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Braga
Full nameSporting Clube de Braga
Nickname(s)Os Arcebispos (The Archbishops)
Os Arsenalistas (The Arsenalists)
Minhotos (Those from Minho)
Os Guerreiros do Minho (The Minho Warriors)
Founded19 January 1921; 103 years ago (1921-01-19)
GroundEstádio Municipal de Braga
Capacity30,286
ChairmanAntónio Salvador
Head coachAbel Ferreira
LeaguePrimeira Liga
2017–18Primeira Liga, 4th
Websitehttp://www.scbraga.pt
Current season

Sporting Clube de Braga (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈspɔɾtĩŋ ˈkluβ(ɨ) ðɨ ˈβɾaɣɐ]) (Euronext: SCB), commonly known as Sporting de Braga or just Braga, is a Portuguese sports club from the city of Braga. Its football team plays in the Primeira Liga (the top tier of Portuguese football) at the Estádio Municipal de Braga (also known as The Quarry).

Domestically, Braga have won the 1965–66 and 2015–16 Taça de Portugal and the 2012–13 Taça da Liga. In the 2000s, the club gradually became one of Portugal's most decorated clubs (7th) after the Big Three and has competed with some success in European competitions, winning the last ever UEFA Intertoto Cup (the only Portuguese club to do so) in 2008 and reaching the final of the UEFA Europa League in 2011. After finishing in second place for the only time to date in the 2009–10 Primeira Liga, Braga achieved a place in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League for the first time in its history by eliminating Celtic and Sevilla. Braga also qualified for the group stage of the Champions League in 2012–13 by eliminating Udinese.

History

Braga changed their kits from green and white to their Arsenal-style red during the 1945–46 (with the reserve squad) and the 1946–47 (with the main team) seasons due to their president José Antunes Guimarães who had business connections in London and was an Arsenal fan (this is one version of the story: the other one says that Josef Szabó, a Hungarian coach who loved Arsenal's playing style asked the president to change the green and white uniform to an Arsenal-style red). That year (1947), Braga won the Second division title reaching the First division for the first time. Braga even renamed their youth team Arsenal de Braga.

One of the first matches played in Arsenal-style kits against R C Celta Vigo

Braga's emblem is the city of Braga's shield with Mother Mary and baby Jesus with the blue from the city's shield changed to red. On the top of the emblem is the golden Mural Crown of Braga, with the name "Sporting Clube de Braga" on it. Many Braga fans have said that Mother Mary gives them luck. The fans of Braga are known as Arsenalistas due to their team home kit that resembles that of English club Arsenal.[1] They are also known as Bracarenses because of being from the city of Bracari, later named Bracara Augusta, city of Portugal that is now known as Braga.

Aside from the loyalty of its supporters, the Minho derby against Vitória de Guimarães is a match that both sets of fans eagerly await. This match is more than football – it is a way people from the north view each city. The derby is one of Portugal's most intense matches, and children under 13 are restricted from entering unless an adult is with them. The rivalry goes back to when the City of Braga was the ancient capital of Gallaecia and the largest Portuguese city by the time the Kingdom of Portugal was formed by Afonso I of Portugal. At that time, Guimarães became the seat of the King and nobility, whereas the city of Braga remained the centre of trade and religious power (the largest city and seat of the Archbishop).

European ambitions and recent history

Braga's ranking in Europe since 2003
Season UEFA Ranking Points
2003–04  –  –
2004–05 139th 15.739
2005–06 136th 17.533
2006–07 96th 27.107
2007–08 79th 33.176
2008–09 50th 39.292
2009–10 48th 39.659
2010–11 28th 62.319
2011–12 29th 63.069
2012–13 29th Steady 62.833
2013–14 40th 52.959
2014–15 37th 51.776
2015–16 46th 43.116
2016–17 55th 37.366

In the 1960s and 1970s, Braga began to climb up the league ladder and eventually participated in the UEFA competitions. Braga's recent run of successive European participations began in the 2004–05 UEFA Cup after finishing fifth in the league under Jesualdo Ferreira's first full season in the club. This marked the beginning of the club's rise in success both in the Premeira Liga and Europe. In the 2005–06, Braga challenged for the championship until the penultimate round, finishing in fourth place. In 2006–07, Portuguese up-and-coming manager Carlos Carvalhal became manager of the club and started with a poor start to the season, losing to AZ in the UEFA Cup despite crushing Czech champions Slovan Liberec 4–0 (which had drawn against Sevilla only a week before), and a 4–1 loss to Madeiran side Marítimo. These losses proved to be the end of his season, despite success in European competitions, with an overall score of 3–2 against Italian club Chievo in the first round of the UEFA Cup.

Carvalhal resigned and was replaced with Rogério Gonçalves, with former Portugal national team captain Jorge Costa his assistant manager. Gonçalves' first game in charge was a 3–1 over Benfica, and a week after a hard-fought loss against UEFA Cup and UEFA Super Cup champions Sevilla at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium. After a 1–0 away defeat to União de Leiria in a league match on 18 February 2007, Gonçalves resigned. Braga president António Salvador announced on the same day that assistant manager Jorge Costa would be in charge until the end of the 2006–07 season. In his first game, Braga beat Parma 1–0 (2–0 on aggregate). The club then played Tottenham Hotspur, where it lost 6–4 on aggregate in the round of 16. Braga eventually finished fourth in the league for the third-straight year, just topping fifth-placed Belenenses by a point on the final matchday.

During the summer of June 2007, it was announced that French insurance company AXA would be the club's sponsor in a multimillion-dollar deal in which the name of the stadium was changed to Estádio AXA, with this being the first in Portugal.

After the 2006–07 season, Braga qualified for the UEFA Cup, where they faced Hammarby IF. Despite losing the first leg in Sweden 2–1, Braga won at home 4–0 to qualify to the group stage for the third consecutive time. There, its first game was against Bolton Wanderers, a 1–1 draw. Braga then played German giants Bayern Munich, favourites to win the competition. Despite the negative feedback, Braga drew 1–1 after Roland Linz scoring the vital goal. After that impressive display, Braga faced Aris with another 1–1 draw, with Linz scoring another vital goal for the Minhotos. Braga then went into the last game against Red Star Belgrade, where it achieved a 2–0 victory, enough to take the club into the next round to face Werder Bremen. Braga lost the first leg 3–0 (in which the club missed two penalties) and the second 1–0.

The 2008–09 UEFA Cup campaign saw Braga play Bosnian side HŠK Zrinjski Mostar, which dropped from the Champions League second qualifying round. Braga started as favourites and beat Zrinjski Mostar 3–0 on aggregate. In the next phase, the Minho side were paired with Artmedia Petržalka, which Braga defeated 6–0 on aggregate on the strength of an Albert Meyong hat-trick.

After qualifying for the UEFA Cup group stage proper for a third successive season, Braga was paired with FA Cup winners Portsmouth, Milan, VfL Wolfsburg and Heerenveen. Braga started the match at home to Portsmouth and were convincing 3–0 winners, with Luis Aguiar scoring from a free-kick and setting up the other two goals. In the next group match, Braga faced a daunting task at the San Siro against competition favourites Milan. The game finished in a 1–0 defeat for the Portuguese side. Despite the loss, Braga dominated the game for many long periods of time, holding the Italians to 0–0 after 93 minutes, but an individual goal from Ronaldinho from 35 metres out gave the Italians the full three points. The next game was against Felix Magath's Wolfsburg, where Braga lost 3–2 despite scoring the first two goals. The last game was at the Abe Lenstra Stadion in the Netherlands against Heerenveen. Braga won the game 2–1 and progressed to the next stage. After progressing further in the UEFA Cup than any of their ten fellow winners of the UEFA Intertoto Cup, Braga were declared the last outright champions of the competition.

In the 2010–11 season, Braga made its Champions League debut at home in a 3–0 win against Celtic in the first leg of the third qualifying round.[2] It lost the second leg away at Celtic Park 2–1, but went through to the play-off round on an aggregate score of 4–2.[3] In the fourth qualifying round, Braga beat Sevilla 1–0 at home and 4–3 away, thus entering the Champions League group stage for the first time.[4] On 15 September 2010, Braga were heavily defeated 6–0 by Arsenal in its first group stage match.[5] On 28 September, Braga lost 3–0 against Shakhtar Donetsk, but on 19 October, Braga defeated Partizan 2–0. Two weeks later, on 3 November, Braga won 1–0 against Partizan in Belgrade.

On 23 November, Braga beat Arsenal 2–0 at home, keeping its hopes of qualifying for the knockout stages alive if it could better Arsenal's result during the final round of matches. On 9 December, however, Braga lost 2–0 to Shakhtar while Arsenal beat Partizan 3–1. The results meant that Shakhtar and Arsenal progressed to the second round, but Braga finished third in the group to qualify for the knockout stage of the Europa League, where it would come to eliminate Lech Poznań, Liverpool and Dynamo Kyiv to reach the semi-finals of the competition, the first time Braga reached both the quarter-finals and semi-finals of a European competition. It was also the first time three Portuguese clubs – Braga, Benfica and Porto – reached the Europa League semi-finals simultaneously. On 28 April, Braga lost 2–1 against Benfica in the first leg of the semi-finals. On 5 May, Braga went on to win the tie in the second leg with a 1–0 home win to reach the tournament final. On 18 May, Braga lost the final 1–0 to Porto.

In the 2012–13 season, Braga played for the second time in the group stage of the Champions League after eliminating Udinese in the play-off round, winning in penalties after the first and second legs ended in 1–1 draws.[6][7][8] Braga lost its first game of the group stage of the Champions League to CFR Cluj at home, 2–0, and won its second after defeating Galatasaray in Istanbul, 2–0. In its third match, Braga visited Old Trafford to lose 3–2 to Manchester United, despite once leading the match 0–2. On the fourth matchday, Braga received Manchester United but, after keeping a one-goal advantage until the 80th minute, it eventually conceded three goals to lose 1–3. During its domestic season, it finished in fourth place, behind Paços de Ferreira, which earned the Primeira Liga's final Champions League position.

Braga then reached back-to-back Taça de Portugal finals in 2015 and 2016. In the 2015 final, Braga led Sporting CP 2–0, but Sporting scored twice in the final few minutes – including a 93rd-minute equaliser – to send the match to extra time and a penalty shoot-out, which Sporting won. A year later, Braga once again saw a 2–0 lead disappear, this time against Porto, which also equalized in injury time and took the game to a penalty shoot-out. This time, however, Braga prevailed for its second cup victory and first since 1966.

League and cup history

See also: List of S.C. Braga seasons

Recent seasons

Season League Cup League Cup Europe (UEFA) Notes
Div. Pos. Pl W D L GS GA Pts Result Result Competition Result
2009–10 1st 2nd 30 22 5 3 48 20 71 QF 3R Europa League 3QR [A]
2010–11 4th 30 13 7 10 45 33 46 R32 3R Champions League GS [B][C][D]
Europa League RU
2011–12 3rd 30 19 5 6 59 29 62 R32 SF Europa League R32
2012–13 4th 30 16 4 10 60 44 52 QF W Champions League GS
2013–14 9th 30 10 7 13 39 37 37 SF SF Europa League PO
2014–15 4th 34 17 7 10 55 28 58 RU 3R  –  –
2015–16 4th 34 16 10 8 54 35 58 W SF Europa League QF
2016–17 5th 34 15 9 10 51 36 54 R16 RU Europa League GS
2017–18 4th 34 24 3 7 74 29 75 R32 3R Europa League R32

A. ^ Best league finish.
B. ^ First presence in the UEFA Champions League.
C. ^ Braga started season in the 2010–11 UEFA Champions League and later joined UEFA Europa League after finishing 3rd in the group stage.
D. ^ Best European competition finish.

Last updated: 3 October 2018

Honours

[9] [10]

National

  • Winners (2): 1946–47, 1963–64

International

  • Winners (1): 2008 (Outright Winner)

Other

  • Winners (1): 1976–77 (First Division)
  • Runners-up (1): 1970–71

European record

Main article: S.C. Braga in European football

Update: 23 July 2018

Overview

Competition Appearances Matches Títles Best
UEFA Champions League 2 18 (7W 2D 9L) - Group Stage (10/11 and 12/13)
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 3 10 (6W 1D 3L) - Last 16 (66/67 and 98/99)
UEFA Europa League 16 94 (38W 22D 34L) - Runner-up (10/11)
UEFA Intertoto Cup 1 2 (2W 0D 0L) 1 Champion (08/09)
Total 22 124 (53W 25D 46L) 1

Matches

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
1966–67 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup R1 Greece AEK Athens 3–2 1–0 4–2
R2 Hungary Raba ETO Győr 2–0 0–3 2–3
1978–79 UEFA Cup R1 Malta Hibernians 5–0 2–3 7–3
R2 England West Bromwich Albion 0–2 0–1 0–3
1982–83 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Pre Wales Swansea City 1–0 0–3 1–3
1984–85 UEFA Cup R1 England Tottenham Hotspur 0–3 0–6 0–9
1997–98 UEFA Cup R1 Netherlands Vitesse 2–0 1–2 3–2
R2 Georgia (country) Dinamo Tbilisi 4–0 1–0 5–0
R3 Germany Schalke 04 0–0 0–2 0–2
1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup R1 Latvia Liepājas Metalurgs 4–0 0–0 4–0
R2 Russia Lokomotiv Moscow 1–0 1–3 2–3
2004–05 UEFA Cup R1 Scotland Hearts 2–2 1–3 3–5
2005–06 UEFA Cup R1 Serbia Red Star Belgrade 1–1 0–0 1–1 (a)
2006–07 UEFA Cup R1 Italy Chievo 2–0 1–2 (a.e.t.) 3–2
GS Netherlands AZ Alkmaar  – 0–3 3rd
Czech Republic Slovan Liberec 4–0  –
Spain Sevilla  – 0–2
Switzerland Grasshopper 2–0  –
L32 Italy Parma 1–0 1–0 2–0
L16 England Tottenham Hotspur 2–3 2–3 4–6
2007–08 UEFA Cup R1 Sweden Hammarby 4–0 1–2 5–2
GS England Bolton Wanderers  – 1–1 2nd
Germany Bayern Munich 1–1  –
Greece Aris  – 1–1
Serbia Red Star Belgrade 2–0  –
L32 Germany Werder Bremen 0–1 0–3 0–4
2008–09 UEFA Intertoto Cup R3 Turkey Sivasspor 3–0 2–0 5–0
2008–09 UEFA Cup Q2 Bosnia and Herzegovina Zrinjski Mostar 1–0 2–0 3–0
R1 Slovakia Artmedia Petržalka 4–0 2–0 6–0
GS England Portsmouth 3–0  – 3rd
Italy Milan  – 0–1
Germany VfL Wolfsburg 2–3  –
Netherlands Heerenveen  – 2–1
L32 Belgium Standard Liège 3–0 1–1 4–1
L16 France Paris Saint-Germain 0–1 0–0 0–1
2009–10 UEFA Europa League Q3 Sweden Elfsborg 1–2 0–2 1–4
2010–11 UEFA Champions League Q3 Scotland Celtic 3–0 1–2 4–2
PO Spain Sevilla 1–0 4–3 5–3
GS England Arsenal 2–0 0–6 3rd
Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk 0–3 0–2
Serbia Partizan 2–0 0–1
2010–11 UEFA Europa League L32 Poland Lech Poznań 2–0 0–1 2–1
L16 England Liverpool 1–0 0–0 1–0
QF Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv 0–0 1–1 1–1 (a)
SF Portugal Benfica 1–0 1–2 2–2 (a)
Final Portugal Porto 0–1
2011–12 UEFA Europa League PO Switzerland Young Boys 0–0 2–2 2–2 (a)
GS Belgium Club Brugge 1–2 1–1 2nd
England Birmingham City 1–0 3–1
Slovenia Maribor 5–1 1–1
L32 Turkey Beşiktaş 0–2 1–0 1–2
2012–13 UEFA Champions League PO Italy Udinese 1–1 1–1 (5–4 pens) 1–1 (5–4)
GS Romania CFR Cluj 0–2 1–3 4th
Turkey Galatasaray 1–2 2–0
England Manchester United 1–3 2–3
2013–14 UEFA Europa League PO Romania Pandurii Târgu Jiu 0–2 (a.e.t.) 1–0 1–2
2015–16 UEFA Europa League GS France Marseille 3–2 0–1 1st
Czech Republic Slovan Liberec 2–1 1–0
Netherlands Groningen 1–0 0–0
L32 Switzerland Sion 2–2 2–1 4–3
L16 Turkey Fenerbahçe 4–1 0–1 4–2
QF Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk 1–2 0–4 1–6
2016–17 UEFA Europa League GS Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk 2–4 0–2 3rd
Belgium Gent 1–1 2–2
Turkey Konyaspor 2–1 1–1
2017–18 UEFA Europa League Q3 Sweden AIK Stockholm 2–1 (a.e.t.) 1–1 3–2
PO Iceland FH Hafnarfjardar 3–2 2–1 5–3
GS Bulgaria Ludogorets Razgrad 0–2 1–1 1st
Germany 1899 Hoffenheim 3–1 2–1
Turkey İstanbul Başakşehir 1–2 2–1
L32 France Marseille 1–0 0–3 1–3
2018–19 UEFA Europa League Q3 Ukraine Zorya Luhansk 2–2 1−1 3–3(a)
Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate

Players

Current squad

As of 1 September 2018

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 Matheus
2 DF Portugal POR Diogo Figueiras
3 DF Serbia SRB Lazar Rosić
4 DF Brazil BRA Lucas Cunha
5 DF Portugal POR Nuno Sequeira
6 DF Brazil BRA Ailton
7 FW Portugal POR Wilson Eduardo
8 MF Brazil BRA Ricardo Ribeiro
10 MF Portugal POR Xadas
11 MF Brazil BRA Eduardo Teixeira
12 GK Portugal POR Tiago Sá
14 DF Brazil BRA Pablo Santos
17 MF Portugal POR João Novais
19 FW Brazil BRA Murilo
No. Pos. Nation Player
20 FW Portugal POR Paulinho
21 MF Portugal POR Ricardo Horta
24 DF Portugal POR Ricardo Ferreira
25 MF Brazil BRA Claudemir
26 FW Portugal POR Fábio Martins
27 MF Brazil BRA Fransérgio
28 GK Portugal POR Marafona
34 DF Brazil BRA Raul Silva
36 DF Brazil BRA Bruno Viana
47 DF Portugal POR Ricardo Esgaio
55 FW South Africa RSA Luther Singh
60 MF Portugal POR João Palhinha
87 DF Brazil BRA Marcelo Goiano
99 FW Brazil BRA Dyego Sousa

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
— DF Croatia CRO Andrej Lukić (at Apollon Smyrnis)
— DF Portugal POR Rui Silva (at Santa Clara)
— MF Brazil BRA Alef (at AEK Athens)
— MF Portugal POR Bruno Jordão (at Lazio)
— MF Montenegro MNE Marko Bakić (at Mouscron)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Senegal SEN Mamadou Loum (at Moreirense)
— FW Brazil BRA Crislan (at Shimizu S-Pulse)
— FW Portugal POR Pedro Neto (at Lazio)
— FW Serbia SRB Nikola Stojiljković (at Red Star Belgrade)
— FW Egypt EGY Ahmed Hassan (at Olympiacos)

Former managers

References

  1. ^ Braga break into big time, uefa.com. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
  2. ^ "Braga 3 – 0 Celtic". BBC Sport. 28 July 2010. Retrieved 25 August 2010.
  3. ^ Grahame, Ewing (4 August 2010). "Celtic 2 Sporting Braga 1; agg 2–4: match report". The Telegraph. London. Retrieved 25 August 2010.
  4. ^ "Sevilla dumped out by Sporting Braga". CNN.com. 24 August 2010. Retrieved 25 August 2010.
  5. ^ "Arsenal 6 – 0 Braga". BBC Sport. 15 September 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
  6. ^ ""Podíamos ter ganho o jogo nos 90 minutos" – Rúben Micael" ["We could have won the game in 90 minutes" – Rúben Micael]. A Bola. 28 August 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
  7. ^ ""Estou satisfeito e emocionado; fomos uma equipa soberba" – José Peseiro" ["I'm satisfied and emotional; we were a sober team" – José Peseiro]. A Bola. 28 August 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
  8. ^ "Mil adeptos receberam a equipa, Salvador levado em ombros (fotos)" [A thousand fans welcomed the team, Salvador taken on shoulders (photos)]. A Bola. 29 August 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
  9. ^ "SC Braga Honours". record.pt. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  10. ^ "More about SC Braga". fcdynamo.kiev. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  11. ^ Upon the formation of the Liga de Honra (League of Honor), a new second level national league in 1990, the Portuguese Second Division became the third tier of Portuguese football.
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