Anadia Futebol Clube ''(abbreviated as Anadia FC)'' is a

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football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

club based in Anadia in the

district of Aveiro Aveiro District ( pt, Distrito de Aveiro, or ) is located in the central coastal region of Portugal. The capital of the district is the city of Aveiro, which also serves as the seat of Aveiro Municipality. Aveiro District is bordered by the Po ...

. Anadia is also a club for field hockey and basketball.

Background

Anadia FC currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal which is the third tier of

Portuguese football Association football ( pt, 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 ...

. The club was founded in 1926 and they play their home matches at the Municipal Engº Sílvio Henriques Cerveira in Anadia. The stadium is able to accommodate 6,500 spectators. The club is affiliated to

Associação de Futebol de Aveiro The Associação de Futebol de Aveiro ''(Aveiro Football Association)'' is one of the 22 District Football Associations that are affiliated to the Portuguese Football Federation. The AF Aveiro administers lower tier football in the district of ...

and has competed in the AF Aveiro Taça. The club has also entered the national cup competition known as

Taça de Portugal The Taça de Portugal (; "Cup of Portugal") is an annual association football competition and the premier knockout tournament in Portuguese football. For sponsorship reasons, it has been known as Taça de Portugal Placard since the 2015–16 seaso ...

on many occasions. Anadia lost its president António Simões in a car crash on 20 November 2009. The situation created huge problems in its structure, which it was resolved with a constitution by the Administrative Commission (Comissão Administrativa). He was succeeded by Manuel Pinho.

Appearances

*Second National Level: 2 *Segunda Divisão: 12 *Terceira Divisão: 34

Current squad

Season to season

League and cup history

Honours

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 ...

: 2006/07, 2009/10 * AF Aveiro 1ª Divisão: 1969/70

Footnotes

External links

Official website
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