The Campeonato Nacional de Rugby Divisão de Honra (more commonly known as the Divisão de Honra) is Portugal's top-level professional men's rugby union competition. The Divisão de Honra Championships are organized by the Federação Portuguesa de Rugby (Portuguese Rugby Federation) and currently consists of 12 teams. The last placed team in the competition is relegated at the end of the season to the Campeonato Nacional de Rugby I Divisão (Portugal's second level of men's rugby union) with one team from the second-tier competition promoted to the Divisão de Honra.
Format The championship is divided into two phases: Regular Phase Final Phase
Regular Phase
The Divisão de Honra will be disputed by 12 (twelve) teams: 11 teams from the Divisão de Honra of the 2025/2026; 1 team promoted from the national championship of the 1st division.
In the Regular Phase, all teams play against each other, in a single round. At the end of this Phase, the teams classified from 1st to 8th place qualify for the Final season. The teams classified from 9th to 12th place will compete in a maintenance play-off.
Final Phase
In the Final Phase, two Groups of four (4) teams are formed, which play in an all-against-all system, in a single round. The teams ranked 1st and 2nd in each group qualify for the semi-finals.
The final will be played between the two teams that won the semi-finals. The teams that won in the semi-finals compete in one game against each other to award 3rd/4th place. The winning team in the final will be declared the national champion of the Campeonato Português de Rugby (2026/27).
A maintenance play-off to be played by the four teams classified between 9th and 12th place in the Regular Phase, in a free-for-all system, in two rounds (6 matches). The team that finishes last in this play-off will be relegated to the National Championship of the I Division of the following season.
Teams Team Manager Captain Stadium Capacity Académica Rui Carvoeira Estádio Municipal Sérgio Conceição 2500 Agronomia Diego Vidal Francisco Cabral Tapada da Ajuda 500 Belenenses João Mirra Tomás Sequeira Belém Rugby Park 500 Benfica António Aguilar Tomás Picado Estádio Universitário de Lisboa / Campo nº2 - Lisbon University 8000 / 1000 Cascais Gabriel Ascárate Campo da Guia 1000 CDUL Tomás Appleton Estádio Universitário de Lisboa 8000 CDUP João Bello Estádio Universitário do Porto 1500 Direito João Granate Complexo Desportivo Miguel Nobre Ferreira 2500 CR Setúbal Academia de Rugby Club de Setúbal 500 RC Santarém CNEMA / Escola Prática de Cavalaria 2500 / 500 São Miguel Bulldog Rugby Park 800 C. R. Técnico Travis Church Campo das Olaias 800
Squads 2026/27 Squads are ordered by the last classification of the league. According to Portuguese Rugby Federation
+The Benfica squad for the 2026–27 Campeonato Nacional de Rugby seasonProps Samuel Miller David Henao Brook To'omalatai Cristian Antoncic José Maria Pereira Serafim Djassi Eduardo Gomes
Hookers Jason Cornelius* LUS Isaías Camará Pedro Gouveia
Locks Francisco Almeida LUS Giuseppe Piacenza Simão Dionisio* Eurico Chichorro Afonso BoavidaBackrow Frederico Couto LUS Manuel Fati LUS Omar Gutiérrez Tomás Picado Pedro Ismael Tavares Rui Duarte João Ferreira Caio Almeida
Scrum-halves António Campos LUS Elliott Ryan*
Fly-halves João Lima Fintan Lawlor Ramiro Pérez GutiérrezThree-quarters José Lima LUS Guilherme Vasconcelos LUS Juan Pablo Castro Leopoldo Herrera Hayden Hann* Felisbelo Vieira* Edgar Monteiro Diego Caeiro Rodrigo Sampaio Zé Miguel Carvalho
Fullbacks José Rodrigues António Alves(c) denotes the team captain
+The Cascais squad for the 2026–27 Campeonato Nacional de Rugby seasonProps José Lavos LUS Nicolas Griffiths LUS José Martinez Ignácio Urueña Duarte Conde LUS
Hookers Santiago Lopes LUS Nuno Mascarenhas LUS
Locks Manuel Ardao Boaventura Almeida LUS Martim Belo LUS Israel Parnas Alexandre Fonseca Rodrigues LUS Manuel Barros LUS António Carvalho Martins Luis GraçaBackrow Lourenço Durão LUS Sebastião Petronilho Gonçalo Carvalho António Andrade Manuel Soares
Scrum-halves Rafael Iriarte Noah Nash Duarte Cardoso LUS Francisco Carmona Costa Tomás Martins
Fly-halves Santiago JaraThree-quarters António Vidinha LUS Francisco Vassalo Maximilien Coutts* LUS Vasco Durão LUS Francisco C. Campos José Villar Gomes António Sousa Luis Ferros Duarte Tavares
Fullbacks Alfredo Almeida LUS Vasco Correia LUS Francisco Pissarra Henrique Matias(c) denotes the team captain
+The Direito squad for the 2026–27 Campeonato Nacional de Rugby seasonProps David Costa LUS António Prim LUS José Lupi Luis Lopes Afonso Tapadinhas André Bardziy LUS Lourenço Moita João Pissarra Leandro Nunes
Hookers Duarte Diniz LUS Fabian Contreras
Locks Duarte Torgal LUS Pedro Ferreira LUS Duarte Pedro Nunes LUS António Peixoto LUS Henrique CortesBackrow Manuel Picão LUS João Granate (c) LUS Pedro Afra Rosa Nuno Peixoto LUS João Vital Mateus Ferreira Miguel Romero Rodrigues António Mello Diogo Matos Frederico Castello Branco Guilherme Spratley
Scrum-halves João Dias LUS Afonso Castiñeira Salvador Seabra
Fly-halves Martim Dias Bernardo NogueiraThree-quarters João Afra Rosa LUS Manuel Reis LUS Tomás Batista LUS Yanis Cornet João Burnay Duarte Portela Ricardo Mieiro Francisco Teixeira Francisco Pinto Manuel Romero Rodrigues Hugo Miguel Cristóvão
Fullbacks Caetano Castelo Branco João Vaz Antunes Martim Dias Frederico Roquette Vasco Trindade(c) denotes the team captain
+The CR Técnico squad for the 2026–27 Campeonato Nacional de Rugby seasonProps André Arrojado LUS Tevita Langi Salvador Patrício
Hookers Endy William
Locks Guilherme Costa LUS Afonso Cirilo Gonçalo Costa Miguel Pereira Alexandre Rosário Silva Simão MedeiroBackrow Reegan Wheeler Milan Kriletich Manuel Serrano Tomás Mano Manuel Maia Pedro Nunes Salvador Bento Filipe Caeiro
Scrum-halves Pedro Lucas LUS André Aquino Manuel Salinas
Fly-halves Hugo Trigueiro Francisco CorreiaThree-quarters Francisco Salgado LUS Marco Broggin Lenny Valleyé Rodrigo Henriques Francisco Vallêra Diogo Salgado Guilherme Sampaio Mateus Fontes
Fullbacks Miguel Rosa Manuel Salgado(c) denotes the team captain
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