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30/06/07
The draw for the new season's Liga fixtures and the new Taça da Liga (League Cup) will take place on 12 July.
The winner of the Taça da Liga, sponsored by Carlsberg, will receive 500,000
euros. Carlsberg are to invest six million euros in the competition. It will involve just clubs from the Liga and Liga de Honra (second tier).
22/06/07
Marítimo have contracted much-travelled Brazilian Sebastião Lazaroni, 56, to be their new coach after negotiations with Laszlo Bolöni fell through. Lazaroni's last club was Trabzonspor of
Turkey.
Marítimo were the club that used the fewest Portuguese players in the Liga last season: on average, only three of the 14 players used each game were Portuguese. The club that used most Portuguese players were
Desportivo das Aves … who were relegated.
The numbers, presented by the Portuguese Footballers' Union, are:
Desportivo das Aves: 10 Portuguese/4 foreigners
Estrela da Amadora: 9/5
Sporting: 8/6
Belenenses: 8/6
Benfica: 7/7
Boavista: 7/7
Paços de Ferreira: 7/7
Spporting Braga: 7/7
Beira Mar: 7/7
Vitória de Setúbal: 6/7
Nacional: 6/8
União de Leiria: 6/8
Académica: 6/8
Naval: 5/9
F.C. Porto: 5/9
Marítimo: 3/11
16/06/07
FC Porto 'keeper Vítor Baía, who hung up his gloves at the end of the season, stays on at the club in charge of 'external relations'.
The Football Federation's Refereeing Council have voted Pedro Proença, of Lisbon, as the best referee of last season.
The Players' Union has accused Boavista
of not paying five players for over a year: João Pedro, Hélder Calvino, Hugo Ferreira, Vítor Borges and Stephen Rodrigues. The club responded by stating that the players should be paid by the clubs to which they are loaned out, and that Boavista is only responsible for a complement to the players' wages, which is only due definitively at the end of the 2007/08 season.
Portuguese coach Nelo Vingada has signed a one-year contract with WAC of Casablanca. Vingada was most recently Egypt's U-20 coach, and he has also trained Zamalek of Egypt.
FC Porto and Benfica are in the top twenty of the UEFA Rankings, published Friday. Porto are 13th and Benfica 19th in the list headed by AC Milan. Sporting
are the next highest Portuguese club at 37th.
1. Milan (Italy)
13. F.C. Porto
19. Benfica
(37.) Sporting
(90.) Boavista
(96.) Sporting Braga
(119.) Vítória de Guimarães
(129.) Vitória de Setúbal
(129.) Marítimo
(129.) Unão de Leiria
(129.) Leixões
(143.) Belenenses
(143.) P. Ferreira
11/06/07
Romanian Laszlo Boloni, former coach of Sporting, has been in talks with Marítimo about the possibility of taking over at the Madeiran club.
02/06/07
The International Federation of Football History and Statistics has Benfica as the top Portuguese club in a list headed by Spanish club Sevilla:
44th - Benfica
72nd - F.C. Porto
75th - Sporting
80th - Sporting Braga
236th - Belenenses
Rogério Gonçalves, who coached Naval and Sporting Braga last season, has taken over from Paco Soler at relegated Beira-Mar.
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