The 2022–23 Liga Portugal (also known as Liga Portugal Bwin 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 Bwin 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.
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.
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).
Stadia and locations
Team Location Stadium Capacity2021–22 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 7,000 2nd (LP2) Chaves Chaves Estádio Municipal Eng.ºManuel 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 30,029 6th Vizela Vizela Estádio do FC Vizela 6,000 14th
Personnel and sponsors Team Manager Captain KitManufacturer Main Sponsor Arouca Armando Evangelista João Basso Skita ConstruçõesCarlos 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 SãoFrancisco 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 LacatoniVizela Tourism
Managerial changes Team Outgoing manager Date of vacancy Pos in table Incoming manager Date of appointment Benfica Nélson Veríssimo End of caretaker role15 May 2022Pre-season Roger Schmidt1 June 2022 Braga Carlos Carvalhal Resigned Artur JorgeGil Vicente Ricardo Soares Signed by Al-Ahly28 June 2022 Ivo Vieira28 June 2022Estoril Bruno Pinheiro Mutual consent 1 July 2022 Nélson Veríssimo 2 July 2022 Vitória de Guimarães Pepa Suspended and fired 12 July 2022 Moreno 13 July 2022 Marítimo Vasco SeabraSacked 5 September 202218th João Henriques 8 September 2022 Famalicão Rui Pedro SilvaMutual consent 20 September 202216th João Pedro Sousa 22 September 2022 Paços de Ferreira César PeixotoSacked 16 October 202217th José Mota 18 October 2022//https://desporto.sapo.pt/futebol/primeira-liga/artigos/jose-mota-e-o-novo-treinador-do-pacos-de-ferreira/Gil Vicente Ivo Vieira2 November 202216th Carlos Cunha (caretaker)2 November 2022 Carlos Cunha (caretaker)End of interim spell14 November 202216th Daniel Sousa14 November 2022 Vizela Álvaro PachecoSacked30 November 202213th Tulipa (caretaker)30 November 2022 Marítimo João Henriques 15 December 202217th José Gomes15 December 2022Paços de Ferreira José Mota 16 December 202218th Marco Paiva (caretaker)31 December 2022 Marco Paiva (caretaker)End of caretaker role31 December 202218th César Peixoto 1 January 2023 Santa Clara Mário SilvaSacked6 January 202315th Jorge Simão11 January 2023Estoril Nélson Veríssimo24 February 202315th Ricardo Soares28 February 2023 Santa Clara Jorge Simão26 February 202317th Danildo Accioly 26 February 2023
League table
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).
Results
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.
Statistics Top goalscorers RankPlayerClubGoals1 Mehdi TaremiPorto222 Gonçalo Ramos Benfica193 João MárioBenfica17 Fran NavarroGil Vicente5 Pedro GonçalvesSporting156 Ricardo HortaBraga147 Yusupha NjieBoavista138 Simon BanzaBraga119 Iuri MedeirosBraga10 Francisco TrincãoSporting
Hat-tricks
Player For Against Result Date Mehdi TaremiPortoArouca5–1 (H)28 December 2022 Francisco TrincãoSportingCasa Pia4–3 (A)9 April 2023 Mehdi Taremi4PortoFamalicão4–2 (A)20 May 2023 Notes (H) – Home team(A) – Away team 4 Player scored four goals.
Top assists Rank Player Club Assists1 Pedro GonçalvesSporting112 David NeresBenfica9 Álex GrimaldoBenfica4 Ricardo HortaBraga85 Mehdi TaremiPorto7 Ricardo HortaBraga Otávio Porto Ivo RodriguesFamalicão PepêPorto João MárioBenfica Tiago SantosEstoril
Clean sheets RankPlayerClubCleansheets1 Odysseas VlachodimosBenfica212 MatheusBraga16 Diogo CostaPorto4 Ignacio de Arruabarrena Arouca145 Bruno VarelaVitória de Guimarães13 Antonio AdánSporting CP7 Ricardo BatistaCasa Pia11 Fabijan BuntićVizela9 JhonatanRio Ave10 Luiz Júnior Famalicão
Discipline Player Most yellow cards: 17 Guima (Chaves) Most red cards: 2 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 Santa Clara Vitória de Guimarães Most red cards: 10 Paços de Ferreira Chaves Marítimo Vitória de Guimarães
Awards Monthly awards MonthPlayer of the MonthGoalkeeper of the MonthDefender of the MonthMidfielder of the MonthForward of the MonthManager of the MonthGoal of the MonthPlayerClubPlayerClubPlayerClubPlayerClubPlayerClubManagerClubPlayerClubAugust Simon BanzaBraga Ricardo BatistaCasa Pia MoratoBenfica Enzo FernándezBenfica Simon BanzaBraga Roger SchmidtBenfica RildoSanta ClaraSeptember Mehdi TaremiPorto Odysseas VlachodimosBenfica António SilvaBenfica Stephen EustáquioPorto Mehdi TaremiPorto Filipe MartinsCasa Pia Bruno LourençoBoavistaOctober/November Gonçalo RamosBenfica Diogo CostaPorto Enzo FernándezBenfica Gonçalo RamosBenfica Roger SchmidtBenficaN/AN/ADecember/January João MárioBenfica Álex GrimaldoBenfica João MárioBenfica Fran NavarroGil VicenteFebruary João ArosoVitória de Guimarães Matheus ReisSportingMarch Gonçalo RamosBenfica MatheusBraga João BassoArouca Gonçalo RamosBenfica Armando EvangelistaArouca Nuno SantosSportingApril Ricardo HortaBraga Ignacio de Arruabarrena Arouca PepePorto Iván JaimeFamalicão Ricardo HortaBraga Artur JorgeBraga Bruno LourençoBoavista
Annual awards AwardWinner Club Player of the Season Otávio Porto Manager of the Season Roger SchmidtBenfica Young Player of the Season Iván JaimeFamalicãoTop scorer Mehdi TaremiPorto
Team of the Year 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 RankDistrict Football AssociationsNumber Teams1 Braga5Braga, Famalicão, Gil Vicente, Vitória de Guimarães and Vizela2 Lisbon4Casa Pia, Benfica, Estoril and Sporting CP PortoBoavista, Paços de Ferreira, Porto and Rio Ave4 Aveiro1Arouca FaroPortimonense FunchalMarítimo Ponta DelgadaSanta Clara Vila Real Chaves
Attendances
# Club Average Highest 1 Benfica 57,107 64,012 2 Porto 41,380 49,499 3 Sporting 29,292 39,528 4 Vitória 16,116 22,733 5 Braga 15,490 22,256 6 Marítimo 8,509 10,547 7 Boavista 6,520 11,335 8 Gil Vicente 4,528 11,694 9 Paços 4,428 8,060 10 Chaves 3,896 8,297 11 Famalicão 3,800 4,992 12 Casa Pia 3,422 22,253 13 Vizela 3,310 5,872 14 Rio Ave 2,906 4,134 15 Estoril 2,524 4,858 16 Santa Clara 2,160 9,701 17 Portimonense 1,945 4,474 18 Arouca 1,836 4,614
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