S.C. Farense

Football club infobox
clubname = SC Farense


nickname = "Os Leões do Algarve
(Algarve Lion's)

fullname = Sporting Clube Farense
founded = 1910
ground = Estádio Algarve, Faro
(Algarve Stadium)
capacity = 30,000
chairman = flagicon|Portugal António Manuel Gomes Ferreira
manager = flagicon|Portugal Carlos Costa
league = Portuguese Third Division
season = 2007-2008
position = Algarve District Championship - 1st division, 1st
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SC Farense is a Portuguese association football club from Faro founded in 1910. SC Farense is the most successful club in the Algarve. The home colours are white and black.

Since competing in the UEFA Cup during season 1995/1996, the club suffered a series of misfortunes on and off the field. This culminated in ejection from the League in season 2005/2006. The club, unable to pay professional players, tried to fulfil its League fixtures with junior players. Several heavy defeats resulted in the club not fulfilling three fixtures. Under League rules this meant disqualification.

The club re-formed at the lowest level, Algarve League Division Two. This was won handsomely and the club promoted to Algarve Division One in 2006/2007 season. In 2007/2008 season the club was promoted again, this time to Portuguese Third Division.

Most home matches are played at the 30,000 seater Estádio Algarve, some six miles from Faro. Attendances reached 2,000 towards the end of 2006/2007 season, in a league where a crowd of 50 is generally considered good. The club shares the stadium with Louletano D.C.

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SC Farense stadium Estádio Algarve is a UEFA's 4-star rating and was built for UEFA Euro 2004 were it had the likes of Spain, Greece, Russian, Holland and Sweden played there which was a sellout of tickets with the stadium capacity full up with 30,000 people watching the game.

Portugal has also played 2 matches there, a friendly with England and a qualifying game for the world cup 2006 against Luxembourg.

Usually the stadium holds important portuguese matches like the Portuguese SuperCup and the Carlsberg Cup Final.

The stadium has also been used for other important events as Algarve Summer Festival and Rally de Portugal.

Notable Famous Players

*flagicon|Portugal Carlos Fernandes
*flagicon|Portugal Bruno Alves
*flagicon|Portugal Fábio Felício
*flagicon|Portugal Ricardo Vaz Té
*flagicon|Brazil José Carlos da Costa Araújo
*flagicon|England Peter Eastoe
*flagicon|Morocco Hassan Nader
*flagicon|Nigeria Henry Makinwa
*flagicon|Nigeria Peter Rufai
*flagicon|Romania Lucian Marinescu
*flagicon|Yugoslavia Milonja Djukic
*flagicon|Zambia Perry Mutapa

League and Cup History

1D: Portuguese Liga and predecessors (1st level)

2H: Liga de Honra (2nd level)

2D: Portuguese Second Division, Southern Zone (pre-1991: 2nd level; post-1991: 3rd level)

3D: Portuguese Third Division, Group F (pre-1991: 3rd level; post-1991: 4th level)

1Dist: Portuguese 1st Regional Championship, Algarve FA championship (5th level)

2Dist: Portuguese 2nd Regional Championship, Algarve FA championship (6th level)