2002 Taça de Portugal final

2002 Taça de Portugal final
Event	2001–02 Taça de Portugal
Date	12 May 2002
Venue	Estádio Nacional, Oeiras
Man of the Match	Rui Bento (Sporting CP)
Referee	Olegário Benquerença (Leiria)
Attendance	37,500
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The 2002 Taça de Portugal Final was the final match of the 2001–02 Taça de Portugal, the 62nd season of the Taça de Portugal, the premier Portuguese football cup competition organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The match was played on 12 May 2002 at the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, and opposed third division side Leixões and Sporting CP. Sporting CP defeated Leixões 1–0 to claim their thirteenth Taça de Portugal.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

As Sporting CP claimed both league and cup double in the same season, cup runners-up Leixões faced their cup final opponents in the 2002 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira at the Estádio do Bonfim in Setúbal.^[8]

Match

12 May 2002

17:00 WEST

Leixões	0–1	Sporting CP
	(Report)	Jardel 40'

Attendance: 37,500^[3]

Leixões

Sporting CP

2001–02 Taça de Portugal Winners
Sporting CP 13th Title

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Olegário Benquerença apita final" [Olegário Benquerença officiates final]. Record. 8 May 2002. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
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