Football in Portugal
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Football in Portugal | |
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Country | Portugal |
Governing body | FPF |
National team(s) | Men's national team |
First played | 1875 |
National competitions | |
Club competitions | |
International competitions | |
Association football (Portuguese: futebol), the most popular sport in Portugal, has a long and storied history in the country, following its introduction in 1875 in cities such as Funchal, Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra by English merchants and Portuguese students arriving back home from studying in England. This led to the establishment of local clubs dedicated to the practice of the sport.
Initially, football was played between neighbour clubs, but soon enough citywide and regional tournaments started to take place around the nation. Soon after the start of the 20th century, the need to establish which club was the best in Portugal culminated with the organizing of the "Campeonato de Portugal" (now known as "Taça de Portugal"), with subsequent bragging rights going mostly to clubs from Lisbon and Porto.
Portugal's top domestic league, the Primeira Liga, was founded in 1934 and is home to internationally successful clubs such as S.L. Benfica, FC Porto and Sporting CP – the "Big Three", who usually dominate the league. With a combined eleven trophies won to date, the measure of success by Portuguese clubs in international competition is as follows: four European Cup/UEFA Champions League, two UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League, one European Cup Winners' Cup, one UEFA Intertoto Cup, one UEFA Super Cup and two Intercontinental Cup/Toyota Cup.
Despite the production of footballers such as
History
Early history
Football started to gain popularity in Portugal in the late 19th century, brought by Portuguese students who returned from England.[1]
The first organized game in the country took place in 1875 in Camacha, Madeira, organized by Madeira-born Harry Hinton, who brought a football from England where he was studying. Popularity quickly spread across the island. Harry would go on to become honorary president of C.S. Marítimo.[2] [3]
The Pinto Basto brothers,
The first football club to have been founded in Portugal was Club Lisbonense in 1892, which was founded by the Pinto Basto brothers together with other football pioneers in the city such as the Vilar brothers (Carlos and Afonso) and Paiva Raposo. Club Lisbonense played its first games against the English from Carcavelos, who would eventually organize themselves into a Club, the Carcavelos Club.[4] These two groups were the first promoters of football in Lisbon, and football began taking root in the city, especially among the youth, thus the game soon reached colleges and so, Lisbonense and Carcavelos are joined by a team made up of students from Colégio Villar.[4] The three groups began to play several matches against each other and were eventually joined by a team of Braço de Prata, which included several Englishmen and build-up an Invictus status. However, a certain Clube de Lisboa committed the feat of beating the "invincible" team of Braço de Prata by 2–0 in 1903.[4] In April 1893, the Estrela Foot-Ball Club appears, captained by Commander Joaquim Costa.[4]
Then came the presentation of a football team from the Club Tauromático Group, which again included the three brothers Pinto Basto (Guilherme, Eduardo, and Frederico), among others, such as Hugo O'Neil, who had played in the 1888 game.[4] At the end of January 1893, however, the Group of Club Tauromático becomes the Grupo dos Irmãos Pinto Basto (English: Pinto Basto Brothers Group). Moreover, the Pinto Basto brothers, in addition to being part of and playing for several clubs already, had their own group, the "Foot-Ball Club Swifts", where Guilherme was the captain and his brother Eduardo was the sub-captain.[4]
On 28 September 1893, Foot-Ball Club do Porto was reportedly organized in Porto, which was the first football club to be established in the North of the country (according to some sources, it is the club currently known as FC Porto,[8] including the club itself since 1982, while other sources claim it to be two separate entities. According to the club's history book prior to 1982, FC Porto was founded on 2 August 1906).[9] In February 1894, the students of Casa Pia in Lisbon organize their football group. Other clubs who emerged around this time were Foot-Ball Académico, in 1895, and Clube de Campo de Ourique, in 1896.[4] This was followed by a period of some lack of interest in football (1896–99), due to the lack of fields, goals, equipment, and the rudeness of its practice, with the local press even starting to call it the "kickback" game. During this period it was Casa Pia, which emerged in 1892, who came to play the most important role in the expansion and progress of football.[4]
The first cup match in the country was held in Porto on 2 March 1894, and it was attended by King Carlos and Queen Amelia.[10] This is possibly the first match in which extra time was played as the royal couple arrived too late to see the first half and the Queen demanded that the game continue after the end, because she was enjoying it so much.[7]
By century's end, associations such as Clube Lisbonense, Carcavelos Sport Club, Braço de Prata, Real Ginásio Clube Português, Estrela Futebol Clube, Futebol Académico, Campo de Ourique, Foot-Ball Club do Porto, and Sport Clube Vianense had been founded.
The failed attempts to reorganize Club Lisbonense (1892) and Grupo Estrela (1893) paved the way for the appearance of the Club Internacional de Foot-Ball (CIF) on 8 December 1902, which was the natural extension of the Grupo dos Irmãos Pinto Basto and the Foot-Ball Club Swits. CIF was the first Portuguese club to play abroad, defeating Madrid Fútbol Clube in 1907 in Madrid.[4]
On 31 March 1914, the three regional associations that existed in Portugal (Lisbon, Portalegre, and Porto) merged to create a national association called a União Portuguesa de Futebol, the predecessor of the current national association, the Portuguese Football Federation, which was formed on 28 May 1926.
Golden age
The Portuguese were one of the first Europeans to explore Africa. They have influenced a lot of their former colonies, notably in the realm of football. This was mostly due to the concept of
Recent history
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Club football
The main domestic football competition is the
One of the oldest clubs still in existence is
After the end of World War I, the sprouting of football clubs all over the country gained momentum and, in the 1920s,
At European level, before the advent of UEFA-sanctioned competitions, such as the European Cup, the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, and the European Cup Winners' Cup/UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, which became regularly scheduled competitions, Benfica won the now defunct Latin Cup, a competition organized annually by the football associations of France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s, involving those nations' top teams.
List of teams (2022–23 season)
Conventional name | UEFA short name | Official name | Location |
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Arouca | F.C. Arouca | Futebol Clube de Arouca | Arouca
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Benfica | S.L. Benfica | Sport Lisboa e Benfica | Lisbon |
Boavista | Boavista F.C. | Boavista Futebol Clube | Porto |
Braga | S.C. Braga | Sporting Clube de Braga | Braga |
Casa Pia | Casa Pia A.C. | Casa Pia Atlético Clube | Lisbon |
Chaves | G.D. Chaves | Grupo Desportivo Chaves | Chaves |
Estoril | G.D. Estoril Praia | Grupo Desportivo Estoril Praia | Estoril |
Famalicão | F.C. Famalicão | Futebol Clube de Famalicão | Vila Nova de Famalicão |
Gil Vicente | Gil Vicente F.C. | Gil Vicente Futebol Clube | Barcelos |
Marítimo | C.S. Marítimo | Club Sport Marítimo | Madeira
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Paços de Ferreira | F.C. Paços de Ferreira | Futebol Clube Paços de Ferreira | Paços de Ferreira |
Portimonense | Portimonense S.C. | Portimonense Sporting Clube | Portimão |
Porto | FC Porto | Futebol Clube do Porto | Porto |
Rio Ave | Rio Ave F.C. | Rio Ave Futebol Clube | Vila do Conde |
Santa Clara | C.D. Santa Clara | Clube Desportivo Santa Clara | Ponta Delgada |
Sporting | Sporting CP | Sporting Clube de Portugal | Lisbon |
Vitória de Guimarães/Guimarães | Vitória S.C. | Vitória Sport Clube | Guimarães |
Vizela | F.C. Vizela | Futebol Clube de Vizela | Vizela |
List of teams by major honours
Below is listed every team to have won any of the major domestic competitions (organized by
, although created by FIFA, is not included.)Bold denotes club with the most number of trophies in specified category.
Club | Domestic | Europe | Defunct | Total | Most recent trophy | |||||||||
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League | Cup | League Cup | Super Cup | Champions League | Europa League | Super Cup | Championship | Cup Winners' Cup | Intertoto Cup | Intercontinental Cup | ||||
Benfica | 38 | 26 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 85 | 2023 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira | ||||||
Porto | 30 | 19 | 1 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 84 | 2022–23 Taça de Portugal | |||
Sporting CP | 19 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 54 | 2021–22 Taça da Liga | ||||||
Boavista | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 2000–01 Primeira Liga | |||||||||
Braga | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 2023–24 Taça da Liga | |||||||||
Belenenses | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 1988–89 Taça de Portugal
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Vitória de Setúbal | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2007–08 Taça da Liga | ||||||||||
Académica
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2 | 2 | 2011–12 Taça de Portugal | |||||||||||
Vitória de Guimarães | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2012–13 Taça de Portugal | ||||||||||
Leixões | 1 | 1 | 1960–61 Taça de Portugal
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Estrela da Amadora | 1 | 1 | 1989–90 Taça de Portugal
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Beira-Mar | 1 | 1 | 1998–99 Taça de Portugal | |||||||||||
Aves | 1 | 1 | 2017–18 Taça de Portugal | |||||||||||
Moreirense | 1 | 1 | 2016–17 Taça da Liga | |||||||||||
Olhanense | 1 | 1 | 1923–24 Campeonato de Portugal | |||||||||||
Marítimo | 1 | 1 | 1925–26 Campeonato de Portugal | |||||||||||
Carcavelinhos[a] | 1 | 1 | 1927–28 Campeonato de Portugal |
National team
On 26 May 2010,
In 2004 Portugal hosted
Following the retirement of all players from its "golden generation", Portugal, led by manager
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Estádio da Luz
Capacity: 65,647 -
Estádio do Dragão
Capacity: 50,948 -
Estádio José Alvalade
Capacity: 50,466 -
Estádio Nacional
Capacity: 37,593 -
Estádio Municipal de Aveiro
Capacity: 30,498
Portugal also participates to the Lusofonia Games and takes part in its football tournaments. In 2014, Portugal was one of the eight nations to take part in the first Unity World Cup.
Notes
- ^ Carcavelinhos is an extinct club. It merged with União de Lisboa in 1942, resulting in Atlético de Portugal.
See also
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