FC Porto (handball)

FC Porto
Full name	Futebol Clube do Porto
Founded	5 October 1932
Arena	Dragão Caixa
Capacity	2,200
President	Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa
Head coach	Ricardo Costa
League	Andebol 1
2015–16	3rd
Colours
Club colours
Home Away
Website Official site

Active sections of Futebol Clube do Porto
Adapted sport	Basketball	Billiards
Boxing	Cycling	Football
Football (reserve team)	Football (youth teams)	Handball
Roller hockey	Swimming

The FC Porto handball team is the senior representative of the handball section of FC Porto, a Portuguese sports club based in Porto. The team competes in the Andebol 1, the top-tier domestic league, and plays its home matches at the Dragão Caixa arena.

The current head coach is former club player and captain Ricardo Costa, who replaced six-time champion Serbian coach Ljubomir Obradović in the beginning of the 2015–16 season.

History

The section started in 1932 with a field handball (eleven-a-side) team, which played competitive matches until 1974–75, when the discipline was discontinued in favour of the current seven-a-side handball. In this period, the club won 37 regional league titles and 29 national league titles.^[1]

In 1951 the club established the handball section whose team won the Portuguese league for the first time in the 1953–54 season, having increased that tally with a further eight titles by 1968.^[2]

Porto endured a 31-year drought before winning the national league again in the 1998–99 season. In the 2014–15 season, the team secured their seventh consecutive league title, establishing a national handball record.^[3] In the previous season, the team also debuted in the EHF Champions League group stage, after overcoming the qualification tournament for the first time in five consecutive attempts.^[4]

Honours

The club is one of the most successful in domestic competitions, holding the record for the most league, league cup, and super cup titles.^[5]

Domestic

• Portuguese Handball First Division: 20 (record)
  • 1953–54, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1967–68, 1998–99, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15
• Portuguese Handball Cup: 7
  • 1975–76, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1993–94, 2005–06, 2006–07
• Portuguese Handball League Cup: 3 (record)
  • 2003–04, 2004–05, 2007–08
• Portuguese Handball Super Cup: 6 (shared record)
  • 1994–95, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2009–10, 2013–14

International

• Limburgse Handbal Dagen: 2^[6]
  • 2009, 2012
• Torneio Internacional de Gaia: 2
  • 2015, 2016^[7][8]

Players

Current squad

The following players compose the squad for the 2016–17 season:

No.	Name	Position	Height	Birth date (age)	2015–16 team
1	Alfredo Quintana	Goalkeeper	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	20 March 1988	FC Porto
4	Victor Iturriza	Pivot	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	25 May 1990	Avanca (loan)
6	Leandro Semedo	Left back	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)	24 February 1994	FC Porto
7	Nikola Spelic	Left back	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)	27 March 1991	Maribor Branik
8	Yoel Cuni Morales	Right back	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)	15 February 1987	FC Porto
9	Gustavo Rodrigues	Right back	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	8 January 1990	FC Porto
10	Miguel Martins	Centre back	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	4 November 1997	FC Porto
11	Paulo Vinícius	Left back	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)	10 March 1998	Sorriso
13	Patrick Lemos	Left back	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)	23 May 1996	Metodista de São Paulo
14	Rui Silva	Central	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	28 April 1993	FC Porto
15	Daymaro Salina	Pivot	2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)	1 September 1987	FC Porto
16	Hugo Laurentino	Goalkeeper	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	22 July 1984	FC Porto
17	Felipe Santaela	Left back	2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)	27 January 1995	Esporte Clube Pinheiros
18	José Mario Carrillo	Left wing	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)	18 December 1990	Ademar León
19	Ricardo Moreira	Right wing	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	28 April 1982	FC Porto
22	Alexis Borges	Pivot	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)	6 October 1991	FC Porto
24	Hugo Santos	Left wing	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)	2 March 1992	FC Porto
25	António Areia	Right wing	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	21 June 1990	FC Porto
29	Marko Matic	Left back	2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)	25 January 1988	Metalurg Skopje
57	Pedro Carvalho	Goalkeeper	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	28 January 1995	Avanca

References

1. "Lista de vencedores de provas nacionais – Andebol de 11 (masculinos)" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Federação Portuguesa de Andebol. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
2. "Lista de vencedores de provas nacionais – Séniores masculinos" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Federação Portuguesa de Andebol. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
3. "FC Porto é o primeiro hexacampeão do andebol português" (in Portuguese). Público. 24 May 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
4. Pazen, Björn (14 July 2013). "New Port for Champions League fleet". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
5. "Handball – Honours". FC Porto. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
6. "Limburgse Handbal Dagen History". lhd.nl. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
7. "Dragões conquistam Torneio Internacional de Gaia" [Dragons conquer Gaia International Tournament] (in Portuguese). FC Porto. 16 August 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
8. "FC Porto vence Torneio Internacional de Gaia" [FC Porto wins Gaia International Tournament] (in Portuguese). SAPO Desporto. 16 August 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2015.

External links

• Official website