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This article is about the football section of F.C. Porto. For the club's rink hockey team, see FC Porto (rink hockey). For the handball team, see FC Porto (handball). For the basketball team, see FC Porto (basketball).
Porto
File:F.C. Porto logo.png
Full nameFutebol Clube do Porto
Nickname(s)Os Dragões (The Dragons)
Short nameFCP
Founded28 September 1893
as Football Club do Porto
GroundEstádio do Dragão
Porto, Portugal
Capacity50,399[1]
PresidentPortugal Pinto da Costa
ManagerPortugal Jesualdo Ferreira
LeaguePortuguese Liga
2009–103rd
WebsiteClub website
Current season

Futebol Clube do Porto (Portuguese pronunciation: [futɨˈbɔɫ ˈklub(ɨ) du ˈpoɾtu]) (Euronext: FCP), or FC Porto, Porto, or FCP for short, is one of the Três Grandes, or Big Three, football clubs in Portugal, with Sport Lisboa e Benfica and Sporting Clube de Portugal being the other two clubs, FC Porto's two biggest rivals. It was founded in Porto in 1893.

FC Porto is an internationally lauded team, with a national record of six international titles, becoming European and World Champions twice each in the 1987 and 2004 seasons. In 1987, FC Porto also gained the UEFA Supercup (another first for Portugal) and, in 2004, it brought Portugal's first UEFA Champions League trophy, making FC Porto the most successful club internationally in Portugal. In 1987, FC Porto became one of a few teams in the World to hold in possession three major international titles simultaneously (the only one in Portugal). Domestically they hold the best record of five titles in a row, having won the Portuguese Liga 24 times. Other titles won by the club include the Portuguese Cup 19 times and Portuguese Supercup 16 times (58 national titles).

The football home ground is the Estádio do Dragão, which replaced the previous home, Estádio das Antas, in 2003. A new multi-sport arena near the stadium was recently completed to harbour FC Porto's other sports such as the handball and basketball teams, which are regular contenders for the national titles and the roller hockey section, amongst the best in the sport worldwide. Supporters and players of the club are nicknamed Portistas.

FC Porto was founded in the northern city of Porto on 28 September 1893 by wine-salesman António Nicolau de Almeida, who had his first contact with the game of football on one of his trips to England. The club was revived in 1906 by Monteiro da Costa.

Commercially, the club has several stores called Loja Azul (Blue Store) scattered around the city, including two used with official supplier Nike. Since 1994, a merchandising goods fair called Portomania is organized during the pre-season. FC Porto publishes one of the older club-related publications in Europe: a monthly 60-page full-colour magazine called Dragões (Dragons) that has existed since the early 1980s.

FC Porto played in the Portuguese championship 74 times, playing 2048 games, winning 1333, drawing 375, losing 340, scoring 4542 goals, and conceding 1909, having 3342 points as of the end of the 2007–08 season. They were also one of the founding members of the now disbanded G-14.

The public company

After going public in 1998, FC Porto created several satellite companies around the club to improve its efficiency.

  • FCPorto - youth football, handball, ring hockey, athletics, club's magazine, etc.
  • FCPorto - Futebol SAD and FCPorto - Basquetebol SAD (professional football and basketball companies)
  • PortoEstádio (Estádio do Dragão stadium)
  • PortoMultimédia (official site and multimedia products)
  • PortoComercial (Merchandising)
  • PortoSeguro (Insurance)

The FCPorto SAD is listed in the Euronext Lisbon stock exchange.

Presidents

Nicolau de Almeida (first), Monteiro da Costa, Dummond Villares, Carmo Pacheco, Borges de Avelar, Henrique da Mesquita, Pinto de Faria, Neves Reis, Urgel Horta, Carlos Costa, Angelo César, Ferreira Alves, Júlio Ribeiro, Cesario Bonito, Paulo Pombo, Nascimento Cordeiro, Pinto Magalhães, Américo de Sá, Pinto da Costa (current).

History

FC Porto's first official trophy, the Union of the North Cup, was won in 1911. In the following years, it became one of the biggest clubs in Portugal and went on to win the first national competition in the history of Portuguese football, the 1934-35 Campeonato da Liga. After this title, Porto was only able to win five more times during a 41-year period. As of 1982, the club's performance level raised substantially and its honours grew exponentially. In the subsequent years, Porto won 19 national titles, 11 Portuguese cups, 16 Portuguese super cups (the most by any club), 1 European Cup and 1 Champions League, 1 UEFA Cup, 1 European Super Cup, and 2 Intercontinental Cups.

Two of the biggest reasons for this change of fortunes were Pinto da Costa, who took control of Porto in 1982, and José Maria Pedroto, whom Pinto da Costa had brought back with him to manage the team. The duo quickly caused the team damage, with Pinto da Costa as football director and Pedroto as manager, winning two titles previously, and making controversial remarks about the centralization of Portuguese football, which caused them problems with the directing board, and consequently they left. After quitting, in 1982, Pinto da Costa ran for presidency and won, bringing back Pedroto. The following decades turned what was the third team in the overall history of Portuguese football into the biggest title-winner of the past 30 years.

Honours

National

League

Cups

  • Portuguese Championship (Campeonato de Portugal): 4
    • 1921–22, 1924–25, 1931–32, 1936–37
  • Portuguese Cup (Taça de Portugal): 15
    • 1955–56, 1957–58, 1967–68, 1976–77, 1983–84, 1987–88, 1990–91, 1993–94, 1997–98, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2009–10
  • Portuguese Supercup (Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira): 16
    • 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009

International

1984 Cup Winners' Cup

When Pinto da Costa joined as president, FC 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.

Stage Opponent Home Away
1st Round Dinamo Zagreb 1–0 1–2
2nd Round Rangers 1–0 1–2
1/4 Shakhtar Donetsk 3–2 1–1
1/2 Aberdeen 1–0 1–0
Final Juventus 1–2

1987 European Cup

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 in the European Cup 1986–87.

Stage Opponent Home Away
1/16 Rabat Ajax 9–0 1–0
1/8 Vítkovice 3–0 0–1
1/4 Brøndby 1–0 1–1
1/2 Dynamo Kyiv 2–1 2–1
Final Bayern Munich 2–1

The following year, Porto won the European Super Cup against AFC Ajax, and the Intercontinental Cup against Peñarol, making them the first Portuguese winners of the two cups.

1988–2002

The following 16 years saw Porto as a midrange team - often in the final 16, but not progressing much further. The exception was in 1994, when Porto reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League. The semi-final, decided on a single game, resulted in a heavy loss (3–0) at the hands of Johann Cruyff's FC Barcelona at the Nou Camp.

2003 UEFA Cup

In 2003, under the guidance of José Mourinho, Porto made a UEFA Cup run, concluding with a victory in the final against Celtic in Seville, Spain.

Stage Opponent Home Away
1/64 Polonia Warszawa 6–0 0–2
1/32 Austria Wien 2–0 1–0
1/16 Lens 3–0 0–1
1/8 Denizlispor 6–1 2–2
1/4 Panathinaikos 0–1 2–0
1/2 Lazio 4–1 0–0
Final Celtic 3–2

2004 UEFA Champions League

FC Porto supporters at the Gelsenkirchen Arena AufSchalke.

The following season set a greater challenge, but despite a slow start which included a 1–3 loss against Real Madrid, Porto never lost again in the Champions League, relegating Olympique de Marseille to the UEFA Cup (where they reached the final), drawing with Manchester United at Old Trafford in the dying minutes of play to go through on aggregate, and beating Olympique Lyonnais and Deportivo La Coruña. Porto beat AS Monaco 3–0 in the Final, played in Arena AufSchalke in Germany. Porto's UEFA Champions League winning line-up for their spectacular cup-run was: Vítor Baía, Nuno Valente, Ricardo Carvalho, Jorge Costa(c), Paulo Ferreira, Costinha, Maniche, Pedro Mendes, Deco (Pedro Emanuel), Derlei (Benni McCarthy), and Carlos Alberto (Dmitri Alenichev).

Stage Opponent Home Away
Group stage Partizan Belgrade 2–1 1–1
Group stage Real Madrid 1–3 1–1
Group stage Marseille 1–0 3–2
1/8 Manchester United 2–1 1–1
1/4 Lyon 2–0 2–2
1/2 Deportivo La Coruña 0–0 1–0
Final AS Monaco 3–0

After the victory, Porto became the Portuguese side with the most European cups won - 2 CL/ECC, UEFA Super Cup plus a UEFA Cup, compared with the two ECC by SL Benfica and the one CWC by Sporting CP.

Even after the departure of José Mourinho to Chelsea, the club kept winning at the international level. On 12 December 2004, Porto won the last-held Intercontinental Cup, by beating Once Caldas from Colombia 8–7 in a penalty shoot-out.

Recent seasons

See also: FC Porto seasons
Season League Cup Europe Other Comp. Top scorer1
Division Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA Pts Name Goals
1999–00 Portuguese Liga 2nd 34 22 7 5 66 26 73 W Champions League QF Portuguese Supercup RU Mário Jardel 38
2000–01 Portuguese Liga 2nd 34 24 4 6 73 27 76 W UEFA Cup QF Portuguese Supercup W Renivaldo Pena 22
2001–02 Portuguese Liga 3rd 34 21 5 8 66 34 68 QF Champions League 2nd GS - - Deco 13
2002–03 Portuguese Liga 1st 34 27 5 2 73 26 86 W UEFA Cup W Portuguese Supercup W Hélder Postiga 13
2003–04 Portuguese Liga 1st 34 25 7 2 63 19 82 RU Champions League W Portuguese Supercup W Benni McCarthy 20
2004–05 Portuguese Liga 2nd 34 17 11 6 39 26 62 Last 32 Champions League Last 16 UEFA Super Cup RU Benni McCarthy 11
Intercontinental Cup W
– –
2005–06 Portuguese Liga 1st 34 24 7 3 54 16 79 W Champions League GS Portuguese Supercup W Lucho González 10
2006–07 Portuguese Liga 1st 30 22 3 5 65 20 69 Last 64 Champions League Last 16 Portuguese Supercup RU Adriano 11
2007–08 Portuguese Liga 1st 30 24 3 3 60 13 692 RU Champions League Last 16 Portuguese Supercup RU Lisandro Lopez 24
2008–09 Portuguese Liga 1st 30 21 7 2 61 18 70 W Champions League QF Portuguese Supercup W Fárias / Lisandro 10
2009–10 Portuguese Liga 3rd 30 21 5 4 70 26 68 W Champions League Last 16 Portuguese League Cup RU Radamel Falcao 25
1Includes all goals scored in Portuguese Liga.
2Porto were deducted six points due to suspicion on attempted bribery of referees in the 2003–04 season (Pinto da Costa denied it and investigation proved that the club was innocent).[2]

  • Last updated: 09 May 2010
  • Pos. = Position; Pl = Match played; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Lost; GS = Goal Scored; GA = Goal Against; Pts = Points

Statistics

  • Participations in the Portuguese top-level division: 76
    • Games played: 1988
    • Games won: 1287
    • Games drawn: 369
    • Games lost: 332
    • Goals scored: 4427 (average 2.23 per game)
    • Goals conceded: 1876 (average 0.94 per game)
    • Best position: Champion (24times)
    • Worst position: 9th (1969-70)
    • Season with more points: 67 in 1990-91 (2 points per win) and 86 in 2002-03 (3 points per win)
  • Player with most games: João Domingos Pinto with 407
  • Player with most goals: Fernando Gomes with 288
  • Manager with most games: Pedroto with 236

Stadium

Main article: Estádio do Dragão
Main Entrance

Porto's home games are played at Estádio do Dragão (English: Dragon's Stadium) in Porto. Built as a replacement for FC Porto's old ground, Estádio das Antas, and as a venue for UEFA Euro 2004, Estádio do Dragão has an all-seated capacity of 50,399. The stadium's name is derived from the presence of a dragon on the crest of the city of Porto during the Monarchy, which is also the nickname of Porto fans.

Designed by Manuel Salgado and built by the Grupo Amorim, it cost €97.755.318, of which €18.430.956 was supported by the Portuguese taxpayers. To support costs, each stand carries one or two sponsor names, EDP for the south end, TMN and SAPO ADSL in the east stands, PT and Meo for the west stands, and finally Coca-Cola in the north stands. Away fans are placed in the left corner of the North stand, while Porto supporter groups ("SuperDragões" and "Colectivo Ultras 95") are at each end, although initially both groups were in the South stand. Sony's IP cameras enable around-the-clock surveillance at FC Porto [1] as a security measure.

Current 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
1 GK Brazil BRA Helton
2 DF Portugal POR Bruno Alves (captain)
3 MF Portugal POR Raul Meireles (vice-captain)
6 MF Colombia COL Freddy Guarín
7 MF Argentina ARG Fernando Belluschi
8 MF Argentina ARG Diego Valeri
9 FW Colombia COL Radamel Falcao
10 MF Uruguay URU Cristian Rodríguez
11 FW Argentina ARG Mariano González
12 FW Brazil BRA Hulk
13 DF Uruguay URU Jorge Fucile
14 DF Portugal POR Rolando
15 DF Uruguay URU Álvaro Pereira
No. Pos. Nation Player
16 DF Brazil BRA Maicon
17 FW Portugal POR Silvestre Varela
18 DF Portugal POR Nuno André Coelho
19 FW Argentina ARG Ernesto Farías
20 MF Argentina ARG Tomás Costa
22 DF Portugal POR Miguel Lopes
23 DF Ghana GHA David Addy
24 GK Portugal POR Beto
25 MF Brazil BRA Fernando
28 MF Portugal POR Rúben Micael
29 FW Portugal POR Orlando Sá
33 GK Portugal POR Nuno
- FW Portugal POR Ukra
- FW Portugal POR Sereno

Transfers 2009/10

In

Out

List of transfers of Portuguese Liga 2009-10 season

Finances:

  • Total income Increase €71.05 million
  • Total spending: Decrease €28.48 million

Out on loan

Liga Sagres:

Liga Vitalis:

Other countries:

Superleague Formula

Main article: F.C. Porto (Superleague Formula team)

F.C. Porto has a team in the Superleague Formula race car series where football teams lend their name to cars. Alan Docking Racing and Hitech Racing have operated the car. Ex Champ Car World Series driver Tristan Gommendy has drove the Porto car for most of the races, gaining 2 wins. Álvaro Parente drove the F.C. Porto car at 1 round at the Estoril Circuit, gaining 1 home win for the club.

Other sports

Notes and references

  1. ^ "História Dos Estádios". FC Porto.pt.
  2. ^ "Porto docked points, Boavista demoted". uefa.com. 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-12. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

External links

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