SPORTING champion: Amorim, the youngest two-time Portuguese champion

Rúben Amorim became the youngest Portuguese coach to become two-time national champion. With his second achievement on the Sporting bench, he also consolidated the dominant trend of achievements by national coaches in recent years.

At 39 years old, Amorim became the 12th double-champion Portuguese coach and the youngest. The previous record was held by Artur Jorge, who was 40 years old when he won the second championship with FC Porto, in 1986, and he would become three-time champion in 1990. Next comes José Mourinho, two-time national champion in 2004, at 41 years old.

Amorim is also only the second Portuguese coach to celebrate two titles on the Sporting bench, after Cândido de Oliveira in 1949.

In 90 editions of the national championship there was a majority of victories by foreign coaches, in a total of 50, representing 12 different nationalities. But in this century only four coaches from other countries have won the main trophy of Portuguese football: Laszlo Bölöni, Giovanni Trapattoni, Co Adriaanse and Roger Schmidt, last season.

The absolute record holder for national champion titles is the Brazilian Otto Glória, with five wins, four with Benfica and one with Sporting.

Among the Portuguese, Sérgio Conceição, Jorge Jesus, Jesualdo Ferreira and Artur Jorge are the most titled coaches, with three trophies each. Conceição was also the last two-time champion before Rúben Amorim, with the title won in 2020.

Portuguese national champion coaches

24 Portuguese (40 titles):

Sérgio Conceição (3); Jorge Jesus (3); Jesualdo Ferreira (3); Artur Jorge (3); Rui Vitória (2); António Oliveira (2); Cândido de Oliveira (2); José Maria Pedroto (2); José Mourinho (2); Tony (2); Vítor Pereira (2), Ruben Amorim (2), Bruno Lage, André Villas-Boas, Augusto Inácio, Augusto Silva, Fernando Mendes, Fernando Santos, Fernando Vaz, Jaime Pacheco, Juca, Mário Lino, Mário Wilson, Tavares da Silva

7 Hungarians (16 titles):

Béla Guttmann (3); Janos Biri (3); Josef Szabo (3); Lipo Herczka (3); Mihaly Siska (2), Lajos Baroti; Lajos Czeizler

7 English (13 titles):

Jimmy Hagan (3); Randolph Galloway (3); Bobby Robson (2); John Mortimore (2); Malcolm Allison; Robert Kelly; and Ted Smith

3 Brazilians (8 titles):

Otto Glória (5); Carlos Alberto Silva (2); and Dorival Yustrich

2 Romanians (2 titles):

Elek Schwartz; and Laszlo Bölöni

2 Yugoslavs (2 titles):

Milorad Pavic; and Tomislav Ivic

1 Swede (3 titles):

Sven-Goran Eriksson (3)