It seemed like a path of no return, but at the end of the day there will be a “third way” in the final discussion on the number of national titles of each club: Sporting managed to introduce a new opinion for debate at the Extraordinary General Assembly on the 29th , having like this three documents in suffrage In the date.
Sporting celebrated the last Championship as if there were five but will lose the war: the two opinions delivered to the Federation
After knowing the two opinions that were going to be voted on in the main assembly, and since none coincided with the understanding of the Verdiblanco directors on the subject that the club raised in 2016 and that was studied by the Federation from 2018, the two delegates of Sporting to the General Assembly, the vice presidents Francisco Salgado Zenha (who is also SAD administrator with the economic part) and Miguel Nogueira Leite (responsible for the legal part), presented a third opinion signed by Diogo Ramada Curto and Bernardo Pinto da Cruz also under discussion on the 29th, Wednesday. The “historic and independent” work of researchers from the Portuguese Institute of International Relations had already been delivered by Frederico Varandas, president of Sporting, to the FPF in December 2020.
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Thus, and as the lions advocated, the Portuguese Championships should be considered National Championships from the beginning of their existence until 1938, also considering the four years in which, in parallel, there was a League Championship described as an experimental version of the main competition. of the Portuguese calendar that exists these days. In addition to the fact that the newspapers of the time described these triumphs as “national champions” The opinion argues that the fact that it is a competition carried out by eliminatory does not erase the fact that there are classifieds from the regions of the country at the national level. With that, Benfica would win three Portuguese Championships but lose three of the League Championship.
- National championships: 37 from Benfica, 33 from FC Porto (plus three), 23 from Sporting (plus four), four from Belenenses (plus three), one from Boavista, one from Carcavelinhos (plus one), one from Olhanense (plus one) and one Maritime (one more);
- Portuguese Cups: 26 from Benfica, 18 from FC Porto, 17 from Sporting, five from Boavista, three from Sp. Braga, three from V. Setúbal, three from Belenenses, two from Académica, one from Beira-Mar, one from Leixões, one from V. Guimarães, one from Estrela and one from Desp. birds.
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The first opinion carried out by three elements proposed by the University of Porto and one by the University of Lisbon, argues that the winning teams of the Portuguese Championship between 1921/22 and 1933/34 should be considered national champions, just like those that also won the League Championship between 1934/35 and 1937/38, while the winners of the Portuguese Championship between 1934/35 and 1937/38 have those titles invested in Portuguese Cups and not National Championships.
- National championships: 39 from Benfica (plus two), 33 from FC Porto (plus three), 21 from Sporting (plus two), four from Belenenses (plus three), one from Boavista, one from Carcavelinhos (plus one), one from Olhanense (plus one) and one from the Sea (plus one);
- Portuguese Cups: 27 from Benfica (one more), 19 from Sporting (two more), 19 from FC Porto (one more), five from Boavista, three from Sp. Braga, three from V. Setúbal, three from Belenenses, two from Académica, one from Beira-Mar, one from Leixões, one from V. Guimarães, one from Estrela and one from Desp. birds.
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The second opinion Made by Francisco Pinheiro who was nominated by the University of Coimbra, it has a more conservative character while adding more titles to the list. In this case, it is understood that the League Championship was the predecessor of the National Championship and that the Portuguese Championship was the predecessor of the Portuguese Cup, thus placing the titles between 1921/22 and 1937/38 in the Portuguese Cup.
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- National championships: 37 from Benfica, 30 from FC Porto, 19 from Sporting, one from Belenenses and one from Boavista;
- Portuguese Cups: 29 from Benfica (plus three), 22 from FC Porto (plus four), 21 from Sporting (plus four), six from Belenenses (plus three), five from Boavista, three from Sp. Braga, three from V. Setúbal, two from Académica, one from Beira-Mar, one from Leixões, one from V. Guimarães, one from Estrela, one from Desp. Aves, one from Carcavelinhos (one more), one from Olhanense (one more) and one from Marítimo (one more).
Source: Observadora
