S.C. Lusitânia
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Full name | Sport Clube Lusitânia |
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Founded | 1922 |
Ground | , Angra do Heroísmo, Azores Islands |
Capacity | 7,000 |
Chairman | ![]() |
Manager | ![]() |
League | ? |
2020–21 | Liga Meo Azores, 1st, Promoted |
The Sport Clube Lusitânia (commonly shortened to S.C. Lusitânia) is a sports club located in Angra do Heroísmo on the island of Terceira, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.
History[]
In 1922, a group of enthusiastic footballers met in the Recreio dos Artistas, and founded the Sporting Clube Lusitânia, naming it for the airplane of the same name, used by Portuguese trans-Atlantic pioneers Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral.
Their highest achievement is reaching the semifinals of the Taça de Portugal in 1964. They had defeated Ferroviário Lourenço Marques in the quarterfinals, the highest a Portuguese colony club ever reached in the Portuguese Cup (and only because the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar allowed them to play as a means of demonstrating that Portugal's African possessions were provinces and not colonies).
The headquarters of the club is in the historic manorhouse of Dona Violante do Canto.
Current squad[]
- As of 12 April 2017
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Basketball team[]
The men's basketball team is part of the Portuguese Basketball League (LCB).[1]
References[]
- ^ www.basquetebol.sclusitania.com/ Archived 2007-01-01 at the Wayback Machine
- Football clubs in Portugal
- Football clubs in the Azores
- 1922 establishments in Portugal
- Football clubs in Terceira Island
- Angra do Heroísmo
- Sports clubs established in 1922
- Portuguese football club stubs
- Azores stubs