The Taça da Liga (pronounced: [ˈtasɐ dɐ ˈliɣɐ] is a competition organized by the Portuguese League for Professional Football started in the 2007–08 football season. For the first three seasons it was known as Carlsberg Cup for sponsorship reasons. It was proposed by Sporting Clube de Portugal and Boavista in 2006 and approved by all clubs from the Portuguese professional leagues in a meeting in Porto on 28 November 2006. All teams of the two levels of professional football, Primeira Liga and Liga de Honra, participate in this competition. Most of the clubs take the chance to rotate their main squad and also give opportunities to the youngsters. The current holder is Sport Lisboa e Benfica, who defeated Gil Vicente 2–1.

The Taça da Liga saw changes in its format since the debut season in order to increase the number of matches and also incomes for both clubs and league. For the 2010–11 season, the approved format is the following:

This adopted format results in 67 matches being played.

Gil Vicente (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʒiɫ viˈsẽtɨ]; c.1465 – c. 1536), called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus,"^[3] often referred to as the "Father of Portuguese drama" and as one of Western literature's greatest playwrights.^[1] Vicente worked in Portuguese as much as he worked in Spanish^[3] and is thus, with Juan del Encina, considered joint-father of Spanish drama.

Vicente was attached to the courts of the Portuguese kings Manuel I and John III. He rose to prominence as a playwright largely on account of the influence of Queen Dowager Leonor, who noticed him as he participated in court dramas and subsequently commissioned him to write his first theatrical work.

He may also have been identical to an accomplished goldsmith of the same name,^[2] creator of the famous monstrance of Belém, and master of rhetoric of King Manuel I.

His plays and poetry, written in both Portuguese and Spanish, were a reflection of the changing times during the transition from Middle Ages to Renaissance and created a balance between the former time of rigid mores and hierarchical social structure and the new society in which this order was undermined.