F.C. Porto
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| Full name | Futebol Clube do Porto | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Dragões (Dragons) Azuis e brancos (Blue and white) Os Tripeiros (The Gutters) Os Andrades (The Andrades-archaic nickname) |
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| Founded | 1893 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Estádio do Dragão, Porto, Portugal (Capacity 52,000) |
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| Chairman | Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Andre Villas-Boas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Portuguese Liga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008/09 | Portuguese Liga, Champions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Futebol Clube do Porto (pron. IPA: [futɨ'bɔɫ 'klub(ɨ) du 'poɾtu]) – short: FC Porto or FCP – is a Portuguese sports club best known for its football team. It was created in Porto in 1893. It holds the best International record by a Portuguese team (7 international titles), having won the European Cup and the Intercontinental Cup twice each. In 2003, it brought Portugal's first UEFA Cup and in 1987 it brought Portugal's first UEFA Supercup. Domestically they hold the best record of five titles in a row, having won the Portuguese Liga 25 times, the Portuguese Cup 20 times and Portuguese Supercup 17 times and 1 Liga intercalar of Portugal (63 national titles), and also:
- 30 times Porto Liga
- 14 times Porto Honour Cup
- 32 times Porto Supercup
It was founded in the northern city of Porto on September 28, 1893, by wine-salesman António Nicolau de Almeida' who had his first contact with the game of football on one of his trips to England. The club was revived in 1906 by Monteiro da Costa.
