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Futebol Clube do Porto, MHIH, OM [ 2 ] ( portuguese pronunciation : [ futɨˈβɔl ˈkluβ ( ɨ ) ðu ˈpoɾtu ] ), normally known as FC Porto or just Porto, is a portuguese professional sports club based in Porto. It is best known for the professional football team play in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of portuguese football. Founded on 28 September 1893, Porto is one of the “ Big Three “ ( portuguese : Os Três Grandes ) teams in Portugal – together with Lisbon -based rivals Benfica and Sporting CP, that have appeared in every season of the Primeira Liga since its establishment in 1934. They are nicknamed Dragões ( Dragons ), for the fabulous creature atop the golf club ‘s cap, and Azuis e brancos ( Blue-and-whites ), for the shirt coloring material. Those colours are in stripes with gloomy shorts. The club supporters are called Portistas. Since 2003, Porto have played their home matches at the Estádio do Dragão, which replaced the former 51-year-old land, the Estádio hyrax Antas.

Porto is the second most adorned team in Portugal, with 79 major trophies, of which 72 were achieved in domestic competitions. [ 3 ] These comprise 29 Primeira Liga titles ( five of which were won consecutively between 1994–95 and 1998–99, a portuguese football criminal record ), 17 Taça de Portugal, 4 Campeonato de Portugal, and a record 22 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira. Porto is the second team in portuguese league history to have won two titles without any get the better of, namely in the 2010–11 and 2012–13 seasons. [ 4 ] In the former, Porto achieved the largest-ever difference of points between champion and runner-up in a three-points-per-win organization ( 21 points ), on their way to a second quartet. In international competitions, Porto is the most decorate portuguese team, with seven trophies. They won the european Cup/UEFA Champions League in 1987 and 2004, the UEFA Cup/Europa League in 2003 and 2011, the UEFA Super Cup in 1987, and the Intercontinental Cup in 1987 and 2004. In addition, they were runner-up in the 1983–84 european Cup Winners ‘ Cup, the 2003, 2004 and 2011 editions of the UEFA Super Cup. Porto is the only portuguese club to have won the UEFA Cup/Europa League, the UEFA Super Cup, the Intercontinental Cup, and to have achieved a continental treble of domestic league, domestic cup and european titles ( 2002–03 and 2010–11 ). Porto have the third-most appearances in the UEFA Champions League group stage ( 23 ), behind Barcelona and Real Madrid ( 24 ). At the end of the 2018–19 season, Porto ranked 10th in the UEFA club coefficient rank. [ 5 ]

history [edit ]

early on years ( 1893–1921 ) [edit ]

António Nicolau de Almeida, club founder The club was founded on 28 September 1893 as Foot-Ball Club do Porto by António Nicolau de Almeida, a local port wine merchant and avid sport, who became fascinated with football during his trips to England. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Porto played its first matches with other portuguese clubs, including one against Lisbon ‘s Foot-Ball Club Lisbonense on 2 March 1894. This match had the patronage of King Carlos I and Queen Amélie of Orléans, who travelled to Porto to witness the event and present a trophy to the winners. [ 10 ] Almeida ‘s exuberance and participation with the club waned ascribable to family pressure, and by the plow of the century, Porto had entered a period of inactivity. In 1906, José Monteiro district attorney Costa returned to Porto after finishing his studies in England. Like Almeida, thirteen years ahead, he was besides captivated by the english game, and together with some associates, decided to reintroduce the exercise of football in the city, outside of the british circles. On 2 August 1906, Porto was revived and Monteiro da Costa appointed its president of the united states. Although football was the drive force, the golf club besides promoted other sports, including gymnastics, weightlifting and wrestle, athletics and swimming. shortly after, Porto rented its first land and recruited a french coach named Adolphe Cassaigne, [ 12 ] who would stay in the club until 1925. On 15 December 1907, Porto played its beginning match against a alien team, hosting Spain ‘s real Fortuna. In the following month, Porto returned the visit and played its first gear equal afield. Four years late, the club won the inauguration staging of the Taça José Monteiro district attorney Costa, [ 16 ] securing its first-ever major title. In 1912, Porto joined efforts with Leixões to establish the Porto Football Association, which began organising the regional backing in the follow year. Porto finished the first season as runner-up, behind local rivals Boavista, but in the follow season the clubhouse won its first championship. By the end of the 1920–21 season, Porto had been regional champions six times in seven years, [ 19 ] and instantaneously winners of the Taça José Monteiro district attorney Costa, after claiming a third base straight victory in 1916. [ 16 ]

First national titles and drought years ( 1921–1977 ) [edit ]

The 1921–22 season was marked by the creation of the first nationally football rival – the Campeonato de Portugal. Organised by the national federation, this knockout tournament gathered the winners of the regional championships to determine the portuguese champion. [ 21 ] After clinching its one-fourth consecutive regional title, Porto defeated Sporting CP in the inauguration edition and became the inaugural national champions. [ 22 ] While a prevailing regional force, [ a ] the clubhouse faced stronger opposition in the national backing, winning it only three more times in a span of sixteen years ( 1925, 1932 and 1937 ). [ 22 ] In 1933–34, Porto was denied participation in the Campeonato de Portugal by its football association for refusing to release players for a meet between the Porto and Lisbon regional teams. In the pursue season, a second gear nationally competition named “ Campeonato district attorney Primeira Liga ” ( english : Premier League Championship ), or plainly Primeira Liga, was provisionally established by the national federation to increase the total of matches per season and improve the competitiveness of portuguese football. As the regional supporter, Porto qualified for the foremost edition of the new round-robin rival, winning it with 10 victories in 14 matches. [ 25 ] Due to the achiever of its format, the Primeira Liga was made an official championship competition for the 1938–39 season – its name changed to “ Campeonato Nacional district attorney Primeira Divisão ” ( english : first Division National Championship ) or just Primeira Divisão – and replaced the Campeonato de Portugal, which in turn was converted into the Taça de Portugal, the chief domestic cup competition. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Porto won the inaugural edition of the newly league championship and successfully defended the championship in the future season, despite about failing to take part. [ bacillus ] The club failed to secure a third straight title, and after about missing again a set in the Primeira Divisão in 1941–42, [ c ] it would only return to a top-three finish up in the 1946–47 season. In 1948, Porto defeated english champions Arsenal 3–2 in a friendly meet. To commemorate this victory, the associates offered the club a massive trophy made of 250 kg ( 550 pound ) of silver and wood – the Arsenal Cup. Having endured a 16-year deed drought period, Porto returned to winning ways by taking the 1955–56 Primeira Divisão on neck and neck advantage over runner-up Benfica. Later that season, Porto beat Torreense to win its first Taça de Portugal and achieved its beginning double. [ 32 ] As the Portuguese league winner, Porto made its debut in european competitions by qualifying for the 1956–57 european Cup. The club ‘s first participation was ephemeral, ending in the preliminary round with two defeats against spanish champions Athletic Bilbao. [ 34 ] A year late, Porto lifted its second Taça de Portugal by beating Benfica 1–0 in the final. [ 32 ] In 1958, Béla Guttmann took charge as coach of Porto and helped them overhaul a five-point run enjoyed by Benfica to win the Portuguese League entitle in 1959. [ 35 ] The two clubs met in the season ‘s final examination, but this time Benfica took the trophy and denied a second double for Porto that had won the 1958–59 Primeira Divisão three months before. shortly after, the baseball club entered another lackluster period of its history, the highest degree of which was a victory in the 1968 Taça de Portugal final. During this time, Porto had its worst-ever league classification, a ninth position in 1969–70, while its best league record in that menstruation consisted of six runner-up finishes ( four back-to-back between 1961–62 and 1964–65 ). [ 38 ] In european competitions, the club participated for the first base time in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup ( and its successor, the UEFA Cup ) and in the Cup Winners ‘ Cup, without getting past the third round. [ 39 ] One of the club ‘s most tragic moments occurred on 16 December 1973, when during a league pit against Vitória de Setúbal, the 26-year-old captain Pavão fell unconscious on the pitch and died later at the hospital. [ 41 ] The following month, Porto presented peruvian international Teófilo Cubillas, who became one of the club ‘s most successful players, scoring 65 goals in 108 games .

International affirmation ( 1977–1988 ) [edit ]

The fall of José Maria Pedroto – a former Porto player and head coach in the late 1960s – in the 1976–77 season started a newfangled chapter in the club ‘s history. responsible for the former cup triumph in 1968, Pedroto guided Porto to its fourthly title in the rival. In the stick to season, he put an conclusion to Porto ‘s league title drought, winning the championship 19 years after having played in the team that took the last claim. Internationally, Porto reached the quarter-finals of the 1977–78 Cup Winners ‘ Cup, beating Manchester United along the manner, [ 45 ] but suffered its heaviest get the better of ( 6–1 ) against AEK Athens in the subsequent season ‘s european Cup. [ 7 ] A poor run of performances in the latter part of the season – resulting in the loss of the league and cup titles – sparked a conflict between the technical staff and president of the united states Américo de Sá, which ended with the resignation of Pedroto and his refilling by Hermann Stessl. In December 1981, Porto overcome Benfica to win the inaugural address spy of the Portuguese Super Cup, the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira. [ 47 ] Pedroto returned in April 1982 by the hand of the clubhouse ‘s newly elected president of the united states Jorge Nuno Pinto district attorney Costa, who had resigned as film director of football, two years before, in solidarity with the coach. The former month, Porto fell again in the Cup Winners ‘ Cup quarter-finals against one of the eventual finalists, [ 49 ] but needed merely two years to ultimately reach the rival ‘s concluding. On 16 May 1984, Porto played its first major european final examination in Basel ‘s St. Jakob Stadium, losing 2–1 to Michel Platini ‘s Juventus. [ 50 ] already without Pedroto, who stepped down due to illness, Porto won that season ‘s Taça and Supertaça but lost the backing to Benfica. Under the steer of Pedroto ‘s apprentice, Artur Jorge, the following season brought the Primeira Divisão title rear to the cabaret and crowned homegrown striker Fernando Gomes as Europe ‘s top goalscorer for the second time, after first taking the award in 1983. [ 53 ] Porto retained the league title in 1986, securing an entrance to the 1986–87 european Cup. In the beginning game, the clubhouse recorded its biggest win in european competitions : 9–0 against maltese side Rabat Ajax. [ 7 ] Vítkovice of Czechoslovakia, Brøndby of Denmark, and Dynamo Kyiv of the Soviet Union were successively eliminated as Porto advanced to its first european Cup final, against Bayern Munich. Trailing the Germans 1–0 until the 79th minute, Porto scored twice in two minutes – the first goal through a celebrated backheel from early Algerian external Rabah Madjer, [ 54 ] who assisted Juary for the second – to secure a surprise acquire and the european Cup championship. [ 55 ] The follow season, under new bus Tomislav Ivic, the club completed a treble of international trophies by beating Ajax for the 1987 european Super Cup and Uruguay ‘s Peñarol for the 1987 Intercontinental Cup. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] The 1987–88 season was one of the most successful for the club, who besides won the Taça de Portugal and an expanded 20-team Primeira Divisão with a record number of goals scored ( 88 ) and distance in points to the runner-up ( 15 ). [ d ]

Tri, Tetra, Penta ( 1988–2001 ) [edit ]

In contrast to the previous season, Porto failed to win a trophy in 1988–89, with many of its players struck down with injuries, such as Madjer and Gomes. Fifteen years after his first-team debut, Gomes made his final temper for Porto, where he became the all-time crown goalscorer with 352 goals in 455 matches. The club brought back Artur Jorge, who recovered the Primeira Divisão deed in the follow season and added the Taça and Supertaça trophies in 1991. His successor, brazilian Carlos Alberto Silva, won back-to-back league titles in two seasons and qualify Porto for the first UEFA Champions League. [ 63 ]
Bobby Robson won the first two of Porto’s record five consecutive league titles. Midway through the 1993–94 temper, Porto hired former England director Bobby Robson, who had been sacked by Sporting CP. The club closed the opening to league winners Benfica, reached the 1993–94 UEFA Champions League semi-finals, and ended the season with a victory over Sporting CP in the Taça de Portugal final. In Robson ‘s first full season, Porto claimed the 1994–95 Primeira Divisão title with a winnings at Sporting CP ‘s land and played Benfica four times to secure both the 1993 and 1994 stagings of the Supertaça. [ 47 ] The begin of the season had been clouded by the death of 26-year-old midfielder Rui Filipe, who had scored the club ‘s first league finish. Robson ‘s increasing health problems barred him from leading Porto in the first months of the 1995–96 temper, but he returned in clock time to revalidate the league title. Striker Domingos Paciência became the clubhouse ‘s acme goalscorer for the second gear straight prison term and won that season ‘s Bola de Prata, the last winnings by a Portuguese player. To fill the invalidate left by the passing of Robson for Barcelona, Porto hired former baseball club captain and Portugal national team coach António Oliveira. Under his command, Porto made history by winning a third gear consecutive league title ( the Tri ) for the first clock time, leaving the runner-up at a distance of 13 points. The club ‘s one-eighth Supertaça succeed over Benfica was achieved with a solid performance at the Estádio district attorney Luz that resulted in a 5–0 scoreline. [ 47 ] The arrival of brazilian players Artur and Mário Jardel proved highly productive in the 1996–97 UEFA Champions League, as their goals helped Porto meter Milan in Italy and win its group without defeats. [ 68 ] In summation, Jardel would win the first of four consecutive Bola de Prata awards while at Porto. In Oliveira ‘s second and last season at the clubhouse, Porto won the Primeira Divisão for the one-fourth uncoiled season ( the Tetra ), matching Sporting CP ‘s accomplishment in the early 1950s, and secured its third base bivalent after beating Braga in the 1998 Taça de Portugal final examination. [ 32 ] For the 1998–99 season, Porto tasked portuguese coach Fernando Santos with winning the clubhouse ‘s one-fifth consecutive Primeira Divisão deed ( the Penta ) – a portuguese football record. He accomplished this feat, becoming thereafter known as the “ Penta engineer ” ( a pun to his academic degree ), [ 70 ] and saw Jardel ‘s 36 goals win him the European Golden Shoe. [ 53 ] Porto lost the gamble to win its one-sixth true league deed, after finishing four points behind 1999–2000 Primeira Liga champions Sporting, but overcame them to lift its tenth Taça de Portugal trophy. [ 32 ] Despite winning the portuguese cup for the second base time in two years, continued failure to retake the league entitle led to the resignation of Santos at the end of the 2000–01 season .

Mourinho ‘s golden years ( 2001–2004 ) [edit ]

The date of former club player and assistant coach Octávio Machado to head Porto back to the league deed appeared to pay off as the team began the season with a Supertaça win against the 2000–01 Primeira Liga winners, Boavista. [ 47 ] however, this would be the entirely major accomplishment in a lackluster temper that would culminate with a third seat in the league classification – the lowest in 20 years. The elimination from the 2001–02 Taça de Portugal, four days after losing away for the Primeira Liga, precipitated the sack of Machado after 36 matches in charge. Two days late, Porto signed União de Leiria ‘s passenger car, José Mourinho, who had previously worked for the cabaret alongside Robson. [ 75 ] In his presentation, Mourinho promptly showcased his personality by stating unambiguously that the club would win following season ‘s league title. He kept on-key to his promise and delivered one of the baseball club ‘s most successful seasons. Fielding the likes of Deco, Ricardo Carvalho, Maniche, and less acknowledge players hired from other portuguese clubs, such as Paulo Ferreira, Pedro Emanuel, Nuno Valente and Derlei, Porto won the 2002–03 Primeira Liga with relative comfort, finishing 11 points ahead of second-placed Benfica. The club besides won the UEFA Cup, defeating Celtic in a dramatic extra-time final, to win its second major european title. [ 77 ] Mourinho then secured an unprecedented triple for Porto by winning the Taça de Portugal final against his previous golf club. [ 32 ] The 2003–04 season began with another 1–0 gain over União de Leiria, which gave the club its 13th Supertaça. [ 47 ] Weeks late, Porto failed to repeat this success in the 2003 UEFA Super Cup, losing 1–0 to Milan. [ 78 ] The departure of striker Hélder Postiga was compensated by the sign of South Africa ‘s Benni McCarthy, whose 20 league goals helped Porto in its league title defense and crowned him the contest ‘s top scorekeeper. Porto entered the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League immediately into the group stage. Porto finished second in its group, losing entirely once to Real Madrid, and advanced to the round-of-16 where they met Manchester United. After losing narrowly winning at dwelling ( 2-1 ), Porto was on the brink of elimination, being behind by 1-0 cashbox the death moment of official playtime at the second gear branch at Old Trafford. however, Porto scored the equalizer in the 90th moment of the second stage to draw 1–1 and to advance to the quarter-finals with a 3–2 aggregate winnings. The team then overcame Lyon and Deportivo La Coruña to reach the Champions League final examination. Porto defeated Monaco 3–0 to lift the club ‘s second european Champion Clubs ‘ Cup. [ 80 ] A 2–1 loss to Benfica in the Taça de Portugal final, held 10 days before, prevented another treble-winning temper. [ 32 ]

life after Mourinho ( 2004–2010 ) [edit ]

The successful european performances of Mourinho ‘s Porto enhanced the reputations of the coach and players like Carvalho, Ferreira and Deco, all of whom left the club in the consequence of the Champions League victory. [ 81 ] [ 82 ] [ 83 ] [ 84 ] The following season was an atypical one, as the club had three coaches : Luigi Delneri, [ e ] Víctor Fernández and José Couceiro. Under Férnandez, Porto won the 2004 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira and the 2004 Intercontinental Cup, but lost the 2004 UEFA Super Cup to Valencia and was eliminated prematurely in the 2004–05 Taça de Portugal. Recording alone 17 wins in 34 matches, Porto lost the Primeira Liga title to Benfica by three points. During this period, Porto was directly involved in the corruption scandal Apito Dourado. [ 87 ] In 2005–06, Dutch coach Co Adriaanse was picked to reorganise the team and return the golf club to the top of Portuguese football. His tactical discipline and the contribution of new signings Lucho González and Lisandro López led the golf club to not only retake the Primeira Liga claim but besides secure its one-fifth domestic double, after beating holders Vitória de Setúbal in the Taça de Portugal concluding. Adriaanse ‘s domestic achiever did not transfer to the Champions League, as Porto finished in the bottom of its group. [ 89 ] The golf club began the 2006–07 season with a newly bus, Jesualdo Ferreira, signed from neighbours Boavista. Before Ferreira assumed his function, Porto won the season-opening Supertaça, with early club player Rui Barros acting as interim coach. An experience head passenger car, Ferreira had never achieved major club grade achiever, but in his inaugural season in Porto he became national champion for the first time. [ 91 ] The 2006–07 Primeira Liga entitle was only secured in a frantic final day, as Porto finished one point above Sporting and two above Benfica. In the follow season, the club achieved the Tri for the second time in its history – with López clinching the top goalscorer award –, but lost the Taça and Supertaça finals to Sporting CP. As result of a legal investigation on equal fix in Portuguese football, Porto was punished with the personnel casualty of six points, which did not affect its concluding league classification. [ 94 ] Having claimed a sixth league and cup double in the 2008–09 season, Porto was on class to emulate the Penta of the late 1990s, but the series was broken by Benfica in the come temper. Although Ferreira won his first base Supertaça and defended the Taça de Portugal title, the team ‘s failure to claim a fifth consecutive league – finishing third, outside the Champions League-qualifying places – and a 3–0 defeat against Benfica in the final of the Taça district attorney Liga contributed to his resignation at the end of the season. A base winnings against Benfica prevented the rivals from celebrating the league title at the Estádio do Dragão. Under Ferreira ‘s steer, Porto always qualified for the Champions League knockout degree, reaching the quarter-finals in 2008–09, where it was eliminated by holders Manchester United. [ 97 ]

Villas-Boas, Pereira and subsequent years ( 2010–2017 ) [edit ]

André Villas-Boas during a press conference as Porto coach André Villas-Boas won four trophies in one season with Porto, including the UEFA Europa League. The arrival of Mourinho ‘s former assistant André Villas-Boas, in the form of 2010, set the degree for a highly successful 2010–11 season, which began with a 2–0 victory over Benfica for the Supertaça. [ 47 ] Spearheaded by João Moutinho, Silvestre Varela, Falcao and Hulk ( the Bola de Prata achiever ), Porto performed strongly in the Primeira Liga and assured its twenty-fifth deed with five matches to play, after beating Benfica in its stadium. In addition, the golf club broke a number of records : biggest distance between champions and runner-up ( 21 points ), the most back-to-back league wins ( 16 ), and the highest percentage of points in a 30-game temper ( 93.33 % ), dropping entirely six points and finishing the league without defeats, for the first time in its history. [ 99 ] Eight years after the 2003 prevail, Porto returned to the UEFA Cup ( renamed UEFA Europa League ) and reached the concluding in Dublin ‘s Aviva Stadium. In an all-Portuguese matter, Porto beat Braga with a finish from the competition ‘s top goalscorer Falcao and lifted the trophy for the second meter, [ 100 ] as Villas-Boas became the youngest UEFA competition-winning coach. [ 101 ] Four days late, Porto won its third base consecutive Taça de Portugal with a convincing 6–2 scoreline, [ 32 ] securing their fourth trophy of the season. As Villas-Boas left for Chelsea, Porto recruited the services of his adjunct, Vítor Pereira. For the one-third straight year, the club began the season with another Supertaça claim, [ 47 ] which was followed by a 2–0 loss to Barcelona for the 2011 UEFA Super Cup. [ 102 ] Although lacking the goalscoring richness of Falcao ( sold to Atlético Madrid ), Porto was able to revalidate the Primeira Liga title, [ 103 ] but was eliminated prematurely from the Taça and Champions League competitions. Transferred to the Europa League, Porto failed to defend its entitle after being knocked out by Manchester City. [ 104 ] In the postdate temper, the club went a stage further in both domestic cup competitions and in the Champions League, where it fell to Málaga in the last-16 polish. [ 105 ] In the 2012–13 Primeira Liga, Porto reduced the distance to leaders Benfica to two points, before hosting them in the penult matchday. In a dramatic call on of events, Porto won with a goal in blockage meter and moved to the top of the league table. [ 106 ] An aside victory in the last game confirmed the Tri and Porto ‘s 27th league title – the second without defeats. [ 107 ] Porto entered the 2013–14 temper with a raw head coach – Paulo Fonseca, signed from 2012–13 Primeira Liga third-placed Paços de Ferreira [ 108 ] – but continued the course of the previous four seasons by winning the Supertaça. [ 47 ] This deed would be the highlight of the season, as the cabaret underperformed in every other contest it was involved. In the league, Porto led with five points over its pursuers, but a series of compromising results pushed the club down to third place, resulting in the displace of Fonseca. [ 109 ] Failing to overcome the Champions League group stage, Porto reached the Europa League quarter-finals, where they lost 4–1 to the eventual winners Sevilla. [ 110 ] In the succeed weeks, two semi-final losses against Benfica closed the doors to the finals of the Taça de Portugal and Taça da Liga, the latter at home on penalties. [ 32 ] [ 111 ] Porto started the 2014–15 season with their biggest budget ever, [ 112 ] hiring spanish head coach Julen Lopetegui. Despite the sign of many new players, they failed to win any silverware, contributing to the biggest suspension during Pinto da Costa ‘s presidency. [ 113 ] They besides equalized, in terms of goals conceded, their biggest kill in european competitions ( 6–1 against AEK Athens ) and suffered their biggest defeat in the UEFA Champions League ( 6–1 against Bayern Munich, after the 5–0 loss against Arsenal in 2010 ). [ 114 ] [ 115 ] Porto continued their lose course in the 2015–16 season, making it the second straight trophyless season, with the contribution of José Peseiro, who had replaced Julen Lopetegui in January 2016. After the season was complete, Peseiro was replaced by Nuno Espírito Santo .

Conceição earned run average ( 2017–present ) [edit ]

In the 2017–18 season, after about five years without winning any trophy, Porto won their 28th league entitle with the contribution of coach Sérgio Conceição ( former club musician ). [ 116 ] The play along year, in the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League, Porto managed to reach the quarter-finals of the rival, but were defeated by 6–1 on aggregate against the eventual winners Liverpool. [ 117 ] In the 2019–20 season, Porto managed to recapture the league title, winning it for the 29th clock time and added for the first time in eleven years the portuguese cup along with it. however, despite their national success, FC Porto did not reach the group phase of the Champions League and did ailing in their Europa League crusade. In the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League rung of 16, Porto won on away goals principle ( 4–4 on aggregate ) against Juventus, to reach the quarter-finals. [ 118 ]

Crest and kit [edit ]

The club ‘s first peak was created in 1910 and consisted of an previous blue football with white seams bearing the club name ‘s initials in white. On 26 October 1922, the cap was changed to its contemporary appearance after the club approved a plan by Augusto Baptista Ferreira ( nicknamed “ Simplício ” ), a graphic artist and one of the club ‘s players. In his marriage proposal, the city ‘s coat of arms – consisting at the time of a quarter harbor ( first and fourth quadrants : national arms ; second and third base quadrants : image of Our Lady holding child Jesus and flanked by two towers holding above a streamer with the Latin words “Civitas Virginis” ) surrounded by the collar of the Order of the Tower and Sword and topped by a crown supporting a green dragon with a red banner inscribed with “Invicta” ( Undefeated [ city ] ) – was added on top of the old cap, pushing the white letters down. [ 125 ] In 1906, the club ‘s first official team wore kits with a kind of colors and patterns, which included white shirts with loss collars or vertical blue stripes, and even red shirts. This indefinition in the equipment was only solved in 1909, when through the inaugural of Monteiro district attorney Costa, Porto stipulated in its beginning statutes that the players had to use “ a shirt with blue sky erect stripes, total darkness shorts, and personal footwear ” as the baseball club ‘s uniform, at every train and match. Some argued that the kit should have included the city colors, green and egg white. Monteiro district attorney Costa, however, defended the blue-and-white combination because he believed the colors “ should be those of the area ‘s iris, and not of the city ‘s flag ”, hoping that the cabaret would “ not alone defend the good appoint of the city, but besides that of Portugal, in sporting feud against foreigners. ” In 1975, Adidas became the first gear sports apparel manufacturers to provide kits for the club. Eight years subsequently, Porto became the first Portuguese team to have a shirt presenter, after signing a deal with Revigrés worth 10 million portuguese escudo per year. This share lasted for 20 years, with consecutive renovations, after which the national communications corporation Portugal Telecom ( PT ) became the modern shirt sponsors. still, Revigrés remain as one of the club ‘s main and longest-serving collaborators. [ 128 ]

home stadiums [edit ]

For the coach center and youth academy, see CTFD PortoGaia

Campo da Constituição ground houses the Vitalis Park, the club’s youth training camp. The oldground houses the Vitalis Park, the club ‘s youth train camp. The golf club ‘s first flat coat was the Campo da Rainha ( Queen ‘s Field ), inaugurated in 1906 with an exhibition game against Boavista. The locate was located near the residence of Monteiro district attorney Costa and was the place of the city ‘s horticultural company. Aided by his father, a horticultor by profession, Monteiro da Costa rented a dowry ( 30 by 50 meters ) of artless terrain to create the inaugural dedicated football pitch in the country. Later that class, the company ‘s vivaria were transferred to another placement, allowing Porto to increase the pitch area to match the sport ‘s official dimensions. The ground had capacity for 600 people, including a VIP tribune, and possessed a change room equipped with showers and sinks, a measure and a gymnasium. The first match between Porto and a alien team took stead at the Campo da Raínha, on 15 December 1907, when the hosts played spanish side Real Fortuna. [ 130 ] By 1911, the Campo da Raínha was becoming excessively small for the growing attendances. After being notified about the sale of the grind for construction of a factory, the club searched for a fresh ground and rented a terrain near the Constituição street for an annual fee of 350 $ 00. The Campo da Constituição ( Constitution Field ) was opened in January 1913 with a couple against Oporto Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club and hosted Porto ‘s home matches for the regional backing. finally, the larger capacity of this reason besides became insufficient for the ever-increasing crowd attending the games, particularly against high-profile opponents. [ 132 ] On several occasions, between the 1920s and 1940s, Porto played server to matches at the Campo do Ameal ( Ameal Field ) or the Estádio do Lima ( Lima Stadium ), home of local anesthetic rivals Sport Progresso and Académico, respectively. [ 133 ] It was in the latter grind that the club achieved their most significant victory at the time, as they beat english champions Arsenal 3–2 in a friendly match on 7 May 1948. [ 134 ]
In 1933, Porto approved a design to build a new stadium to accommodate and meet the demands of larger attendances, but the project alone moved forward with the purchase of 48,000 square metres ( 12 acres ) of down in the easterly side of the city in 1947. Designed by portuguese architects Oldemiro Carneiro and Aires de Sá, [ 136 ] the construction of the Estádio do Futebol Clube do Porto – good known as Estádio das Antas ( Antas Stadium ) for the neighborhood where it was built – began in January 1950, one calendar month after the first rock was symbolically laid. Two years later, on 28 May 1952, the stadium was inaugurated with a ceremony, featuring the presence of the President of the Republic Francisco Craveiro Lopes, and a match against Benfica, which Porto lost 2–8. The stadium ‘s initial layout had an open east sector ( Marathon Door ), which was closed in 1976 with the construction of a two-tier stand that raised the capacity to 70,000. In 1986, works to lower the slope and build an extra tier in the home of the athletics and cycling track were concluded, setting the capacity to a new maximum of 95,000. As stadium safety regulations became stricter during the stick to ten, the place of individual seats brought the capacity of the Estádio hyrax Antas down to 55,000 by 1997. [ 139 ] The award of the UEFA Euro 2004 hosting rights to Portugal in 1999 was the perfect opportunity for Porto to move into a more modern, functional and comfortable stadium, in line with the demands of high-level external football. The cabaret decided to build an wholly new reason and chose a site located a few hundreds of meters southeast of the Estádio district attorney Antas. The project was commissioned to Portuguese architect Manuel Salgado, [ 140 ] and construction took two years to complete at a cost of € 98 million. Baptised Estádio do Dragão ( Dragon Stadium ) by president of the united states Pinto district attorney Costa, for the fabulous creature placed atop the baseball club ‘s crown, it was officially inaugurated on 16 November 2003 with a couple against Barcelona. Porto won 2–0 in front man of a record 52,000 spectators, which besides witnessed the professional introduction of Lionel Messi. In June 2004, the venue hosted the hatchway ceremony and match of the UEFA Euro 2004, and four other tournament matches. [ 141 ] The highest attendance in an official match was registered on 21 April 2004, when 50,818 people saw Porto draw Deportivo La Coruña without goals, for the first leg of the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League semi-finals. For base hit reasons, its current capability is limited to 50,431. [ 140 ]

museum [edit ]

The FC Porto Museum was inaugurated on 28 September 2013, on affair of the club ‘s hundred-and-twentieth anniversary. The museum includes an auditorium, a club shop, a cafe, and spaces for educational services and temp exhibitions .

Rivalries [edit ]

Porto ‘s biggest rivalries are with the early Big Three members and even league championship contenders, Benfica and Sporting CP. They stem from the historical, political, economic and cultural clang between the cities of Porto and Lisbon, where the other two clubs are based. [ 143 ] [ 144 ] These rivalries became more intense in the past decades, peculiarly since Pinto district attorney Costa assumed Porto ‘s presidency in 1982 and adopted a regionalistic and confrontational lecture towards Lisbon. [ 145 ] In the trace years, the club began establishing its laterality in Portuguese football, at the expense of Benfica and Sporting, who had been the traditional powers since the 1940s. [ 143 ] To Porto, the competition with Benfica is the strongest and most passionate, and it opposes the most representative football emblems from each city a well as the current most entitle portuguese clubs. The first match between Porto and Benfica – traditionally referred to as O Clássico ( The Classic ) [ 146 ] [ 147 ] – took station on 28 April 1912, and ended with a 2–8 acquire for Benfica ; Porto ‘s beginning victory ( 3–2 ) came merely in 1920. [ 143 ] As of the end of the 2014–15 season, the clubs have faced each other in 232 competitive matches, which have resulted in 89 wins for Porto, 86 for Benfica and 57 draws. [ 148 ] The first merging between Porto and Sporting CP occurred on 30 November 1919, during a friendly tournament organised by Porto. Their inaugural official meet was in the first leg of the final of the inaugural Campeonato de Portugal in 1922, which Porto won 2–1 en road to its first national title. [ 144 ] Since then, the clubs have met in 221 official matches, with 80 wins for Porto, 78 for Sporting CP and 63 draws. [ 150 ] Despite the competition, both clubs formed an confederation against Benfica in 2017. [ 151 ] [ 152 ] [ 153 ] The club besides has a firm competition with city rivals Boavista, [ 154 ] [ 155 ] [ 156 ] sometimes called O Dérbi da Invicta. [ 157 ]

Records and statistics [edit ]

Radamel Falcao holds the club record for top goalscorer in European competitions. early defender João Pinto holds the criminal record for most matches played in all competitions ( 587 ) and in the Primeira Liga ( 408 ), while former goalkeeper Vítor Baía has the most appearances in international competitions ( 99 ). [ 7 ] Baía is besides the most coroneted player, having won 25 trophies during his career in Porto. portuguese striker Fernando Gomes is the all-time club goalscorer in all competitions ( 352 ), having besides scored the most league goals ( 288 ). In european competitions, Porto ‘s record goalscorer is Radamel Falcao, with 22 goals. [ 7 ] José Maria Pedroto is the longest-serving coach, having taken tear of the team for 327 matches in nine seasons, while Jesualdo Ferreira became the first portuguese passenger car to win three straight league titles ( 2006–2009 ). André Villas-Boas ‘s victorious political campaign in the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League made him the youngest coach ever to win a european rival. [ 164 ] The 2010–11 season was particularly strong in record achievements. Porto played the most matches ( 58 ) and secured the most wins ( 49 ) and highest winning percentage ( 84.4 % ). For the league, it had the most back-to-back wins ( 16 ) and suffered the fewest defeats ( none ). In Europe, the club won the most matches ( 14 in 17 ) and scored the most goals ( 44 ) en road to the UEFA Europa League title – one of a record-matching four .

holocene seasons [edit ]

Below are listed the clubhouse ‘s performances in the by ten-spot seasons .

  • Last updated: 19 May 2021
  • 3R = Third Round; 4R = Fourth Round; GS = Group stage; QF = Quarter-finals; PO = Play-off Round; R16 = Round of 16; R32 = Round of 32; R64 = Round of 64; RU = Runners-up; SF = Semi-finals; W = Winners

UEFA club coefficient ranking [edit ]

As of 1 July 2021[168]

Honours [edit ]

As of December 2020, the 2020–21 season, Porto have 79 major trophies in senior football. Domestically, they have won 72 titles, including 29 Primeira Liga, 17 Taça de Portugal, 4 Campeonato de Portugal ( a record shared with Sporting CP ), and a commemorate 22 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira. Porto is the most dress portuguese team in external competitions, having won 2 european Cup/UEFA Champions League, 2 UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League, 1 UEFA Super Cup and 2 Intercontinental Cup trophies. In summation, it is the alone team from its area to have won the UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League, the UEFA Super Cup or the intercontinental Cup. [ 169 ] Porto have won four titles in a single season on two occasions : in 1987–88 ( UEFA Super Cup, Intercontinental Cup, Primeira Liga and Taça de Portugal ) and in 2010–11 ( Supertaça, Primeira Liga, UEFA Europa League and Taça de Portugal ). The latter besides included the club ‘s moment continental treble, after the one achieved in 2002–03 ( Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal and UEFA Cup ). The club besides reached the Cup Winners ‘ Cup final in 1983–84 ( losing to Juventus ) and made three more appearances in the UEFA Super Cup ( 2003, 2004 and 2011 ) .

domestic [edit ]

Winners (22) – record: 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2018, 2020

european [edit ]

Winners (1): 1987

International [edit ]

Winners (2): 1987, 2004

Players [edit ]

For a list of FC Porto players with at least 100 official appearances, see List of FC Porto players

current team [edit ]

As of 7 September 2021[170][171]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on loanword [edit ]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Personnel [edit ]

technical staff [edit ]

last updated : 15 July 2019
Source : FC Porto

management [edit ]

Position Staff
President Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa
Vice-presidents Adelino Caldeira
Alípio Fernandes
Fernando Gomes
José Américo Amorim
Paulo Mendes
Vítor Baía
Section Deputy Directors João Baldaia (roller hockey)
Júlio Matos (basketball)
Manuel Arezes (handball)
Elias Barros (cycling)
Mário Cereja (swimming)
José Carlos Alves (boxing)
Manuela Pinto (billiards)
Chairman of General Meeting Board Lourenço Pinto

concluding updated : 7 July 2020
Source : FC Porto

administration [edit ]

After going populace in 1997, Porto created several satellite companies :

  • FC Porto – youth football, basketball, handball, roller hockey, athletics, club’s magazine, etc.
  • FC Porto – Futebol SAD (professional football company); SAD stands for Sociedade Anónima Desportiva
  • Porto Estádio (stadium management)
  • Porto Multimédia (official site and multimedia products)
  • Porto Comercial (merchandising)
  • Porto Seguro (insurance)

The FCPorto SAD is listed in the Euronext Lisbon broth rally .

Media [edit ]

Porto Canal is a television channel owned and operated by Porto, which broadcasts renaissance man, regional, and club-related content through cable, satellite and IPTV. The impart ‘s scheduling includes live infection of the home matches of the reserve and youth football teams, arsenic well as of the senior basketball, handball and roller ice hockey teams. Founded in 2006, the channel began a managing partnership with Porto in 2011, [ 172 ] and on 17 July 2015 was fully purchased and integrated into the cabaret. [ 173 ] [ 174 ] The club besides issues Dragões, an official monthly magazine that publishes articles and interviews of the teams, players and early club-related content and a casual newsletter called Dragões Diário. [ 175 ] [ 176 ]

early sports [edit ]

  1. ^[19] Porto won the regional championship consecutively between 1918 and 1939 .
  2. ^[28] An administrative battle arose between Porto and Académico after a 1939–40 regional championship peer between both clubs, which ended prematurely due to numeric inferiority of Porto ‘s team, was repeated by decision of the Porto FA and won by Porto. To solve this site, the Portuguese Football Federation decided to annul the solution from the repeat equal – causing Porto to lose the regional title to Leixões and finish in third place, behind Académico. however, the Federation besides decided to expand the Primeira Divisão from eight to ten teams, accepting an extra team from the Porto and Setúbal FAs, which resulted in the top-three teams from the Porto regional championship qualifying for the 1939–40 Primeira Divisão .
  3. ^ Before the 1941–42 season, the confederation decided to expand the Primeira Divisão to ten teams, to admit the Braga FA and Algarve FA champions, for the first time. That season, Porto finished the regional championship in third place, which did not grant entrance into the Primeira Divisão. however, after consulting every zone football association and receiving no opposition to the mind, the federation approved a new expansion of the top-tier league, to twelve teams, which enabled the club to participate .
  4. ^ Until the 1995–96 season, league wins were worth two points .
  5. ^[85] Delneri never took charge of the team in a competitive equal ; he was sacked before the start of the season, two months after signing for Porto .
  6. ^ only home shirt spouse shown .
  7. ^ The adjust sports indicated above are integrated in one segment .

References [edit ]

bibliography [edit ]

  • Bandeira, João Pedro (2012). Bíblia do FC Porto (in Portuguese). Lisbon: Prime Books. ISBN 9789896550943.
  • Tovar, Rui (2011). Almanaque do FC Porto 1893–2011 (in Portuguese). Alfragide: Caderno. ISBN 9789892315430.

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