The 2016–17

FC Porto Futebol Clube do Porto, Order of Prince Henry, MHIH, Order of Merit (Portugal), OM (), commonly known as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Porto. It is best known for the professional association footbal ...

season was the club's 107th competitive season and the 83rd consecutive season in the top flight of

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. It began on 12 August 2016 and concluded on 21 May 2017. For the third consecutive season, Porto failed to win any of the official competitions in which it was involved. The last time the team had at least three successive seasons without winning a trophy was before 1976–77. As in the previous two seasons, Porto did not begin their campaign by playing the

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, as they failed to qualify for the 2016 edition by not winning either the

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title (retained by Benfica) or the

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(final lost to

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). Their

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debut match was a 3–1 away win against Rio Ave, with Mexican winger Jesús Corona scoring the team's first league goal. Porto finished the league in second place with 76 points, 6 points behind four-time champions Benfica, thus failing to win the title for the fourth successive season, which had not happened since the 1982–83 season. Besides competing for the Primeira Liga title, Porto participated in other domestic competitions. In the

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, they were eliminated in the fourth round by Chaves, losing 3–2 after a

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. The team also participated in the

2016–17 Taça da Liga The 2016–17 Taça da Liga was the tenth edition of the Taça da Liga, a football cup competition organized by the Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional (LPFP) and contested exclusively by clubs competing in the top two professional tiers of Po ...

, but were eliminated in the starting round for the second consecutive season after finishing last in their third-round group. In

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, Porto secured their sixth consecutive and 21st overall participation in the

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group stage – a record shared with

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and

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– after overcoming the

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. They reached the round of 16, where they were eliminated by eventual losing finalists

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Players

Squad information

Transfers

In

Loan in

Loan return

Out

Loan out

Technical staff

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Nuno Espírito Santo Nuno Herlander Simões Espírito Santo (born 25 January 1974), known as Nuno Espírito Santo or simply Nuno, is a Portuguese-São Toméan Manager (association football), football manager and former Football player, player who played as a Goalkee ...

, - , Assistant coach(es) , ,

Rui Barros Rui Gil Soares de Barros (born 24 November 1965) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder, currently a manager. He played with success in Portugal (at Porto), Italy – at Juventus – and France (two ...

Rui Pedro Silva , - , Goalkeeping coach , , Rui Barbosa , - , Fitness coach , , António Dias , -

Pre-season and friendlies

Porto announced their pre-season fixture list on 22 June 2016.

Competitions

Overall record

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, ,

Round of 16 A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, w ...

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Primeira Liga

League table

Results by round

Matches

Taça de Portugal

Third round

Fourth round

Taça da Liga

Third round

UEFA Champions League

Play-off round

Group stage

Round of 16

Statistics

Appearances and discipline

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Goalscorers

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References

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