2013–14 Taça da Liga
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | Portugal |
| Dates | 27 July 2013 – 7 May 2014 |
| Teams | 33 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Benfica (5th title) |
| Runners-up | Rio Ave |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 71 |
| Goals scored | 159 (2.24 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |
Jackson Martínez Tozé Marreco Ricardo Pessoa Wágner Moreira (3 goals each) |
The 2013–14 Taça da Liga is the seventh edition of the Taça da Liga, a Portuguese football knockout competition organized by the Portuguese League for Professional Football (LPFP). It is contested by the 33 clubs competing in the 2013–14 Primeira Liga and 2013–14 Segunda Liga, the top two tiers and only professional leagues in Portuguese football. The competition began in July 2013 with first-round matches and concluded on 7 May 2014, with the final at the Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa in Leiria.
Benfica defeated Rio Ave (2–0) and won a record fifth Taça da Liga title.
The competition format for the 2013–14 edition consists of three rounds plus a knockout phase. In the first round, only teams competing in the 2013–14 Segunda Liga (excluding reserve teams from Primeira Liga clubs) take part. The seventeen teams are drawn into four groups (three with four teams and one with five), where each team plays against the others in a single round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the second round.
In the second round, the eight teams that qualified from the previous round are joined by the six Primeira Liga teams placed ninth to 14th in the previous season and the two teams promoted to 2013–14 Primeira Liga. Two-legged home-and-away fixtures are played between Segunda Liga teams qualifying from the first round and Primeira Liga teams entering this round, and the winner advances to the third round.
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