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| Full name | Sporting Clube de Braga B | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Os Arcebispos (The Archbishops) Os Arsenalistas (The Arsenalists) Minhotos (Those from Minho) Os Guerreiros do Minho (The Minho Warriors) | ||
| Short name | Braga B | ||
| Founded | 1999–2006, 2012– | ||
| Ground | Estádio Primeiro de Maio | ||
| Capacity | 28,800 (limited to 5,000 in Segunda Liga)[1] | ||
| President | António Salvador | ||
| Manager | Custódio Castro | ||
| League | Liga 3 | ||
| 2021–22 | Liga 3 Serie North, 3rd (First stage) Promotion series Serie 2, 3rd (Second stage) | ||
| Website | http://www.scbraga.pt/ | ||
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Sporting Clube de Braga B, commonly known as Sporting de Braga B or just Braga B, is a Portuguese football team. It is the reserve team of S.C. Braga. Reserve teams in Portugal play in the same league system as the senior team, rather than in a reserve team league. However, they cannot play in the same division as their senior team, therefore Braga B is ineligible for promotion to the Primeira Liga and also cannot play in the Taça de Portugal and Taça da Liga.
SC Braga had a B team until the 2005–06 season where it played in the Portuguese Second Division.[2] Prior to the end of the 2005–06 season, it was announced that Braga B would fold from the Portuguese league system along with the B teams of Benfica, Porto and Sporting.[3][4] The club refounded itself in the 2012–13 season, when a new set of rules regarding B teams was introduced in Portuguese football system. For 2012–13 season, another five B Teams, alongside Braga B, where refounded and established themselves in Segunda Liga.
Braga B plays its home games at the Estádio Primeiro de Maio, which holds a capacity of 30,000.[5] It inherited the stadium from the senior team who left there in 2003 following the construction of the Estádio Municipal de Braga.
- ^ Liga Portugal
- ^ "II Divisão Série A". ZeroZero (in Portuguese). Retrieved 1 November 2012.
- ^ "O fim das equipas B" [The end of the B teams]. Record (in Portuguese). 19 May 2006. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
- ^ "Fim da equipa B exige redefinição estrutural" [End of the B team requires redefining its structure]. Record (in Portuguese). 11 June 2006. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
- ^ "Estádio 1º Maio". ZeroZero (in Portuguese). Retrieved 1 November 2012.