Vitória S.C.

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Vitória de Guimarães

Full name

Vitória Sport Club

Nickname(s)

White Angels,

Founded

1922

Ground

Estádio D. Afonso Henriques,
Guimarães
(Capacity 30,165)

Chairman

Emílio Macedo

Manager

Manuel Cajuda

League

BWINLIGA

2006-07

Liga de Honra, 2nd (promoted)





Home colours





Away colours

Vitória Sport Clube is a Portuguese sports club based in the city of Guimarães, located 40 km northeast of Porto in Portugal. The club is reported to have been established in 1922. In Portugal it is usually called Vitória de Guimarães (pron. IPA: [vi'tɔɾiɐ dɨ gimɐ'ɾɐ̃ĩʃ]) to distinguish itself from Vitória FC, a club from Setúbal, known as Vitória de Setúbal.

1 Recent history
2 New stadium
3 Minho Rivalry
4 Fans
5 Squad
6 Notable former players
7 Honours
8 League and Cup History
9 Colours
10 Volleyball
11 External links

Recent history

Although Vitória de Guimarães have never won the Portuguese Football Championship or the Portuguese Football Cup, it is one of the most respected clubs in Portugal, playing in the top division for the last few decades, usually challenging for a UEFA Cup place. However, in 2005/2006 season, the team was relegated to Segunda Liga after its worst championship performance in decades. In the early 2000s, Vitória struggled to keep itself in the top Portuguese division (Superliga). Those years were marked by the decline of the leadership of Pimenta Machado, former president of the club. Machado was accused on charges of embezzlement. Despite this, Vitória had an impressive season. Progress continued in 2004-05, when they secured an impressive league fifth-place finish and qualified for European competition (the UEFA Cup). Vitoria's recent renaissance fell apart in 2005-06, as they finished 17th in the Superliga despite reaching the cup semi-final, having beaten SL Benfica in the quarter-final where former player Marek Saganowski scored a goal with his hand. They also failed to progress from their UEFA cup group, as eventual winners Sevilla FC and Bolton Wanderers progressed.

New stadium

Estádio D. Afonso Henriques is a football (soccer) stadium in Guimarães, Portugal. It was expanded and refurbished for the Euro 2004 competition, and it seats 29,865 people. In 2004, a new leadership era began with Vítor Magalhães (former President of Moreirense, another team from Guimarães municipality) and the team finished the championship in 5th place. In 2006 the team was relegated. Vitória Sport Clube plays at D. Afonso Henriques Stadium, one of the host stadiums of Euro 2004. After the "Big Three", Benfica, F.C. Porto and Sporting, Vitória and SC Braga are the clubs which attract most supporters to their stadiums, with average attendances of 20000 per game.

Minho Rivalry

Aside from the loyalty of the supporters, which earned the White Angels the title "Best fans of the country" and became famous for the massive "invasions" to every city where Vitória plays, there is also a hooligan side, which often give the club a bad name. The city of Guimarães is often referred to as the "birthplace of the Portuguese nationality" and was the birthplace of Afonso I of Portugal, the first Portuguese king. This only adds fuel to the ever growing derby of Minho province with neighbours SC Braga. This derby is considered one of Portugal's most intense derbies as both clubs battle each year to reach an European competition. Both clubs have even tested each other in Europe where in the 90's Vitória were one of Portugal's best in Europe beating sides like Parma AC, Atlético Madrid and Sparta Prague have been eliminated from European competitions by Guimarães. The derby also intensified during UEFA EURO 2004 hosted by Portugal where both clubs were involved in new stadium reconstruction; both clubs looked for UEFA qualification but, despite reaching the 2005-2006 Portuguese Cup semi-finals and having a decent UEFA Cup participation, Vitória finally got relegated. It didn't take much for Vitória to get back on top, and after just one year in the portuguese 2nd division they earned the promotion. So, nowadays SC Braga had been better than Vitoria, but it doesn't mean they are less rival.

Fans

Vitória de Guimarães possibly have the most different fans in Portugal. The biggest supporters group claque are the White Angels, their motto is "Somos únicos" (We are unique). The Vitória fans are also known to be one of the few supporters group that has no preference for any of the "big three" , being one of the most important cities after Porto and Lisbon, Guimarães does not have houses of the big clubs. The attempts of opening any in the city led to the houses being completely trashed. This shows the excessive pride of the supporters for their home and its independence. They were named by most of the supporters group leaders as the most violent supporters in Portugal. A self confessed White Angel is Fernando Meira who played at the club and now plays in VfB Stuttgart (Germany). Meira, as the captain of VfB Stuttgart, raised the trophy of German champions in 2006-07, holding a scarf of Vitória Sport Clube that stated "Somos únicos".

Squad

As of July 2007

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Nilson
2	DF	Sinisa Radanovic
3	DF	Luciano Amaral
4	DF	Henrique Sereno
5	MF	Kamel Ghilas
6	DF	Márcio Martins
8	FW	Carlitos
9	FW	Miljan Mrdaković
10	FW	Tiago Targino
11	FW	Felipe Tigrão
16	DF	Danilo
17	MF	João Fajardo

No.	Position	Player
18	MF	Moreno
19	FW	Pedro Geromel
20	MF	Yves Desmarets
21	FW	Alan
25	DF	Andrezinho
26	MF	Flávio Meireles
27	GK	Nuno Santos
28	MF	Tiago Ronaldo
29	DF	Jacques Momha
52	GK	Serginho
77	MF	Rabiola
80	MF	João Alves

Notable former players

Honours

Best classification achieved: 3rd place (68/69, 86/87, 97/98) Titles Won: 1 SuperCup Cândido de Oliveira (87/88)

League and Cup History

The club's 63 presences at the top level of Portuguese football make the 5th club with most presences, after FC Porto, Sporting CP, and SL Benfica (totalists, 73), and CF Os Belenenses) (65).

Season		Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe		Notes
1941-1942	1D	11	22	6	1	15	43	76	13	final
1942-1943	1D	8	18	6	2	10	48	76	14	last 16
1943-1944	1D	8	18	2	3	13	25	68	7	semi-final
1944-1945	1D	8	18	4	3	11	32	57	11	last 16
1945-1946	1D	8	22	8	2	12	39	52	18	quarter-final
1946-1947	1D	8	26	8	8	10	54	54	24	not held
1947-1948	1D	7	26	10	4	12	44	56	24	last 32
1948-1949	1D	6	26	11	4	11	47	50	26	last 16
1949-1950	1D	11	26	7	7	12	45	59	21	not held
1950-1951	1D	13	26	6	6	14	40	57	18	quarter-final
1951-1952	1D	10	26	9	3	14	28	47	21
1952-1953	1D	8	26	7	6	13	28	54	20
1953-1954	1D	8	26	10	5	11	44	64	25
1954-1955	1D	14	26	5	7	14	33	49	17				relegated
1958-1959	1D	5	26	13	3	10	59	55	29
1959-1960	1D	7	26	8	7	11	47	43	23
1960-1961	1D	4	26	14	2	10	48	44	30
1961-1962	1D	9	26	9	4	13	44	47	22
1962-1963	1D	6	26	12	3	11	47	43	27	final
1963-1964	1D	4	26	16	2	8	62	42	34
1964-1965	1D	7	26	12	5	9	44	36	29
1965-1966	1D	4	26	14	5	7	58	47	33
1966-1967	1D	6	26	11	4	11	35	40	26
1967-1968	1D	6	26	12	3	11	31	34	27
1968-1969	1D	3	26	13	10	3	46	17	36
1969-1970	1D	5	26	12	4	10	38	36	28		FC	2nd round
1970-1971	1D	12	26	4	11	11	15	27	19		FC	2nd round
1971-1972	1D	6	30	11	8	11	49	47	30
1972-1973	1D	6	30	11	11	8	38	38	33
1973-1974	1D	6	30	10	11	9	36	34	31
1974-1975	1D	5	30	16	6	8	64	36	38
1975-1976	1D	6	30	13	10	7	49	32	36	final
1976-1977	1D	9	30	10	6	14	39	38	26
1977-1978	1D	6	30	12	7	11	33	28	31
1978-1979	1D	6	30	12	7	11	44	38	31
1979-1980	1D	6	30	11	10	9	42	38	32
1980-1981	1D	5	30	11	9	10	38	30	31
1981-1982	1D	4	30	13	12	5	42	22	38
1982-1983	1D	4	30	11	10	9	35	24	32
1983-1984	1D	6	30	14	3	13	41	41	31		UC	2nd round
1984-1985	1D	9	30	9	7	14	33	39	25
1985-1986	1D	4	30	16	8	6	51	29	40
1986-1987	1D	3	30	14	13	3	45	22	41		UC	quarter-final
1987-1988	1D	14	38	11	11	16	48	50	33	final	UC	2nd round
1988-1989	1D	9	38	14	10	14	39	33	38		CWC	1st round
1989-1990	1D	4	34	17	11	6	46	28	45
1990-1991	1D	9	38	12	10	16	31	40	34		UC	1st round
1991-1992	1D	5	34	14	13	7	46	35	41
1992-1993	1D	11	34	14	3	17	41	53	31		UC	2nd round
1993-1994	1D	7	34	11	11	12	30	31	33
1994-1995	1D	4	34	16	10	8	54	43	42
1995-1996	1D	5	34	19	5	10	55	39	62		UC	2nd round
1996-1997	1D	5	34	15	8	11	51	46	53		UC	2nd round
1997-1998	1D	3	34	17	8	9	42	25	59		UC	1st round
1998-1999	1D	7	34	14	8	12	53	41	50		UC	1st round
1999-2000	1D	7	34	14	6	14	48	43	48
2000-2001	1D	15	34	9	9	16	41	49	36
2001-2002	1D	9	34	11	9	14	35	41	42
2002-2003	1D	4	34	14	8	12	47	46	50
2003-2004	1D	14	34	9	10	15	31	40	37
2003-2004	1D	15	34	14	4	16	28	33	46
2004-2005	1D	5	34	15	9	10	38	29	54	last 16
2005-2006	1D	17	34	8	10	16	28	41	34	semi-final	UC	group stage	relegated
2006-2007	2H	2	30	16	7	7	44	20	55	3rd round			promoted

Colours

Home kit: white shirt and white shorts. Away kit: black shirt and black shorts.

Volleyball

Main article: Vitória de Guimarães (volleyball)

External links

BWINLIGA • 2007-08 clubs

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Académica • Belenenses • Benfica • Boavista • Estrela da Amadora • Leixões
Marítimo • Nacional • Naval • Paços de Ferreira • Porto • Sporting
Sporting Braga • União de Leiria • Vitória de Guimarães • Vitória de Setúbal

Football in Portugal

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League competitions	FPF	Cup competitions
Portuguese Liga	Men's team	Cup of Portugal
Liga de Honra	Ladies' team	Portuguese League Cup
Second Division (4 groups)	U-21	Portuguese SuperCup
Third Division (7 groups)	LPFP
District Associations	List of clubs
League system	List of venues