Primeira Liga

Primeira Liga: Porto win all eight to open a five-point gap

The Primeira Liga is Portugal's top division: 18 clubs play each other home and away over 34 rounds. The top two qualify for the Champions League league phase and third place for its qualifying rounds, while fourth and fifth lead to the Europa League and Conference League qualifiers. The bottom two are relegated to Liga Portugal 2, and 16th goes into a relegation play-off.

After eight rounds FC Porto have a perfect record: eight wins, 24 points and only four goals conceded. Benfica are second on 19 points with the league's most productive attack (24 goals), one point ahead of Sporting CP and Santa Clara, who are both still unbeaten. Santa Clara have also conceded just four goals, matching Porto's defence.

At the other end, Estoril are still without a win and have two points, Casa Pia have scored only three goals, and Nacional, in the play-off place, have lost their last five. Benfica's Vangelis Pavlidis leads the scoring charts with eight goals, one more than Sporting's Luis Suárez.