G.D. Chaves

GD Chaves
Full name Grupo Desportivo de Chaves
Nickname(s) Flavienses, Valentes Trasmontanos
Founded 1949
Ground Estádio Municipal de Chaves
Ground Capacity 8,000
Chairman Bruno Carvalho
Manager Ricardo Soares
League Primeira Liga
2016–17 Primeira Liga, 11th

Grupo Desportivo de Chaves, commonly known as Chaves (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʃavɨʃ]), is a Portuguese football club from Chaves currently playing in the Primeira Liga. They were founded in 1949 and currently play at Estádio Municipal de Chaves with a capacity of 12,000, one of the biggest in the division. Their home kit is red-and-blue striped shirt with blue shorts and socks and the away kit is all white. Their current president is Bruno Carvalho and their manager is Ricardo Soares. Chaves have been in the Portuguese First Division 13 times and had their best finish of fifth-place in the 1989–90 season. They went to Europe in the 1987–88 season where they played in the UEFA Cup, beating Romanian side Universitatea Craiova in the first round but lost in the next round to Hungarian team Budapest Honvéd.

History

Grupo Desportivo de Chaves was founded on 27 September 1949 and is one of the most experienced teams in the Portuguese Second Division, not just because of its old culture, but also many years in the top-flight Primeira Liga, doing quite well and playing in European tournaments, such as the UEFA Cup. Their best ever finish was in the Primeira Liga when they finished fifth in both 1986–87 and 1989–90. In the 1986–87 season, meanwhile, they had fantastic results, beating Sporting Clube de Portugal 2–1 at home in a memorable night at the Estádio Municipal de Chaves. After those fantastic seasons, they finished sixth, seventh and ninth before getting relegated in the 1992–93 season to the Liga de Honra. They returned for another few seasons but then again suffered relegation to the Liga de Honra until 2007, where they eventually got relegated to the Portuguese Second Division: Série A. In the previous season of 2007–08, they finished in fourth place, just missing out on promotion.

After a series of great results in 2008–09 that granted the team the lead of Série A, Chaves finally achieved promotion to the second-flight Liga de Honra with an aggregate 1–0 win over Penafiel, the winner of the Portuguese Second Division: Série B in a semi-final playoff. In the playoff final, it was between Chaves and Fátima, in which both were guaranteed promotion to the Liga de Honra, with the final set to determine the champions. Fátima won the match 2–1.[1] Chaves spent the following three years in the third division before being crowned Segunda Divisão champions in 2012–13, thus gaining promotion back to the Segunda Liga. After missing out on promotion to the first division during a thrilling final day of the 2014–15 season, Chaves were promoted the following season back to the top-flight Primeira Liga for the first time in 17 years.[2]

Stadium

Estádio Municipal de Chaves is a multi-use stadium in Chaves. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of G.D. Chaves. The stadium is able to hold 12,000 people. The stadium normally holds the Portugal national team youth games and also some under-21 games, and also very rarely the senior team. This stadium is famous because it is where Cristiano Ronaldo made his senior international debut with Portugal.[3]

Honours

Players

Current squad

As of 1 July 2017[4]

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

No. Position Player
1 Portugal GK António Filipe
2 Portugal DF Paulinho
4 Brazil DF Anderson Conceição
5 Portugal MF Filipe Melo
6 Brazil MF Jefferson
7 Libya FW Hamdou Elhouni (on loan from Benfica)
8 Portugal MF João Patrão
9 Colombia FW Wilmar Jordán
10 Brazil FW Perdigão
11 Brazil FW William
12 Belarus MF Bressan
13 Portugal GK Ricardo Nunes
14 Portugal DF Nuno André Coelho
No. Position Player
15 Portugal DF Domingos Duarte
20 Brazil MF Tiago Galvão
23 Portugal GK Emanuel Novo
24 Portugal DF Pedro Queirós
25 Portugal MF Pedro Tiba (on loan from Braga)
41 Portugal DF Rúben Ferreira
73 Brazil FW Matheus Pereira (on loan from Sporting)
88 Brazil MF Foguinho (on loan from Grêmio Anápolis)
91 Brazil MF Davidson
92 Brazil DF Victor Massaia
96 Brazil DF Rafael Furlan (on loan from Grêmio Anápolis)
97 Cape Verde GK Márcio
99 Brazil FW Platiny

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player
Brazil GK João Kuspiosz (to Cova da Piedade)
Brazil FW Rafael Batatinha (to Gil Vicente)

Managerial history

Europe

Season Cup Round Opponent Result (1st leg) Result (2nd leg) Aggregate Notes
1987–88 UEFA Cup 1st round Romania Universitatea Craiova 2 – 3 Away (16/09) 2 – 1 Home (30/09) 4 – 4 (a)
2nd round Hungary Budapest Honvéd 1 – 2 Home (24/10) 1 – 3 Away (04/11) 2 – 5

League and cup history

The football section has 13 presences at the top level of Portuguese football. Its best position was two fifth-place finished, in the 1986–87 and 1989–90 seasons, the first earning Chaves its only presence in the European cups.

Season Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Portuguese Cup Europe Notes
1985–86 1D 6 3011712 283829
1986–87 1D 5 3013710 393833
1987–88 1D 7 38131411 513140 Round 2
1988–89 1D 13 38121016 374134
1989–90 1D 5 3412148 383838
1990–91 1D 8 38101414 495234
1991–92 1D 9 34101014 364530
1992–93 1D 18 344822 346116 Relegated
1993–94 2H 3 341978 442545 Promoted
1994–95 1D 14 3410717 334927
1995–96 1D 15 34978 385634
1996–97 1D 10 34121012 394546
1997–98 1D 16 3410519 315535
1998–99 1D 17 3451019 397025 Relegated
1999–00 2H 12 34111112 464544
2000–01 2H 12 3491411 484441
2001–02 2H 5 3416414 524452
2002–03 2H 7 34121111 444147
2003–04 2H 10 34111112 374544
2004–05 2H 17 3491015 243837
2005–06 2H 8 34131110 403650 Round 2
2006–07 2H 16 303720 164316 Round 3 Relegated
2007–08 2HA 4 261286 441744 Round 3
2008–09 2HA 1 321985 532287 Round 3 Promoted
2009–10 2H 15 3061014 283728 Runners-up Relegated
2010–11 2HA 3 3013125 342151 Round 3
2011–12 2HA 3 301596 412654 Round 2
2012–13 2HA 1 3217114 462362 Round 2 Promoted
2013–14 2H 8 42191013 585667 Round 4
2014–15 2H 3 4620206 684580 Round 4
2015–16 2H 2 4621187 603981 Round 3 Promoted
2016–17 1L 11 3481412 354238 Semi-finals

References

  1. "GD Chaves Historia". GD Chaves.pt. Archived from the original on 2014-07-22.
  2. "Desportivo de Chaves subiu à I Liga". cmjornal.xl.pt.
  3. "Lucky rebound gives Portugal narrow win over Kazakhstan". China Daily. Retrieved 25 August 2010.
  4. "Squad". Zerozero.pt.
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