2022–23 Primeira Liga

The 2022–23 Liga Portugal (also known as Liga Portugal Bwin^[2] for sponsorship reasons) was the 89th season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs, and the second season under the current Liga Portugal title. This was the sixth Primeira Liga season to use video assistant referee (VAR). Benfica won the league, having secured a record 38th league title.

Liga Portugal

Season	2022–23
Dates	5 August 2022 – 27 May 2023
Champions	Benfica 38th title
Relegated	Marítimo Paços de Ferreira Santa Clara
Champions League	Benfica Porto Braga
Europa League	Sporting CP
Europa Conference League	Vitória de Guimarães Arouca
Matches played	306
Goals scored	742 (2.42 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mehdi Taremi (22 goals)
Biggest home win	Braga 5–0 Marítimo (21 August 2022) Benfica 5–0 Marítimo (18 September 2022) Benfica 5–0 Chaves (29 October 2022) Sporting CP 5–0 Braga (1 February 2023)
Biggest away win	Arouca 0–6 Braga (28 August 2022)
Highest scoring	Braga 5–3 Santa Clara (14 May 2023)
Longest winning run	10 matches Benfica[1]
Longest unbeaten run	13 matches Benfica[1]
Longest winless run	17 matches Santa Clara[1]
Longest losing run	9 matches Santa Clara[1]
Highest attendance	64,012 Benfica 3–0 Santa Clara (27 May 2023)[1]
Lowest attendance	530 Casa Pia 2–1 Paços de Ferreira (6 March 2023)[1]
Attendance	3,355,107 (10,964 per match)
← 2021–22 2023–24 →

Porto were the defending champions, having won their 30th title at the previous season. Rio Ave, Casa Pia and Chaves joined as the promoted clubs from the 2021–22 Liga Portugal 2 replacing Belenenses SAD, Tondela and Moreirense, which were relegated to 2022–23 Liga Portugal 2.

As the 2022 FIFA World Cup was held between 20 November and 18 December 2022 due to the climatic conditions of the host country Qatar, the league featured an extended pause during the season. As national team players had to be released by their clubs on 14 November 2022, the last Primeira Liga matchday before the break was scheduled for 13 November (matchday 13). The league resumed nine weeks later on 28 December.^[3]

Teams

Changes

The three teams promoted from the 2021–22 Liga Portugal 2 were Rio Ave (finishing first, promoted after a one-year absence), Casa Pia (finishing second, promoted after an 83-year absence) and Chaves (won promotion play-offs, promoted after a three-year absence), replacing Moreirense (relegated after eight years), Tondela (relegated after seven years) and Belenenses SAD (never relegated before).^{[note 1]}

Stadia and locations

Benfica

Braga

Porto

Sporting CP

Famalicão

V. Guimarães

Boavista

Gil Vicente

P. Ferreira

Portimonense

Estoril

Vizela

Arouca

Rio Ave

Casa Pia

Chaves

Location of teams in 2022–23 Primeira Liga (Mainland)

Marítimo

Location of teams in 2022–23 Primeira Liga (Madeira)

Santa Clara

Location of teams in 2022–23 Primeira Liga (Azores)

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity	2021–22
Arouca	Arouca	Estádio Municipal de Arouca	5,600	15th
Benfica	Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	64,642	3rd
Boavista	Porto	Estádio do Bessa	28,263	12th
Braga	Braga	Estádio Municipal de Braga	30,286	4th
Casa Pia	Lisbon	Estádio Municipal de Rio Maior[4]	7,000	2nd (LP2)
Chaves	Chaves	Estádio Municipal Eng.º Manuel Branco Teixeira	8,396	3rd (LP2)
Estoril	Estoril	Estádio António Coimbra da Mota	5,100	9th
Famalicão	Vila Nova de Famalicão	Estádio Municipal 22 de Junho	5,186	8th
Gil Vicente	Barcelos	Estádio Cidade de Barcelos	12,046	5th
Marítimo	Funchal	Estádio do Marítimo	10,600	10th
Paços de Ferreira	Paços de Ferreira	Estádio Capital do Móvel	9,076	11th
Portimonense	Portimão	Estádio Municipal de Portimão	6,204	13th
Porto	Porto	Estádio do Dragão	50,033	1st
Rio Ave	Vila do Conde	Estádio dos Arcos	5,300	1st (LP2)
Santa Clara	Ponta Delgada	Estádio de São Miguel	12,500	7th
Sporting CP	Lisbon	Estádio José Alvalade	50,095	2nd
Vitória de Guimarães	Guimarães	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	30,29	6th
Vizela	Vizela	Estádio do FC Vizela	6,000	14th

Personnel and sponsors

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit Manufacturer	Main Sponsor
Arouca	Armando Evangelista	João Basso	Skita	Construções Carlos Pinho
Benfica	Roger Schmidt	Nicolás Otamendi	Adidas	Emirates
Boavista	Petit	Rafael Bracali	Kelme	Placard
Braga	Artur Jorge	Ricardo Horta	Hummel	Moosh
Casa Pia	Filipe Martins	Vasco Fernandes	Macron	ESC Online
Chaves	Vítor Campelos	João Teixeira	Lacatoni	Forte de São Francisco Hotel
Estoril	Ricardo Soares	Joãozinho	Kappa	Solverde
Famalicão	João Pedro Sousa	Riccieli	Macron	Placard
Gil Vicente	Daniel Sousa	Rúben Fernandes	Lacatoni	Barcelos Tourism
Marítimo	José Gomes	Edgar Costa	Puma	Betano
Paços de Ferreira	César Peixoto	Antunes	Joma	Solverde
Portimonense	Paulo Sérgio	Pedro Sá	Mizuno	McDonald's
Porto	Sérgio Conceição	Pepe	New Balance	Betano
Rio Ave	Luís Freire	Vítor Gomes	Puma	MEO
Santa Clara	Danildo Accioly	Pierre Sagna	Kelme	Solverde
Sporting CP	Ruben Amorim	Sebastián Coates	Nike	Betano
Vitória de Guimarães	Moreno	Tiago Silva	Macron	Placard
Vizela	Manuel Tulipa	Kiki Afonso	Lacatoni	Vizela Tourism

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner	Date of vacancy	Pos in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment	Ref.
Benfica	Nélson Veríssimo	End of caretaker role	15 May 2022	Pre-season	Roger Schmidt	1 June 2022	[5]
Braga	Carlos Carvalhal	Resigned			Artur Jorge		[6]
Gil Vicente	Ricardo Soares	Signed by Al-Ahly	28 June 2022		Ivo Vieira	28 June 2022	[7]
Estoril	Bruno Pinheiro	Mutual consent	1 July 2022		Nélson Veríssimo	2 July 2022	[8]
Vitória de Guimarães	Pepa	Suspended and fired	12 July 2022		Moreno	13 July 2022	[9]
Marítimo	Vasco Seabra	Sacked	5 September 2022	18th	João Henriques	8 September 2022	[10]
Famalicão	Rui Pedro Silva	Mutual consent	20 September 2022	16th	João Pedro Sousa	22 September 2022	[11][12]
Paços de Ferreira	César Peixoto	Sacked	16 October 2022	17th	José Mota	18 October 2022	[13]
Gil Vicente	Ivo Vieira		2 November 2022	16th	Carlos Cunha (caretaker)	2 November 2022	[14]
	Carlos Cunha (caretaker)	End of interim spell	14 November 2022	16th	Daniel Sousa	14 November 2022	[15]
Vizela	Álvaro Pacheco	Sacked	30 November 2022	13th	Tulipa (caretaker)	30 November 2022	[16]
Marítimo	João Henriques		15 December 2022	17th	José Gomes	15 December 2022	[17]
Paços de Ferreira	José Mota		16 December 2022	18th	Marco Paiva (caretaker)	31 December 2022	[18]
	Marco Paiva (caretaker)	End of caretaker role	31 December 2022	18th	César Peixoto	1 January 2023	[19]
Santa Clara	Mário Silva	Sacked	6 January 2023	15th	Jorge Simão	11 January 2023	[20]
Estoril	Nélson Veríssimo		24 February 2023	15th	Ricardo Soares	28 February 2023	[21]
Santa Clara	Jorge Simão		26 February 2023	17th	Danildo Accioly	26 February 2023	[22]

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Benfica (C)	34	28	3	3	82	20	+62	87	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Porto	34	27	4	3	73	22	+51	85
3	Braga	34	25	3	6	75	30	+45	78	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
4	Sporting CP	34	23	5	6	71	32	+39	74	Qualification for the Europa League group stage
5	Arouca	34	15	9	10	36	37	−1	54	Qualification for the Europa Conference League third qualifying round
6	Vitória de Guimarães	34	16	5	13	34	39	−5	53	Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round
7	Chaves	34	12	10	12	35	40	−5	46
8	Famalicão	34	13	5	16	39	47	−8	44
9	Boavista	34	12	8	14	43	54	−11	44
10	Casa Pia	34	11	8	15	31	40	−9	41
11	Vizela	34	11	7	16	34	38	−4	40[a]
12	Rio Ave	34	10	10	14	36	43	−7	40[a]
13	Gil Vicente	34	10	7	17	32	41	−9	37
14	Estoril	34	10	5	19	33	49	−16	35
15	Portimonense	34	10	4	20	25	48	−23	34
16	Marítimo (R)	34	7	5	22	32	63	−31	26	Qualification for the Relegation play-offs
17	Paços de Ferreira (R)	34	6	5	23	26	62	−36	23	Relegation to Liga Portugal 2
18	Santa Clara (R)	34	5	7	22	26	58	−32	22

Source: Liga Portugal
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Matches won; 6) Goals scored; 7) Play-off.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Vizela finished ahead of Rio Ave on head-to-head points: Rio Ave 0–1 Vizela, Vizela 3–1 Rio Ave.

Relegation play-offs

The relegation play-offs took place on 3 and 11 June 2023, between Marítimo, who finished 16th in the Primeira Liga, and Estrela da Amadora, who finished 3rd in Liga Portugal 2.

All times are WEST (UTC+1).

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Estrela da Amadora	3–3 (3–2 p)	Marítimo	2–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)

3 June 2023 (2023-06-03)

20:00

Estrela da Amadora	2–1	Marítimo
Régis N'do 3' Jean Felipe 80'	Report	Cláudio Winck 87'

Estádio José Gomes, Amadora

Attendance: 6,928

Referee: André Narciso (Portugal)

11 June 2023 (2023-06-11)

20:15

Marítimo	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Estrela da Amadora
Xadas 18' Ramírez 90+6'	Report	Lopes 26'
Penalties
Cláudio Winck Mendes Vidigal Ramírez Correia	2–3	Jean Felipe Mansur Aloísio Vito

Estádio do Marítimo, Funchal, Madeira

Attendance: 10,035

Referee: João Pinheiro (Portugal)

Results

Home \ Away	ARO	BEN	BOA	BRA	CAS	CHA	EST	FAM	GIL	MAR	PAC	PTM	POR	RAV	STA	SPO	VSC	VIZ
Arouca	—	0–3	1–2	0–6	2–0	1–0	2–0	4–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	4–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–2	1–0
Benfica	4–0	—	3–1	1–0	3–0	5–0	1–0	2–0	3–1	5–0	3–2	1–0	1–2	4–2	3–0	2–2	5–1	2–1
Boavista	0–0	0–3	—	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	4–2	1–4	3–2	2–1	2–1	2–1	2–2
Braga	2–0	3–0	1–0	—	0–1	0–1	4–1	4–1	1–0	5–0	3–0	4–1	0–0	2–0	5–3	3–3	1–0	2–0
Casa Pia	0–0	0–1	2–0	0–1	—	1–2	2–2	1–0	1–3	2–0	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	3–4	0–0	0–1
Chaves	1–1	1–0	1–4	1–2	1–0	—	1–1	0–2	3–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	1–3	1–1	0–0	2–3	0–1	1–1
Estoril	2–0	1–5	2–1	0–2	2–0	0–2	—	2–0	1–0	3–1	1–3	0–1	1–1	2–2	3–0	0–2	0–1	0–3
Famalicão	0–1	0–1	4–0	0–3	1–0	1–2	1–0	—	0–1	3–2	2–1	1–0	2–4	0–0	1–0	1–2	2–1	2–1
Gil Vicente	1–1	0–2	3–1	0–1	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	—	2–0	1–0	1–2	0–2	2–2	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–1
Marítimo	1–1	0–3	4–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–0	0–0	1–2	—	3–1	0–1	0–2	2–2	3–1	1–0	1–2	1–0
Paços de Ferreira	1–1	0–2	1–3	1–2	2–3	1–1	0–3	1–3	2–1	0–1	—	0–3	0–2	3–1	1–0	0–4	0–1	0–2
Portimonense	0–2	1–5	0–1	1–2	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	—	0–2	2–2	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–1
Porto	5–1	0–1	1–0	4–1	2–1	3–0	3–2	4–1	1–2	5–1	4–0	1–0	—	1–0	2–1	3–0	3–0	2–0
Rio Ave	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–3	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–2	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	3–1	—	1–0	0–1	0–1	0–1
Santa Clara	1–2	0–3	2–2	0–4	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–3	3–2	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–2	—	1–2	1–3	0–1
Sporting CP	1–1	2–2	3–0	5–0	3–1	0–2	2–0	2–1	3–1	2–1	3–0	4–0	1–2	3–0	3–0	—	3–0	2–1
Vitória de Guimarães	0–2	0–0	3–2	2–1	0–1	2–1	1–0	3–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–2	—	3–0
Vizela	0–1	0–2	1–1	0–4	3–1	0–0	0–1	0–0	2–2	3–0	1–2	1–0	0–1	3–1	0–1	1–2	3–0	—

Source: Liga Portugal
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Benfica	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Porto	1	1	1	3	3	3	3	2	2	3	3	2	2	2	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Braga	8	5	3	2	2	2	2	3	3	2	2	3	3	3	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Sporting CP	9	6	10	13	9	7	8	7	6	4	6	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Arouca	18	12	7	10	10	12	12	13	11	11	10	8	9	10	7	7	6	7	7	7	7	6	7	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	6	5
Vitória de Guimarães	4	4	5	8	11	9	9	9	9	6	5	6	6	6	6	6	7	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	6	6	7	6	6	5	5	6
Chaves	12	9	11	6	6	10	11	11	10	9	11	11	8	9	10	9	8	10	9	8	9	13	13	13	11	11	11	10	10	8	7	7	7	7
Famalicão	16	18	16	15	16	16	16	15	15	14	14	14	15	14	13	14	15	12	13	15	13	10	12	9	9	10	9	8	6	7	8	8	8	8
Boavista	4	3	6	9	5	5	5	6	5	7	7	9	11	12	8	11	11	9	8	9	11	8	8	10	12	13	12	12	11	12	10	10	10	9
Casa Pia	10	14	9	7	7	6	6	4	4	5	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	6	7	6	7	7	7	8	9	9	10	9	9	9	10
Vizela	4	10	12	11	12	13	14	14	12	13	12	13	13	11	12	8	9	8	10	10	8	11	9	11	10	8	7	7	8	9	11	11	11	11
Rio Ave	12	15	15	14	13	14	13	10	13	12	13	12	10	7	9	10	10	11	14	12	12	9	11	8	8	9	10	11	12	11	12	12	12	12
Gil Vicente	4	10	13	12	14	11	10	12	14	15	16	16	16	16	16	15	14	15	15	14	14	12	10	12	13	12	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	13
Estoril	3	8	8	5	8	8	7	8	7	8	8	10	12	13	14	13	13	14	12	13	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	14
Portimonense	12	7	4	4	4	4	4	5	8	10	9	7	7	8	11	12	12	13	11	11	11	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	13	15
Marítimo	17	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	16	16	16	17	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16
Paços de Ferreira	12	15	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17
Santa Clara	10	13	14	16	15	15	15	16	16	16	15	15	14	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	17	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18

	Leader and Champions League group stage
	Champions League group stage
	Champions League third qualifying round
	Europa League group stage
	Europa Conference League third qualifying round
	Europa Conference League second qualifying round
	Relegation Play-off
	Relegation to Liga Portugal 2

Source: Liga Portugal

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[23]
1	Mehdi Taremi	Porto	22
2	Gonçalo Ramos	Benfica	19
3	João Mário	Benfica	17
	Fran Navarro	Gil Vicente
5	Pedro Gonçalves	Sporting	15
6	Ricardo Horta	Braga	14
7	Yusupha Njie	Boavista	13
8	Simon Banza	Braga	11
9	Iuri Medeiros	Braga	10
	Francisco Trincão	Sporting

Hat-tricks

Main article: List of Primeira Liga hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Mehdi Taremi	Porto	Arouca	5–1 (H)	28 December 2022
Francisco Trincão	Sporting	Casa Pia	4–3 (A)	9 April 2023
Mehdi Taremi4	Porto	Famalicão	4–2 (A)	20 May 2023

Notes

(H) – Home team
(A) – Away team
⁴ Player scored four goals.

Top assists

Rank	Player	Club	Assists[24]
1	Pedro Gonçalves	Sporting	11
2	David Neres	Benfica	9
	Álex Grimaldo	Benfica
4	Ricardo Horta	Braga	8
5	Mehdi Taremi	Porto	7
	Ricardo Horta	Braga
	Otávio	Porto
	Ivo Rodrigues	Famalicão
	Pepê	Porto
	João Mário	Benfica
	Tiago Santos	Estoril

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets[25]
1	Odysseas Vlachodimos	Benfica	21
2	Matheus	Braga	16
	Diogo Costa	Porto
4	Ignacio de Arruabarrena	Arouca	14
5	Bruno Varela	Vitória de Guimarães	13
	Antonio Adán	Sporting CP
7	Ricardo Batista	Casa Pia	11
	Fabijan Buntić	Vizela
9	Jhonatan	Rio Ave	10
	Luiz Júnior	Famalicão

Discipline

Player

• Most yellow cards: 17^[26]
  • Guima (Chaves)
• Most red cards: 2^[27]
  • Tiago Silva (Vitória de Guimarães)
  • Edgar Costa (Marítimo)
  • Reggie Cannon (Boavista)
  • Maracás (Paços de Ferreira)
  • Renê Santos (Marítimo)
  • Sikou Niakaté (Braga)
  • Jerome Opoku (Arouca)

Club

• Most yellow cards: 106^[28]
  • Santa Clara
  • Vitória de Guimarães
• Most red cards: 10^[28]
  • Paços de Ferreira
  • Chaves
  • Marítimo
  • Vitória de Guimarães

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Player of the Month		Goalkeeper of the Month		Defender of the Month		Midfielder of the Month		Forward of the Month		Manager of the Month		Goal of the Month
	Player	Club	Player	Club	Player	Club	Player	Club	Player	Club	Manager	Club	Player	Club
August	Simon Banza	Braga	Ricardo Batista	Casa Pia	Morato	Benfica	Enzo Fernández	Benfica	Simon Banza	Braga	Roger Schmidt	Benfica	Rildo	Santa Clara
September	Mehdi Taremi	Porto	Odysseas Vlachodimos	Benfica	António Silva	Benfica	Stephen Eustáquio	Porto	Mehdi Taremi	Porto	Filipe Martins	Casa Pia	Bruno Lourenço	Boavista
October/November	Gonçalo Ramos	Benfica	Diogo Costa	Porto			Enzo Fernández	Benfica	Gonçalo Ramos	Benfica	Roger Schmidt	Benfica	N/A	N/A
December/January	João Mário	Benfica			Álex Grimaldo	Benfica	João Mário	Benfica	Fran Navarro	Gil Vicente
February											João Aroso[note 2]	Vitória de Guimarães	Matheus Reis	Sporting
March	Gonçalo Ramos	Benfica	Matheus	Braga	João Basso	Arouca			Gonçalo Ramos	Benfica	Armando Evangelista	Arouca	Nuno Santos	Sporting
April	Ricardo Horta	Braga	Ignacio de Arruabarrena	Arouca	Pepe	Porto	Iván Jaime	Famalicão	Ricardo Horta	Braga	Artur Jorge	Braga	Bruno Lourenço	Boavista

Annual awards

Award	Winner	Club
Player of the Season[30]	Otávio	Porto
Manager of the Season[31]	Roger Schmidt	Benfica
Young Player of the Season[32]	Iván Jaime	Famalicão
Top scorer[33]	Mehdi Taremi	Porto

Costa Pepe Silva Otamendi Grimaldo Ugarte Otávio João Mário Horta Ramos Taremi Team of the Year [34]

Team of the Year
Goalkeeper	Diogo Costa (Porto)
Defence	António Silva (Benfica)	Pepe (Porto)	Nicolás Otamendi (Benfica)	Álex Grimaldo (Benfica)
Midfield	Mehdi Taremi (Porto)	Otávio (Porto)	Manuel Ugarte (Sporting CP)	João Mário (Benfica)	Ricardo Horta (Braga)
Attack	Gonçalo Ramos (Benfica)

Number of teams by district

Rank	District Football Associations	Number	Teams
1	Braga	5	Braga, Famalicão, Gil Vicente, Vitória de Guimarães and Vizela
2	Lisbon	4	Casa Pia, Benfica, Estoril and Sporting CP
	Porto		Boavista, Paços de Ferreira, Porto and Rio Ave
4	Aveiro	1	Arouca
	Faro		Portimonense
	Funchal		Marítimo
	Ponta Delgada		Santa Clara
	Vila Real		Chaves

Notes

1. Belenenses SAD were founded in June 2018. When they were founded, they immediately replaced C.F. Os Belenenses in the Primeira Liga, who had been promoted to the Primeira Liga in 2013 (nine years before this season).
2. Aroso was awarded the prize, due to Moreno not having the required coaching level to manage Vitória de Guimarães.^[29]