Casa Pia Atlético Clube is a Portuguese multi-
sport
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s founded in 1920 and based in
Lisbon
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, Portugal, best-known for its
football team
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, that competes in the
Primeira Liga
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. The club is named after
Casa Pia
:''This article refers to the institution. For the child abuse scandal, see Casa Pia child sexual abuse scandal.''
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, a Portuguese children's
charity
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, and many of its athletes come from that institution. Its football stadium is ''Estádio Pina Manique'', named in honor of
Pina Manique
Dr. Diogo Inácio de Pina Manique (3 October 1733 – 1 July 1805) was a Portuguese magistrate.
Early life
He was the son and heir of Pedro Damião de Pina Manique (Baptised Lisbon, Sé, 12 October 1704 - Lisbon, Santa Engrácia, 13 December 1 ...
, the founder of Casa Pia children's charity. Casa Pia AC was one of the most versatile Portuguese clubs, having played 25 sports, with the curiosity of having been the only one who practiced
Baseball
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regularly, beating the strong team of the American Colony on 4 July 1923 at
Campo das Laranjeiras by 25-24.
On 18 December 1921, when
Portugal
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made their international debut against
Spain
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, i ...
in
Madrid
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, Casa Pia FC provided the squad with four players in a 1–3 loss, including
Cândido de Oliveira, who was the
team captain
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. Casa Pia promoted from Serie E of
Terceira Divisão
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to Centre Group of
Portuguese Second Division
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in 2009–10 season as champions. They were promoted again to
LigaPro
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in 2019. The team will play for the first time in 83 years in the
Primeira Liga
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in the 2022–23 season.
History
Early success
Although Casa Pia A.C. was officially founded on 3 July 1920, at the initiative of Cândido de Oliveira, Ricardo Ornelas and David Ferreira (among others), the club's history dates back to 1893, when the Real Casa Pia de Lisboa football team was formed, the first team to defeat the so-called "invincible" team
Carcavelos Club
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in 1898 in a historic victory that forever cemented the practice of
football in Portugal
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.
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On 3 October 1920, just a few months after its foundation, Casa Pia FC won its first-ever piece of silverware after beating Benfica 2-1, thus winning the ''Bronze Herculano Santos''. The team was captained by Cândido de Oliveira, and the game was refereed by ]Cosme Damião
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He is remembered as the main force behind the birth of Benfica and one of the first great Portuguese football players. Benfica's yearly aw ...
.
In its debut season, Casa Pia FC won the Lisbon Regional Championship and the Lisbon Cup
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without registering a single defeat. And to these titles, Casa Pia added the triumph in the confrontation with the champion of the North, FC Porto
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, in the then-called ''Taça 27 de Julho''. This game was the final rehearsal for the start of the Portuguese Championship Portuguese Championship (Portuguese: ''Campeonato Português'') may refer to:
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, the forerunner of the Taça de Portugal
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, which began in the following year.
At 17 months of age, Casa Pia had already participated in three tournaments abroad: Paris
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, San Sebastián
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, and Seville
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. The ''Casapianos'' was the first Portuguese team to play in Paris, playing at the Pershing Stadium
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in the city's Tournament at Christmas
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1920, together with the Cercle Athlétic de Paris, Cercle Athlétic de Vitry, FC Cantonal
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(from Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
) and FC Espanya de Barcelona
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, who headed the
rankings in the championships of their countries. In the opening game, Cercle de Paris beat Casa Pia 2–1, with the Casapian goal scored by Cândido de Oliveira. The trip to Seville took place on 16 October 1921, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Campo de Sports on Avenida de la Reina Victoria, facing Sevilla FC
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, who was wearing its current emblem on their chests for the first time, and despite the injury suffered by Spencer, who was forced to leave the pitch for much of the match, Sevilla FC achieved a clear victory over the ''Casapianos'', prevailing by three goals to nil, goals scored by León, Kinké and Escobar.
The team's best player was Cândido de Oliveira, one of the founders of the club and the captain, who had grown up in Casa Pia since he was delivered there at the age of nine as an orphan, and who had previously played for Real Casa Pia de Lisboa, founded at the end of the 19th century.[ Oliveira was the main architect of the team's rise to football power in Lisbon, competing head-to-head against the likes of Benfica and ]Sporting CP
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, and largely thanks to his quality, the immediate impact of Casa Pia continued to be felt in the following seasons. In the first four years they competed, the 'Gansos' won the Lisbon Championship three times.[
The reputation grew and, on 13 December 1925, the club was invited to face Benfica on the occasion of the inauguration of Estádio das Amoreiras, which was considered at the time the best stadium in the ]Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula (),
**
* Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica''
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* french: Péninsule Ibérique
* mwl, Península Eibérica
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.[ The Casapians faced Benfica in the 4 categories in front of 15 thousand people, and although it is defeated in the ''Quartas'' by 8–1, in ''Terceiras'' by 11–0, in ''Segundas'' by 4–2, they won in ''Primeiras'' by 3–1.][ Casa Pia FC was also the first team on the continent to travel to the ]Azores
)
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doing it so for free after being invited by Fayal S.C. to play 3 games there in favor of the victims of the 1922 earthquake in that archipelago.[
]
Stagnation
In 1938–39, Casa Pia FC played in the inaugural editions of the National Championship
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and Taça de Portugal
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, which still today are the most important football competitions in Portugal. However, its participation in the National Championship in the 1938–39 season was the only one in which the club played in the First Division.[ Their field, Campo do Restelo, was expropriated in 1939–40 by the Estado Novo for the exhibition of the Portuguese World. Without its own field until 29 August 1954, when the Pina Manique Stadium in Benfica was inaugurated, far from ]Belém
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and Casa Pia, the club wandered from one field to another, achieving a brilliant record in National Championships.
Recent history
In the 2020–21 season, Casa Pia registered its 71st participation in National Championships, starting in the 1938–39 season.
Honours
* Campeonato de Lisboa
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** Champions (1): 1920–21
* Lisbon Cup
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** Champions (1): 1920–21
Divisions
*Football
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*Futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hardcourt, hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and Indoor soccer, indoor football.
Futsal is played between two teams of five players ...
*Handball
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*Karate
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*Gymnastics
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*Weightlifting
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*Hockey
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*Table tennis
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*Wrestling
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*Sport fishing
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Current squad
Out on loan
Records and statistics
The club has a single presence at the top level of Portuguese football.
2019-2020 season cut short due to COVID-19 global pandemic
Club Officials
References
External links
Official website
{{Authority control
Football clubs in Portugal
Sport in Lisbon
Association football clubs established in 1920
1920 establishments in Portugal
Primeira Liga clubs
Portuguese field hockey clubs