2021 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira

2021 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira Vodafone
Event	Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira; (Portuguese Super Cup)
Date	31 July 2021
Venue	Estádio Municipal de Aveiro
Man of the Match	Pedro Gonçalves (Sporting CP)
Referee	João Pinheiro
Attendance	7,710
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The 2021 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was the 43rd edition of the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira. It was played between the champions of the 2020–21 Primeira Liga, Sporting CP, and winners of the 2020–21 Taça de Portugal, Braga, on 31 July 2021. Sporting CP won the match 2–1 to secure their ninth Supertaça title overall and the first since 2015.^[3]

Venue

The Portuguese Football Federation announced on 27 July 2021 that the Estádio Municipal de Aveiro would host this season's Supertaça with 33 percent of its capacity filled by supporters of both clubs.^[4]

This was the eleventh time the Supertaça was played at the Estádio Municipal de Aveiro, having hosted all Supertaça matches but two since 2009, both of them played at Estádio Algarve, in 2015 and 2019.

Background

The match marked the return of spectators to Portuguese football for the first time after a year and a half of absence, and was noted by the two captains of Sporting CP and Braga, Sebastián Coates and Ricardo Horta, respectively, by a message that saluted the supporters before the kick-off of the game.^[5]

Match

Details

31 July 2021

20:45 WEST (UTC+01:00)

Sporting CP	2–1	Braga
Cabral 29' Gonçalves 43'	Report	Fransérgio 20'

Estádio Municipal de Aveiro, Aveiro

Attendance: 7,710^{[note 1]}

Referee: João Pinheiro

Sporting CP

Braga



GK	1	Antonio Adán
RB	25	Gonçalo Inácio
CB	4	Sebastián Coates (c)
LB	3	Zouhair Feddal		80'
RM	47	Ricardo Esgaio
CM	6	João Palhinha	17'
CM	8	Matheus Nunes	49'
LM	5	Nuno Mendes
RF	28	Pedro Gonçalves	44'	83'
CF	21	Paulinho		69'
LF	10	Jovane Cabral		80'
Substitutes:
GK	81	Luís Maximiano
DF	2	Matheus Reis		80'
DF	13	Luís Neto
DF	16	Rúben Vinagre
FW	7	Bruno Tabata		83'
FW	11	Nuno Santos		80'
FW	19	Tiago Tomás		69'
Manager:
Rúben Amorim



GK	1	Matheus
RB	15	Paulo Oliveira
CB	34	Raul Silva		46'
LB	5	Nuno Sequeira	87'
RM	70	Fabiano Silva
CM	8	Ali Musrati
CM	10	André Horta		54'
LM	90	Galeno		69'
RF	21	Ricardo Horta (c)
CF	9	Abel Ruiz		81'
LF	27	Fransérgio	45+2'	81'
Substitutes:
GK	12	Tiago Sá
DF	3	Vítor Tormena	62'	46'
DF	13	Tiago Esgaio
MF	7	João Novais	90+1'	81'
MF	78	Roger Fernandes		69'
FW	19	Mario Gonzalez		54'
FW	99	Vítor Oliveira		81'
Manager:
Carlos Carvalhal

Man of the Match:
Pedro Gonçalves (Sporting CP)^[1]

Assistant referees:^[6]
Tiago Costa
Nuno Eiras
Fourth official:
Gustavo Correia
Video assistant referee:
André Narciso
Assistant video assistant referees:
Ricardo Santos
Vasco Santos

Match rules^[7]

90 minutes.
30 minutes of extra time if necessary.
Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
Seven named substitutes, of which up to five may be used during regular time.^{[note 2]}

Notes

^ ^a ^b The match was played in front of a limited attendance due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal.
^ Each team was given only three opportunities to make substitutions, excluding substitutions made at half-time.