Grupo Desportivo da Gafanha, founded in 1957, is a
sports club
A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports.
Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...
from
Gafanha da Nazaré
Gafanha da Nazaré () is a city and parish (''freguesia'') in the Ílhavo Municipality, in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 15,240,[Ílhavo
Ílhavo (), officially the City of Ílhavo (), is a city and municipality located in the Aveiro District of central Portugal. The population in 2021 was 39,239, in an area of 73.48 km2.
The Municipality of Ílhavo includes four parishes and t ...]
,
Portugal
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.
The club is mainly known by its
football
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team which competes in
the third tier of Portuguese league system since 2014–15 season
and plays its home games in ''Complexo Desportivo da Gafanha''. Their kit manufacturer is
Macron
Macron may refer to:
People
* Emmanuel Macron (born 1977), president of France since 2017
* Brigitte Macron (born 1953), French teacher, wife of Emmanuel Macron
* Jean-Michel Macron (born 1950), French professor of neurology, father of Emmanuel ...
.
The club has also teams competing in other sports including
futsal
Futsal is a variant of association football played between two teams of five players each on a court smaller than a football pitch. Its rules are based on the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game of association football, and i ...
,
basketball
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, and
athletics
Athletics may refer to:
Sports
* Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking
** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport
* Athletics (physical culture), competitio ...
.
References
External links
*
Football clubs in Portugal
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