List of football clubs in Portugal

The Portuguese football leagues are divided into divisions (divisões, singular - divisão). The top teams play in the Primeira Liga, named NOS for sponsorship reasons but for the next year is called BwinLiga for the same reason. In each division, with rare exceptions, a team plays all other teams twice, once at home and once away. One can divide the competitions in professional and non-professional.

The Portuguese league and federation teams compete in Europe under UEFA, most notably in the UEFA Champions League, but also in the UEFA Cup, in the extinct Cup Winners' Cup and sometimes in the UEFA Intertoto Cup, European Super Cup and the extinct UEFA/Conmebol Intercontinental Cup (Toyota Cup). They can also compete in the FIFA Club World Cup, although until today no Portuguese team reached this recent competition. The teams also compete in a domestic cup competition each year, called Cup of Portugal (Taça de Portugal) and the winners play against the champions in the SuperCup Cândido de Oliveira.

Current hierarchical divisional breakdowns

• Professional
  • Primeira Liga - First Division (18 teams)
  • Segunda Liga - Second Division (22 teams)
• Non-professional
  • Campeonato de Portugal - Third Division (80 teams)
  • Portuguese District First Levels - Fourth Division (312 teams)
  • Portuguese District Second Levels - Fifth Division (318 teams)
  • Portuguese District Third Levels - Sixth Division (111 teams)
  • Portuguese District Fourth Levels - Seventh Division (36 teams)

Primeira Liga teams (2015–16 season)

• ¹ In Portugal is common to use FC before Porto to distinguish from the city with the same name. This seems to be an unjustified exception, as the press do not apply the same rule to Braga, Leixões, Chaves, Penafiel, Gondomar, Vizela, Lourosa and dozens of other clubs in the same situation (name of a town). However, one reads Futebol Clube do Porto and not Ef Ce Porto.
• ²UEFA does not use an abbreviated official form for Sporting; Sporting CP is often used in Portugal. Outside Portugal, Sporting is generally called Sporting Lisbon.

Segunda Liga teams (2015–16 season)

Campeonato de Portugal teams (2014–15 season)

Serie A

Serie B

Serie C

Serie D

Serie E

Serie F

Serie G

Serie H

Other notable teams

• Alverca
• Campomaiorense
• Esmoriz
• União de Coimbra
• União de Tomar

Notable extinct teams

• Estrela da Amadora
• Riopele
• União de Lisboa

See also

• Portuguese football competitions
• Football in Portugal
• Portuguese Footballer of the Year

Football in Portugal
FPF LPFP
National teams	Portugal captains hat-tricks Women's B U-23 U-21 U-20 U-19 U-18 U-17 U-16 U-15
League system	Primeira Liga (hat-tricks) LigaPro Campeonato de Portugal Campeonato Nacional de Futebol Feminino
District Associations	Algarve Angra do Heroísmo Aveiro Beja Braga Bragança Castelo Branco Coimbra Évora Guarda Horta Leiria Lisbon Madeira Ponta Delgada Portalegre Porto Santarém Setúbal Viana do Castelo Vila Real Viseu
Domestic cups	Taça de Portugal Taça da Liga Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira Taça de Portugal de Futebol Feminino Supertaça de Futebol Feminino
Defunct competitions	Segunda Divisão Terceira Divisão Taça Ribeiro dos Reis Taça Federação Portuguesa de Futebol Liga Intercalar
Clubs Club honours Foreign players Records Venues