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The2019 Taça da Liga Final was the final match of the2018–19 Taça da Liga, the twelfth season of theTaça da Liga. It was played on 26 January 2019 atEstádio Municipal de Braga.

The competition involved the 32 clubs playing in the top two tiers of thePortuguese football league system – 18 fromPrimeira Liga and 14 fromLigaPro – during the 2018–19 season. Reserve sides of Primeira Liga teams that played in the2018–19 LigaPro were excluded from the competition.

Porto andSporting CP faced off in the first final involving both teams. After a 1–1 tie, Sporting CP won the final 3–1 after a penalty shootout, thus becoming only the second team (afterBenfica) in the competition's history to both defend their title and win multiple Taças da Liga.

For the third consecutive season, this competition featured afinal four format with both the semi-finals and the final being played over a space of a few days in the same venue. TheEstádio Municipal de Braga hosted all matches. Porto had the chance to win their firstTaça da Liga while Sporting CP could be the first team, other thanBenfica, to both win the competition multiple times as well as successfully defend the title, having wonthe previous final.

Being among the top four during the2017–18 Primeira Liga season, Porto and Sporting CP received byes directly to the third round. Only the top team in each of the four groups advanced to the final four and both teams marginally won their groups. Porto shared the top spot in group C withChaves both in points and goal difference, the two most important tiebreakers, having only won the group by virtue of more overall goals scored. Meanwhile, Sporting CP had the same number of points in group D as bothEstoril andFeirense, having had the best goal difference from the three teams. Porto played in the first semi-final againstBenfica winning the match 3–1. The following day Sporting CP drew 1–1 againstBraga, the host team, during the 90 minutes in the second semi-final, winning 4–3 on penalties after a series of seven penalty rounds.

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away; N: neutral).

Porto

Sporting CP

GK 26 Vaná RB 3 Éder Militão CB 28 Felipe  45' CB 33 Pepe LB 13 Alex Telles RM 17 Jesús Corona  25'  82' CM 16 Héctor Herrera (c) CM 10 Óliver Torres  68'  90+4' LM 8 Yacine Brahimi CF 11 Moussa Marega  90+3' CF 21 André Pereira  64' Substitutes: GK 1 Iker Casillas DF 12 Wilson Manafá DF 19 Chancel Mbemba MF 6 Bruno Costa MF 22 Danilo Pereira  82' FW 7 Hernâni  90+4' FW 37 Fernando  64' Manager: Sérgio Conceição

GK 40 Renan Ribeiro  90+6' RB 13 Stefan Ristovski  66' CB 6 André Pinto  29'  53' CB 4 Sebastián Coates LB 9 Marcos Acuña  35'  45' RM 21 Raphinha CM 86 Nemanja Gudelj  83' CM 37 Wendel LM 8 Bruno Fernandes  90+5' CF 17 Nani (c)  45' CF 28 Bas Dost Substitutes: GK 19 Romain Salin DF 5 Jefferson  45' MF 25 Radosav Petrović  86'  53' MF 90 Miguel Luís FW 23 Abdoulay Diaby  83' FW 29 Luiz Phellype FW 77 Jovane Cabral Manager: Marcel Keizer

• FC Porto–Sporting CP rivalry
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• 2018–19 Sporting CP season
• 2019 Taça de Portugal final

• Taça da Liga finals
• 2018–19 in Portuguese football
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