[2] The cup was named in honor of the donator of the trophy, don Carlos I of Portugal,[3] who attended the meeting together with his wife, Queen Amelia, as well as the princes D. Luís Filipe and D. Manuel, who were still boys at the time.

This is possibly the first match in which extra-time was played as the royal couple arrived too late to see the first half and the Queen demanded that the game continued after the final whistle because she was enjoying it so much.

[4] The meeting was held at the initiative of the then FC Porto president, António Nicolau de Almeida, but it was ultimately organized by the presidents of Oporto Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club and Club Lisbonense, Hugh Ponsonby and Guilherme Pinto Basto, who served as the captains of their respective sides in the match.

[6] The patronage and sponsorship of the King were pivotal to attract a significant number of spectators, as football was practically an unknown sport in Portugal at the time.

On 25 October 1893, António Nicolau de Almeida, the founder and president of the recently established Futebol Clube do Porto, made an attempt to launch the club by writing a letter to the president of Club Lisbonense, Guilherme Pinto Basto, to invite them to a football match, scheduled for 2 November of the same year.

Ponsonby accepted Pinto Basto's invitation, and together they organized this meeting, which was held a few months later at Campo Alegre, between Club Lisbonense and Oporto Cricket.

[1] Moreover, the King also requested for the match to be included in the official program of the commemorative celebrations of the 600th anniversary of Prince Henry the Navigator, organized in Porto, in memory of the infante.

Three hours after landing, in Campanhã, the game was played on the field belonging to the Oporto Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club, in Campo Alegre.

The so-called "D. Carlos I trophy", which had been offered by the king himself, was nothing more than a simple silver cup, which was handed over to Guilherme Pinto Basto, the captain of the Lisbon team, who won the match.