The blue and white family gathered at Estádio do Dragão on Saturday to celebrate with the new National Champions. With two matchdays remaining in the league, FC Porto secured the 87th trophy in their history and once again established themselves as the Portuguese club with the most official titles. In the final stretch of a season that will go down in history, here are 31 facts and figures from a memorable campaign.

The National Champions have amassed 85 points in the first 32 matchdays of the 2025/26 Portuguese League and have equalled the all-time best record, set by FC Porto themselves four seasons ago.

Should they win at Vila das Aves and at home against Santa Clara, the new National Champions will equal their own record for points in the league: 91, set in 2021/22.

FC Porto have led the league since the first matchday. The Dragons have been clear leaders since 30 August 2025, the day they beat Sporting at Alvalade (1-2).

Since matchday five, played on 13 September, none of their rivals have managed to get within three points of FC Porto. Benfica were at one point 10 points behind (between matchdays 16 and 19) and Sporting was 12 points behind with a game in hand.

In this season, FC Porto have surpassed the record set by Benfica in 2019/20 (48) and have completed the best first half of the season in history, with 49 points from a possible 51.

In the first 19 matchdays, Porto recorded 18 wins, one tie, 40 goals scored, four conceded, 15 clean sheets and 55 points out of a possible 57.

FC Porto is the team with the most league wins: 27, compared to 22 for Benfica and Sporting.

The National Champions have only had to come from behind on three occasions: at Moreira de Cónegos, at Rio Maior and at Braga.

FC Porto came from behind in two of the three matches in which they were trailing – away to Moreirense FC (1-2) and SC Braga (1-2) – and suffered just one defeat, at Casa Pia (2-1).

In the 30 matches in which they were ahead, FC Porto went on to win 27 and draw three – in the classics against Sporting (1-1) and at Estádio da Luz (2-2), and at home to FC Famalicão (2-2).

FC Porto kept a clean sheet in 20 of the first 32 matchdays. The National Champions have more clean sheets than goals conceded (15).

Francesco Farioli’s FC Porto conceded just three goals in the first 32 matches of the 2025/26 Portuguese League: at Moreira de Cónegos (18 mins) and at Rio Maior (13 mins and 45+1 mins).

Oskar Pietuszewski scored the fastest goal in the history of Estádio do Dragão in the 24th matchday, a home victory (3-1). The Polish international needed just 13 seconds to open the scoring against FC Arouca and to become the youngest foreign player ever to score in blue and white – at 17 years, nine months and seven days.

Samu is FC Porto’s top scorer and the third-most prolific goalscorer in the league. On average, the Spanish striker needed just 109 minutes to find the net in the league and finished the season with 13 goals in 1,413 minutes.

William Gomes is the player with the most goals as a substitute in this season. The Brazilian winger scored four times after coming off the bench: in home wins against Gil Vicente (3-0), FC Arouca (3-1) and Moreirense FC (3-0), and away at Braga (1-2).

Alberto Costa is the defender with the most assists in the 2025/26 Portuguese League. The FC Porto right-back has nine passes for goal and is the third-highest assist provider in the competition, alongside Gabri Veiga.

No one has provided more assists in a single match than Alberto Costa and Gabri Veiga. The Portuguese defender set up William Gomes and Nehuén Pérez in the home win against Casa Pia (4-0), whilst the Spanish midfielder also set up two goals against Rio Ave in Vila do Conde (0-3).

Jan Bednarek leads the tally for successful passes in a single matchday: 151 out of 157 attempted (96% accuracy) in the 2-0 win at Tondela. Close behind is his countryman Jakub Kiwior with 136 successful passes (out of 149 attempted) in the same match.

At 41 years, 7 months and 10 days, Thiago Silva is the most experienced footballer to be crowned National Champion. Pepe won his last Portuguese title at 39 years, two months and 11 days.

No one has won back possession more times in a single match than Pepê: in Tondela, the Brazilian international won the ball back from opponents nine times, setting a new record for the 2025/26 Portuguese League.

So far, 20 of the 30 players used by Francesco Farioli in the league have found the net. No other team has had so many players score in the first 32 matchdays.

The Dragons continue to lead the Portuguese League’s ‘all-time table’. In the 1,322 matches played between 1934/35 and 2025/26, FC Porto won 963, drew 221 and lost 138, amassing 3,104 points – 176 more than Benfica (2,928) and 369 more than Sporting (2,735).

Only FC Alverca, Moreirense FC and FC Famalicão fielded younger starting line-ups than FC Porto in matchday 15. In Alverca, Francesco Farioli selected a starting line-up with an average age of 23.8 years – a significant contribution to this came from the inclusion of Rodrigo Mora (18), Martim Fernandes (19), Victor Froholdt (19), Samu (21) and Alberto Costa (22). William Gomes (19) and Deniz Gül (21) also came off the bench.

Francesco Farioli’s substitutions have yielded more results than those of any other coach, as the players brought on by the Italian coach over the first 32 matchdays have scored 13 goals and provided 10 assists. Francesco Farioli made 158 substitutions and the substitutes used spent over 4,000 minutes on the pitch.

Francesco Farioli is the 18th coach to win the national title with FC Porto – following in the footsteps of Joseph Szabo, Mihály Siska, Yustrich, Béla Guttmann, José Maria Pedroto, Artur Jorge, Tomislav Ivić, Carlos Alberto Silva, Bobby Robson, António Oliveira, Fernando Santos, José Mourinho, Co Adriaanse, Jesualdo Ferreira, André Villas-Boas, Vítor Pereira and Sérgio Conceição – and the 13th to win the title in his debut season.

Francesco Farioli is the first Italian coach to be crowned National Champion with FC Porto. His countrymen Cattulo Gadda (1906/07 and 1907/08), Alejandro Scopelli (1948/49), Ettore Puricelli (1959/60) and Luigi Del Neri (2004/05) never managed to raise the trophy.

Having just celebrated his 37th birthday, Francesco Farioli is the youngest National Champion as a coach since André Villas-Boas, who achieved this feat at the age of 33 years and 161 days. The all-time record remains held by Mihály Siska, the Hungarian-born Portuguese national who led FC Porto to the title at the age of 33 years and 109 days.

André Villas-Boas is the first person to win the National Championship with FC Porto both as coach and as president. Fifteen years after winning the title as coach, the 32nd president has achieved the same feat in his second year in office.

André Villas-Boas is the seventh president of FC Porto to add a national title to the club’s honours list – following Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, Américo de Sá, Cesário Bonito, Paulo Pombo, Ângelo César and Eduardo Dumont Villares.

Lucho González won seven titles in the seven seasons he spent at FC Porto. The Argentinian was crowned National Champion as a player in 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09, 2011/12 and 2012/13, and as an assistant coach in 2025/26.

The same applies to André Castro, National Champion in every season he spent with the first team: as a player in 2007/08, 2010/11 and 2012/13, and as an assistant coach in 2025/26.