The 2022 Taça da Liga final was the final match of the 2021–22 Taça da Liga, the fifteenth season of the

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 ...

. It was played on 29 January 2022 at Estádio Municipal de Leiria. The competition involved the 34 clubs playing in the top two tiers of the

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– 18 from

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 ...

and 16 from

Liga Portugal 2 The Liga Portugal 2 (), also known as Liga Portugal Meu Super for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division of the Portuguese football league system. At the end of each season, the two top-finishing teams are promoted to the top-tier Pr ...

– during the 2021–22 season. Reserve sides of Primeira Liga teams that played in the

2020–21 Liga Portugal 2 The 2020–21 Liga Portugal 2, also known as Liga Portugal SABSEG for sponsorship reasons, was the 31st season of Portuguese football's second-tier league, and the first season under the current Liga Portugal 2 title. A total of 18 teams were comp ...

were excluded from the competition. The competition format suffered changes for a to accommodate a reduction in the number of participating teams, particularly from the Liga Portugal 2. Benfica and

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,

faced off for the second time in a rematch of the 2009 final. In the final, Sporting defeated Benfica 2–1 to earn its fourth title in their sixth final, with Benfica losing their first final. Sporting became the second team (after Benfica) in the competition's history to win the competition four times.

Background

The competition format suffered changes this season featuring the return of the

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format with both the semi-finals and the final being played over a space of a few days in the same venue. The Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa hosted all matches. The two teams had played in the second final in 2009 with Benfica winning on penalty kicks.

Route to the final

''Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).''

Match

Summary

Details

References

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