Futebol Clube do Porto (), commonly referred to as FC Porto (or FC Porto Fidelidade, for sponsorship purposes), or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional
roller hockey team based in
Porto
Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...
. It is the senior representative side of the roller hockey section of
multi-sports club
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FC Porto
Futebol Clube do Porto, MHIH, OM (), commonly known as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Porto. It is best known for the professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portu ...
, a Portuguese
sports club
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based in
Porto
Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...
.
The team competes domestically in the top-tier
Portuguese First Division league, and internationally in the
Euroleague. It plays its home matches at the
Dragão Arena
The Dragão Arena (formerly named Dragão Caixa for sponsorship reasons) is an indoor arena located in Porto, Portugal, that houses the basketball, handball and roller hockey teams of FC Porto. It was inaugurated on 23 April 2009 and has a capa ...
, alongside the club's
basketball
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and
handball
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teams, and is managed by Spanish head coach Ricardo Ares.
Team
Current squad
The following players compose the squad for the 2021–22 season:
Goalkeepers (GK)
*1 Xavier Malián
*82 Tiago Rodrigues
Defenders / Midfielders (DF/MF)
*5 Telmo Pinto
*11 Carlos Ramos
*26 Xavier Barroso
*57 Reinaldo García ''(
Captain
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)''
Forwards (FW)
*7 Ezequiel Mena
*9 Rafael Costa
*19 Carlo Di Benedetto
*70 Hugo Santos
*77 Gonçalo Alves
Technical staff
Honours
In terms of total number of trophies, Porto is the most decorated team in Portuguese competitions, holding the record for most cup and super cup wins. They won their first championship in 1982–83, the first season under the presidency of
Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa
Jorge Nuno de Lima Pinto da Costa (; born 28 December 1937) is the president of Portuguese sports club FC Porto since 1982. He is the president with most titles won (66) and most days in charge in world football. He was involved in the Portugue ...
. Notably, Porto won the Primeira Divisão title for a record 10 consecutive seasons between 2001 and 2011. Internationally, Porto have also won multiple competitions, including two
CERH European League
The WSE Champions League is an annual club roller hockey competition organised by World Skate Europe - Rink Hockey and contested by teams from the top-ranked European leagues.
The current champions are Italian side Trissino, which secured their ...
titles in 1986 and 1990 and one
Intercontinental Cup in 2021.
Domestic competitions
*
Portuguese First Division
:Winners (24) – record: 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1998–99, 1999–00, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2021–22
*
Portuguese Cup
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 ...
:Winners (18) – record: 1982–83, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1995–96, 1997–98, 1998–99, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2012–13, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2021–22
*
Portuguese Super Cup
:Winners (23) – record: 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
European competitions
*
Euroleague
:Winners (2): 1985–86, 1989–90
*
World Skate Europe Cup
The WSE Cup is an annual European club roller hockey competition organised by the World Skate Europe - Rink Hockey The World Skate Europe - Rink Hockey,Cup Winners' Cup
The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The cup was, chronologically, the second seasonal inter-European club competition organised by UEFA. The tournam ...
:Winners (2): 1981–82, 1982–83
*
Continental Cup
:Winners (1): 1986
World competitions
*
Intercontinental Cup
: Winners (1): 2021
References
External links
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FC Porto
Rink hockey clubs in Portugal