Leaders Porto will travel to Famalicao as the Portugese top-flight returns to action on June 3 after more than two months on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Primeira Liga said.... more »
Portugal's Primeira Liga will be able to restart the season from its coronavirus-forced suspension on June 4, the country's football league announced on Tuesday.... more »
Portugal's reigning champions Benfica have confirmed that midfielder David Tavares tested positive for coronavirus on Friday, taking the tally for positive cases to at least eight players in Primeira Liga.... more »
Portuguese football is due to resume at the end of the month as the country's relatively low number of coronavirus infections may allow Primeira Liga to make a swifter return than some of its European neighbours.... more »
Players at Portuguese clubs, including Benfica and Porto, returned to individual training on Monday as the Primeira Liga prepares for a possible restart of the season during the coronavirus pandemic.... more »
The Portuguese football season can restart behind closed doors on the last weekend of May, the country's prime minister said Thursday while announcing plans to relax the coronavirus lockdown.... more »
Sporting Lisbon have placed most of the club's staff on partial unemployment and reduced player salaries by 40 percent to mitigate financial losses after the season was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic.... more »
Portugal's Primeira Liga will go behind closed doors with immediate effect with no date given for reopening stadiums to fans, the Portuguese football federation said Tuesday.... more »
Investigators swooped on a string of top football clubs in Portugal Wednesday as a part of a tax evasion probe, the prosecutors office announced.... more »
The Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) denied on Wednesday that a fine of just over 700 euros handed to Vitoria Guimaraes was for racist chants the club's fans directed at Porto player Moussa Marega.... more »
Porto president Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa said on Tuesday that Iker Casillas is set to retire, a day after the World Cup-winning captain announced he would run for the presidency of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF).... more »
Porto's Mali forward Moussa Marega said on Monday he 'couldn't stay on the pitch' after he suffered racist abuse in a Portugese league match at Vitoria Guimaraes at the weekend.... more »
Portugese football and the country's politicians were divided on Monday after Porto forward Moussa Marega was targeted with racist chants during his side's weekend win at Vitoria Guimaraes.... more »
Dutch legend Ruud Gullit said Monday that Moussa Marega's Porto team-mates should have done more to protect him after the Mali striker walked off in protest after receiving racist abuse in a Portuguese league game.... more »
It was a good weekend for Barcelona in the Spanish title race, while Paris Saint-Germain's defensive vulnerabilities were again exposed before the Champions League returns.... more »
Porto's Mali international striker Moussa Marega walked off the pitch in disgust after being subjected to a torrent of monkey chants in a Portuguese league game at Vitoria Guimaeres.... more »
Barcelona have signed promising Portuguese forward Francisco Trincao from Braga in a deal worth 31 million euros, the La Liga club announced on Friday.... more »
Manchester United finally secured a deal to sign Portuguese international midfielder Bruno Fernandes on Wednesday ending a long-running chase of the 25-year-old.... more »
Borussia Dortmund and Germany midfielder Julian Weigl will join Portuguese champions Benfica in the January transfer window, the Bundesliga club said on Tuesday.... more »
Four years on from languishing in Portugal's third tier, Famalicao sit atop the Primeira Liga and face Porto on Sunday in a match shaping up as a clash of the brash young guns against the old order.... more »
Colombian international midfielder Mateus Uribe has joined FC Porto on a four-year deal from Mexican club America, the Portuguese outfit announced Monday.... more »
