G.D. Chaves

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

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

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 Portugal GK Antonio Filipe
2 Portugal DF Edu Machado
4 Portugal DF Fábio Santos
5 Portugal DF Diogo Coelho
6 Brazil MF Rafael Assis
7 Portugal MF Diogo Cunha
8 Portugal MF João Patrão
10 Portugal FW Luís Pinto
11 Portugal FW João Reis
15 Ivory Coast MF Siaka Bamba
18 Portugal MF Bruno Magalhães
20 Portugal FW Luís Barry
21 Portugal DF Nelson Lenho
No. Position Player
23 France DF Mike
25 Portugal MF Braga
26 Portugal DF Miguel Oliveira
27 Portugal MF Luís Silva
31 Brazil FW Gustavo Souza
47 Burkina Faso DF Stéphane
49 Portugal DF Miguel Ângelo
77 Guinea-Bissau FW João Mário
80 Brazil FW Perdigão
84 Portugal GK Paulo Ribeiro
90 Portugal FW Tozé Marreco
91 Brazil FW Sandro Lima
97 Cape Verde GK Márcio

Notable former players

Managerial history

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

  • Portugal Filipe Casanova (Oct 11, 2011–Nov 17, 2011)
  • Portugal Jorge Regadas (Nov 17, 2011–Apr 7, 2012)
  • Portugal Eduardo Oliveira (Apr 15, 2012–Apr 29, 2012)
  • Portugal Hélder Fontes (June 8, 2012–Dec 2, 2012)
  • Portugal Pedro Monteiro (Dec 4, 2012–Jan 8, 2013)
  • Portugal João Pinto (Jan 8, 2013–May 14, 2013)
  • Portugal João Eusébio (June 6, 2013–Oct 15, 2013)
  • Portugal Quim Machado (Oct 16, 2013–1 Jun 2014)
  • Portugal 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 Romania Universitatea Craiova 2 – 3 Away (16/09) 2 – 1 Home (30/09) 4 – 4 (a)
2nd round Hungary 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 3011712 283829
1986–87 1D 5 3013710 393833
1987–88 1D 7 38131411 513140 Round 2
1988–89 1D 13 38121016 374134
1989–90 1D 5 3412148 383838
1990–91 1D 8 38101414 495234
1991–92 1D 9 34101014 364530
1992–93 1D 18 344822 346116 Relegated
1993–94 2H 3 341978 442545 Promoted
1994–95 1D 14 3410717 334927
1995–96 1D 15 34978 385634
1996–97 1D 10 34121012 394546
1997–98 1D 16 3410519 315535
1998–99 1D 17 3451019 397025 Relegated
1999–00 2H 12 34111112 464544
2000–01 2H 12 3491411 484441
2001–02 2H 5 3416414 524452
2002–03 2H 7 34121111 444147
2003–04 2H 10 34111112 374544
2004–05 2H 17 3491015 243837
2005–06 2H 8 34131110 403650 Round 2
2006–07 2H 16 303720 164316 Round 3 Relegated
2007–08 2HA 4 261286 441744 Round 3
2008–09 2HA 1 321985 532287 Round 3 Promoted
2009–10 2H 15 3061014 283728 Runners-up Relegated
2010–11 2HA 3 3013125 342151 Round 3
2011–12 2HA 3 301596 412654 Round 2
2012–13 2HA 1 3217114 462362 Round 2 Promoted
2013–14 2D 8 42191013 585667 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

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