FC Porto Juniors

Porto Juniors

Full name	Futebol Clube do Porto Juniors
Ground	CTFD PortoGaia
Capacity	3,000
President	Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa
Manager	José Tavares
League	U19 Championship
2018–19	1st
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

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 "Juniors" (Portuguese: Juniores), commonly known as Porto Juniors, is the under-19 football team comprised in the youth department of Portuguese club FC Porto. Based in Olival and Crestuma, two local civil parishes part of the Vila Nova de Gaia municipality, they hold home matches at the club's training complex, CTFD PortoGaia.^[1]

Domestically, Porto have won 23 Campeonato Nacional de Juniores titles. Internationally, they won the Blue Stars/FIFA Youth Cup in 2011^[2] and the UEFA Youth League in 2019.^[3] In the latter, they became the first Portuguese club to conquer the competition and were also distinguished with the "UEFA's Best Educational Action" award.^[4]

Between the department's several development teams, two other youth categories complete the three main age groups, the Juvenis (under-17) and the Iniciados (under-15), who compete in their respective national leagues organised by the Portuguese Football Federation.

Players[]

Current squad[]

As of 27 October 2021^[5][6]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  PAR Ángel González (B) — GK  POR Gonçalo Machado — GK  POR Ivan Cardoso (B) — GK  POR João Cardoso — GK  POR Pedro Cardoso — GK  POR Pedro Virgínia — DF  POR António Ribeiro — DF  POR David Vinhas (B) — DF  KVX Diar Halili (on loan from Besa Pejë) — DF  POR Gabriel Brás — DF  POR João Sérgio — DF  POR José Macedo — DF  POR Leandro Dias — DF  POR Martim Fernandes — DF  POR Rodrigo Pinheiro (B) — DF  POR Tiago Carvalho

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  POR Tomás Oliveira — MF  POR Bernardo Folha (B) — MF  POR Bruno Pires — MF  POR Diogo Abreu (B) — MF  POR Francisco Guedes — MF  KVX Gentrit Salihu (on loan from Besa Pejë) — MF  POR Jorge Meireles — MF  POR Ricardo Rei — MF  POR Tiago Antunes — MF  POR Vasco Sousa (B) — FW  SEN Doro Dabo — FW  POR Gabriel Carvalho — FW  POR Gustavo Barros — FW  POR Joel Carvalho — FW  POR Rui Monteiro — FW  GNB Umaro Candé

Key

B = Also integrated in FC Porto B team.

Out on loan[]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  ENG Benicio Baker-Boaitey (at Brighton & Hove Albion until 30 June 2022)

Coaching staff[]

Position	Staff
Youth coordinator	António Natal
Technical coordinator	Rui Teixeira
Head coach	José Tavares
Assistant coaches	António Frasco Filipe Ribeiro Pedro Mané
Goalkeeping coach	Rafael Albuquerque

Competitive record[]

UEFA Youth League[]

As of match played 7 December 2021

Note: Porto score is always listed first.

Season	Round	Opponent	Home	Away
2013–14	GS	Austria Wien	0–0	0–3
		Atlético Madrid	3–1	2–3
		Zenit Saint Petersburg	2–2	2–1
2014–15	GS	BATE Borisov	2–0	0–0
		Shakhtar Donetsk	1–1	1–1
		Athletic Bilbao	2–0	1–3
	R16	Real Madrid	N/A	1–1 (aet) (3–1 p)
	QF	Anderlecht	N/A	0–5
2015–16	GS	Dynamo Kyiv	0–1	1–2
		Chelsea	3–3	0–0
		Maccabi Tel Aviv	2–0	2–1
2016–17	GS	Copenhagen	4–1	1–3
		Leicester City	2–1	2–0
		Club Brugge	1–3	2–0
	R16	Viitorul Constanța	3–0	N/A
	QF	Barcelona	N/A	1–2
2017–18	GS	Beşiktaş	5–1	1–0
		Monaco	2–1	2–3
		RB Leipzig	3–2	2–0
	R16	Red Bull Salzburg	3–1	N/A
	QF	Tottenham Hotspur	N/A	2–0
	SF	Chelsea	2–2 (aet) (4–5 p)
2018–19	GS	Schalke 04	3–0	3–0
		Galatasaray	2–2	2–0
		Lokomotiv Moscow	2–1	1–2
	R16	Tottenham Hotspur	2–0	N/A
	QF	Midtjylland	3–0	N/A
	SF	1899 Hoffenheim	3–0
	F	Chelsea	3–1
2019–20	R1	Liepāja	4–2	3–0
	R2	Domžale	2–2	3–0
	PO	Red Bull Salzburg	1–1 (aet) (6–7 p)	N/A
2020–21	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
2021–22	GS	Atlético Madrid	1–2	2–1
		Liverpool	1–1	0–4
		Milan	3–1	1–0

Honours[]

• Portuguese Championship

Winners (23): 1952–53, 1963–64, 1965–66, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1989–90, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1997–98, 2000–01, 2006–07, 2010–11, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2018–19

• UEFA Youth League

Winners (1): 2018–19

• Blue Stars/FIFA Youth Cup

Winners (1): 2011

Other youth honours[]

Juvenis (under-17)

• Portuguese Championship

Winners (20) – record: 1965–66, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1981–82, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1994–95, 1997–98, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12

Iniciados (under-15)

• Portuguese Championship

Winners (14) – shared record: 1974–75, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1985–86, 1989–90, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1999–00, 2001–02, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2010��11

Infantis (under-13)

• Portuguese Championship

Winners (2): 1987–88, 1992–93

See also[]

• FC Porto B

References[]

External links[]

• Official website (in Portuguese, English, and Spanish)