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Rio Ave vs Alverca remains a closely balanced Primeira Liga matchup with no settled direction. Alverca won 2–1 away on 4 April 2026, while the teams drew 1–1 in Alverca on 8 November 2025. Rio Ave had won 1–0 at home on 24 November 2019, creating a compact set of contrasting outcomes. Future meetings can still shape the pairing’s identity.
Past matches, Rio Ave vs Alverca
Match center
Starting eleven
Substitutes Alverca
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8M
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91G
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26F
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24D
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18M
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17F
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11F
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9F
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27F
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93M
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7M
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4D
Rio Ave Substitutes
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G
22
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F
9
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F
80
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M
54
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D
60
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M
27
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M
19
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D
39
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F
17
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M
70
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F
21
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F
77
Match events
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3'⚽Dawda Camara Sankharé Normal Goal (Asst: Francisco Chiquinho)
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59'Marios Vrushai Pedro Amaral
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59'Sebastian Clemensen Roland Galcik
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68'André Vidigal Lucas Figueiredo dos Santos
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68'Vivaldo Semedo Dawda Camara Sankharé
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69'Malik Sellouki Miguel Patricío
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69'Tamble Ulisses Folgado Monteiro João Tomé Baptista
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69'Caike Lourenço Valença Tamas Nikitscher
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74'Matheus Franca Francisco Chiquinho
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84'Yaya Bojang Francisco Chissumba
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84'Zé Rafael Rayan Lucas
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87'Simón García Yellow Card
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88'Davy Gui Yellow Card
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90' +3André Vidigal Yellow Card
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90' +5Francisco Petrasso Yellow Card
Stats for this game
Matchup Rio Ave VS Alverca
The pairing is still taking shape
The clearest competitive evidence points in different directions. Rio Ave won 1–0 at home on 24 November 2019, the teams drew 1–1 in Alverca on 8 November 2025, and Alverca then won 2–1 away on 4 April 2026. Those scorelines show neither club holding a dependable advantage beyond a single setting. The matchup is therefore better understood as open than as a settled hierarchy.
Alverca have the clearest counterpoint
Alverca’s away victory gives them the strongest clear indication, but it does not erase Rio Ave’s home success or the intervening draw. The balance remains grounded in a few contrasting meetings, so broad conclusions should stay measured. Future encounters will ask whether Rio Ave can restore home control and whether Alverca can turn their away response into a durable direction. The unresolved shape is what makes this fixture worth following. That balance remains deliberately unresolved.
Past head to head stats
Rio Ave VS Alverca
Balance Wins - Draws - Losses over time
Points per match over time
Comparison between the 2 teams for the last 5 games
Rio Ave VS Alverca
Head-to-Head History
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