Centro Desportivo Universitário do Porto or CDUP (Sports Center of University of Porto) is a Portuguese amateur

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for students at the University of Porto, in

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History

The dispute resolution with the University of Porto (2012 – Present)

On November 2012, CDUP and the University of Porto reached an agreement to settle the dispute they have been having since 2003, due to the refuse of the University to support and fund the federated sports side of the club. Resulting from this agreement, the University of Porto published, in January 2013, the articles of association of a new autonomous service of the University called "CDUP-UP - Centro de Desporto da Universidade do Porto" with the responsibility of promoting and organizing university sports. CDUP remained juridical autonomous from the University of Porto, although without the responsibility of university sports. Because of that, it was proposed to change its name to "CDUP-AD - Centro Desportivo Universitário do Porto, associação desportiva autónoma" and it became responsible only for federated non university sports, with the condition that, at least 50% of the total registered athletes, must be part of the academic community. Until today, the club name hasn't changed and it is still called "CDUP - Centro Desportivo Universitário do Porto".

Sports

CDUP enables students to practise a large number of sports and has sections dedicated to several sports at the competitive level, including

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, handball,

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, canoeing,

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water polo Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the water polo ball, ball into the oppo ...

rowing Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically ...

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

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, and the sport for which they are best known in

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. The CDUP team is one of the best Portuguese rugby union teams and three of its players were included in the Portuguese squad for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. In Portugal, rugby is considered a traditional university sport.

Facilities

CDUP facilities are located in two places in the city — the University Stadium and the Rua da Boa Hora. The CDUP headquarters are located in the Rua da Boa Hora n.º 20 (20, Boa Hora street) where there is also a swimming pool, rooms for martial arts,

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, chess and table tennis. At the University Stadium, by the

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, there are a multisports arena with two indoor sports fields, two tennis courts, an outdoor

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field, and in stadium one athletics tartan track and one football/

grass pitch.

Honors

* Taça de Portugal de Rugby: **Winner (3): 2002–03, 2006–07 *Athletics Portuguese Championship 1994: 3rd Place *Chess Portuguese Team Championship 1985: Winner

Rugby Squad 2023/24

References

Rugby union teams in Portugal University of Porto University and college sports clubs in Portugal {{sport-org-stub