S.C. Farense

Farense

Full name	Sporting Clube Farense
Nickname(s)	Leões de Faro (Lions of Faro)
Founded	1 April 1910
Ground	Estádio de São Luís
Ground Capacity	15,000
Chairman	António Barão
Manager	Rui Duarte
League	Campeonato de Portugal
2015–16	LigaPro, 20th (relegated)
Home colours Away colours

Estádio Algarve – View from the south side of the stadium.

Estádio de São Luís – Current stadium.

Sporting Clube Farense, simply known as Farense, is a Portuguese professional football club based in Faro in the district of Faro,^[1] who play in the LigaPro after promotion. They were promoted from the Segunda Divisão at the end the 2012–13 season.^[2] The Leões de Faro played at the Estádio de São Luís for 94 years from 1910.^[3] The club moved stadium in 2004 to the newly constructed Estádio Algarve which was built for the purpose of hosting matches at UEFA Euro 2004.^[4] The Faro side moved back to the Estádio de São Luís in 2013 after it gained promotion to the Segunda Liga. As a result of their promotion, the Estádio de São Luís underwent major renovations to improve its facilities.

In its entire history, the club has won nine major trophies: the AF Algarve Championship five times, the Portuguese Second Division twice, and the Portuguese Third Division and AF Algarve First Division once. Aside from its major trophies, the club as of 2013, has played 23 seasons in the Primeira Liga of which their highest league table classification came in the 1994–95 season where they managed a fifth-place finish which granted European football in the following season.^[5][6][7] The club also reached the final of the Taça de Portugal in 1990 where they lost to Estrela da Amadora.^[8][9] The 2001–02 season saw the club relegated to the second tier of Portuguese football.^[10] Since then the club has struggled to reach the success that it had during the 1980s and 1990s, which have been primarily caused by financial problems. Despite living some of its darkest years in recent times, the 2012–13 season saw the Faro side promoted to the Segunda Liga.^[11]

Stadium

SC Farense stadium is the Estádio de São Luís next to Faro Hospital. The club did play for a short period of time at the Algarve Stadium built for the EURO Championship Finals in 2004.

Rivalries

The club has rivlaries with fellow Algarve clubs S.C. Olhanense and Portimonense S.C.^{[12][13][14][15][16][17][18]}

Players

Current squad

As of 6 April 2017

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 2 DF Vasco Coelho 3 DF Bahadir Ciloglu 4 DF Tomás Dabó 5 DF Zé Oliveira 6 MF Fadigas 7 DF Celsinho 8 MF André Vieira 10 FW Bruno Carvalho 11 MF Sunday Akinbule 12 GK Juan Castro 14 MF Lucas Chinaqui 16 DF Jorge Ribeiro 17 GK Tavinho 19 MF Neca 20 FW Isaac

No. Position Player 21 MF André Afonso 22 GK Miguel Carvalho 25 MF Leo Tomé 26 FW Gonçalo Gregório 28 MF Jota 29 DF Rony Cruz 30 DF Rui Beja 33 DF Fábio Santos 41 DF Cássio Scheid 50 MF Diogo Melo 51 GK Márcio Paiva 55 FW Jorginho 70 FW Nuno Silva 73 MF Erick 97 MF Fernando Livramento

Notable former players

Players that have played more than 50 league matches;

Managerial history

Honours

• Portuguese Second Division: 1939–40, 1982–83
• Portuguese Third Division: 2011–12
• AF Algarve Championship: 1914–15, 1917–18, 1933–34, 1935–36, 1937–38
• AF Algarve First Division: 2007–08

European cup history

• Q = Qualifying
• PO = Play-off

UEFA Cup

Season	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1995–96	R1		Olympique Lyonnais	0–1	0–1	0–2

League and cup history

References

External links

• Official website (in Portuguese)