FC Porto (handball)

FC Porto
Full name	Futebol Clube do Porto
Founded	28 September 1893 (128 years ago) (1893-09-28)
Arena	Dragão Arena
Capacity	2,200
President	Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa
Head coach	Magnus Andersson
League	Andebol 1
2020–21	1st
Club colours
Home Away
Website Official site

Active sections of Futebol Clube do Porto
Football Football B Football U19 Basketball Handball Roller hockey Billiards Boxing Swimming Cycling Volleyball (women's) Adapted sports

Futebol Clube do Porto (Portuguese pronunciation: [futɨˈβɔl ˈkluβ(ɨ) ðu ˈpoɾtu]), commonly referred to as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional handball team based in Porto. Created in 1932, it is the senior representative side of the handball section of multi-sports club FC Porto.

The team competes domestically in the top-tier league Andebol 1 and internationally in European Handball Federation club competitions, such as the EHF Champions League and the EHF Cup. It plays its home matches at the Dragão Arena, alongside the club's basketball and roller hockey teams, and is managed by Swedish head coach Magnus Andersson.

History[]

The section started in 1932 with a field handball (eleven-a-side) team, which played competitive matches until 1974–75, when it was discontinued in favour of seven-a-side handball. During this period, the club won 37 regional and 29 national league titles in the field handball discipline.^[1]

In 1951, the club established the handball section whose team won the Portuguese league title for the first time in 1953–54, and increased that tally with eight further titles by 1968.^[2] Porto then endured a 31-year drought before winning the national league title again in 1998–99. In the 2014–15 season, the team secured their seventh consecutive league title, establishing a national record.^[3] In the previous season, the team also debuted in the EHF Champions League group stage, after overcoming the qualification tournament for the first time in five consecutive attempts.^[4]

Kits[]

HOME
2019–20	2020–21

AWAY
2019–20	2020–21	2021–

Team[]

Current squad[]

The following players compose the squad for the 2021–22 season:

Transfers[]

Transfers for the 2022–23 season:

Staff[]

Position	Name
Sports director	José Magalhães
Assistant director	Manuel Arezes
Head coach	Magnus Andersson
Assistant coach	Carlos Martingo
Goalkeeping coach	Telmo Ferreira
Fitness coach	Tiago Cadete

Retired numbers[]

No.	Nat.	Player	Position	Tenure	Ref.
1		Alfredo Quintana	Goalkeeper	2010–2021	[5]

Honours[]

Porto is the most decorated Portuguese clubs in terms of domestic competitions, with a total of 42 national titles.^[6]

Domestic competitions[]

• Portuguese League

Winners (22) – record: 1953–54, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1967–68, 1998–99, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2018–19, 2020–21

• Portuguese Cup

Winners (9): 1975–76, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1993–94, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2018–19, 2020–21

• Portuguese League Cup

Winners (3) – record: 2003–04, 2004–05, 2007–08

• Portuguese Super Cup

Winners (8) – record: 1994, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2021

European competitions[]

• Limburgse Handbal Dagen^[7]

Winners (2): 2009, 2012

European record[]

Note: Porto's score is always listed first.

Season	Competition	Round	Club	1st leg	2nd leg	Aggregate
2016–17	EHF Cup	R1	B.S.B. Batumi	49–16	44–16	93–32
		R2	RD Koper 2013	31–24	26–22	57–46
		R3	Bregenz Handball	28–27	31–29	59–56
		Group Stage	Frisch Auf Göppingen	27–31	28–30	3rd place
			Fraikin Granollers	23–22	22–33
			HC Midtjylland	33–25	26–29
2017–18	EHF Cup	R2	RK Ohrid 2013	37–20	44–26	81–46
		R3	Füchse Berlin	27–30	25–33	52–63
2018–19	EHF Cup	R1	AHC Potaissa Turda	41–21	27–24	68–45
		R2	SKA Minsk	34–29	24–25	58–54
		R3	SC Magdeburg	23–26	34–27	57–53
		Group Stage	TTH Holstebro	32–29	33–31	1st place
			Dobrogea Sud Constanța	30–27	35–29
			Liberbank Ciudad Encantada	37–26	29–26
		QF	Saint-Raphaël Var Handball	30–30	34–30	64–60
		SF	Füchse Berlin	20–24
		3rd place	TTH Holstebro	28–26
2019–20	EHF Champions League	Group Stage	Meshkov Brest	27–25	35–32	5th place
			RK Vardar	27–32	30–22
			PGE Vive Kielce	33–30	25–30
			Telekom Veszprém	28–38	24–31
			Motor Zaporozhye	35–35	29–33
			Montpellier Handball	23–23	27–22
			THW Kiel	28–27	29–30
		R16	Aalborg Håndbold	Cancelled [a]
2020–21	EHF Champions League	Group Stage	Vive Kielce	32–32	30–32	5th place
			MOL-Pick Szeged	25–19	31–35
			Elverum Håndball	28–30	38–31
			Flensburg	10–0	29–36
			Paris Saint-Germain	31–34	28–29
			Meshkov Brest	27–25	0–10
			Vardar 1961	27–24	25–25
		Play-offs	Aalborg Håndbold	32–29	24–27	56–56 (a)

Notes[]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website