FC Porto (handball)

FC Porto
Full name Futebol Clube do Porto
Founded 5 October 1932 (1932-10-05)
Arena Dragão Caixa
Capacity 2,200
President Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa
Head coach Ricardo Costa
League Andebol 1
2014–15 1st
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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.[1]

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.[2]

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.[3] 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.[4]

Honours

The club is one of the most successful in domestic competitions, holding the record for the most league, league cup, and super cup titles.[5]

Domestic

International

Players

Current squad

Below are the players that constitute the 2015–16 squad:[9]

No. Name Position Height Birth date (age) 2014–15 team
1 Cuba Alfredo Quintana Goalkeeper 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 20 March 1988 FC Porto
5 Portugal Gilberto Duarte Left back 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 6 July 1990 FC Porto
6 Cape Verde Leandro Semedo Left back 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) 24 February 1994 FC Porto
7 Portugal Edgar Landim Left back 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 15 June 1987 Belenenses
8 Cuba Yoel Cuni Morales Right back 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 15 February 1987 Madeira SAD
9 Brazil Gustavo Rodrigues Right back 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 8 January 1990 EC Pinheiros
10 Portugal Miguel Martins Centre back 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 4 November 1997 FC Porto
12 Portugal David Sousa Goalkeeper 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 5 February 1997 FC Porto
14 Portugal Rui Silva Central 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) 28 April 1993 Sporting CP
15 Cuba Daymaro Salina Pivot 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 1 September 1987 FC Porto
16 Portugal Hugo Laurentino Goalkeeper 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 22 July 1984 FC Porto
17 Portugal Nuno Gonçalves Left back 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 24 March 1993 FC Porto
19 Portugal Ricardo Moreira Right wing 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 28 April 1982 FC Porto
22 Cuba Alexis Borges Pivot 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 6 October 1991 FC Porto
24 Portugal Hugo Santos Left wing 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) 2 March 1992 FC Porto
25 Portugal António Areia Right wing 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 21 June 1990 SL Benfica
26 Portugal Nuno Roque Centre back 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 13 March 1987 FC Porto
29 Portugal Felisberto Landim Pivot 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 3 November 1992 Belenenses
97 France Jordan Pitre Left wing 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) 6 April 1992 Valence

References

  1. "Lista de vencedores de provas nacionais Andebol de 11 (masculinos)" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Federação Portuguesa de Andebol. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  2. "Lista de vencedores de provas nacionais Séniores masculinos" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Federação Portuguesa de Andebol. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  3. "FC Porto é o primeiro hexacampeão do andebol português" (in Portuguese). Público. 24 May 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  4. Pazen, Björn (14 July 2013). "New Port for Champions League fleet". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
  5. "Handball Honours". FC Porto. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
  6. "Limburgse Handbal Dagen History". lhd.nl. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
  7. "Dragões conquistam Torneio Internacional de Gaia" [Dragons conquer Gaia International Tournament] (in Portuguese). FC Porto. 16 August 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  8. "FC Porto vence Torneio Internacional de Gaia" [FC Porto wins Gaia International Tournament] (in Portuguese). SAPO Desporto. 16 August 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  9. "Handball Squad". FC Porto. Retrieved 11 October 2015.

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