André Villas-Boas cleared by FPF board after Sporting moans | OneFootball

The Disciplinary Board of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) cleared André Villas-Boas this Thursday of the complaints filed by Sporting and by former Benfica presidential candidate João Diogo Manteigas, following statements made by the FC Porto president in the editorial of the March edition of Dragões magazine.

In the ruling, dated 30 April 2026 and approved unanimously, the Disciplinary Board deemed unfounded the accusation that the leader of the blue-and-whites had committed a disciplinary offence for allegedly harming the honour and reputation of bodies within the sporting structure and their members, as set out in Articles 112 and 136 of the League’s Disciplinary Regulations.

At issue were several expressions used by Villas-Boas in the text “The President’s Vision”, published in Dragões magazine in March, in which he criticised disciplinary decisions, refereeing, and the scheduling of the match between Sporting and Tondela, as well as references to media episodes associated with other clubs.

The Disciplinary Board held that, despite the “incisive” language and, at times, “excessive” from a rhetorical standpoint, the statements remained within the realm of “institutional criticism” and “value judgments”. The ruling also stresses that it was not proven that Villas-Boas had specifically and with sufficient clarity attributed intentional, fraudulent, or deliberately preferential conduct to referees, disciplinary bodies, or the entities organising the competitions.

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