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Current season, competition or edition: 2024–25 Andebol 1 | |
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| Sport | Handball |
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| Founded | 1951 |
| No. of teams | 14 |
| Country | Portugal |
| Confederation | Europe (EHF) |
| Most recent champion(s) | Sporting CP (22nd title) |
| Most titles | FC Porto (24 titles) |
| TV partner(s) | TVI24 A Bola TV BTV Porto Canal Sporting TV |
| Streaming partner(s) | ANDEBOL TV |
| Relegation to | Segunda Divisão |
| International cup(s) | EHF Champions League EHF European League EHF European Cup |
| Official website | www |
TheCampeonato Nacional de Andebol Masculino (English: Men's Handball National Championship), also known simply asAndebol 1 (orCampeonato Placard Andebol 1 for sponsorship reasons), is the premierhandball league inPortugal and is overseen by thePortuguese Handball Federation.
The competition was created in 1951 and was formerly namedCampeonato Nacional da Primeira Divisão (1951–1982 and 1985–2001),Divisão de Elite (2002–2006), andLiga Portuguesa de Andebol (2001–2009). Seven teams have won the league title since its inception.
Sporting CP are the current champions with 22 titles, followed byFC Porto with 24 titles andABC with 13.
Handball was first introduced in Portugal in 1929 and in 1939 thePortuguese Handball Federation is established. During the first half of the 20th century, the sport became increasingly trendy, becoming one of the most important team sports inPortugal, asidefootball androller hockey. The increasing number of clubs featuring handball teams had already led to the establishment of regional championships in the regions of Metropolitan Lisbon and Greater Porto, as well as around Coimbra. The interest in defining a "national champion" led the federation to create a small tournament between the best teams of Lisbon and Porto (at first) and Coimbra (in a second phase).
Of the 23 championships played before theCarnation Revolution, only three were not won bySporting CP orFC Porto. The two teams readily established themselves as the top-clubs in the country, growing after theireclecticism. Both teams featured the best Portuguese players of that time, sparking up a North-South rivalry betweenPorto andLisbon, respectively.
FC Porto won the firsttetracampeonato (4 titles in a row) in the history of the competition. On the other side,Sporting CP won the firstpentacampeonato (5 titles in a row) in the history of the Portuguese handball, with a team that became known as"Os Sete Magníficos" (in English, The Seven Magnificent).
In 1985, the championship assumed a league format disputed with 12 teams. This change in the competition format approximated the Portuguese league to other major European leagues and accounted for a significant increase in competitiveness. This consistent growth was backed by the investments made by multiple clubs, who sought to secure some foreign players (especially from theBalkans) as well as experienced and well-regarded coaches, whose knowledge of the sport allowed a solid increase in playing quality.
The peak of the growth of the club handball in Portugal was achieved byABC, from Braga, when they reached the final of the firstEHF Champions League final in 1994. They lost toCB Cantabria by 45–43. In 1999-00,ABC also reached the semi-finals of theEHF Cup.
In 2001, the clubs created an independent association, theLiga Portuguesa de Clubes de Andebol (in English, Portuguese Handball Clubs League), whose goal was to oversee a fully professionalhandball league, calledLiga Portuguesa de Andebol (in English, Portuguese Handball League). However, in 2002, thePortuguese Handball Federation disputed the validity of the League and eventually refused accept the Liga Portuguesa de Andebol champions as "national champions".
As a consequence of the dispute, second-tier was renamed toDivisão de Elite (in English, Elite Division) and transformed into the official first-tier of the Portuguese handball. Its champions were declared "Portuguese champions".[1][2][3]
The most dramatical consequence was the inability of the big professional clubs playing in Liga Portuguesa de Andebol to enterEuropean Handball Federation competitions.
In 2005, the Federation finally recognised the Liga Portuguesa de Andebol as the first-tier of the Portuguese handball league system and agreed to granting autonomy to the League while overseeing it at the same time.
The Liga Portuguesa de Clubes de Andebol folded in 2008, bringing the Liga Portuguesa de Andebol to an end. The short-lived competition was replaced by the new Andebol 1 (in English, Handball One) under the scope of thePortuguese Handball Federation. Since the rebranding of the championship in the 2009–2010 season, Portuguese club handball regained some of its notoriousness, namely in the international competitions.Sporting CP won theEHF Challenge Cup in 2010 and 2017 andABC won the competition in 2016, in the first solely-Portuguese European final in the history of handball, beatingBenfica by an aggregate of 53–51.ABC had also reached the final of theEHF Challenge Cup in 2015.
In the 2013–14 season,FC Porto became the first Portuguese team to participate in the group stage of theEHF Champions League since 2002.FC Porto,ABC andSporting CP also participated in the 2015–16, 2016–17 and 2017–18 editions, although none of them passed through the group stage.
But the biggest achievement by Portuguese teams in international competitions run by EHF wasBenfica win of2021–22 season, defeatingSC Magdeburg 40-39, in a dramatic final solved in the last second of the Extra-Time.
Since 2016, the competition is disputed in two phases (First Phase and Final phase).
During the First Phase, the 14 participating teams play themselves twice, in a league schedule, home and away. Each team plays, therefore, 26 matches during this phase. The top-6 teams qualify for the Group A of the Final Phase, whereas the 7th to 14th-placed teams qualify for the Group B of the Final Phase.
For the Final Phase, each team starts this phase of the competition with half of the points earned during the First Phase. During the Final Phase, the teams will play each other twice, in a league schedule, home and away. The Group A consists of the top-6 teams of the First Phase and will determine the final standings from the 1st to 6th-placed team. The Group B consists of the other 8 teams and will determine the final standings from the 7th to the 14th-placed teams.
The two bottom-placed teams in the Final Phase – Group B are relegated to theSecond Division.
Currently, the champion qualifies to theEHF Champions League. The 2nd and 3rd-placed to theEHF Cup (the 2nd to the 2nd Qualifying Round and the 3rd to the 1st Qualifying Round). The 4th-placed team qualifies to theEHF Challenge Cup.
On the first season (1951–52), the championship was played as a knockout tournament between four teams of Metropolitan Greater Lisbon region.
Then, from 1952 to 1962, the championship a mini-league was played between the best two teams of the regional championships of the districts ofLisbon andPorto to determine the national champion.
During the following two seasons, the mini-league was expanded from 8 then to 10 teams, to accommodate teams from the districts ofAveiro andSetúbal and, then,Coimbra.
From the 1962–63 to the 1984–1985 season, the championship was held in two phases. During the regular phase, the teams were distributed for a variable number of groups (2, 3 or 4) according to location criteria. The top teams of each group qualified for a brief Final Phase to determine the national champion.
The 1973–74 season was an exception to this format, as a single mainland championship was established, featuring 12 teams from the continental Portugal. This championship was to serve as a qualifying competition to a final knockout phase, which would include teams from the islands (Azores andMadeira) and the Portuguese colonies. Because of the coup d'état on 25 April and therevolution period that succeeded it, the final phase never happened and the winner of the former round was declared national champion.
Since the 1985–86 season that the same format has been used with slight changes. The competition has evolved from 12 teams to 10 teams. Then, back to 12 teams and increased to 14 teams in 2016. The regular phase has always been succeeded by a final phase, disputed either in a small league with 4 or 6 teams and in a knockout format. The knockout format was lately tried on the 2015–2016 season, but it was changed back the following season. The format of the final phase (play-offs vs. mini-league) is still a topic of debate between the Portuguese clubs and fans.
The teams contesting the 2022–23 Andebol 1 season are:[4]
| Team | Location | Arena | Sponsors |
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| ABC Braga | Braga | Pavilhão Flávio Sá Leite | Universidade do Minho |
| Académico de Viseu FC | Viseu | Pavilhão Gimnodesportivo do Parque do Fontelo | - |
| ADA Maia | Maia | Pavilhão Municipal da Maia | Universidade da Maia (ISMAI) |
| Águas Santas | Maia | Pavilhão da Associação Atlética de Águas Santas | Milaneza |
| AA Avanca | Estarreja | Pavilhão Comendador Adelino Dias Costa | Bioria |
| CF Os Belenenses | Lisbon | Pavilhão Acácio Rosa | Zumub |
| SL Benfica | Lisbon | Pavilhão da Luz Nº 2 | Metro Numbers |
| FC Gaia | Vila Nova de Gaia | Pavilhão F.C. Gaia | Empril |
| Marítimo Madeira Andebol SAD | Madeira | Pavilhão do Marítimo | - |
| FC Porto | Porto | Dragão Arena | Betano |
| Póvoa AC | Póvoa de Varzim | Pavilhão Municipal da Póvoa de Varzim | Bodegão & Grupo CCR |
| GC Santo Tirso | Santo Tirso | Pavilhão Municipal de Santo Tirso | Retrotarget |
| Sporting CP | Lisbon | Pavilhão João Rocha | Kelly |
| Vitória FC | Setúbal | Pavilhão Antoine Velge | - |
| Year | Champion | TN | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951–52 | Sporting CP | 1 | |
| 1952–53 | Salgueiros | 1 | |
| 1953–54 | FC Porto | 1 | |
| 1955–56 | Sporting CP | 2 | |
| 1956–57 | FC Porto | 2 | |
| 1957–58 | FC Porto | 3 | |
| 1958–59 | FC Porto | 4 | |
| 1959–60 | FC Porto | 5 | |
| 1960–61 | Sporting CP | 3 | |
| 1961–62 | Benfica | 1 | |
| 1962–63 | FC Porto | 6 | |
| 1963–64 | FC Porto | 7 | |
| 1964–65 | FC Porto | 8 | |
| 1965–66 | Sporting CP | 4 | |
| 1966–67 | Sporting CP | 5 | |
| 1967–68 | FC Porto | 9 | |
| 1968–69 | Sporting CP | 6 | |
| 1969–70 | Sporting CP | 7 | |
| 1970–71 | Sporting CP | 8 | |
| 1971–72 | Sporting CP | 9 | |
| 1972–73 | Sporting CP | 10 | |
| 1973–74 | Belenenses | 1 | |
| 1974–75 | Benfica | 2 | |
| 1975–76 | Belenenses | 2 | |
| 1976–77 | Belenenses | 3 | |
| 1977–78 | Sporting CP | 11 | |
| 1978–79 | Sporting CP | 12 | |
| 1979–80 | Sporting CP | 13 | |
| 1980–81 | Sporting CP | 14 | |
| 1981–82 | Benfica | 3 | |
| 1982–83 | Benfica | 4 | |
| 1983–84 | Sporting CP | 15 | |
| 1984–85 | Belenenses | 4 | |
| 1985–86 | Sporting CP | 16 | |
| 1986–87 | ABC Braga | 1 | |
| 1987–88 | ABC Braga | 2 | |
| 1988–89 | Benfica | 5 | |
| 1989–90 | Benfica | 6 | |
| 1990–91 | ABC Braga | 3 | |
| 1991–92 | ABC Braga | 4 | |
| 1992–93 | ABC Braga | 5 | |
| 1993–94 | Belenenses | 5 | |
| 1994–95 | ABC Braga | 6 | |
| 1995–96 | ABC Braga | 7 | |
| 1996–97 | ABC Braga | 8 | |
| 1997–98 | ABC Braga | 9 | |
| 1998–99 | FC Porto | 10 | |
| 1999–2000 | ABC Braga | 10 | |
| 2000–01 | Sporting CP | 17 |
Portuguese Handball League[edit]
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TN: Title Numbers
| Club | Titles | Seasons |
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| FC Porto | 24 | 1953–54, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1967–68, 1998–99, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04,2008–09,2009–10,2010–11,2011–12,2012–13,2013–14,2014–15,2018–19,2020–21,2021–22,2022–23 |
| Sporting CP | 22 | 1951–52, 1955–56, 1960–61, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1983–84, 1985–86, 2000–01,2004–05,2005–06,2016–17,2017–18, 2023–24 |
| ABC Braga | 13 | 1986–87, 1987–88, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1999–2000, 2005–06, 2006–07,2015–16 |
| Benfica | 7 | 1961–62, 1974–75, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1988–89, 1989–90,2007–08 |
| Belenenses | 5 | 1973–74, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1984–85, 1993–94 |
| São Bernardo | 2 | 2002–03,2003–04 |
| Salgueiros | 1 | 1952–53 |
| Madeira SAD | 1 | 2004–05 |
Italics: Winners ofDivisão de Elite, during the League-Federation dispute.red
| Current season | 2023–24 U20 Andebol 1 |
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| Year | Champion | TN | Second Place | Third Place | Fourth Place | References |
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| 2021–22 | Águas Santas | 1 | Boa Hora | Gaia | Sanjoanense | [25][26][27][28][29] |
| 2022–23 | Águas Santas | 2 | Porto | ABC Braga | Padroense | [30] |
| 2023–24 | Águas Santas | 3 | ABC Braga | Arsenal C. Devesa | CCR Fermentoes | [31] |
| Club | Titles | Season |
|---|---|---|
| Águas Santas | 3 | 2021–22,2022–23,2023–24 |
The following data indicatesPortuguese coefficient rankings between European handball leagues.
 | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found onPhabricator and onMediaWiki.org. |
EHF League Ranking for 2022/23 season:[32]
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EHF Club Ranking as of 18 June 2020:[33]
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