2023–24 Liga Portugal 2

The 2023–24 Liga Portugal 2 (also known as Liga Portugal SABSEG for sponsorship reasons) is the 34th season of Portuguese football's second-tier league and the fourth season under the current Liga Portugal 2 title. A total of 18 teams are competing in this division, including reserve sides from top-flight Liga Portugal teams.

Liga Portugal 2

Season	2023–24
Dates	August 2023 – May 2024
Matches played	306
← 2022–23 2024–25 → All statistics correct as of 2 June 2023.

Teams

A total of 18 teams contest the league. Marítimo, Paços de Ferreira and Santa Clara were relegated to 2023–24 Liga Portugal 2 after finishing in 16th, 17th and 18th placed teams in 2022–23 Primeira Liga.

União de Leiria,^[1] Belenenses^[2] (promoted after an eleven and ten years absence, respectively) and Länk Vilaverdense (promoted for the first time in history) were promoted from the 2022–23 Liga 3, replacing B-SAD, Trofense and Sp. Covilhã (were relegated after one, two and fifteen years in the second tier, respectively).

Vilafranquense SAD, due to disputes with the club, relocated its team to the stadium of Desportivo das Aves 1930.^[3] However, it is not a fusion, as Aves will have no participation in the SAD or in running the team.^[4] Vilafranquense's SAD will change its name to match the new location, and the club (U.D. Vilafranquense) will form a new team in Lisbon's regional divisions.

Changes

Relegated from 2022–23 Primeira Liga Marítimo Paços de Ferreira Santa Clara Promoted from 2022–23 Liga 3 União de Leiria Belenenses Länk Vilaverdense

Promoted to 2023–24 Primeira Liga Moreirense Farense Estrela da Amadora Relegated to 2023–24 Liga 3 Trofense Sp. Covilhã B-SAD

Estádios e Localidades

 

 

P. Ferreira

 

Feirense

 

Benfica B

 

Ac. Viseu

 

Leixões

 

Penafiel

 

Porto B

 

Mafra

 

AVS

 

Torreense

 

Oliveirense

 

Tondela

 

U. Leiria

 

Belenenses

 

Vilaverdense

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Location of teams in 2023–24 Liga Portugal 2 (Mainland)

 

 

Marítimo

 

Nacional

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Location of teams in 2023–24 Liga Portugal 2 (Madeira)

 

 

Santa Clara

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Location of teams in 2023–24 Liga Portugal 2 (Azores)

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Final league position in 2022-23
Académico de Viseu	Viseu	Estádio do Fontelo	7,744	4th
AVS	Vila das Aves	Estádio do CD Aves	5,441	7th*
Belenenses	Lisbon	Estádio do Restelo	19,856	2nd (L3)
Benfica B	Seixal	Benfica Campus	2,720	14th
Feirense	Santa Maria da Feira	Estádio Marcolino de Castro	5,401	8th
Länk Vilaverdense	Vila Verde	Campo Cruz do Reguengo	1,000	3rd (L3)
Leixões	Matosinhos	Estádio do Mar	9,766	15th
Mafra	Mafra	Estádio Municipal de Mafra	1,257	6th
Marítimo	Funchal	Estádio do Marítimo	10,932	16th (PL)
Nacional	Funchal	Estádio da Madeira	5,132	13th
Oliveirense	Oliveira de Azeméis	Estádio Carlos Osório	1,750	10th
Paços de Ferreira	Paços de Ferreira	Estádio Capital do Móvel	9,076	17th (PL)
Penafiel	Penafiel	Estádio Municipal 25 de Abril	5,230	12th
Porto B	Vila Nova de Gaia	Estádio Municipal Jorge Sampaio	8,272	5th
Santa Clara	Ponta Delgada	Estádio de São Miguel	13,277	18th (PL)
Tondela	Tondela	Estádio João Cardoso	5,000	11th
Torreense	Torres Vedras	Estádio Manuel Marques	12,000	9th
União de Leiria	Leiria	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa	23,888	1st (L3)

Personnel and sponsors

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit Manufacturer	Main Sponsor
Académico de Viseu	Jorge Simão	André Almeida	Joma	Palácio do Gelo
AVS	Jorge Costa	Luís Silva
Belenenses	Bruno Dias	Duarte Valente
Benfica B	Nélson Veríssimo	Adrian Bajrami	Adidas	Emirates
Feirense	Ricardo Sousa	Cláudio Silva	Kelme
Länk Vilaverdense	Sérgio Machado	André Soares
Leixões	Pedro Ribeiro	Igor Stefanovic	AM	Matosinhos
Mafra	Silas	Gui Ferreira	Lacatoni	Placard
Marítimo	Tulipa	Edgar Costa	Puma	Betano
Nacional	Tiago Margarido	João Aurélio	Hummel	Solverde
Oliveirense	Fábio Pereira	Filipe Alves	Kelme	Onodera Group
Paços de Ferreira	Ricardo Silva	Antunes	Joma	Solverde
Penafiel	Hélder Cristóvão	João Miguel	Macron	EDIRCOP
Porto B	António Folha	Zé Pedro	New Balance	AMCO
Santa Clara	Vasco Matos	Ricardinho	Kelme	Solverde
Tondela	Tozé Marreco	Ricardo Alves	CDT	Cabriz
Torreense	Rui Ferreira	João Pereira	Kappa	Agriloja
União de Leiria	Vasco Botelho da Costa	Diogo Amado

Season summary

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	AVS	10	7	1	2	12	6	+6	22	Promotion to Liga Portugal
2	Nacional	10	6	2	2	20	10	+10	20
3	Santa Clara	10	5	5	0	13	4	+9	20	Qualification to Promotion play-offs
4	Marítimo	10	6	1	3	16	11	+5	19
5	Torreense	10	4	4	2	15	10	+5	16
6	Porto B (I)	10	4	3	3	19	13	+6	15
7	Oliveirense	10	4	3	3	14	18	−4	15
8	União de Leiria	10	4	2	4	20	16	+4	14
9	Paços de Ferreira	10	4	2	4	12	9	+3	14
10	Mafra	10	4	2	4	13	11	+2	14
11	Tondela	10	3	4	3	17	19	−2	13
12	Feirense	10	4	0	6	9	14	−5	12
13	Académico de Viseu	10	2	5	3	10	11	−1	11
14	Benfica B (I)	10	3	2	5	13	15	−2	11
15	Penafiel	10	3	2	5	9	13	−4	11
16	Leixões	10	3	2	5	9	16	−7	11	Qualification to Relegation play-offs
17	Belenenses	10	1	3	6	6	16	−10	6	Relegation to Liga 3
18	Länk Vilaverdense	10	1	1	8	7	22	−15	4

Updated to match(es) played on 12 November 2023. Source: Liga Portugal 2
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head away goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Matches won; 7) Goals scored; 8) Play-off.
(I) Ineligible for promotion

Results

Home \ Away	ACV	AVS	BEL	BEN	FEI	LAN	LEX	MAF	MAR	NAC	OLI	PAC	PEN	POR	SAN	TON	TOR	UNI
Académico de Viseu	—	0–1	–	1–0	2–0	1–1	–	–	–	1–1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
AVS	–	—	1–0	–	–	2–0	–	–	–	–	0–1	–	1–0	–	–	–	0–0	–
Belenenses	–	–	—	–	–	0–2	–	1–1	1–2	–	–	–	–	1–1	–	–	–	0–5
Benfica B	–	–	–	—	2–3	–	–	3–2	0–1	–	–	–	1–0	–	–	–	0–2	–
Feirense	–	1–2	1–0	–	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	1–0	2–0	–	0–2	–	–	–
Länk Vilaverdense	–	–	–	1–4	–	—	–	–	–	1–2	1–2	–	–	0–5	–	1–2	–	–
Leixões	–	–	1–0	1–1	–	–	—	–	0–1	–	–	–	–	1–3	0–0	–	–	–
Mafra	–	–	–	–	–	–	0–1	—	–	–	–	2–1	–	2–1	–	–	–	3–0
Marítimo	–	0–1	–	–	–	–	–	–	—	–	–	2–0	–	–	–	2–2	–	–
Nacional	–	–	–	–	1–0	–	3–1	–	1–2	—	5–0	–	–	–	1–1	–	–	2–0
Oliveirense	2–2	–	–	–	3–1	–	–	–	–	–	—	0–0	3–1	–	1–1	–	–	1–4
Paços de Ferreira	1–0	–	–	–	–	2–0	1–2	–	–	–	–	—	–	–	–	5–1	–	0–0
Penafiel	0–0	–	–	–	–	–	3–0	1–0	–	1–4	–	–	—	3–2	–	–	–	–
Porto B	–	–	–	–	2–0	–	–	–	0–2	–	–	–	–	—	–	1–1	2–2	2–1
Santa Clara	2–0	2–1	–	1–1	–	2–0	–	–	–	–	–	–	0–0	–	—	–	2–0	–
Tondela	2–2	–	–	0–1	–	–	4–2	2–1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	—	1–2	–
Torreense	–	–	2–2	–	–	–	–	0–0	–	3–0	3–1	1–2	–	–	–	–	—	–
União de Leiria	–	1–2	–	3–1	–	–	–	–	4–3	–	–	–	–	–	–	2–2	–	—

Updated to match(es) played on 12 November 2023. Source: Liga Portugal 2
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
AVS	6	2	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1
Nacional	14	18	12	8	6	4	2	2	2	2
Santa Clara	3	4	2	1	3	2	3	3	3	3
Marítimo	5	9	4	4	2	3	4	4	4	4
Torreense	17	5	9	5	4	5	6	7	6	5
Porto B	7	13	6	9	11	8	8	6	5	6
Oliveirense	2	1	1	3	5	6	7	9	8	7
União de Leiria	11	3	8	12	7	9	11	8	7	8
Paços de Ferreira	11	15	7	11	15	17	12	10	9	9
Mafra	13	7	10	6	9	7	5	5	10	10
Tondela	7	11	16	16	12	13	9	11	13	11
Feirense	16	8	14	15	17	12	10	12	14	12
Académico de Viseu	7	11	5	7	8	10	13	13	15	13
Benfica B	4	10	12	14	16	11	14	14	11	14
Penafiel	1	5	11	13	10	15	16	15	16	15
Leixões	18	17	18	17	13	16	17	16	12	16
Belenenses	15	15	15	10	14	14	15	17	17	17
Länk Vilaverdense	7	14	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18

	Leader and promotion to Primeira Liga
	Promotion to Primeira Liga
	Qualification to Promotion play-offs
	Qualification to Relegation play-offs
	Relegation to Liga 3

Updated to match(es) played on 12 November 2023. Source: Liga Portugal 2

Number of teams by district

Rank	District Football Associations	Number	Teams
1	Porto	5	AVS, Leixões, Paços de Ferreira, Penafiel and Porto B
2	Lisbon	4	Belenenses, Benfica B, Mafra and Torreense
3	Aveiro	2	Feirense and Oliveirense
	Funchal		Marítimo and Nacional
	Viseu		Académico de Viseu and Tondela
6	Braga	1	Länk Vilaverdense
	Leiria		União de Leiria
	Ponta Delgada		Santa Clara

References

1. "UD Leiria wins SC Braga B and gets promoted [to Liga Portugal 2]". Público (in Portuguese). 29 April 2023. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
2. "Belenenses gets promoted [to Liga Portugal 2]". Público (in Portuguese). 6 May 2023. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
3. "How Vilafranquense transformed into "AVS Futebol SAD" (AFS)". Liga Portugal (in Portuguese). 29 April 2023. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
4. "AFS Vila das Aves: Comunicado Oficial". Liga Portugal (in Portuguese). 29 April 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2023.