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Eight champions in eight years is an unprecedented alternation in League I
The title of the Portuguese I League of football achieved today by Sporting confirmed an unprecedented trend of alternation in the championship, which has not seen a 'repeated' champion since 2016/17, with eight champions in eight years.
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Although still anchored in the 'big three', never has the main national division gone so long without a team winning the championship twice in a row, with Sporting 'stealing' this possibility from Benfica.
The three rivals, and winners of all but two of the championship editions, have been alternating in the lead like never before, on a path that began at the end of one of those periods of great dominance.
Benfica had closed the four-time championship in 2016/17 and, the following year, Sérgio Conceição imposed 'his' FC Porto as national champion, conceding the I League the following year again to the 'eagles'.
The 'dragons' returned to reign in 2019/20, as the first champions in the covid-19 pandemic, with the most notable celebration of that era being the end of the Sporting 'fast', champion in 2020/21 after 19 years of 'drought'.
Sérgio Conceição's 'three-peat' at the helm of the 'blue and whites' came the following year, but the arrival of German Roger Schmidt at Benfica 'transfigured' the Luz club, which imposed itself with authority in 2022/23.
This year, it was Rúben Amorim's Sporting that returned to reign, closing a cycle of alternation that has been going on for eight years, if we start at the end of Benfica's 'four-peat', proving an uncertainty never seen before -- even if confined to the usual 'big three' of Portuguese football.
The only other period in which Portugal experienced some alternation, with seven champions in seven different years, was at the end of Sporting's 'four-peat' in the 1950s, having closed that dominance in 1953/54 to give up the 'sceptre' to Benfica.
FC Porto responded in 1955/56, Benfica recovered in 1956/57, Sporting returned to the limelight in 1957/58, the 'dragons' won in 1958/59 with Bela Guttmann, who did the same with Benfica in 1959/60, closing the chapter of uncertainty with the two-time championship the following year.
These periods are rare and with practically the same protagonists -- only Belenenses, in 1945/46, and Boavista, in 2000/01, break with tradition --, since periods of dominance tend to be prolonged.
Between 1940/41 and 1953/54, for example, Sporting won nine times, and between 1962/63 and 1972/73, it was Benfica that won nine titles. Between 1989/90 and 1999/2000, there were eight from FC Porto.
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