Boavista F.C.

Boavista FC (Boavista Futebol Clube ) is a football club whose team played until the 2007/ 08 season in the Portuguese first league football. It was founded in 1903 and is in Boavista, a district of Porto, home. Boavista is one of the more successful teams in Portugal.

Stadium

Their home ground is called the Estádio do Bessa Século. XXI. This sums up almost 30,000 spectators and was the venue for the European Football Championship 2004. Club colors are black and white, which are arranged in the traditional jerseys in checkerboard pattern, a throwback to the chess section.

History

The greatest success to date in the club's history was celebrated in 2001, when it was Portuguese champion.

This one played the following season in the UEFA Champions League. In the first group phase, was second in the group behind FC Liverpool.

After the second group stage was then end, as we only the third place, ahead of FC Nantes and behind FC Bayern Munich and Manchester United finished. The Portuguese championship was finished as runner-up, yielding participated in the 2002/ 03 UEFA Cup. In that season, they celebrated the greatest success at the international level, as they reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup. There you failed to Celtic Glasgow. In the league they finished in eighth place.

On 9 May 2008 the club was occupied due to influence of arbitrators from the 2003/2004 season with relegation to the second league and a fine in the amount of 180,000 euros. The next year, they finished only 15th place and had to play as a third division in the Segunda Divisão the 2009/10 season. After a successful action against the demotion of the Portuguese League Association ( LPFP ) decided to return Boavistas in the Primeira Liga for the 2014 season / 2015.

In addition to football, the association operates the departments disabled sports, futsal, handball, athletics, cycling, boxing, gymnastics, karate, volleyball, tennis, chess, paintball, diving and swimming.

Achievements

Portuguese soccer champion: 2001
Portuguese Cup winners: 1975, 1976, 1979, 1992, 1997
Portuguese Supercup winner: 1979, 1992, 1997

Well-known former players

Portugal Carlos Manuel
Portugal Diamantino
Portugal João Pinto
Portugal Nuno Frechaut
Portugal Nuno Gomes
Portugal Pedro Emanuel
Portugal Ricardo
Portugal Petit
Portugal José Bosingwa
Portugal Raul Meireles
Portugal Hugo Almeida

Zé Kalanga Angola
Angola Mateus
Argentina Fernando Ávalos
Romania Ion Timofte
Ghana Kwame Ayew
Liechtenstein Peter Jehle
Netherlands Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
Poland Przemysław Kaźmierczak
Poland Rafał Grzelak
Trinidad and Tobago Russell Latapy

Women's Soccer

The women's football department also plays in the top division and won three times the Portuguese Cup Nacional Feminino (1994, 1995 and 1997). Just as in 2013 the first time the cup competition Taça de Portugal de Futebol Feminino in which the German Leonie Pankratz was awarded the Player of the competition.

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