S.C. Farense

Farense

Full name	Sporting Clube Farense
Nickname(s)	Leões de Faro (Lions of Faro)
Founded	1 April 1910
Ground	Estádio de São Luís
Capacity	15,000
Chairman	António Barão
Manager	Jorge Paixão
League	LigaPro
2014–15	11th
Home colours Away colours

Estádio Algarve - View from the south side of the stadium.

Estádio de São Luís - Current stadium.

Sporting Clube Farense, simply known as Farense, is a Portuguese professional football club based in Faro in the district of Faro,^[1] who play in the LigaPro after promotion They were promoted from the Segunda Divisão at the end the 2012–13 season.^[2] The Leões de Faro played at the Estádio de São Luís for 94 years from 1910.^[3] The club moved stadium in 2004 to the newly constructed Estádio Algarve which was built for the purpose of hosting matches at UEFA Euro 2004.^[4] The Faro side moved back to the Estádio de São Luís in 2013 after it gained promotion to the Segunda Liga. As a result of their promotion, the Estádio de São Luís underwent major renovations to improve its facilities.

In its entire history, the club has won nine major trophies: the AF Algarve Championship five times, the Portuguese Second Division twice, and the Portuguese Third Division and AF Algarve First Division once. Aside from its major trophies, the club as of 2013, has played 23 seasons in the Primeira Liga of which their highest league table classification came in the 1994–95 season where they managed a fifth-place finish which granted European football in the following season.^[5][6][7] The club also reached the final of the Taça de Portugal in 1990 where they lost to Estrela da Amadora.^[8][9] The 2001–02 season saw the club relegated to the second tier of Portuguese football.^[10] Since then the club has struggled to reach the success that it had during the 1980s and 1990s, which have been primarily caused by financial problems. Despite living some of its darkest years in recent times, the 2012–13 season saw the Faro side promoted to the Segunda Liga.^[11]

Stadium

SC Farense stadium Estádio Algarve is a UEFA 4-star rating and was built for UEFA Euro 2004 where it had the likes of Spain, Greece, Russia, the Netherlands and Sweden played there which was a sellout of tickets with the stadium capacity full up with 30,000 people watching the game. Portugal has also played 2 matches there, a friendly with England and a qualifying game for the world cup 2006 against Luxembourg. Usually the stadium holds important Portuguese matches like the Portuguese SuperCup and the Carlsberg Cup Final. The stadium has also been used for other important events as Algarve Summer Festival and Rally de Portugal.

Rivalries

The club has rivlaries with fellow Algarve clubs S.C. Olhanense and Portimonense S.C.^{[12][13][14][15][16][17][18]}

Players

Current squad

As of 18 January 2016

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 Ricardo Neves 2 DF Saeed Al Mowalad 3 DF Rony Cruz 4 DF Diogo Silva (captain) 5 MF Thomas Agyiri 7 DF Celsinho 8 MF Osama Rashid 11 FW Harramiz (on loan from Benfica) 13 DF Delmiro 14 DF Felipe Barros 15 DF Diogo Coelho 16 GK Vítor São Bento 18 MF André Afonso 20 MF Gualter Bilro

No. Position Player 21 FW Femi Balogun (on loan from Ermis Aradippou) 22 GK Miguel Carvalho 23 MF Márcio Sousa 24 DF Hugo Ventosa 28 MF Jota 29 FW Rambé 30 DF Ubay Luzardo 33 MF Sunday Akinbule 34 FW Christian Irobiso 43 MF Paulinho 45 MF Bruno Carvalho 50 MF Tiago Jogo -- MF Momo Coulibaly

Notable former players

Players that have played more than 50 league matches;

Bruno Alves Carlos Alhinho Carlos Fernandes Hélder Baptista Hélder Rosário Jacques Pereira João Fajardo João Oliveira Pinto Jorge Jesus Jorge Martins Manuel Cajuda Manuel José Quim Ricardo Vaz Tê Rui Esteves

Skoda Tozé Tulipa Zé Tó Nail Beširović Zé Carlos Marco Aurélio King Pelé Jordan Hibbert Peter Barnes Peter Eastoe Ted Kelton Agasson Dimitrios Konstantopoulos

Ferenc Mészáros Hajry Redouane Hassan Nader Carlos Fumo Henry Makinwa Peter Rufai Uche Okafor Lucian Marinescu Ilshat Faizulin Dragan Punišić Goran Stevanović Milonja Đukić Tueba Menayane Perry Mutapa

Managerial history

José Augusto (1987–1989) Malcolm Allison (1989) Paco Fortes (1989–1998) João Alves (1998–2000) Nicolau Vaqueiro (2000) Manuel Balela (June 14, 2000 – May 27, 2001) Alberto Pazos (June 7, 2001–Nov 27, 2001, 2001) Hajry Redouane (Nov 28, 2001–Dec 4, 2001) Jorge Castelo (Dec 4, 2001–Mar 18, 2002) Paco Fortes (Mar 18, 2002–Dec 3, 2002) Manuel Balela (Dec 4, 2002–Mar 8, 2003) Hajry Redouane (Mar 8, 2003–June 1, 2003)

Manuel Balela (2003–2004) Joaquim Sequeira (2004–Jan 3, 2005) Manuel Balela (Jan 3, 2005–May 5, 2005) Hassan Nader (May 5, 2005 – 2006) Carlos Costa (Sept 30, 2006–Feb 4, 2008) Jorge Portela (Feb 6, 2008–Aug 31, 2008) Ivo Soares (Sept 2, 2008–Nov 18, 2008) António Barão (Nov 18, 2008–June 7, 2009) Edinho (July 16, 2009–Dec 22, 2009) Rui Esteves (Dec 22, 2009–Mar 16, 2010) Joaquim Mendes (Mar 16, 2010–Nov 29, 2010) Joaquim Sequeira (Nov 29, 2010–Dec 29, 2010)

João de Deus (Jan 2, 2011–Apr 30, 2011) Manuel Balela (2011–May 30, 2012) Bruno Ribeiro (June 2, 2012–Jan 15, 2013) Mauro de Brito (Jan 2013–Sept 9, 2013) Jorge Paixão (Sept 13, 2013–Feb 25, 2014) Antero Afonso (Caretaker) (Feb 25, 2014-Jun 2, 2014) Pedro Correia (Jun 2, 2014–Nov 24, 2014) Abel Xavier (Dec 2, 2014–May 28, 2015) Jorge Paixão (Jun 6, 2015–)

Honours

• Portuguese Second Division: 1939–40, 1982–83
• Portuguese Third Division: 2011–12
• AF Algarve Championship: 1914–15, 1917–18, 1933–34, 1935–36, 1937–38
• AF Algarve First Division: 2007–08

European cup history

• Q = Qualifying
• PO = Play-off

UEFA Cup

Season	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1995–96	R1		Olympique Lyonnais	0–1	0–1	0–2

League and cup history

Season	Tier	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	League Cup	Notes
1989–90	2	1	34	25	5	4	80	23	55	Runners-up		Promoted
1990–91	1	11	38	14	6	18	46	47	34	Round 6
1991–92	1	6	34	12	11	11	35	33	35	Round 5
1992–93	1	6	34	11	13	10	41	36	35	Round 5
1993–94	1	8	34	13	7	14	44	46	33	Round 4
1994–95	1	5	34	16	5	13	44	38	37	Round 6
1995–96	1	13	34	10	6	18	36	45	36	Round 6
1996–97	1	11	34	10	12	12	34	34	42	Round 4
1997–98	1	14	34	8	13	13	41	50	37	Round 4
1998–99	1	11	34	10	9	15	39	54	39	Round 5
1999–00	1	14	34	8	11	15	35	60	35	Round 5
2000–01	1	13	34	10	9	15	37	47	39	Round 6
2001–02	1	17	38	7	7	20	29	63	28	Round 5		Relegated
2002–03	2	12	34	11	11	12	32	32	44	Round 4		Relegated
2003–04	3	14	34	11	8	15	41	49	41	Round 3
2004–05	4	14	34	11	8	15	41	49	41	Round 1
2005–06	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	Round 1		Relegated
2006–07	6	1	31	24	6	1	72	15	78			Promoted
2007–08	5	1	30	22	4	4	73	20	70			Promoted
2008–09	4	4	26	12	6	8	40	35	42	Round 1
2009–10	4	4	22	9	9	4	31	22	36	Round 1		Promoted
2010–11	3	12	30	8	12	10	28	37	36	Round 3		Relegated
2011–12	4	1	22	17	5	0	52	17	56	Round 1		Promoted
2012–13	3	1	30	19	8	3	38	21	65	Round 4		Promoted
2013–14	2	10	42	15	12	15	45	44	57	Round 3	Round 2
2014–15	2	11	46	16	14	16	51	54	62	Round 1	Round 1

References

1. "Faro". ZeroZero (in Portuguese). Retrieved 21 September 2013.
2. "II Divisão Zona Sul 2012/13" [II Division South Zone 2012/13]. ZeroZero (in Portuguese). Retrieved 21 September 2013.
3. "Estádio de São Luís" [Stadium of São Luís]. ZeroZero (in Portuguese). Retrieved 21 September 2013.
4. "Estádio do Algarve" [Stadium of Algarve]. ZeroZero (in Portuguese). Retrieved 21 September 2013.
5. "Campeonato Nacional da I Divisão 1994/95" [National Championship of the I Division 1994/95]. ZeroZero (in Portuguese). Retrieved 21 September 2013.
6. "Farense 0-1 Lyon". ZeroZero (in Portuguese). Retrieved 21 September 2013.
7. "Lyon 1-0 Farense". ZeroZero (in Portuguese). Retrieved 21 September 2013.
8. "Est. Amadora 1-1 (a.p.) Farense" [Est. Amadora 1-1 (a.e.t.) Farense]. ZeroZero (in Portuguese). Retrieved 21 September 2013.
9. "Est. Amadora 2-0 Farense". ZeroZero (in Portuguese). Retrieved 21 September 2013.
10. "Liga Portuguesa 2001/02" [Portuguese League 2001/02]. ZeroZero (in Portuguese). Retrieved 21 September 2013.
11. "Chaves e Farense sobem à 2.ª Liga" [Chaves and Farense rise to the 2.ª League]. Record (in Portuguese). 28 April 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
12. http://www.sulinformacao.pt/2014/10/olhanense-e-farense-reeditam-o-derby-mais-quente-do-algarve-esta-quarta-feira/
13. http://www.maisfutebol.iol.pt/derby-no-algarve-olhanense-empatou-com-farense-1-1
14. http://portugalresident.com/capital-‘punishment’-for-portimonense-fans
15. http://portugalresident.com/bragging-rights
16. http://www.sulinformacao.pt/2015/11/portimonense-vence-olhanense-no-segundo-derby-algarvio-da-ii-liga-201516/
17. http://www.sulinformacao.pt/2015/03/derby-entre-portimonense-e-olhanense-acaba-empatado-a-um-golo/
18. https://portugalresident.com/big-algarve-derby-next-week

External links

• Official website (Portuguese)