The 2020 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was the 42nd edition of 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 ...

. It was played between the champions of the

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and winners of the 2019–20 Taça de Portugal,

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, and the runners-up of the Taça de Portugal, Benfica, on 23 December 2020. Porto won the match 2–0 to secure their second Supertaça title in three years and extend their record to 22 titles overall.

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

Due to the

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, the FPF,

and Benfica announced on 1 July 2020 that this season's Supertaça would be suspended, providing a clearer schedule at the start of the season. A month later, on 5 August, the date of 23 December was decided for the match.

Venue

The

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announced on 16 October 2020 that the

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would host this season's Supertaça in December, as well as the postponed finals from the previous season's Taça de Portugal Feminina and

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. This was the tenth time the Supertaça was played at the Estádio Municipal de Aveiro, having hosted all Supertaça matches but two since 2009, both of them played at

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, in 2015 and 2019.

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