Sporting Braga

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Sporting Braga
Basic data
Surname	Sporting Clube de Braga
Seat	Braga , Portugal
founding	January 19, 1921
Colours	Red White
president	Antonio Salvador
Website	scbraga.pt
First soccer team
Head coach	Ricardo Sá Pinto
Venue	Municipal Stadium
Places	30,286
league	Primeira League
2019/20	3rd place
home Away Alternatively

Sporting Clube de Braga , Sporting Braga for short , is a Portuguese football club from Braga that plays in the Primeira Liga .

The club has several sports departments and has also celebrated international success in women's athletics.

history

The association was founded in 1921 and is based in Braga , in northern Portugal. The club colors are red and white. The home stadium is the Estádio Municipal de Braga with space for 30,286 spectators and was newly built for the 2004 European Football Championship . The stadium is considered to be one of the most beautiful and interesting of EURO 2004 because it was built into a granite rock . It was built according to a design by the architect Eduardo Souto de Moura , who was awarded the Prémio Secil for this in 2004 .

The club rose for the first time in 1947 in the first division of Portugal, but also rose several times in between. The most significant national successes so far are the wins of the Portuguese Cup in 1966 with a 1-0 in the final against Vitória Setúbal and fifty years later, in 2016 with a hard-fought victory in the penalty shootout against FC Porto, where they one during regular time 2-0 lead playful. In 2013 they were able to win the Portuguese League Cup with a 1-0 victory in the final against FC Porto. In the league they were runner-up in the 2010/11 season, their best placement in the championship so far.

Sporting Braga also took part in the European Cup Winners' Cup for the first time after their first cup success and reached the second round. Also in the 1982/83 and 1998/99 seasons , the club made it into this competition as a cup finalist, but was eliminated in the preliminary round and in the second round.

The club took part in the 1978/79 , 1984/85 , 1997/98 and all seasons from 2004 to 2010 in the UEFA Cup and the Europa League and reached the round of 16 several times.

In the 2010/11 season, the Portuguese runners-up qualified for the first time for the Champions League group stage after four sovereign games against the Scottish and Spanish clubs Celtic Glasgow and Sevilla FC . This made them the first Portuguese club in the group stage that did not come from Lisbon or Porto . Sporting reached third place in their group behind Shakhtar Donetsk and Arsenal FC and ahead of Partizan Belgrade , which was equivalent to qualifying for the sixteenth finals of the Europa League. Lech Posen from Poland, the English record champions FC Liverpool and the Ukrainian club Dynamo Kiev were eliminated one after the other . In the semi-finals, the team prevailed against league rivals Benfica Lisbon , a 2-1 defeat in the first leg in Lisbon was followed by a 1-0 victory in the second leg at their home stadium. Thus, the SC Braga surprisingly reached the final of the Europa League . In the final on May 18, 2011 in Dublin, Braga met another league competitor, Braga faced the reigning champions FC Porto . In the final, Sporting Braga lost 0-1; it was the first purely Portuguese final in a European football cup.

Current squad 2018/19

No. position Surname 1 TW Matheus 2 FROM Diogo Figueiras 4th FROM Lucas Cunha 5 FROM Nuno Sequeira 6th FROM Ailton 7th ST Wilson Eduardo 8th MF Ricardo Ryller 10 MF Xadas 11 MF Eduardo Teixeira 12 TW Tiago Sá 14th FROM Pablo Renan 17th MF João Novais 19th ST Murilo 20th ST Paulinho

No. position Surname 21st MF Ricardo Horta 24 FROM Ricardo Ferreira 25th MF Claudemir 26th ST Fábio Martins 27 MF Fransérgio 28 TW Carlos Marafona 34 FROM Raul Silva 36 FROM Bruno Viana 47 FROM Ricardo Esgaio 60 MF João Palhinha 77 ST Francisco Trincão 87 FROM Marcelo Goiano 99 ST Dyego Sousa - ST Crislan

Top goal scorers by season (since 2004/05)

season	Surname	nation	Number of goals
2004/05	João Tomás	Portugal	15th
2005/06	João Tomás	Portugal	15th
2006/07	Turner	Brazil	8th
2007/08	Roland Linz	Austria	11
2008/09	Albert Meyong Zé	Cameroon	8th
2009/10	Albert Meyong Zé	Cameroon	12
2010/11	Lima	Brazil	6th
2011/12	Lima	Brazil	20th
2012/13	Éder	Portugal	13
2013/14	Felipe Pardo	Colombia	7th
2014/15	Zé Luís	Cape Verde	8th
2015/16	Nikola Stojiljković Ahmed Hassan	Serbia Egypt	10 each
2016/17	Rui Fonte	Portugal	11
2017/18	João Paulo Dias Fernandes	Portugal	13
2018/19	Dyego Sousa	Portugal	15th

successes

• Portuguese Cup Winner : 1966, 2016
• UEFA Intertoto Cup : 2008
• UEFA Europa League : Final ( 2011 )
• Portuguese League Cup : 2013, 2020

Beach soccer

• Mundialito de Clubes : 2019

Trainer

• Humberto Coelho (1985-1986)
• José Peseiro (2012-2013)
• Sérgio Conceição (2014-2015)
• Abel Ferreira (2017-2019)

Women's soccer

→ Main article : Sporting Braga (women's football)

The women's soccer department was founded in 2016 and has been playing first class ever since.

Successes:

• Portuguese Super Cup: 2018

Web links

Commons : Sporting Braga  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official Website (Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Braga 3-0 Celtic , news.bbc.co.uk
2. ^ SC Braga conquista Supertaça pela primeira vez. In: fpf.pt. Federação Portuguesa de Futebol , accessed September 9, 2018 .