Portuguese League: clubs, format and cup places

The Portuguese League is one of the 21 leagues in Quidditch Manager, the free browser Quidditch management game. It has 10 clubs from Portugal, led at the start of a new career by Braga Broomfleet and with Caminha Cocas as the underdog. You can take over any of them and manage the club season after season.

Clubs
10 (Portugal)
Format
2 rounds, then top-6 playoffs
Matches per club
18 in the regular season
Calendar
Weeks 8 to 33 (playoffs included)
Mid-season break
5 weeks
League strength
joint 8th of 21 (rating 71)
Youth academy
Alcázar de los Vientos

The 10 clubs

Clubs are listed from the strongest to the weakest at the start of a new career. A club's rating decides its squad quality, budget and gate, and it moves as the seasons pass, so the order changes as clubs win trophies.

The oldest club is Sintra Sphinxes, founded in 1856; the youngest is Caminha Cocas, founded in 2007. All 10 clubs are from Portugal.

The Portuguese League was split off from the old Iberian League, which no longer exists. A career begun before the split keeps the history of its clubs: when such a career moves to the current league list, titles and wins earned in the Iberian League still count towards cup qualification.

League format

The Portuguese League is a single division with 10 clubs: every club meets every other club twice, once at home and once away, and the top six then play off for the title. That gives every club 18 league matches, played over 18 matchdays in weeks 8 to 30 of the 52-week season. The league takes a break of 5 weeks at the halfway point.

After the regular season the top six clubs play a three-week playoff: the 3rd and 6th placed clubs and the 4th and 5th placed clubs meet in the play-ins, the two winners join the top two clubs in the semi-finals (the 1st seed against the lower-seeded play-in winner, the 2nd seed against the other), and the winners meet in the final. The playoff winner is the league champion, not the club that finished top of the regular season.

The table is sorted by wins first, then point difference, then points scored, then Snitches caught. There is no promotion or relegation: every club stays in its league and plays the same competition each season.

Cups and international places

League results decide who goes to the big tournaments. From the Portuguese League the game sends 1 place in the 16-club European Cup and 1 place in the 32-club Champions League.

Berths go to the clubs with the best record in the last three campaigns: first by titles won (every title counts equally, whichever season it was won in), then by combined league wins, then by how recently the club won a title. The Champions League looks at the last five campaigns the same way, and 6 of its 32 places are wildcards for the latest Champions League winner and the latest winners of the European Cup and the continental cups. In this league the champion for qualification is the playoff winner. Read the full rules on the competitions page.

Youth and talent

The league's annual youth intake comes from Alcázar de los Vientos. Graduates are aged 16 to 18 and take their nationality from the academy league; Alcázar de los Vientos is shared with the Spanish League, whose clubs compete for the same graduates. The first intake opens in the second season of a career. The beginner's guide explains how to sign graduates, transfers and contracts.

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Portuguese League is one of the 11 leagues in Europe.

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