Football in Portugal

Football is a National pastime in Portugal, as you will see if you go into any bar/cafe. The biggest club supported in Portugal is Benfica and there are a number of bars called 'Casa Benfica' around Central Portugal where you can and watch the matches, sometimes on a big screen, and always with a crowd of other football supporters on match days.

Here is just a snippit of the leagues and results in Portugal. There are many leagues, competitions and cups at National and Regional level and we have tried to list the ones that include the football clubs in Central Portugal.

If you would like to follow the progress of your local club and they are not listed here then please find out what League they are in and let us know and we will add a link to them so you can follow them easily from here.

National Leagues

Portugal Liga Sagres
This is the Premier League in Portugal, like the UK Premiership.
Fixtures and Tables

Liga Vitalis
This is the second level league in Portugal, like the UK Championship.
Fixtures and Tables


II Division – Central Series
This leauge includeds Pampilhosa, Tondela and Mafra
Fixtures and Tables

District Leagues

AF Leiria - 1st Division North Series
AF Leiria is the District League. This division covers Leiria district and includes Alvaiázere, Avelar, Castanheira de Pêra and Pousaflores.
Fixtures and Tables


AF Leiria Division Honra
Ansião, Figueira dos Vinhos, Pedrogão Grande and more.
Fixtures and Tables

Local Club links:

GD Alvaiazere

C.C.Ansião

Uniao FCIi Tomar

World Cup 2010 – South Africa

The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup. It will take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa. The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the culmination of a qualification process that began in August 2007 and involved 204 of the 208 FIFA national teams. As such, it matches the 2008 Summer Olympics as the sports event with the most competing nations.

This will be the first time that the tournament has been hosted by an African nation, after South Africa beat Morocco and Egypt in an all-African bidding process. This decision left the Oceania Football Confederation as the only confederation yet to host the FIFA World Cup. Italy are the defending champions. The draw for the finals took place on 4 December 2009 in Cape Town.

The Group Stages kick off on 11th June at 15:00 (GMT) in Johannesburg between the host South Africa and Mexico.

The Official Website for all the news and views on World Cup 2010 can be found here.

We will be watching the action and keeping this page updated. It will be interesting to watch as England, The Netherlands and Portugal are all through to The Group Stage in South Africa..lets hope that at least one of our teams gets through to Stage 2, but which one will it be?