Sport Clube União Torreense is a Portuguese

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, best known for its

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section, founded in

Torres Vedras Torres Vedras () is a municipality in the Portuguese district of Lisbon, approximately north of the capital Lisbon in the Oeste region, in the Centro of Portugal. The population was 83,075, in an area of . History In 1148, Afonso I took th ...

in 1917, as Sport União Torreense.

History

It participated six times in the

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(last in 1991–92 season) and its best result was two seventh final places (1955–56 and 1956–57), coincidentally the team's first two years in the top flight. Torreense participated in the 1956 final of the

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, where they lost 2–0 to

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. They also played in

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(second level) between 1952 and 1955, 1959 to 1964, 1965 to 1972, 1973 to 1977, 1978 to 1981, 1982 to 1991, 1992 to 1995, 1997 to 1998 and 2022. In the 2008–09 season, they were relegated from Group D of

. In the 2009–10 season, they finished Promotion Group E of

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on second place and in 2010–11 they returned to the

, finishing it in third place.

Stadium

Its stadium was built in 1925 and has a capacity of 12,000 people.

Current squad

Honours

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finalists: 1956 *

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: 1954–55 * Liga 3: 2021–22

References

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