The 2018–19 season was

Futebol Clube do Porto Futebol Clube do Porto, MHIH, 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 football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Port ...

's 109th competitive season and 85th consecutive season in the top flight of

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. It began on 4 August 2018 and concluded on 25 May 2019. Porto started the season with a 3–1 victory in the

Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira The Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira (; English: Cândido de Oliveira Super Cup, or simply Portuguese Super Cup) is an annual Portuguese association football, football match played since 1979 between the winners of the top-tier league (Primeira L ...

against the 2017–18 Taça de Portugal holders, Desportivo das Aves, which secured the club's 21st Supertaça win and first since

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. Porto led the

2018–19 Primeira Liga The 2018–19 Primeira Liga (also known as Liga NOS for sponsorship reasons) was the 85th season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs. Porto were the defending champions but finished behind B ...

for more than half of the season, but lost it to Benfica on 2 March 2019, after a 1–2 home defeat. Porto finished the league as runners-up with 85 points, two points behind Benfica. Porto reached the finals of the 2018–19 Taça da Liga and the

2018–19 Taça de Portugal The 2018–19 Taça de Portugal (also known as Taça de Portugal Placard for sponsorship reasons) was the 79th edition of the Taça de Portugal, the premier knockout competition in Portuguese football. The competition began with first-round match ...

, but were defeated on both occasions by

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after a

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, for the second consecutive season. In

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, Porto participated for the 8th consecutive and 23rd overall time in the

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group stage, a record shared with

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and

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. They advanced to the round of 16 as group winners, where they beat Italian side

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to qualify for the quarter-finals for the first time since 2015. For the second consecutive season, they were eliminated from the competition after losing to English side

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Players

Squad information

Transfers and loans

In

Total expending: €27.2 million

Out

Total income: €65 million

Loan in

Loan return

Loan out

Technical staff

{, class=wikitable , - !Position !Staff , - , Head coach , ,

Sérgio Conceição Sérgio Paulo Marceneiro da Conceição (; born 15 November 1974) is a Portuguese professional football manager and former player who mostly played as a right winger. Throughout his career, he played for ten teams in five countries. After gain ...

, - , rowspan=2, Assistant coaches , ,

Siramana Dembélé Siramana Dembélé (born 27 January 1977 in Paris, France), is a French former footballer and current assistant coach of AC Milan. In the summer of 2005, Dembélé joined Portuguese side Vitória Setúbal from Nîmes, in which he would play fo ...

, - , Vítor Bruno , - , rowspan=3, Fitness coaches , , Manuel Vítor , - , Telmo Sousa , - , Eduardo Oliveira , - , Goalkeeping coach , , Diamantino Figueiredo , -

Pre-season and friendlies

Competitions

Overall record

Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira

Primeira Liga

League table

Results by round

Matches

Taça de Portugal

Third round

Fourth round

Fifth round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Taça da Liga

Third round

Semi-finals

Final

UEFA Champions League

Group stage

Knockout phase

=Round of 16

=Quarter-finals

Statistics

Appearances and discipline

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Iker Casillas Iker Casillas Fernández (; born 20 May 1981) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper and currently works as a football commentator. Popularly dubbed "''San Iker''" ("Saint Iker") for his ability to produce miracu ...

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Maxi Pereira Victorio Maximiliano "Maxi" Pereira Páez (; born 8 June 1984) is a Uruguayan former professional footballer who played as a right-back. He played with Defensor in Uruguay, joining Benfica in 2007 and going on to remain with the club for eight ...

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Éder Militão Éder Gabriel Militão Pinheiro (born 18 January 1998) is a Brazilian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a centre-back for the La Liga club Real Madrid CF, Real Madrid and the Brazil national football team, Brazil nationa ...

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Yacine Brahimi Yacine Nasreddine Brahimi (; born 8 February 1990) is a professional footballer who plays for and captains the Qatari club Al-Gharafa and the Algeria national team. He plays as an attacking midfielder and a winger and is described as "technica ...

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Vincent Aboubakar Vincent Paté Aboubakar (born 22 January 1992) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who most recently played as a striker for Süper Lig club Hatayspor and captains the Cameroon national team. Aboubakar began his career at Coton Sport a ...

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Óliver Torres Óliver Torres Muñoz (; born 10 November 1994) is a Spanish professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Midfielder#Central midfielder, central or Midfielder#Attacking midfielder, attacking midfielder for Liga MX club C.F. Monte ...

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Alex Telles Alex Nicolao Telles (; born 15 December 1992) is a Brazilian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a left-back for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas, Botafogo. Telles started his career at Br ...

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Héctor Herrera Héctor Miguel Herrera López (; born 19 April 1990) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as midfielder for Liga MX club Toluca. Herrera made his professional debut for Pachuca. Three years later, he was transferred to Portuguese cl ...

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Adrián López Adrián López Álvarez (; born 8 January 1988), known simply as Adrián, is a Spanish former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), forward, currently assistant coach at La Liga club Rayo ...

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Felipe Felipe is the Spanish variant of the name Philip, which derives from the Greek adjective ''Philippos'' "friend of horses". Felipe is also widely used in Portuguese-speaking Brazil alongside Filipe, the form commonly used in Portugal. Noteworthy ...

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Diogo Costa Diogo Meireles da Costa (; born 19 September 1999) is a Portugese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Primeira Liga club Porto, which he captains. Born in Switzerland, he plays for the Portugal national team. He is consider ...

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Pepe Pepe is a pet form of the Spanish and Portuguese name José (Joseph). It is also a surname. * People Mononyms *Pepe (footballer, born 1935), Brazilian footballer José Macia *Pepe (footballer, born 1983), Brazilian-born Portuguese footballer ...

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Fernando Fernando is a Spanish and Portuguese given name and a surname common in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Switzerland, and former Spanish or Portuguese colonies in Latin America, Africa and Asia (like the Philippines, India, and Sri Lanka). It is e ...

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Goalscorers

{, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;" , - !Rank ! ! !Player ! Supertaça !

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Clean sheets

{, class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" , - ! !Player ! Supertaça !

! Champions League !Total , - , 1 , align=left ,

, 0 , , 18 , , 0 , , 0 , , 1 , , 19 , - , 40 , align=left , Fabiano , 0 , , 0 , , 3 , , 0 , , 0 , , 3 , - , 26 , align=left , Vaná , 0 , , 2 , , 0 , , 0 , , 0 , , 2 , - !colspan=2, Totals !0 !!20 !!3 !!0 !!1 !!24

References

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