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Porto First Half Goals

In 178 Liga Portugal matches, 75.8% of Porto’s first halves produced a goal, 4th of the 24 published clubs in the division. They scored before halftime in 65.7% of them and conceded in 27.0%.

What Porto’s first halves look like

Early scoring in Porto’s matches is overwhelmingly their own: the net bulges at the right end before the break in 65.7% of matches and at the wrong one in 27.0%, 38.7pp apart. Home advantage arrives early for Porto: they open the scoring account before halftime in 73.0% of home matches and only 58.4% of away ones, 14.6pp between them.

Travel costs Porto at the back: 33.7% of their away matches bring an early goal against, next to 20.2% of home ones. Only 3 published Liga Portugal clubs beat Porto for the share of their first halves that produce a goal.

A goal arrives before halftime in 75.8% of Porto’s Liga Portugal matches. The Liga Portugal figure is 69.0%, so they clear their own division by a wide 6.8pp. The other 24.2% end level and goalless. There is more record to read here than for most of the division: 178 matches against a typical 144.

Every figure on this page rests on 178 completed Porto matches over 6 seasons (2021 to 2026). That is enough to separate a clear tendency from noise, and not enough to split it much further by venue or opponent.

Porto first-half profile

Porto first-half goal rates
A goal before halftime (over 0.5)75.8%
Two or more (over 1.5)38.8%
Three or more (over 2.5)12.4%
Average first-half goals in their matches1.29
Matches in which they scored before halftime65.7%
Matches in which they conceded before halftime27.0%
First-half goals scored per match0.95
First-half goals conceded per match0.34
Matches counted178
Seasons covered6 (2021 to 2026)

The over rows count goals by either side; the scored and conceded rows split that between them.

Home and away

Porto first-half rates by venue
VenueOver 0.5Over 1.5ScoredConcededAvg goalsMatches
Home78.7%37.1%73.0%20.2%1.3389
Away73.0%40.4%58.4%33.7%1.2589

Porto score before halftime 73.0% of the time at home against 58.4% away, a gap of 14.6pp. Each row rests only on the matches played at that venue, so read them as two separate samples rather than one split in half.

Porto against Liga Portugal

Porto compared with the Liga Portugal average
LinePortoLiga PortugalDifference
Over 0.575.8%69.0%+6.8pp
Over 1.538.8%33.8%+5.0pp
Over 2.512.4%11.7%+0.7pp

Counted from 178 matches · 6 seasons · 2021 to 2026.

How to read these numbers

  • These are historical rates over pooled seasons, not a forecast. A club that has changed manager, division or squad reads as the average of every version of itself on record.
  • The opponent matters as much as the club. A high-scoring side against a defense that rarely concedes early is a different fixture from the same side against one that does.

For the model’s estimate of an actual upcoming fixture rather than this club’s history, see first half goals predictions and how the model works.

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First Half Score is a research and information tool. Predictions and historical hit rates are provided for informational purposes only and are not financial, investment, or betting advice. Outcomes are uncertain and no figure guarantees a result. Intended for users 18+.