The Sport Clube Lusitânia (commonly shortened to S.C. Lusitânia) is a sports club located in Angra do Heroísmo on the island of Terceira, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. Besides a football department, the club also has a basketball department that has played in the top level of the Portuguese men's basketball league system.
.png) | |
| Full name | Sport Clube Lusitânia |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1922 |
| Ground | Estádio João Paulo II, Angra do Heroísmo, Azores Islands |
| Capacity | 7,000 |
| Chairman |  João Orlando Rebelo |
| Manager | João Eduardo Alves |
| League | 47 |
| 2020–21 | Liga Meo Azores, 1st, Promoted |
History edit
In 1922, a group of enthusiastic footballers met in the Recreio dos Artistas, and founded the Sport Clube Lusitânia, naming it for the airplane of the same name, used by Portuguese trans-Atlantic flight pioneers Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral. It became the delegation number 14 of Sporting Clube de Portugal (Sporting CP).[1][2]
Their highest achievement is reaching the semifinals of the Taça de Portugal in 1964. They had defeated Ferroviário Lourenço Marques in the quarterfinals, the highest a Portuguese colony club ever reached in the Portuguese Cup (and only because the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar allowed them to play as a means of demonstrating that Portugal's African possessions were provinces and not colonies). The headquarters of the club is in the historic manorhouse of Dona Violante do Canto.[1]
Current squad edit
This section needs to be updated. (April 2024) |
- As of 12 April 2023
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
|
|
Basketball team edit
The men's basketball team is part of the Portuguese Basketball League (LCB).[3]
References edit
- ^ a b "História – Sport Club Lusitânia" (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-04-05.
- ^ "História e projeto: eis o passado recente do centenário Lusitânia :: zerozero.pt". www.zerozero.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-04-05.
- ^ www.basquetebol.sclusitania.com/ Archived 2007-01-01 at the Wayback Machine
 | This article about a Portuguese football club is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This Azores-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |