Porto’s third-best Primeira Liga start, ninth in all competitions | OneFootball

FC Porto today secured its third-best start in the I Liga (in 92 editions), by adding a seventh victory, and also recorded the ninth-best start to the season in the club's history across all competitions, totaling eight wins.

In the national competition, whose first edition dates back to 1934/35, the 'blue and whites' only did better in 1939/40, with 13 consecutive victories under the command of Hungarian Mihaly Siska, and in 2007/08, when they started with eight wins led by Jesualdo Ferreira – both seasons ended with the title.

Interestingly, the best record occurred in a season when the 'dragons' should not even have participated: after finishing third in the Porto Regional, when only the first two advanced to the I Liga, but, according to the 'chronicles' of the time, the Portuguese Football Federation expanded the competition from eight to 10 clubs to include them.

In that season, the 'blue and whites' only lost one match, losing 4-3 at Alvalade on the 14th round; in 2007/08 the streak ended at Dragão with a 1-1 draw against Belenenses, led by Jorge Jesus. In 2017/18, Sérgio Conceição also had seven initial victories, then being stopped at Alvalade with a goalless draw against the 'lions'.

At the start of 2025/26, FC Porto won all seven I Liga matches played so far: Vitória de Guimarães (3-0, at home), Gil Vicente (2-0, away), Casa Pia (4-0, at home), Sporting (2-1, away), Nacional (1-0, at home), Rio Ave (3-0, away) and Arouca (4-0, away).

With the rout in Arouca – with goals from the Spaniard Samu (12′), the Turk Deniz Gül (51′), Francisco Moura (60′) and the Nigerian Zaidu (85′) -, the Italian debutant Francesco Farioli matched the record of Sérgio Conceição, who in 2017/18 also started the I Liga with seven victories.

Counting all competitions, Farioli's squad has eight wins in eight games – including the inaugural victory in the Europa League group stage (1-0 in Salzburg) – a start that is in the top-10 of the club's starts, whose first participation dates back to 1913/14. The eight consecutive victories equal the record of 1927/28 and constitute the best mark in an early stage of the season in 14 years, since 2010/11, when the club started with 11 wins under the presidency of the current leader (1 Supercup + 6 I Liga + 4 Europa League).

The best starts of FC Porto continue to be the 14 victories of 1932/33 (12 in the Porto Regional Championship and 2 in the Championship of Portugal) and of 1937/38 (10 in the Porto Regional and 4 in the I Liga).

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