The Leixões Chronicle
Market14 Sep 2026
Felgueiras 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Leixões
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Leixões are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Rúben Pina runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Leixões
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rafael Barbosa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match12 Sep 2026
Leixões cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Sporting CP tell Leixões: Pedro Lima is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match12 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Leixões against Maritimo
0‑2 to Maritimo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Caio Secco
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Caio Secco, and the manager let it.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: Hugo Sousa joins the Leixões first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Hugo Sousa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Leixões promote Alexandre Rodrigues from within
- Market Talks stall between Leixões and Pedro Maranhão
- The dugout Rodrigo Dias faces the questions