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Vitória de Setúbal
Full name	Vitória Futebol Clube
Nickname(s)	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	Carlos Costa
Head Coach	Carlos Carvalhal
League	BWINLIGA
2007-08	BWINLIGA, 6th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Vitória Futebol Clube is a Portuguese sports club from Setúbal. Popularly known as Vitória de Setúbal (pron. IPA: [vi'tɔɾiɐ dɨ sɨ'tubaɫ], 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).

Contents 1 Golden decade 2 European Shocks 2.1 Best European Seasons 3 The 8th Army 4 Vitória F.C. vs Vitória S.C. 5 New Stadium 6 Latest news and achievements 6.1 2004-05 Season 6.2 2005-06 Season 6.3 2006-07 Season 6.3.1 Top level maintenance secured 6.4 2007-08 Season 7 Honours 7.1 Current squad 7.2 Transfers 2008/09 7.3 Notable Former Players 8 League and Cup History 8.1 UEFA Ranking 8.2 Coaches 9 Other sports 9.1 Handball 9.2 Rugby 9.3 Footnotes 10 External links

[edit] Golden decade

The years from 1964 to 1974 may be considered Vitória's golden decade. In 1964/65 and 1966/67 Vitória won two Cup of Portugal, and another one was recently won 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. But Vitória had also 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, making history with its quality of game, a wonder to football fans. Nowadays, the club is fighting to reach that kind of performance, inspired in the recent Portuguese cup conquest, as well the Iberian cup against Real Betis, and the three presences in the UEFA cup in the past six years.

[edit] European Shocks

Despite never winning the UEFA Cup, Vitória are always considered dangerous opposition. They are four times quarter-finalists, having defeated such teams as Liverpool, Fiorentina, Anderlecht, Internazionale and Leeds United.

[edit] Best European Seasons

Cup Winners' Cup 1967/68

• 1/16 Fredrikstad FK (NOR) - Vitória Setúbal 1-5 / 1-2
• 1/8 Bayern München (FRG) - Vitória Setúbal 6-2 / 1-1

UEFA Cup 1968/69

• 1/32 Vitória Setúbal - Linfield (NIR) 3-0 / 3-1
• 1/16 Vitória Setúbal - Olympique Lyon (FRA) 5-0 / 2-1
• 1/8 Vitória Setúbal - Fiorentina (ITA) 3-0 / 1-2
• 1/4 Newcastle United (ENG) - Vitória Setúbal 5-1 / 1-3

1969/70

• 1/32 Vitória Setúbal - Rapid Bucharest (ROM) 3-1 / 4-1
• 1/16 Vitória Setúbal - Liverpool (ENG) 1-0 / 2-3
• 1/8 Vitória Setúbal - Hertha Berlin (FRG) 1-1 / 0-1

1970/71

• 1/32 Lausanne (CHE) - Vitória Setúbal 0-2 / 1-2
• 1/16 Vitória Setúbal - Hajduk Split (YUG) 2-0 / 1-2
• 1/8 Anderlecht (BEL) - Vitória Setúbal 2-1 / 1-3
• 1/4 Leeds United (ENG) - Vitória Setúbal 2-1 / 1-1

1971/72

• 1/32 Vitória Setúbal - Nîmes Olympique (FRA) 1-0 / 1-2
• 1/16 Spartak Moscow (USR) - Vitória Setúbal 0-0 / 0-4
• 1/8 UT Arad (ROM) - Vitória Setúbal 3-0 / 0-1

1972/73

• 1/32 Vitória Setúbal - Zagłębie Sosnowiec (POL) 6-1 / 0-1
• 1/16 Vitória Setúbal - Fiorentina (ITA) 1-0 / 1-2
• 1/8 Vitória Setúbal - Inter Milán (ITA) 2-0 / 0-1
• 1/4 Tottenham Hotspur (ENG) - Vitória Setúbal 1-0 / 1-2

1973/74

• 1/32 Vitória Setúbal - Beerschot (BEL) 2-0 / 2-0
• 1/16 Vitória Setúbal - RWD Molenbeek (BEL) 1-0 / 1-2
• 1/8 Leeds United (ENG) - Vitória Setúbal 1-0 / 1-3
• 1/4 Stuttgart (FRG) - Vitória Setúbal 1-0 / 2-2

[edit] 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 8º Exército (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 organized supporters in Portugal [www.viiiexercito.com].

[edit] 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 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. So they changed the name to «Vitória Sport Clube» because «Vitória Futebol Clube» was already chosen by the Setúbal side.

[edit] 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 20th 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 April 25th's Coup d'État 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 [1] while others rise [2].

[edit] Latest news and achievements

[edit] 2004-05 Season

• Cup of Portugal

	Final
	May 25, 2005	SL Benfica	1 – 2 (1-0)	Vitória de Setúbal	17:00	Estádio Nacional

[edit] 2005-06 Season

• Iberic Cup 2005

	July 28, 2005	Bétis Sevilla	1 – 2 (0-2)	Vitória de Setúbal	22:15 CET	Estádio Blás Infante, Ayamonte (Spain)

• Portuguese SuperCup 2005

	August 13, 2005	SL Benfica	1 – 0 (0-0)	Vitória de Setúbal	21:00	Estádio do Algarve

• UEFA Cup

	First Round
	September 15, 2005	Vitória de Setúbal	1 – 1 (0-1)	Sampdoria	17:00	Estádio do Bonfim
	September 29, 2005	Sampdoria	1 – 0 (0-0)	Vitória de Setúbal	20:45 CET	Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa (Italy)

• Cup of Portugal

	Final
	May 14, 2006	FC Porto	1 – 0 (1-0)	Vitória de Setúbal	17:00	Estádio Nacional

[edit] 2006-07 Season

• Portuguese SuperCup 2006

	August 19, 2006	FC Porto	3 – 0 (0-0)	Vitória de Setúbal	21:00	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa

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 may lead to the end of Vitória Futebol Clube, according with the official site, chairman Jorge Santana da Silva resigns. Interim presidency is assumed by Carlos Costa.

[edit] Top level maintenance secured

After one of the hardest end of seasons for the Setúbal side ever, Vitória secures his presence in the top-flight level of Portuguese football. After 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"^[1]

[edit] 2007-08 Season

Vitória F.C. will play again in the Portuguese Liga. Carlos Carvalhal accepted the invitation from chairman Carlos Costa and will be 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"^[2]

Following a bad 2006-07 season, Vitória engaged in an opposite performance, reaching a remarkable 4th place when only 7 rounds are 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 are appointed as the mentors of this renewed club. In this 2007-08 season, the new stadium was also confirmed to be built by 2010.

• Portuguese League Cup

	Final
	March 22, 2008	Vitória de Setúbal	0 – 0 (3-2 ps)	Sporting	20:30	Estádio do Algarve

[edit] Honours

• Portuguese Liga
• Runners-up 1972
• Third place 1970,1973,1974

• Portuguese Cup 1965,1967,2005
• Runners Up 1927,1943,1954,1962,1966,1968,1973,2006

• Portuguese League Cup 2008

• Portuguese SuperCup
• Runners Up 2005,2006

• Liga de Honra
• Runners Up 1996,2004
• Third place 2001

[edit] Current squad

No. Position Player 1 GK Marco Tábuas 2 DF Luís Portela 3 DF Hugo 4 DF Robson 6 MF Sandro 7 FW Bruno Gama 8 MF Elias 10 MF Filipe Gonçalves 11 MF Bruno Ribeiro 13 DF Adalto 14 DF Janício 15 DF Auri

No. Position Player 16 MF Ricardo Chaves 17 DF Jorginho 18 MF Paulinho 19 FW Leandro 21 FW Moisés 25 GK Nikola Milojević 28 FW Bruno Severino 30 MF Kim Byung-Suk 87 FW Cláudio Pitbulll - DF Aly Cissokho - FW Laionel

[edit] Transfers 2008/09

In:

• Aly Cissokho - Gueugnon
• Laionel - Boavista

Total spending: ▼

Out:

Total income: ▲

[edit] Notable Former Players

Jacinto João José Torres Diamantino Vítor Baptista Hugo Bruno Ribeiro Bruno Gama Silvestre Varela Carlitos Edinho Cesar La Paglia Vali Gasimov Oumar Tchomogo Auri Cláudio Pitbull Marcelo Moretto Jorginho Bruno Moraes Claudio Pitbull Stoycho Mladenov Émile Mbamba

Albert Meyong Zé Sandro Janício Tomislav Ivković Kwame Ayew Kevin Amuneke Modou Sougou Nikola Milojević Eric Tinkler Kim Byung-Suk Aurtis Whitley Rashidi Yekini

[edit] League and Cup History

With the 2007-08 season, the club will complete 60 presences at the top level of Portuguese football.

Season	Echelon	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe		Notes
1918-19	Lisbon	3	8	5	0	3	11	10	10	non-existent yet
1919-20	Lisbon	4	7	2	1	4	8	11	5	non-existent yet
1920-21	Lisbon	6	6	1	3	2	7	8	5	non-existent yet
1921-22	not enrolled	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-
1922-23	not enrolled	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1923-24	Lisbon	1	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	quarter-finalist
1924-25	Lisbon	0	0	0	0	8	7	27	0	not qualified
1925-26	Lisbon	4	14	8	2	4	34	23	18	not qualified
1926-27	Lisbon	1								runner-up			Setúbal region created
1927-28	Setúbal	1								semi-finalist
1928-29	Setúbal	1								semi-finalist
1929-30	Setúbal									quarter-finalist
1930-31	Setúbal	1								semi-finalist
1931-32	Setúbal	1								last 16
1933-33	Setúbal	1								semi-finalist
1933-34	Setúbal	1								semi-finalist
1934-35	1	5	14	7	2	5	26	24	16	quarter-finalist			Regional Champion
1935-36	1	5	14	7	2	5	32	26	16	quarter-finalist			Regional Champion
1936-37	1	7	14	3	1	10	18	45	7	quarter-finalist			relegated (national) Regional Champion
1937-38	2									last 16
1938-39	2									not qualified			promoted
1939-40	1	10	18	1	3	14	7	67	5	last 16			relegated (national)
1940-41	2									not qualified
1941-42	2									not qualified
1942-43	2									runner-up			promoted
1943-44	1	7	18	7	3	8	52	50	17	quarter-finalist			Regional Champion
1944-45	1	5	18	9	1	8	44	49	19	semi-finalist			Regional Champion
1945-46	1	7	22	8	2	12	47	59	18	last 16			Regional Champion
1946-47	1	12	26	8	4	14	45	50	20	not held due to overscheduling			Regional Champion
1947-48	1	10	26	8	3	15	38	64	19	last 32			Regional Championship abolished
1948-49	1	12	26	8	4	14	39	61	20	semi-finalist
1949-50	1	10	26	10	3	13	50	70	23	not held due to Latin Cup
1950-51	1	12	26	8	4	14	31	58	20	last 16			relegated
1951-52	2									not qualified			promoted
1952-53	1	6	26	11	5	10	40	33	27	last 16
1953-54	1	12	26	7	4	15	51	66	18	runner-up
1954-55	1	8	26	8	6	12	37	52	22	last 16
1955-56	1	9	26	7	6	13	57	64	20	last 32
1956-57	1	10	26	8	4	14	40	59	20	semi-finalist
1957-58	1	11	26	9	4	13	37	59	22	quarter-finalist
1958-59	1	6	26	11	5	10	53	64	27	last 32
1959-60	1	13	26	5	8	13	26	52	18	last 32			relegated
1960-61	2									quarter-finalist
1961-62	2									runner-up			promoted
1962-63	1	9	26	6	8	12	33	39	20	last 64	CWC	preliminary round
1963-64	1	7	26	12	5	9	46	41	29	quarter-finalist
1964-65	1	6	26	15	2	9	61	30	32	winner
1965-66	1	5	26	11	7	8	51	36	29	runner-up	CWC	1st round
1966-67	1	5	26	10	7	9	27	25	27	winner	FC	2nd round
1967-68	1	5	26	14	6	6	43	20	34	runner-up	CWC	2nd round
1968-69	1	4	26	13	9	4	45	20	35	last 32	FC	quarter-final	Cup open to all divisions
1969-70	1	3	26	16	4	6	58	26	36	last 32	FC	3rd round
1970-71	1	4	26	15	4	7	51	16	34	semi-finalist	FC	quarter-final
1971-72	1	2	30	17	11	2	62	16	45	quarter-finalist	UC	2nd round	best classification ever
1972-73	1	3	30	16	6	8	65	26	38	runner-up	UC	quarter-final
1973-74	1	3	30	19	7	4	69	21	45	last 32	UC	quarter-final	greatest number of wins
1974-75	1	7	30	11	7	12	48	36	29	quarter-finalist	UC	1st round
1975-76	1	9	30	8	10	12	39	42	26	semi-finalist
1976-77	1	6	30	13	6	11	47	46	32	last 16
1977-78	1	9	30	8	10	12	29	40	26	last 32
1978-79	1	7	30	12	7	11	38	38	31	2nd round
1979-80	1	12	30	9	5	16	29	41	23	quarter-finalist
1980-81	1	7	30	9	11	10	30	30	29	semi-finalist
1981-82	1	8	30	9	10	11	30	35	28	3rd round
1982-83	1	7	30	12	5	13	29	33	29	2nd round
1983-84	1	5	30	13	8	9	43	28	34	last 32
1984-85	1	11	30	7	11	12	35	50	25	2nd round
1985-86	1	14	30	7	8	15	32	42	22	last 32			relegated
1986-87	2									2nd round			promoted
1987-88	1	8	38	15	10	13	56	43	40	last 32
1988-89	1	5	38	15	12	11	44	37	42	3rd round
1989-90	1	7	34	14	8	12	39	34	36	quarter-finalist
1990-91	1	17	38	11	10	17	53	53	32	last 32			relegated
1991-92	2	5	34	17	5	12	48	35	39	last 32
1992-93	2	3	34	17	13	4	69	30	47	last 16			promoted
1993-94	1	6	34	14	6	14	56	42	34	last 16
1994-95	1	18	34	3	13	18	25	45	19	semi-finalist			relegated
1995-96	2	2	34	18	8	8	55	22	62	last 32			promoted
1996-97	1	12	34	10	10	14	38	42	40	last 16
1997-98	1	13	34	10	7	17	38	43	37	last 64
1998-99	1	5	34	15	8	11	37	38	53	semi-final
1999-00	1	16	34	9	6	19	25	49	33	last 32	UC	1st round	relegated
2000-01	2	3	34	19	7	8	64	41	64	4th round			promoted
2001-02	1	13	34	9	11	14	40	46	38	last 32
2002-03	1	18	34	6	13	15	40	53	31	quarter-final			relegated
2003-04	2	2	34	18	10	6	66	41	64	last 16			promoted
2004-05	1	10	34	11	11	12	46	45	44	winner
2005-06	1	8	34	14	4	16	28	33	46	runner-up	UC	1st round
2006-07	1	14	30	5	9	16	21	45	24	4th round	UC	1st round
2007-08	1	4	23	9	10	4	31	22	37	semi-final			Won League Cup; season ongoing.

[edit] UEFA Ranking

Club Ranking for 2007 (Previous year rank in italics, UEFA Club Coefficients in parentheses)

• 131 (new) S.V. Zulte-Waregem (15.594)
• 132 (144) K.R.C. Genk (15.594)
• 133 (146) Vitória F.C. (15.392)
• 134 (131) C.S. Marítimo (15.392)
• 135 (141) U.D. Leiria (15.392)
• Full List

[edit] Coaches

• (1987) Malcolm Allison
• (1994 - 1995) Diamantino Miranda
• (1995 - 1996 June) Quinito
• (1996 June - 1997 January 29) Mário Reis
• (1997 March 4 - 1997 November 11) Manuel Fernandes
• (1997 November 12 - 1998 April 6) José António "El Tigre" Barrios
• (1998 - 1999) Carlos Cardoso
• (1999 - 2000 October 2) Rui Águas
• (2000 October 4 - 2002 January 22) Jorge Jesus
• (2002 January 22 - 2003 February 23) Luís Campos
• (2003 February 24 - 2003 April 8) Diamantino Miranda
• (2003 April 9 - 2003 June) Carlos Cardoso (interim)
• (2003 June - 2004 June) Carlos Carvalhal
• (2004 June - 2005 January) José Couceiro
• (2005 January - 2005 May) José Rachão
• (2005 June - 2005 December) Luís Norton de Matos
• (2005 December - 2006 September) Hélio Filipe Sousa
• (2006 September - 2006 December) Toni
• (2006 December - 2007 May 23) Carlos Cardoso (interim)
• (2007 May 23 -) Carlos Carvalhal

[edit] Other sports

Vitória's sports departments besides the football section:

[edit] Handball

Main article: Vitória F.C. (handball)

[edit] Rugby

Main article: Vitória F.C. (rugby)

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ Maisfutebol online news, [ 2007/05/20 | 22:00 ]
2. ^ in Diário Desportivo, 2007 May 24

[edit] External links

• Official website (in Portuguese)
• Unofficial website (in Portuguese)
• Netvitorianos unofficial forum (in Portuguese)
• Unofficial forum (in Portuguese)
• Unofficial website under construction (in Portuguese and English)
• Supporters website (in Portuguese and English)
• Current Squad

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