S.C. Beira-Mar

Beira-Mar

Full name	Sport Clube Beira-Mar
Nickname(s)	Auri-negros (Gold-and-Blacks)
Founded	1922
Ground	Estádio Mário Duarte
Capacity	12,000
Manager	José Alexandre
League	Aveiro FA First Division
2015–16	Aveiro FA Second Division, 1st (promoted)
Home colours Away colours

Sport Clube Beira-Mar (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈspɔɾ ˈklub(ɨ) ˈbɐjɾɐ ˈmaɾ]) is a Portuguese sports club based in Aveiro, Portugal. Its football team currently plays in the Aveiro FA First Division, holding home games at Estádio Mário Duarte.

Eusébio and António Sousa were two of the club's most famous players; both played for the biggest clubs in the country, the former with Benfica and the latter with both Porto and Sporting, and had long spells with the Portugal national team; Sousa also later managed the team. Beira-Mar also possesses futsal, basketball, boxing, judo, handball, billiards, athletics and paintball departments.

History

Eusébio, one of the world's greatest footballers, played for Beira-Mar in the 1976–77 season.

Beira-Mar was founded on 1 January 1922, and first reached the first division 39 years later, only lasting one single season. Until 1980 it would make a few further appearances in the top flight, the longest spell being from 1971 to 1974; in the 1976–77 campaign, former S.L. Benfica and Portugal legend Eusébio played briefly for the side, often being injured as the campaign ended in relegation.

Returned again to the top flight in 1988, Beira-Mar spent most of the following years in that division. In 1999, eight years after being runners-up in the competition, the club once again reached the final of the Portugal Cup, against S.C. Campomaiorense – Sporting Clube de Portugal, Benfica and F.C. Porto and all been ousted before the round-of-16. The team won the match 1–0 thanks to a goal from Ricardo Sousa, son of coach António Sousa who played for the club during the 70's; the team would also be relegated at the season's end.

As the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was discontinued in 1999, Beira-Mar participated in the 1999–2000 UEFA Cup, losing 1–2 on aggregate to Dutch team Vitesse. In the domestic league the club finished in second position in the second division and immediately returned to the top flight. On 23 February 2002 Beira-Mar achieved a 3–2 away win against Porto, which was managed by a young José Mourinho: it would be the last home defeat for the manager for the following decade.^[1]

The return of Mário Jardel to Portugal to play for Beira-Mar was one of the biggest news in Portugal football in the summer of 2006, as the 33-year-old and former European Golden Shoe winner signed a one-year contract. The Brazilian scored in his official debut, a 2–2 home draw against Desportivo das Aves, but gradually lost his importance in the team, leaving in the following transfer window to a team in Cyprus; Beira-Mar would eventually be relegated, in a campaign which also included the sacking of manager Carlos Carvalhal and his replacement with Spaniard Francisco Soler, after the team signed a cooperation deal with Inverfutbol, a Spanish-based sporting company.^[2]

Beira-Mar returned to the first division in 2010 after a three-year absence, having finished the season as champions. In 2013 they were relegated to the second division for finishing 16th and bottom, and were demoted in 2015 to the second and bottom league of the Aveiro district (fifth level overall) despite finishing 10th due to financial debts.^[3]

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Nuno Lopes 2 DF Bruno Quintino 4 DF Bruno Lopes 5 DF Hernâni Tomás 6 MF Miguel Mortágua 7 MF João Paulo 8 FW Manuel Lopes 9 FW Sérgio Pirata 10 MF Jorge Silva 11 DF Diogo Aidos 12 GK Samuel Biscaia 16 MF Ricardo Castro 17 MF Alex Silva

No. Position Player 18 DF Pedro Moreira 20 MF João Dias 21 DF Diogo Catraio 22 MF Tiago Ramalho 23 FW Magno Fonseca 24 GK Diogo Melo 25 MF Miguel Pangaio 26 FW Cílio Souza 27 FW Diogo Zamorano 28 DF Mané Vieira 29 FW Bruno Ribeiro 30 MF Alexis Martins

After playing in the UEFA Cup in 1999, Beira-Mar became the first second division team to appear in the competition, alongside Bray Wanderers from Ireland.

Season		Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe		Notes
1961–62	1D	11	26	8	5	13	43	61	21
1965–66	1D	11	26	6	6	14	31	65	18
1966–67	1D	14	26	5	4	17	23	58	14
1971–72	1D	13	30	7	9	14	29	51	23
1972–73	1D	12	30	5	13	12	27	57	23
1973–74	1D	13	30	7	7	16	34	59	21
1975–76	1D	13	30	6	9	15	28	47	21
1976–77	1D	13	30	7	9	14	33	57	23
1978–79	1D	12	30	11	2	17	44	56	24
1979–80	1D	15	30	5	10	15	24	46	20
1988–89	1D	15	38	10	13	15	29	36	33
1989–90	1D	11	34	10	9	15	22	39	29
1990–91	1D	6	38	12	12	14	40	49	36
1991–92	1D	8	34	11	10	13	32	41	32
1992–93	1D	8	34	10	12	12	24	33	32
1993–94	1D	14	34	9	11	14	28	38	29
1994–95	1D	17	34	8	5	21	33	54	21
1998–99	1D	16	34	6	15	13	36	53	33
1999–00	2H	2	34	18	11	5	54	30	65		UC	1st round	Promoted
2000–01	1D	8	34	14	7	13	45	49	49
2001–02	1D	11	34	10	9	15	48	56	39
2002–03	1D	13	34	10	9	15	43	50	39
2003–04	1D	11	34	11	8	15	36	45	41
2004–05	1D	18	34	6	12	16	30	56	30				Relegated
2005–06	2H	1	34	18	14	2	45	18	68	Last 128			Promoted
2006–07	1D	18	30	4	11	15	28	55	23	4th round			Relegated
2007–08	2H	6	30	10	12	8	30	32	42	6th round
2008–09	2H	12	30	8	11	11	32	32	35	4th round
2009–10	2H	1	30	16	6	8	44	30	54	4th round			Promoted
2010–11	1D	13	30	7	12	11	32	36	33	4th round
2011–12	1D	12	30	8	5	17	26	38	29	3rd round
2012–13	1D	16	30	5	8	17	35	55	23	5th round			Relegated
2013–14	2D	12	42	14	12	16	45	48	54	5th round
2014–15	2D	10	46	16	15	15	55	48	63	3rd round			Demoted

European record

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
1999–2000	UEFA Cup	1R	Vitesse Arnhem	1–2	0–0	1–2

Honours

• Portugal Cup: 1998–99; Runner-up 1990–91
• Segunda Liga: 2005–06, 2009–10
• Second Division: 1960–61, 1964–65, 1970–71
• Third Division: 1958–59
• Ribeiro dos Reis Cup: 1964–65
• AF Aveiro Championship: 1928–29, 1937–38
• AF Aveiro First Division: 1928-29, 1937-38, 1948–49, 1955–56, 1958–59

Stadium

Beira-Mar play home games at Estádio Mário Duarte, which has a 12000-seat capacity. This is the city center stadium that the team need to recover their support.

Notable players

Note: this list includes players that have played at least 100 league games and/or have reached international status.

Eugene Galeković Mário Jardel Fernando Aguiar Pavel Srníček Magdi Abdelghani Javier Balboa

Ahmad Fayyad Mourtala Diakité Andrija Delibašić Antolín Alcaraz Dinis Eusébio António Sousa

António Veloso Fary Faye Marián Zeman Jan Lechaba Tobias Grahn Andy Marriott

Former managers

Fernando Vaz (1975–76) Fernando Cabrita (1977–79) Mário Lino (1986–87) Jean Thissen (1987–90) Zoran Filipović (1993–94) Rodolfo Reis (1994–95) Acácio (1995)

António Sousa (1997 – June 4) Mick Wadsworth (July 2004 – Sept 04) Manuel Cajuda (Sept 2004 – Dec 04) Augusto Inácio (April 2005 – Nov 06) Carlos Carvalhal (Nov 2006 – Jan 07) Francisco Soler (Jan 2007 – May 7) Rogério Gonçalves (May 2007 – Feb 08)

Paulo Sérgio (Feb 2008 – May 8) António Sousa (June 2008 – Nov 08) Leonardo Jardim (May 2009 – Feb 11) Rui Bento (March 2011 – Feb 12) Ulisses Morais (Feb 2012 – Feb 13) Costinha (Feb 2013 – May 13) Jorge Neves (May 2013 – January 14)

References

1. Jose Mourinho's unbeaten home run ends; BBC Sport, 2 April 2011
2. Beira-Mar: Carvalhal despedido para dar lugar a Paco Soler (Beira-Mar: Carvalhal sacked to make way for Paco Soler); Portal d'Aveiro, 9 January 2007 (Portuguese)
3. "Atlético convidado a substituir o Beira-Mar" [Atlético invited to replace Beira-Mar]. ojogo.pt (in Portuguese). 29 June 2015. Retrieved 1 August 2015.

External links

• Official website (Portuguese)