Portugal League Denouement: Title, European qualification and descent decided on the last day

It’s a big weekend in Portugal. The country is barely a year after the last parliamentary elections on Sunday, but on the day before a different kind of right wing, left wing and races to the finish line, the headlines will dominate.

The curtain falls tomorrow, Saturday, May 17th, the 2024/25 primeira league season.

Portugoal runs through what is at stake to win the title, qualify for Europe and avoid relegation.

After the 1-1 draw against its city neighbors and title competitors Benfica, the sport was against their city neighbors and title competitors Benfica last weekend. In order to raise the trophy, the Lions at home against Vitória have to get the same number or more points than Benfica in Braga.

Sporting becomes without captain Morten Hjulmand, the Danish midfielder, who takes up a yellow card in the derby and excluded him from this game. The Guimarães team is also weakened, midfielder Tomás Handel and central Filipe-Relvas. Vitória is currently fifth, the last position that will offer European football next season on points with Santa Clara, so that both teams will be desperate according to the points.

Should the sport end the day when you start to start with the stack of the stack that the famous Lisbon Club has won two titles with two consecutive league titles since his flowering period 70 years ago.

Although Benfica does not depend on herself, he has not given up hope of snapping the title in death. “We are very confident that we can win and can still be a master,” said coach Bruno Lage in the press conference before the game before their trip to Braga.

Carlos Carvalhals side can no longer catch postage in third place. Will the lack of pressure for your opponents be cheap or not for Benfica? A detailed preview of Braga against Benfica can be found here.

SC Braga against SL Benfica, 6 p.m., Estádio Municipal de Braga

Anyone who wins the league will go directly into the actual Champions League, while the second -placed people go into the qualification phase of the competition of the next season. Porto and Braga will compete in the Europa League in 2025/26. That makes a berth decided. Anyone who takes fifth place will be Portugal’s representative in the UEFA Conference League: either Vitória or Santa Clara.

Vitória currently takes fifth place, on points with Santa Clara, but thanks to the head-to-head record in front of the Azorean outfit. Therefore, the islanders have to overtake the Luís Freire side if they did more points tomorrow than Vitória in sports. When you look at the table, it looks feasible, but Farle will fight for your life if you desperately try to avoid relegation.

Farsise against Santa Clara, 6 p.m., Estádio de São Luís

Not yet down without a mathematical club, four teams in the last match day will hope to maintain their top status for the next season. The teams, which end in the lower two, are automatically relegated, while the team 16. against the club, which takes third place in the second division, will play a relegation/promotion playoff.

Boavista, three points at the foot of the table, have the hardest task. So that the Porto team has the chance to remain, they have to win at Arouca and hope that Farle will lose at home against Santa Clara and AVS at home. In this sentence of results, the Axadrezados is completed in the Playoff spot, whereby Arouca and Farlens fall to the second stage.

In order for Findule to survive, you have to score more points against Santa Clara than AVS against Morianse. If the Algarve team wins and AVS does not, you will take the playoff spot and could even avoid if Estrela da Amadora Estoril Praia does not defeat.

A victory for AVS will guarantee a playoff place for worse and could mean a guaranteed survival in the Primeira League if Estrela loses in Estoril. Estrela da Amadora has to win in Estoril Praia to absolutely guarantee her top status.

It promises a tense night.