Vitória F.C.

Vitória F.C.

Football club infobox
clubname = Vitória de Setúbal


fullname = Vitória Futebol Clube
nickname = "Os Sadinos"
(Those from the Sado River)
"O Velho Senhor"
(The Old Sir)
founded = November 20, 1910
ground = Estádio do Bonfim, Setúbal
capacity = 21,530 / 18,728 (UEFA)
chairman = flagicon|Portugal Luís Lourenço
mgrtitle = Head Coach
manager = flagicon|Portugal Daúto Faquirá
league = BWINLIGA
season = 2007-08
position = BWINLIGA, 6th
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Vitória Futebol Clube is a Portuguese sports club from Setúbal. Popularly known as Vitória de Setúbal (pron. IPA2|vi'tɔɾiɐ dɨ sɨ'tubaɫ, the club was born under the project name Sport Victoria from the ashes of the small Bonfim Foot-Ball Club. Today's club was established on November 20, 1910 under the name Victoria Foot-Ball Club (later changed to the present Portuguese spelling) with the motto "A Vitória será nossa" (Victory shall be ours).

Honours & achievements

Portuguese Liga
*Runners-up - 1971–72

Liga de Honra
*Runners-up - 1995-96, 2003-04

Portuguese Cup
*Winners - 1964-65, 1966-67, 2004-05
*Runners-up - 1926-27, 1942-43, 1953-54, 1961-62, 1965-66, 1967-68, 1972-73, 2005-06

League Cup
*Winners - 2007-08

SuperCup Cândido de Oliveira
*Runners-up - 2005, 2006

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
* 2nd round - 1967-69

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup/UEFA Cup
*Quarter-finalists - 1968-69, 1970-71, 1972-73, 1973-74

Golden decade

The years from 1964 to 1974 may be considered Vitória's golden decade. In 1964/65 and 1966/67 Vitória won the Cup of Portugal, managing to win it again in 2004/05. Those victories, resulting from ten presences in the competition finals ("Final da Taça de Portugal"), are among the club's greatest achievements.Vitória also had several 3rd place finishes and a remarkable 2nd place in the 1971/72 National Championship. Back then, Vitória had some of the best Portuguese football players ever, like Jacinto João, José Torres and Vítor Baptista.

Still, in the most remarkable season of all time for Vitória the club earned merely a 3rd place: In the 1973/74 season Vitória de Setúbal ended 4 points behind the Champion, (Sporting, with Golden Boot winner who holds the record for the most goals scored in one season in Portugal, Yazalde), and 2 points behind the runner-up (Benfica with their best player ever, Eusébio). Despite that, people of Setúbal still argue that if Pedroto (the most successful manager to ever command the "Sadinos") had not left the team in the middle of the season, Vitória FC would have had overcome its giant opponents and would have gone on to become the National Champion for the first time.

In those years Vitória disputed and won several tournaments around the world. Nowadays, the club is fighting to reach that kind of performance, inspired by the recent Portuguese Cup conquest and subsequent Iberian Cup, as well as the debut edition of the Portuguese League Cup, earning four presences in the UEFA cup in the past ten seasons.

The 8th Army

The club supporters are known as "Vitorianos" or "Sadinos". In 1943 on the occasion of Vitória's first Cup of Portugal final against Benfica, thousands of people from Setúbal invaded Lisbon and, notwithstanding the defeat by the score of 1-5, celebrated in a demonstration of fair play. In the next day's press, the people from Setúbal were nicknamed "8ºExército" (the 8th Army) because of their massive following of the team, ending in a final journey to Lisbon -- all this in comparison with the British Eighth Army and its World War II massive campaign in Africa. Referring to this in the late 1990s, the first official supporters' association was baptized "VIII Exército". They show great dedication to the club and are recognized as one of the most orderly supporters in Portugal.Fact|date=August 2008 There used to be another supporters' association, the "Furacões Sadinos" which ceased to exist in 2007. They co-existed in peace with the "VIII Exército".

Derby: Vitória F.C. vs Vitória S.C.

There is a traditional quarrel between Vitória de Guimarães and Vitória de Setúbal, with both teams claiming to be "the" one and only "Vitória", the other being solely named "the" "Guimarães" or "the" "Setúbal" with a curl of the lip. The matches are somewhat tense but not violent, with both clubs contesting who has the higher number of supporters. Nevertheless the quarrelsomeness is bigger on the Vitória de Guimarães side, since the club is 12 years younger and, as they wrote in their history books, the people from Guimarães adopted the name "Vitoria" as a tribute to Vitória de Setúbal, who at the time was capturing the attention of the country due the quality of the football team. [cite web |url=http://vitoriasc.pt/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=44 |title=Existia já nessa ocasião o Vitória de Setúbal que nesse ano se encontrava em grande forma e, por conseguinte, o nome foi resolvido ser o mesmo com a modificação nas finais: Vitória Sport Clube. |publisher=Vitória Sport Clube |date=September 18, 2007 |accessdate=2008-08-11] So they slightly changed the name to «Vitória Sport Clube» because «Vitória Futebol Clube» was already chosen by the Setúbal side.

Present and future

New stadium

The Estádio do Bonfim stadium was inaugurated during the club's 50th anniversary commemorations on September 16 1962, with a capacity of >35,000, reduced to 21,530 when plastic seatings were placed. With rare exceptions the additional room for 2,800 standing spectators (1,400 behind each goal) has been closed since some years ago because attendances do not justify it anymore. Furthermore UEFA officially recognizes only the 18,728 seating places; eitherway, since 2006, the stadium is not allowed to be used for official international games, due to its decaying condition. There are plans underway for a new stadium. The new stadium is expected to be completed by the centennial commemoration in November 20 2010.

The financial situation is very shaky, as seen on the first half of the 2005/06 season, when the whole team had several months of wages delayed, a situation which led to the resigning of the then manager, Luis Norton de Matos. The club has been experiencing many financial difficulties since the Carnation Revolution which brought an economic disaster to the Setúbal region with its mass layoffs and industrial collapse. Thus the stadium never saw significant repairs for lack of funds. Each year the stadium feels more uncomfortable and attendances keep on dimishing [http://european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/2000/avepor.htm] while others rise [http://www.eufootball.biz/Marketing/1664.html] . Gone are the times when more than 35,000 jostled in the stadium every weekend.

There is festering resentment in the hearts of the "Vitorianos", as they experienced rejection in their quest for a place among the Portuguese cities awarded with new stadia for the Euro 2004 in favour of the wealthier tourist regions with smaller clubs but more influence on the political scene (the Leiria Stadium, the Aveiro Stadium and the Algarve Stadium). These three stadiums are nowadays known in Portugal as the "White Elephants" on account of being luxury stadia for meagre attendances [http://www.soccerstats.com/2khcrowd.asp?league=portugal&homeaway=3] [http://www.fussballtempel.net/uefa/POR.html] [http://relvado.aeiou.pt/gen.pl?p=stories&op=view&fokey=rv.stories/54177] [http://www.observatoriodoalgarve.com/cna/noticias_ver.asp?noticia=10837] . Furthermore, there never was a Superliga team playing at Algarve Stadium as its seeded home.

Latest news and achievements

2004-05 season

*Cup of Portugal

*UEFA Cup

Since FC Porto assured the league title and a spot in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League, in 2006-07 Vitória played the Portuguese Super Cup and the UEFA Cup as well.

In the apex of a crisis which could have lead to the end of Vitória Futebol Clube, chairman Jorge Santana da Silva resigned. Interim presidency was assumed by Carlos Costa.

Top level maintenance secured

After one of the hardest end of seasons for the Setúbal side ever, Vitória secured his presence in the top-flight level of Portuguese football. Following two managerial resigns, and a situation of financial impossibility to hire a manager, Carlos Cardoso, former Vitória F.C. golden era player and resident interim manager, was called once again to save his first and only club. In the end of the last and decisive game of this season, Carlos Cardoso stated: "I will continue to serve Vitória, after all I have a contract for some years more. If I will remain as first manager? I don't know, that will be discussed. After five painful months I feel a bit tired. I want to return to my resident coach post, always ready to help whenever is needed" [ [http://www.maisfutebol.iol.pt/noticia.php?div_id=2400&id=811166 Maisfutebol online news] , [ 2007/05/20 | 22:00 ] ]

2007-08 Season

Carlos Carvalhal accepted the invitation from chairman Carlos Costa and was the manager for this season: "I said «yes» because Vitória is a grand club with enormous prestige and I could not refuse an invitation from chairman Carlos Costa. When I left the club three years ago (...) I sealed a compromise with Carlos Costa, that would he reenter the club, I would do the same", "I was asked to put effort in restructuring the club from formation sectors to professional football" ["in" Diário Desportivo, 2007 May 24]

Following a terrible 2006-07 season, Vitória engaged in an opposite performance, reaching a remarkable 4th place when only 7 rounds were left in the season, reaching again the Portuguese Cup semi-finals and conquering the Portuguese League Cup in its debut season, leaving behind Gondomar, Braga, Benfica, Penafiel, Beira Mar and Sporting with 2 draws and 6 wins. President Carlos Costa and manager Carlos Carvalhal were considered pivotal characters in the club's renovationFact|date=August 2008. In this 2007-08 season, the new stadium was also confirmed to be built by 2010. [cite web |url=http://noticias.sapo.pt/lusa/artigo/9958bd1c354e0a1a141818.html |title=Desporto: Vitória de Setúbal - Projecto do novo estádio é entregue quinta-feira na autarquia |publisher=Lusa/Fim |date=February 20, 2008 |accessdate=2008-08-11]

*Portuguese League Cup

Current squad

Notable former players

PORTUGAL
*flagicon|Portugal Bruno Gama
*flagicon|Portugal Bruno Ribeiro
*flagicon|Portugal Carlitos
*flagicon|Portugal Diamantino
*flagicon|Portugal Edinho
*flagicon|Portugal Félix Mourinho
*flagicon|Portugal Hugo
*flagicon|Portugal Jacinto João
*flagicon|Portugal José Fonte
*flagicon|Portugal José Torres
*flagicon|Portugal Marco Ferreira
*flagicon|Portugal Octávio Machado
*flagicon|Portugal Paulo Ferreira
*flagicon|Portugal Ricardo Carvalho
*flagicon|Portugal Silvestre Varela
*flagicon|Portugal Vítor BaptistaEUROPE
*flagicon|Bulgaria Stoycho Mladenov
*flagicon|Croatia Branko Miljuš
*flagicon|Croatia Tomislav Ivković
*flagicon|France Siramana Dembélé
*flagicon|Serbia Nikola Milojević
*flagicon|Serbia Vlada Stošic
*flagicon|Spain ToñitoAFRICA
*flagicon|Benin Oumar Tchomogo
*flagicon|Cameroon Émile Mbamba
*flagicon|Cameroon Albert Meyong Zé
*flagicon|Cape Verde Sandro
*flagicon|Cape Verde Janício
*flagicon|Ghana Kwame Ayew
*flagicon|Mozambique Chiquinho Conde
*flagicon|Nigeria Kevin Amuneke
*flagicon|Nigeria Rashidi Yekini
*flagicon|Senegal Modou Sougou
*flagicon|South Africa Eric TinklerAMERICA
*flagicon|Argentina Carlos Bossio
*flagicon|Argentina Cesar La Paglia
*flagicon|Brazil Sérgio Araújo
*flagicon|Brazil Auri
*flagicon|Brazil Jorginho
*flagicon|Brazil Marcelo Moretto
*flagicon|Brazil Bruno Moraes
*flagicon|Brazil Rubinho
*flagicon|Brazil Cláudio Pitbull
*flagicon|Trinidad and Tobago Aurtis WhitleyASIA
*flagicon|Azerbaijan Vali Gasimov
*flagicon|South Korea Kim Byung-Suk

UEFA ranking

Club Ranking 2007 eligible for season 2008/09 (Previous year rank in italics, UEFA Club Coefficients in parentheses)
* 127 (16.640)
* 128 (16.415)
* 129 ("146") flagicon|Portugal Vitória F.C. (16.107)
* 130 (16.107)
* 131 (16.107)
* [http://kassiesa.com/uefabackup/data/method3/trank2007.html Full List]

Coaches

*(1987) flagicon|ENG Stuart Baxter
*(1994 - 1995) flagicon|Portugal Diamantino Miranda
*(1995 - 1996 June) flagicon|Portugal Quinito
*(1996 June - 1997 January 29) flagicon|Portugal Mário Reis
*(1997 March 4 - 1997 November 11) flagicon|Portugal Manuel Fernandes
*(1997 November 12 - 1998 April 6) flagicon|Spain José António "El Tigre" Barrios
*(1998 - 1999) flagicon|Portugal Carlos Cardoso
*(1999 - 2000 October 02) flagicon|Portugal Rui Águas
*(2000 October 04 - 2002 January 22) flagicon|Portugal Jorge Jesus
*(2002 January 22 - 2003 February 23) flagicon|Portugal Luís Campos
*(2003 February 24 - 2003 April 8) flagicon|Portugal Diamantino Miranda
*(2003 April 9 - 2003 June) flagicon|Portugal Carlos Cardoso ("interim")
*(2003 June - 2004 June) flagicon|Portugal Carlos Carvalhal
*(2004 June - 2005 January) flagicon|Portugal José Couceiro
*(2005 January - 2005 May) flagicon|Portugal José Rachão
*(2005 June - 2005 December) flagicon|Portugal Luís Norton de Matos
*(2005 December - 2006 September) flagicon|Portugal Hélio Filipe Sousa
*(2006 September - 2006 December) flagicon|Portugal Toni
*(2006 December - 2007 May 23) flagicon|Portugal Carlos Cardoso ("interim")
*(2007 May 23 - 2008 May 14) flagicon|Portugal Carlos Carvalhal
*(2008 May 18 - "2010 May") flagicon|Mozambique Daúto Faquirá

Other sports

Vitória's sports departments besides the football section:

Handball

Rugby

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.vfc.pt/ Official website] pt icon
* [http://www.vitoriafc.com/ Unofficial website] pt icon
* [http://www.forumvfc.com/index.php Netvitorianos, unofficial forum] pt icon
* [http://www.vitoria.forumup.com/ Unofficial forum] pt icon
* [http://www.vitoriafc.no.sapo.pt/ Unofficial website, under construction]
* [http://www.viiiexercito.com/ Supporters website]
* [http://www.vfc.pt/modalidades/futebol/equipa_a_plantel Current squad] pt icon


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