Estádio Municipal de Portimão is the current stadium of Portimonense S.C.

Portimonense S.C.

Portimonense Sporting Clube is a Portuguese football team based in Portimão. Founded on 14 August 1914, the club is one of the few professional clubs in the Algarve region, and currently plays in second division....

. It is located in the centre of Portimão

Portimão

Portimão is a Portuguese town located in the District of Faro in the Region of Algarve, the southern coast of Portugal. It was formerly known as Vila Nova de Portimão . In 1924, it was incorporated as a cidade and became known merely as Portimão. The town has 41,000 inhabitants and the Portimão...

 in the Algarve, Portugal

Portugal

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 and was opened in 1937 for local football club Portimonense S.C.. Its capacity

Seating capacity

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 is 9,544 people. It hosted Portimonense's stay in the Primeira Liga in the 1980s.

In 2006, Portimonense were forced to play away from the Estádio Municipal in the Estádio Algarve

Estádio Algarve

The Estádio Algarve is an association football stadium in Loulé, Portugal. The home teams are Sporting Clube Farense, who play in the Portuguese Third Division and Louletano Desportos Clube, who play in the Portuguese Second Division Serie D...

, which – built for Euro 2004 – is 70 kilometres from Portimão. In February 2007, however, Portimonense returned home and the Portimão Municipality

Portimão Municipality

Portimão is a municipality in the district of Faro, in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. Historically a fishing and ship-building centre, it has nonetheless developed into a strong tourist centre oriented along its beaches and southern coast.-History:...

 purchased the site five months later. This allowed the renovations required for the hosting of higher level competition: the installation of green seats (in the colours of the city), new turnstiles and security facilities.

In the 2009–10 season, Portimonense won promotion to the Primeira Liga for the following season. The summer of 2010 was a time of further renovation of the stadium, as modifications were made to the pitch and drainage system, as well as the west stand, bringing the capacity to 9,544 at the cost of €

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800,000. The construction took longer than expected and the club had to wait until the turn of the year before they could use their stadium again. The club's first home league match in the renovated stadium was on 6 February 2011 against Paços de Ferreira

Paços de Ferreira

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, who emerged victorious with the only goal of the game.