União Futebol Clube de Almeirim is a Portuguese

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

club, founded in

Almeirim Almeirim () is a city and a municipality in Santarém District, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 23,376, in an area of 222.12 km2. The city proper had a population of 10,520 in 2001. History There are vestiges of mid-Paleolithic to Mesol ...

in 1934. They play in the Santarém FA Second Division, holding home matches at the '' Estádio Dom Manuel de Mello''.

History

Founded on 24 June 1934 as ''União Foot-Ball Club de Almeirim'' by Jacinto Pereira, Adelino Soler, Manuel Pereira, Renato André, Diamantino Correia e Manuel de Oliveira, the club started playing in 1945, with their youth sides playing in the Campeonato Regional de Juniores. They won their first title in 1954, after lifting the second division of the regional leagues. União Almeirim first reached 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 ...

in 1968, and achieved a first-ever promotion to

Segunda Divisão : : The Segunda Divisão Portuguesa ( English: ''Portuguese Second Division'') was a football league situated at the third level of the Portuguese football league system. The division had previously been the second level of the Portuguese pyrami ...

in 1985. In the 2000s, they struggled severely with financial problems, and had a project named "Viver UFCA" started to revitalize the club in 2013.

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