Campeonato Português de Rugby

Campeonato Nacional de Rugby Divisão de Honra
Current season, competition or edition:; 2023–24 Campeonato Nacional de Rugby Divisão de Honra
Formerly	Campeonato SuperBock
Sport	Rugby union
Founded	1958; 66 years ago
First season	1958
Owner(s)	Federação Portuguesa de Rugby
No. of teams	12
Country	Portugal
Most recent; champion(s)	Direito
Most titles	CDUL (20 titles)
TV partner(s)	RugbyTV.pt (Live Streams)
Relegation to	Campeonato Nacional de Rugby I Divisão
International cup(s)	European Rugby Challenge Cup ; European Rugby Continental Shield
Related; competitions	Taça de Portugal de Rugby ; Supertaça de Portugal de Rugby
Official website	fpr.pt

The Campeonato Nacional de Rugby Divisão de Honra (more commonly known as the Divisão de Honra) is Portugal's top level professional men's rugby union competition. The Divisão de Honra Championships are organised by the Federação Portuguesa de Rugby (Portuguese Rugby Federation) and currently consists of 12 teams. The last placed team in the competition is relegated at the end of the season to the Campeonato Nacional de Rugby I Divisão (Portugal's second level of men's rugby union) with one team from the second-tier competition promoting to the Divisão de Honra.

Format

The Divisão de Honra season takes place between September and March, with three teams being randomly drawn into four groups, playing each other home and away twice for a total of 6 matches per group (24 matches in total). Points are awarded according to the following:

4 points for a win
2 points for a draw
1 bonus point is awarded to a team scoring 4 tries or more in a match
1 bonus point is awarded to a team that loses a match by 7 points or fewer

The highest placed teams with the highest number of points within each group will meet each other in a round-robin play-off to determine the champions of the Divisão de Honra while to bottom placed teams in each group will play in a round-robin play-out to determine which team (that finishes last place) will be relegated in the respective season.

Promotion and relegation

The bottom team in the relegation play-out is relegated to the Campeonato Nacional de Rugby I Divisão, while the team that finishes 1st in the second tier of rugby union competitions in Portugal will replace the latter.

Current Teams

Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality

Team	Manager	Captain	Stadium	Capacity
Académica	Rui Rodrigues	António Salgueiro	Estádio Municipal Sérgio Conceição	2500
Agronomia	Kane Hancy	Vasco Ribeiro	Tapada da Ajuda	500
Belenenses	João Mirra	Tomás Sequeira	Belém Rugby Park	500
Benfica	Len Olivier	Francisco Bessa	Estádio Nacional de Honra	5000
Cascais	Frederico Sousa	António Vidinha	Estádio Municipal Dramático Cascais	1000
CDUL	Julio Farías	Tomás Appleton	Estádio Universitário de Lisboa	8000
CDUP	Francisco Vareta	Tomás de Aquino Marrana	Estádio Universitário do Porto	1500
Direito	Enrique Pichot	Duarte Diniz	Complexo Desportivo Miguel Nobre Ferreira	2500
Lousã	Rui Carvoeira	Paulo Marques	Estádio Municipal de Rugby José Redondo	500
São Miguel	Luís Supico	André Lemos	Bulldog Rugby Park	800

Champions

Season	Champion	Game	Second Place	Third Place	Game	Fourth Place	Ref
1958/59	Belenenses #1						^[1]
1959/60	Benfica #1
1960/61	Benfica #2
1961/62	Benfica #3
1962/63	Belenenses #2
1963/64	CDUL #1
1964/65	CDUL #2
1965/66	CDUL #3
1966/67	CDUL #4
1967/68	CDUL #5
1968/69	CDUL #6
1969/70	Benfica #4
1970/71	CDUL #7
1971/72	CDUL #8
1972/73	Belenenses #3
1973/74	CDUL #9
1974/75	Belenenses #4
1975/76	Benfica #5
1976/77	Académica #1
1977/78	CDUL #10
1978/79	Académica #2
1979/80	CDUL #11		Benfica	Direito		Académica	^[2]
1980/81	Técnico #1		CDUL	Académica		CDUP	^[3]
1981/82	CDUL #12		Académica	Benfica		Direito	^[4]
1982/83	CDUL #13		Académica	Belenenses		Direito	^[5]
1983/84	CDUL #14						^[1]
1984/85	CDUL #15
1985/86	Benfica #6
1986/87	Cascais #1
1987/88	Benfica #7
1988/89	CDUL #16
1989/90	CDUL #17
1990/91	Benfica #8
1991/92	Cascais #2
1992/93	Cascais #3		Benfica	Belenenses		CDUL	^[6]
1993/94	Cascais #4		Direito	Benfica		CDUL	^[7]
1994/95	Cascais #5		Belenenses	Académica		CDUL	^[8]
1995/96	Cascais #6		CDUL	Belenenses		Lousã	^[9]
1996/97	Académica #3		Cascais	CDUL		Técnico	^[9]
1997/98	Técnico #2		Direito	Académica		Cascais	^[10]
1998/99	Direito #1		Académica	Técnico		CDUP	^[11]
1999/00	Direito #2		Agronomia	Técnico		CDUP	^[12]
2000/01	Benfica #9		Direito	Agronomia		Belenenses	^[13]
2001/02	Direito #3		CDUP	Benfica		Académica
2002/03	Belenenses #5		Direito	CDUP		Agronomia
2003/04	Académica #4		Agronomia	Direito		Belenenses
2004/05	Direito #4		Agronomia	Belenenses		Benfica
2005/06	Direito #5	22-06	Belenenses	Agronomia	25-15	Benfica
2006/07	Agronomia #1	15-08	Direito	CDUL	19-10	CDUP
2007/08	Belenenses #6	22-21	Agronomia	CDUL	34-17	Benfica
2008/09	Direito #6	32-25	Agronomia	CDUL	41-41	Belenenses
2009/10	Direito #7	22-12	Agronomia	CDUL	28-19	Belenenses
2010/11	Direito #8	09-03	Belenenses	Agronomia	23-17	CDUL
2011/12	CDUL #18	23-15	Agronomia	Direito		Académica
2012/13	Direito #9	17-09	CDUL	Belenenses		Agronomia
2013/14	CDUL #19	19-15	Direito	Técnico		Belenenses
2014/15	Direito #10	26-19	CDUL	Técnico		Agronomia
2015/16	Direito #11	11-06	CDUL	Cascais		Técnico
2016/17	CDUL #20	25-21	Agronomia	Direito		Cascais
2017/18	Belenenses #7	17-09	Agronomia	Cascais		Direito
2018/19	Agronomia #2	18-10	Belenenses	Técnico		CDUL
2019/20	Belenenses was in 1st		Técnico was in 2nd	Direito was in 3rd		Agronomia was in 4th
2020/21	Técnico #3	15-11	Direito	Belenenses		CDUL
2021/22	Belenenses #8	31-08	Direito	Cascais		CDUL
2022/23	Direito #12	31-23	Cascais	Agronomia		Benfica
2023/24	Belenenses #9	19-18	Agronomia	Benfica		Direito

Club	Titles	Years won
CDUL	20	1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1989, 1990, 2012, 2014, 2017
Direito	12	1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2023
Belenenses	9	1959, 1963, 1973, 1975, 2003, 2008, 2018, 2022, 2024
Benfica	9	1960, 1961, 1962, 1970, 1976, 1986, 1988, 1991, 2001
Cascais	6	1987, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996
Académica	4	1977, 1979, 1997, 2004
Técnico	3	1981, 1998, 2021
Agronomia	2	2007, 2019

References

External links

Portuguese Rugby Federation Official Website

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