Grupo Desportivo da Gafanha, founded in 1957, is a
sports club
A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports.
Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...
from
Gafanha da Nazaré
Gafanha da Nazaré () is a city and parish (''freguesia'') in the Ílhavo Municipality, in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 15,240,[Ílhavo
Ílhavo () is a municipality located in the centre of Portugal. The population in 2021 was 39,239, in an area of 73.48 km².
The Municipality of Ílhavo includes four parishes and two cities: Gafanha da Nazaré and Ílhavo (City).
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Portugal
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The club is mainly known by its
football
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team which competes in
the third tier of Portuguese league system since 2014–15 season
and plays its home games in ''Complexo Desportivo da Gafanha''. Their kit manufacturer is
Macron.
The club has also teams competing in other sports including
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 ...
,
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...
, and
athletics
Athletics may refer to:
Sports
* Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking
** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport
* Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...
.
References
External links
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Football clubs in Portugal
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