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Big Three (Portugal)
The Big Three (Portuguese: Os Três Grandes) is the nickname of the three most successful and biggest football clubs in Portugal. The teams of Benfica, Sporting CP, both from Lisbon, and Porto, from the city of the same name, have a great rivalry and are usually the main contenders for the Primeira Liga title.
They share all but two of the Portuguese Football Championships ever played, and generally end up sharing the top three positions. None of them has been relegated from the Primeira Liga either, having been participants in all editions since its first season in 1934–35. Benfica's lowest position was 6th out of 18 in 2000–01, while Porto's 9th-place finish out of 14 in 1969–70 is the closest any of the three sides have come to relegation. Sporting's worst finish was a 7th-place finish out of 16 in 2012–13.
Benfica and Porto are the only Portuguese teams to have won the European Cup/UEFA Champions League, which they have both won on two occasions. The closest Sporting came was in 1983, when they reached the quarter-finals.
The only two clubs outside the Big Three to have won the Portuguese league are Belenenses, in the 1945–46 season, and Boavista, in the 2000–01 campaign. Belenenses has been relegated four times to the second tier, while Boavista has been in the third tier twice, and then, after economic problems, both had to start over in their district leagues (Lisbon and Porto, respectively).
In this trio of rivalry between fans, popular terms and nicknames were created to identify them and their clubs. Benfica fans are known as "benfiquistas" and "encarnados" ("reds"), but their bitter rivals call them "lampiões". Sporting fans, "sportinguistas" and "leões" ("lions"), are called "lagartos" ("lizards"),, while FC Porto supporters, "portistas" or "dragões ("dragons"), are nicknamed "andrades" and "tripeiros", despite the latter nickname also including people from Porto but who are fans of any other club (including Benfica and Sporting CP).
Being the most popular and regular winners of the Primeira Liga, the Big Three have achieved such hegemony that the vast majority of Portuguese fans support one of them, relegating the local team to second place.
Thus, The Big Three have the highest average attendance each season in the Primeira Liga, while the other teams, without the support of the local population, have suffered from poor attendances (with the exception of Vitória de Guimarães, the only other team with an average attendance higher than the Primeira Liga's average attendance), partly due to the monopoly of the Big Three.
The Portuguese press, often accused of failing to fulfil any criteria of equality with the other clubs in the league who are constantly snubbed, is another reason often given for the majority of the Portuguese population to support one of these three teams based in Lisbon and Porto to the detriment of the team based in their own city.
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Big Three (Portugal)
The Big Three (Portuguese: Os Três Grandes) is the nickname of the three most successful and biggest football clubs in Portugal. The teams of Benfica, Sporting CP, both from Lisbon, and Porto, from the city of the same name, have a great rivalry and are usually the main contenders for the Primeira Liga title.
They share all but two of the Portuguese Football Championships ever played, and generally end up sharing the top three positions. None of them has been relegated from the Primeira Liga either, having been participants in all editions since its first season in 1934–35. Benfica's lowest position was 6th out of 18 in 2000–01, while Porto's 9th-place finish out of 14 in 1969–70 is the closest any of the three sides have come to relegation. Sporting's worst finish was a 7th-place finish out of 16 in 2012–13.
Benfica and Porto are the only Portuguese teams to have won the European Cup/UEFA Champions League, which they have both won on two occasions. The closest Sporting came was in 1983, when they reached the quarter-finals.
The only two clubs outside the Big Three to have won the Portuguese league are Belenenses, in the 1945–46 season, and Boavista, in the 2000–01 campaign. Belenenses has been relegated four times to the second tier, while Boavista has been in the third tier twice, and then, after economic problems, both had to start over in their district leagues (Lisbon and Porto, respectively).
In this trio of rivalry between fans, popular terms and nicknames were created to identify them and their clubs. Benfica fans are known as "benfiquistas" and "encarnados" ("reds"), but their bitter rivals call them "lampiões". Sporting fans, "sportinguistas" and "leões" ("lions"), are called "lagartos" ("lizards"),, while FC Porto supporters, "portistas" or "dragões ("dragons"), are nicknamed "andrades" and "tripeiros", despite the latter nickname also including people from Porto but who are fans of any other club (including Benfica and Sporting CP).
Being the most popular and regular winners of the Primeira Liga, the Big Three have achieved such hegemony that the vast majority of Portuguese fans support one of them, relegating the local team to second place.
Thus, The Big Three have the highest average attendance each season in the Primeira Liga, while the other teams, without the support of the local population, have suffered from poor attendances (with the exception of Vitória de Guimarães, the only other team with an average attendance higher than the Primeira Liga's average attendance), partly due to the monopoly of the Big Three.
The Portuguese press, often accused of failing to fulfil any criteria of equality with the other clubs in the league who are constantly snubbed, is another reason often given for the majority of the Portuguese population to support one of these three teams based in Lisbon and Porto to the detriment of the team based in their own city.