From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
The month closes with Franjo Ivanović out in front — 3 goals in 3 games, and Pacos de Ferreira have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
The month belonged to Bruma
Marked 8.41 across it, 5 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Penafiel have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Leiria
Oskar Pietuszewski was marked 7.69 and had a hand in 2 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Sep 2028
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Vitoria Guimaraes, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Sep 2028
The offer from Rio Ave for Telmo Arcanjo was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
Guilherme Ribeiro leads the division for assists — 6.72
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 4 of them made by a Felgueiras player marked 6.72, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Sep 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Thiago Henrique will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AVS the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
Highest marks in the league belong to a Penafiel man
Bruma averaged 8.41 over 3 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Market1 Sep 2028
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
2 goals in 2 appearances for Leiria, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
Bruma makes the list
3 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
3 goals in 3 appearances for Vitoria Guimaraes leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
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Steady
Market1 Aug 2028
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Torreense, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Aug 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market1 Aug 2028
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Torreense have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Jul 2028
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Vitoria Guimaraes, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Jul 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market1 Jul 2028
Mika has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Feirense they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Jun 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Torreense can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Jun 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Benfica B they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market1 Jun 2028
Oumar Camara wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Vitoria Guimaraes hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 May 2028
Mateus Mide tops the scoring charts
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 2 goals in 1 appearances for Porto B.
Market1 May 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
Nobody made more than Marko Gudžulić this month
2 assists, 6.44, and a Chaves player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Market1 May 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Benfica B is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 May 2028
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
1 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
2 goals in 1 appearances for Torreense, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
2 goals in 1 appearances for Tondela leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
2 goals in 1 appearances for Chaves, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Market1 May 2028
Oliveirense may not be able to give Raniel what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Raniel wants continental football; whether Oliveirense can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
Further down the providers' column, where the Penafiel man sits on 8.21 and a month of passes that were harder than the finishes they became.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
Further down the providers' column, where the Porto B man sits on 9.70 and a month of passes that were harder than the finishes they became.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
Hugo Pérez tops the scoring charts
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 4 appearances for Torreense.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
Marked 7.69 across it, 0 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Oliveirense have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Oliveirense
Arnas Voitinovičius was marked 7.69 and had a hand in 0 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Apr 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
Nobody made more than Luis Quintero this month
3 assists, 7.21, and a Torreense player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Market1 Apr 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Farense is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
Gonçalo Moreira is the division's best-marked player — 8.33
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.33 across 2 matches for Benfica B.
Market1 Apr 2028
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Juan Diego Castillo wants continental football; whether Farense can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Market1 Apr 2028
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
4 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
3 goals in 4 appearances for Porto B leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
3 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Mar 2028
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 6 goals in 4 appearances for Felgueiras.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2028
Ismaël Gharbi is the division's player of the month — 8.96
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Felgueiras man on 8.96 with 7 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2028
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Maritimo
Sami Bouhoudane was marked 7.28 and had a hand in 3 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Mar 2028
Luis Quintero hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Torreense can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Mar 2028
Torreense say no — this time
The offer from Braga for Luis Quintero was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market1 Mar 2028
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Chaves moved on, Fabijan Buntić reports back to Farense, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2028
Matt Turner leads the division for assists — 7.10
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Leiria player marked 7.10, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Mar 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Feirense is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2028
Highest marks in the league belong to a Felgueiras man
Ismaël Gharbi averaged 8.96 over 4 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2028
3 goals in 4 appearances for Tondela leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2028
3 in 4 for AVS. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2028
3 in 4 for Chaves. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 4 goals in 5 appearances for Penafiel.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
The month belonged to Simo
Marked 7.66 across it, 5 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Maritimo have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
Tylel Tati is the month's best young player — 7.91
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.91 over the month and 2 goal contributions, from a Farense player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Feb 2028
Benny hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Oliveirense can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Feb 2028
Vizela say no — this time
The offer from Union Berlin for Antonio Gomis was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
Nobody made more than Kevin Chamorro this month
5 assists, 6.60, and a Leixões player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Market1 Feb 2028
The phone has started ringing about Luis Quintero again, and this time the name on the line is Braga. Torreense are listening politely and promising nothing.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
André Picornell is the division's best-marked player — 8.35
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.35 across 4 matches for Feirense.
Market1 Feb 2028
Hugo Pérez wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Torreense hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
A productive month at Tondela — 3 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
3 goals in 5 appearances for Farense leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
Simo keeps the pressure on
3 goals in 5 appearances for Maritimo leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
The month closes with Domagoj Drožđek out in front — 5 goals in 3 games, and Porto B have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
Marked 7.89 across it, 4 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Felgueiras have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Farense
Tylel Tati was marked 7.54 and had a hand in 1 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Jan 2028
Makan Aïko hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tondela can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Jan 2028
Leiria say no — this time
The offer from Botafogo for Borislav Rupanov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
Nobody made more than João Gonçalves this month
3 assists, 7.58, and a AVS player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Market1 Jan 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Benfica B they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
Highest marks in the league belong to a Tondela man
Lucas Cañizares averaged 8.03 over 4 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Market1 Jan 2028
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Luis Quintero wants continental football; whether Torreense can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
3 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
3 goals in 4 appearances for Académico de Viseu leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
Jalen Blesa up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Felgueiras — 4 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 4 goals in 4 appearances for Lusitânia Lourosa.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
Marked 8.04 across it, 5 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Chaves have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
Eduardo Fernandes is the month's best young player — 7.39
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.39 over the month and 3 goal contributions, from a Benfica B player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Dec 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at AVS, and it is not being withdrawn.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
Nobody made more than Marko Gudžulić this month
6 assists, 7.39, and a Chaves player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
Gabri Martínez is the division's best-marked player — 8.04
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.04 across 4 matches for Chaves.
Market1 Dec 2027
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
Jorge Aguirre up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Torreense — 4 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
Manu Pozo keeps the pressure on
3 goals in 4 appearances for Torreense leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
4 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
3 goals in 3 appearances for Pacos de Ferreira, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Market1 Dec 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 5 goals in 5 appearances for Maritimo.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
Tomás Pérez is the division's player of the month — 7.86
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Porto B man on 7.86 with 3 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
Sami Bouhoudane is the month's best young player — 7.72
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.72 over the month and 5 goal contributions, from a Maritimo player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Nov 2027
Jaiminho puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Farense, and it is not being withdrawn.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
Cican Stanković leads the division for assists — 7.05
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 7 of them made by a Leixões player marked 7.05, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
Gonçalo Silva is the division's best-marked player — 8.26
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.26 across 2 matches for Porto B.
Market1 Nov 2027
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Farense hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Market1 Nov 2027
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Market1 Nov 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Chaves they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
3 goals in 4 appearances for Porto B leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
5 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
3 goals in 5 appearances for Porto B, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 6 goals in 4 appearances for Vizela.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
Marked 7.86 across it, 6 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Vizela have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
Cardoso Varela is the month's best young player — 7.51
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.51 over the month and 2 goal contributions, from a Porto B player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Oct 2027
Tunde hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what AVS can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Oct 2027
Famalicao come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Leixões did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Oct 2027
The Rio Ave deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Werton reports back to Leixões with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
Cican Stanković leads the division for assists — 6.51
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 4 of them made by a Leixões player marked 6.51, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
Andreas Schjelderup is the division's best-marked player — 8.03
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.03 across 2 matches for Chaves.
Market1 Oct 2027
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Juan Diego Castillo wants continental football; whether Farense can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
4 goals in 4 appearances for Tondela, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
4 appearances, 5 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
4 goals in 4 appearances for Torreense leave him among the month's leading marksmen.