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The Madeira Football Association (Associação de Futebol da Madeira, abrv. AF Madeira) is the regional governing body for the all football competitions in the former Portuguese district of Funchal, including both Madeira Island and Porto Santo Island. It is also the regulator of the clubs registered in the autonomous region.
Clube Desportivo Nacional, commonly known as Nacional and sometimes Nacional da Madeira (Portuguese pronunciation: [nɐsjuˈnal dɐ mɐˈðɐjɾɐ]), is a Portuguese football club based in Funchal, on the island of Madeira. [2] Founded on 8 December 1910, it currently plays in the Liga Portugal , Portugal's top-tier division of professional ...
The first organised game of football took place in 1875 in Camacha, organised by the Madeira born Harry Hinton (it was the first organised football match anywhere in Portugal). Madeira has two football teams in the Portuguese Liga (Portugal's top league): C.S. Marítimo and C.D. Nacional
Established in 1910, Marítimo is best known for its football team currently playing in Liga Portugal 2 that previously played for 38 consecutive years in the Primeira Liga from 1985 to 2023. The club's reserve team , Marítimo B , compete in the fourth division , and the female team feature in the top-tier Campeonato Nacional Feminino .
The Portuguese football leagues are divided into divisions (divisões, singular – divisão). The top teams play in the Primeira Liga, named Liga NOS for sponsorship reasons. In each division, with rare exceptions, a team plays all other teams twice, once at home and once away. One can divide the competitions in professional and non-professional.
Uniao da Bola was founded by a committee in the form of Rómulo Soares Coelho, Hugo Valdemar Fernandes, Ruben Andrade, Tânia Abreu, Nuno Barros Sousa, André Gonçalves and Nuno Açafrão with the intention of fielding a senior team in the 1st Division of the Madeira Regional Championship, the sixth-tier level within the Portuguese football ...
Club Sport Marítimo Feminino is a Portuguese women's football team from Funchal, Madeira.They are the women's section of Club Sport Marítimo and currently compete in the top-level Campeonato Nacional Feminino [1] after being promoted in 2018 by winning the Campeonato Nacional II Divisão Feminino.
Clube de Futebol Andorinha de Santo António (abbreviated as CF Andorinha) is a Portuguese football club based in Santo António, Funchal, on the island of Madeira. [1] The name andorinha (swallow in English) came about following a shot by a team player that followed the trajectory of one of these birds.