2024–25 Taça da Liga
Football tournament season
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The 2024–25 Taça da Liga was the eighteenth edition of the Taça da Liga (also known as Allianz Cup for sponsorship reasons), a football league cup competition organised by the Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional and contested exclusively by clubs competing in the two professional divisions of Portuguese football – the top-tier Primeira Liga and the second-tier Liga Portugal 2. This season featured only eight teams in the competition.[1]
| Allianz Cup | |
|---|---|
| Tournament details | |
| Country | Portugal |
| Dates | 29 October 2024 – 11 January 2025 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Benfica (8th title) |
| Runners-up | Sporting CP |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 7 |
| Goals scored | 18 (2.57 per match) |
| Attendance | 154,924 (22,132 per match) |
| Top goal scorer | Viktor Gyökeres (4 goals) |
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.[2] The top six teams from the Primeira Liga and the top two non-reserve teams from the Liga Portugal 2 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 Leiria.[1]
Qualified teams
| Team | Tier | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Sporting CP | Primeira Liga | 1st place |
| Benfica | Primeira Liga | 2nd place |
| Porto | Primeira Liga | 3rd place |
| Braga | Primeira Liga | 4th place |
| Vitória de Guimarães | Primeira Liga | 5th place |
| Moreirense | Primeira Liga | 6th place |
| Santa Clara | Liga Portugal 2 | 1st place |
| Nacional | Liga Portugal 2 | 2nd place |
Quarter-finals
In this round, with the best placed teams playing at home.
| 29 October 2024 | Sporting CP | 3–1 | Nacional | Lisbon |
| 20:15 WET | Report |
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Stadium: Estádio de Alvalade Attendance: 32,622 Referee: Hélder Carvalho |
| 30 October 2024 | Benfica | 3–0 | Santa Clara | Lisbon |
| 20:15 WET | Report | Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 48,639 Referee: Hélder Malheiro |
| 31 October 2024 | Braga | 2–1 | Vitória de Guimarães | Braga |
| 18:45 WET | Report |
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Stadium: Estádio Municipal de Braga Attendance: 9,663 Referee: Fábio Veríssimo |
| 31 October 2024 | Porto | 2–0 | Moreirense | Aveiro |
| 20:45 WET | Report | Stadium: Estádio Municipal de Aveiro Attendance: 3,340 Referee: Gustavo Correia |
Final-four
The final-four is played from 7 to 11 January 2025 in Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa, Leiria, and comprised the semi-finals and final of the competition.
Bracket
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 7 January 2025 – Leiria | ||||||
| Sporting CP | 1 | |||||
| 11 January 2025 – Leiria | ||||||
| Porto | 0 | |||||
| Sporting CP | 1 (6) | |||||
| 8 January 2025 – Leiria | ||||||
| Benfica | 1 (7) | |||||
| Benfica | 3 | |||||
| Braga | 0 | |||||
Semi-finals
| Sporting CP | 1–0 | Porto |
|---|---|---|
Gyökeres  56' |
Report |
