Leixões S.C.
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| Full name | Leixões Sport Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | The Babies, Sea Heroes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1907 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Estádio do Mar, Matosinhos |
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| Capacity | 8,035 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman |  José Fonseca Carlos Oliveira |
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| Manager | Vitor Oliveira |
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| League | Liga de Honra | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005-06 | 3rd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Leixões Sport Club, or simply Leixões, is a sports club from Matosinhos, Portugal. It is organized into several specialized departments for many events like football, boxing, karate, volleyball, swimming, and billiards. Its professional football team is its most well known department.
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[edit] History
Leixões Sport Club was formed in 1907, this makes them one of Portugal's most historic sports clubs. Although not known to many clubs in Europe in the modern game, in the 1960s they featured regularly in the European Competitions and faced and were defeated by Glasgow Football giants Celtic in the European Cup en route to Celtics European Cup triumph in 1967. They then disappeared in the 70's into the lower echelons of Portuguese football and were seemingly forgotten, but in 2002 they returned to the main stage with a tremendous Cup run, defeating Sporting Braga 3-1 away to secure a Cup final place and UEFA Cup football via Sportings Champions League finish they lost the Final 1-0 and went onto Europe. In 2003 they lost 5-3 on Aggregate to Greek side PAOK Salonika, losing 4-1 in Greece. The same year 2003 they romped to the Segunda Divisão (Division Two) title with 94 points and with it Promotion to the Liga de Honra. In 2004 they just avoided relegation back to Division Two and finished 14th. A year later they battled to finish 7th in the League. And finally in 2006 they almost reached the Portuguese Liga, losing out to Desportivo das Aves in the Promotion chase and finished 3rd, two points behind Aves. 3rd usually merits a promotion in Portugal but due to a League re-construction to all leagues it meant only the top two would go up (Beira-Mar as Champions and Aves as runners-up). Next year, Leixões are among the favourites to gain promotion back to the Liga - 16 years after their relegation. The supporters of Leixões are different of the most of supporters in Portugal because they are really very entusiashtic.
Best come-backs
1961/62, 1st round: FC La Chaux-de-Fonds 6-2 Leixoes (Porto) Leixões (Porto) 5-0 FC La Chaux-de-Fonds Leixoes win 7-6 on aggregate
[edit] League and Cup History
The club has 22 presences at the top level of Portuguese football, and was present at two cup finals - one of which it won, beating FC Porto at its home ground (Estádio das Antas.
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Season Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Cup Europe Notes 1936-1937 CL 8 14 2 0 12 19 69 4 relegated 4 season(s) at lower levels 1939-1940 1D 9 18 1 5 12 26 70 7 last 16 relegated 4 season(s) at lower levels 1942-1943 1D 10 18 0 2 16 19 81 2 relegated 18 season(s) at lower levels 1959-1960 1D 8 26 8 7 11 48 56 23 1960-1961 1D 8 26 10 3 13 38 44 23 winner 1961-1962 1D 7 26 10 3 13 47 55 23 CWC quarter-final 1962-1963 1D 5 26 10 10 6 34 33 30 best classification ever 1963-1964 1D 8 26 8 9 9 34 44 25 1964-1965 1D 9 26 8 5 13 50 51 21 FC 1st round 1965-1966 1D 12 26 7 4 15 28 39 18 1966-1967 1D 7 26 8 8 10 23 29 24 1967-1968 1D 8 26 10 4 12 29 39 24 1968-1969 1D 11 26 7 7 12 21 30 21 FC 1st round 1969-1970 1D 11 26 10 1 15 33 47 21 1970-1971 1D 13 26 7 5 14 22 44 19 1971-1972 1D 14 30 7 7 16 26 51 21 1972-1973 1D 9 30 11 8 11 32 45 30 1973-1974 1D 14 30 9 3 18 36 56 21 1974-1975 1D 9 30 10 9 11 29 42 29 1975-1976 1D 12 30 8 6 16 30 65 22 1976-1977 1D 15 30 4 15 11 15 31 23 relegated 13 season(s) at lower levels 1988-1989 1D 19 38 7 14 17 29 46 28 relegated 3 season(s) at lower levels 1990-1991 2H 7 38 15 13 10 49 41 43 1991-1992 2H 7 34 12 11 11 31 26 35 1992-1993 2H 12 34 11 9 14 34 39 31 1993-1994 2H 18 34 8 8 18 24 41 24 9 season(s) at lower levels 2001-2002 2DN 2 38 25 8 5 73 27 83 final 2002-2003 2DN 1 38 29 7 2 73 27 94 2nd round UC 1st round promoted 2003-2004 2H 14 34 9 15 10 44 48 14 4th round 2004-2005 2H 6 34 14 8 12 40 33 50 last 64 2005-2006 2H 3 34 17 11 6 47 19 62 last 64 2006-2007 2H ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 4th round ongoing
- CL: Campeonato da Liga (winners weren't considered Portuguese champions)
- 1D: Portuguese Liga and predecessors (1st level)
- 2H: Liga de Honra (2nd level)
- 2DN: Portuguese Second Division, Northern Zone (pre-1991: 2nd level; post 1991: 3rd level)
- CWC: Cup Winners' Cup
- FC: Fairs Cup
- UC UEFA Cup
