morais ;Série B *

AD Oliveirense Associação Desportiva Oliveirense is a Portuguese sports club from Santa Maria de Oliveira, Vila Nova de Famalicão. The men's football team played several years on the third tier, and was supposed to contest the 2020–21 Campeonato de Por ...

* Amarante * Padroense * Paredes * Aliados Lordelo * Serzedelo * Torre de Moncorvo * Rebordosa * Nogueirense * São Pedro da Cova * Oliveira do Douro *

Pedras Rubras Pedras Rubras (Portuguese for ''Reddish stones'') is a Portugal, Portuguese locality and suburb in the Moreira (Maia), Moreira parish, in the Maia Municipality of the Grande Porto Subregion, Greater Porto subregion. The Porto Airport (OPO) (Sá Car ...

* Famalicão *

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;Série C * Académico de Viseu * Arouca * Dragões Sandinenses * Ginásio Figueirense * Milheiroense *

Oliveira do Hospital Oliveira do Hospital () is a municipality in the district of Coimbra, in the central part of continental Portugal. The population in 2011 was 20,855, in an area of 234.52 km². History Inhabited by ancient civilizations, Oliveira do Hospita ...

* Sanjoanense *

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* Social Lamas * Tocha *

Tondela Tondela () is a concelho, municipality in the Centro, Portugal, central Portugal, 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 Carv ...

* União de Lamas * Valecambrense * Valonguense ;Série D * Alcobaça * Caranguejeira * Gândara * Lousanense * Marinhense * Mirandense *

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* Penamacorense * Portomosense * Sertanense * Sourense *

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* Unhais da Serra * União da Serra ;Série E * 1º Dezembro * Alcochetense * Atlético Cacém * Bombarralense * Câmara de Lobos * Cartaxo * Estrela Portalegre * Estrela Vendas Novas * Fazendense * Igreja Nova * O Elvas *

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* Sintrense ;Série F * Aljustrelense * Almancilense * Amora * Barreirense * Beira-Mar de Monte Gordo * Campinense * Cova da Piedade * Fabril * Ferreiras * Imortal *

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* Quarteirense * Silves *

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;Série Azores * Angrense * Boavista São Mateus * Capelense * Fayal * Lajense * Praiense * Rabo de Peixe * Santiago * União Micaelense ;District Leagues * Aguiar da Beira * Águias do Moradal * Alvorense * Ansião * Boticas * Bustelo * Candal * Campomaiorense * Cinfães * Flamengos * Freiria * Mirandês * Monção * Monte Trigo * Moura * Ouriquense * Santa Eulália *

Sesimbra Sesimbra () is a municipality of Portugal, in the Setúbal District, lying at the foothills of the ''Serra da Arrábida'', a mountain range between Setúbal and Sesimbra. Due to its particular position at the Península de Setúbal, Setúbal Bay, ...

* Velense * Vigor Mocidade

First round

For the first round draw, teams were drawn against each other in accordance to their geographical location. The draw was split up into four sections: teams from the north, the center, the south and the

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region. All first round cup ties were played on the 2 September. Due to the odd number of matches involved at this stage of the competition, Fayal,

, Mirandense, Penamacorense and Torre de Moncorvo progressed to the next round. The first round of the cup saw teams from the

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(IV) start the competition alongside some teams who registered to participate in the cup from the Portuguese District Leagues (V).

North Zone

Central Zone

South Zone

Azores Zone

Second round

Ties were played on the 23 September. Due to the odd number of matches at this stage of the competition, 1º Dezembro,

, Cova da Piedade, Merelinense, Monção, Padroense, Pampilhosa, Rio Maior, Sátão and Valecambrense qualified for the third round. The second round saw teams from the

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(III) enter the competition.

Série A

Série B

Série C

Série D

Third round

Ties were played on the 7–18 November. Due to the odd number of matches at this stage of the competition,

and Tocha qualified for the fourth round. The third round saw teams from the

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(II) enter the competition.

Fourth round

Ties were played on the 7–9 December. Due to the odd number of matches at this stage of the competition, Boavista and Marítimo qualified for the fifth round. The fourth round saw teams from the

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(I) enter the competition.

Fifth round

Ties were played on the 19–20 January. Due to the odd number of participants involved at this stage of the competition, Valdevez qualified for the quarter-finals due to having no opponent to face.

Sixth round

Ties were played on the 9–10 February. Due to the odd number of participants involved at this stage of the competition, Estrela da Amadora qualified for the quarter-finals due to having no opponent to face.

Quarter-finals

Ties were played on the 27 February.

Semi-finals

Ties were played on the 15–16 April.

Final

References

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