Clube de Futebol de Fão ''(abbreviated as CF Fão)'' is a Portuguese

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

club based in Fão,

Esposende Esposende () is a city and a municipality in Braga District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 34,254, in an area of 95.41 km2. The city itself (the parish Esposende, Marinhas e Gandra) had a population of 9,197 in 2001. It gained city ...

in the district of Braga.

Background

CF Fão currently plays in the

Terceira Divisão : The Terceira Divisão Portuguesa (in English: ''Portuguese Third Division'') was a football league in Portugal, situated at the fourth level of the Portuguese football league system. The Third Division was initially the third level of the Por ...

Série A which is the fourth tier of

Portuguese football Association football (), the most popular sport in Portugal, has a long and storied history in the country, following its introduction in 1875 in cities such as Funchal, Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra by English merchants and Portuguese students a ...

. The club was founded in 1957 and they play their home matches at the Complexo Desportivo Clube de Futebol de Fão in Fão,

. The stadium is able to accommodate 1,000 spectators. The club is affiliated to

Associação de Futebol de Braga The Braga Football Association (''Associação de Futebol de Braga'', abrv. ''AF Braga'') is the district governing body for the all football competitions in the Portuguese district of Braga since 1992. It is also the regulator of the clubs regis ...

and has competed in the AF Braga Taça. The club has also entered the national cup competition known as

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 ...

on a few occasions.

Season to season

Honours

*AF Braga Divisão de Honra: 1999/00, 2007/08

Footnotes

External links

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