G.D. Chaves

GD Chaves

Full name	Grupo Desportivo de Chaves
Nickname(s)	Flavienses, Valentes Trasmontanos
Founded	1949
Ground	Estádio Municipal de Chaves
Capacity	8,000
Chairman	Bruno Carvalho
Manager	Vítor Oliveira
League	LigaPro
2014–15	3rd
Home colours Away colours

Grupo Desportivo de Chaves, commonly known as Chaves, is a Portuguese football club from Chaves currently playing in the LigaPro. They were founded in 1949 and currently play at Estádio Municipal de Chaves with a capacity of 12,000, one of the biggest in the division. Their home kit is red-and-blue striped shirt with blue shorts and socks and the away kit is all white. Their current president is Bruno Carvalho and their manager is Vítor Oliveira. Chaves have been in the Portuguese First Division 13 times and had their best finish of 5th in the 1989–90 season. They went to Europe in the 1987–88 season where they played in the UEFA Cup, beating Romanian team Universitatea Craiova in the first round but lost in the next round to Hungarian team Budapest Honvéd.

History

Grupo Desportivo de Chaves was founded on 27 September 1949 and is one of the most experienced teams in the Portuguese Second Division, not just because of its old culture, but also many years in the top-flight Primeira Liga, doing quite well and playing in European tournaments, such as the UEFA Cup. Their best ever finish was in the Primeira Liga when they finished in fifth place twice in 1986–87 and 1989–90, where in the 1986–87 season, they had fantastic results, beating Sporting Clube de Portugal 2–1 at home in a memorable night at the Estádio Municipal de Chaves stadium. After those fantastic seasons, they finished sixth, seventh, and ninth before getting relegated in the 1992–93 season to the Liga de Honra. They returned for another few seasons but got relegated again to the Liga de Honra until 2007, where they eventually got relegated to the Portuguese Second Division: Série A. In the previous season of 2007–08, they finished in fourth place just missing out on promotion.

After a series of great results in 2008–09 that granted the team the lead of Série A, Chaves finally achieved promotion to the second-flight Liga de Honra with an aggregate win, 1–0 over Penafiel, the winner of the Portuguese Second Division: Série B in a semi-final playoff. In the playoff final, it was between Chaves and Fátima, in which both were guaranteed promotion to the Liga de Honra and the final was to determine the champion of the Second Division. Fátima won the match 2–1 and were rewarded with champions of the Second Division for the 2008–09 season as Chaves became runners-up for the season and will play in the Liga de Honra for the 2009–10 season.^[1]

Stadium

Estádio Municipal de Chaves is a multi-use stadium in Chaves. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of GD Chaves. The stadium is able to hold 12,000 people. The stadium normally holds the national teams youth games and also some U-21 games and also the senior team but rarely. This stadium is famous because it is where Cristiano Ronaldo made his senior international debut.^[2]

Honours

• Portuguese Second Division: 2012–13
• Portuguese Cup: Runners-up 2009–10

Current squad

As of 18 January, 2016.^[3] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Antonio Filipe 2 DF Edu Machado 4 DF Fábio Santos 5 DF Diogo Coelho 6 MF Rafael Assis 7 MF Diogo Cunha 8 MF João Patrão 10 FW Luís Pinto 11 FW João Reis 15 MF Siaka Bamba 18 MF Bruno Magalhães 20 FW Luís Barry 21 DF Nelson Lenho

No. Position Player 23 DF Mike 25 MF Braga 26 DF Miguel Oliveira 27 MF Luís Silva 31 FW Gustavo Souza 47 DF Stéphane 49 DF Miguel Ângelo 77 FW João Mário 80 FW Perdigão 84 GK Paulo Ribeiro 90 FW Tozé Marreco 91 FW Sandro Lima 97 GK Márcio

Notable former players

Carlos Carvalhal Diogo Valente João Alves Vermelhinho Anthony da Silva Nuno Miguel Gomes Rui Lima Nuno Rocha Rui Correia Vítor Pereira Areias Beto Youssef Haraoui

Hilário Leal Auri Gustavo Manduca Pedro Geromel Roberto Marco Claúdio Cássio Georgi Slavkov Radoslav Zdravkov Plamen Getov Kabwe Kasongo Etienne N'tsunda Tihomir Rudež

Owusu Afriyie Inzaghi Donígio Moussa Yahaya Marcel Sabou Lucian Marinescu Ibón Pérez Arrieta David Casablanca Carlos Álvarez Toniño Ulf Ottosson Leonson Lewis Jose Carlos Moura Nascimento Carlos Apna Embaló

Managerial history

Raul Águas (1984–1988) João Fonseca (1988–1989) José Romão (1989–1990) Manuel Barbosa (1990–1991) José Romão (1991–1992) Henrique Calisto (1992–1993) Carlos Garcia (1993) António Jesus (1993–1994) Vítor Urbano (1994–Nov, 1995) José Romão (Nov, 1995–Jan, 1996) Joaquim Teixeira (Jan, 1996–May, 1996) José Romão (1996–Nov, 1997) Manuel Correia (Nov, 1997–Jan, 1998) Porfírio Amorim (Jan, 1998) Álvaro Magalhães (Jan, 1998–May, 1998) Horácio Gonçalves (1998–January 1999) Augusto Inácio (January 1999–May 1999) Diamantino Bráz (May 1999) Francisco Vital (1999–2000) Dito (June, 2000–Oct 16, 2000) António Jesus (Oct 18, 2000–Apr 23, 2001) António Borges (Apr 23, 2001–June, 2002) Rogério Gonçalves (July 3, 2002 – June 18, 2003)

José Alberto Costa (June 23, 2003–Nov 25, 2003) Manuel Correia (Nov 25, 2003–May 9, 2004) Daniel Ramos (June, 2004–Nov 30, 2004) António Amaral (Nov 30, 2004–May 22, 2005) Vítor Maçãs (June, 2005–Oct 8, 2005) António Caldas (Oct 8, 2005–Oct 26, 2006) Ricardo Formosinho (Oct 26, 2006–Dec 11, 2006) António Borges (Dec 13, 2006–Mar 16, 2008) Leonardo Jardim (Mar 17, 2008–May 15, 2009) Emerson Carvalho (May 15, 2009 – May 30, 2009) Ricardo Formosinho (June 30, 2009–Nov 2, 2009) Nuno Pinto (Nov 8, 3009–Mar 14, 2010) Tulipa (Mar 15, 2010–Nov 2, 3009) Jorge Regadas (Aug 6, 2010–Sept 13, 2010) Luís Miguel (Sept 23, 2010–Apr 18, 2011) João Eusébio (July 25, 2011–Oct 9, 2011)

Filipe Casanova (Oct 11, 2011–Nov 17, 2011) Jorge Regadas (Nov 17, 2011–Apr 7, 2012) Eduardo Oliveira (Apr 15, 2012–Apr 29, 2012) Hélder Fontes (June 8, 2012–Dec 2, 2012) Pedro Monteiro (Dec 4, 2012–Jan 8, 2013) João Pinto (Jan 8, 2013–May 14, 2013) João Eusébio (June 6, 2013–Oct 15, 2013) Quim Machado (Oct 16, 2013–1 Jun 2014) Norton de Matos (2 Jun 2014-)

Europe

Season	Cup	Round	Opponent	Aggregate	(1st leg)	Result	(2nd leg)	Result	Notes
1987–88	UEFA Cup	1st round	Universitatea Craiova	2 – 3	Away (16/09)	2 – 1	Home (30/09)	4 – 4 (a)
		2nd round	Budapest Honvéd	1 – 2	Home (24/10)	1 – 3	Away (04/11)	2 – 5

League and cup history

The football section has 13 presences at the top level of Portuguese football. Its best position was two fifth-place finished, in the 1986–87 and 1989–90 seasons, the first earning Chaves its only presence in the European cups.

Season		Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Portuguese Cup	Europe	Notes
1985–86	1D	6	30	11	7	12	28	38	29
1986–87	1D	5	30	13	7	10	39	38	33
1987–88	1D	7	38	13	14	11	51	31	40		Round 2
1988–89	1D	13	38	12	10	16	37	41	34
1989–90	1D	5	34	12	14	8	38	38	38
1990–91	1D	8	38	10	14	14	49	52	34
1991–92	1D	9	34	10	10	14	36	45	30
1992–93	1D	18	34	4	8	22	34	61	16			Relegated
1993–94	2H	3	34	19	7	8	44	25	45			Promoted
1994–95	1D	14	34	10	7	17	33	49	27
1995–96	1D	15	34	9	7	8	38	56	34
1996–97	1D	10	34	12	10	12	39	45	46
1997–98	1D	16	34	10	5	19	31	55	35
1998–99	1D	17	34	5	10	19	39	70	25			Relegated
1999–00	2H	12	34	11	11	12	46	45	44
2000–01	2H	12	34	9	14	11	48	44	41
2001–02	2H	5	34	16	4	14	52	44	52
2002–03	2H	7	34	12	11	11	44	41	47
2003–04	2H	10	34	11	11	12	37	45	44
2004–05	2H	17	34	9	10	15	24	38	37
2005–06	2H	8	34	13	11	10	40	36	50	Round 2
2006–07	2H	16	30	3	7	20	16	43	16	Round 3		Relegated
2007–08	2HA	4	26	12	8	6	44	17	44	Round 3
2008–09	2HA	1	32	19	8	5	53	22	87	Round 3		Promoted
2009–10	2H	15	30	6	10	14	28	37	28	Runners-up		Relegated
2010–11	2HA	3	30	13	12	5	34	21	51	Round 3
2011–12	2HA	3	30	15	9	6	41	26	54	Round 2
2012–13	2HA	1	32	17	11	4	46	23	62	Round 2		Promoted
2013–14	2D	8	42	19	10	13	58	56	67	Round 4

References

1. "GD Chaves Historia". GD Chaves.pt.
2. "Lucky rebound gives Portugal narrow win over Kazakhstan". China Daily. Retrieved 25 August 2010.
3. "Squad". Zerozero.pt.

External links

• Official website
• ZeroZero GD Chaves profile & stats (Portuguese)