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Madeira Football Association
The Madeira Football Association (''Associação de Futebol da Madeira'', abrv. ''AF Madeira'') is the regional governing body for the all football competitions in the former Portuguese district of Funchal, including both Madeira Island and Porto Santo Island. It is also the regulator of the clubs registered in the autonomous region. Notable clubs affiliated to AF Madeira ;Primeira Liga (tier 1) * Marítimo ;LigaPro (tier 2) *Nacional ; Campeonato de Portugal (tier 4) * Camacha *Machico * Marítimo B Current Divisions - 2022–23 season The AF Madeira runs the following divisions covering the fifth and sixth tiers of the Portuguese football league system. Divisão de Honra *1º Maio Funchal *Andorinha *Câmara de Lobos *Caniçal *Cruzado Canicense * Estrela da Calheta *Juventude de Gaula *Nacional B * Pontassolense *Portosantense *Porto da Cruz * Ribeira Brava 1ª Divisão *Carvalheiro *Choupana *Os Xavelhas * Ribeira Brava B *Santacruzense *Santana *São Vicente * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funchal
Funchal () is the largest city, the municipal seat and the capital of Portugal's Madeira, Autonomous Region of Madeira, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. The city has a population of 105,795, making it the sixth largest city in Portugal. Because of its high cultural and historical value, Funchal is one of Portugal's main tourist attractions; it is also popular as a destination for New Year's Eve, and it is the leading Portuguese port on cruise liner dockings. Etymology The first settlers named their settlement Funchal after the abundant wild fennel that grew there. The name is formed from the Portuguese language, Portuguese word for fennel, ''funcho,'' and the suffix ''-al'', to denote "a plantation of fennel": History This settlement began around 1424, when the island was divided into two ''Captaincy, captaincies.'' The zones that would become the urbanized core of Funchal were founded by João Gonçalves Zarco who settled there with members of his family. Owing to its geograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
União Da Bola
União is the Portuguese word for Union. It may refer to: *the Brazilian federal government *União do Vegetal, a church known for its usage of Hoasca as tea * Brazilian frigate ''União'' (F45), a general-purpose ''Niterói'' class frigate launched 1975 and completed 1980 ; Cities *União, Guinea-Bissau ; Places in Brazil *União dos Palmares, a city in the state of Alagoas *União da Vitória, a city in the state of Paraná *União, Piauí, a town in the state of Piauí ; Football (soccer) clubs *C.F. União, aka União Madeira, Portuguese football club that plays in the Madeira Islands *União Agrícola Barbarense Futebol Clube, Brazilian football club *União São João Esporte Clube, Brazilian football club *União Bandeirante Futebol Clube, Brazilian football club *União Esporte Clube, Brazilian football club *União Futebol Clube, Brazilian football club *Sociedade Esportiva União Cacoalense, Brazilian football club *União de São Lourenço, Cape Verdean football club * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Football Clubs In Portugal
The Portuguese football leagues are divided into divisions (''divisões'', singular – ''divisão''). The top teams play in the Primeira Liga, named Liga NOS for sponsorship reasons. In each division, with rare exceptions, a team plays all other teams twice, once at home and once away. One can divide the competitions in professional and non-professional. The Portuguese league and federation teams compete in Europe under UEFA, most notably in the UEFA Champions League, but also in the UEFA Cup, in the extinct Cup Winners' Cup and sometimes in the UEFA Intertoto Cup, European Super Cup and the extinct UEFA/Conmebol Intercontinental Cup (Toyota Cup). They can also compete in the FIFA Club World Cup, although until today no Portuguese team reached this recent competition. The teams also compete in a domestic cup competition each year, called Cup of Portugal (''Taça de Portugal'') and the winners play against the champions in the SuperCup Cândido de Oliveira. Current hierarch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Football Competitions
Portuguese football is divided into divisions (''divisões'', singular — ''divisão''). The major teams play in the Primeira Liga. The other professional teams play against each other in the LigaPro. The other major competitions are the Portuguese Cup, Portuguese League Cup and Portuguese Super Cup. Early years Before 1922, the Portuguese teams played only local games with neighbouring clubs and later in the local championships as the Lisbon District Championship (''Campeonato Distrital de Lisboa'') or the Porto District Championship (''Campeonato Distrital do Porto''). Championship of Portugal The nation was urging for a nationwide competition and the clubs organized the Championship of Portugal for the most important District Associations (Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra, Madeira, Algarve, and Braga). Setúbal Football Association teams also participated instead of Lisbon clubs if they won the Campeonato de Lisboa. In the first championship, only Lisbon, Porto, Madeira, and Algarve w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese District Football Associations
There are 22 district Football Associations in Portugal. These organizations are the governing bodies (alongside the Portuguese Football Federation) of football in each Portuguese district. Overview Until the reform of Portuguese football in 1948, all clubs in a given district had to participate in the District Championship, even those in Primeira Liga and Segunda Divisão; after 1948, a Terceira Divisão was established for transition between the District Championship and national leagues and the top level clubs no longer had to play in their District Championship (the arrangement did not include clubs from the Azores and Madeira, which did not reach the top division until the 1970s). With the reform of Portuguese Football League system in 2013, the Campeonato Nacional de Seniores became the Portuguese third-level football league, making the principal District Championship the fourth-level leagues. While the three districts in which the Azores were divided pre-autonomy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portosantense
Clube Desportivo Portosantense, simply Portosantense, is a Portuguese football based in Porto Santo, Madeira. Founded in 1948, it currently plays in the Terceira Divisão The Terceira Divisão Portuguesa (in English: ''Portuguese Third Division'') was a football league in Portugal, situated at the fourth level of the Portuguese football league system. The Third Division was initially the third level of the Portugue ..., holding home matches at the ''José Lino Pestana'' (a club president), with a 2,500-seat capacity. In 2004, Portosantense first reached the third division, remaining there four years. In the 2007–08 season, the club finished 10th and missed out on the 6th place required to guarantee promotion through the play-offs; it was later relegated back to the fourth level due to irregularities. Former players * Wesley John - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines international who played in Portugal for 23 years, including for clubs Ribeira Brava and Porto da Cruz, bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AD Pontassolense
Associação Desportiva Pontassolense is a Portuguese football club based in Ponta do Sol, Madeira. Founded in 1979, it currently plays in the Madeira Football Association, holding home matches at ''Campo Municipal Ponta do Sol'', with a 3,000-seat capacity. History Pontassolense saw the light of day on 27 January 1979, but only began participating in official competitions two years later. In the early years the club was based in was used to stage Ribeira Brava, Madeira Islands, where one single midweek practice took place. The remaining sessions occurred at Ponta do Sol Ponta do Sol (; en, "Cape of the Sun") is a municipality in the southwestern coast of the island of Madeira, in the archipelago of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 8,862, in an area of . History The settlement of Ponta do Sol began shortly af ..., which would later become a hotel. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AD Camacha
Associação Desportiva da Camacha, known as A.D. Camacha, is a Portuguese football club from Santa Cruz, Madeira. Founded in 1978, they play in the Campeonato de Portugal. They play their home games in Campo Municipal da Nogueira, which has a capacity of 3,300. Their chairman is Celso Almeida e Silva and their manager is José Barros. History AD Camacha were founded on 1 August 1978 and started off in the Madeira regional Premier league. Over the past 30 years they have managed to reach the Portuguese Second Division Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ..., the third-tier of Portuguese football. Campo Municipal da Nogueira has been their home stadium since their founding, and is normally sold out of tickets for their home games. Honours * Terceira Divisão – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AD Machico
Associação Desportiva de Machico, or simply Machico is a sports club based in the city of Machico, on the Portuguese island of Madeira. They are notable mainly for their professional volleyball team (''See: A.D. Machico (volleyball)'') and for their Second Division semi-professional football team, who play their home games at the brand-new 3,300-seat capacity Estádio Municipal do Machico. The club also compete in others sports at amateur level in futsal, karate and swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r .... Honours * AF Madeira Championship: 2 **1975–76, 1989–90 * AF Madeira Cup: 2 ** 1972–73, 1998–99 See also * A.D. Machico (volleyball) External links * (in Portuguese)UltrasTricolor official website(in Portuguese) Football clubs in Portu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CD Nacional
Clube Desportivo Nacional, commonly known as Nacional and sometimes Nacional da Madeira (), is a Portuguese football club based in Funchal, on the island of Madeira. Founded on 8 December 1910, it currently plays in the Liga Portugal 2, Portugal's second-tier division of professional football. It plays its home games at Estádio da Madeira, also known as Estádio da Choupana. Built in 1998 and named at the time ''Estádio Eng. Rui Alves'' after the current club president Rui Alves, it seats approximately 5,132 people. The stadium is located in the north of Funchal, high in the mountains of the Choupana district The club's home colours are black and white striped shirts with black shorts and socks. Nacional is also known for being one of the clubs that formed Portuguese international Cristiano Ronaldo and to honour the club's most famous player they named their youth training facilities ''Cristiano Ronaldo Câmpus Futebol''. The ''Alvinegros'' best top-tier league finish was f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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