Clube de Futebol Esperança de Lagos ''(abbreviated as CF Esperança de Lagos or CF Esperança Lagos)'', usually referred to as Esperança de Lagos, is a Portuguese

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club based in

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in the

Algarve The Algarve (, , ) is the southernmost NUTS statistical regions of Portugal, NUTS II region of continental Portugal. It has an area of with 467,495 permanent inhabitants and incorporates 16 municipalities (concelho, ''concelhos'' or ''município ...

. CF Esperança de Lagos currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal, which is the fourth tier of

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and they play their home matches at the Municipal de Lagos in

. The club is affiliated to

Associação de Futebol do Algarve The Associação de Futebol do Algarve () is one of the 22 district football associations that are affiliated to the Portuguese Football Federation. The AF Algarve administers lower tier football in the district of Faro. Background Associaç� ...

and has competed in the AF Algarve Taça. It has also entered the national cup competition known as

Taça de Portugal The Taça de 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 Generali Tranquilidade since the 2024–25 seaso ...

on many occasions.

History

The club was founded in 1912 as Esperança F.C. and became the delegation number 2 of

Sporting Clube de Portugal Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries,

(Sporting CP). This formal link with the Lisbon-based sports club was eventually terminated by the board of Esperança de Lagos in the

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era. As a child,

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spent a year living in Lagos where he briefly played in the youth football team of Esperança de Lagos before moving to

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and joining the

Sporting CP Youth Academy Sporting Clube de Portugal "Juniors" (), commonly known as Sporting Juniors, is the under-19 football team comprised in the youth department of Portuguese club Sporting CP. They play their home matches at the Academia Cristiano Ronaldo in Alcoche ...

Current squad

Season to season

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 Por ...

: 1982–83 * AF Algarve 1ª Divisão: 2008–09

Notable former managers

Fernando Cabrita Fernando da Silva Cabrita (1 May 1923 – 22 September 2014) was a Portuguese football forward and manager. He amassed Primeira Liga totals of 295 games and 88 goals over the course of 14 seasons, in representation of Olhanense and Covilh ...

Footnotes

External links

Official website
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