Portuguese Cup in Legends XI: 86 seasons, with the winner and runner-up of each.
| Season | Winner | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | SC Torreense | Sporting CP |
| 2024-25 | Sporting CP | SL Benfica |
| 2023-24 | FC Porto | Sporting CP |
| 2022-23 | FC Porto | SC Braga |
| 2021-22 | FC Porto | CD Tondela |
| 2020-21 | SC Braga | SL Benfica |
| 2019-20 | FC Porto | SL Benfica |
| 2018-19 | Sporting CP | FC Porto |
| 2017-18 | Desportivo das Aves | Sporting CP |
| 2016-17 | SL Benfica | Vitória de Guimarães |
| 2015-16 | SC Braga | FC Porto |
| 2014-15 | Sporting CP | SC Braga |
| 2013-14 | SL Benfica | Rio Ave |
| 2012-13 | Vitória de Guimarães | SL Benfica |
| 2011-12 | Académica de Coimbra | Sporting CP |
| 2010-11 | FC Porto | Vitória de Guimarães |
| 2009-10 | FC Porto | GD Chaves |
| 2008-09 | FC Porto | Paços de Ferreira |
| 2007-08 | Sporting CP | FC Porto |
| 2006-07 | Sporting CP | Belenenses |
| 2005-06 | FC Porto | Vitória de Setúbal |
| 2004-05 | Vitória de Setúbal | SL Benfica |
| 2003-04 | SL Benfica | FC Porto |
| 2002-03 | FC Porto | União de Leiria |
| 2001-02 | Sporting CP | Leixões |
| 2000-01 | FC Porto | Marítimo |
| 1999-00 | FC Porto | Sporting CP |
| 1998-99 | Beira-Mar | Campomaiorense |
| 1997-98 | FC Porto | SC Braga |
| 1996-97 | Boavista | SL Benfica |
| 1995-96 | SL Benfica | Sporting CP |
| 1994-95 | Sporting CP | Marítimo |
| 1993-94 | FC Porto | Sporting CP |
| 1992-93 | SL Benfica | Boavista |
| 1991-92 | Boavista | FC Porto |
| 1990-91 | FC Porto | Beira-Mar |
| 1989-90 | Estrela da Amadora | Farense |
| 1988-89 | Belenenses | SL Benfica |
| 1987-88 | FC Porto | Vitória de Guimarães |
| 1986-87 | SL Benfica | Sporting CP |
| 1985-86 | SL Benfica | Belenenses |
| 1984-85 | SL Benfica | FC Porto |
| 1983-84 | FC Porto | Rio Ave |
| 1982-83 | SL Benfica | FC Porto |
| 1981-82 | Sporting CP | SC Braga |
| 1980-81 | SL Benfica | FC Porto |
| 1979-80 | SL Benfica | FC Porto |
| 1978-79 | Boavista | Sporting CP |
| 1977-78 | Sporting CP | FC Porto |
| 1976-77 | FC Porto | SC Braga |
| 1975-76 | Boavista | Vitória de Guimarães |
| 1974-75 | Boavista | SL Benfica |
| 1973-74 | Sporting CP | SL Benfica |
| 1972-73 | Sporting CP | Vitória de Setúbal |
| 1971-72 | SL Benfica | Sporting CP |
| 1970-71 | Sporting CP | SL Benfica |
| 1969-70 | SL Benfica | Sporting CP |
| 1968-69 | SL Benfica | Académica de Coimbra |
| 1967-68 | FC Porto | Vitória de Setúbal |
| 1966-67 | Vitória de Setúbal | Académica de Coimbra |
| 1965-66 | SC Braga | Vitória de Setúbal |
| 1964-65 | Vitória de Setúbal | SL Benfica |
| 1963-64 | SL Benfica | FC Porto |
| 1962-63 | Sporting CP | Vitória de Guimarães |
| 1961-62 | SL Benfica | Vitória de Setúbal |
| 1960-61 | Leixões | FC Porto |
| 1959-60 | Belenenses | Sporting CP |
| 1958-59 | SL Benfica | FC Porto |
| 1957-58 | FC Porto | SL Benfica |
| 1956-57 | SL Benfica | Sporting da Covilhã |
| 1955-56 | FC Porto | SC Torreense |
| 1954-55 | SL Benfica | Sporting CP |
| 1953-54 | Sporting CP | Vitória de Setúbal |
| 1952-53 | SL Benfica | FC Porto |
| 1951-52 | SL Benfica | Sporting CP |
| 1950-51 | SL Benfica | Académica de Coimbra |
| 1948-49 | SL Benfica | Atlético CP |
| 1947-48 | Sporting CP | Belenenses |
| 1945-46 | Sporting CP | Atlético CP |
| 1944-45 | Sporting CP | Olhanense |
| 1943-44 | SL Benfica | Estoril Praia |
| 1942-43 | SL Benfica | Vitória de Setúbal |
| 1941-42 | Belenenses | Vitória de Guimarães |
| 1940-41 | Sporting CP | Belenenses |
| 1939-40 | SL Benfica | Belenenses |
| 1938-39 | Académica de Coimbra | SL Benfica |
The Portuguese Cup is the oldest of the Portuguese cup competitions in this game: the first edition was played in 1938-39. It's also the biggest of the Portuguese competitions in the game — 32 teams in the knockout stage, four times as many as the Portuguese League Cup's 8. Today's format is the only one in the game where the number of legs rises and then falls again along the way: from the round of 32 to the quarter-finals it's single-leg, the semi-finals are played over two legs, and the final is always a single match, on neutral ground, at the Jamor. The full path to the title is six matches — but the Portuguese Cup has no group stage, so it has no perfect-campaign badge: a title won in six matches doesn't carry the same weight as the thirteen of a perfect Champions League campaign.
As in every competition in the game, the 100 doesn't belong to whoever had the single best campaign — it belongs to whoever dominates the competition's HISTORY, and the card's season is only the one that shows it best. The Portuguese Cup is also the competition with the least official documentation in the game: there is no official all-time top-scorers table for the competition, not on Wikipedia and not from the Portuguese Football Federation — the goal figures cited on this page come from our own compilation, made edition by edition. The criterion available here — and the one that decides who is in this eleven — is TITLES and FINALS WON, verifiable edition by edition. And there's a symmetry nobody designed: the two greatest goalscorers the competition has seen, Eusébio and Peyroteo, land one in each rarity.
The competition's all-time great
Eusébio is the all-time top scorer in Portuguese Cup history: 97 goals in 61 matches, an average of 1.59 per match, and 5 Cups won. The card is from the 1968-69 season, the one with the highest mark the competition has ever seen — 18 goals in a single edition — capped by the title-winning goal against Académica, in the 109th minute of extra time.
GK
Vítor Baía is the most decorated goalkeeper in Portuguese Cup history: 5 Cups, in 1991, 1994, 2000, 2003 and 2006 — no other goalkeeper in the competition comes close. The card is from the 2002-03 season, one of the five in which he lifted the trophy.
RB
Carlos Secretário has 5 Portuguese Cups, the competition's shared record among right-backs. The card is from the 1997-98 season.
CB
Pepe has 5 Portuguese Cups, with seventeen years between the first and the last — and he equalled the shared record of 5 after turning 39. The card is from the 2022-23 season.
CB
Artur Santos won 5 Portuguese Cups in five finals played — he never lost a final in the competition. The card is from the 1958-59 season, within the decade Benfica dominated the competition.
LB
Humberto Coelho was part of Benfica's winning eleven in 1969, 1970, 1972 and 1980. The card is from the 1968-69 season, the first of those titles.
CDM
Francisco Ferreira won 6 Portuguese Cups with SL Benfica — 1939-40, 1942-43, 1943-44, 1948-49, 1950-51 and 1951-52 — double the runner-up among the competition's defensive midfielders (4). He played 7 finals in total, losing only the first, in 1938-39. The card is from the 1951-52 season, the sixth and last of those titles.
CM
Mário Coluna has 6 Portuguese Cups — 1955, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1964 and 1969 — above the shared record of 5, and above even Eusébio, this competition's 100. The card is from the 1968-69 season, the last of those six titles.
CAM
Rogério Pipi won 6 Portuguese Cups with SL Benfica, in 6 finals played, without a single defeat. He's the all-time top scorer in Portuguese Cup finals, with 15 goals, five of them scored in a single final. The card is from the 1943-44 season, the one with five goals in the final against Estoril (13', 56', 69', 75' and 86') — the biggest individual haul in a final of this competition, before or since.
RW
Pepê won 3 Portuguese Cups in a row — 2022, 2023 and 2024. He isn't the most famous name to have played this position in the competition; he's the one who won it the most. The card is from the 2023-24 season.
LW
Galeno has 3 Portuguese Cups — 2021 with Sporting de Braga, then 2023 and 2024 with FC Porto. The card is from the 2023-24 season.
ST
Fernando Peyroteo scored 63 goals in the Portuguese Cup and won 4 titles — 1941, 1945, 1946 and 1948 — the king of the competition's founding era. He is the second-highest scorer in its history, behind only Eusébio, who holds this competition's 100 with 97 goals and 5 Cups. The card is from the 1945-46 season.
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