2019 Taça da Liga Final

The 2019 Taça da Liga Final was the final match of the 2018–19 Taça da Liga, the twelfth season of the Taça da Liga. It was played on 26 January 2019 at Estádio Municipal de Braga.

2019 Taça da Liga Final
Event2018–19 Taça da Liga
Porto Sporting CP
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Sporting CP won 3–1 on penalties
Date26 January 2019
VenueEstádio Municipal de Braga, Braga
RefereeJoão Pinheiro
Attendance25,213

The competition involved the 32 clubs playing in the top two tiers of the Portuguese football league system – 18 from Primeira Liga and 14 from LigaPro – during the 2018–19 season. Reserve sides of Primeira Liga teams that played in the 2018–19 LigaPro were excluded from the competition.

Porto and Sporting CP faced off in the first final involving both teams. After a 1–1 tie, Sporting CP won the final 3–1 after a penalty shootout, thus becoming only the second team (after Benfica) in the competition's history to both defend their title and win multiple Taças da Liga.

Background

For the third consecutive season, this competition featured a final four format with both the semi-finals and the final being played over a space of a few days in the same venue. The Estádio Municipal de Braga hosted all matches. Porto had the chance to win their first Taça da Liga while Sporting CP could be the first team, other than Benfica, to both win the competition multiple times as well as successfully defend the title, having won the previous final.

Route to the final
Further information: 2018–19 Taça da Liga

Being among the top four during the 2017–18 Primeira Liga season, Porto and Sporting CP received byes directly to the third round. Only the top team in each of the four groups advanced to the final four and both teams marginally won their groups. Porto shared the top spot in group C with Chaves both in points and goal difference, the two most important tiebreakers, having only won the group by virtue of more overall goals scored. Meanwhile, Sporting CP had the same number of points in group D as both Estoril and Feirense, having had the best goal difference from the three teams. Porto played in the first semi-final against Benfica winning the match 3–1. The following day Sporting CP drew 1–1 against Braga, the host team, during the 90 minutes in the second semi-final, winning 4–3 on penalties after a series of seven penalty rounds.

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away; N: neutral).

Porto Round Sporting CP
Opponent Result Stadium First round Opponent Result Stadium
Bye Bye
Opponent Result Stadium Second round Opponent Result Stadium
Bye Bye
Opponent Result Stadium Third round Opponent Result Stadium
Chaves 1–1 (H) Estádio do Dragão Matchday 1 Marítimo 3–1 (H) Estádio José Alvalade
Varzim 4–2 (H) Estádio do Dragão Matchday 2 Estoril 1–2 (H) Estádio José Alvalade
Belenenses 2–1 (A) Estádio Nacional Matchday 3 Feirense 4–1 (A) Estádio Marcolino de Castro
Group C winners
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Porto 321074+37
Chaves 321052+37
Varzim 310258−33
Belenenses 300325−30
 Final standings Group D winners
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Sporting CP 320184+46
Estoril 320143+16
Feirense 320167–16
Marítimo 300337−40
Opponent Result Stadium Knockout phase Opponent Result Stadium
Benfica 3–1 (N) Estádio Municipal de Braga Semi-finals Braga 1–1 (4–3p) (A) Estádio Municipal de Braga

Match

Summary

Details
Porto1–1Sporting CP
 Report
Penalties
 1–3
Attendance: 25,213
Porto
Sporting CP
GK26 Vaná
RB3 Éder Militão
CB28 Felipe 45'
CB33 Pepe
LB13 Alex Telles
RM17 Jesús Corona 25' 82'
CM16 Héctor Herrera (c)
CM10 Óliver Torres 68' 90+4'
LM8 Yacine Brahimi
CF11 Moussa Marega 90+3'
CF21 André Pereira 64'
Substitutes:
GK1 Iker Casillas
DF12 Wilson Manafá
DF19 Chancel Mbemba
MF6 Bruno Costa
MF22 Danilo Pereira 82'
FW7 Hernâni 90+4'
FW37 Fernando Andrade 64'
Manager:
Sérgio Conceição
GK40 Renan Ribeiro 90+6'
RB13 Stefan Ristovski 66'
CB6 André Pinto 29' 53'
CB4 Sebastián Coates
LB9 Marcos Acuña 35' 45'
RM21 Raphinha
CM86 Nemanja Gudelj 83'
CM37 Wendel
LM8 Bruno Fernandes 90+5'
CF17 Nani (c) 45'
CF28 Bas Dost
Substitutes:
GK19 Romain Salin
DF5 Jefferson 45'
MF25 Radosav Petrović 86' 53'
MF90 Miguel Luís
FW23 Abdoulay Diaby 83'
FW29 Luiz Phellype
FW77 Jovane Cabral
Manager:
Marcel Keizer

Man of the match

Assistant referees:
Nuno Eiras
Paulo Vieira
Fourth official:
Manuel Mota
Video assistant referee:
Tiago Martins
Assistant video assistant referee:
Pedro Mota

Match rules

  • 90 minutes.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
  • Seven named substitutes.
  • Maximum of three substitutions.

References
  1. Brahimi não recebeu prémio de MVP da Allianz Cup por indicação do FC Porto https://www.record.pt/futebol/futebol-nacional/liga-nos/fc-porto/detalhe/brahimi-nao-recebeu-premio-de-mvp-da-allianz-cup-por-indicacao-do-fc-porto?ref=Fora%20de%20Campo_2BlocoAreasemDestaques
  2. FC Porto impede Brahimi de receber prémio da Taça da Liga https://bancada.pt/futebol/portugal/fc-porto-impede-brahimi-de-receber-premio-da-taca-da-liga
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