2024–25 Campeonato Nacional de Rugby Divisão de Honra explained

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Countries: Portugal
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The Campeonato Nacional de Rugby Divisão de Honra (more commonly known as the Divisão de Honra) is Portugal's top level professional men's rugby union competition. The Divisão de Honra Championships are organized by the Federação Portuguesa de Rugby (Portuguese Rugby Federation)[1] and currently consists of 12 teams.[2] [3] The last placed team in the competition is relegated at the end of the season to the Campeonato Nacional de Rugby I Divisão (Portugal's second level of men's rugby union) with one team from the second-tier competition promoted to the Divisão de Honra.

Format

The Divisão de Honra will be divided by two tournaments:

The Torneio de Abertura will be played for an initial tournament consisting of two groups of 6 teams, played for one return, a 1/2 between 1st and 2nd classifieds and the final.[4] The Torneio de Abertura is expected to be played from September 22 to November 28.

The Regular season of Divisão de Honra will be played by three groups of four (4) teams, which play in the system of all against all. At the end of regular season, the top 2 teams of each group will take part in the championship group that will determine the champion while the bottom 2 teams will play in "Plate Cup" group.The Divisão de Honra is expected to be played from December 7 and ends on May 25.

Points are awarded according to the following:[5]

Promotion and relegation

Following the extension of the number of teams from 10 to 12, the same 10 teams that played last season will remain and compete again in the championship. The newcomers are the lower division champion Técnico and runner-up RC Montemor.

The bottom team of "Plate Cup" group will be relegated to the lower division.

Teams

TeamManagerCaptainStadiumCapacity
Académica Lodie Van Staden António SalgueiroEstádio Municipal Sérgio Conceição2500
Agronomia Luís Pissarra João LimaTapada da Ajuda500
Belenenses João Mirra Tomás SequeiraBelém Rugby Park500
Benfica Martim Aguiar Hayden HannCampo nº2 - Lisbon University1500
Cascais Gabriel Ascárate António VidinhaEstádio Municipal Dramático Cascais1000
CDUL Kane Hancy Tomás AppletonEstádio Universitário de Lisboa8000
CDUP Francisco Vareta Tomás MarranaEstádio Universitário do Porto1500
Direito Bernardo Mota Duarte DinizComplexo Desportivo Miguel Nobre Ferreira2500
Lousã Claudio Venturino Paulo MarquesEstádio Municipal de Rugby José Redondo500
RC Montemor João Baptista MaltaParque Desportivo Municipal500
São Miguel João Uva Robert DelaiBulldog Rugby Park800
C. R. Técnico António Manzoni de Sequeira Rodrigo BentoCampo das Olaias800

Torneio de Abertura

The teams are distributed by two groups of six teams, in which they play with each other once:[6]

!Group A!Group B
BelenensesAgronomia
DireitoBenfica
CascaisCDUL
AcadémicaSão Miguel
LousãTécnico
CDUPRC Montemor

The Torneio de Abertura is expected to be played from September 22 to November 28.

Regular season

The teams are distributed by three groups of four teams, in which they play between themselves in home and away matches for the regular season:[7]

!Group A!Group B!Group C
BelenensesAgronomiaDireito
CDULCascaisBenfica
AcadémicaSão MiguelLousã
RC MontemorCDUPTécnico

The Divisão de Honra is expected to be played from December 7 and ends on May 25.

Squads 2024/25

Squads are ordered by the last classification of the league.According to Portuguese Rugby Federation[8]

The Belenenses squad for the 2024–25 Campeonato Nacional de Rugby season
Props
  • Anthony Kent
  • Joaquin Dominguez
  • Lucas Bordigoni
  • Manuel Worm
  • Frederico Simões
  • Pedro Braga
  • Bernardo Veiga

Hookers

  • Guillermo Lawrie
  • Miguel Nunes

Locks

  • Salvador da Cunha
  • Manuel Lima
  • José Moreira
  • Francisco Simões
  • António Andrade
  • Tomás da Cunha
  • Martim Ferreira
Backrow
  • Rafael Simões
  • David Wallis
  • André Cunha
  • Manuel Pinto
  • Pedro Cunha
  • Tomás Sequeira
  • Sebastião da Cunha
  • Diogo Raposo

Scrum-halves

  • Duarte Azevedo
  • Francisco Macedo

Fly-halves

  • Francisco Menéres
  • Manuel Menéres
Centres
  • Rodrigo Fruedenthal
  • Alex Thrupp
  • Lourenço Pedras
  • António Cunha
  • António Claro
  • Gonçalo Santos
  • Tomás Monteiro

Wingers

  • José Paiva dos Santos
  • Duarte Moreira
  • Owen Jenkins
  • Diogo Rodrigues
  • Francisco Galveias
  • Lourenço Pedras
  • Tomás Reis

Fullbacks

  • Francisco Murta
  • Salvador da Cunha Jr.
(c) denotes the team captain, Bold denotes internationally capped players.
  • denotes players qualified to play for Portugal on residency or dual nationality.

The Agronomia squad for the 2024–25 Campeonato Nacional de Rugby season
Props
  • Abel da Cunha
  • Estéfano Aranda Cáceres
  • Rodrigo Correa
  • Abraão Ambrósio*
  • Francisco Domingues
  • Afonso Carreira
  • Nicolau Turabelidze
  • António Quiroga

Hookers

  • Pedro Vicente
  • Frederico Tenório
  • Francisco Cabral
  • Diogo Carvalho
  • Hugo Oliveira
  • Joaquim Raimundo
  • Bernardo Cardoso

Locks

  • José Rebelo de Andrade
  • António Rebelo de Andrade
  • Pedro Herédia
  • Bernardo B. Cardoso
  • Simão Salgueiro
  • Manuel Bação
  • Luís Rodolfo
  • António Maria Andrade
Backrow
  • Francisco Cabral
  • Manuel Navalhinhas
  • João P. Fernandes
  • Francisco Uva
  • Diogo Sarmento
  • Vicente Guerra Pinto
  • Duarte Vasco Costa
  • João Louro
  • Francisco Piano Gonçalves
  • José Ramalho

Scrum-halves

  • Nicolas Herreros
  • João Bandeiras
  • Tomás Amado
  • Duarte Alves

Fly-halves

  • Hugo de Franq
  • Domingos Cabral
  • Simão Sousa
Centres
  • João Lima
  • Vasco Ribeiro
  • Vasco Leite
  • Armand Patricio
  • Sebastião Cardoso
  • José do Carmo Câmara
  • Bernardo Valente
  • Manuel Ramalho

Wingers

  • José Cortes Pena Monteiro
  • José Carmo Câmara
  • Vasco Câmara
  • António Pena Monteiro
  • Pedro Ribeiro
  • Rodrigo Castanheira
  • Eduardo Leite
  • Salvador Botelho
  • João Castro

Fullbacks

  • Manuel Cardoso Pinto
  • Gonçalo Vasco Costa
(c) denotes the team captain, Bold denotes internationally capped players.
  • denotes players qualified to play for Portugal on residency or dual nationality.

The Benfica squad for the 2024–25 Campeonato Nacional de Rugby season
Props
  • João Nobre
  • Márcio Pinheiro
  • André Antunes
  • Isaías Camará

Hookers

  • Luan Almeida
  • Jason Cornelius
  • Pedro Gouveia

Locks

  • Volodymyr Grikh
  • Lorenzo Palacio*
  • Philippe Couto*
  • Eurico Chichorro
Backrow
  • Frederico Couto
  • Giuseppe Piacenza
  • Manuel Fati
  • Frederico Silva
  • Tomás Picado
  • Pedro Ismael Tavares
  • Rui Duarte

Scrum-halves

  • Elliott Ryan
  • Tomás Boavida
  • Francisco Russo

Fly-halves

  • António Campos
  • Reymond Dorian
Centres
  • José Lima
  • Hayden Hann
  • Guilherme Vasconcelos
  • Francisco Bessa
  • Diogo Salgado
  • Rodrigo Urzay Soares

Wingers

  • Edgar Monteiro
  • José Miguel Carvalho
  • Harrison Stock
  • Diego Caeiro
  • Diogo Custódio
  • Felisbelo Vieira*
  • Zyad Al Achouni*

Fullbacks

  • José Rodrigues
  • Rodrigo Sampaio
(c) denotes the team captain, Bold denotes internationally capped players.
  • denotes players qualified to play for Portugal on residency or dual nationality.

The Direito squad for the 2024–25 Campeonato Nacional de Rugby season
Props
  • David Costa
  • António Prim
  • José Lupi
  • Giovanni Ramallo
  • Luis Lopes
  • Afonso Tapadinhas
  • Lourenço Moita
  • João Pissarra
  • Leandro Nunes

Hookers

  • Duarte Diniz
  • Afonso Bento

Locks

  • Duarte Torgal
  • João Vital
  • António Peixoto
  • Guilherme Valente
  • Pedro Ferreira
  • Luis Semedo
  • Henrique Cortes
  • Duarte Pedro Nunes
  • Guilherme Spratley
Backrow
  • Manuel Picão
  • João Granate
  • Pedro Afra Rosa
  • Nuno Peixoto
  • Mateus Ferreira
  • Sebastião Silva
  • Diogo Matos
  • Miguel Romero Rodrigues
  • Luis Pina
  • António Mello
  • Frederico Castello Branco

Scrum-halves

  • João Dias
  • Rafael Iriarte
  • António Amaral
  • Duarte Cortes

Fly-halves

  • Tomás Redondo
  • Francisco Teixeira
  • Nuno Rocha
Centres
  • José Maria Vareta
  • Francisco Nobre
  • João Afra Rosa
  • Manuel Reis

Wingers

  • Caetano Castelo Branco
  • José Ferreira
  • Francisco Afra Rosa
  • Duarte Portela
  • Duarte Matos
  • João Burnay
  • Ricardo Mieiro
  • Francisco Pinto
  • Martim Dias

Fullbacks

  • Manuel Vareiro
  • João Vaz Antunes
  • Frederico Roquette
(c) denotes the team captain, Bold denotes internationally capped players.
  • denotes players qualified to play for Portugal on residency or dual nationality.

The Cascais squad for the 2024–25 Campeonato Nacional de Rugby season
Props
  • Nuno Mascarenhas
  • Santiago Gramajo
  • Ignácio Urueña
  • Nicolas Griffiths
  • José Lavos
  • Duarte Conde
  • Pedro Lopes

Hookers

  • Santiago Lopes
  • José Martinez
  • Bernardo Gomes
  • Alexander Vieira
  • Gonçalo Marques

Locks

  • Martim Belo
  • Israel Parnas
  • Alexandre Fonseca Rodrigues
  • Manuel Barros
  • António Carvalho Martins
  • Luis Graça
  • João Cabaço
Backrow
  • Salvador Vassalo
  • Francisco Sousa
  • Sebastião Petronilho
  • Gonçalo Carvalho
  • Francisco Martins
  • Lourenço Durão
  • Dinis Pitta

Scrum-halves

  • Noah Nash
  • Duarte Cardoso
  • João Consciência
  • Francisco Carmona e Costa

Fly-halves

  • Santiago Jara
Centres
  • Gabriel Pop*
  • António Vidinha
  • Francisco Vassalo
  • Francisco C. Campos

Wingers

  • Vasco Durão
  • José Villar Gomes
  • António Sousa
  • Luis Ferros
  • Duarte Tavares

Fullbacks

  • Vasco Correia
  • Alfredo Almeida
(c) denotes the team captain, Bold denotes internationally capped players.
  • denotes players qualified to play for Portugal on residency or dual nationality.

The CDUL squad for the 2024–25 Campeonato Nacional de Rugby season
Props
  • Matheus Rocha
  • Miguel Vilaça
  • António Maltez
  • José Almeida
  • Gonçalo Madaleno
  • Gonçalo Alves
  • Manuel Magriço

Hookers

  • Duarte Foro
  • Francisco Pedro
  • Samuel Marques

Locks

  • Duarte Gil
  • Francisco Almeida
  • Rui Amador
  • Raul Conceição
  • Diogo D'Almeida
  • Domingos Gonçalves
Backrow
  • Vasco Baptista
  • José Roque
  • Ben Grant
  • Eduardo Queiroz
  • Afonso Sousa
  • Rodrigo Oliveira
  • Francisco Figueiredo
  • José Libano Monteiro
  • David Gracioso
  • Nuno Macedo
  • Eduardo Queiroz
  • Francisco Tavares

Scrum-halves

  • Francisco Magalhães
  • Vasco Félix António
  • Martim Domingues

Fly-halves

  • Nuno Penha Costa
  • Pedro Neiva Correia
  • António Nuncio
  • Faustino Gama
  • Pedro Anahory
  • Lourenço Cardoso
  • José Cerejo
Centres
  • Tomás Appleton
  • Francisco Appleton
  • Ignacio Albornoz
  • Nuno Macedo
  • Bernardo Matos
  • Martim Faro
  • Afonso Alvarez
  • Tomé Lobo

Wingers

  • Fabio Conceiçao
  • Tomás Noronha
  • Duarte Duarte
  • Bernardo Matos
  • João Cardoso
  • Hussein Sacoor
  • Guilherme Oliveira

Fullbacks

  • Jorge Abecasis
  • Shane Van Rooyen
  • Josh Honey
  • José Valadas
  • Pedro Roldão
  • Sebastião Stilwell
(c) denotes the team captain, Bold denotes internationally capped players.
  • denotes players qualified to play for Portugal on residency or dual nationality.

The Académica squad for the 2024–25 Campeonato Nacional de Rugby season
Props
  • Alexandre Alves
  • Niko Manaena
  • Afonso Machado
  • João Claúdio Dos Santos

Hookers

  • João Mateus
  • Ignacio Failla
  • João Aguiar

Locks

  • Sérgio Duarte Franco
  • Matheus Wolf
  • Diogo Paixão Santos
  • Jacques Van Aardt
  • Artur Lima
  • Gonçalo Costa
  • Daniel Almeida
  • Francisco Teles
Backrow
  • Francisco Silva
  • Eurico Leitão
  • Miguel André
  • Francisco Rovira
  • Miguel Prata
  • Lourenço Freitas
  • Afonso Cabral

Scrum-halves

  • Silvio Costa
  • José Fernandes

Fly-halves

  • Ceiza James
  • Nuno Cardoso
  • Tiago Girão
Centres
  • Moisés Duque
  • Marcus Arrindell
  • Francisco Migueis
  • Gonçalo Ramos
  • Nuno Fernandes

Wingers

  • João Diogo Silva
  • João Dinis
  • Edson Paulino
  • Afonso Monteiro
  • João Cunha
  • António Pinto Costa
  • Miguel Cristóvão
  • David Tender Gomes

Fullbacks

  • Nicolas Vega
  • Joaquim Couto
  • Tiago Pintão
(c) denotes the team captain, Bold denotes internationally capped players.
  • denotes players qualified to play for Portugal on residency or dual nationality.

The São Miguel squad for the 2024–25 Campeonato Nacional de Rugby season
Props
  • Robert Delai
  • Thomas Goyochea
  • Juninho Patricio
  • Pedro Botelho
  • Tiago Quitério

Hookers

  • Miguel Seoane

Locks

  • Felipe Rosa
  • Pedro Oliveira
  • Miguel Máximo
  • Simão Medeiro
Backrow
  • Sabata Mokhachane
  • Gonçalo Melo Ribeiro
  • Manuel de Almeida
  • Sebastião Petronilho

Scrum-halves

  • Lourenço Ribeiro

Fly-halves

  • Bader Pretorius
  • Agustin Altamirano
  • Francisco Teixeira
Centres
  • Ignácio Vega
  • Bright Matimba
  • Tomás Morais
  • Lourenço Chambel

Wingers

  • Allistair Mumba
  • Duarte Branquinho
  • Ricardo Rosa
  • Rivaldo Pinto
  • Leandro Ceita
  • Francisco Cardoso
  • Francisco Reis
  • João Ruivo
  • Jorge Anjinho

Fullbacks

  • Hugo Ruelle
  • Andrea Ragno
  • Miguel Martins
(c) denotes the team captain, Bold denotes internationally capped players.
  • denotes players qualified to play for Portugal on residency or dual nationality.

The RC Lousã squad for the 2024–25 Campeonato Nacional de Rugby season
Props
  • Yeray Pastoriza Carrasco
  • Nika Beroshvili
  • Mark Mammen
  • Paulo Marques
  • Bruno Pereira

Hookers

  • Scott Cunnigham
  • Rafael Pacurar

Locks

  • Ricardo Reis
  • Bruno Santos
  • Bruno Pinheiro
  • Diogo Forte
Backrow
  • Gonzalo Poblete
  • Augusto Andrade
  • José Caetano
  • Henrique Batista
  • Eduardo Heredia
  • João Barreto
  • Diogo Graça
  • Leonardo Pinto

Scrum-halves

  • Cirian Roberts
  • Pedro Dias dos Santos
  • Tomás Batista

Fly-halves

  • Bruno Balatti
Centres
  • Mika Zetzema
  • Agustín Alabos

Wingers

  • João Campos
  • Francisco Caetano
  • Gonçalo Graça
  • Diogo Santos

Fullbacks

  • Manuel Nogueira
  • Guilherme Costa
(c) denotes the team captain, Bold denotes internationally capped players.
  • denotes players qualified to play for Portugal on residency or dual nationality.

The CDUP squad for the 2024–25 Campeonato Nacional de Rugby season
Props
  • Tom Kaijaks
  • Ricardo Husgen Lanhoso
  • Bernardo Coelho
  • Diogo Amaro
  • Henrique Freitas

Hookers

  • Nuno Figueiredo
  • António Terroso

Locks

  • Gonçalo Seruca
  • Tiago Albuquerque
  • Rodrigo Mateus
  • Luis Moreira
  • Henrique Vieira
  • Gonçalo Santos
  • Afonso Santos
Backrow
  • Facundo Ojeda
  • Julien Adamski
  • João Duarte
  • António Pires
  • Henrique Santos
  • Vasco Sarmento

Scrum-halves

  • João Belo
  • Manuel Mendonça

Fly-halves

  • Tiago Rocha
  • Luis Agrelos
  • Bernardo Nogueira
Centres
  • Tomás Marrana
  • Miguel Trepa
  • Guilherme Brandão
  • Eduardo Moreira

Wingers

  • Rodrigo Gauna
  • Ihor Lutsenko
  • Salvador Cardoso
  • Lucas Velo
  • Afonso Aguiar
  • José Diogo

Fullbacks

(c) denotes the team captain, Bold denotes internationally capped players.
  • denotes players qualified to play for Portugal on residency or dual nationality.

The CR Técnico squad for the 2024–25 Campeonato Nacional de Rugby season
Props
  • André Arrojado
  • Diogo Teixeira
  • Gonçalo Costa
  • Vasco Tavares
  • João Lobo

Hookers

  • Rodrigo Bento
  • Afonso Cirilo
  • Manuel Barral

Locks

  • Guilherme Costa
  • Estevão Baltazar
  • Alexandre Rosário Silva
Backrow
  • José Guillen
  • Tomas Suárez
  • Agustin Arburua
  • Caio Almeida
  • Léon L'Huillier
  • Francisco Silva
  • João D'Orey
  • Pedro Nunes
  • Diogo Teixeira

Scrum-halves

  • Pedro Lucas
  • Francisco Pedro

Fly-halves

  • Conor Van Eden
  • Hugo Trigueiro
Centres
  • Alexis Delprat
  • Miguel Rosa
  • António Cardoso

Wingers

  • Rodrigo Henriques
  • Francisco Lacerda
  • Henrique Lacerda

Fullbacks

  • Manuel Vallêra
  • Francisco Vallêra
  • Nuno Fradinho
(c) denotes the team captain, Bold denotes internationally capped players.
  • denotes players qualified to play for Portugal on residency or dual nationality.

The RC Montemor squad for the 2024–25 Campeonato Nacional de Rugby season
Props
  • Franco Dellamea
  • Gerônimo Gomez
  • António Mendes
  • António Veiga Malta

Hookers

  • Fabian Contreras
  • Giorgi Tsverava

Locks

  • João Barbado
  • Manuel Marques dos Santos
  • António Mendes
  • João Potier
Backrow
  • José Pinto Gouveia
  • João Camelo
  • Luis Marques dos Santos
  • Pedro Silva Borges
  • Manuel Silva Borges
  • Miguel Cecilio
  • João Redondo

Scrum-halves

  • Afonso Antunes
  • Augusto Mira

Fly-halves

  • Miguel Casadinho
Centres
  • Pedro Silva Borges
  • Miguel Rosa
  • António Redondo

Wingers

  • Francisco Mira
  • Luis Santos Jorge
  • Gonçalo Silva
  • Pedro Tigre

Fullbacks

  • Agustín Iza
  • José Vacas de Carvalho
(c) denotes the team captain, Bold denotes internationally capped players.
  • denotes players qualified to play for Portugal on residency or dual nationality.

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Regulations of FPR.
  2. News: Format of Championship.
  3. News: Format of Championship.
  4. Web site: Regulamento Torneio Abertura 24/25 .
  5. Web site: Regulamento Geral 24/25 .
  6. Web site: Regulamento Torneio Abertura 24/25 .
  7. Web site: Regulamento CN Divisão de Honra 24/25 .
  8. News: Registered players on FPR.