FC Porto have started the 2026-27 Liga with nine wins from nine, and that alone puts them on their best opening in 87 years. The champions have not just been winning, either. They have scored 21 goals, conceded only 4, and sit on maximum points after nine rounds.
Porto's control at both ends
The attacking output is steady rather than flashy. Twenty-one goals in nine games is a strong return, but the more striking part is how little has leaked at the other end. Four conceded across the opening nine rounds gives Porto the kind of base that usually keeps title pressure off their shoulders and on everybody else's.
The scoring run runs deeper than this season's opening burst. Porto have scored in 35 consecutive league rounds, with their last blank a 0-0 draw with Benfica at the Dragão in the eighth round of 2025-26. That run now sits behind the start itself, because the current sequence has turned a good attack into a historic one.
The benchmark still ahead
A Bola said Porto's win away to GIL Vicente kept them with an immaculate record at the top of the table and marked their best start in 87 years. The same report noted that Francesco Farioli has already passed Jesualdo Ferreira's eight straight league victories from 2007/08.
There is still one club benchmark ahead of them. Mihály Siska's 13-game opening run in 1939/40 remains better, so Porto have not matched the all-time club record yet. They have, though, built the best league start the club has managed in nearly nine decades, and they did it by keeping the same balance game after game.
The only next league fact that matters is whether they can keep the run alive in round 10. Nine wins, 21 goals and only 4 conceded already make this one of the cleanest starts Porto have put together in years.
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