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Futebol Clube de Famalicão is a Portuguese

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

sports club

Sports club

A sports club or sport club, sometimes athletics club or sports association is a club for the purpose of playing one or more sports...

, based in Vila Nova de Famalicão

Vila Nova de Famalicão

Vila Nova de Famalicão is a municipality in the district of Braga, in the north of Portugal. It is composed of 49 parishes.The municipality has a population of 131,690 inhabitants and a total area of 201.7....

in the district of Braga

Braga

Braga , a city in the Braga Municipality in northwestern Portugal, is the capital of the Braga District, the oldest archdiocese and the third major city of the country. Braga is the oldest Portuguese city and one of the oldest Christian cities in the World...

. The club was founded in 1931 and its senior team currently plays in national level in the Portuguese

Portugal

football Federation Third Division Serie B championship. In total the club played six seasons in the Portuguese First Division

Portuguese Liga

The Primeira Liga , formerly called Primeira Divisão, currently named Liga ZON Sagres after their main sponsors, is the top professional association football division of the Portuguese football league system...

most notably and recently in 1990 to 1994 were they eventually relegated. It holds its home games at the Estádio Municipal 22 de Junho with a capacity of 15,000 seats. Their current chairman is João Araújo and their current manager is Artur Jorge. Its current sponsor is big Italian sports brand Macron

Macron (sportswear)

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Current Squad 2009/10

Notable former players

Vítor Paneira

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Fernando Couto

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Carlos Secretário

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Ivo Afonso

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Pedro Roma

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Ricardo Rocha Henrique Sereno

Henrique Sereno

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Tito

Bruno Miguel Areias de Sousa

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Tiago Pereira Nuno Fonseca

Nuno Fonseca

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Nuno Cavaleiro

Nuno Miguel Mendes Cavaleiro

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Pedro Costa

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Marco Silva

Marco Silva (footballer)

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Djamel Menad Djalmir Petar Mihtarski

Petar Mihtarski

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Piguita

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Ricardo

Ricardo Jorge Ferreira Pinto da Silva

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Etienne N'tsunda

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Chidi Onyemah

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Djalo Bacari

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Reinaldo Gomes

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League and Cup history

The club has six presences at the top level of Portuguese football

Portuguese Liga

. It never reached a cup final

Taça de Portugal

The Taça de Portugal is the main Portuguese national football knock-out competition. The tournament has been officially known as the Taça de Portugal Millennium since 2008, due to its sponsorship by Portuguese private bank Millennium BCP. It has occurred on a yearly basis since 1938 and is...

or a European competition

UEFA

The Union of European Football Associations , almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA is the administrative and controlling body for European association football, futsal and beach soccer....

.

First division statistics:

Season		Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup Taça de Portugal The Taça de Portugal is the main Portuguese national football knock-out competition. The tournament has been officially known as the Taça de Portugal Millennium since 2008, due to its sponsorship by Portuguese private bank Millennium BCP. It has occurred on a yearly basis since 1938 and is...	Notes
1946–1947	1D	13	26	7	3	16	60	100	17	not held	Relegated
1978–1979	1D	13	30	9	6	15	30	45	24		Relegated
1990–1991	1D	14	38	11	11	16	33	41	33
1991–1992	1D	14	34	9	10	15	27	40	28
1992–1993	1D	14	34	10	10	14	29	48	30
1993–1994	1D	17	34	7	8	19	26	72	22		Relegated

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