FC Porto moved clear of Benfica in the all-time standings for Portuguese senior football on Saturday, beating second-division Torreense 1-0 in Coimbra to claim their 88th men’s trophy and break a three-season deadlock between the country’s two most decorated clubs.
Danish midfielder Victor Froholdt scored the only goal of the 48th Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira at the 38-minute mark, settling the first domestic final of the 2026/27 season. Torreense, a II Liga side, qualified for the match as holders of the Taça de Portugal and were appearing in the Supertaça for the first time.
The result gave Porto their 25th Supertaça title, a record for the competition. Benfica remain on 87 senior trophies. Sporting, who won nothing last season, are a distant third on 57.
Three seasons of parity ends
Porto and Benfica began the 2026/27 campaign level, having matched each other trophy-for-trophy across the previous three seasons. Benfica’s share of that stretch included Supertaça wins in 2023 and 2025 and the 2024/25 Taça da Liga. Porto’s contributions were the 2025/26 league championship, their 31st and the first after a four-year gap, the 2023/24 Taça de Portugal and the 2024 Supertaça.
The season before, Benfica had won the Supertaça against Sporting with a 1-0 victory in the Algarve. Sporting, who collected no silverware in 2025/26 for the first time since 2022/23, sit on 57 trophies, placing them 30 behind Benfica and 31 behind Porto.
A lead that has changed hands before
Saturday’s result reopened a gap between the Oporto and Lisbon rivals for the first time since Porto’s 2013 Supertaça win, when they led the overall count by five, 74-69.
What followed was a stretch of 12 trophies for Benfica against zero for Porto across four seasons, a run that included Benfica’s only domestic quadruple as well as two Taças de Portugal, three Supertaças and three Taças da Liga, pushing the Lisbon club to 81-74.
Porto resumed winning with the 2017/18 league title and blocked Benfica from extending five consecutive championships, though Benfica did reclaim the title the following season, leaving Porto with only the Supertaça that year. Two doubles, two further Supertaças and a Taça da Liga eventually brought Porto level with Benfica at 83-83.
That parity held through the end of 2022/23 and through each of the three seasons since, before Porto’s win in Coimbra finally split them apart.
Porto’s trophies in full
Porto’s 88 senior trophies break down as 31 league titles, 20 Taças de Portugal, a record 25 Supertaças, one Taça da Liga and four Campeonatos de Portugal, a predecessor cup competition that ran from 1921/22 to 1937/38.
Porto are also the most decorated Portuguese club in European competition, with seven international titles: the European Cup in 1986/87, the Champions League in 2003/04, the UEFA Cup in 2002/03, the Europa League in 2010/11, the Intercontinental Cup in 1987 and 2004, and the European Super Cup in 1987/88. Benfica hold two international trophies; Sporting hold one.
In individual domestic categories, Benfica still lead the standings. They hold records for league titles with 38 to Porto’s 31, Taças de Portugal with 26 to Porto’s 20, and Taças da Liga with eight to Porto’s one. Their tally of 10 Supertaças is second to Porto’s 25, though the first, won in 1980, is classed as unofficial by the Portuguese Football Federation.
Excluded from the official tallies of all three clubs are Porto’s 2015/16 II Liga title, which was won by their reserve side, and a Latin Cup won by Benfica in 1950, which does not carry official FIFA recognition.
