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Primeira Liga Quiz

Free Primeira Liga quiz with explained answers — Benfica, Porto, Sporting, Eusébio, the Guttmann curse and Portugal's great talent factory.

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What the Primeira Liga quiz covers

Every question is written and checked by football fans, across the topics that decide a real Primeira Liga expert:

Champions & title races

Every winner and the races that went down to the wire.

Players & legends

The stars and record-breakers who defined the Primeira Liga.

Managers

The great bosses and the dynasties they built.

Trophies & records

Top scorers, appearances, transfers and all-time bests.

Famous matches

Iconic games, comebacks and unforgettable goals.

History & eras

Founding stories, golden eras and how it all evolved.

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  1. In the 1987 European Cup final against Bayern Munich, Rabah Madjer scored his iconic equaliser with what kind of finish?

    • Bicycle kick
    • Header
    • Backheel
    • Diving header
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    Answer: Backheel

    Madjer's improvised backheel flick in the 77th minute of the 1987 final in Vienna became one of Porto's most famous goals.

  2. Deco left Porto in 2004, shortly after the Champions League win, to join which club?

    • Barcelona
    • Real Madrid
    • Chelsea
    • Inter Milan
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    Answer: Barcelona

    Deco signed for Barcelona in 2004 after starring in Porto's Champions League triumph.

  3. Who scored Porto's 84th-minute winner in the 1987 European Cup final to beat Bayern Munich 2-1?

    • Paulo Futre
    • Juary
    • Rabah Madjer
    • Fernando Gomes
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    Answer: Juary

    Juary volleyed home Madjer's cross to complete Porto's comeback in the 1987 final.

  4. Which of these Portuguese clubs is based in the Azores islands?

    • Farense
    • Marítimo
    • Nacional
    • Santa Clara
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    Answer: Santa Clara

    Santa Clara play in Ponta Delgada in the Azores; Marítimo and Nacional are from Madeira.

  5. Porto came from behind to beat which club 2-1 in the 1987 European Cup final in Vienna?

    • Steaua Bucharest
    • Bayern Munich
    • Juventus
    • Real Madrid
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    Answer: Bayern Munich

    Porto trailed Bayern Munich 1-0 before late goals from Madjer and Juary won the 1987 final.

  6. Which playmaker won the 2004 Champions League with Porto before joining Barcelona that summer?

    • Dmitri Alenichev
    • Ricardo Quaresma
    • Deco
    • Maniche
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    Answer: Deco

    Deco was man of the match in Porto's 2004 final win and moved to Barcelona weeks later.

  7. Which winger moved from Barcelona to Porto as part of Deco's 2004 transfer deal?

    • Ricardo Quaresma
    • Lucho González
    • Anderson
    • Pepe
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    Answer: Ricardo Quaresma

    Ricardo Quaresma switched from Barcelona to Porto as a makeweight in the Deco transfer in 2004.

  8. Which manager won back-to-back Primeira Liga titles with Porto in 1995 and 1996?

    • Graeme Souness
    • Artur Jorge
    • Manuel José
    • Bobby Robson
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    Answer: Bobby Robson

    Bobby Robson won two straight titles at Porto before leaving for Barcelona in 1996.

  9. Sporting CP's long-serving goalkeeper Rui Patrício left in 2018 to join which Premier League club?

    • Leicester City
    • Everton
    • West Ham
    • Wolves
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    Answer: Wolves

    After more than 460 games for Sporting, Patrício joined Wolves in the summer of 2018.

  10. Porto went through the entire 2010-11 Primeira Liga season unbeaten under which young manager?

    • Marco Silva
    • André Villas-Boas
    • Sérgio Conceição
    • Vítor Pereira
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    Answer: André Villas-Boas

    André Villas-Boas, aged 33, led Porto through 2010-11 unbeaten in the league while also winning the Europa League.

  11. Sporting CP signed striker Viktor Gyökeres in 2023 from which English club?

    • Norwich City
    • Coventry City
    • Brighton
    • Middlesbrough
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    Answer: Coventry City

    Gyökeres arrived from Coventry City in 2023 and scored 29 league goals in Sporting's 2023-24 title season.

  12. Braga finished as Primeira Liga runners-up for the first time in which season, under manager Domingos Paciência?

    • 2015-16
    • 2009-10
    • 1997-98
    • 2003-04
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    Answer: 2009-10

    Braga finished second in 2009-10, above Porto, their highest league placing ever.

  13. Porto legend and goalkeeper Vítor Baía had a spell at which club before returning to Porto?

    • Deportivo
    • Marseille
    • Barcelona
    • Roma
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    Answer: Barcelona

    Baía joined Barcelona under Bobby Robson in 1996 before returning to become a Porto great.

  14. Who was Porto's head coach for their 1987 European Cup triumph?

    • Tomislav Ivić
    • Bobby Robson
    • José Maria Pedroto
    • Artur Jorge
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    Answer: Artur Jorge

    Artur Jorge masterminded Porto's 1987 European Cup win; Tomislav Ivić succeeded him afterwards.

  15. Which Porto striker, nicknamed 'Bibota', won the European Golden Boot twice in the 1980s?

    • Domingos Paciência
    • Fernando Gomes
    • Rui Barros
    • Juary
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    Answer: Fernando Gomes

    Fernando Gomes won Europe's Golden Boot in 1982-83 and 1984-85 while banging in goals for Porto.

  16. Deco finished runner-up in the 2004 Ballon d'Or behind which player?

    • Thierry Henry
    • Ronaldinho
    • Andriy Shevchenko
    • Ronaldo
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    Answer: Andriy Shevchenko

    Deco came second to Milan's Andriy Shevchenko in the 2004 Ballon d'Or.

  17. The Estádio do Dragão, opened in 2003, replaced which former Porto home ground?

    • Estádio do Restelo
    • Estádio da Luz
    • Estádio das Antas
    • Estádio do Bessa
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    Answer: Estádio das Antas

    The Dragão was built to replace the old Estádio das Antas ahead of Euro 2004.

  18. Who scored Porto's only goal, a penalty, in the 2004 Champions League semifinal second leg at Deportivo's Riazor?

    • Deco
    • Derlei
    • Maniche
    • Benni McCarthy
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    Answer: Derlei

    Derlei's penalty at the Riazor gave Porto a 1-0 aggregate win over Deportivo to reach the 2004 final.

  19. Right-back João Pinto, Porto's record appearance-maker (1981-1997), played roughly how many competitive games?

    • About 400
    • About 450
    • About 587
    • About 700
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    Answer: About 587

    João Pinto made 587 competitive appearances for Porto across sixteen years.

  20. The award for the Primeira Liga's top scorer each season is traditionally known as what?

    • Chuteira de Prata
    • Bola de Ouro
    • Águia de Ouro
    • Bola de Prata
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    Answer: Bola de Prata

    The Bola de Prata (Silver Ball) has been awarded to the league's top scorer since the 1950s.

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Primeira Liga quiz — FAQ

Which club has won the most Primeira Liga titles?
Benfica, with a record 38 as of the end of the 2025-26 season — ahead of Porto's 31 and Sporting CP's 21. Only Belenenses (1946) and Boavista (2001) have ever won the title outside the Big Three.
Who won the Primeira Liga in 2025-26?
Porto — their 31st title, sealed with two matches to spare, ending Sporting CP's back-to-back championship run of 2023-24 and 2024-25.
Is the Primeira Liga quiz free?
Yes — the sample is free in your browser, and the full bank is in the Ball IQ app along with daily challenges and multiplayer.
How hard is the Primeira Liga quiz?
It starts with easy openers about the Big Three and recent champions, then climbs to hard questions on specific seasons, transfer fees and European finals — built so both casual fans and diehards get tested.
About the Primeira Liga quiz

Portuguese football has punched far above its weight for as long as the game has been played, and this free Primeira Liga quiz covers the league that made it possible. It's a championship ruled by the Big Three — Benfica, with a record 38 titles as of the end of 2025-26, Porto, champions again that season, and Sporting CP — and famously closed to everyone else: only twice in nearly a century has an outsider been crowned, Belenenses in 1946 and Boavista in 2001. But it's also football's great talent factory, the league where Eusébio, Luís Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo announced themselves before conquering the world. If you can tell your Estádio da Luz from your Estádio do Dragão, this is your category.

It runs through the eras that built the league's legend. Béla Guttmann's Benfica won back-to-back European Cups in 1961 and 1962 — the second with a young Eusébio scoring twice against Real Madrid — before Guttmann left in a pay dispute and, so the story goes, cursed the club never to win another European trophy; more than sixty years and a string of lost finals later, it still hasn't lifted one. Porto answered with European Cups of their own in 1987 and 2004, the latter the crowning act of José Mourinho's spell, a year after he'd won the 2003 UEFA Cup. And Sporting's 2020-21 title ended a 19-year wait under Rúben Amorim — the coach whose success in Lisbon later carried him to Manchester United — before Porto reclaimed the crown in 2025-26.

The questions cover champions, derbies and European nights — the Lisbon derby between Benfica and Sporting, O Clássico when Porto come to town — and they lean hard into the league's role as football's great selling shop: Ronaldo's Sporting debut in 2002, Figo emerging from that same academy, João Félix's €126m move to Atlético Madrid in 2019, Enzo Fernández leaving Benfica for Chelsea for €121m — then a British record — in January 2023, and Darwin Núñez heading to Liverpool. There's room for the curiosities too, like Braga's extraordinary stadium carved into the face of a quarry for Euro 2004. Difficulty builds from easy openers to genuinely hard questions about specific seasons, fees and finals, so casual fans and Portuguese-football diehards both get a proper test.

As with every Ball IQ quiz, each answer comes with a short explanation — the year an outsider last broke the duopoly, why the Guttmann story refuses to die, which club sold which wonderkid and for how much — so even the questions you miss become facts you keep. That's the point of the format: it settles arguments and starts better ones. Play the free sample below in your browser, no sign-up needed, then get the free Ball IQ app for the full Primeira Liga bank, plus daily challenges and multiplayer to test your friends.

Ball IQ has 82 Primeira Liga questions — 9 easy, 50 medium and 23 hard.