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, the top professional league for Portuguese

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clubs, and the second season under the current Liga Portugal title. This was the sixth Primeira Liga season to use video assistant referee (VAR). Benfica won the league, having secured a record 38th league title.

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were the defending champions, having won their 30th title at the previous season. Rio Ave,

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and Chaves joined as the promoted clubs from the 2021–22 Liga Portugal 2 replacing Belenenses SAD,

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and Moreirense, which were relegated to 2022–23 Liga Portugal 2. As the

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was held between 20 November and 18 December 2022 due to the climatic conditions of the host country Qatar, the league featured an extended pause during the season. As national team players had to be released by their clubs on 14 November 2022, the last Primeira Liga matchday before the break was scheduled for 13 November (matchday 13). The league resumed nine weeks later on 28 December.

Teams

Changes

The three teams promoted from the 2021–22 Liga Portugal 2 were Rio Ave (finishing first, promoted after a one-year absence),

(finishing second, promoted after an 83-year absence) and Chaves (won promotion play-offs, promoted after a three-year absence), replacing Moreirense (relegated after eight years),

(relegated after seven years) and Belenenses SAD (never relegated before).

Stadia and locations

Personnel and sponsors

Managerial changes

League table

Relegation play-offs

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. ''All times are

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Results

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.

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Hat-tricks

;Notes (H) – Home team
(A) – Away team
⁴ Player scored four goals.

Top assists

Clean sheets

Discipline

Player

* Most yellow cards: 17 ** Guima (Chaves) * Most red cards: 2 ** Tiago Silva (Vitória de Guimarães) ** Edgar Costa (Marítimo) ** Reggie Cannon (Boavista) ** Maracás (Paços de Ferreira) ** Renê Santos (Marítimo) ** Sikou Niakaté (Braga) ** Jerome Opoku (Arouca)

Club

* Most yellow cards: 106 ** Santa Clara ** Vitória de Guimarães * Most red cards: 10 **

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** Chaves ** Marítimo ** Vitória de Guimarães

Awards

Monthly awards

Annual awards

Number of teams by district

Notes

References

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