Brazilian players lead the foreign contingent in Liga Portugal

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·21 November 2025

Brazilian players lead the foreign contingent in Liga Portugal

With 90 athletes on the field, Brazilians form the largest foreign colony in the Liga Portugal 1, according to a study released this Thursday by the Football Observatory of the League.

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The Portuguese, naturally, are the absolute majority in the competition, with 159 players. Even so, the gap with Brazil is not double. Following them are Spain (41), France (18), and Uruguay (11), completing the top 5 nationalities.

In the first 11 rounds of the current first division season, players from 68 different nationalities were registered in the teams – a number only surpassed by the 2022/23 season, when 72 countries were represented.

In total, 63.8% of the athletes listed in these first 11 rounds of Liga Portugal 1 are Brazilians or Portuguese.

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