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Football in Portugal

On 7 October 2026, nine AI assistants answered ten football questions in the app or on the search page, the way a fan asks them. Only the answers given with search count, because those are the ones a fan receives. An assistant’s verdict is the club it picks in more than half of its answers, and every reading keeps the sentence that supports it.

COLLECTED
October 2026
ANSWERS READ
141
AI ASSISTANTS
9
DATA
CC BY 4.0
THE RESULT

56% of the answers with sources to the questions about favourites cite betting sites. The Portuguese sports press appears in 15.

WHAT STOOD OUT
  1. The 8 assistants that answered all name FC Porto as favourite for the league.
  2. Benfica is the first club named in 14 of 15 answers to “which is the biggest club in Portugal?”.
  3. Vitória SC appears in 11 of 15 answers about the most passionate fans, the only club outside the big three.
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WHERE THE ANSWERS ON FAVOURITES COME FROMShare of the 52 answers with sources that cite each kind of site. One answer can cite several, so the bars do not add up to 100.
  1. Betting and tips56% · 29 of 52
  2. Portuguese sports press29% · 15 of 52
  3. Wikipedia27% · 14 of 52
  4. Brazilian sites23% · 12 of 52
  5. Club websites8% · 4 of 52
  6. Other sites85% · 44 of 52

141 ANSWERS · OCTOBER 2026

The methodology is not a promise. It is published.

  • The question is fixed before the dataWhat counts as a mention, and what counts as being chosen, is written down before a single answer is read. Deciding afterwards is how a study finds what its author was hoping for.
  • Names that are also common words are counted by readingIn Portuguese, NOS is also "in the", ERA is also a verb, and Logo is also the word for "soon". Those are counted by reading the sentence, not by matching a string, and the exceptions are listed.
  • Published numbers come from code, not from a conversationEvery figure now comes from a script anyone can run again, with the denominators defined in one place and the result in version control, so a later run shows the difference as a diff.
  • The denominator is always statedA percentage without the number it was taken from is not a finding. Where a question could not be measured, it is said, and it is kept out of the ratio rather than counted as a zero.

Raw JSON. Redo the math.

The reading of every answer, with the sentence that supports it, the sources cited and the counts behind every number. It also holds the from-memory API answers that the study does not count.

LICENCE · CC BY 4.0futebol-portugal-2026.jsonDownload
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