FC Porto (handball)
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| Full name | Futebol Clube do Porto | ||
| Founded | 5 October 1932 | ||
| Arena | Dragão Caixa | ||
| Capacity | 2,200 | ||
| President | Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa | ||
| Head coach | Ricardo Costa | ||
| League | Andebol 1 | ||
| 2014–15 | 1st | ||
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| Website Official site | |||
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The FC Porto handball team is the senior representative of the handball section of FC Porto, a Portuguese sports club based in Porto. The team competes in the Andebol 1, the top-tier domestic league, and plays its home matches at the Dragão Caixa arena.
The current head coach is former club player and captain Ricardo Costa, who replaced six-time champion Serbian coach Ljubomir Obradović in the beginning of the 2015–16 season.
History
The section started in 1932 with a field handball (eleven-a-side) team, which played competitive matches until 1974–75, when the discipline was discontinued in favour of the current seven-a-side handball. In this period, the club won 37 regional league titles and 29 national league titles.[1]
In 1951 the club established the handball section whose team won the Portuguese league for the first time in the 1953–54 season, having increased that tally with a further eight titles by 1968.[2]
Porto endured a 31-year drought before winning the national league again in the 1998–99 season. In the 2014–15 season, the team secured their seventh consecutive league title, establishing a national handball record.[3] In the previous season, the team also debuted in the EHF Champions League group stage, after overcoming the qualification tournament for the first time in five consecutive attempts.[4]
Honours
The club is one of the most successful in domestic competitions, holding the record for the most league, league cup, and super cup titles.[5]
Domestic
- Portuguese Handball First Division: 20 (record)
- 1953–54, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1967–68, 1998–99, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15
- Portuguese Handball Cup: 7
- 1975–76, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1993–94, 2005–06, 2006–07
- Portuguese Handball League Cup: 3 (record)
- 2003–04, 2004–05, 2007–08
- Portuguese Handball Super Cup: 6 (shared record)
- 1994–95, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2009–10, 2013–14
International
- Limburgse Handbal Dagen: 2[6]
- 2009, 2012
- Torneio Internacional de Gaia: 1
Players
Current squad
Below are the players that constitute the 2015–16 squad:[9]
| No. | Name | Position | Height | Birth date (age) | 2014–15 team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Alfredo Quintana
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Goalkeeper | 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) | 20 March 1988 | FC Porto |
| 5 |  Gilberto Duarte
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Left back | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | 6 July 1990 | FC Porto |
| 6 |  Leandro Semedo
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Left back | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) | 24 February 1994 | FC Porto |
| 7 | Edgar Landim
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Left back | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) | 15 June 1987 | Belenenses |
| 8 | Yoel Cuni Morales
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Right back | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) | 15 February 1987 | Madeira SAD |
| 9 |  Gustavo Rodrigues
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Right back | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | 8 January 1990 | EC Pinheiros |
| 10 | Miguel Martins
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Centre back | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | 4 November 1997 | FC Porto |
| 12 | David Sousa
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Goalkeeper | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | 5 February 1997 | FC Porto |
| 14 | Rui Silva
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Central | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | 28 April 1993 | Sporting CP |
| 15 | Daymaro Salina
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Pivot | 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) | 1 September 1987 | FC Porto |
| 16 | Hugo Laurentino
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Goalkeeper | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | 22 July 1984 | FC Porto |
| 17 | Nuno Gonçalves
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Left back | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | 24 March 1993 | FC Porto |
| 19 | Ricardo Moreira
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Right wing | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | 28 April 1982 | FC Porto |
| 22 | Alexis Borges
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Pivot | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | 6 October 1991 | FC Porto |
| 24 | Hugo Santos
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Left wing | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | 2 March 1992 | FC Porto |
| 25 | António Areia
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Right wing | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | 21 June 1990 | SL Benfica |
| 26 | Nuno Roque
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Centre back | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | 13 March 1987 | FC Porto |
| 29 | Felisberto Landim
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Pivot | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | 3 November 1992 | Belenenses |
| 97 |  Jordan Pitre
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Left wing | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | 6 April 1992 | Valence |
References
- ^ "Lista de vencedores de provas nacionais – Andebol de 11 (masculinos)" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Federação Portuguesa de Andebol. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- ^ "Lista de vencedores de provas nacionais – Séniores masculinos" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Federação Portuguesa de Andebol. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- ^ "FC Porto é o primeiro hexacampeão do andebol português" (in Portuguese). Público. 24 May 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- ^ Pazen, Björn (14 July 2013). "New Port for Champions League fleet". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
- ^ "Handball – Honours". FC Porto. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
- ^ "Limburgse Handbal Dagen History". lhd.nl. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- ^ "Dragões conquistam Torneio Internacional de Gaia" [Dragons conquer Gaia International Tournament] (in Portuguese). FC Porto. 16 August 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ^ "FC Porto vence Torneio Internacional de Gaia" [FC Porto wins Gaia International Tournament] (in Portuguese). SAPO Desporto. 16 August 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ^ "Handball – Squad". FC Porto. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
