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Upbeat
Squad15 Feb 2027
A season average of 7.48 with 27 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match15 Feb 2027
68 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market15 Feb 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Braga is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match13 Feb 2027
Braga keep winning on the road
6 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Match13 Feb 2027
Braga cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Boardroom15 Feb 2027
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Tomás Marques has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Braga
Ricardo Horta and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
The clock did what Pacos de Ferreira would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
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Triumph
Match3 Feb 2027
Cup progress for Braga
A 2‑0 win over Estoril Praia, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match6 Feb 2027
4‑0, and Roberto Fernández took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Braga tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad8 Feb 2027
26 goals and a season average of 7.45. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.51 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The clubs have shaken hands with Pacos de Ferreira; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gustaf Lagerbielke commits to Braga for another 4 years.
Match6 Feb 2027
Braga make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Braga have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Braga
Ricardo Horta was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
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Upbeat
Match30 Jan 2027
No mercy from Braga
AVS will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Braga were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Market1 Feb 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Braga people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Christian Pulisic
25 goals and a season average of 7.42 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Market1 Feb 2027
Dória 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 Braga, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
A brace, and Mario Dorgeles takes the afternoon — 8.50
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mario Dorgeles provided it, and the 8.50 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.43 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Porto wanted more than $7.2M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Braga have gone to Pacos de Ferreira with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Window shuts: 0 in, 2 out at Braga
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 0 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
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Upbeat
Match23 Jan 2027
The run is over for Braga
25 matches without defeat, and then Benfica. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Market25 Jan 2027
RC Strasbourg pay $28.9M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Braga have gone to Porto with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
The terraces25 Jan 2027
Supporters turn on the $28.9M sale of Víctor Gómez
He is going to RC Strasbourg, the club has $28.9M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Braga
Ricardo Horta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market25 Jan 2027
The phone has started ringing about Jovan Milošević again, and this time the name on the line is Vitoria Guimaraes. Braga are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Mario Dorgeles
9 goals and a season average of 7.44 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Match23 Jan 2027
A bad afternoon for Braga against Benfica
0‑1 to Benfica, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Braga
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bright Arrey-Mbi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match16 Jan 2027
Still nobody has beaten Braga
The unbeaten run reaches 25. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match18 Jan 2027
Nobody above Braga
First, on 59 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 31. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
$6.1M was the most the club would pay and Casa Pia were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Match16 Jan 2027
The run at home goes on for Braga
13 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Eduardo Peixoto
22 goals and a season average of 7.28 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Market18 Jan 2027
Braga say no — this time
The offer from Sporting CP for Adrian Leon Barišić 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Braga have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Braga
Ricardo Horta and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
In brief
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Match
The run is over for Braga
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Squad
Cláudio Ramos falls out with a teammate over standards
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Looking ahead
The big one: Benfica come into view
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Triumph
Match9 Jan 2027
Braga make it 8 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Braga have 8 straight wins of it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
24 goals and a season average of 7.41. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
$5.3M on the table at Casa Pia. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Famalicao wanted more than $6.3M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Market11 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: RC Strasbourg have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Víctor Gómez. The answer from Braga has not changed — yet.
Market11 Jan 2027
Rio Ave come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Braga did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Braga
Christian Pulisic and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tomás Marques is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Match9 Jan 2027
Braga are at home on the road
4 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match2 Jan 2027
4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Match2 Jan 2027
Braga cannot stop winning
7 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.51 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.17, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A season average of 7.38 with 23 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The offer went to Famalicao this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Braga have gone to Casa Pia with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad4 Jan 2027
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Braga have had the benefit of it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
410 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Braga know exactly what they have.
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Triumph
Squad28 Dec 2026
15 days out for João Moutinho after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Braga will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match26 Dec 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑2 against Famalicao, and it could have been more.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
A brace, and Christian Pulisic takes the afternoon — 8.50
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Christian Pulisic provided it, and the 8.50 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.43, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match26 Dec 2026
Braga cannot stop winning
6 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Christian Pulisic
21 goals and a season average of 7.34 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Braga
Ricardo Horta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match26 Dec 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Braga and Famalicao, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Braga training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Víctor Gómez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
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The dugout
Cláudio Ramos gets it from the manager
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The terraces
The crowd has taken to Bright Arrey-Mbi
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Match
Another one collected away from home
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Triumph
Squad21 Dec 2026
João Moutinho breaks a bone — 24 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 24 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match16 Dec 2026
Cup progress for Braga
A 2‑0 win over AVS, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match19 Dec 2026
No mercy from Braga
Nacional will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Braga were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Match21 Dec 2026
Nobody above Braga
First, on 49 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Match19 Dec 2026
Braga make it 5 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Braga have 5 straight wins of it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
19 goals and a season average of 7.22. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match19 Dec 2026
Braga make home a hard place to visit
11 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Braga
Ricardo Horta and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Víctor Gómez falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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Upbeat
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 49. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad14 Dec 2026
32 days out for João Moutinho after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Braga will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market14 Dec 2026
“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.
Match12 Dec 2026
Braga cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Braga
Ricardo Horta was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Fran Navarro
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Mario Dorgeles has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Mario Dorgeles
8 goals and a season average of 7.38 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Match12 Dec 2026
A 1‑0 win over Santa Clara, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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Upbeat
Match5 Dec 2026
18 unbeaten for Braga
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 18 matches without defeat is a foundation Braga did not have in the autumn.
Squad7 Dec 2026
39 days out for João Moutinho after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Braga will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match5 Dec 2026
No mercy from Braga
Estrela da Amadora will want this one forgotten quickly: 6‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Braga were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.83 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market7 Dec 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Braga heard it as anything else.
Squad7 Dec 2026
19 goals and a season average of 7.26. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad7 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Braga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Dec 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Braga and Estrela da Amadora in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Braga
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Víctor Gómez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Upbeat
Match28 Nov 2026
17 unbeaten for Braga
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 17 matches without defeat is a foundation Braga did not have in the autumn.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules João Moutinho out for 47 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Braga will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match28 Nov 2026
Eduardo Peixoto wins it after the whistle should have gone
93 minutes played. Eduardo Peixoto found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Gil Vicente went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Braga
Ricardo Horta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Cláudio Ramos falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match28 Nov 2026
A 1‑0 win over Gil Vicente, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.07 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Upbeat
Squad23 Nov 2026
João Moutinho breaks a bone — 57 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 57 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match21 Nov 2026
Still nobody has beaten Braga
The unbeaten run reaches 16. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match23 Nov 2026
Nobody above Braga
First, on 37 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.53, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad23 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Braga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Braga training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bright Arrey-Mbi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match21 Nov 2026
Braga caught on 89 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Porto scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Squad23 Nov 2026
6 goals and a season average of 7.29. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting João Moutinho's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
João Moutinho breaks a bone — 67 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 67 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match14 Nov 2026
Whatever happens, Braga do not lose
15 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Braga
Ricardo Horta was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match14 Nov 2026
After 7 games, Braga finally taste it again
The first defeat in 7 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Vitoria Guimaraes; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Braga training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Víctor Gómez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces16 Nov 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Luis Suazo
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match14 Nov 2026
Nobody wins at Braga
8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
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Triumph
Squad9 Nov 2026
João Moutinho breaks a bone — 77 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 77 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match7 Nov 2026
Braga make it 7 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Braga have 7 straight wins of it.
Market9 Nov 2026
Víctor Gómez 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 Braga hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad9 Nov 2026
18 goals and a season average of 7.20. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Braga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Braga
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cláudio Ramos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match7 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Christian Pulisic. 2‑0 against Moreirense, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Match7 Nov 2026
Braga are at home on the road
3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.33, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Triumph
Squad2 Nov 2026
85 days out for João Moutinho after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Braga will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match31 Oct 2026
7‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The match ball belongs to Christian Pulisic, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Match28 Oct 2026
Braga through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Torreense, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.47 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match31 Oct 2026
Braga make it 6 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Braga have 6 straight wins of it.
Market2 Nov 2026
Ricardo Horta 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 Braga hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Braga
Ricardo Horta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match31 Oct 2026
8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Braga and Alverca in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
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Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
95 days out for João Moutinho after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Braga will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match24 Oct 2026
4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Match26 Oct 2026
29 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.14, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match24 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Braga right now
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Braga
Ricardo Horta and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Braga training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Víctor Gómez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 8.34 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad26 Oct 2026
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
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Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules João Moutinho out for 103 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Braga will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match17 Oct 2026
No mercy from Braga
Casa Pia will want this one forgotten quickly: 6‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Braga were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.54 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad19 Oct 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Match17 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Braga right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Braga
Ricardo Horta was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match17 Oct 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Braga and Casa Pia in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Cláudio Ramos falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
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Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules João Moutinho out for 111 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Braga will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match10 Oct 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 6‑0 against Arouca, and it could have been more.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The match ball belongs to Roberto Fernández, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A brace, and Eduardo Peixoto takes the afternoon — 7.97
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Eduardo Peixoto provided it, and the 7.97 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match10 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Braga
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Braga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Oct 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Braga and Arouca in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Tomás Marques is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Marked 8.53 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
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Player ratings
Roberto Fernández in the eights
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Dória
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
João Moutinho breaks a bone — 120 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 120 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match3 Oct 2026
10‑1, and Eduardo Peixoto took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Braga tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad5 Oct 2026
4 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The match ball belongs to Eduardo Peixoto, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Match3 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Braga do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Braga
Christian Pulisic was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match3 Oct 2026
11 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Braga and AVS in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Belts tighten at Braga
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
The pass was always on for Fran Navarro
Chances created: 15. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.
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Squad28 Sep 2026
João Moutinho breaks a bone — 128 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 128 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Braga
Ricardo Horta and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match26 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Braga
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Cláudio Ramos falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting João Moutinho's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Braga are still strangers to each other
13 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Bernardo Miranda chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Braga
Ricardo Horta was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match19 Sep 2026
6 unbeaten for Braga
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Braga did not have in the autumn.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match19 Sep 2026
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 5 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Braga training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bright Arrey-Mbi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.20 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match19 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Triumph
Match12 Sep 2026
Braga cannot stop winning
5 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Braga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Víctor Gómez falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match12 Sep 2026
Three points for Braga, 2‑0 the final word against Rio Ave in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Roberto Fernández at his very best
Marked 8.34. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Braga.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Bright Arrey-Mbi at his very best
Marked 8.15. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Braga.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.
Market14 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Christian Pulisic’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Triumph
Match5 Sep 2026
Braga make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Braga have 4 straight wins of it.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Braga close the window on a squad of their own making
9 in and 14 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The bid was some way short and Braga did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market7 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Nuno Matos to Porto has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Braga with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Braga
Ricardo Horta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Braga counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Braga now.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Braga training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cláudio Ramos is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match5 Sep 2026
Estoril Praia made Braga work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Triumph
Match29 Aug 2026
3‑0, and Christian Pulisic took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Braga tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market31 Aug 2026
Pau Víctor has left for Casa Pia in a $16.0M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A brace, and Christian Pulisic takes the afternoon — 8.20
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Christian Pulisic provided it, and the 8.20 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match29 Aug 2026
Braga make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Braga have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Braga
Ricardo Horta and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Leixões have kept their man, and Braga go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Braga
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bright Arrey-Mbi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.38, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
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Player ratings
A masterclass from Ricardo Horta
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Dória
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Squad
13 new faces, and Braga are still learning each other
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Triumph
Market24 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Braga people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Match22 Aug 2026
4‑0, and Eduardo Peixoto took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Braga tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.11, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Benfica have kept their man, and Braga go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.05 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market24 Aug 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Famalicao wanted more than $3.4M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Market24 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Braga have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Braga
Ricardo Horta was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
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Triumph
Market17 Aug 2026
Braga pay AC Milan $56.5M for a proper upgrade
AC Milan did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $56.5M for Christian Pulisic, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Squad17 Aug 2026
4 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Match15 Aug 2026
No mercy from Braga
Santa Clara will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Braga were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Al-Nassr have kept their man, and Braga go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Vizela come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Braga did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Braga have gone to Famalicao with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Porto, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Braga
Christian Pulisic and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Víctor Gómez falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Braga have done the hard part with AC Milan, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market10 Aug 2026
Eduardo Peixoto arrives at Braga in a $14.2M statement of intent
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Braga have paid $14.2M for Eduardo Peixoto, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Market10 Aug 2026
Braga say no — this time
The offer from Gil Vicente for Víctor Gómez 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Eduardo Peixoto arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Eduardo Peixoto has, at Braga, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Famalicao have kept their man, and Braga go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Braga heard it as anything else.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ricardo Horta commits to Braga for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Braga
Ricardo Horta and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market10 Aug 2026
The name of João Carvalho has come up in conversations Braga were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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Steady
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Braga have gone to AC Milan with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Braga have gone to Al Ahli with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
395 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” João Moutinho commits to Braga for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Braga
João Moutinho and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Braga offered $320.0K; Porto said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ricardo Horta falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.