The 2010–11 Taça da Liga was the fourth edition of the Portuguese
Taça da Liga
The Taça da Liga (), known outside Portugal as Portuguese League Cup, is an annual club football competition organised by the Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional (LPFP) for teams competing in the top two tiers of Portuguese football – the ...
. The first matches were played on 8 August 2010. The final was played on 23 April 2011 at the
Estádio Cidade de Coimbra, where
Benfica beat
Paços de Ferreira 2–1 to win their third title.
Format
This seasons' format consists of 3 rounds, plus knockout stages. In the first round only
second division teams play. All 16 teams are allocated into four groups of four teams each. Each team plays 3 matches and top two of each group advances. In the second round, teams that qualified from previous round are joined by the two
Primeira Liga
The Primeira Liga (), also known as Liga Portugal Betclic for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Portugal and the highest level of the Portuguese football league system. Organised and supervised by the Liga ...
promoted teams and also the six-worst in the top league in the previous season. There will be two-legged fixtures in which the winners will advance. The third round is where the remaining top eight teams from previous season first division enter the competition. Again, as in the first round, the 16 teams are divided into four groups and each team will play three matches. However this time, only group winners advance. Both semi-finals and finals are one-legged fixtures.
Participating clubs
* Clubs starting from the first round:
Gil Vicente,
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 ...
,
Desportivo das Aves,
Varzim,
Santa Clara,
Freamunde,
Feirense,
Oliveirense,
Covilhã
Covilhã (), officially Covilhã City (), is a city and a concelho, municipality in the Centro, Portugal, Centro region, Portugal. The city proper had 33,691 inhabitants in 2021. The municipality population in 2021 was 46,455 in an area of . It is ...
,
Trofense,
Fátima,
Penafiel
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,
Arouca,
Moreirense,
Belenenses,
Leixões
* Clubs starting from the second round:
Académica,
Paços de Ferreira,
Rio Ave,
União de Leiria,
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 ...
,
Vitória de Setúbal,
Beira-Mar,
Portimonense
* Clubs starting from the third round:
Porto
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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, ,
Benfica,
Nacional,
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 ...
,
Naval
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,
Vitória de Guimarães,
Marítimo
First round
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Second round
The matches were played on October 10 to 28 (first legs) and November 10, 17 and 20, 2010 (second legs).
Third round
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout phase
Semi-finals
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Final
External links
Official webpageOfficial regulationOfficial statistics
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