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The Associação Académica de Coimbra – Organismo Autónomo de Futebol (AAC-OAF), also referred to as Académica de Coimbra () or simply Académica, is a professional
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based in
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, Portugal. As of the 2023–24 football season in Portugal, the club competes in the third division of the
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, and hosts home games at the
Estádio Cidade de Coimbra The Estádio Cidade de Coimbra (') is a stadium in Coimbra, Portugal. This stadium belongs to the Municipality of Coimbra and is mainly used by the Associação Académica de Coimbra - O.A.F., Académica de Coimbra's soccer, football team. The s ...
which is owned by the local municipal government. Although their main home stadium is
Estádio Cidade de Coimbra The Estádio Cidade de Coimbra (') is a stadium in Coimbra, Portugal. This stadium belongs to the Municipality of Coimbra and is mainly used by the Associação Académica de Coimbra - O.A.F., Académica de Coimbra's soccer, football team. The s ...
, Académica have also played at the Estádio Sérgio Conceição at the start of this current season, 23/24. It also has a
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department with men's and women's teams. The club's name derives from the footballing division of the
Associação Académica de Coimbra The Associação Académica de Coimbra (AAC) is the students' union of the University of Coimbra (UC). Founded in Coimbra on November 3, 1887, it is the oldest students' union in Portugal. It is also the biggest Portuguese students' union belongin ...
, officially known as the Associação Académica de Coimbra - Secção de Futebol (AAC-SF)'','' which fields its own amateur football teams as a second incarnation starting in 1977 and belongs to the student association of the
University of Coimbra The University of Coimbra (UC; , ) is a Public university, public research university in Coimbra, Portugal. First established in Lisbon in 1290, it went through a number of relocations until moving permanently to Coimbra in 1537. The university ...
like the professional AAC-OAF which is however an autonomous organization inside the student association and owns the entire heritage and historical records formerly belonging to AAC-SF until 1974. Despite being founded in 1887 as a student organisation, following the merger of ''Clube Atlético de Coimbra'' (founded in 1861) and ''Academia Dramática'' (founded in 1837), the football section of the Associação Académica de Coimbra was only established in 1911, making it one of the oldest active clubs in Portugal and the Iberian Peninsula. The club have won the
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twice, in 1938–39 and 2011–12. In 1966–67, they achieved their highest position of runner-up in the
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table.


History

The Associação Académica de Coimbra - Organismo Autónomo de Futebol, hereinafter AAC-OAF, which dates back to 3 November 1887, the date of creation of the
Associação Académica de Coimbra The Associação Académica de Coimbra (AAC) is the students' union of the University of Coimbra (UC). Founded in Coimbra on November 3, 1887, it is the oldest students' union in Portugal. It is also the biggest Portuguese students' union belongin ...
(AAC) which is the student association of the
University of Coimbra The University of Coimbra (UC; , ) is a Public university, public research university in Coimbra, Portugal. First established in Lisbon in 1290, it went through a number of relocations until moving permanently to Coimbra in 1537. The university ...
, is the legal and legitimate successor of the extinct Section of Football of the Association Académica de Coimbra (''Associação Académica de Coimbra -'' ''Secção de Futebol (AAC-SF)'') that, by resolution of 10 June 1974 of the General Assembly of Members of AAC after the events of the
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, was transformed into Clube Académico de Coimbra (CAC). The current name, AAC-OAF, was adopted on the joint initiative of the General Board of Academica de Coimbra (''Direcção-Geral da Associação Académica de Coimbra (DG-AAC)'') and the Board of the Academic Club of Coimbra (Clube Académico de Coimbra (''CAC'')), and it was approved by the General Board of Associação Académica de Coimbra (''DG-AAC'') and by the General Assembly of CAC in 1984. By these statutes, a legally-binding link to the student association AAC and its university, the University of Coimbra (UC), was preserved in favour of AAC-OAF. The ''Associação Académica de Coimbra -'' ''Secção de Futebol (AAC-SF)'' amateur football team, which also belongs to the Associação Académica de Coimbra students association (students union) of the University of Coimbra, was reinstated in 1977 operating as a sports section of AAC and has been in operation as a student-only football team, usually playing in the lower, regional non-professional football leagues. The AAC-SF section, the non-professional football team made of students, and the AAC-OAF, the professional and autonomous football club, share the same crest and colors displayed on the clothes or uniforms of their sports players, as well as the same parent organization (which is the students' union or association Associação Académica de Coimbra that houses several sections for a multitude of other sports operating under the same name and crest as well). Académica de Coimbra won the
1938–39 Taça de Portugal The 1938–39 Taça de Portugal was the first season of the Taça de Portugal (English: ''Portuguese Cup''), the premier Portuguese football knockout competition, organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The final was played on 26 Jun ...
, the inaugural staging of the competition; they defeated
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4–3 in the final. In 1966–67, the club finished as
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runners-up to Benfica (best-ever finish), and lost the cup final 3–2 after extra time to
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. Two years later, a cup-final defeat to Benfica meant that the team competed in Europe for the first time, entering the 1969–70 Cup Winners' Cup and losing in the quarter-finals to eventual champions
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via a single extra-time goal. Académica de Coimbra moved frequently between the top two divisions in the years that followed. Under João Alves, they ended a three-year exile by winning promotion in 2001–02 as runners-up to
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. Following a decade of almost exclusively bottom-half finishes, the team won its first silverware in 73 years when they took the cup in
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, Marinho scoring the only goal after four minutes against
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. This allowed them entry into the group stage of the
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– a first European campaign in 30 years. Eliminated in third place in the group, they managed one win, 2–0 at home to holders
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with a brace from
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. A 14-year spell in the top division ended for Académica de Coimbra in 2015–16, when they finished in last place. On 4 November 2017, in honour of their 130th birthday, they joined the Club of Pioneers, a worldwide network of the oldest continuing football clubs from each country in the world, originally founded by Sheffield FC. After the 2021-22 Liga Portugal 2 season, the club was relegated for the first time to the third tier of the Portuguese football pyramid. The Associação Académica de Coimbra - Organismo Autónomo de Futebol filed for
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in September 2022. The club had overdue debts of more than 5.6 million euros, of which 1.9 million euros to the state, and had 3.1 million euros in defaults with suppliers and service providers. By June 2023, an intricate
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process had been initiated by Académica de Coimbra O.A.F.'s administration board to allow its emergence from bankruptcy avoiding the extinction of the football club.


Grounds

The home ground it uses is the
Estádio Cidade de Coimbra The Estádio Cidade de Coimbra (') is a stadium in Coimbra, Portugal. This stadium belongs to the Municipality of Coimbra and is mainly used by the Associação Académica de Coimbra - O.A.F., Académica de Coimbra's soccer, football team. The s ...
which has a capacity of 29,622 and belongs to the municipality's local government authority.


Honours

Source: * I Liga/I Divisão ** ''Runners-up (1):'' 1966–67 *
Taça de Portugal The Taça de Portugal (; ) is an annual association football competition and the premier knockout tournament in Portuguese football. For sponsorship reasons, it has been known as Taça de Portugal Generali Tranquilidade since the 2024–25 seaso ...
** Winners: 1938–39, 2011–12 ** ''Runners-up (3):'' 1950–51, 1966–67, 1968–69 *
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** ''Runners-up (1):''
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* Campeonato de Portugal ** ''Runners-up (1):'' 1922–23 *
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** Winners: 1948–49, 1972–73


League and cup history

''Note''


Players


Current squad


Records and statistics


Most appearances

''Competitive, professional matches only, appearances as substitute included in total.''


Most goals

''Competitive, professional matches only, appearances as substitute included in total.'' Núcleo de Veteranos AAC


Coaches

* Artur Jorge (16 December 2002 – 28 August 2003) * Vítor Oliveira (29 August 2003 – 26 January 2004) *
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(16 February 2015 – 20 September 2015) *
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(1 April 2018 – 13 May 2018) * Carlos Pinto (30 May 2018 – 1 October 2018) * João Alves (10 October 2018 – 31 May 2019) *
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(18 November 2019 – 10 July 2020) * Rui Borges (11 July 2020 – 22 September 2021) *
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(22 September 2021 – 21 November 2021) * Pedro Duarte (25 November 2021 – 3 March 2022) * José Gomes (4 March 2022 – 14 May 2022) * Tiago Moutinho (1 March 2023 – 30 June 2024)


References


External links

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