Portimonense S.C.

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Portimonense

Full name	Portimonense Sporting Clube
Founded	1914; 108 years ago (1914)
Ground	Estádio Municipal, Portimão, Algarve, Portugal
Capacity	9,544
President	Fernando Rocha
Head coach	Paulo Sérgio
League	Primeira Liga
2020–21	Primeira Liga, 14th of 18
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Portimonense Sporting Clube is a Portuguese sports club based in Portimão. Founded on 14 August 1914, it is most notable for its professional football team, which currently plays in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football. It also fields various youth teams and a veterans team in football, as well as teams in basketball.

Located in Algarve's second largest city, its stadium, the Estádio Municipal de Portimão, has a capacity of 9,544 spectators after undergoing renovation in early 2011. The club has never won any major trophies, but it participated in the Primeira Liga for several seasons.

Portimonense's zenith was in the 1980s, a decade in which the club only played its football in the top division, also competing in the UEFA Cup in 1985–86. They have reached the semifinals of the Taça de Portugal three times, in 1983, 1987 and 1988.

History[]

Portimonense was a regular presence in the Portuguese first division, even finishing fifth in 1984–85 – highlights included 0–0 home draws against Benfica and Sporting Lisbon – which led to participation in the UEFA Cup in the 1985–86 season. The team were eliminated in the first round of that competition by FK Partizan of Yugoslavia.^[1]

In the 1990s and 2000s, however, the club primarily played in the Segunda Liga, while also having a brief spell in the third level. In 2009–10, Portimonense started with Angolan Lito Vidigal at the helm, but when he left for União de Leiria, former Sporting midfielder Litos took charge, and led the team to a final second place, behind S.C. Beira-Mar, thus returning it to the top flight after exactly 20 years of absence; substitute Wilson Eduardo scored the only goal away to U.D. Oliveirense to guarantee the promotion.^[2]

Midway through the 2010–11 campaign, Litos was fired due to bad results,^[3] as Portimonense eventually ranked second from bottom and was relegated back.^[4] The team met the same fate in the following season, even managing to rank in a worse position; however, after Varzim S.C. was not allowed to promote from division three due to financial irregularities, Portimonense was reinstated.^[5]

Portimonense won the 2016–17 LigaPro to return to the top flight after six years; the campaign was managed by Vítor Oliveira, who had begun his coaching career with the club three decades earlier and had won promotion for the fifth consecutive time.^[6] The team went down on the last day of the 2019–20 season, as competitors C.D. Tondela and Vitória de Setúbal also won their games,^[7] however, Portimonense remained in the division due to issues off the pitch at both Vitória de Setúbal and C.D. Aves meaning these two were relegated and the Algarve side would stay up.^[8]

Players[]

Current squad[]

As of 16 February 2022

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF  BRA Lucas Possignolo 4 DF  BRA Willyan Rocha 6 MF  POR Henrique Jocú 7 MF  BRA Ewerton 8 MF  BRA Lucas Fernandes 9 FW  BRA Fabrício 10 MF  JPN Shoya Nakajima (on loan from Porto) 11 FW  BRA Anderson Oliveira 12 GK  IRN Payam Niazmand 13 FW  JPN Shuhei Kawasaki 18 DF  MAR Fahd Moufi 20 MF  BRA Luquinha 21 MF  POR Pedro Sá

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 DF  POR Filipe Relvas 23 DF  MAR Achraf Lazaar 25 MF  COD Giannelli Imbula 32 GK  JPN Kosuke Nakamura 39 FW  COL Wilinton Aponzá 44 DF  BRA Pedrão (on loan from Palmeiras) 45 FW  BRA João Veras 70 FW  COL Iván Angulo (on loan from Palmeiras) 76 FW  BRA Carlinhos 91 FW  BRA Renato Júnior (on loan from Água Santa) 93 FW  BRA Welinton Júnior 94 GK  BRA Samuel Portugal

Other players under contract[]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  BRA Jadson — MF  BRA Rômulo

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 — GK  BRA Léo (to Sporting da Covilhã until 30 June 2022) — GK  BRA Raphael Aflalo (to Felgueiras until 30 June 2022) — DF  BRA Henrique (to Farense until 30 June 2022) — DF  BRA Jean Felipe (to Sporting da Covilhã until 30 June 2022) — DF  BRA Jeferson Bahia (to Água Santa until 30 April 2022)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  BRA Felipe Dini (to Sporting da Covilhã until 30 June 2022) — MF  POR Reko Silva (to Estrela until 30 June 2022) — MF  POR Jorge Vilela (to Sporting da Covilhã until 30 June 2022) — FW  POR Beto (at Udinese until 30 June 2022) — FW  BRA Iury (to Ceará until 31 December 2022) — FW  NGA Abraham Marcus (on loan to Radomiak Radom until 30 June 2022)

U23 squad[]

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  CPV Dylan Silva — GK  BRA João Victor — GK  BRA Pedro Miranda — DF  BRA Pedro Casagrande — DF  POR Diogo Rodrigues — DF  BRA Enzo — DF  BRA João Guilherme — DF  POR João Silva — DF  BRA Mancha — DF  BRA Matheus Guedes — DF  BRA Rener Pavão — MF  POR Bruno Reis

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  POR Chiquinho — MF  BRA Eduardo — MF  JPN Toki Hirosawa — MF  POR João Maria — MF  JPN Yuta Nakano — MF  POR Paulo Estrela — MF  POR Ricardo Sousa — MF  POR Rodrigo Cordeiro — MF  BRA Thiago — FW  POR Francisco Mascarenhas — FW  BRA Matheus João — FW  KOR Kim Yong Hak

League and cup history[]

Honours[]

• LigaPro: 2016–17
• Portuguese Second Division: 1978–79, 2000–01

Europe[]

1985–86 UEFA Cup – 1st Round
Date	Home	Result	Away	City
18/09/1985	Portimonense	1–0	Partizan	Portimão
2/10/1985	Partizan	4–0	Portimonense	Belgrade

Club officials[]

On 13 July 2011, Portimonense elected its body of officials, for a three-year term.^[9]

• President: José Fernando Teixeira da Rocha
• Deputy president: António Alexandre Soares Rocha da Silveira
• Vice-presidents: Luís Manuel de Andrade Rodrigues Batalau, José Cândido Rebelo Rodrigues, Nuno Miguel Lopes da Silva, João Carlos Pinhota Martins Santana, Francisco José de Matos Viegas Gouveia Coutinho, Luís Carlos da Costa Paiva

Managerial history[]

Dates	Name
1985–1986	Vítor Oliveira
1988–1989	José Torres
1990–1991	Carlos Alhinho
1991–1994	Amílcar Fonseca
1994–1995	José Torres
1995–1997	Amílcar Fonseca
1999–2001	Mário Nunes
2001–2002	Amílcar Fonseca
2003–2004	Dito
2004–2005	António Pacheco
2005–2006	Diamantino Miranda
2006–2007	Luís Martins
2007–2009	Vítor Pontes
2009	Lito Vidigal
2009–2010	Litos
2010–2011	Carlos Azenha
2012–2014	Lázaro Oliveira
2014–2015	Vítor Maçãs
2015–2016	José Augusto
2016–2018	Vítor Oliveira
2018–2020	António Folha
2020–present	Paulo Sérgio

Futsal[]

Portimonense has a futsal team that plays top tier futsal in the Liga Sport Zone.

Basketball[]

Portimonense has a basketball team that plays in the Proliga (Portugal) basketball league.^[10]

Supporters and rivalries[]

Portimonense has its own club song: "Portimonense, expoente algarvio".^[11] Unlike many other football clubs, the supporters own and operate Portimonense, although this is more common in Iberia than in much of Europe.

The club has rivalries with fellow Algarve clubs SC Farense and S.C. Olhanense.^{[12][13][14][15][16][17][18]}

References[]

External links[]

• Official website (in Portuguese)
• Zerozero team profile