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Top sports media in Portugal

The outlets that cover sport in Portugal — the sports press, the broadcasters, the agencies and the specialist titles.
✓ Last reviewed: September 2026

These are the outlets that cover sport in Portugal — the sports press, the broadcasters that hold or have held rights, the national news agency where it carries sport, and the specialist titles of national standing. Single-sport titles without national standing are not listed here; they appear on the media list for their own sport.

How this list is ordered. By role and national standing — the sports press first, then the broadcasters that hold or have held rights, then the national news agency and the specialist titles. That order is set once and stays put, so a page that has been cited does not rearrange itself later. The Tranco figure against each outlet is shown for reference and does not set the order. Tranco is a research ranking of web domains that averages the Chrome User Experience Report, Cloudflare Radar, Majestic, Cisco Umbrella and Farsight over the preceding 30 days, on the list of September 2026. It ranks a whole domain, not a sports desk. A general daily's rank counts every reader it has, most of whom did not come for sport, so a national newspaper will sit above a dedicated sports title that has more sports readers than it does. Some outlets carry no Tranco figure at all. Tranco ranks registrable domains, so a sports desk published on a subdomain cannot appear in it whatever its readership, and a smaller national outlet may sit outside the top million. Those are marked below.

1. RTPBroadcaster · Television · Tranco 13,024 — Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, S. A., the public radio and television concessionaire, whose share capital is held in full by the Portuguese State; free-to-air partner for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. 2. Sport TVBroadcaster · Television · Tranco 208,309 — Subscription sports television channels that date themselves to 1998; ECO reported in 2025 that most Liga Portugal Betclic matches are shown on Sport TV and that NOS holds 25 per cent of the company. 3. A BolaSpecialist title · Newspaper · Tranco 2,265 — Daily sports newspaper, website and television brand published by Sociedade Vicra Desportiva, S. A., whose shareholder is RSMG AG; Ringier completed the acquisition in July 2023. 4. LusaNews agency · News agency · Tranco 151,407 — Lusa – Agência de Notícias de Portugal, S. A., the national news agency, wholly owned by the Portuguese State; it runs a Desporto section and covers sport under its public-service contract for 2022–2027. 5. Canal 11Broadcaster · Television · not in the Tranco top million — Television channel of the Federação Portuguesa de Futebol, described by UEFA as the first operated by a UEFA member association; it shows women’s football, futsal, youth and non-professional competitions.