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, the seventeenth season of the

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. It was played on 27 January 2024 at Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa. The competition involved the 34 clubs playing in the top two tiers of the

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– 18 from

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and 16 from

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– during the 2022–23 season. Reserve sides of Primeira Liga teams that played in the

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were excluded from the competition.

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and

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faced off for the first time in the first final involving both teams, with Estoril making into their first cup final since the 1944 Taça de Portugal final. In the final, Braga won the final 5–4 after a

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, thus becoming only the third team (after Benfica and

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) in the competition's history to win the Taça da Liga for their third time.

Background

This season featured 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. Braga made their fifth appearance in the Taça da Liga final after their last final in

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, where they were defeated by

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,

2–1. Estoril made into their first appearance in any national competition final in the club's history in 80 years, with their last cup final being in the 1944 Taça de Portugal final, where they lost to Benfica.

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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