World Football Badges News: Portugal - 2017/18 Campeonato de Portugal

The Campeonato de Portugal, officially known as Campeonato de Portugal Prio for sponsorship reasons, is the third-level football league in Portugal. It is the only non-professional national league that is organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF).

The competition was created in 2013 as Campeonato Nacional de Seniores (Seniors National Championship) to replace the Portuguese Second and Third Divisions (third and fourth tiers of the Portuguese football league system, respectively) for the 2013–14 season. On 22 October 2015, the competition was renamed Campeonato de Portugal, its current designation.

The 2017–18 Campeonato de Portugal (also known as Campeonato de Portugal Prio, for sponsorship reasons) will be the fifth season of Portuguese football's renovated third-tier league, since the merging of the Second and Third Divisions in 2013, and the third season under the current Campeonato de Portugal title. A total of 80 teams compete in this division, which will begin on 20 August 2017 and will end on 10 June 2018.

The competition format consists of two stages. In the first stage, the 80 clubs will be divided in five series of 16 teams, according to geographic criteria. In each series, teams play against each other in a home-and-away double round-robin system.

In the second stage, the five best-placed teams from each first-stage series and the best three runners-up will dispute a series of playoff matches to promote to the LigaPro. The two finalists will be promoted directly. The six bottom clubs of each series will be relegated.

The teams that win the series and 3 runners-up are qualified to a play-off phase where the winning teams are promoted to Segunda Liga.

Teams participating
Relegated from the 2016–17 LigaPro: Vizela, Fafe, Freamunde and Olhanense
Promoted from the 2016–17 District Championships:
Algarve FA: Moncarapachense
Aveiro FA: Espinho
Beja FA: Castrense
Braga FA: Arões
Bragança FA: Argozelo
Castelo Branco FA: Águias do Moradal
Coimbra FA: Sourense
Évora FA: Estrela de Vendas Novas
Guarda FA: Fornos de Algodres
Leiria FA: Marinhense
Lisboa FA: Pêro Pinheiro
Madeira FA: Câmara de Lobos
Portalegre FA: Elétrico Ponte de Sôr
Porto FA: Canelas 2010
Santarém FA: Coruchense
Setúbal FA: Olímpico do Montijo
Viana do Castelo FA: Alt. Arcos Valdevez
Vila Real FA: Mondinense
Viseu FA: Ferreira de Aves
Liga Meo Azores: Sporting de Guadalupe

SÉRIE A