# 2017–18 LPB season

The 2017–18 LPB season was the 85th season of the premier Portuguese basketball league and the tenth season under the current Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol (LPB) format. For sponsorship reasons, the league was also known as Liga Placard.
Benfica played as defending champions but were eliminated in the semi-finals by Porto, who in turn lost 3–0 in the final to Oliveirense, who won their first league title.

## Format

The competition format consisted of two stages: a regular season, comprising two phases, and the play-offs. In the first phase of the regular season, the twelve participating teams compete against each other in a double round-robin system, with home and away matches.
The second phase of the regular season comprised two groups; the six best-ranked teams at the end of the first phase competed in Group A, and the remaining six teams competed in Group B. Again, teams in each group competed against each other in a double round-robin system, with home and away matches. The six Group A teams and the two best-ranked Group B teams qualified for the play-offs, while the two worst-ranked teams in Group B were relegated to the second-tier Proliga.
The play-offs were disputed as a single-elimination tournament, with fixtures determined by each team's classification in the previous round, and comprise three knockout rounds (quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals) played in a best-of-five system.

## Teams

| Team | City | Venue |
| Barreirense Dif Broker | Barreiro | Luís de Carvalho |
| Benfica | Lisbon | Pavilhão Fidelidade |
| CAB Madeira | Funchal, Madeira | Pavilhão do CAB |
| Eléctrico Tekever | Ponte de Sôr | Municipal |
| Galitos Barreiro | Barreiro | Luís Carvalho |
| Illiabum | Ílhavo | Capitão Adriano Nordeste |
| Lusitânia | Angra do Heroísmo, Azores | Municipal |
| Oliveirense | Oliveira de Azeméis | Dr. Salvador Machado |
| Ovarense Dolce Vita | Ovar | Arena Dolce Vita |
| Porto | Porto | Dragão Caixa |
| Terceira | Angra do Heroísmo, Azores | |
| Vitória de Guimarães | Guimarães | Pavilhão do Vitória S.C. |

## First phase
### League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Benfica | 22 | 19 | 3 | 2019 | 1719 | +300 | 41 | Qualification to Group A |
| 2 | Oliveirense | 22 | 18 | 4 | 1899 | 1620 | +279 | 40 | Qualification to Group A |
| 3 | Porto | 22 | 17 | 5 | 1980 | 1697 | +283 | 39 | Qualification to Group A |
| 4 | CAB Madeira | 22 | 13 | 9 | 1854 | 1813 | +41 | 35 | Qualification to Group A |
| 5 | Vitória de Guimarães | 22 | 12 | 10 | 1907 | 1917 | −10 | 34 | Qualification to Group A |
| 6 | Illiabum | 22 | 11 | 11 | 1823 | 1811 | +12 | 33 | Qualification to Group A |
| 7 | Ovarense Dolce Vita | 22 | 10 | 12 | 1717 | 1715 | +2 | 32 | Qualification to Group B |
| 8 | Galitos | 22 | 9 | 13 | 1692 | 1723 | −31 | 31 | Qualification to Group B |
| 9 | Terceira | 22 | 9 | 13 | 1693 | 1830 | −137 | 31 | Qualification to Group B |
| 10 | Lusitânia | 22 | 8 | 14 | 1867 | 1967 | −100 | 30 | Qualification to Group B |
| 11 | Barreirense Dif Broker | 22 | 3 | 19 | 1732 | 1969 | −237 | 25 | Qualification to Group B |
| 12 | Eléctrico Tekever | 22 | 3 | 19 | 1607 | 2009 | −402 | 25 | Qualification to Group B |

## Second stage
### Group 1–6

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Oliveirense | 32 | 27 | 5 | 2793 | 2409 | +384 | 59 | Qualification to playoffs |
| 2 | Benfica | 32 | 26 | 6 | 2904 | 2522 | +382 | 58 | Qualification to playoffs |
| 3 | Porto | 32 | 24 | 8 | 2908 | 2564 | +344 | 56 | Qualification to playoffs |
| 4 | CAB Madeira | 32 | 16 | 16 | 2648 | 2680 | −32 | 48 | Qualification to playoffs |
| 5 | Vitória de Guimarães | 32 | 15 | 17 | 2809 | 2835 | −26 | 47 | Qualification to playoffs |
| 6 | Illiabum | 32 | 12 | 20 | 2622 | 2769 | −147 | 44 | Qualification to playoffs |

### Group 7–12

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Galitos | 32 | 16 | 16 | 2511 | 2457 | +54 | 48 | Qualification to playoffs |
| 2 | Lusitânia | 32 | 16 | 16 | 2709 | 2739 | −30 | 48 | Qualification to playoffs |
| 3 | Ovarense Dolce Vita | 32 | 16 | 16 | 2495 | 2461 | +34 | 48 | |
| 4 | Terceira | 32 | 14 | 18 | 2431 | 2598 | −167 | 46 | |
| 5 | Barreirense Dif Broker (R) | 32 | 5 | 27 | 2470 | 2762 | −292 | 37 | Relegation to Proliga |
| 6 | Eléctrico Tekever (R) | 32 | 5 | 27 | 2322 | 2826 | −504 | 37 | Relegation to Proliga |

## Playoffs

Seeded teams played games 1, 2 and 5 at home.
| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Oliveirense | Oliveirense | Oliveirense | 103 | 88 | 84 | | | | | | |
| Lusitânia | Lusitânia | Lusitânia | 94 | 66 | 48 | | | | | | |
| Lusitânia | Lusitânia | Lusitânia | 94 | 66 | 48 | Oliveirense | Oliveirense | Oliveirense | 82 | 99 | 83 |
| | | | | | | Vitória de Guimarães | Vitória de Guimarães | Vitória de Guimarães | 70 | 68 | 63 |
| CAB Madeira | 89 | 84 | 104 | 76 | 86 | Vitória de Guimarães | Vitória de Guimarães | Vitória de Guimarães | 70 | 68 | 63 |
| Vitória de Guimarães | 87 | 86 | 100 | 89 | 94 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Vitória de Guimarães | 87 | 86 | 100 | 89 | 94 | | | | | | | Oliveirense | Oliveirense | Oliveirense | 83 | 94 | 93 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Porto | Porto | Porto | 70 | 83 | 69 |
| Benfica | Benfica | Benfica | 88 | 75 | 98 | | | | | | | Porto | Porto | Porto | 70 | 83 | 69 |
| Galitos | Galitos | Galitos | 84 | 72 | 71 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Galitos | Galitos | Galitos | 84 | 72 | 71 | Benfica | 79 | 77 | 96 | 74 | 90 | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | Porto | 90 | 75 | 90 | 91 | 96 |
| Porto | Porto | Porto | 102 | 94 | 101 | Porto | 90 | 75 | 90 | 91 | 96 |
| Illiabum | Illiabum | Illiabum | 92 | 75 | 57 | | | | | | |