C.D. Santa Clara

C.D. Santa Clara
Santa Clara
C.D. Santa Clara Logo.png
Full name Clube Desportivo Santa Clara
Nickname(s) Os Açoreanos (The Azoreans)
Founded May 12, 1927 (84 years ago)
Ground Estádio de São Miguel,
Ponta Delgada, Portugal
(Capacity: 15,277)
President Mário Jorge Freitas Batista
Manager Bruno Moura
League Liga de Honra
2010-11 Liga de Honra, 9th
Website Club home page
Home colours
Away colours

Clube Desportivo Santa Clara is a Portuguese football club from Ponta Delgada, Azores. They are the most successful football team from the Azores islands. To date, it is the only club from the Azores islands to have competed in the top division of the Portuguese Liga, although they currently compete in the Liga de Honra, the Portuguese second level football league. Santa Clara's current kit manufactuer is Macron and their sponsors are Açoreana Seguros.

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Overview

Santa Clara plays in the Estádio de São Miguel in Ponta Delgada, the largest city in the Azores. It is the only team from the Azores islands to ever participate in the Portuguese Liga, where they play for three non-consecutive seasons (1999–00, 2001–02 and 2002–03). The club also qualified once for UEFA Intertoto Cup in 2002. Manuel Fernandes, a former Portuguese international, who took Santa Clara to the First Division the first time, is an highly acclaimed figure in Azores. While it now plays in the Liga de Honra, Santa Clara is always a favorite to get promoted.

The club his know for its close connection to Sport Lisboa e Benfica, having shared until recently the very same crest. The club played in the old Estádio da Luz, as Benfica's last official opponent before a new stadium was built in Lisbon for the UEFA Euro 2004, which Portugal hosted. The attendance of that game was close to 50,000.

Among the club's most famous players are Paulo Figueiredo, Clayton, Lito Vidigal, and Jorge Ribeiro while Portugal's all-time leading scorer Pauleta was a youth player at the club.

Madeira and Azores rivalry

Due to the geographic area of the Azores, Santa Clara's main rivals are Club Sport Marítimo and Clube Desportivo Nacional, both from the Madeira islands, though currently they play in different tiers (Marítimo and Nacional play in the Portuguese Liga while Santa Clara plays in the Liga de Honra). Matches against teams from Madeira prove to be very heated affairs, with both sets of fans segregated and heightened security required. The fans are also known as the "Sefarditas" of in English the Sephardic Jews due to the fact that the Azores had a large number of Jews that immigrated to the island, they were known as the Marranos, Jews that were forced to convert to Christianity. Fans of rivals are known to call the Santa Clara fans antisemitic slurs. Evidence of Ponta Delgada's Jewish past is even vibrant in the city's landscape at one time five synagogues were in the city alone. Politics also take a part in the Madeira and Azores derby due to the heated relationship with the two regional governors. Madeira's controversial regional governor, Alberto João Jardim, is a self-confessed Marítimo supporter while on the opposite end, Azores regional governor, Carlos César, is a Santa Clara fan.

During the 2000s, the lack of funds going into Santa Clara were noticeable as the club fell from the First Division and sank deeply into the Second. It was this period that also saw the Azores and Madeira derby grow even stronger as Nacional and Marítimo fans would sing "O Barco Açoriano Está no Fundo" (translated as: "the Azorean boat has just sank to the bottom"), but in recent times, there has been more investment in the club in hopes of returning to the top division.

The derby even competes with each other using players as Madeira's most famous footballer, being Cristiano Ronaldo, who played for Madeira club Nacional and currently plays for Real Madrid, and the Azores had prolific striker and all-time leading scorer for Portugal, Pauleta, who played for Santa Clara. This only exacerbates the ill-feeling between the clubs and the two islands.

Prior to Marítimo's October 2006 domestic league clash against Associação Naval 1º de Maio, Marítimo and fellow Madeira rivals Nacional announced that construction would begin on the brand-new, 10,000 capacity Estádio do Madeira in the nearby Praia Formosa area of Funchal. After Portuguese press released this statement, officials in the Azores also prompted for a brand new stadium in the Azores for Santa Clara, where Santa Clara and the Portuguese national team would play in. So far, Madeira's new stadium is in the works and Santa Clara's new stadium is under consideration, pending a return of Santa Clara to the first division.

Crest

Honours

  • Winners (1): 2000–2001
  • Winners (1): 1997–1998

Current squad

As of 29 July, 2011. Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Serbia GK Igor Stefanović
2 Brazil DF Guilherme
3 Portugal DF Sandro
4 Brazil DF Marcio
5 Portugal DF Nelson
6 Portugal MF André Simões
7 Portugal MF Minhoca
8 Canada MF Pedro Pacheco (Captain)
9 Portugal FW Hugo Moreira
10 Cape Verde MF Platini
11 Angola FW Valdinho
14 Portugal MF Alex
No. Position Player
16 Serbia MF Darko Djurdjevic
17 Portugal DF Edgar
18 Serbia FW Slobodan Dinčić
19 Portugal FW Pipo
21 Serbia DF Milan Ilić
22 Portugal MF Lourenço
23 Portugal GK Tiago Maia
24 France GK Brice Niclos
25 Portugal MF Paulo Grilo (on loan from Académica Coimbra)
27 Brazil DF Fernando
30 Brazil FW Sylvestre

Notable former players

Pauleta played for Santa Clara in 1991 at youth level before movng on to bigger clubs were he would become one of the best Portuguese srtikers of all time.

League and cup history

The club has spent three seasons at the top level of Portuguese football.

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Cup Notes
1982-83 3D 7 30 12 6 12 42 39 30 2nd round
1983-84 3D 7 30 12 7 11 38 32 31 2nd round
1984-85 3D 10 30 11 6 13 32 26 28 2nd round
1985-86 3D 4 30 14 8 8 34 20 36 2nd round
1986-87 3D 2 30 16 8 6 54 29 40 1st round promoted
1987-88 2D 20 38 5 13 20 19 51 23 3rd round relegated
1988-89 3D 10 34 13 9 12 35 32 35 2nd round
1989-90 3D 1 34 18 9 7 54 41 45 2nd round promoted
1990-91 2D 14 34 12 9 17 40 56 33 1st round relegated
1991-92 3D 5 34 15 9 10 55 34 39 2nd round
1992-93 3D 14 34 8 14 12 27 40 30 1st round
1993-94 3D 13 34 10 9 15 28 52 29 1st round
1994-95 3D 18 34 3 9 22 20 70 15 1st round
1995-96 3D 1 26 16 7 3 48 15 55 1st round promoted
1996-97 2D 2 34 19 6 9 67 36 63 3rd round
1997-98 2D 1 34 18 8 5 60 31 65 4th round promoted
1998-99 2H 3 34 13 13 7 53 37 55 5th round promoted
1999-00 1D 18 34 7 10 17 35 50 31 5th round relegated
2000-01 2H 1 34 20 7 7 60 37 67 3rd round promoted
2001-02 1D 14 34 9 10 15 32 46 37 5th round Best league finish
2002-03 1D 17 34 8 11 15 39 54 35 5th round relegated
2003-04 2H 13 34 11 9 14 41 44 42 3rd round
2004-05 2H 15 34 11 6 17 39 49 39 4th round
2005-06 2H 6 34 13 12 9 45 32 51 4th round
2006-07 2H 4 30 15 5 10 34 31 50 4th round
2007-08 2H 10 30 10 7 13 31 50 37 4th round
2008-09 2H 3 30 15 7 8 45 32 52 5th round
2009-10 2H 4 30 13 12 5 45 29 51 4th round
2010-11 2H 9 30 10 8 12 26 29 38 3rd round

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