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Full name | Clube Desportivo Santa Clara | |||
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Nickname(s) | Os Açorianos (The Azoreans) | |||
Founded | 12 May 1927 | |||
Ground | Estádio de São Miguel, Ponta Delgada, Portugal | |||
Capacity | 13,277 | |||
President | Bruno Vicintin | |||
Manager | Vasco Matos | |||
League | Liga Portugal | |||
2023–24 | Liga Portugal 2, 1st of 18 (Promoted) | |||
Website | Club website | |||
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Clube Desportivo Santa Clara is a Portuguese professional football club from Ponta Delgada, Azores. They play in the 13,277-seat Estádio de São Miguel. As the most successful football team from the Azores Islands, they are the only team from the archipelago to compete in a UEFA competition, having qualified for the UEFA Intertoto Cup and the UEFA Europa Conference League.
Santa Clara is the only club from the Azores to have competed in the top division of the Portuguese Liga, being thus the westernmost top-flight club in Europe. They compete in the Primeira Liga, the Portuguese first division football league. Santa Clara's kit manufacturer is Umbro and their main sponsor is Lebull. The main local rivals are CD Operário from Lagoa on the same island of São Miguel. Other major rivals are C.S. Marítimo and C.D. Nacional, from the island of Madeira.