FC Porto (handball)

FC Porto
Full name Futebol Clube do Porto
Founded 5 October 1932 (1932-10-05)
Arena Dragão Caixa
Capacity 2,200
President Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa
Head coach Magnus Andersson
League Andebol 1
2017–18 3rd
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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 Magnus Andersson, who replaced former manager Lars Walther in the beginning of the 2018–19 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

Porto is one of the most decorated Portuguese clubs in terms of domestic competitions, with a total of 36 national titles.[5]

Domestic competitions

Winners (20): 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
Winners (7): 1975–76, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1993–94, 2005–06, 2006–07
Winners (3) – record: 2003–04, 2004–05, 2007–08
Winners (6): 1995, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2010, 2014

European competitions

Winners (2): 2009, 2012

European record

Season Competition Round Club 1st leg 2nd leg Aggregate
2016–17 EHF Cup R1 Georgia (country) B.S.B. Batumi 49–16 44–16 93–32
R2 Slovenia RD Koper 2013 31–24 26–22 57–46
R3 Austria Bregenz Handball 28–27 31–29 59–56
Group Stage Germany Frisch Auf Göppingen 27–31 28–30 3rd place
Spain Fraikin Granollers 23–22 22–33
Denmark HC Midtjylland 33–25 26–29

Players and staff

The following players and staff compose the squad for the 2018–19 season:

Current squad

Staff members

  • Sweden Head coach: Magnus Andersson
  • Portugal Assistant coach: Carlos Martingo
  • Portugal Physical coach: Tiago Cadete
  • Portugal Goalkepper coach: Telmo Ferreira

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.
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