Portal dos Dragões
·22 de agosto de 2025
Refereeing of FC Porto-Vitória de Guimarães clash slammed by FPF

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The Portuguese Football Federation has made public the assessments of the Arbitration Council regarding the performances of the refereeing and video arbitration teams in the first round of the League and Liga Portugal 2.
In the match between FC Porto and Vitória SC, which ended with FC Porto's 3-0 victory, both the refereeing team led by António Nobre and the video arbitration team led by Manuel Mota received the lowest rating: unsatisfactory.
The intervention of the VAR team in the Famalicão-Santa Clara match (2-0), coordinated by Manuel Oliveira, was also qualified as unsatisfactory.
On the other hand, the refereeing team of the Casa Pia-Sporting match (0-2), led by Gustavo Correia, obtained the "very satisfactory" assessment. Luís Ferreira (VAR) and Francisco Pereira (AVAR) were rated as "satisfactory".
The maximum rating was also attributed to Bruno Esteves and José Mira, members of the video arbitration team in the SC Braga-Tondela match (3-0), after they signaled a penalty in favor of the home team that was considered unjustified.
In Liga Portugal 2, the performances of the refereeing and video arbitration teams in the Marítimo-Lusitânia de Lourosa (0-1) and Leixões-Felgueiras (3-0) matches were classified as "unsatisfactory".
The Arbitration Council discloses the assessments - which can be "unsatisfactory", "satisfactory" or "very unsatisfactory" - of the performances of the refereeing and video arbitration teams up to two weeks after the end of the round under analysis.
Casa Pia AC-Sporting CP, 0-2
Gustavo Correia (main referee) - Very satisfactory
Luís Ferreira (VAR) - Satisfactory
Nacional-Gil Vicente, 0-3
David Silva (main referee) - Satisfactory
Rui Costa (VAR) - Satisfactory
FC Arouca-Aves SAD, 3-1
Sérgio Guelho (main referee) - Satisfactory
Rui Silva (VAR) - Satisfactory
Famalicão-Santa Clara, 2-0
Luís Godinho (main referee) - Satisfactory
Manuel Oliveira (VAR) - Unsatisfactory
SC Braga-Tondela, 3-0
Cláudio Pereira (main referee) - Satisfactory
Bruno Esteves (VAR) - Very satisfactory
Moreirense-Alverca, 2-1
Hélder Malheiro (main referee) - Satisfactory
Pedro Ferreira (VAR) - Satisfactory
Estoril Praia-Estrela da Amadora, 1-1
Anzhiny Rodrigues (main referee) - Satisfactory
João Bento (VAR) - Satisfactory
FC Porto-Vitória SC, 3-0
António Nobre (main referee) - Unsatisfactory
Manuel Mota (VAR) - Unsatisfactory
The first public disclosure of the technical direction of the FPF and the Arbitration Council is scheduled after the tenth round, marked for the weekend of November 1 and 2.
On Thursday, with the return of the Juízo Final program to Sport TV, the audio of the video arbitration related to the most controversial plays of the first two rounds of the League and Liga Portugal 2 were made public, later evaluated by Duarte Gomes, National Technical Director of Arbitration.
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