PORTUGUESE FOOTBALL MEMORIES

Founded 1978
The Portuguese SuperCup Cândido de Oliveira, also known as Portuguese SuperCup, is a football trophy contested in an annual match between the champions of the Portuguese Liga and the winners of the Cup of Portugal. If a team wins The Double (both the Liga and the Cup), the double winner plays the defeated team of the Cup. Traditionally the game is played on just before the start of the next regular domestic season. It is named after the Portuguese football enthusiast of the yearly days and coach of the national team Cândido de Oliveira.

In the season 1943/44 it was created a special game between the champions, Sporting Clube de Portugal, and the cup holders, S.L. Benfica, for the inauguration of the National Stadium: Estádio do Jamor, it was named Taça Império (do not confuse with Taça do Império, the first incarnation of the Portuguese Cup). After the game, it was decided that the competition was to be continued, but later it was canceled. The SuperCup started unofficially in 1978/79 with a local derby between Boavista F.C. (Cup holders) and F.C. Porto (Champions) that ended with a 2-1 victory for Boavista.

The next year (1979/80) another derby occurred between Benfica and Sporting Clube de Portugal. This was the second unofficial SuperCup and the first played in two hands (home and away).

With the success of both unofficial editions of the cup the federation decided to uphold the competition on a yearly basis with two legs.

The first official edition happened in the next season (1980/81) already with the name SuperTaça Cândido de Oliveira.

The rules stated that two games were played and the result on aggregate would determine the winner. If a draw occurred then a replay of the match should be played in a neutral ground to find the winner. This happened 6 times (1983/84, 1990/91, 1992/93, 1993/94, 1994/95 and 1999/00) with the replay of the 1983/84 edition being replayed again with two legs (home and away).

Because interest in the SuperCup was waning and in order to reduce the games per year, in 2000/01 the Portuguese Football Federation decided to abolish the home and away basis and a game in a neutral ground (decided by the Federation) is now used. Source - Wikipedia (confirmed by administrator).

A Supertaça realizou-se pela primeira vez na época 1978/79, nascendo da vontade de dois clubes, o FC Porto e o Boavista FC, que nesse ano haviam ganho o então designado Campeonato Nacional da I Divisão e a Taça de Portugal, respectivamente. Com o acordo oficioso da Federação Portuguesa de Futebol, os dois emblemas organizaram a prova, inspirados num modelo já praticado noutros Países.

Os axadrezados acabaram por vencer (2-1) a primeira edição da competição, numa partida realizada a 17 de Agosto de 1979, no Estádio das Antas (Porto), em que Júlio apontou os dois tentos que permitiram à formação do Bessa conquistar troféu.

Esta nova prova foi de tal forma bem recebida, que na época seguinte a Supertaça voltou a ser disputada, desta vez entre o Sporting CP (Campeão Nacional em título) e o SL Benfica (vencedor da Taça de Portugal), optando-se por um modelo de competição a duas mãos – com a realização de uma finalíssima em caso de situação de igualdade nos dois confrontos –, uma fórmula que se manteve até à temporada 1999/2000.

Só após a sua terceira edição (1980/81) é que o troféu se tornou numa competição oficial e passou a constar do calendário de provas da FPF, adoptando, então, o nome do antigo Seleccionador Nacional e figura ímpar no Futebol Português, Cândido de Oliveira.

Source - http://www.fpf.pt/portal/page/portal/PORTAL_FUTEBOL/COMPETICOES/SUPER_TACA/HISTORICO

2006/2007 Sporting C.P.
2005/2006 FC Porto
2004/2005 SL Benfica
2003/2004 FC Porto
2002/2003 FC Porto
2001/2002 Sporting C.P.
2000/2001 F.C. Porto Ver Equipa
1999/2000 Sporting C.P.
1998/99 F.C. Porto Ver Equipa
1997/98 FC Porto
1996/97 Boavista F.C.
1995/96 FC Porto
1994/95 Sporting C.P.
1993/94 FC Porto
1992/93 FC Porto
1991/92 Boavista F.C.
1990/91 FC Porto
1989/90 FC Porto
1988/89 S.L. Benfica
1987/88 Vitória S.C
1986/87 Sporting C.P.
1985/86 FC Porto
1984/85 S.L. Benfica
1983/84 FC Porto
1982/83 FC Porto
1981/82 Sporting C.P.
1980/81 FC Porto