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Former goalkeeper and captain Vítor Baía won a club-record 25 trophies, including 10 leagues and 5 cups.. Futebol Clube do Porto is a Portuguese sports club based in Porto, which is best known for its professional association football team.
Futebol Clube do Porto, MHIH, OM [1] [2] (Portuguese pronunciation: [futɨˈβɔl ˈkluβɨ ðu ˈpoɾtu]), commonly known as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Porto. It is best known for the professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football.
Futebol Clube do Porto, an association football team based in Porto, is the most decorated Portuguese team in international club competitions.They have won two UEFA Champions League titles (in 1987, as the European Cup, and 2004), two UEFA Europa League titles (in 2003, as the UEFA Cup, and 2011), one UEFA Super Cup (in 1987), and two Intercontinental Cups (in 1987 and 2004), for a total of ...
Porto players celebrate the club's 24th championship title and fourth consecutive in 2008–09. Futebol Clube do Porto is a Portuguese sports club founded in 1893 in Porto. Its association football team played its first competitive matches in 1911, when it took part and won the first edition of the José Monteiro da Costa Cup. [1]
João Pinto, former right-back and captain, holds Porto's record for most appearances, having played 587 matches during an uninterrupted senior career of 16 years at the club. He is one of only two players with over 500 first-team appearances; the other is former goalkeeper and also captain Vítor Baía , who appeared in 566 matches in 17 seasons.
The 2016–17 FC Porto season was the club's 107th competitive season and the 83rd consecutive season in the top flight of Portuguese football. It began on 12 August 2016 and concluded on 21 May 2017. For the third consecutive season, Porto failed to win any of the official competitions in which it was involved.
In UEFA competitions, Porto participated for the 8th consecutive and 23rd overall time in the UEFA Champions League group stage, a record shared with Barcelona and Real Madrid. They advanced to the round of 16 as group winners, where they beat Italian side Roma to qualify for the quarter-finals for the first time since 2015.
Catullo Gadda (back row, second from left ) won the 1901 Italian championship with Milan (squad pictured) before becoming Porto's player and first manager.Following the club's rebirth in 1906, Catullo Gadda, who won the Italian title with Milan in 1901, [1] assumed the team's orientation as a player-coach and is historically considered Porto's first-ever manager.