FC Porto fined €13,643 for flares and announcer chants at Estádio do Dragão | OneFootball

The match between FC Porto and Estoril turned out to be much more than just a scare in terms of the result for the leaders of the Primeira Liga. This Wednesday, the Disciplinary Council of the Portuguese Football Federation announced the fines related to that match from the 12th round, and the bill is anything but pleasant.

The penalties stem from the improper behavior of Porto supporters, who set off pyrotechnic devices, causing a temporary stoppage of the match. However, they were not the only ones to lighten André Villas-Boas's wallet.

“At 42 minutes of the first half, after pyrotechnic devices were set off in the south stand, with supporters affiliated with club A, identified by their attire, the match, which was already interrupted due to normal play, had to be further delayed by 1 minute and 45 seconds until full visibility was possible,” reads the statement from the Disciplinary Council of the FPF, which continues.

“As a consequence of the pyrotechnic devices reported here, at the 42nd minute of the game, the referee delayed the restart of the match by 1:45 (one minute and forty-five seconds) to allow the smoke caused by those devices to dissipate and ensure better visibility of the game and its participants,” it concludes.

In addition to the less than exemplary behavior of the group of fans in the Super Dragões supporters' section, the stadium announcer at Estádio do Dragão was also hit with a substantial fine for making announcements at the wrong time while the match was still in progress.

“The speaker present at the stadium (…) at 90+3 minutes of the game, while the match was still ongoing, chanted the following phrase: ‘Porto, Porto’,” states the report presented by Liga Portugal, noting that this single mistake by the speaker cost the Porto officials more than seven thousand euros in fines.

In total, the bill was hefty for the blue and white club, with a pending payment of 13,643 euros, not including an additional fine of 102 euros imposed on Francisco Moura, FC Porto’s left-back, after receiving his third yellow card of the season.

The match was anything but easy for Francesco Farioli’s team

FC Porto ended up beating Estoril Praia 1-0 on Sunday night at Estádio do Dragão, in a match from the 12th round of the Primeira Liga, thus strengthening their lead in the standings ahead of the derby between Benfica and Sporting.

The game was decided early: in the eighth minute, after a mistake by Jordan Holsgrove, the ball fell to William Gomes, who made no mistake against Joel Robles.

With this victory, FC Porto moved to the top of the league with 34 points, three more than Sporting and six more than Benfica, in a round that precedes the Lisbon classic.

As for Estoril Praia, they remained in 10th place with 13 points from 12 games, being closer to the relegation zone than to the spots for European competitions in the 2026/27 season.

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