2026/2027 season

Primeira Liga

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Gil Vicente FC
Head coach: Luís Pinto · 4-3-3
Rank
8th
Pts
11
P
7
Form
🟡 Average

The essentials at a glance

The summary of this page: estimated level of play, form trend and qualitative verdict. For the details, head to the other tabs.

Editors' ratings
3/10
Attack
9/10
Defence
3/10
Form
2/10
Confidence / mood
Current risk:High

8th with 11 pts from 7 matches: 3 wins, 2 draws, 2 defeats.

6 goals scored, 5 conceded.

Gil Vicente announced the renewal of Tidjany Touré's contract. The French extreme extended the contractual bond for two more seasons, until 2029, with the emblem of Barcelos.

zerozero · 17 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Gil Vicente assured with difficulty the continuity in the Portuguese Cup of football, requiring the extension to defeat the Union of Santarém, League 3, by 3-2, in the third round.

RTP Desporto · 15 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

After a night of much suffering, Gil Vicente managed to eliminate the Union of Santarém, League 3, in the extension disputed in Ribatejo. Zé Carlos, at 109 minutes, saved the first-ranking team and placed the roosters in the next round.

zerozero · 14 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

How the team has played recently

Match-by-match results, record and rhythm of the current season.

Latest matches
Wvs Moreirense FC (A) · 1-0
Dvs CS Marítimo (H) · 1-1
Lvs Sport Lisboa e Benfica (A) · 1-3
Lvs Académico de Viseu FC (H) · 0-1
Dvs FC Famalicão (A) · 0-0
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6 scored / 5 conceded over 7 matches played
Rest: 9 days since the last match · 1 match played in the last 15 days
Home form
2W - 1D - 1L
Away form
1W - 1D - 1L
Statistics

Computed from this season's scores, every time the page is shown.

Goals scored per match
0.6
Goals conceded per match
1.0
At home
1 scored · 2 conceded in 2 matches
Away
2 scored · 3 conceded in 3 matches
Over 2.5 goals
1 of 5
Both teams score
2 of 5
Clean sheets
2 of 5
Failed to score
2 of 5
Cumulative points vs league average

Not enough matchdays recorded yet for this curve — history builds up with every standings refresh.

How Gil Vicente FC play

System, playing identity, and what sets the team apart at both ends of the pitch.

Playing identity
Preferred system
4-3-3
Philosophy
Luís Pinto places the emphasis on the process rather than on the result alone: after the 2nd consecutive win, he stated “dois jogos a vencer, a marcar e sem sofrer é bom”, while pointing out that the group's development trajectory mattered more than the league table at this stage (maisfutebol.iol.pt, 24/08/2026).
Attacking strengths
3 goals scored in 3 matchdays played (1 goal/match), with Gil Martins and Héctor Hernández on the scoresheet against Casa Pia (2-0, including a penalty) and Héctor Hernández already having scored 2 penalty goals as of 09/08 according to Maisfutebol.
Defensive solidity
0 goals conceded in 3 matchdays (1-0 against Rio Ave on 09/08, 2-0 against Casa Pia on 24/08, 0-0 at Famalicão on 28-31/08 according to the factual context provided) — the best defence in the league on this sample (Flashscore, table read on 01/09/2026). Luís Pinto himself highlighted this solidity: “dois jogos a vencer, a marcar e sem sofrer é bom” (maisfutebol.iol.pt, 24/08/2026).
Pressing
Transitions
StrengthWatertight defence: 3 clean sheets in 3 matchdays played. Midfielder Gil Martins praised by his head coach for his ability to play between the lines while maintaining the team's defensive compactness (maisfutebol.iol.pt, 24/08/2026). Signing of goalkeeper Samuel Portugal announced by the club (official statement, headlined “Samuel Portugal é reforço para a baliza”, seen on gilvicentefc.pt).
WeaknessLimited attacking output (3 goals in 3 matchdays) and a disrupted fixture list: the match against SC Braga was postponed (club communication on ticket refunds, seen on gilvicentefc.pt), which explains why Gil Vicente have played only 3 of the first 4 matchdays. The fixture against Rio Ave (1-0, 09/08) was also marked by a red card that split the match into two distinct phases, according to Luís Pinto himself.

The mood around the club, and who is missing

Internal climate, relationship with the supporters, and known absences before the next match.

Mood
Squad confidence
The start of the season is excellent in points and defensive terms: seven points from three matchdays played and no goals conceded, which is the league's best defence over that sample. Luís Pinto keeps stressing the process rather than the table, while benefiting from a solid base around Gil Martins and Héctor Hernández. The window did, however, move a great deal in its closing hours, with Facundo Cáseres leaving for Mexico and Ghislain Konan for England, partly offset by the agreement reached with Flamengo for young Guilherme Gomes. Keeping Santi García, after negotiations with Anderlecht broke down, is the week's best news on the pitch.
Coach / players / board relationship
Luís Pinto embraces management on merit, illustrated from matchday 1 by starting Gil Martins (“he was given nothing, he earned it”). With his board, the relationship appears functional: the club resisted Anderlecht over Santi García by refusing to go below the €11m to €12m asked, while agreeing to sell Facundo Cáseres for around €3m to Santos Laguna and to let Ghislain Konan join Wolverhampton. Signing low-cost young profiles, such as Guilherme Gomes bought at 70% for around €400,000, matches the business model Barcelos claims. The club also continues to rely on loans from bigger clubs, such as Diogo Prioste, who arrived from Benfica.
Mood with the supporters
An incident targeted travelling Gil Vicente supporters on the evening of 31 August 2026 (matchday 4): according to Jornal O Minho — the only source found despite several cross-checked searches, so the information must be treated with that reservation — coaches carrying adeptos gilistas were targeted by stone-throwing at around 11pm, in a tunnel on Avenida Marechal Humberto Delgado in Famalicão, on leaving the 0-0 draw. Windows were smashed, the supporters had to evacuate the vehicles for safety, and the PSP recorded the incident; the identity of the perpetrators is not specified in the article. No data on socios numbers or attendance at the Estádio Cidade de Barcelos was found for 2026/27.
Pressure on the head coach
No public questioning of his position: Luís Pinto is under contract until June 2029 according to BeSoccer.com (date of appointment not confirmed by a second source at this stage).
Club objectives
The objective Luís Pinto states is to match or better last season, ended in sixth place on 50 points under César Peixoto, by going for the win in every match. The start of the campaign points that way, with seven points and three clean sheets, but the schedule remains out of step because of the postponed match against SC Braga. Hosting Académico de Viseu on Sunday night is the chance to consolidate a place in the top half. Structurally, the challenge is to make up for the summer's sales by settling the young signings quickly, Guilherme Gomes first among them.
Recent internal tensions
No internal tension reported at this stage.
Absences
InjuredArthur Tchaptchet — Injury sustained in training; an absence of several months mentioned by Luís Pinto, who praised the young player's “incredible potential” and “above-average” physical capabilities (maisfutebol.iol.pt, 24/08/2026).

Before kick-off

What to know before the next match: statistical form, qualitative analysis, and a computed estimate of the 1/X/2 probabilities.

Next match

SC Braga — Gil Vicente FC

AwayMonday 19 October at 21:15Matchday 2
It's tomorrow. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

Prediction, odds and form of both teams →

What the press says

No preview found for this fixture. The press mostly covers the big games, and usually the day before.

Prediction
EstimateSC Braga — Gil Vicente FC
36 %
1 · SC Braga
31 %
X · draw
33 %
2 · Gil Vicente FC
In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 7 matches played by SC Braga, 7 matches by Gil Vicente FC. Confidence: medium
The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures
  1. League average. 195 goals scored over 142 team-matches played (18 teams taken into account), i.e. μ = 1.37 goal scored per team per match. This is the reference point: everything that follows is expressed relative to it.
  2. Attacking and defensive strengths. Goals scored (or conceded) per match, divided by μ. 1.00 = exactly average; in defence, above 1.00 means “concedes more than average”.
    TeamGoalsRawKept
    SC Braga — attack8 in 7 matches0.830.91
    SC Braga — defence8 in 7 matches0.830.91
    Gil Vicente FC — attack6 in 7 matches0.620.80
    Gil Vicente FC — defence5 in 7 matches0.520.74
    The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.54 for SC Braga and 0.54 for Gil Vicente FC. The rest of the weight goes to the league average. This is what stops a lone 5-0 from producing an attack at 3.3 times the average — and hence a 95% probability.
  3. Home advantage (γ). Measured on the league itself: 1.20 goal scored on average by the host against 1.49 by the visitor, over the 45 fixtures present in each team's last 5 matches. Raw ratio 0.81; shrunk towards 1 (weight 0.43, on the log of the ratio) then capped at 1.25 → γ = 1.00. Shrinkage goes towards 1, i.e. no advantage at all: while the sample is small, the model does not assert a home advantage it cannot measure.
  4. Venue correction, specific to each team. Drawn from the home/away split: points per match at the venue concerned are compared to points per match over all fixtures, with stronger shrinkage (weight = P / (P + 8)) and a bound of ±12%.
    SC Braga at home: 2.00 pts/match versus 1.57 overall over 3 matches → ×1.074
    Gil Vicente FC away: 1.33 pts/match versus 1.57 overall over 3 matches → ×0.959
  5. Expected goals. One side's attack is set against the other's defence. γ applies to the host only: applying it the other way round too would count the home advantage twice.
    λSC Braga = 1.37 × 0.91 × 0.74 × 1.00 × 1.074 = 1.00
    λGil Vicente FC = 1.37 × 0.80 × 0.91 × 0.959 = 0.96
  6. Poisson grid. Probability of every exact score from 0-0 to 8-8, assuming the two goal totals are independent, then adding up the cells: home win 35.4%, draw 31.3%, away win 33.3% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 0-0 (only 14.2%, which says enough about how unpredictable an exact score is).
Limits of this model — they are not anecdotal.
  • It only knows goals and a venue. Neither absences, suspensions, line-ups, fatigue, stakes, weather nor club context enter the calculation — while the other tabs of this page show that they matter.
  • The assumption that the two goal totals are independent is false in reality: it slightly underestimates tight scores, hence the draw.
  • γ is measured over a rolling window (each team's last 5 matches), not over the whole season.
  • The shrinkage constants (6, 60, 8) and the bounds are choices, not measurements. They were tuned to be cautious early in the season; they were not calibrated on a results history, as none is available here.
  • No after-the-fact evaluation has been made: at this stage, nobody knows whether this model is better or worse calibrated than another.
What other sources say
No external source has been collected for this match. That is the normal state: readings are taken by hand, and an empty box is better than an unverified figure.
This block shows probability estimates, not predictions, and carries no advisory value. The in-house estimate is the result of a formula applied to a small sample; the figures from external sources are reproduced as they were collected, without their method having been verified.

The full squad

The professional squad by position, captain marked with an armband.

Goalkeepers
  • Lucão
  • Samuel Portugal
  • André Picornell
  • Tiago Ferreira
Defenders
  • Jonathan Buatu
  • Marvin Elimbi
  • Ricardo Esgaio
  • Antonio Espigares
  • Weverson
  • David Moreira
  • José Silva
  • Arthur Tchaptchet
Midfielders
  • Santi García
  • F. Cáseres
  • Andreas Lausen
  • Diogo Prioste
  • Zé Carlos
  • A. Bamba
  • M. Fernández
  • Gil Martins
  • G. Pereira
Forwards
  • Murilo de Souza
  • Joelson Fernandes
  • Héctor Hernández
  • A. Moreira
  • Sergio Bermejo
  • Tidjany Touré
  • Carlos Eduardo
  • Bassco Soyer
  • Walace França
  • M. Kaba
This team's current captain could not be confirmed with certainty at the last check — no armband is shown above until the information is reliable.
Squad last verified on 1 Sep 2026 — source: BeSoccer.com, cross-checked with Worldfootball.net and Maisfutebol for players mentioned in matches; captain not identified in these sources.

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss17 Oct 2026
Gil Vicente renews with French extreme until 2029
Source: zerozero
rss8 Oct 2026
Luís Pinto promises Gil's most effective team Vicente in front of Moreirense
Source: Notícias ao Minuto — Desporto
rss9 Oct 2026
Gil Vicente beats Moreirense with penalti at 90 minutes
Source: Notícias ao Minuto — Desporto
rss5 Oct 2026
Ricardo Esgaio perentory: "Gil Vicente is not a step back"
Source: Notícias ao Minuto — Desporto
rss15 Oct 2026
Gil Vicente suffers to eliminate Santarém Union of the Cup of Portugal
Source: Notícias ao Minuto — Desporto
rss15 Oct 2026
Cup of Portugal. Gil Vicente suffers to eliminate Santarém Union
Source: RTP Desporto
Transfers3 Sep 2026
Ivorian left-back Ghislain Konan has left Gil Vicente for Wolverhampton, where he rejoins César Peixoto, his former head coach at Barcelos. After a season and 31 appearances, he published a farewell message: “I will always keep an excellent memory of this experience and I wish Gil Vicente all the best.”
Source: A Bola
Club3 Sep 2026
On 7 points, Gil Vicente settle into the top half of the table after four matchdays.
Source: Maisfutebol
Transfers2 Sep 2026
Gil Vicente have reached an agreement with Flamengo for creative Brazilian midfielder Guilherme Gomes, 20: the Barcelos club acquires 70% of the economic rights for around €400,000, with a further option of 15% for €100,000. Having joined Flamengo in 2022, the player has three first-team appearances and 18 matches with the under-23s this season, for 3 goals and 5 assists.
Source: A Bola
Transfers2 Sep 2026
Argentine holding midfielder Facundo Cáseres, 25, leaves Barcelos for Santos Laguna, in Mexico, for around €3m. He was starting his third season at the club, having arrived from Farense. He is the second Gil Vicente midfielder to join the Mexican league this season, after Luís Esteves, who went to Atlas.
Source: A Bola
Other2 Sep 2026
Pedro Ramalho has been appointed to referee Gil Vicente v Académico de Viseu, with Hélder Malheiro on VAR.
Source: Maisfutebol
Transfers1 Sep 2026
Santi García's transfer to Anderlecht has ultimately fallen through: after several weeks of negotiations, the Belgians would not meet the €11m to €12m Gil Vicente were asking. The 25-year-old Spanish midfielder, who arrived from Getafe in 2024-25 and wears number 10, has 66 matches for the Galos and therefore stays at the club.
Source: A Bola
Result30 Aug 2026
Gil Vicente took a point from their trip to Famalicão (0-0) on matchday 4.
Source: Campeonatos Internacionais
Club27 Aug 2026
Gil Vicente host Académico de Viseu on Sunday at 20:30 at the Estádio Cidade de Barcelos, closing the weekend's matchday.
Source: A Bola
Club24 Aug 2026
Gil Vicente beat Casa Pia 2-0 at home on 24 August 2026: Gil Martins opened the scoring (20th minute, from a Héctor Hernández assist) before the latter converted a penalty just before half-time, awarded for a handball by Luís Ofori. Casa Pia thus suffered a 3rd consecutive defeat without scoring, having conceded 10 goals over that period according to Maisfutebol.
Source: Maisfutebol (IOL)
Club24 Aug 2026
After this 2nd consecutive win without conceding, Luís Pinto said he was satisfied (“dois jogos a vencer, a marcar e sem sofrer é bom”) while insisting that the team's development process mattered more than the result alone. He also confirmed a lengthy spell out for the young Arthur Tchaptchet, injured in training.
Source: Maisfutebol (IOL)
News last verified on 17 Oct 2026. Sources: sports press (L'Équipe, Le Parisien, Foot Mercato, regional press…) and official club websites — see the link on each item.
Editorial content (playing style, mood, absences, external prediction sources) last verified on 3 Sep 2026. The standings/form data above are refreshed automatically — as is the 1/X/2 estimate, recomputed on every view.