Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
The Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira is an annual Portuguese football match played since 1979 between the winners of the Portuguese league and Portuguese Cup. When a team wins both competitions, it plays again against the Cup runners-up.
The Supertaça has been organised by the Portuguese Football Federation since 1981, and it is usually played in August, right before the start of the league season. The trophy is named after former player, coach, and sports journalist Cândido de Oliveira.
History
In the 1943–44 season, the Super Cup was created for a special game between Primeira Divisão champions Sporting CP and Taça de Portugal winners Benfica, on occasion of the inauguration of the Estádio Nacional. The commissioned trophy was named Taça Império – not to be mistaken with Taça do Império, the first incarnation of the Taça de Portugal. After the game, it was decided that the competition was to be continued, but it was later canceled. The second incarnation came 20 years later when Casa da Imprensa instituted a trophy, the Taça de Ouro da Imprensa to be challenged between the national champions and the cup winners.The Super Cup started unofficially in 1978–79 with a local derby between Boavista and Porto that ended with a 2–1 victory for Boavista. The following season, another derby occurred between Benfica and Sporting, which constituted the second unofficial Super Cup and the first played over two legs. With the success of both unofficial Super Cup editions, the Portuguese Football Federation decided to uphold the competition on a yearly basis in a two-legged format. The first official edition took place in the 1981–82 season, already under the current name.
The rules stated that two matches were played and that the aggregate result would determine the winner. If a draw occurred, then a replay of the match should be played in a neutral ground. This occurred six times — 1984, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 2000 — with the replay of the 1984 edition being contested again in two legs.
Because interest in the Super Cup was waning and in order to reduce the crowded football calendar, in the 2000–01 season, the FPF decided to abolish the two-legged format and replay match and use a single match played in a neutral ground to determine the winner.
Editions
| Champions |
| Cup representatives |
| ‡ Cup runners-up |
Performance by club
| Club | Winners | Runners-up | Winning years | Runner-up years |
| Porto | 21 | 9 | 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2018 | 1979, 1985, 1988, 1992, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2007, 2008 |
| Benfica | 8 | 12 | 1980, 1985, 1989, 2005, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019 | 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2004, 2010, 2015 |
| Sporting CP | 8 | 2 | 1982, 1987, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2015 | 1980, 2019 |
| Boavista | 3 | 1 | 1979, 1992, 1997 | 2001 |
| Vitória de Guimarães | 1 | 3 | 1988 | 2011, 2013, 2017 |
| Braga | 0 | 3 | 1982, 1998, 2016 | |
| Vitória de Setúbal | 0 | 2 | 2005, 2006 | |
| Belenenses | 0 | 1 | 1989 | |
| Estrela da Amadora | 0 | 1 | 1990 | |
| Beira-Mar | 0 | 1 | 1999 | |
| Leixões | 0 | 1 | 2002 | |
| União de Leiria | 0 | 1 | 2003 | |
| Paços de Ferreira | 0 | 1 | 2009 | |
| Académica de Coimbra | 0 | 1 | 2012 | |
| Rio Ave | 0 | 1 | 2014 | |
| Aves | 0 | 1 | 2018 |