Sporting fixtures announced, Benfica clash set for date and time | OneFootball

The Portuguese League announced the upcoming Sporting matches and the derby against Benfica now has a set date and time.

The Portuguese Professional Football League announced the schedules for the matches up to the 13th round. In this round of matches, Sporting and Benfica are set to meet on Friday, December 5th at 8:15 PM. After the clash for the Cândido de Oliveira Super Cup, the second eternal derby of the season will take place at Estádio da Luz.

Still in September, Rui Borges' team learned the date and time of their matches until December. Besides the match against their red rival, the Alvalade Club has a match scheduled against Braga at 7:15 PM on Sunday, October 5th. In the same round, there is a Porto - Benfica match, which could be important for Sporting's standings.

The schedules made by the Portuguese Professional Football League ended up being influenced by other competitions taking place during that time, such as the Portuguese Cup, League Cup, international breaks, and European competitions, which for Sporting will be the Champions League, where their matches are also already set.

These games will be extremely important since, by the end of this period, Rui Borges and his players will have already faced Benfica, Porto, and Braga, their main rivals, before the Christmas break and the turn to the second half of the championship.

Sporting returns to the field only on Saturday, September 13th, against Famalicão. The match, counting for the fifth round of the National Championship, will be played against the team led by Hugo Oliveira, and will take place in Minho at 8:30 PM.

Check out Sporting's matches up to the 13th round:

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