2025–26 Taça da Liga
Football tournament season
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The 2025–26 Taça da Liga was the nineteenth 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. It was the second season featuring only eight teams in the competition.[1]
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Country | Portugal |
| Dates | 28 October 2025 – 10 January 2026 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Vitória de Guimarães (1st title) |
| Runners-up | Braga |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 7 |
| Goals scored | 28 (4 per match) |
| Attendance | 165,192 (23,599 per match) |
| Top goal scorer | Alioune Ndoye (3 goals) |
Format
As in the season before, 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 for the sixth season in a row.[2]
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 |
| Santa Clara | Primeira Liga | 5th place |
| Vitória de Guimarães | Primeira Liga | 6th place |
| Tondela | Liga Portugal 2 | 1st place |
| Alverca | Liga Portugal 2 | 2nd place |
Quarter-finals
In this round, the higher-ranked teams played at home.
| 28 October 2025 | Sporting CP | 5–1 | Alverca | Lisbon |
| 20:15 WET | Report |
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Stadium: Estádio de Alvalade Attendance: 23,085 Referee: Hélder Carvalho |
| 29 October 2025 | Braga | 5–0 | Santa Clara | Braga |
| 19:15 WET | Report | Stadium: Estádio Municipal de Braga Attendance: 6,574 Referee: David Rafael Silva |
Final-four
The final-four was played from 6 to 10 January 2026 in Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa, Leiria, and comprised the semi-finals and final of the competition.
Bracket
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 6 January 2026 – Leiria | ||||||
| Sporting | 1 | |||||
| 10 January 2026 – Leiria | ||||||
| Vitória de Guimarães | 2 | |||||
| Vitória de Guimarães | 2 | |||||
| 7 January 2026 – Leiria | ||||||
| Braga | 1 | |||||
| Benfica | 1 | |||||
| Braga | 3 | |||||
Semi-finals
| Sporting CP | 1–2 | Vitória de Guimarães |
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Report |
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