União Desportiva de Santana, known as Santana, is a

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club from

Santana, Madeira Santana (), short form for ''Santa Ana'' (meaning Saint Anne) is a municipality along the northern coast of the island of Madeira, in the Portuguese archipelago of the same name. The population in 2011 was 7,719, in an area of . Geography Santan ...

. Founded in 1981, it currently holds home games at ''Manuel Marques da Trindade'', with a capacity of 3,000 seats. Santana was first promoted to the third category of Portuguese football in 2007–08. Santana were relegated back to the

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after gaining only 3 points in the 2009/10 season.

Backroom staff

* Paulo Abreu – Manager * David Batista – Assistant manager * Zé Barreiras – Assistant manager * Marcelino Andrade – Doctor * Márcio Sousa – Masseur * António Candelária – Chairman * Rogério Gouveia – Vice-chairman * Nélio Mendonça – Secretary

External links

Official website

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