Porto unbeaten and solid at the back after five games since 17/18 | OneFootball

Francesco Farioli took over as head coach of FC Porto with an impressive start: five official matches and five victories in the 2025/26 Primeira Liga.

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A completely victorious start that, in the last ten seasons, only finds a parallel in the 2017/18 season, the debut of Sérgio Conceição at the helm of the Dragons. In that campaign, the blue and whites won consecutively up to the seventh round, only being stopped at home by Sporting with a 0-0 draw in the eighth round.

The 2017/18 season ended with FC Porto as champions, and it is to that season that one must return to find a more solid defense from the blue and whites than in the current season after five rounds.

In 2017/18, FC Porto did not concede any goals in the first five rounds—the first goal conceded only came in the sixth round, in a 2-1 victory at Rio Ave. In the 2025/26 season, the club reaches the end of the 5th round having conceded just one goal—curiously, an own goal, in the 2-1 win against Sporting in round 4.

In the offensive department, there is also a coincidence: 12 goals were scored both in Conceição’s first season and in this first season under Farioli’s command.

FC Porto after the 5th round in the last 10 seasons

25/26: 15 points, 12 goals scored, 1 goal conceded (final standing: ?)

24/25: 15 points, 9 goals scored, 3 goals conceded (final standing: 3rd)

23/24: 13 points, 8 goals scored, 4 goals conceded (final standing: 3rd)

22/23: 12 points, 12 goals scored, 4 goals conceded (final standing: 2nd)

21/22: 11 points, 9 goals scored, 3 goals conceded (final standing: champion)

20/21: 10 points, 13 goals scored, 6 goals conceded (final standing: 2nd)

19/20: 12 points, 13 goals scored, 4 goals conceded (final standing: champion)

18/19: 12 points, 15 goals scored, 3 goals conceded (final standing: 2nd)

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