2013–14 Campeonato Nacional de Seniores


The 2013–14 Campeonato Nacional de Seniores was the 1st season of the newly created third-tier football league in Portugal after the merging of the Second and Third Divisions. It begun on 25 August 2013 and finished on 10 June 2014.
This first edition consisted of 19 clubs from the District Championships, 39 from the Portuguese Second Division, 19 from the Portuguese Third Division and the three teams relegated from the Segunda Liga during the 2012–13 season, making 80 clubs.
S.C. Freamunde won the overall competition, defeating Clube Oriental de Lisboa 3–2 in the final.

Overview

The league was divided in eight series of 10 clubs placed geographically, with the exception of teams from Madeira Islands and from the Azores Islands.
After a First Stage in a home-and-away system, the first two best placed teams of each league played in two groups of 8 teams in a Second Stage with each league winner earning a promotion to the Segunda Liga, plus a two-round play-off winner between the two second placed teams. The two group winners then played a Grand Final on neutral ground for the overall Campeonato Nacional title.
The remaining 8 clubs from each league from the First Stage played in 8 different groups with the last two placed teams being relegated to the District Championships. The 6th placed teams from those leagues then played a two-round play-off with between themselves to decide the remaining four clubs to be relegated.

Teams

Qualified teams:
Relegated from Segunda Liga:
From the Second Division :
;North Zone
;Center Zone
;South Zone
Promoted from the Third Division :
;Series A
;Series B
;Series C
;Series D
;Series E
;Series F
;Series Azores
Promoted from the District Championships :

Serie A

Serie B

Serie C

Serie D

Serie E

Serie F

Serie G

Serie H

Second Stage

Promotion Groups

North Zone

South Zone

Third place playoff

First leg

Second leg

Vitória de Guimarães B is promoted to 2014–15 Segunda Liga.

Grand final

Relegation Groups

Serie A

Serie B

Serie C

Serie D

Serie E

Serie F

Serie G

Serie H

6th places playouts