The Discipline Council of the Portuguese Football Federation has already made known the deliberate punishments by Liga Portugal in the meetings of the seventh day, being the Classic between FC Porto and Benfica the most filled, with more than 35 thousand euros of fines between the two clubs.
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24/09/2026
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O Discipline Council (CD) of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) announced this Thursday the punishments coming from the games of the seventh day of the I Liga, with the Classic between FC Porto and Benfica to be the highest highlight, given the fines values in question.
“ Entry and permanence of unauthorized objects - Failure to ensure compliance with all the rules and conditions of access and permanence of spectators in the sports room, because the entry of pyrotechnic devices was not prevented ", this was the quote used by the FPF CD to reprimand the two clubs, by use of torches and pyrotechnics in the stands.
These ‘plays’, which are not allowed by the Portuguese Football Federation, cost an amount of around 25 thousand euros of fines between the two rival institutions in Portugal.
However, the biggest individual fine of this match came from the bench of substitutes of the house team, who saw the delegate of Benfica Ricardo Rocha to take with a “hard bread piece”, when he was near the monitor VAR.
“ At 38 minutes of play, the sports agent Ricardo Sérgio Rocha Azevedo, entered in the data sheet in the role of Game Delegate, when it was next to the VAR cabin to prepare a replacement, it was hit by a piece of hard bread, wrapped in paper. At 48, 51, 55 and 73 minutes of play, fans of the sports society visited, FC Porto – Football SAD, identified by their vestments, scarves and support songs, located in the Central Bank of the West, in the sector immediately behind the bench of alternates of the visiting team, SL Benfica – Football SAD, threw plastic cups, plastic bottles and plastic sticks used in the initial choreography, towards that bench of alternates. The throwing objects have not reached any sports agent present in the alternate seat, nor did they cause any interruption of the game ", pointed out the report.
“ At 60 minutes of play, fans of the sports society visited, FC Porto – Football SAD, identified by their robes, scarves and supporting songs, located in the Poente Central Bank, next to the access tunnel to the locker rooms, threw a bottle of water with lid toward the playing ground. That object did not hit any sports agent or cause any game interruption“, wrote the statement of the FPF CD.
Remember that Benfica filed a complaint against FC Porto for the behaviour of its sports agents along the Classic at the Dragon Stadium, asking even the Blue and White enclosure, as well as a punishment for Gabri Veiga.
As far as punishment is concerned, Clément Lenglet, who was expelled for accumulating yellows at the meeting, was suspended for only one game, as he otherwise looked forward to.