S.C. Beira-Mar

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S.C. Beira-Mar

Full name

Sport Clube Beira-Mar

Nickname(s)

Auri-negros (The Gold-and-Blacks)

Founded

1922

Ground

Estádio Municipal de
Aveiro – Mário Duarte, Aveiro
(Aveiro Municipal Stadium
– Mário Duarte)

Capacity

30,127

Chairman

Artur Valente Filipe

Manager

Carlos Carvalhal

League

BWINLIGA

2005-06

Liga Honra, Champions





Home colours





Away colours

Sport Clube Beira-Mar (pron. IPA: [spɔɾ 'klub(ɨ) 'bɐiɾɐ maɾ]) is a Portuguese sports club from Aveiro. Its football team was promoted as champions of Liga de Honra in 2005/06, currently playing in the BWINLIGA, the top league in Portuguese football.

Beira-Mar plays in a football stadium built for the 2004 European Football Championship called Estádio Municipal de Aveiro.

Its best known players of all times were Eusébio (who played for the team during the 1976/77 season) and António Sousa. Both tasted glory with Portugal national football team.

1 Sports departments
- 1.1 Football
2 League and Cup history
3 External links

[edit] Sports departments

Sport Beira-Mar was founded on January,1, 1922 in Aveiro. Beira-Mar is most known for its renowned futsal, basketball, and boxing departments. Football is also a growing spot in the club, with the club being a regular participant in the highest division of Portuguese football, nowadays called BWINLIGA.

[edit] Football

Beira-Mar's best season in the league was in 1990/91 . The biggest feat in the club's history was winning the Portuguese Football Cup in the 1998/99 season, and achieving its final in 1990/91. The club also won the Taça Ribeiro dos Reis in 1964/65 and won the 2nd Division, three times, in 1960/61; 1964/65; 1970/71. The club also won the Liga de Honra in 2005/06. Beira Mar participated in the Uefa Cup in the 1999/2000 season being beaten by Vitesse of Holland 2-1.

[edit] Eusébio Days

Back in the 1960's Eusébio was an icon to Portugal and Benfica fans. But in 1976 many Beira Mar fans were skeptical if Eusebio could still play the way he did 10 years prior, they soon found out as Eusebio soon registered 3 goals in 12 games a feat for a player his age.

[edit] The Portuguese Cup

Without a doubt, the biggest feat in Beira-Mar's history was the Portuguese Football Cup in the 1998/99 season, when the team was managed by António Sousa, a former player of the club, who also played for F.C. Porto and the national squad. The lone goal in the final against Campomaiorense was scored by Ricardo Sousa, his son. Unfortunately, the club was relegated to the Liga de Honra that same year. This was the second time the club reached the competition final, the first one was in 1990/91, when it lost to F.C. Porto.

[edit] Aveiro Stadium

Estádio Municipal de Aveiro is a football (soccer) stadium in Aveiro, Portugal. It was designed for Euro 2004 by the architect Tomás Taveira. It is very colorful and festive-looking. It seats 30,498 people. It is the home to the football club of SC Beira-Mar. Many Beira-Mar fans call it the Circus for it's intense design. The question of who actually owns the stadium, the club or the municipality of Aveiro, hase caused many tensions between the two entities, endangering the funding of the club.

[edit] Mário Jardel

The return of Mário Jardel to Portugal to play in Beira Mar was one of the biggest news in the Portuguese football in the summer of 2006. It lifted many of Beira-Mar's fans hopes that the club would not get relegated with the Brazilian scorer who won the European boot on several occasions (Which is given to the Top Scorer in Europe). He scored in his debut game, a 2-2 draw against Desportivo das Aves.

[edit] Fans of Beira-Mar

The fans of Beira-Mar are known as Paixadores (The Fishermen). They are also known as the Auri-negros (Yellow-Blacks), due to there tenatious attitude and team colours. Beira-Mar have many fans world-wide in such countries as The United States, Canada, England, Brazil and Argentina. Yet nothing compares to the home town fans of Aveiro, Portugal. Many of Beira-Mar's fans are known for their crazy antics during games at the stadium, such as throwing flares, singing & screaming at the top of their lungs, to get the Beira-Mar players pumped up.

[edit] Notable Players

Eusébio
Antonio Sousa
Andy Marriott
Todor Angelov
Mariano Fernández
Antolin Alcaraz
Marian Zemen
Mário Jardel
Kingsley Sunny Ekeh
Clyde Wijnhard
Faye Fary
Fernando Aguiar
Jorge Leitao
Pavel Srníček

[edit] Current squad

As of August 17, 2006

Nationality given from place of birth

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Todor Kiuchukov
3	DF	Yohanna Buba
5	MF	Vasco Matos
7	FW	Artur
8	MF	André
9	FW	Diogo Macedo
10	MF	Luciano Ratinho
11	FW	Roma
15	FW	Mourtala Diakité
16	FW	Mario Jardel
18	MF	Pedro Miguel Torrão
20	DF	Tininho
21	DF	Nuno Carvalheiro

No.	Position	Player
22	MF	Katchana
23	FW	Rui Lima
24	GK	Bruno Souza
25	DF	Pedro Ribeiro
26	MF	Emerson
27	FW	Jorge Leitao
29	FW	Wegno
30	DF	Antolin Alcaraz
36	DF	Jorge Silva
45	MF	Camora
50	GK	Danrlei
67	DF	Marco Couto
77	DF	Jorge Vidigal
88	GK	Alê Montrinas

[edit] League and Cup history

The club has 24 presences at the top level of Portuguese football, and played once in the UEFA Cup, after winning the Portuguese Cup in the same season that it was relegated - becoming, with Bray Wanderers, the first second level team playing in the UEFA Cup (apart from the particular cases of Welsh and Liechtenstein teams).

Season		Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe		Notes
1961-1962	1D	11	26	8	5	13	43	61	21
...
1965-1966	1D	11	26	6	6	14	31	65	18
1966-1967	1D	14	26	5	4	17	23	58	14
...
1971-1972	1D	13	30	7	9	14	29	51	23
1972-1973	1D	12	30	5	13	12	27	57	23
1973-1974	1D	13	30	7	7	16	34	59	21
...
1975-1976	1D	13	30	6	9	15	28	47	21
1976-1977	1D	13	30	7	9	14	33	57	23
1978-1979	1D	12	30	11	2	17	44	56	24
1979-1980	1D	15	30	5	10	15	24	46	20
...
1988-1989	1D	15	38	10	13	15	29	36	33
1989-1990	1D	11	34	10	9	15	22	39	29
1990-1991	1D	6	38	12	12	14	40	49	36
1991-1992	1D	8	34	11	10	13	32	41	32
1992-1993	1D	8	34	10	12	12	24	33	32
1993-1994	1D	14	34	9	11	14	28	38	29
1994-1995	1D	17	34	8	5	21	33	54	21
1998-1999	1D	16	34	6	15	13	36	53	33	winner
1999-2000	2H	2	34	18	11	5	54	30	65		UC	1st round	promoted
2000-2001	1D	8	34	14	7	13	45	49	49
2001-2002	1D	11	34	10	9	15	48	56	39
2002-2003	1D	13	34	10	9	15	43	50	39
2003-2004	1D	11	34	11	8	15	36	45	41
2004-2005	1D	18	34	6	12	16	30	56	30				relegated
2005-2006	2H	1	34	18	14	2	45	18	68	last 128			promoted
2006-2007	1D	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	4th round			ongoing