Порто / Porto FC

Full name Futebol Clube do Porto

Nickname(s) Dragões[1] (The Dragons)
Azuis e Brancos[2] (Blue and White)
Founded 1893
Ground Estádio do Dragão (Dragon Stadium)
Capacity 52,948
Chairman Pinto da Costa
Manager Jesualdo Ferreira
League BWINLIGA
2005-06 1st Liga, Champions

Futebol Clube do Porto (pron. IPA: [futɨ'bɔɫ 'klub(ɨ) du 'poɾtu]) - short: FC Porto, FCP - is a Portuguese sports club, best known for its football section which won two UEFA Champions League and two Intercontinental Cups. It was founded during the early 1890s to have been established in Porto in 1893 by a wine-salesman António Nicolau de Almeida. He first had contact with the game of football in one of his trips to England. The club was revived in 1906 by Monteiro da Costa.

The football home ground is now the Estádio do Dragão (finished in 2003 as a venue for Euro 2004) after 51 years playing in the Estádio das Antas. Porto is, along with Sporting Lisbon and Benfica, one of the "Big Three" clubs in Portugal. The club has the best international record by a Portuguese team and has the second best internal record (just behind rivals Benfica) in the Portuguese Championship, having participated in it 72 times, playing 1988 games, winning 1287, drawing 369, losing 332, scoring 4427 goals and conceding 1876, having 3204 points as of the end of the 2005-06 season. Porto won the UEFA Champions League twice (one still as the ECC) and the UEFA Cup once. It was the first team since the Liverpool 76-77 squad to win the Champions League after winning the UEFA Cup.

FC Porto is also a leading force in other sports: the handball and basketball team are regular contenders in the Portuguese national titles, and the rink hockey section is amongst the best in the sport. The new arena near the stadium will be completed soon; in past years the non-professional home grounds were scattered in northwestern cities of Portugal (such as Gondomar and Espinho).

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Футбольный клуб «Порту» (порт. Futebol Clube do Porto) — португальский спортивный клуб, наиболее известный своей футбольной командой. В начале 1990-х объявили, что в 1893 в Порту клуб основал торговец вином Антонио Николау де Альмейда. Впервые он познакомился с футболом во время своей поездки в Англию. Нет никаких сведений о клубе вплоть до прежней официальной даты его основания в 1906, когда Монтейро да Кошта возродил клуб.

Новая домашняя арена клуб — «Estádio do Dragão» (Стадион драконов), завершённый в 2003-м году в рамках подготовки к Евро 2004 после 51 года выступления на «Estádio das Antas».

«Порту» вместе с «Бенфикой» и лиссабонским «Спортингом» формируют «Большую тройку» в Португалии. «Порту» дважды побеждал в Лиге Чемпионов и один раз в Кубке УЕФА. Клуб был первым, кто повторил результат «Ливерпуля» в 1976—1977 годах, выиграв сначала Кубок УЕФА, а затем став первым в Лиге Чемпионов.