C.F. Os Belenenses

Belenenses

Full name	Clube de Futebol Os Belenenses
Nickname(s)	O Belém (The Bethlehem) Os Azuis do Restelo (The Blues from Restelo) Pastéis (Pastries) A Cruz de Cristo (The Order of Christ Cross)
Founded	23 September 1919
Ground	Estádio do Restelo
Capacity	19,856[1]
President	Patrick Morais de Carvalho
Manager	Quim Machado
League	Primeira Liga
2015–16	9th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Clube de Futebol Os Belenenses, commonly known as Belenenses (Portuguese pronunciation: [bɨlɨˈnẽsɨʃ]), is a Portuguese sports club best known for its football team. Founded in 1919, is one of the oldest Portuguese sports clubs. It is based in the 25,000-seat Estádio do Restelo in the Belém parish of Lisbon, hence the club name, which translates as "The ones from Belém". Among its fanbase, the club is commonly nicknamed O Belém, in reference to the neighborhood; Os Pastéis (The Pastries), in reference to a traditional Portuguese pastry originated in parish; Azuis (Blues) or Azuis do Restelo (The Blues from Restelo), in reference to the club's color and its home ground; and A Cruz de Cristo (The Order of Christ Cross), for its emblem.

Belenenses won the 1945–46 Primeira Liga, making them the first of two clubs aside from the Big Three to win the league title, the other club being Boavista FC. The club also have 6 Championship of Portugal/Portuguese Cup titles.

The main activities of the club are football, handball, basketball, futsal, athletics, and rugby union. The club has won major national championships in all these sports, but remains best known for its original activity, football.

History

Early years

Founded in 1919, it reached its first Campeonato final in 1926, losing 2–0 to Maritimo, and won the title the next season with a 3–0 win over Vitória de Setúbal and picking up a second championship in 1929. The club lost the 1932 title to Porto 2–1 in a replay after a 4–4 draw. The club won its third and final Campeonato in 1933 by beating Sporting 3–1.^[2] With three Campeonato wins, Beleneneses was one of Portugal's "Big Four" from the advent of the Primeira Liga, but have now won significantly fewer honours since then the other three clubs (Benfica, Porto and Sporting).

League Champions

The club won its only Primeira Liga title in 1945–46, beating Benfica by a point^[3] on the first occasion which a club outside the Big Three won the title. On 14 December 1947, they were the first team to face Real Madrid at their newly inaugurated Santiago Bernabéu Stadium (then called Nuevo Estadio Chamartín), in a friendly match which was won 3–1 by the Spanish club.^[4] The club came runner-up in the league for the first time in the 1954–55 season, level on 39 points with Benfica.^[5] It was not until 1973 that Belenenses finished runner-up again, 18 points behind Benfica, and they never have since.^[6]

European forays

Belenenses were the first club to compete in the UEFA Cup in a two-legged 3–3 draw with Hibernian (at the time one of Scotland's biggest teams) at the Estádio do Restelo in Belém.

The club has also played in the European Cup Winners' Cup, as well as the UEFA Cup. In the 1987–88 UEFA Cup season, the club played Barcelona; in the first leg, they lost 2–0 in the Camp Nou, winning 1–0 in Lisbon at the Estádio do Restelo with Mapuata scoring. Belenenses won their sixth, and to date last, Taça de Portugal on 28 May 1989, beating Benfica 2–1.^[7] Also that season, they ousted holders Bayer Leverkusen from Cup-Winners' Cup.

Downfall and recovery

Belenenses were relegated from the Primeira Liga for the first time in 1981–82, and have been relegated three other times since then.

21st century

The 2005–06 season saw the football team finishing fourth from bottom, which would mean relegation for the team. However, the team won a subsequent appeal that sent Gil Vicente down instead. With this reprieve, the team played in the top level of Portuguese football once again. On 27 May 2007 Belenenses reached their first Taça de Portugal final since their 1989 triumph, and most recent to date, but were beaten 1–0 by Sporting.^[8]

Cabral Ferreira, who served as president of Belenenses from 2005 until 2008, died on 26 February 2008, of a long illness.^[9] Belenenses were relegated in 2010 to the Segunda Liga, and secured promotion back to the Primeira Liga in March 2013, their longest stint out of the top division.

The 2014–15 season Belenenses finished the championship in sixth place, and returned to European Competitions, Europa League.

They reached the 2015–16 group stages of Europa league after elminiating IFK Götenborg (2–1 agg.) and Altach (1–0 agg.) They ended 4th in their group after 1 surprising win against Basel on away 2–1. They had twice drawn 0–0 against Lech Poznań. And they lost the return match against Basel and both matches against Fiorentina.

Honours

Domestic

• Primeira Liga

Winners (1): 1945–46

• Taça de Portugal

Winners (3): 1941–42, 1959–60, 1988–89

Runners-up (5): 1939–40, 1940–41, 1947–48, 1985–86, 2006–07

• Supertaça de Portugal

Runners-up (1): 1989

• Campeonato de Portugal^[10]

Winners (3): 1926–27, 1928–29, 1932–33

Runners-up (3): 1925–26, 1931–32, 1935–36

• Segunda Liga

Winners (2): 1983–84, 2012–13

• Lisbon Championship

Winners (6): 1925–26, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1931–32, 1943–44, 1945–46

• Lisbon Honour Cup

Winners (6): 1959–60, 1960–61, 1969–70, 1975–76, 1989–90, 1993–94

Runners-up (6): 1964–65, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1979–80, 1983–84, 1985–86

European

• Intertoto Cup

Winners (1): 1975

League and cup history

Season		Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe		Notes
1934–35	CL	4	14	8	2	4	45	20	18	quarter-final
1935–36	CL	4	14	7	3	4	28	22	17	final
1936–37	CL	2	14	11	1	2	46	17	23	quarter-final
1937–38	CL	5	14	5	0	9	29	28	10
1938–39	1D	4	14	6	1	7	38	29	13	quarter-final
1939–40	1D	3	18	11	3	4	58	21	25	final
1940–41	1D	3	14	9	1	4	59	22	19	final
1941–42	1D	3	22	12	6	4	66	32	30	winner
1942–43	1D	3	18	14	0	4	78	20	28	quarter-final
1943–44	1D	6	18	9	3	6	41	32	21	quarter-final
1944–45	1D	3	18	13	1	4	72	29	27	quarter-final
1945–46	1D	1	22	18	2	2	74	24	38	last 16			Only League title
1946–47	1D	4	26	14	5	7	66	31	33	not held
1947–48	1D	3	26	16	5	5	76	30	37	final
1948–49	1D	3	26	16	3	7	68	36	35	last 16
1949–50	1D	4	26	10	7	9	36	41	27	not held
1950–51	1D	9	26	10	4	12	45	48	24	semi-final
1951–52	1D	4	26	14	8	4	60	28	36
1952–53	1D	3	26	15	6	5	60	29	36
1953–54	1D	4	26	13	5	8	43	39	31	semi-final
1954–55	1D	2	26	17	5	4	63	28	39		LAT	4th place
1955–56	1D	3	26	16	5	5	67	25	37	semi-final
1956–57	1D	3	26	13	7	6	74	50	33
1957–58	1D	4	26	12	4	10	54	42	28
1958–59	1D	3	26	16	6	4	65	27	38
1959–60	1D	3	26	15	6	5	58	25	36	winner
1960–61	1D	5	26	12	4	10	45	37	28	semi-final
1961–62	1D	5	26	12	7	7	51	35	31	semi-final	FC	1st round
1962–63	1D	4	26	16	4	6	47	30	36	semi-final	FC	1st round
1963–64	1D	6	26	12	6	8	46	36	30		FC	2nd round
1964–65	1D	8	26	12	2	12	39	40	26		FC	1st round
1965–66	1D	7	26	9	7	10	28	29	25
1966–67	1D	11	26	7	6	13	26	34	20
1967–68	1D	7	26	10	5	11	38	40	25
1968–69	1D	8	26	8	10	8	31	33	26
1969–70	1D	7	26	9	5	12	23	34	23	semi-final
1970–71	1D	7	26	7	8	11	20	27	22
1971–72	1D	7	30	11	7	12	35	33	29	semi-final
1972–73	1D	2	30	14	12	4	53	30	40
1973–74	1D	5	30	17	6	7	56	34	40		UC	1st round
1974–75	1D	6	30	14	7	9	45	37	35	semi-final
1975–76	1D	3	30	16	8	6	45	28	40		IC	GC
1976–77	1D	10	30	7	12	11	29	40	26		IC UC	2nd Gr 1st round
1977–78	1D	5	30	14	8	8	25	21	36
1978–79	1D	8	30	10	9	11	47	43	29
1979–80	1D	5	30	13	8	9	33	38	34
1980–81	1D	11	30	8	10	12	24	39	26	semi-final
1981–82	1D	15	30	5	10	15	28	48	20				relegated
1982–83	2D.S	4	30	12	10	8	35	19	34
1983–84	2D.S	1	30	18	8	4	49	13	44				promoted
1984–85	1D	6	30	11	8	11	40	46	30
1985–86	1D	8	30	7	14	9	27	30	28	final
1986–87	1D	6	30	13	4	13	52	40	30
1987–88	1D	3	38	18	12	8	52	38	48		UC	1st round
1988–89	1D	7	38	13	14	11	44	35	40	winner	UC	2nd round
1989–90	1D	6	34	16	4	14	32	33	36	semi-final	CWC	1st round
1990–91	1D	19	38	10	9	19	27	38	29				relegated
1991–92	2H	2	34	19	10	5	53	25	48				promoted
1992–93	1D	7	34	11	12	11	42	40	34
1993–94	1D	13	34	12	6	16	39	51	30
1994–95	1D	12	34	10	7	17	30	39	27
1995–96	1D	6	34	14	9	1	53	33	51
1996–97	1D	13	34	10	10	14	37	50	40	last 32
1997–98	1D	18	34	5	9	20	22	52	24	last 64			relegated
1998–99	2H	2	34	17	10	7	55	28	61				promoted
1999–2000	1D	12	34	9	13	12	36	38	40	last 64
2000–01	1D	7	34	14	10	10	43	36	52	last 32
2001–02	1D	5	34	17	6	11	54	44	57	last 16
2002–03	1D	9	34	11	10	13	47	48	43	last 32	IC	2nd round
2003–04	1D	15	34	8	11	15	35	54	35	semi-final
2004–05	1D	9	34	13	7	14	38	34	46	quarter-final
2005–06	1D	15	34	11	6	17	40	42	39	last 64
2006–07	1D	5	30	15	4	11	36	29	49	final
2007–08	1D	8	30	11	10	9	35	33	40	last 64	UC	1st round	3 points deducted
2008–09	1D	15	30	5	9	16	28	52	24	last 32
2009–10	1D	15	30	4	11	15	23	44	23	last 16			relegated
2010–11	2H	13	30	8	11	11	33	36	35	last 64
2011–12	2H	5	30	10	11	9	34	32	41	last 16
2012–13	2H	1	42	29	7	6	75	41	94	semi-final			promoted
2013–14	1D	14	30	6	10	14	19	33	28	last 64
2014–15	1D	6	34	12	12	10	34	35	48	quarter final
2015–16	1D									last 32	EL	Group stage

CL=Campeonato da Liga (winners weren't considered Portuguese champions); 1D=First Division/League
2D=Second Division/League; 2H=Liga de Honra
CWC=Cup Winners' Cup; UC=UEFA Cup
FC=Fairs Cup; LAT=Latin Cup; IC=Intertoto Cup

European record

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
1961–62	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	1R	Hibernian	1–3	3–3	4–6
1962–63	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	1R	Barcelona	1–1	1–1	2–2^1
1963–64	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	1R	Tresnjevka Zagreb	2–0	2–1	4–1
		2R	Roma	0–1	1–2	1–3
1964–65	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	1R	Shelbourne	1–1	0–0	1–1^2
1973–74	UEFA Cup	1R	Wolves	0–2	1–2	1–4
1976–77	UEFA Cup	1R	Barcelona	2–2	2–3	4–5
1987–88	UEFA Cup	1R	Barcelona	1–0	0–2	1–2
1988–89	UEFA Cup	1R	Bayer Leverkusen	1–0	1–0	2–0
		2R	Velež Mostar	0–0	0–0	0–0^3
1989–90	European Cup Winners' Cup	1R	AS Monaco	1–1	0–3	1–4
2007–08	UEFA Cup	1R	Bayern Munich	0–2	0–1	0–3
2015–16	UEFA Europa League	3Q	Göteborg	2–1	0–0	2–1
		PO	Altach	0–0	1–0	1–0
		Group I	Basel	0–2	2–1	4th place
			Fiorentina	0–4	0–1
			Lech Poznań	0–0	0–0

Notes

• 1R: First round
• 2R: Second round
• 3Q: Third qualifying round
• PO: Play-off round

¹ Barcelona progressed to the Second round after winning a play-off match 3–2.
² Shelbourne progressed to the Second round after winning a play-off match 2–1.
³ Velež Mostar progressed to the Third round after winning a penalty shoot-out 4–3.

Current squad

As of 31 August, 2016

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 Rafael Veloso 2 DF João Diogo 4 DF Dinis Almeida (on loan from Monaco) 6 MF Oriol Rosell (on loan from Sporting CP) 7 MF Miguel Rosa 8 MF André Sousa 9 FW Tiago Caeiro 10 FW Gerso 11 FW Betinho 12 GK Joel Castro Pereira (on loan from Manchester United) 14 DF Domingos Duarte (on loan from Sporting CP) 17 FW Fábio Sturgeon 21 MF Bernardo Dias

No. Position Player 23 MF Hassan Yebda 24 GK Hugo Ventura 25 MF Vítor Gomes 27 MF Luís Silva 28 DF Gonçalo Brandão 29 DF Florent Hanin 30 FW Abel Camará 37 DF Gonçalo Silva 47 DF Palmeira 66 MF João Palhinha (on loan from Sporting CP) 76 DF Mica Pinto 95 FW Komnen Andrić

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player — DF Tiago Duque (at Olhanense) — MF Rúben Pinto (at CSKA Sofia) — MF Tiago Silva (at Feirense) — MF Ricardo Dias (at Feirense)

No. Position Player — DF André Almeida (at Real Massamá) — DF Gonçalo Tavares (at Real Massamá) — DF Nuno Tomás (at Real Massamá)

Former coaches

Cândido de Oliveira (1937–38) Lippo Hertzka (1939–40) Alejandro Scopelli (1939–41) Sándor Peics (1943–44) Alejandro Scopelli (1947–48) Artur Quaresma (1948–49) Sándor Peics (1950–51) Fernando Vaz (1951–53) Fernando Riera (1954–57) Helenio Herrera (1957–58) Fernando Vaz (1958–59) Otto Glória (1959–61) Fernando Vaz (1962–64) Ángel Zubieta (1964) Franz Fuchs (July 1, 1964 – June 30, 1965) Ángel Zubieta (1968–69) Mário Wilson (1968–70) Alejandro Scopelli (1972–74) Juca (July 1, 1979 – June 30, 1980) Jimmy Hagan (1980–81)

Artur Jorge (1981) Nelo Vingada (July 1, 1981 – June 30, 1982) José Mourinho Félix (1982–83) Jimmy Melia (1983–86) Marinho Peres (1988–89) John Mortimore (1988–89) Hristo Mladenov (1989) Antônio Lopes (1990) Henri Depireux (1990–1991) Abel Braga (1992–93) José Romão (1993–94) João Alves (1994–96) Quinito (1996) Stoycho Mladenov (1997) Manuel Cajuda (July 1, 1997–98) Vítor Oliveira (1998–00) Marinho Peres (2000–03) Manuel José (Feb 11, 2003 – Nov 22, 2003) Vladislav Bogićević (Nov 26, 2003 – Jan 20, 2004) Augusto Inácio (Jan 20, 2004 – May 12, 2004)

Carlos Carvalhal (May 21, 2004 – Oct 27, 2005) José Couceiro (Oct 28, 2005 – May 7, 2006) Jorge Jesus (May 12, 2006 – May 19, 2008) Casemiro Mior (July 1, 2008 – Oct 8, 2008) Jaime Pacheco (Oct 9, 2008 – May 11, 2009) Rui Jorge (May 12, 2009 – May 25, 2009) João Carlos Pereira (June 4, 2009 – Dec 21, 2009) António Conceição (Dec 23, 2009 – May 9, 2010) Baltemar Brito (June 5, 2010 – July 6, 2010) Rui Gregório (July 8, 2010 – Oct 26, 2010) Filgueira (interim) (Oct 27, 2010 – Nov 1, 2010) José Mota (Nov 2, 2010 – Feb 14, 2012) Marco Paulo (Feb 15, 2012 – May 14, 2012) Mitchell van der Gaag (July 1, 2012 – Sept 26, 2013) Marco Paulo (interim) (Sept 26, 2013 – March 18, 2014) Lito Vidigal (March 20, 2014 – March 17, 2015) Jorge Simão (March 18, 2015 – June 30, 2015) Ricardo Sá Pinto (July 1, 2015 – December 15, 2015) Julio Velázquez (December, 2015 – )

See also

• CF Belenenses (basketball)
• CF Belenenses (futsal)
• CF Belenenses (handball)
• C.F. Os Belenenses (rugby)

References

1. http://www.ligaportugal.pt/oou/clube/20152016/liganos/106
2. Portugal – List of Champions
3. Portugal 1945–46
4. Real Madrid C.F. – Official Web Site – Real Madrid play 1,500th official clash at the Santiago Bernabeu
5. Portugal 1954–55
6. Portugal 1972–73
7. Portugal Cup Full Results 1938–1990
8. Portugal Cup 2006/07
9. "Passings: Morreu Cabral Ferreira". Jornal de Notícias. 28 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
10. From 1922 to 1938, the Portuguese champion was determined in a knock-out competition called Campeonato de Portugal (Portuguese Championship). With the formation of the league, this competition later became the national cup.

External links

• Official website (Portuguese)