List of football clubs in Portugal

The Portuguese football leagues are divided into divisions (divisões, singular - divisão). The top teams play in the Portuguese Superleague. In each division, with rare exceptions, a team plays all other teams twice, once at home and once away. One can divide the competitions in professional and non-professional.

The Portuguese league and federation teams compete in Europe under UEFA, most notably in the UEFA Champions League, but also in the UEFA Cup, in the extinct Cup Winners' Cup and sometimes in the UEFA Intertoto Cup, European Super Cup and UEFA/Conmebol Intercontinental Cup (Toyota Cup). The teams also compete in a domestic cup competition each year, called Cup of Portugal (Taça de Portugal) and the winners play against the champions in the SuperCup Cândido de Oliveira.

[edit] Current hierarchical divisional breakdowns

• Professional
  • Liga betandwin.com - Superleague (18 teams)
  • Liga de Honra - League of Honour (18 teams)
• Non-professional
  • Segunda Divisão - Second Division (3 series of 15 teams and 1 serie of 14: Series A, B, C and D)
  • Terceira Divisão - Third Division, 7 geographical series: A and B (for Northern clubs), C and D (for Central clubs), E and F (for Southern and Madeira Islands clubs) and Serie Açores (for Azorean clubs)
  • District Divisions (22 divisions and respective minor divisions organized by the District Football Associations)

Note: A reform of the Portuguese football is going to happen soon and the number of teams in the professional competitions (and therefore the non-professional competitions) will be reduced.

[edit] Liga betandwin.com teams (2005/2006 season)

• [1] UEFA uses CF Os Belenenses as a short form but the official name of the club is written within «», i.e., CF «Os Belenenses»
• [2] In Portugal is common to use FC before Porto to distinguish from the city with the same name. One read Futebol Clube do Porto and not Ef Ce Porto.
• [3] UEFA does not use an abbreviated official form for Sporting; Sporting CP is often used in Portugal. Outside Portugal, Sporting is generally called Sporting Lisbon.

[edit] League of Honour teams (2005/2006 season)

[edit] Notable Second Division teams

• AD Fafe - AD Fafe - Associação Desportiva de Fafe
• União de Lamas or União de Lamas - UD Lamas or União D. de Lamas - União Desportiva de Lamas
• Dragões Sandinenses - SC Dragões Sandinenses - Sport Clube Dragões Sandinenses
• Gondomar SC - Gondomar SC - Gondomar Sport Clube
• Chaves or Desportivo de Chaves - GD Chaves or G. Desportivo de Chaves - Grupo Desportivo de Chaves
• Caldas - Caldas SC - Caldas Sport Clube
• Benfica de Castelo Branco - S. Benfica e Castelo Branco - Sport Benfica e Castelo Branco
• Sanjoanense - AD Sanjoanense - Associação Desportiva Sanjoanense
• Torreense - SCU Torreense - Sport Clube União Torreense
• Oliveirense - UD Oliveirense - União Desportiva Oliveirense
• Espinho or Sporting de Espinho - SC Espinho or Sporting C. de Espinho - Sporting Clube de Espinho
• Olivais e Moscavide - CD Olivais e Moscavide - Clube Desportivo Olivais e Moscavide
• Vasco da Gama or Vasco da Gama de Sines - Vasco da Gama AC - Vasco da Gama Atlético Clube
• Louletano - Louletano DC - Louletano Desportos Clube
• União or União da Madeira - CF União - Clube de Futebol União
• Oriental - C. Oriental L. - Clube Oriental de Lisboa
• Atlético - Atlético CP - Atlético Clube de Portugal
• Casa Pia - Casa Pia AC - Casa Pia Atlético Clube
• Amora - Amora FC - Amora Futebol Clube

[edit] Notable Third Division teams

[edit] Serie A

• Esposende - AD Esposende - Associação Desportiva de Esposende
• Bragança - GD Bragança - Grupo Desportivo de Bragança

[edit] Serie B

• Tirsense - FC Tirsense - Futebol Clube Tirsense
• Leça - Leça FC - Leça Futebol CLube
• Famalicão - FC Famalicão - Futebol Clube de Famalicão

[edit] Serie C

• União de Coimbra - Clube de Futebol União de Coimbra
• Águeda or Recreio de Águeda - RC Águeda - Recreio Desportivo de Águeda

[edit] Serie D

No clubs with presences in the Superleague/Premier League/First Division and no historic notable clubs.

[edit] Serie E

• «O Elvas» - CAD «O Elvas» - Clube Alentejano de Desportos «O Elvas»
• Atlético Clube do Cacém - Atlético Clube do Cacém

[edit] Serie F

• Farense or Sporting Farense - SC Farense or Sporting C. Farense - Sporting Clube Farense
• Desportivo de Beja - C. Desportivo de Beja - Clube Desportivo de Beja
• Lusitano de Évora - Lusitano GC - Lusitano Ginásio Clube
• Juventude de Évora - Juventude SC - Juventude Sport Clube
• Lusitano de Vila Real de Santo António - Lusitano FC - Lusitano Futebol Clube
• Montijo - CD Montijo - Clube Desportivo do Montijo
• Seixal - Seixal FC - Seixal Futebol Clube

[edit] Serie Azores

No clubs with presences in the Superleague/Premier League/First Division and no historic notable clubs.

[edit] Other notable teams

• CUF Barreiro - Unidos FC - Unidos Futebol Clube (unofficially Companhia União Fabril do Barreiro); today Fabril Barreiro - GD Fabril Barreiro - Grupo Desportivo Fabril Barreiro
• União de Tomar - União D. de Tomar - União Desportiva de Tomar
• Alcobaça or Ginásio Alcobaça - Ginásio C. Alcobaça - Ginásio Clube de Alcobaça
• Algarve United

[edit] Notable extinct teams

• Académico de Viseu - C. Académico F. - Clube Académico de Futebol
• Salgueiros - SC Salgueiros - Sport Comércio e Salgueiros
• Carcavelinhos
• União de Lisboa
• CUF de Lisboa - Unidos FC - Unidos Futebol Clube (unofficially Companhia União Fabril de Lisboa)
• Riopele
• Académico do Porto - Académico FC - Académico Futebol Clube
• Campomaiorense or Sporting Campomaiorense - SC Campomaiorense or Sporting C. Campomaiorense - Sporting Clube Campomaiorense
• Elvas - SL Elvas - Sport Lisboa e Elvas
• Valenças SC