S.C. Olhanense

Olhanense

Full name	Sporting Clube Olhanense
Nickname(s)	Leões de Olhão (Lions of Olhão)
Founded	1912
Ground	Estádio José Arcanjo
Capacity	5,661
Chairman	Isidoro Sousa
Manager	Edgar Davids
League	Campeonato de Portugal
2018–19	Campeonato de Portugal, 5th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Sporting Clube Olhanense (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈspɔɾtĩɡ ˈklub(ɨ) oʎɐˈnẽs(ɨ)]) is a Portuguese sports club from Olhão, Algarve.

Its football team was founded on 27 April 1912 and currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal, the third division of Portuguese football. It holds home matches at the 5,661-spectator capacity Estádio José Arcanjo.

Olhanense won the Campeonato de Portugal (now Taça de Portugal) in 1924, their most prestigious honour in history.

History

Olhanense's earliest major honour was winning the 1923-24 Campeonato de Portugal (now Taça de Portugal), the largest football cup competition in Portugal. It also became the first team from the Algarve region to reach the top level of Portuguese football, after winning the Algarve Football Association in 1941. Among its achievements was a fourth-place finish in the 1945–46 season. In 1951, after ten consecutive seasons, the club returned to the second division.

Following this descent, the team only returned to the top flight for five seasons in the rest of the 20th century – three in the early 1960s and two in the mid-1970s – at time when rivals Farense and Portimonense had their most successful years. Managed by former Portugal international defender Jorge Costa, the team returned to the Primeira Liga as champions of the 2008–09 Liga de Honra by defeating Gondomar 1–0.^[1]

After five years in the top flight, Olhanense were relegated in May 2014 by finishing last in a season in which they had three managers. The result left the Algarve without a top-flight team.^[2] Three years later, the team finished last in the LigaPro, therefore falling out of the professional leagues for the first time in 13 years.^[3] During the 2020-21 Campeonato de Portugal (third tier) season the club appointed former Dutch professional footballer Edgar Davids as their manager.

Rivalries

The club has rivalries with fellow Algarve clubs Farense and Portimonense.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}

Players

First-team squad

As of 23 February 2020^[11][12]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK POR Rúben Dionísio 3 DF POR Joshua Silva 4 DF POR João Batista 6 MF POR Celso Sidney 7 FW POR Ivo Braz 8 MF BRA Rodrigo Dantas 9 FW POR João Oliveira 10 MF CPV Léléco 15 DF POR Káká 16 DF POR Pedro Albino 19 FW URU Juan San Martín 20 DF FRA Thomas Parada

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 MF POR Luís Cortez 22 MF POR Diogo Martins 23 GK ITA Riccardo Galli 25 FW BRA Caleb 30 DF BRA Fabio Erins 31 DF ITA Alessandro Coppola 44 DF POR Gustavo Pinto 70 MF POR Cláudio Major 77 FW POR Tiago Dias 98 FW ITA Jacopo Finessi 99 GK POR Gonçalo Augusto

Honours

League and cup history

Season	League									Cup	Notes
	Tier	Pos	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1941–42	1	8	22	6	2	14	42	83	14	Quarterfinals
1942–43		5	18	8	2	8	44	48	18	Last 16
1943–44		5	18	10	2	6	65	34	22	Last 16
1944–45		6	18	6	4	8	41	41	16	Final
1945–46		4	22	13	1	8	65	39	27	Last 16	Best classification ever
1946–47		6	26	11	4	11	69	73	26	Not held
1947–48		11	26	5	7	14	48	66	17	Last 32
1948–49		7	26	10	4	12	51	55	24	Last 32
1949–50		9	26	8	8	10	48	57	24	Not held
1950–51		↓ 14	26	7	3	16	31	77	17	Last 16	Relegated
...
1961–62	1	8	26	8	6	12	33	41	22
1962–63		8	26	7	7	12	29	38	21
1963–64		↓ 13	26	2	8	16	20	57	12		Relegated
...
1973–74	1	11	30	8	6	16	35	69	22
1974–75		↓ 15	30	6	5	19	41	70	17		Relegated
...+
1996–97	3	7	34	14	8	12	34	36	50
1997–98		13	34	10	14	10	47	42	44	5th round
1998–99		4	34	15	13	6	51	34	58	4th round
1999–00		6	38	17	13	8	57	34	64
2000–01		11	38	13	14	11	45	44	53
2001–02		12	38	13	9	16	40	44	48	2nd round
2002–03		10	38	14	13	11	60	50	55	2nd round
2003–04		1	38	26	8	4	77	29	86	3rd round	Promoted
2004–05	2	9	34	11	11	12	32	31	44	Last 128
2005–06		5	34	13	13	8	41	28	52	Last 64
2006–07		9	30	10	10	10	29	31	40	4th round
2007–08		5	30	12	9	9	33	33	45	5th round
2008–09		1	30	18	4	8	52	32	58	3rd round	Promoted
2009–10	1	13	30	5	14	11	31	46	29	3rd round
2010–11		11	30	7	13	10	24	34	34	5th round
2011–12		8	30	9	12	9	36	38	39	Quarterfinals
2012–13		14	30	5	10	15	26	42	25	4th round
2013–14		↓ 16	30	6	6	18	21	49	24	4th round	Relegated
2014–15	2	16	46	13	16	17	51	56	55	3rd round
2015–16		8	46	19	12	15	42	39	69	3rd round
2016–17		↓ 22	42	7	7	28	45	83	28	4th round	Relegated
2017–18	3	3	30	18	4	8	42	30	58	3rd round
2018–19		5	34	19	6	9	68	32	63	1st round

Managerial history

References

External links

• Official website (in Portuguese)
• Zerozero team profile