The FPF says Ronaldo did specific gym work at the team hotel because the stadium lacked the equipment. Denmark v Portugal is Thursday at 19:45 Lisbon time at Parken, live on RTP1 and Sport TV 1.

Cristiano Ronaldo, João Félix and Francisco Conceição did not train with the group on Tuesday in Malmö, Sweden, two days before the game against Denmark. Portugal play in Copenhagen on Thursday at 19:45 Lisbon time, and the match page is on UEFA's site. Ronaldo walked out onto the pitch and stood by the substitutes' bench before the session began, then went to the dressing room and back to the hotel. He did not appear in the 15 minutes open to the press.…

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Félix opened the scoring, Haaland levelled from a loose ball after a free kick, and Gonçalo Ramos won it by chipping Nyland. Portugal lead Group A4 on six points and head to Copenhagen.

Portugal won 2-1 in Oslo and now sit alone at the top of Nations League Group A4 with six points from two games. The result is on UEFA's official match page; what the scoreline doesn't tell you is that Cristiano Ronaldo, 41, watched the whole thing from the bench. Jorge Jesus made four changes to the side that beat Wales. Gonçalo Ramos, João Neves, Francisco Conceição and João Palhinha started, and Ronaldo stayed on the bench for all 90 minutes.…

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FC Porto overturned a ten-point half-time deficit to beat Sporting 80-76 in the Supertaça Mário Saldanha in Albufeira, taking their 9th basketball title of all time.

FC Porto were ten points down at half-time. They ended the night with the basketball Super Cup. The Porto side beat Sporting 80-76 on Saturday at the Pavilhão Desportivo de Albufeira, in the 41st edition of the Supertaça Mário Saldanha. At half-time the board read Sporting 41, FC Porto 31 — a ten-point lead for the reigning Portuguese Cup holders. The national champions went in behind and came out on top.

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Goals from Gabri Veiga, Froholdt and Hwang, a red card for Lenglet after 34 minutes and a seventh win in seven: FC Porto moved to 21 points, five clear of a Benfica side that had not lost a league game since the 2024/25 season.

They arrived at the clássico with a perfect record and left with it intact: FC Porto beat Benfica 3-1 on Sunday 20 September at the Estádio do Dragão, moving to 21 points in the Primeira Liga, five clear of their Lisbon rivals and six ahead of Sporting. FC Porto's official match report records the matchday 7 result, in front of 49,560 fans. For Benfica it cost more than three points. The defeat ended a 55-game unbeaten run in the league that went back to…

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Félix scored after 22 minutes at Alvalade, and Wales managed a single shot all night. Portugal head to Oslo to face Norway on Sunday.

Jorge Jesus has his first win. Portugal beat Wales 1-0 at Alvalade on Thursday night in matchday one of Nations League Group A4, with João Félix scoring after 22 minutes. It was the new head coach's first competitive game, and at 72 he is the oldest man ever to take the job. The goal came from a move down the left, with Félix arriving in the middle and placing his shot past Danny Ward. Portugal had more of the initiative and the territory (12 attempts,…

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SC Braga's listed company closed 2025/26 with a net result of €17.315m and total income above €100m for the first time. Of the €115.682m that came in, €67.339m came from player trading, mostly the sales of Roger Fernandes, Zalazar and Banza.

SC Braga published the best set of accounts in its history on Tuesday, and reading them honestly comes down to one question: where did the money come from. The listed company closed 2025/26 with a net result of €17.315m, after a loss of roughly €11m the season before. Total income passed €100m for the first time, reaching €115.682m. EBITDA of €39.614m is the highest the company has ever recorded. Equity rose to €86.33m, another record. Of that €115.682m,…

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Gonçalo Inácio and Luis Suárez put Sporting two up inside 17 minutes at Alvalade. Zeno Debast was sent off on 54, Arouca scored on 81 and 87, and white handkerchiefs came out at full time. Rui Borges called the protest natural.

Sporting had this one won by half time and finished it being whistled at. A 2-2 draw with Arouca at Alvalade on matchday seven, 49,943 in the ground, and white handkerchiefs in the air at the end. It started as a comfortable evening. On three minutes Maxi Araújo, playing his hundredth game for the club and honoured on the pitch before kick-off, swung in a short corner and Gonçalo Inácio headed the opener. On 17, Iván Fresneda drove into the box from the…

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Round seven of the Portuguese league at the Estádio do Dragão. Porto arrive with six wins from six and two goals conceded, Benfica two points behind and fresh from a first ever win over Milan at San Siro.

Sunday, 20:30 Lisbon time, Estádio do Dragão. It is the season's first meeting between the two clubs at the top of the Portuguese league, and Benfica's own fixture list carries the date and the kick-off for the round-seven trip north. If you are reading this from Newark, Toronto, London or Paris: Lisbon and the UK and Ireland share a clock right now, so it is 20:30 there too. That makes it 21:30 across most of continental Europe, 16:30 in Rio, 15:30 on…

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Portugal's new head coach named his 25 for the start of the Nations League title defence on Friday at the Cidade do Futebol. João Palhinha returns, and only six of the players picked are at Portuguese clubs.

Twenty-five names, and three of them had never been on a Jorge Jesus list before. Portugal's head coach named his squad at midday on Friday at the Cidade do Futebol for the first four games of the Nations League, and the arrivals that stand out are goalkeeper Samuel Soares, full-back Nuno Tavares and forward Fábio Silva. João Palhinha, left out of the most recent squads, is back in midfield. Much of the rest is the spine that went to the World Cup. Diogo…

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Dodi Lukébakio scored after sixteen minutes and Jakub Kaminski added a second early in the second half at San Siro. The only previous competitive meetings were the 1963 and 1990 European Cup finals, and Benfica lost both.

Benfica won 2-0 at San Siro on the opening matchday of the Europa League league phase. Dodi Lukébakio put them ahead after sixteen minutes and Jakub Kaminski, who had made the first goal, scored the second shortly after the interval. It is the first time the Portuguese club has beaten Milan in a competitive match. The two had met only twice before in a real fixture, and Benfica lost both: the 1963 European Cup final at Wembley and the 1990 final in…

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Milan host Benfica at 20:00 Lisbon time on Wednesday in the first round of the league phase. Gonçalo Ramos and Diego Moreira both came through Benfica's academy, Rúben Amorim coaches the Italian side, and Sport TV 5 has it in Portugal.

Benfica begin the Europa League league phase on Wednesday, and they begin it somewhere loud. Kick-off at San Siro is 20:00 Lisbon time, an hour later locally in Milan. In Portugal the match is on Sport TV 5, which holds the rights to Portuguese clubs in European competition. The team sheet does most of the talking here, and a lot of it is in Portuguese. Gonçalo Ramos and Diego Moreira, both products of Benfica's academy, will be wearing red and black on…

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Anna Marques scored in the 7th and 58th minutes and Carolina Tristao in the 34th. It is Portugal's first ever win at this level, and Spain are next, on Wednesday in Katowice.

Portugal went into their third Group E game needing a win, and got one: 3-0 against Costa Rica at Arena Sosnowiec in southern Poland. Anna Marques headed in after seven minutes, Carolina Tristao beat two defenders and finished into the bottom corner on 34, and Marques added her second on 58 from a scramble inside the box. It was Portugal's first ever win at a U-20 Women's World Cup, in a tournament that is also their first ever appearance at the level.…

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Six rounds, six wins, two goals conceded. Sporting drew at Famalicão, slipped to third and now trail the leaders by four, with the clássico waiting one week later.

Round six closed on Sunday night and left one very tidy sum behind it. FC Porto have played six and won six: eighteen points from eighteen, fifteen goals scored, two conceded, all of it there in the official Liga Portugal table. This start has not been built on weekly thrashings. It has been built on never slipping. That is the whole gap to the chasing pair: Benfica have won five and drawn one for sixteen points, while Sporting have now drawn two.

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6-4, 5-7, 6-2 in two hours and 21 minutes on Arthur Ashe. Rybakina had already locked up the world No. 1 ranking in the quarter-finals; Saturday night ended Sabalenka's two-year run in New York.

Elena Rybakina finished the US Open with an ace. It was her twelfth of the night, and it beat Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 in two hours and 21 minutes on Arthur Ashe Stadium on Saturday. New York was the one that had got away. Rybakina won Wimbledon in 2022 and the Australian Open in January, and the trophy she lifted on Saturday is her third major, her fourteenth career title and her third of this season alone. The world No. 1 ranking was already hers,…

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Casa Pia led 1-0 through a 43rd-minute Henrique Araújo penalty. Porto equalised in first-half stoppage time and then scored three more, winning 4-1 on the sixth matchday.

For forty-three minutes in Rio Maior, Casa Pia were beating FC Porto. Henrique Araújo scored from the spot and the home side looked like going in ahead. They did not get that far. André Silva levelled in the third minute of first-half stoppage time, and that goal turned out to be the first of four in a row. Jakub Kiwior made it 2-1 on the hour, Borja Sainz added a third on 67 minutes, and Santiago Giménez converted a penalty deep into stoppage time. Final…

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The Liga BPI returns with ten clubs, FC Porto among them for the first time, and Benfica chasing a seventh straight title. Sporting carries the largest professional squad.

Portugal's top women's football league is back, with ten clubs and one new name on the list: FC Porto, entering the Liga BPI for the first time. Benfica start as champions and are going for a seventh title in a row. The number that says most about where the game stands, though, is not in the table. Of the 412 players registered for this season, 236 hold a professional sports contract. The other 176 are still amateurs. That puts 57.2% of first-division…

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A goalless draw with Colombia in Lodz gave Portugal its first ever point at the tournament. Qualification for the last 16 comes down to Sunday's meeting with Costa Rica in Sosnowiec.

Portugal drew 0-0 with Colombia in Lodz on Thursday and collected the first point in its history at a FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. This is the first time the country has played the tournament at this age group at all. It felt like a point dropped rather than won. Goalkeeper Nair Pina was probably the best player on the pitch, with two decisive saves before the break, and Portugal created enough to take all three: Rita Melo hit the crossbar, and in the…

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Marco Meneses took silver in the 400m freestyle S11 and Diogo Cancela bronze in the 100m butterfly S8 at the European Para Swimming Championships in Türkiye. Susana Veiga cut nearly two seconds off her own national mark and placed sixth.

Portugal got off the mark at the European Para Swimming Championships in Kocaeli with two medals in Wednesday's finals session. Marco Meneses finished runner-up in the 400m freestyle S11 in 4:41.52, and Diogo Cancela took bronze in the 100m butterfly S8 in 1:04.66.

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Porto lost 0-2 at the Dragão on the opening matchday of the Champions League league phase. Both goals came from crosses in the second half, and Porto had not put a single shot on target before the break.

Half-time said 0-0, and half-time was lying. Porto went in level with Manchester City without having put a single shot on target; the two efforts they did produce were flagged offside before they could count for anything at all. What was holding the scoreline up had a name. Diogo Costa made three high-class saves in the first half, two of them denying near-certain goals to Erling Haaland and Rayan Cherki. It was the best thing about Porto's night, and it…

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The Mediterranean Games ended with Portugal eighth in the table and a national record — 16 gold, seven silver, nine bronze from a squad of 172. The total is the smaller half of the story.

Portugal finished the Taranto Mediterranean Games with 32 medals — 16 gold, seven silver, nine bronze — and eighth place in the table. In three appearances at these Games, the country has never done better. The figure that travelled was 32. It is the least interesting of the three. Tarragona 2018 produced 24 medals. Oran 2022 produced 25. Seven more in four years is quiet progress, and if that were the whole story the line would be close to flat.

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Barreiro struck on seven minutes and again on 71, Prestianni curled in a third on 82, and João Palhinha made his first start. Benfica ended Saturday on ten points with a game in hand on Porto.

Benfica won 3-0 at the Estádio dos Barreiros on Saturday afternoon and left Funchal with what they needed without ever looking comfortable. Marítimo's own match report sums the day up neatly: the scoreline does not reflect the ninety minutes. The first goal came on seven minutes. Gianluca Prestianni cut inside from the left and shot, Alfonso Pastor spilled it, and Leandro Barreiro pounced on the edge of the box to force it in.

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Arsenal's statement on Gabriel Martinelli's move to Al-Hilal counts the appearances and the trophies and stops there. The 60 million pounds everyone is printing is reported, not confirmed.

Gabriel Martinelli has left Arsenal after seven years. The club confirmed the permanent transfer to Al-Hilal in a statement that adds up his time in north London — 278 appearances, 62 goals, last season's Premier League title, the 2020 FA Cup, the 2023 Community Shield. What the statement does not add up is the money. No figure, no valuation, not even the usual line about undisclosed terms. He arrived from Ituano in July 2019 as a teenager nobody outside…

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Portugal host Wales on 24 September, travel to Norway on the 27th and Denmark on 1 October, then face Norway again in Porto on the 4th. UEFA merged the September and October windows into one block.

Jorge Jesus's first outing as Portugal manager will not be a match. It will be four of them, packed into eleven days, because UEFA has merged what used to be the separate September and October international windows into a single block. It opens on 24 September at home to Wales, at the Estádio José Alvalade. Three days later Portugal travel to Norway. On 1 October they play Denmark away, and on the 4th they host Norway again, this time at the Estádio do…

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Nuno Borges went out in the first round to Learner Tien, 6-4, 6-1, 6-2, in 99 minutes. That leaves Jaime Faria alone in the singles draw, with Carlos Alcaraz waiting in round two.

Ninety-nine minutes, and barely an argument in any of them. Nuno Borges, the world number 41 and Portugal's leading man, lost his opening match at the US Open to American Learner Tien 6-4, 6-1, 6-2. In his last nine Grand Slam appearances he had never gone out in the first round before. The match turned on one game. Borges was broken serving to stay in the opening set, and everything he normally leans on went with it: 53% of first serves in, and a…

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Portugal's summer window shuts at 23:59 on Friday 4 September. Clubs in European competition run out of time two days earlier, and one narrow loan exception stretches to the 8th.

Announcing a player and being allowed to field him are two different things, and the gap between them is a list. Liga Portugal publishes and updates the official registrations for every Liga Portugal Betclic club>), and that document, rather than the club's announcement or the unveiling video, decides who is available at the weekend. Names can be added to it until 23:59 on Friday 4 September.

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André Silva, Gabri Veiga and William Gomes scored inside 38 minutes. Porto have 12 points from four matches and lead Sporting by two.

Saturday's game at the Estádio Municipal do Fontelo was over by the interval. Porto beat Académico de Viseu 3-0 in matchday four of Liga Portugal Betclic, and all three goals arrived in the first half. André Silva scored after five minutes, in a move the home side wanted pulled back for a foul until VAR waved it on. Gabri Veiga made it two on 20 minutes, again after a check, this time for a possible offside that was ruled legal. William Gomes finished a…

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Friday's draw in Monaco handed the Portuguese cup holders four heavyweight home ties and away trips to Spain, Hungary, Poland and Norway. Benfica got Milan away and AZ Alkmaar at home.

A second-tier Portuguese club will host Olympiacos, Celtic and Sunderland this season. The Europa League league-phase draw, made in Monaco on Friday, finished the set by sending Ararat-Armenia to Torres Vedras as well. The away half is no gentler: Real Sociedad, Ferencváros, Lech Poznań and Lillestrøm. Eight matches, eight countries, and not one of them a fixture Torreense have played before. Winning the Taça de Portugal opened the door. Pot 4 did the…

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Both Portuguese clubs now know their eight league-phase opponents. Sporting host Barcelona and Manchester United at Alvalade; Porto host Manchester City and Napoli and travel to Liverpool. Kick-off times are due by Saturday.

The opponents are out. The league phase draw was made late on Thursday afternoon at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, and all 36 clubs learned the eight fixtures that will carry them from September to January. Porto will host Manchester City, PSV, Napoli and Slavia Prague at the Dragão, and travel to Liverpool, Real Betis, Feyenoord and LASK. Anfield is the tie of their season.

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Porto beat Arouca 2-0 at the Dragão on 23 August in matchday three of Liga Portugal. Veiga scored on 67 minutes, Sainz on 86, and the champions now have nine points from nine.

The Dragão had to wait until the second half, but it got what it came for. Porto beat Arouca 2-0 on Sunday 23 August in matchday three of Liga Portugal, taking their tally to nine points from a possible nine. Gabri Veiga broke the game open on 67 minutes. Borja Sainz added the second on 86, by which point Arouca had pushed their line up and left room behind it. Between the two goals sits nearly twenty minutes of a match Porto controlled without ever…

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The canoeist won in 2:00.73 and closed Portugal's canoeing programme at the Mediterranean Games with two golds and two silvers. The team has eight medals after three days.

Ana Brito won the K1 500 metres at the Mediterranean Games in Taranto on Sunday in 2:00.73. Cyprus's Savvia Hadjicharalambous finished 1.46 seconds back and Serbia's Zsofi Horvat took bronze at 1.86. It is Portugal's fifth title of these Games and canoeing's second. The first came from Bruno Brasileiro in the K1 1,000, led from start to finish in 3:48.79. Portugal's three other champions so far came from elsewhere: cyclist Tiago Antunes in the time trial,…

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