16 June 1940: FC Porto thrashed Boavista at Bessa, Kodrnja made history | OneFootball

On June 16, 1940, FC Porto secured qualification for the next round of the Portuguese Cup with another thrashing of Boavista. After the 7-0 win at Campo da Constituição in the quarter-finals of the premier cup competition, Porto once again defeated their city rivals, this time 6-0 at Campo do Bessa.

The standout player of the match was Slavko Kodrnja. The Yugoslav forward scored four goals in the blue-and-white victory, while António Santos netted the other two. The result wrapped up a tie completely dominated by FC Porto, who scored 13 goals and conceded none across the two matches against Boavista.

Kodrnja remains one of the most iconic figures of that period in the club’s history. Between 1939 and 1940, the striker scored 52 goals in 42 games for FC Porto, a record that still gives him the best goals-per-game average in the club’s history: 1.24. Next on the list of best ratios are Acácio Mesquita, with an average of 1 goal per game, and Mário Jardel, who left the club with 0.96.

In the historic image from that day, it is Kodrnja who appears, the face of a generation that helped cement FC Porto’s rise in Portuguese football. The performance at Bessa remains another chapter in the story of a team that, in 1940, made its mark through its attacking power and the way it turned superiority into emphatic victories.

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