Taça de Honra

Taça de Honra (Honour Cup) is a Portuguese football tournament played between the best teams of the Lisbon Football Association (AFL). It's the third oldest competition in the country after the Lisbon and Porto championships, and the oldest still in activity. The format has varied and before the 1959–60 season it was mostly given to the winner of the Lisbon championship. Since then it's played as a four-team elimination tournament in the pre-season between the four best classified teams in the leagues from the previous season. After 20 years of inactivity, the competition returned in 2013–14 season.

History

The Lisbon Football Association took a decision of during the seasons of 1920–21 and 1946–47 to index the conquest of the regional championship of Lisbon to the conquest of the Honour Cup. It was decided the club that wins the regional championship receives the Honour Cup, even if the Cup wasn't played. Right in 1920–21, the Casa Pia, got a place in the winners list, even though they didn't compete, just because they won the regional championship. In 1921-22 even though Sport Lisboa e Benfica won the cup, it was Sporting Clube de Portugal that got a place in the winners list by winning the regional championship.

Winners

A list of all the Honour Cup finals is shown below with the final results, without the indexation of the regional championship.

Edition	Season	Stadium	Winners	Runners-up	Final
1ª	1914–15	Sete Rios	Sporting CP	SL Benfica	3–1
2ª	1915–16	Stadium	Sporting CP	SL Benfica	1–0
3ª	1916–17	Sete Rios	Sporting CP	SL Benfica	4–1
4ª	1917–18	Stadium	Império Lisboa Clube	Sporting CP	4–3
5ª	1919–20	Campo Grande	SL Benfica	CIF	5–0
6ª	1921–22	Campo Grande	SL Benfica[1]	Vitória de Setúbal	3–1
7ª	1947–48		Sporting CP		Tournament with 6 clubs in 10 games (two rounds) with SCP winning it with 25 Points (6V-3D-1L)
8ª	1959–60	E. Nacional	CF Os Belenenses	Sporting CP	1–0
9ª	1960–61	E. Nacional	CF Os Belenenses	Atlético CP	2–0
10ª	1961–62	E. Nacional	Sporting CP	SL Benfica	3–0
11ª	1962–63	Restelo	SL Benfica	Atlético CP	3–1
12ª	1963–64	Restelo	Sporting CP	SL Benfica	3–0
13ª	1964–65	Restelo	SL Benfica	CF Os Belenenses	7–1
14ª	1965–66	Restelo	Sporting CP	SL Benfica	2–1
15ª	1966–67	Restelo	SL Benfica	Sporting CP	2–0
16ª	1967–68	José Alvalade	SL Benfica	Atlético CP	6–0
17ª	1968–69	Restelo	SL Benfica	Sporting CP	3–0
18ª	1969–70	Restelo	CF Os Belenenses	SL Benfica	1–1 (Defeat by corner kicks)
19ª	1970–71	José Alvalade	Sporting CP	CF Os Belenenses	1–0
20ª	1971–72	Restelo	SL Benfica	CF Os Belenenses	4–1
21ª	1972–73	Restelo	SL Benfica	Atlético CP	1–1 (4–2 in penalties)
22ª	1973–74		SL Benfica		Tournament with 3 games (one round) with SLB winning it with 6 points (3V)
23ª	1974–75	Restelo	SL Benfica	Sporting CP	1–0
24ª	1975–76		CF Os Belenenses		Tournament of 4 games with CFB winning it with 7 points (3V-1D)
25ª	1977–78	Restelo	SL Benfica	Sporting CP	0–0 (7–6 in penalties)
26ª	1978–79	Restelo	SL Benfica	Sporting CP	2–1
27ª	1979–80	José Alvalade	SL Benfica	CF Os Belenenses	3–2
28ª	1981–82	Restelo	SL Benfica	GD Estoril Praia	1–0
29ª	1983–84	Restelo	SL Benfica	CF Os Belenenses	1–0
30ª	1984–85	Restelo	Sporting CP	SL Benfica	2–1
31ª	1985–86	Restelo	SL Benfica	CF Os Belenenses	1–0
32ª	1987–88	Luz	SL Benfica	Oriental	2–0
33ª	1989–90	Restelo	CF Os Belenenses	Sporting CP	2–1
34ª	1990–91	Luz	Sporting CP	SL Benfica	1–0
35ª	1991–92	José Alvalade	Sporting CP	SL Benfica	1–0
36ª	1993–94	Restelo	CF Os Belenenses	CF Estrela Amadora	2–1 (after extra-time)
37ª	2013–14	Amoreira	Sporting CP	GD Estoril Praia	3–3 (7–6 in penalties)
38ª	2014–15	Restelo	Sporting CP	SL Benfica	1–0

References:^[2][3][4]

Performance by club

Record-23Julho2013

Club	Titles	2nd
SL Benfica	18	11
Sporting CP	13	8
CF Os Belenenses	6	6
Império Lisboa Clube	1	0
Atlético CP	0	4
GD Estoril Praia	0	2
CF Estrela Amadora	0	1
Oriental	0	1
Vitória de Setúbal	0	1
CIF	0	1
No Final	-	3

References:^[5]

References

1. Sport Lisboa Newspaper, 27 de maio de 1922
2. "Clube Benfica". Retrieved 2013-07-24.
3. "Clube Belenenses". Retrieved 2013-07-24.
4. "Clube Sporting". Retrieved 2013-07-24.
5. Record newspaper, 23 de julho de 2013, p. 16

External links

• AFL Honour Cup