Futebol Clube do Porto
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Template:Football club infobox Futebol Clube do Porto (short: FC Porto, FCP) is a Portuguese sports club, best known for its football section. It was founded in 1893 by António Nicolau de Almeida in Porto.
The football home ground is now the Estádio do Dragão (finished in 2004 as a venue for Euro 2004) after 51 years playing in the Estádio das Antas. Porto is currently the second club in the Portuguese overall championship, just second to SL Benfica. Porto won the Champions League twice (one still as the ECC) and the UEFA Cup once. It was the first team since the Liverpool FC 75-77 squad to win the Champions League after winning the UEFA Cup.
FC Porto is also a leading force in other sports: the handball and basketball team are regular contenders to the Portuguese national titles, and the rink hockey section is amongst the best in the sport. The new arena near the stadium will be completed soon; in past years the non-professional home grounds were scattered in northwestern cities of Portugal (such as Gondomar and Espinho). Commercially, FC Porto has several stores called Loja Azul (Blue Store) scattered around Porto including two used with official supplier Nike and edits one of the older club related publications in Europe, a monthly 60-page full colour magazine called Dragões (Dragons) since the early 80's.
Porto supporters and players are often called the dragões (the dragons), though the term the Andrades is also popular after a family with that named sponsored the club for several years. However, since the eighties, it is seen as somewhat derogatory.
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The public company
After going public in 1998, FC Porto created several sattelite companies around the club to improve the efficience of the club.
- FCPorto - Junior football, handball, rink hockey, atletism, magazine, etc...
- FCPorto - Futebol SAD and FCPorto - Basquetebol SAD (professional football and basketball)
- PortoEstádio (Estádio do Dragão)
- PortoMultimédia (official site and multimedia products)
- PortoComercial (Merchandising)
- PortoSeguro (Insurances)
The FCPorto SAD is rated in the Euronext Lisbon
Football
FC Porto was originally founded in 1893, but was abandoned until 1906 when Monteiro da Costa revived the club. In the following years it became one of the most important clubs in Portugal, but lacking to Lisbon rivals SL Benfica, Sporting and even Belenenses, yet still going on to win the first two Portuguese championships. Only four titles followed until the beginning of the 80's.
In 1982 Pinto da Costa took control of Porto. The next decades turned what was the fourth team in the overall history of Portuguese football into the biggest title cruncher of the past 20 years. Since 1982, Porto has won 13 titles, achieving the record Penta (five leagues in a row) in 1999, eight Portuguese cups, and has a majority of Supercups, having won 14 out of a possible 26.
When Pinto da Costa joined as president, Porto was the only club from the "big three" without European honours, but that quickly changed. The first final was played against Juventus for the 1984 Cup Winners' Cup, but Porto lost. Three years later, the team led by Artur Jorge, the name hand-picked by Pedroto, won its first European honour, in a thrilling 2-1 victory over Bayern Munich. The following year Porto won the European Super Cup and the Intercontinental Cup, making them the first Portuguese winners of the two cups. The following 16 years saw Porto as a midrange team - often in the final 16, but not progressing further. The exception was in 1994, when Porto reached the semi-finals of the Champions League. The semi-final, decided on a single game, resulted in an heavy loss (3-0) at the hands of Johann Cruyff's FC Barcelona, in the Nou Camp.
In 2003, under the guidance of José Mourinho, Porto made a thrilling UEFA Cup run, topped with a victory in a fantastic final against Celtic Glasgow. The following season meant a higher challenge, but despite a slow start which included a 1-3 loss against Real Madrid, Porto never lost again in the Champions League, relegating O. Marseille to the UEFA Cup (where they reached the final), Manchester United at the Old Trafford in the dying minutes of play, O. Lyon and Depor, becoming the first team to win the competition outside the Big 5 since Ajax in 1995.
After the victory, Porto became the Portuguese side with the most European cups won - 2 CL/ECC plus a UEFA Cup, compared with the two ECC by Benfica and the one CWC by Sporting.
Also, December 12 2004, FC Porto won the last-held Intercontinental Cup, by beating Once Caldas from Colombia at an impressive 8-7 after penalty shoot-out.
Porto's importance in the modern football panorama is also widely acknowledged, being one of the founding members of G-14.
2005/2006 pre-season squad
| Players that continue 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Vítor Baía (G) | Bruno Vale (G) | Nuno (G) | Rui Sacramento (G) |
| Jorge Costa (D) | Pedro Emanuel (D) | Ricardo Costa (D) | Pepe (D) |
| Nuno Valente (D) | Leandro (D) | Areias (D) | |
| Diego (M) | Leandro do Bonfim (M) | José Bosingwa (M) | Léo Lima (M) |
| Raul Meireles (M) | Ibson (M) | ||
| Quaresma (F) | Luís Fabiano (F) | Hélder Postiga (F) | Benni McCarthy (F) |
| Cláudio "Pitbull" (F) | |||
| Incoming players (only confirmed by the club) | |||
| Lisandro López (F) | from Racing Club | Luis González (M) | from River Plate |
| Tomislav Sokota (F) | no contract (from SLB) | Bruno Moraes (F) | loan return (from VFC) |
| Paulo Ribeiro (G) | from Vitória FC) | Jorginho (M) | from Vitória FC) |
| Sandro (M) | from Vitória FC) | Anderson (F) | from Grêmio |
| Outgoing players (only confirmed by the club) | |||
| Seitaridis (D) | to Dynamo Moscow | Maniche (M) | to Dynamo Moscow |
| Costinha (M) | to Dynamo Moscow | ||
Staff: Co Adriaanse (manager) and Jan Olde Riekerink (assistant manager) both from AZ Alkmaar. The remaining spots are still being considered.
Famous Players
| Early Days | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pinga | Virgílio | Pedroto | Barrigana |
| Hernâni | Teofilo Cubillas | Seninho | |
| Pedroto and the European Conquest (1978 to 1989) | |||
| Pavão | António Oliveira | Frasco | Costa |
| Fernando Gomes | João Pinto | Józef Młynarczyk | Augusto Inácio |
| Celso | André | Jaime Pacheco | Jaime Magalhães |
| Madjer | Futre | Juary | Branco |
| Geraldão | Rui Barros | ||
| Nineties | |||
| Paulinho Santos | Rui Filipe | Emerson | Timofte |
| Domingos | Kostadinov | Drulovic | Aloísio |
| Fernando Couto | Jorge Costa | Sérgio Conceição | Zlatko Zahovic |
| Vítor Baía | Jardel | Paredes | Deco |
| 21st Century | |||
| Alenichev | Derlei | Ricardo Carvalho | Paulo Ferreira |
| Costinha | Maniche | Diego | Ricardo Quaresma |
| Giourkas Seitaridis | Luís Fabiano | Benni McCarthy | |
Famous Managers
Honours
- European Cup/Champions' League: 2
- 1986/87
- Final: FC Porto 2 - 1 Bayern Munich (at Vienna, Austria)
- Goals by Madjer, Juary; Kogl
- 2003/04
- Final: FC Porto 3 - 0 AS Monaco (at Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen, Germany)
- Goals by Carlos Alberto, Deco, Dmitri Alenichev
- 1986/87
- Intercontinental Cup: 2
- 1987
- FC Porto 2 - 1 Peñarol (aet)
- Goals by Gomes, Madjer; Vieira
- 2004
- FC Porto 0 - 0 Once Caldas (8-7 on penalties)
- 1987
- UEFA Cup: 1
- 2002/03
- Final: FC Porto 3 - 2 Celtic (aet) (at Seville, Spain)
- Goals by Derlei (2), Alenitchev; Henrik Larsson (2)
- 2002/03
- This was the first match ever decided under UEFA's new silver goal rule.
- Cup Winners' Cup: none
- Portuguese Championship: 4
- 1921/22; 1924/25; 1931/32; 1936/37
- Portuguese First League Championship: 1
- 1934/35
- Portuguese First Division Championship (Current SuperLiga): 19
- 1938/39; 1939/40; 1955/56; 1958/59; 1977/78; 1978/79; 1984/85; 1985/86; 1987/88; 1989/90; 1991/92; 1992/93; 1994/95; 1995/96; 1996/97; 1997/98; 1998/99; 2002/03, 2003/04
- Portuguese Cup: 12
- 1955/56; 1957/58; 1967/68; 1976/77; 1983/84; 1987/88; 1990/91; 1993/94; 1997/98; 1999/00; 2000/01; 2002/03
- Portuguese Super Cup "Cândido de Oliveira": 14
- 1980/81; 1982/83; 1983/84; 1985/86; 1989/90; 1990/91; 1992/93; 1993/94; 1995/96; 1997/98; 1998/99; 2000/01; 2002/03; 2003/04.
Other Trophies
- Juan Gamper Tournament - Barcelona, Spain
- 1987
- FC Porto 2 - 1 FC Barcelona
- FC Porto 2 - 0 Bayern Munich
- 1987
- Viareggio Tournament - Viareggio, Italy
- 1989
- FC Porto 1 - 1 Inter Milan
- FC Porto 1 - 1 Fiorentina (Porto won on penalties)
- 1989
- Teresa Herrera Cup - Coruña, Spain
- 1991
- FC Porto 2 - 1 Real Madrid
- FC Porto 1 - 0 Deportivo de La Coruña
- 1991
- "Ciudad de Sevilla" Tournament - Seville, Spain
- 1992
- FC Porto 2 - 0 Sevilla FC
- FC Porto 2 - 2 Atlético Madrid
- FC Porto 2 - 0 Betis(Final)
- 1992
- Thailand Premier Cup - Bangkok, Thailand
- 1997
- FC Porto 2 - 1 Inter Milan
- FC Porto 4 - 2 Boca Juniors (After penalties)
- 1997
Rink hockey
Rink hockey, Portugal's second sport, is one of the most important sections in the club. Started in 1955, FCPorto is one of the Portuguese sides who won the European Champions' Cup, with their second and last victory in 1990. Since then, Porto was a regular contender in the competitions' final-four. The most well known was in 1998, when FC Barcelona won at Porto's Pavilhão Rosa Mota, after which a riot ensued.
While the new indoor arena is being built, Porto will play in the Pavilhão Municipal de Fânzeres, Gondomar.
Players and staff
| Name | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Edo Bosch | 
| Goalkeeper |
| Tiago Sousa | Missing image Portugal_flag_large.png Portuguese | Goalkeeper |
| Ricardo Figueira | Missing image Portugal_flag_large.png Portuguese | Defender |
| Filipe Santos | Missing image Portugal_flag_large.png Portuguese | Defender |
| Reinaldo Ventura | Missing image Portugal_flag_large.png Portuguese | Forward |
| Ricardo Oliveira (Caio) | Missing image Portugal_flag_large.png Portuguese | Forward |
| Reinaldo Garcia | 
| Forward |
| Emanuel Garcia |
| Forward |
| Pedro Gil |
| Forward |
| Franklim Pais | Missing image Portugal_flag_large.png Portuguese | Coach |
| Ilídio Borges Pinto | Missing image Portugal_flag_large.png Portuguese | Vice-president in charge of the section |
Famous Players
- Frankelim Pais
- Tó Neves
- Vítor Hugo
- Realista
- António Alves
- Pedro Alves
- Paulo Alves
- António Livramento (manager)
Honours
- European Champions Cup: 1985-86, 1989-90
- European Cup Winners' Cup: 1981-82, 1982-83
- CERS Cup: 1993-94, 1995-96
- European Supercup: 1986-1987
- Portuguese Championships:1982-83, 1983-84, 1984-85, 1985-86, 1986-87, 1988-89, 1989-90, 1990-91, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2001-02, 2002-03, 2004-05
- Portuguese Cups: 1982-83, 1984-85, 1985-86, 1986-87, 1987-88, 1988-89, 1995-96, 1997-98, 1998-99
- Portuguese Supercup: 1983-84, 1984-85, 1985-86, 1986-87, 1987-88, 1988-89, 1989-90, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1995-96, 1997-98, 1999-2000
External Links
- fcporto.pt - english section of the official website (http://www.fcporto.pt/English/Index_eng.asp)
- FC Porto Unofficial Website (http://www.fcpnet.net)
- FC Porto Unofficial Website (http://www.fcporto.ws)
- A blog with info on the youth system players (in portuguese) (http://www.esperancaportista.blogspot.com)
- FC Porto Supporters:
- Super Dragões (http://www.superdragoes.com)
- Colectivo Ultras 95 (http://www.colectivo95.com)
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