League Cup schedule set, Benfica in action later this month | OneFootball

Liga Portugal revealed, this Friday, October 3rd, the schedule for the quarter-finals of the League Cup, a competition contested by the top six teams in Liga Portugal in 2024/25, as well as the champion and runner-up of Liga 2 from last season.

The matches will be played as single elimination games, with the aim of determining the four finalists who will take part in the Final Four in Leiria, between January 6 and 10, 2026. The quarter-finals will kick off on October 28, with the clash between Sporting and Alverca.

The following day, October 29, two matches will take place: Braga vs. Santa Clara and Benfica vs. Tondela. The last game of this stage will only be on December 4, when Porto hosts Vitória de Guimarães, thus closing the list of semi-finalists for the competition.

With the schedule set, the teams already know the path they must take to secure a place in the decisive stage of a competition that will have the city of Leiria as its stage. Benfica is aiming to win the tournament for the ninth time in its history, the second in a row.

In recent days, Liga Portugal has expressed its intention to "raise the quality" of the League Cup, whose Final Four will be held, for the sixth consecutive time, in Leiria. At the competition’s presentation, at the Dr. Magalhães Pessoa Municipal Stadium, the president of LPFP, Reinaldo Teixeira, recalled that the competition "has been growing," both "in the performance of the teams and in the stadium conditions," and highlighted the "great quality of competition and high competitiveness."

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