FC Porto

Futebol Clube do Porto, MHIH, OM (Portuguese pronunciation: [futɨˈβɔɫ ˈkluβ(ɨ) ðu ˈpoɾtu]), commonly known as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese sports club based in Porto. It is best known for its professional football team, who plays in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football.

Founded on 28 September 1893, Porto is one of the "Big Three" (Portuguese: Três Grandes) teams in Portugal – together with Lisbon-based rivals Benfica and Sporting CP – that have competed in every season of the Primeira Liga since its establishment in 1934. They are nicknamed Dragões (Dragons) for the mythical creature atop the club's crest, and Azuis e brancos (Blue-and-whites) for the shirt colours. The club supporters are called Portistas. Since 2003, Porto have played their home matches at the Estádio do Dragão, which replaced the previous 52-year-old ground, the Estádio das Antas.

Porto is the second most successful Portuguese team, with a total of 74 official trophies. Sixty-seven were achieved in domestic competitions and comprise 27 league titles (five of which were won consecutively between 1994–95 and 1998–99, a Portuguese football record), 16 Taça de Portugal (seven of which included in a double), 4 Campeonato de Portugal, and a record 20 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira. Porto is the only team in Portuguese league history to have won two titles without conceding any defeat, namely in the 2010–11 and 2012–13 seasons. In the former, Porto achieved the largest-ever difference of points between champion and runner-up in a three-points-per-win system (21 points), on their way to a second quadruple.

FC Porto (handball)

The FC Porto handball team is the senior representative of the handball section of FC Porto, a Portuguese sports club based in Porto. The team competes in the Andebol 1, the top-tier domestic league, and plays its home matches at the Dragão Caixa arena.

The current head coach is former club player and captain Ricardo Costa, who replaced six-time champion Serbian coach Ljubomir Obradović in the beginning of the 2015–16 season.

History

The section started in 1932 with a field handball (eleven-a-side) team, which played competitive matches until 1974–75, when the discipline was discontinued in favour of the current seven-a-side handball. In this period, the club won 37 regional league titles and 29 national league titles.

In 1951 the club established the handball section whose team won the Portuguese league for the first time in the 1953–54 season, having increased that tally with a further eight titles by 1968.

Porto endured a 31-year drought before winning the national league again in the 1998–99 season. In the 2014–15 season, the team secured their seventh consecutive league title, establishing a national handball record. In the previous season, the team also debuted in the EHF Champions League group stage, after overcoming the qualification tournament for the first time in five consecutive attempts.

FC Porto (swimming)

The FC Porto swimming section was founded in 1908, and to this day is one of the most successful swimming teams in Portugal. The club competes in Campeonato Nacional de Clubes em Natação (National Club Championship in Swimming) and has achieved multiple trophies both in the men and women departments.

The swimming section is part of the club heritage since its foundation, their first victory was the 'Taça Leixões' in 1908, and then the participation for the first time in the championship of Portugal occurred in 1919.

Names of famous athletes like Abel Guimarães, Adriano Antunes, Alexandrina Pinto, Alíria Silva, António Antunes, António Brenha, António Maria Pereira, Aristides Silva, Edgar Santos, Joaquim Lagoa, and so many others contributed for the club early success.

FC Porto achieved multiple national records, national, collective and individual titles, and attended at major international championships - European and World Championships.

Honours

The section is one of the most successful in Portuguese competitions, holding the record for most domestic league titles in the former absolut format and also in the women's department and the Portuguese cup.