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Leixões S.C.
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Leixões S.C.
Full name Leixões Sport Club
Nickname(s) The Babies, Sea Heroes
Founded 1907
Ground Estádio do Mar,
Matosinhos
(Capacity 8,035)
Chairman José Fonseca
Carlos Oliveira
Manager Carlos Brito
League BWINLIGA
2006-07 1st, Liga de Honra (promoted)
Home colours
Away colours
Leixões Sport Club, or simply Leixões, is a sports club from Matosinhos, Portugal. It is organized into several specialized departments for many events like football, boxing, karate, volleyball, swimming, and billiards. Its professional football team is its most well known department.
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Squad 2007-2008
3 Honours
4 League and Cup History
5 Trivia
6 Notes
7 See also
8 External links
[edit] History
Leixões Sport Club was formed in 1907, this makes them one of Portugal's most historic sports clubs. Although not known to many clubs in Europe in the modern game, in the 1960s they managed to win the Cup of Portugal (against F.C. Porto 1n 1961) and featured regularly in the European Competitions. They then disappeared in the late 70's into the lower echelons of Portuguese football and were seemingly forgotten, but in 2002 they returned to the main stage with a tremendous Cup run, defeating Sporting Braga 3-1 away to secure a place in the final and the UEFA Cup next season. They lost 1-0 to Sporting CP, who also became national champions that year. The following season they lost 5-3 on aggregate to Greek side PAOK Salonika after winning the first leg 2-1 at home, being eliminated in the first round of the UEFA Cup. That same year, they romped to the Segunda Divisão (Division Two) title with 94 points and with it, they gained promotion to the Liga de Honra. In 2004 they just avoided relegation back to Division Two and finished 14th. A year later they battled to finish 7th in the League. And finally in 2006 they almost reached the Portuguese Liga, losing out to Desportivo das Aves in the Promotion chase, finishing 3rd, two points behind Aves. Third place used to merit a promotion, but due to a re-construction to all leagues it meant only the top two would go up (Beira-Mar as Champions and Aves as runners-up). Finally, in 2007, they gained promotion to the Liga, 18 years after their relegation.
[edit] Squad 2007-2008
No. Position Player
1 GK Beto
2 DF Rúben Ribeiro
3 DF Ezequias
4 DF Élvis
5 DF Nuno Diogo
6 MF Paulo Machado
7 MF Hugo Morais
8 MF Pedro Cervantes
9 FW Roberto Alcântara
10 MF Ricardo Jorge
11 MF Diogo Valente
13 DF Joel
14 MF Bruno China
16 MF Paulo Vinícius
No. Position Player
17 MF Vieirinha
18 FW Udo Nwoko
19 MF Jorge Gonçalves
20 DF Marco Cadete
21 MF Livramento
23 FW Filipe Oliveira
24 GK Marco
25 MF Jorge Duarte
26 DF Nuno Amaro
27 DF Nuno Silva
28 FW Tales
38 Gonçalo
39 Cacheira
77 GK Jorge Baptista
[edit] Honours
Portuguese Liga: 5th place - 1962/63
Portuguese Cup: Champion - 1960/61, Finalist - 2001/02
Portuguese Supercup: Finalist - 2001/02
Portuguese Liga de Honra: Champion - 2006/07
Portuguese Second Division: Champion (Northern Zone) - 2002/03
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup/UEFA Cup: 1st Round - 1964/65, 1968/69 and 2002/03
UEFA Cup Winner's Cup: Quarter-final - 1961/1962
[edit] League and Cup History
The club has 22 presences at the top level of Portuguese football, and was present at two cup finals - one of which it won, beating FC Porto at its home ground (Estádio das Antas).
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