2025 Taça da Liga final

2025 Taça da Liga Final

Event	2024–25 Taça da Liga
Benfica Sporting CP 1 1
Benfica won 7–6 on penalties
Date	11 January 2025
Venue	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa, Leiria
Man of the Match	Florentino (Benfica) [1]
Referee	João Pinheiro
Attendance	20,736
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The 2025 Taça da Liga final was the final match of the 2024–25 Taça da Liga, the eightteenth season of the Taça da Liga. It was played on 11 January 2025 at Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa.

The competition was 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. This season featured only eight teams in the competition. ^[2]

Benfica and Sporting CP faced off for the third time in a rematch of the 2022 final. ^[3] In the final, Benfica won the final 7–6 after a penalty shootout, to earn their eighth title, and their first title since 2016. ^{[4] [5]}

Background

The competition format suffered changes this season featuring the return of the 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 Dr. Magalhães Pessoa hosted all matches. The two teams had played in two finals, the second final in 2009 with Benfica winning on penalty kicks and the 2022 final, where Sporting won 2–1. ^{[6] [3]}

Route to the final

Further information: 2024–25 Taça da Liga

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

Benfica			Round	Sporting CP
Opponent	Result	Stadium	Knockout phase	Opponent	Result	Stadium
Santa Clara	3–0 (H)	Estádio da Luz	Quarter-finals	Nacional	3–1 (H)	Estádio José Alvalade
Braga	3–0 (N)	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa	Semi-finals	Porto	1–0 (N)	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa

Match

Details

11 January 2025

19:45 WET

Sporting CP	1–1	Benfica
Gyökeres 42' (pen.)	Report	Schjelderup 29'
Penalties
Gyökeres Hjulmand Harder Araújo Debast Quenda Trincão	6–7	Di María Amdouni Otamendi Aktürkoğlu Sanches Barreiro Florentino

Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa , Leiria

Attendance: 20,736

Referee: João Pinheiro

Sporting

Benfica

GK 1 Franco Israel RB 72 Eduardo Quaresma  67' CB 26 Ousmane Diomande CB 3 St. Juste LB 20 Maxi Araújo  46' RM 21 Geny Catamo  81' CM 42 Morten Hjulmand (c) CM 52 João Simões  81' LM 57 Geovany Quenda CF 17 Francisco Trincão CF 9 Viktor Gyökeres Substitutes: GK 13 Vladan Kovačević DF 22 Iván Fresneda  67' DF 47 Ricardo Esgaio DF 6 Zeno Debast  81' DF 25 Gonçalo Inácio MF 50 Alexandre Brito MF 96 Samuel Justo FW 90 Afonso Moreira FW 19 Conrad Harder  81' Manager: Rui Borges

GK 1 Anatoliy Trubin RB 44 Tomás Araújo  72' CB 4 António Silva CB 30 Nicolás Otamendi (c) LB 3 Álvaro Carreras  58' CM 10 Orkun Kökçü  83' CM 61 Florentino Luís AM 8 Fredrik Aursnes  72' LW 21 Andreas Schjelderup  46' CF 14 Vangelis Pavlidis  80' RW 11 Ángel Di María Substitutes: GK 24 Samuel Soares RB 6 Alexander Bah  72' DF 5 Adrian Bajrami MF 64 João Rego MF 18 Leandro Barreiro  72' MF 85 Renato Sanches  80' FW 9 Arthur Cabral FW 17 Kerem Aktürkoğlu  46' FW 7 Zeki Amdouni  80' Manager: Bruno Lage

Man of the match Florentino Luís (Benfica) [1] Assistant referees: Bruno Jesus Pedro Ribeiro Fourth official: João Gonçalves Video assistant referee: Luís Godinho Assistant video assistant referee: Luís Ferreira Nuno Manso

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

References

1. "Florentino eleito o melhor em campo no Sporting-Benfica: "Não foi desforra..."" [Florentino named man of the match at Sporting-Benfica: "It wasn't revenge..."] (in Portuguese). O Jogo. 11 January 2025. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
2. "The path towards the Final Four, in Leiria, has been announced at the Kick-Off". Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional. 7 July 2024.
3. Ribeiro, Patrick (29 January 2022). "Sporting defend their Taça da Liga title in second-half turnaround versus Benfica". PortuGOAL. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
4. "Sporting CP 1:1 SL Benfica". Liga Portugal (in Portuguese). 11 January 2025.
5. "Taça da Liga pintada de vermelho e branco!" (in Portuguese). S.L. Benfica. 12 January 2025. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
6. "Regulamento das competições organizadas pela Liga Portugal" [Regulations of the competitions organized by Liga Portugal](PDF) (in Portuguese). Liga Portugal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 July 2019. Retrieved 8 July 2019.