The 2023–24 Liga Portugal (also known as Liga Portugal Betclic for sponsorship reasons) was the 90th season of the

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 ...

, the top professional league for Portuguese

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clubs and the third season under the current Liga Portugal title. This was the seventh Primeira Liga season to use video assistant referee (VAR). Benfica were the defending champions, having won their 38th title the previous season. Since Portugal dropped from sixth to seventh place in the UEFA association coefficient rankings at the end of 2022–23 season, only the two best-ranked teams could qualify for the

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(the champions entered directly into the group stage, and the runners-up entered the third qualifying round). The Taça de Portugal winner qualified to the

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group stage, while the third-placed team qualified to the

second qualifying round. The fourth-placed team, meanwhile, qualified to the

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second qualifying round. On 5 May,

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were confirmed as champions with two matches to spare following Benfica's 2–0 away defeat to Famalicão, clinching the club's 20th league title and first since the 2020–21 season.

Teams

Eighteen teams competed in the league – the top fifteen teams from the previous season and the three teams promoted from the

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. The promoted teams were Moreirense, Farense (returning to the top flight after a one and two years absence, respectively), and Estrela da Amadora (promoted for the first time in history in its current form founded in 2020 or after a fourteen-year absence if counting the club that dissolved in 2011 due to bankruptcy). They replaced Marítimo, Paços de Ferreira, and Santa Clara, who were relegated to the

after respective spells of thirty-eight, four, and five years in the top flight. This league season marked the first time since 1984–85 to have no teams from the

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islands in the top-flight.

Stadia and locations

* Estádio Pina Manique official stadium, not licensed for competition

Personnel and sponsors

Managerial changes

League table

Relegation play-offs

The relegation play-offs took place between Portimonense, who finished 16th in the Primeira Liga, and AVS which finished 3rd in Liga Portugal 2. ''All times are

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).''

''AVS won 4–2 on aggregate and were promoted to 2024–25 Primeira Liga; Portimonense were relegated to 2024–25 Liga Portugal 2.''

Results

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Hat-tricks

;Notes (H) – Home team
(A) – Away team

Clean sheets

Discipline

Player

* Most yellow cards: 13 ** Ângelo Neto (

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) * Most red cards: 3 ** Ygor Nogueira ( Chaves)

Club

* Most yellow cards: 99 ** Famalicão * Most red cards: 9 ** Chaves ** Famalicão **

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Awards

Monthly awards

Annual awards

Number of teams by district

Attendances

SL Benfica drew the highest average home attendance in the 2023-24 edition of the Primeira Liga.

Notes

References

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