Although with an asterisk, especially because there are two games still to be played, the match that closed the first round was played this weekend. The right time to take stock from A to Z of what this first half of the League was like, with figures, moments and data that help tell what has happened since the ball started rolling again on the national pitch at the beginning of August. From the best attack, to the best defense, passing through other record records, some positive, others negative, the figures and even the number of penalties awarded and where our League stands in comparison to others in those records, it's all (or almost everything, go!) here in this alphabet book that Maisfutebol prepared for you. Attack) Nobody scored more goals than Sporting: 47, the second best record since the turn of the century, only surpassed by the 48 – also from the Lions – last season. Sporting also has the best goal difference (+38), followed by FC Porto with +32 and Benfica with a positive goal difference of 25 goals. B(runo Make) He won seven out of ten games in 2025/26, won the Super Cup against Sporting, qualified Benfica for the group stage of the Champions League (with more than €40M guaranteed for the coffers) and was pleased to have, for the first time, had a squad tailored to his desires, but even that didn't keep him safe from dismissal in the middle of the club's election campaign. He left on the night of Qarabag's defeat in the Champions League. C(hycotada) Five clubs changed coaches in the first round, but there were six “whiplashes”. AVS was the repeater on a list that also includes Tondela, Casa Pia, Estrela da Amadora and Benfica. D(spray) FC Porto conceded just four goals in the first 17 rounds. It is the best record for a team in the League since 1995/96, when the Dragons, then coached by Bobby Robson, closed the first round (also with 17 games) with just three goals conceded. E(spectators) 1,826,203 spectators attended the 151 games already played in the first round. Estádio da Luz received the most spectators: 534,909 spread over nine games, an average of 59,434 per game and an occupancy rate of 87.8 percent (FC Porto's rate was higher, with 91.76%). The nine biggest attendances in the first round were at Benfica's home and the record was recorded in the derby with Sporting: 65,247 spectators. AVS was the team with the worst average number of assists (1,733), while Santa Clara had the worst occupancy rate (24.88%). F(arioli) Chosen by André Villas-Boas to succeed Martín Anselmi, he arrived at Dragão after Ajax's traumatic loss of the title in the Netherlands. The Italian coach's impact exceeded expectations and has now materialized in several records and a comfortable lead in the standings, with a seven-point advantage over Sporting (2nd) and ten over Benfica, who complete the podium. G(los) 410 were scored in the first round, but the count is not yet finished, as there are still two games to be played – Moreirense-Tondela and Nacional-Santa Clara. Despite this, there are already 17 more goals than in 2024/25. H(julmand) The mainstay that connects Sporting from one side of the field to the other. He is wearing a lion on his chest for the third time – his second as captain – and the recent success of the Lions club, which became two-time champions for the first time in more than 70 years, also owes a lot to him. I(nvictos) FC Porto (16 wins and a draw) and Benfica (11 wins and six draws) are the teams that were not defeated in the first half of the League. Since 2012/13, no two teams have completed the first round undefeated. At the time, FC Porto and Benfica also achieved it and remained so until the 29th round, when Dragons and Eagles faced each other in the famous game at Dragão decided by Kelvin and which allowed Porto fans to move to the top of the League and confirm their third title a week later. J (Akub Kiwior) He arrived at FC Porto just as the market closed and took over at the first opportunity. He made his debut on the fifth round and has been a total player in the League since then. Compatriot Bednarek may be the leader and the most experienced member of the Porto defense, but the youngest Pole is the missing piece in the sector. L(uis) Suárez He arrived in Alvalade at the end of August to replace Viktor Gyökeres. It cost 22 million euros plus 5M depending on objectives that, if met, could make him the most expensive reinforcement in Sporting's history. Despite his heavy legacy – due to what he cost and who he replaced – he quickly established himself as one of the figures on Rui Borges' team. He is the second best scorer in the League with 15 goals (two less than Pavlidis) and has fit perfectly into the new game model that the Trás-os-Montes coach designed for 2025/26 and which is based on a more collective game and less dependent on individualities. M(ourinho) At 62 years old, the coach was made official on September 18th. Two days later, exactly 25 years after being announced by João Vale e Azevedo at Benfica and having formally started his career as head coach, he guided the Reds at Vila da Aves. N(ove) The points that FC Porto scored more than in the same period last season. The blue and whites were, along with Gil Vicente (19x28), the team that recorded the biggest increase in points. Interestingly, the big three closed the first round with more points than in the previous year: Sporting (42) added one more and Benfica (39) also added one more point than they had a year ago with Bruno Lage. O(eleven meters) 68 were scored and 52 penalties were converted, for a conversion rate of 76.5 percent. Benfica and Sp. Braga (both with nine) were the teams with the most maximum punishments in favor, with the Eagles making all their attempts and the Minho teams eight out of nine. All teams went to the 11 meter mark at least twice and one is still looking for the first goal in this way: AVS, which missed on both occasions. Compared to the so-called European Big-five, there were only more penalties awarded in France (71). P(avlidis) Top scorer in the first round, with 17 goals. Last season, the striker had just four accurate shots at the end of a first season in which Viktor Gyökeres was the undisputed king of goalscorers and turned the league around with 21 goals. Is left over) Santa Clara is the team that recorded the biggest drop in terms compared to the previous year. Last season, at this time, the Azoreans had 31 points and occupied 5th place, equal with Sp. Braga (4th). Now he has minus 15 and remains in 14th place in the League. Vasco Matos' team can still reduce this deficit, as they still have to complete the game they have in hand. R(ecorde) FC Porto's number of points at the end of the first round (49 out of a possible 51) is the maximum ever recorded and surpasses the record of Bruno Lage's Benfica in 2019/20 (48). For the Dragons, Francesco Farioli overtook Sérgio Conceição, who in 2021/22 turned the league around with 47 points and at the end of the season set the (yet to be broken) record of 91 points. Sensation) Gil Vicente's draw with Sporting, combined with Sp. Braga's stumble in Amadora, allowed César Peixoto's team to end the first round with 28 points, a club record at the turn of the League. The gilistas are just six points away from the record with which they concluded the last championship. T(otalists) Six players participated in every possible minute in the first round: 1,530. Four of them are goalkeepers (Hornicek, Sp. Braga; Carevic, Famalicão; Renan Ribeiro, Estrela; Joel Robles, Estoril) and two are field players: Felix Bacher, Estoril's Austrian defender and Rodrigo Pinheiro, Famalicão's right-back. Diogo Costa could also be on this list, but he was replaced at halftime of the game against AVS, counting for matchday 16. 4 In ninety years of the national championship, this was the 11th time that the leader reached the middle of the championship with at least seven points ahead of the closest pursuer. History says that this advantage was enough to reach the title in nine of the previous ten times. The exception? Benfica in 2019/20, which was overtaken by Sérgio Conceição's FC Porto. Can Sporting and Benfica still dream? Power, they can. But the possibilities of reaching the title are almost utopian. V(ictor Froholdt) He arrived at FC Porto in exchange for 20 million euros plus €2M depending on objectives, a substantial amount considering that he arrived from a peripheral league (Denmark) and at just 19 years old. The Danish midfielder quickly established himself as one of the driving forces of Francesco Farioli's team and dismissed all doubts about cost/quality. Today he is a very safe asset for FC Porto and a starter in the national team. X Do you play totoball? So you know the meaning of x, especially because it helps us solve the headache that this letter caused us when preparing this balance sheet. In 151 games there were 41 draws and Rio Ave leads this record, with eight. Zero) The number of victories for AVS, which closed the first round with four points, the worst attack (11) and the worst defense (43). Since 2007/08, a team had not reached half of the League without any triumph, but then União de Leiria, which would go down in division, even scored one more point and played two fewer rounds, as the competition had 16 teams. The AVS has the worst punctual record of the three-point victory era (since 1995/96), of the championships with 18, 20 or 16 teams and it is necessary to go back to 1963/64 to find a worse “red bottom”. This season, with 14 participating clubs, it was Olhanense, which ended the first round with no wins, two draws and 11 defeats. The Algarve team would end up being relegated, but they were two points away from salvation.