Quarter-finals kick off on 28 October, | OneFootball

With the schedules set, Sporting already knows the path it will have to take to secure a spot in the decisive phase of the League Cup.

Liga Portugal announced this Friday, October 3rd, the schedule for the quarter-finals of the League Cup, a competition contested by the top six teams of Liga Portugal in 2024/25, as well as the champion and runner-up of Liga 2 from the previous season.

The matches will be played in a single knockout round, with the aim of determining the four finalists who will participate in the Final Four in Leiria, between January 6 and 10, 2026, starting with the clash between Sporting and Alverca.

The following day, October 29, two matches will take place: Braga – Santa Clara and Benfica – Tondela. The last game of this phase will only be on December 4, when Porto hosts Vitória de Guimarães, thus completing the list of semifinalists for the competition.

With the schedules set, the teams already know the path they will have to take to secure a spot in the decisive phase of a competition that will have the city of Leiria as its stage. Sporting is looking to win the competition for the fifth time in its history, after losing to Benfica in the last edition (1-1, 7-6 defeat in penalties).

In recent days, Liga Portugal has expressed the intention to "increase the quality" of the League Cup, whose final four will be held, for the sixth consecutive time, in Leiria. At the presentation of the competition, at the Dr. Magalhães Pessoa Municipal Stadium, the president of LPFP, Reinaldo Teixeira, noted that the competition "has been growing", both "in the performance of the teams and in the conditions of the stadium", and highlighted the "great quality of competition and great competitiveness". However, the venue of the competition may change in the future.

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