FC Porto (roller hockey)

Futebol Clube do Porto (Portuguese pronunciation: [futɨˈβɔl ˈkluβɨ ðu ˈpoɾtu]), commonly referred to as FC Porto (or FC Porto Fidelidade, for sponsorship purposes), or simply Porto, is a professional roller hockey team based in Porto, Portugal. They compete in the Portuguese First Division, the top-tier league in the country, and dispute their home matches at the Dragão Arena.

FC Porto

Full name	Futebol Clube do Porto Fidelidade
League	First Division
Founded	1955 (69 years ago) (1955)[1]
Home ground	Dragão Arena (Capacity 2,200)
Personnel
Coach	Ricardo Ares
Manager	Franklim Pais
Website	fcporto.pt
Home Away

In domestic competitions, they won 25 league titles (ten of which, conquered consecutively between the 2001–02 and 2010–11 seasons, a Portuguese roller hockey record), 19 Portuguese Cups, 23 Portuguese Super Cups and two Portuguese Elite Cups.^[2] At international level, the team won three WSE Champions League titles, two WSE Cups, two CERH Cup Winners' Cups, two WSE Continental Cups and one Intercontinental Cup.^[2]

Current squad

Squad for the 2023–24 season:^[3]

Goalkeepers

• 01 Xavier Malián
• 24 Leonardo Pais

Defenders / Midfielders

• 05 Telmo Pinto
• 06 Edu Lamas
• 78 Hélder Nunes
• 88 Diogo Barata

Forwards

• 07 Ezequiel Mena
• 09 Rafael Costa
• 19 Carlo Di Benedetto
• 29 Roc Pujadas
• 77 Gonçalo Alves

Technical staff

Position	Name
Section director	Eurico Pinto
Assistant director	João Baldaia
Team manager	Franklim Pais
Head coach	Ricardo Ares
Assistant coach	Iván Jaquierz
Physical therapist	Pedro Quintas
Nurse	Daniel Cunha

Honours

Domestic competitions

• Portuguese First Division

Winners (25) – record: 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1998–99, 1999–00, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2021–22, 2023–24

• Portuguese Cup

Winners (19) – record: 1982–83, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1995–96, 1997–98, 1998–99, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2012–13, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2021–22, 2023–24

• Portuguese Super Cup

Winners (23) – record: 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

• Portuguese Elite Cup

Winners (2) – shared record: 2019, 2022

European competitions

• WSE Champions League

Winners (3): 1985–86, 1989–90, 2022–23

• WSE Cup

Winners (2): 1993–94, 1995–96

• Cup Winners' Cup

Winners (2): 1981–82, 1982–83

• WSE Continental Cup

Winners (2): 1986, 2023

World competitions

• Intercontinental Cup

Winners (1): 2021

References

1. Pinto, Armando (31 January 2017). "Inícios e consolidação do Hóquei em Patins do FC Porto (resumo histórico)" (in Portuguese). Memória Portista. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
2. "FC Porto Hóquei em Patins – Títulos" (in Portuguese). zerozero.pt.
3. "FC Porto Hóquei em Patins – Plantel" (in Portuguese). FC Porto.

External links

• Official website (in Portuguese)