G.D. Chaves

GD Chaves

Full name	Grupo Desportivo de Chaves
Founded	1949
Ground	Estádio Municipal de Chaves, Chaves (Capacity: 22,000)
Chairman	Marcelo Delgado
Manager	Tulipa
League	Liga de Honra
2009–10	Liga de Honra, 15th (Relegated)
Home colours Away colours

Grupo Desportivo de Chaves, commonly known as just Chaves, is a Portuguese football club from Chaves currently playing in the Liga de Honra. They were founded in 1949 and currently play at Estádio Municipal de Chaves with a capacity of 19,000 one of the biggest in the Liga de Honra. Their home kit is red and blue striped t-shirt with blue shorts and socks and the away kit is all white. Their current president is Mário Carneiro and their current manager is Tulipa. In the 2007/08 season they finished 4th just missing out on promotion to the Liga de Honra. GD Chaves have been in the Portuguese First Division 13 times and have done expectionally well finishing 5th in the 1989/90 season which was their best ever finish. They went to Europe in the 1987/88 season where they played in the UEFA Cup where they beat the Romanian team Universitatea Craiova in the first round but lost in the next round to Hungarian team Budapest Honvéd. Their current stadium, Estádio Municipal de Chaves, normally hosts the national teams youth games and rarely the senior national team; however, the stadium is famous because it held the debut of Cristiano Ronaldo for the senior national team.

History

Grupo Desportivo de Chaves was founded on the 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 Portuguese Liga, doing quite well and playing in European tournaments, such as the UEFA Cup. Their best ever finish was in the Portuguese Liga when they finished in fifth place twice in 1986–87 and 1989–90, where in the 1986–87 season, they had fantastic results, beating Portuguese giants Sporting Clube de Portugal 2–1 at home in a memorable night at the Estádio Municipal de Chaves stadium. 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 got relegated again 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 win, 1–0 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 and the final was to determine the champion of the Second Division. Fátima won the match 2–1 and were rewarded with champions of the Second Division for the 2008–09 season as Chaves became runners-up for the season and will play in the Liga de Honra for the 2009–10 season.

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 GD Chaves. The stadium is able to hold 22,000 people. The stadium normally holds the national teams youth games and also some U-21 games and also the senior team but rarely. This stadium is famous because it is where Cristiano Ronaldo made his senior international debut.

Honours

• Portuguese Second Division: Runners-up 2008–09
• Portuguese Cup: Runners-up 2009–10

Current squad

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 2 DF Danilo 3 MF Ibrahima Sangare 4 DF Ricardo Rocha 6 DF Nélson 7 FW Vitor Silva 8 MF Flávio Ígor 10 MF Carlos Pinto 11 DF Samson 14 MF Castanheira 15 FW Clemente 18 MF Bruno Magalhães 19 DF Vítor Pereira

No. Position Player 21 FW Mbaye Diop 22 MF Ediclei Pantoja 23 DF Eduardo 26 MF Siaka Bamba 30 DF Lameirão 44 DF Hesley 48 GK Daniel Casaleiro 69 FW Cássio 77 MF João Fernandes 78 GK Rui Rego 99 FW Karim Rouani

Backroom staff

• Tulipa - Manager
• António Vieira - Assistant Manager
• Carlos Pires - Goalkeeper Coach
• Miguel Moita - Fitness Coach
• João Ribeiro - Doctor
• Gualter - Nurse
• Francisco - Nurse
• José Luís - Kitman
• Marcos Barroco - Secretary
• António Ramos - Office of Communication and Information
• Hernâni Teixeira - Vice Chairman
• António Vidal - Vice Chairman
• Carlos Alves - Vice Chairman
• Gilberto Ferreira - Vice Chairman
• Jorge Campo Grande - Vice Chairman
• Artur Dias - Vice Chairman
• Marcelo Delgado - Chairman

Notable former players

Carlos Carvalhal Diogo Valente João Alves Vermelhinho Anthony da Silva Nuno Miguel Gomes Rui Lima Nuno Rocha Rui Correia Vítor Pereira Areias Beto Youssef Haraoui

Hilário Leal Auri Gustavo Manduca Pedro Geromel Roberto Marco Claúdio Cássio Georgi Slavkov Radoslav Zdravkov Plamen Getov Kabwe Kasongo Etienne N'tsunda Owusu Afriyie

Inzaghi Donígio Moussa Yahaya Marcel Sabou Lucian Marinescu Ibón Pérez Arrieta David Casablanca Carlos Álvarez Toniño Ulf Ottosson Leonson Lewis

Notable former managers

• Rogério Gonçalves
• Augusto Inácio
• Henrique Calisto
• Álvaro Magalhães
• António Caldas
• Raul Águas
• José Alberto Costa
• Nuno Pinto

Club Anthem

O Desportivo de Chaves
Saibam bem toda a gente
Supera os maiores entraves
Para caminhar na frente

Os longos anos de Vida
São louros que arrecadou
A luta franca e renhida
Que o Povo sempre aclamou

Vamos rapazes ganhar
Com o calor desta Malta
O jogo que pode dar
A vitória que nos falta

Somos de Chaves Unidos
Como Valentes Serranos
Jamais seremos vencidos
Porque somos Transmontanos

O Desportivo de Chaves
Meu clube prazenteiro
Joga sempre como sabe
E serás sempre o Primeiro

Trago o teu nome no peito
E na Alma o teu guiar
Por isso te vejo eleito
Verdadeiro Campeão

Europe

• UEFA Cup 1987–88
• 16/09 Universitatea Craiova 2–3 Chaves
• 30/09 Chaves 3–1 Universitatea Craiova
• 24/10 Chaves 1–2 Budapest Honvéd
• 04/11 Budapest Honvéd 3–1 Chaves

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	30	11	7	12	28	38	29
1986–87	1D	5	30	13	7	10	39	38	33
1987–88	1D	7	38	13	14	11	51	31	40		Round 2
1988–89	1D	13	38	12	10	16	37	41	34
1989–90	1D	5	34	12	14	8	38	38	38
1990–91	1D	8	38	10	14	14	49	52	34
1991–92	1D	9	34	10	10	14	36	45	30
1992–93	1D	18	34	4	8	22	34	61	16			Relegated
1993–94	2H	3	34	19	7	8	44	25	45			Promoted
1994–95	1D	14	34	10	7	17	33	49	27
1995–96	1D	15	34	9	7	8	38	56	34
1996–97	1D	10	34	12	10	12	39	45	46
1997–98	1D	16	34	10	5	19	31	55	35
1998–99	1D	17	34	5	10	19	39	70	25
1999–00	2H	12	34	11	11	12	46	45	44
2000–01	2H	12	34	9	14	11	48	44	41
2001–02	2H	5	34	16	4	14	52	44	52
2002–03	2H	7	34	12	11	11	44	41	47
2003–04	2H	10	34	11	11	12	37	45	44
2004–05	2H	17	34	9	10	15	24	38	37
2005–06	2H	8	34	13	11	10	40	36	50	Round 2
2006–07	2H	16	30	3	7	20	16	43	16	Round 3		Relegated
2007–08	2HA	4	26	12	8	6	4	17	44	Round 3

External links

• GD Chaves official site (Portuguese)
• ZeroZero GD Chaves profile & stats (Portuguese)