The Super Cup match between champion Benfica and FC Porto, winner of the Portuguese Cup, will be played on August 8 or 9, during the week, to avoid overlapping dates with other events.
The information was released today by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF), adding that the match will be at the Estádio Municipal de Aveiro and will begin at 8:45 p.m., but that it will not be on the weekend.
“To avoid overlapping dates, the day of the match will only be known on July 24 after the Champions League draw that determines the date on which Sporting Braga will play the third qualifying round of the UEFA competition. “, says the FPF.
Another aspect was the agreement between Benfica and FC Porto not to play on the weekend of August 5 and 6, since these dates coincide with World Youth Day, which Lisbon hosts between August 1 and 6. .
The venue for the Super Cup is once again the Estádio Municipal de Aveiro, which has hosted the match in the last three editions and already on a total of 12 occasions, since 2009 – in 2015 and 2019, the venue was the Estádio do Algarve.
“The Aveiro City Council has the greatest honor and the greatest pleasure to host this 2023 edition of the Super Cup, which repeats a classic that has not occurred in this competition for three years, between Benfica and FC Porto”, said the mayor. from Aveiro, Ribau Esteves, quoted by the FPF.
Benfica is in the Super Cup, which they won eight times, as national champion in 2022/23, while FC Porto was the winner of the Portuguese Cup, beating Sporting de Braga (2-0) in the final played on Sunday.
The ‘dragons’ are Super Cup record holders, which they have won 23 times, the last one in 2022, by defeating Tondela, who had been a finalist in the 2021/22 Taça de Portugal.
Source: TSF
