Portuguesa FC

Portuguesa Fútbol Club is a Venezuelan football club from Acarigua. The club was founded in 1972 and plays its home matches at the Estadio José Antonio Páez, which seats 18,000 spectators. Portuguesa FC has been five times Venezuelan football champion and currently plays in the Segunda División, the second- highest division in Venezuela.

History

The club Portuguesa FC was founded on March 2, 1972 in Acarigua, the capital of the Venezuelan state of Portuguesa in the northwest of the country. Based on the state of the club got its name was called the Portuguesa FC. After they had already participated in the first year of the championship in the Primera División, the newly founded association succeeded in the first year after the foundation, so in 1973, the first time winning the Venezuelan football championship. Was in the first division, a first place in front of Deportivo Italia, today's Deportivo Petare, occupied. The following year, they tried to defend the title, but missed it by a second rank behind Deportivo Galicia just barely. 1975 began for Portuguesa FC a run of four championships in series, which established the association among the most important in Venezuela. 1978 brought Portuguesa FC his fifth and last championship title to date. In 1980 one was two more times in second and thus runner-up, but a sixth title is not followed.

Nowadays Portuguesa FC plays in the second-rate Segunda División. To date the last time in the Primera División they were to be found in the 2008/ 09 season. At that time they finished in the overall standings after the Apertura and Clausura the eighteenth and last place and was relegated to the second division along with Estrella Roja FC and the criminal offset for financial reasons AC Minerven FC and UA Maracaibo. Since then Portuguesa FC plays second-rate.

In better times Portuguesa FC took a total of eight times in the Copa Libertadores, the most important football tournament for club teams in South America, in part. In seven of eight appearances, however, you do not make it past the first round. In the 1977 Copa Libertadores, however, they survived the first group phase by a first course on Unión Huaral, Estudiantes de Mérida and the Sport Boys and the semi-finals, which was played at that time as a group phase. In the first semi-final match Portuguesa defeated the Brazilian representative Internacional Porto Alegre equal to 3-0, but also at the same time should be the last victory in this tournament for the Venezuelan club. The remaining games against Internacional and Cruzeiro were lost and Portuguesa was eliminated, while Cruzeiro moved into the finals and in the penalty shootout of the playoff only lost there the Boca Juniors from Argentina's capital Buenos Aires.

Achievements

  • La Liga: 5x (1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978 )
  • Segunda División: 1x (2006)
  • Copa Venezuela: 3x (1973, 1976, 1977 )
  • Participation in the Copa Libertadores: 8x

Known player

  • Venezuela Gualberto Campos
  • Brazil Sandro Silva
Portuguesa, Venezuela Cruzeiro Esporte Clube 1974 Copa Libertadores 1975 Copa Libertadores 1976 Copa Libertadores 1978 Copa Libertadores 1979 Copa Libertadores 1981 Copa Libertadores 1984 Copa Libertadores
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