football club
Boavista Futebol Clube, normally known as Boavista ( portuguese pronunciation : [ boɐˈviʃtɐ ] ) is a portuguese sports club from the city of Porto. Founded on 1 August 1903 by british entrepreneurs and Portuguese fabric workers [ 1 ] ( frankincense the “ FC ” being appended – the british means as opposed to the more common Portuguese manner of being prepended to the club ‘s list ), it is one of the oldest club in the area and plays in the Primeira Liga, Portuguese football ‘s top flight.
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Boavista grew to become an important sports club in Portugal, with sections dedicated to respective sports including football, chess, gymnastics, bicycle race, futsal, volleyball, rink ice hockey and boxing, among others, with the most celebrated being the football segment with their brand chequered ashen and black shirts. The club is the most eclectic one in the North region of Portugal, and one of the most eclectic sports clubs in Portugal, practicing a total of 16 sports. [ citation needed ] With 9 major domestic trophies won ( 1 Championship, 5 portuguese Cups and 3 domestic Super Cups ), Boavista is the most decorate portuguese football club after the “ Big Three “ ( Benfica, Porto and Sporting CP ). Boavista spent 39 back-to-back seasons in the Primeira Liga ( 50 in sum ) and, in concert with Belenenses, is the only team outside the “ large three ” to have won the Portuguese Championship, in the 2000–01 temper. Boavista has a competition with fellow city club Porto ; [ 2 ] the matches between the clubs are sometimes called O Derby da Invicta. Its stadium, Estádio do Bessa, was built in 1973, although football has been played there at the former ‘Campo do Bessa ‘ since the 1910s, and was revamped for use in Euro 2004 .
history [edit ]
foundation and the checked shirts ( 1903–1933 ) [edit ]
Boavista in June 1923, in their former all-black shirts. The golf club was founded on 1 August 1903, in the Boavista area of the western part of the city of Porto, by two english brothers, Harry and Dick Lowe. [ 3 ] Having received an imported football from their father in England, they founded The Boavista Footballers, and an early rival was another english club in the city, the Oporto Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club. [ 4 ] The team had an early schism as its british contingent refused to play on Sundays due to their anglican faith, while the Catholic locals could lone play on Sundays due to work commitments ; the locals won, drastically changing the demographics of the club. [ 4 ] In 1910 the current mention was adopted, and on 11 April that year the ground now occupied by the Estádio do Bessa was inaugurated with a match against Leixões SC. [ 3 ] In 1913–14, the team won the inaugural address Porto Football Association. [ 3 ] In the 1920s the baseball club increased the issue of sports practiced. [ 4 ] The team boasted “ the best defensive trio of the North ” : goalkeeper Casoto and defenders Lúzia and Óscar Vasques de Carvalho. [ 4 ] In the following ten, the club lobbied for the legalization of professionalism after being sanctioned, having been investigated after complaining that FC Porto had paid Boavista ‘s Nova to join them. [ 4 ] In 1933, the baseball club adopted its black-and-white shirts, based on a french team that golf club president Artur Oliveira Valença had watched. [ 4 ]
League entrance and gold 1970s ( 1934–1980 ) [edit ]
Boavista ‘s first base decades in league football saw the club bounce between the Primeira and the Segunda Divisão, winning the latter ‘s title in 1937 and 1950. In 1966, they fell to the Terceira Divisão, and stayed there for two years. [ 5 ] The team bounced back to the clear flight by 1970 with two straight promotions, finished renovation of its stadium two years late and in 1974 hired director José Maria Pedroto and president Valentim Loureiro. In their first year, Boavista achieved their best classification of one-fourth in the 1974-1975 championship, and won the Taça de Portugal for the first meter after defeating Benfica 2–1 in the final. [ 4 ] A year late, the clubhouse finished as runner-up to S.L. Benfica by two points, [ 6 ] and defended their cup title by defeating Vitória de Guimarães 2–1 in the 1976 concluding at rival Porto ‘s Estádio hyrax Antas ; Pedroto left for Porto at the end of the temper. Experienced English coach Jimmy Hagan led the cabaret to its third gear Taça de Portugal win in five years after defeating Sporting CP 1–0 in the replay of the 1979 final examination, after a 1–1 draw occurred the day anterior. [ 7 ] At the begin of the follow season, Porto and Boavista organised the beginning edition of the Portuguese Supercup, a season-opening meet between the league and cup holders. The match was contested at the Estádio hyrax Antas, and Boavista ( with modern director Mário Lino ) beat Pedroto ‘s Porto 2–1 in a violent match where Boavista had two men sent off. [ 8 ]
From contenders to Champions and european forays ( 1980–2003 ) [edit ]
The jaguar is the clubhouse symbol and nickname. In 1997, Valentim Loureiro was succeeded as president by his son João, who at 34 was the youngest in the unharmed league. [ 6 ] besides, former Portugal international Jaime Pacheco was appointed coach, and led the club to runner-up in 1999 and fourth topographic point in 2000. In 2000–01, they won the bowler hat in the second one-half of the temper against Porto and went on to win the league with a 3–0 win over C.D. Aves on 18 May. [ 9 ] This was only the second gear time that a team from outside the Big Three won the league, after C.F. Os Belenenses in 1946. Pacheco ‘s team conceded barely 22 goals in 34 games and lost at home only once. [ 9 ] The team featured Ricardo in goal, academy product Petit in midfield, bolivian free-kick specialist Erwin Sánchez in attacking midfield, Duda and Martelinho on the wings, and brazilian striker Elpídio Silva was the club ‘s top scorer with 11 goals. [ 9 ] After finishing runner-up to Sporting a year late, the team began to break up, with Petit heading to Benfica and companion midfielder Pedro Emanuel going to Porto ; both skippered their new teams. [ 9 ] The baseball club rebuilt the Estádio do Bessa for UEFA Euro 2004, contributing to their fiscal problems. [ 9 ] Pacheco left for Spain ‘s RCD Mallorca in 2003, returning soon to replace Sánchez concisely as coach the play along year, and came back again in October 2006. [ 10 ] Boavista were regulars in UEFA competitions in the 1990 and early 2000s. In the 2002–03 UEFA Cup, they reached the semi-finals before a 2–1 aggregate loss to Celtic ascribable to a deep Henrik Larsson strickle ; they would have faced Porto in the final. [ 11 ]
fall and retort ( 2008–present ) [edit ]
In June 2008, Boavista was sentenced to delegating for its function in the Apito Dourado ( Golden Whistle ) matchfixing scandal, for three games in the 2003–04 season. [ 12 ] A class late the club was relegated again : in the first place saved by promote clubhouse F.C. Vizela being sanctioned for corruption, the team withdrew from the second gear part for fiscal reasons. [ 13 ] In January 2013, João Loureiro, pressed by thousands of members of the club to return to the presidency, was elected president once again. After a long legal conflict, in June 2013, Boavista was entitled the properly to come back to the Primeira Liga. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] besides, after a negotiation with the creditors of the club, the €65 million debt was cut in half. [ 16 ] After a six-year absence, Boavista returned to the Primeira Liga in the 2014–15 season, coached by Petit, a member of the title-winning side of 2001. [ 17 ] In October 2020, Boavista ‘s members approved of investment from Spanish-Luxembourgish businessman Gérard Lopez, owner of Ligue 1 club Lille OSC. [ 18 ]
Honours [edit ]
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- Winners (3): 1979, 1992, 1997
- Runners-up (1): 2001
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- Winners (2): 1936–37, 1949–50
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- Winners (1): 1913–14
League and cup history [edit ]
The cabaret has made 55 appearances at the top level of Portuguese football and has won the portuguese cup five times. In 1979, it besides won the identical first version of the national supercup .
As of 05 May 2021 Sources : Soccer Library, [ 19 ] Zero a Zero, [ 20 ] Fora de Jogo. [ 21 ]
european read [edit ]
overview [edit ]
Matches [edit ]
Players [edit ]
current squad [edit ]
- As of 20 November 2021[22]
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 .
retire numbers [edit ]
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
Coaches [edit ]
Since 1970
stadium [edit ]
outside photograph The Estádio do Bessa ( late Estádio do Bessa XXI ) is Boavista ‘s home plate ground, used for football and occasionally for music concerts. The stadium was first base used in 1911, then known as ‘Campo do Bessa ‘. The stadium had several renovations in its history, namely in 1967–72, where turf was installed ampere well as floodlights. Like other stadiums used in UEFA Euro 2004, the stadium was rebuilt for the competition, but on top of the old stands, and each one of them at a unlike time, allowing Boavista to continue playing there. It cost €45,164,726, from which €7,785,735 were supported from the Portuguese state, and featured an all-seater capacitance of 28,263 spectators. [ 24 ] Plans for improvement actually existed before the organization of the Euro 2004 was given to Portugal in 1999, and by then, the inaugural works were already afoot. It was designed by Grupo 3 Arquitectura. The stadium has besides been used several times in matches of the Portuguese national team .
Colours [edit ]
Boavista ‘s black-and-white checked shirt was introduced by diarist and club president of the united states Artur Oliveira Valença, based on a french team he had seen. [ 4 ]
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Kit development [edit ]
Boavista ‘s inaugural home color
second base colours
Third base color
Fourth home colors
1933–Present
Women ‘s team [edit ]
The women ‘s team is one of the strongest in Portugal, having won several titles in a row during the 1990s, adenine well as the formation U-19, U-17. U-15 and U-13 teams, that won all national championships, and brought up several talented and celebrated external players .
See besides [edit ]
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