The 2024–25 Taça da Liga was the eighteenth edition 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 ...

(also known as Allianz Cup for sponsorship reasons), a

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league cup competition organised by the

Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional The Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional (English: Portuguese Professional Football League), also known by its acronym LPFP, is a governing body that manages professional football club competitions in Portugal. It was founded in 1978 as Liga Po ...

and contested exclusively by clubs competing in the two professional divisions of

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– the top-tier

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 the second-tier

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 ...

. This season featured only eight teams in the competition.

Format

As a response to the increasing density of the football calendar, the competition introduced a new format compared to the previous seasons, featuring only eight teams instead of the all the teams from Primeira Liga and Liga Portugal 2. The top six teams from the

and the top two non-reserve teams from the

were paired according to their league positions to play single-leg quarter-final matches: *1st place (Primeira Liga) vs. 2nd place (Liga Portugal 2) *2nd place (Primeira Liga) vs. 1st place (Liga Portugal 2) *3rd place (Primeira Liga) vs. 6th place (Primeira Liga) *4th place (Primeira Liga) vs. 5th place (Primeira Liga) The winners qualified to the final-four tournament, which was played at a neutral venue and comprised two single-leg semi-finals and a final. The final four was played at the Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa, in

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Qualified teams

Quarter-finals

In this round, with the best placed teams playing at home.

Final-four

The final-four is played from 7 to 11 January 2025 in Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa,

, and comprised the semi-finals and final of the competition.

Bracket

Semi-finals

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Final

References

External links

Liga Portugal official website
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