Arsenal's statement on Gabriel Martinelli's move to Al-Hilal counts the appearances and the trophies and stops there. The 60 million pounds everyone is printing is reported, not confirmed.

Gabriel Martinelli has left Arsenal after seven years. The club confirmed the permanent transfer to Al-Hilal in a statement that adds up his time in north London — 278 appearances, 62 goals, last season's Premier League title, the 2020 FA Cup, the 2023 Community Shield. What the statement does not add up is the money. No figure, no valuation, not even the usual line about undisclosed terms. He arrived from Ituano in July 2019 as a teenager nobody outside…

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Portugal host Wales on 24 September, travel to Norway on the 27th and Denmark on 1 October, then face Norway again in Porto on the 4th. UEFA merged the September and October windows into one block.

Jorge Jesus's first outing as Portugal manager will not be a match. It will be four of them, packed into eleven days, because UEFA has merged what used to be the separate September and October international windows into a single block. It opens on 24 September at home to Wales, at the Estádio José Alvalade. Three days later Portugal travel to Norway. On 1 October they play Denmark away, and on the 4th they host Norway again, this time at the Estádio do…

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Nuno Borges went out in the first round to Learner Tien, 6-4, 6-1, 6-2, in 99 minutes. That leaves Jaime Faria alone in the singles draw, with Carlos Alcaraz waiting in round two.

Ninety-nine minutes, and barely an argument in any of them. Nuno Borges, the world number 41 and Portugal's leading man, lost his opening match at the US Open to American Learner Tien 6-4, 6-1, 6-2. In his last nine Grand Slam appearances he had never gone out in the first round before. The match turned on one game. Borges was broken serving to stay in the opening set, and everything he normally leans on went with it: 53% of first serves in, and a…

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Portugal's summer window shuts at 23:59 on Friday 4 September. Clubs in European competition run out of time two days earlier, and one narrow loan exception stretches to the 8th.

Announcing a player and being allowed to field him are two different things, and the gap between them is a list. Liga Portugal publishes and updates the official registrations for every Liga Portugal Betclic club>), and that document, rather than the club's announcement or the unveiling video, decides who is available at the weekend. Names can be added to it until 23:59 on Friday 4 September.

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André Silva, Gabri Veiga and William Gomes scored inside 38 minutes. Porto have 12 points from four matches and lead Sporting by two.

Saturday's game at the Estádio Municipal do Fontelo was over by the interval. Porto beat Académico de Viseu 3-0 in matchday four of Liga Portugal Betclic, and all three goals arrived in the first half. André Silva scored after five minutes, in a move the home side wanted pulled back for a foul until VAR waved it on. Gabri Veiga made it two on 20 minutes, again after a check, this time for a possible offside that was ruled legal. William Gomes finished a…

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Friday's draw in Monaco handed the Portuguese cup holders four heavyweight home ties and away trips to Spain, Hungary, Poland and Norway. Benfica got Milan away and AZ Alkmaar at home.

A second-tier Portuguese club will host Olympiacos, Celtic and Sunderland this season. The Europa League league-phase draw, made in Monaco on Friday, finished the set by sending Ararat-Armenia to Torres Vedras as well. The away half is no gentler: Real Sociedad, Ferencváros, Lech Poznań and Lillestrøm. Eight matches, eight countries, and not one of them a fixture Torreense have played before. Winning the Taça de Portugal opened the door. Pot 4 did the…

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Both Portuguese clubs now know their eight league-phase opponents. Sporting host Barcelona and Manchester United at Alvalade; Porto host Manchester City and Napoli and travel to Liverpool. Kick-off times are due by Saturday.

The opponents are out. The league phase draw was made late on Thursday afternoon at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, and all 36 clubs learned the eight fixtures that will carry them from September to January. Porto will host Manchester City, PSV, Napoli and Slavia Prague at the Dragão, and travel to Liverpool, Real Betis, Feyenoord and LASK. Anfield is the tie of their season.

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Porto beat Arouca 2-0 at the Dragão on 23 August in matchday three of Liga Portugal. Veiga scored on 67 minutes, Sainz on 86, and the champions now have nine points from nine.

The Dragão had to wait until the second half, but it got what it came for. Porto beat Arouca 2-0 on Sunday 23 August in matchday three of Liga Portugal, taking their tally to nine points from a possible nine. Gabri Veiga broke the game open on 67 minutes. Borja Sainz added the second on 86, by which point Arouca had pushed their line up and left room behind it. Between the two goals sits nearly twenty minutes of a match Porto controlled without ever…

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The canoeist won in 2:00.73 and closed Portugal's canoeing programme at the Mediterranean Games with two golds and two silvers. The team has eight medals after three days.

Ana Brito won the K1 500 metres at the Mediterranean Games in Taranto on Sunday in 2:00.73. Cyprus's Savvia Hadjicharalambous finished 1.46 seconds back and Serbia's Zsofi Horvat took bronze at 1.86. It is Portugal's fifth title of these Games and canoeing's second. The first came from Bruno Brasileiro in the K1 1,000, led from start to finish in 3:48.79. Portugal's three other champions so far came from elsewhere: cyclist Tiago Antunes in the time trial,…

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He came off the bench at Al Riyadh on 62 minutes with Al Nassr three up, and made it four. It was career goal number 977, and his first outing since the World Cup.

The run started in 2002-03, at a Sporting side that had no real idea what it had on its hands. Twenty-five seasons later Cristiano Ronaldo scored again as Al Nassr won at Al Riyadh, and became the only footballer to have scored in 25 consecutive campaigns. Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who held the mark, managed 24 of them between 1999 and 2022-23. The match was already settled by the time he appeared. He came on after 62 minutes with Al Nassr 3-0 up through…

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UEFA divides a country's European points by the number of clubs it entered. Portugal entered five, Spain entered eight, and on Thursday night that arithmetic flipped the standings.

A Thursday night of European qualifiers does not usually move continental tables. This one did, and the reason has nothing to do with football. It is a division sum. After Benfica beat Aarhus 3-1 and Braga saw off Austria Wien 2-0, Portugal moved ahead of Spain in UEFA's season ranking. Getafe won at home to Partizan the same night. It was not enough. The rule sits in Annex D of the club competition regulations. A country's season coefficient adds up the…

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Both Portuguese clubs won the home leg of their European play-offs on Thursday. Rafa, Barreiro and Pavlidis scored at the Luz, Pau Víctor and Diego Rodrigues did the job in Braga, and both return legs are away on 27 August.

Thursday went the way both Portuguese clubs needed it to. Benfica took Aarhus apart 3-1 at the Estádio da Luz, and Sporting de Braga beat Austria Wien 2-0 at home. Neither tie is finished. Both are now leaning heavily one way. Benfica settled theirs early. Rafa scored inside two minutes, Leandro Barreiro made it two on 31, and Vangelis Pavlidis converted a penalty in first-half stoppage time — the club has posted the goal on its own channel. Sebastian…

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From the 2026/27 season the championship streams on Disney+ in most international markets and on ESPN+ in the United States. Dazn has confirmed it holds Portuguese rights only until the end of this season. António Félix da Costa is still on the grid.

Anyone in Portugal who follows Formula E on Dazn will be changing apps. From the 2026/27 season, the FIA world championship streams on Disney+ across most international markets, Portugal among them, and alongside ESPN+ in the United States. Dazn, which held the Portuguese rights, has confirmed it carries the series only to the end of this season. The deal is multi-year and spans 144 territories. Subscribers are promised the full race weekend: practice,…

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The national team start on Friday in the Azeri capital. It is only Portugal's second appearance at a European Championship, and Pool C also holds the Netherlands and Belgium.

Portugal's women's volleyball team begin their European Championship on Friday in Baku, against Azerbaijan. It is only the second time the side has reached the tournament and the first in seven years, and the opener falls straight against one of the countries hosting it. The final stage is spread across four nations, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Turkey and Azerbaijan, with 24 teams in four pools. The top four in each group go through to the round of 16.…

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Porto sold the registration rights and 50% of the economic rights for €25m guaranteed plus €2m in bonuses. Roma holds options on the rest, Porto holds a put option at the same price, and the club has written a €50m floor into the deal.

Rodrigo Mora has been a Roma player since Wednesday morning. Porto confirmed it at 09:30, and unusually for this kind of announcement the club set out the whole structure of the deal, which is where it gets interesting. What changed hands was the player's registration and 50% of his economic rights, for €27m: €25m guaranteed, plus up to €2m in bonuses tied to sporting conditions. Half the player. The other half is still Porto's.

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The Portuguese swimmer medalled in the 100m and 50m freestyle at the Paris European Championships, finishing 17 hundredths off his own national record.

Two races, two podiums, two days running. Marco Meneses left the Olympic Aquatics Centre in Saint-Denis with a pair of bronze medals — the 100m freestyle on Saturday, the 50m freestyle on Sunday — according to the round-up published by the Portuguese Sports Confederation. In the shorter race he stopped the clock at 26.93 seconds. His national record over the distance stands at 26.76. Seventeen hundredths, then: the gap between a good day and a historic…

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First leg of the Europa League play-off, 20:00 in Lisbon, with the return in Denmark on 27 August. The Danish side dropped out of Champions League qualifying days ago, and the two clubs have only met twice before.

Benfica play the first of the two legs that decide whether they reach the Europa League phase on Thursday. Aarhus come to the Estádio da Luz at 20:00, with the return set for 27 August in Denmark. The club's official fixture calendar confirms the order: home first, away second. The Danish side arrived here sideways. AGF Aarhus were in Champions League qualifying and went out to Sabah of Azerbaijan, which dropped them into this Europa League play-off. They…

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Portugal left the European athletics championships with three medals — Pedro Pichardo's triple jump silver, plus bronzes for Fatoumata Diallo and Patrícia Silva — and four national records that nobody medalled for.

Pedro Pichardo opened the Birmingham triple jump final with 17.76 metres. He took two more attempts, improved on neither, and then waved away his fourth, fifth and sixth. He watched the rest of it from the side. The silver held. Italy's Andy Díaz took gold by 39 centimetres with 18.15 metres, an Italian record and the fastest mark in the world this year. Andrea Dallavalle, also Italian, completed the podium on 17.37. For Pichardo this is an exact repeat…

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The Anicolor-Campicarn rider closed out the 87th edition on Porto's Avenida dos Aliados ahead of his own team-mate, the two-time defending champion. Rui Oliveira took the final stage from Maia to Porto.

Alexis Guérin has won the 87th Volta a Portugal. The Frenchman rode onto Porto's Avenida dos Aliados on Sunday 1 minute and 2 seconds clear of Artem Nych, and the detail that gives the result its flavour is that Nych rides for the same team and had won the previous two editions. Pedro Silva of Feira dos Sofás-Boavista completed the podium at 4 minutes 30. The closing 136.9-kilometre stage from Maia to Porto went to Rui Oliveira of UAE Team Emirates-XRG.…

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The GNR spokesman set out how the mobile escort was deployed at the moment of the collision, why no officer was posted at that junction, and why no criminal charge is expected for now.

A day after Finlay Tarling died on stage eight of the Volta a Portugal, the GNR set out how its officers were deployed on the road where the British rider was hit. The first thing it did was correct the version that spread within hours of the crash. The van was not driving against the traffic, said Lieutenant-Colonel Carlos Canatário, the force's spokesman. It was in the right-hand lane, on its own side. It was travelling in the opposite direction to the…

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Stage eight was neutralised into Fafe with no podium and no winner. Stage nine runs from Paredes to the top of Senhora da Graça, a climb the race takes twice on the same day.

The Volta a Portugal went back on the road this afternoon. The race rolled out of Paredes after a moment of tribute at the start line, and stage nine of the 87th edition is running as the route always had it. For anyone picking the race up midway, the reason needs stating. On Friday, Finlay Tarling died during stage eight. The 19-year-old British rider, of NSN Development Team, was hit by a car that came onto the closed route in the opposite direction…

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The race organisers and the Portuguese Cycling Federation confirmed the death of the NSN Development Team rider. Portugal's GNR says he had dropped off the back of the peloton when a light goods vehicle travelling against the race hit him head-on on the EN306 at Arcozelo, Ponte de Lima.

Finlay Tarling was 19 and riding his first Volta a Portugal. He died on Friday during the eighth stage, between Melgaço and Fafe, and Portugal's oldest bike race turned from a day of sport into a day of mourning inside a few minutes. The Volta organisers and the Portuguese Cycling Federation put their names to a joint statement confirming the death of the British rider from NSN Development Team following a serious accident during the stage. The race was…

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We counted them edition by edition. Camila Rebelo's silver in Paris is only the seventh Portuguese medal in a century of European long-course championships, and the official split sheet shows she swam the fastest last 50 metres in the final.

Camila Rebelo left Paris with silver in the 200m backstroke and a national record of 2:07.62. Good news on its own terms. How good only becomes clear once you count the others. So we counted. We went through all 38 editions of the European long-course swimming championships, from the first in 1926, and added up the Portuguese medals one edition at a time, pool swimming only, no open water, no diving, no short course. The answer is seven. Seven medals in a…

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A goalless draw against Dinamo Minsk on Bulgarian soil, added to the 1-0 from the first leg, carried Braga into the last round before the league phase. The Austrians visit on 20 August and host the return on the 27th.

Braga did not need to score to go through. Thursday's goalless draw with Dinamo Minsk, played on Bulgarian soil, was enough to protect the 1-0 from the first leg and book the last qualifying round before the Conference League proper. Waiting for them is Austria Wien, who settled their own tie with Beitar Jerusalem. The Austrian club has already opened travel bookings for the trip to Braga, which pins the dates down: first leg at the Pedreira on 20 August,…

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The third qualifying round second leg kicks off at 7.45pm on Thursday in Edinburgh. Whoever comes through faces a two-legged play-off on 20 and 27 August for a place in the league phase.

Six-one from the first leg makes Thursday a formality, but it is a formality that still has to be played. Benfica are at Tynecastle Park in Edinburgh on Thursday, kick-off 7.45pm — the same clock time in Lisbon and in Scotland. The tie was effectively settled at the Estádio da Luz on 6 August, when Benfica put six past Hearts. Getting there was messier: they lost 2-1 away to St Gallen in the previous round before winning the return 5-0.

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Today is the race's only rest day, spent in Santa Maria da Feira. Alexis Guerin reaches it 1:12 clear of team-mate Artem Nych, with Tiago Antunes third at 1:52.

The Volta a Portugal stops today. It is the only rest day of this edition and it happens in Santa Maria da Feira, at the Europarque, where the teams will do massages, arithmetic and a short spin to keep the legs honest. Tomorrow the break ends in the least forgiving way available: 129 kilometres from Santa Maria da Feira to Peso da Régua, the race's first proper argument with the Douro. The route is set out in the stage-by-stage guide published by the…

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The UAE Emirates Dane covered 17.4 kilometres in 21 minutes 13 seconds. Tiago Antunes was second on the stage and moved up to third overall, 1m52s behind Alexis Guerin.

Julius Johansen won stage five of the Volta a Portugal on Monday, the individual time trial from Anadia to Águeda. The UAE Emirates rider covered the 17.4 kilometres in 21 minutes 13 seconds, averaging 49.1 kilometres per hour. Portugal's Tiago Antunes, riding for Efapel Cycling, took second, with Dutchman Axel van der Tuuk of Euskaltel Euskadi third. Alexis Guerin of Anicolor/Campicarn finished the stage eighth, 53 seconds down on the winner, and kept…

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The champions beat Alverca 2-0 at the Dragão with two penalties. Benfica drew 2-2 with newly promoted Académico de Viseu behind closed doors, Sporting threw away a two-goal lead at Estrela da Amadora and Braga drew at Moreirense.

The Primeira Liga's opening round finished on Sunday night with a tidy summary: of the four clubs that normally contest the title, exactly one collected three points. FC Porto began the defence of their championship by beating Alverca 2-0 at the Dragão, both goals arriving from the penalty spot inside the first half. André Silva opened the scoring on nine minutes and Gabri Veiga finished it on 44. It was not a spectacle. It was efficiency, and in August…

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Stage five is an individual time trial of roughly 17 kilometres from Anadia to Águeda, with a sharp climb at Barrô just before the first intermediate check. First rider off at 13:39, last one home around 17:16.

Seventeen kilometres sounds gentle until you look at the profile. Stage five of the Volta a Portugal runs today from Anadia to Águeda as an individual time trial, and buried in the middle of it is an 800-metre ramp at 7.7% through Barrô, arriving just before the first intermediate check at 9.5 kilometres. That ramp is what turns a power exercise into a pacing problem. Go too hard in the opening kilometres and Barrô collects the debt; hold back too much…

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The Anicolor rider wins the summit finish on the highest road in mainland Portugal and takes the yellow jersey, 1m26s clear of teammate Artem Nych on general classification.

Torre did what Torre does. After 154.6 kilometres from Figueiró dos Vinhos to the highest point in mainland Portugal, stage four of the 87th Volta a Portugal pulled the race apart and handed it a new leader. Alexis Guérin went clear with 15 kilometres left and was never seriously threatened. The Frenchman crossed the line 1 minute 44 seconds ahead of his own Anicolor teammate Artem Nych, and took the yellow jersey Rui Oliveira had claimed at Queluz.

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