Nacional Funchal

Nacional Funchal
Basic data
Surname	Clube Desportivo Nacional
Seat	Funchal , Madeira , Portugal
founding	December 8, 1910
Colours	black-and-white
president	Rui António Macedo Alves
Website	cdnacional.pt
First soccer team
Venue	Estádio da Madeira
Places	5,200
league	Primeira League
2019/20	▲ 1st place (LigaPro, D2)
home Away

The Clube Desportivo Nacional , CD Nacional for short and known in German-speaking countries as Nacional Funchal (rarely also Nacional Madeira ), is a football club whose team plays in the Segunda League . It was founded in 1910 and is based in Funchal , Madeira . The home stadium is called Estádio da Madeira and has 5,200 seats. The sports center has a total of two grass and two artificial turf pitches. The club colors are black and white.

history

Fans of the CD Nacional in the Estádio Eng. Rui Alves

CD Nacional Funchal reached the Primeira Liga for the first time in the mid-1990s and has always been in the top Portuguese league since its renewed promotion to the 2002/03 season. Most of the time, the team ended up in places 4-8. The club also took part in the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Europa League several times.

The time had come for the first time after CDN was able to narrowly overtake Sporting Braga in the 2003/04 season and, with fourth place, achieved the best placement in the first division up to that point. The team's three key players were defensive midfielder Paulo Assunção , 19-goal center forward Adriano - both later moved to FC Porto - and Miguelito , who was described as the best winger in the league , who went to Benfica in 2006 .

In addition, Nacional reached the quarter-finals of the Taça de Portugal , the Portuguese National Cup in 2003/04 .

In the following season CD Nacional Funchal played in the UEFA Cup , but after two defeats (2: 1 and 2: 0) against Sevilla FC in the first round before the group stage.

At the next European Cup participation - Nacional had finished the pre-season in 5th place - the 2006/07 UEFA Cup ended in the first round. Against Rapid Bucharest had to decide in the second leg (after 0: 1 and 1: 0) the extra time, in which the Romanians scored two more goals.

In the 2008/09 season, CD Nacional led the table in the Portuguese League for a few weeks and ended up again in fourth place in front of Sporting Braga. The Brazilian striker Nenê stood out in particular , scoring 20 goals and becoming the first Nacional player to be top scorer .

In the same season, the team reached the semi-finals in the Portuguese Cup , which was lost 5: 4 after the return leg, with the Estádio da Madeira only the 90th minute bringing the decision in favor of FC Paços de Ferreira .

Due to the good performance in the strong Portuguese league, the team took part directly in the fourth qualifying round for the newly designed UEFA Europa League in the 2009/10 season . However, the team had to do without Nenê, as he moved to the Italian Serie A club Cagliari Calcio for the club's record sum of 4.5 million euros . Still, the underdog surprisingly beat previous UEFA Super Cup winner Zenit Saint Petersburg . A 4-3 first leg win in front of their own crowd was followed by a 1-1 draw in Saint Petersburg, in which youngster Rúben Micael was able to equalize in the last minute. In the group phase, the team then met other prominent opponents: Behind Werder Bremen , the previous season's UEFA Cup finalists, and Athletic Bilbao , Nacional Funchal only finished third and was eliminated in the end. The bottom of the group was FK Austria Wien , against which CDN scored a historic 5-1 win in Funchal.

In the 2016/17 season , the CD Nacional was the last to be relegated from the first division, and in the following season , as champions, they were directly promoted again.

Trivia

• Probably the most famous player at Nacional so far was Cristiano Ronaldo , who played there in his youth.
• Nacional's city rival Marítimo Funchal also plays in the Portuguese first division.

Known (former) players (selection)

Name of the player	Period	comment
Diego Benaglio	2005-2008	Active in the Bundesliga for VfB Stuttgart and VfL Wolfsburg, former Swiss national player
Serginho	1994-2004	Record player and goal scorer with 270 games and 80 hits
Bruno Patacas	2002-2011
Fernando Ávalos	2003-2007	active in Germany for MSV Duisburg
Adriano	2002-2005
Paulo Assunção	2002-2004	in Europe and a. active for Atletico Madrid and FC Porto
Nejc Pečnik	2009–2012	former Slovenian national player
Kevin Amuneke	1999-2003	former Nigerian international
Felipe Lopes	2007–2012	active in the Bundesliga for VfB Stuttgart and VfL Wolfsburg
Mateus	2008-2013	former Angolan international
Zé Vitor	2005-2008
Cristiano Ronaldo	1995-1997	five times world footballer of the year
Daniel Teixeira	1994	Active in the 2nd Bundesliga for Eintracht Braunschweig and Rot-Weiss Essen

Trainer

Name of the trainer	Period	comment
Paulo Autuori	1987-1989
Jair Picerni	1989-1991
Eurico Gomes	1991-1992
José Rachão	1993-1995
Rodolfo rice	1995-1996
Jair Picerni	1996-1998	• 1997: Promotion to the first division (1st place)
José Alberto Torres	1998-1999
José Peseiro	1999-2003	• 2000: Promotion to the first division (1st place) • 2002: Promotion to the first division (3rd place)
Casemiro Mior	2003-2004	• 2004: 4th place (best placement in the club's history) • 2004: First qualification for the UEFA Cup
João Carlos Pereira	2004-2005
Manuel Machado	2005-2006
Carlos Luís Brito	2006-2007
Predrag Jokanović	2007-2008
Manuel Machado	2008-2010	• 2008: 4th place (best placement in the club's history)
Predrag Jokanović	2009-2010	• Already used as an interim trainer after Machado fell ill
Predrag Jokanović	2010-2011
Ivo Vieira	2011
Pedro Caixinha	2011–2012
Manuel Machado	2012–

Web links

Commons : Clube Desportivo Nacional  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nene's top scorer ( memento of the original from February 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from May 25, 2009 on transfermarkt.de 
2. ↑ [1] of March 28, 2014 on transfermarkt.de