O Elvas Clube Alentejano de Desportos is a

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club based in

Elvas Elvas () is a Portuguese municipality, former episcopal city and frontier fortress of easternmost central Portugal, located in the district of Portalegre in Alentejo. It is situated about east of Lisbon, and about west of the Spanish fortress ...

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.Team report
/ref> It was founded in 1947 when the team S.L. Elvas and S.C. Elvas fused. Sport Lisboa e Elvas (founded in 1925) and O Elvas CAD spent several years in the

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, the main tier in the

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. Nowadays it plays in the Portalegre Regional Championships.

History

The club was founded on August 15, 1947, from the merger of "Sport Lisboa e Elvas" with "Sporting Clube Elvense", clubs that were branches of

Sport Lisboa e Benfica Sport Lisboa e Benfica (), commonly known as Benfica, is a professional football club based in Lisbon, Portugal, that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football. Founded on 28 February 1904 as ''Sport Lisboa'', Ben ...

and

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respectively. The union between the two clubs from Elvas was fundamentally due to the lack of interest shown by the so-called mother clubs, since in the mid-1940s, both SL Elvas and SC Elvense were experiencing some financial difficulties and given the lack of aid several times requested and refused by their mother clubs, they decided to unite in a single club and in this way, managed to keep the king sport alive in the interior region. Thanks to the status of "SL Elvas", which already competed in the 1st Division, "O Elvas" continued it five times, in the 1940s. It debuted in 8th place in 1947/48, with victories against big clubs, such by 1/2 over SL Benfica, with two goals from

Patalino Domingos Carrilho Demétrio (29 June 1922 – 28 July 1989), commonly known as Patalino, was a Portuguese footballer who played as a forward. Club career Patalino was born in Elvas, Portalegre District. He spent nine seasons of his 23-year senio ...

or the 5/0 thrashing of Boavista and the 3/1 victory against SC Braga, followed by a 9th place in 1948/49 and 13th place in the following season, being, therefore, relegated to the second tier. Then returned to the 1st Division, in 1986/87, having finished in 16th place and, in the following season, ended up in 15th place, among 20 participating teams On March 15, 1973, «O Elvas» F.C. XL first branch of O Elvas CAD was founded. In between, a reference, for the national title of the 3rd Division, won in 1954/55, in addition to several honorable classifications in the 2nd and 3rd National Division. In 1980/81, "O Elvas" lost the final of the 3rd Division Nacional, with the title being won by CF União de Coimbra in the second phase of the competition. When the crisis knocked on the door, the club went downhill until it descended to the District Championship of the Football Association of Portalegre and for that reason for years it only relied on its formation. Currently the team is getting back on its feet, with a new president, new technical team and a young team, the main team returns this year to the 1st Division of AF de Portalegre, and with training teams, both at district and national level. The club already had the modality of basketball, which participated in the competitions of the "Associação de Basquetebol do Alentejo", also in the youth and senior levels, but which currently has its activity suspended.

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References

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