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| Full name | Futebol Clube do Porto | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Dragões or Azuis e brancos (team) Portistas (supporters) | ||
| Short name | Porto | ||
| Founded | September 28, 1893 (118 years ago) as Football Club do Porto | ||
| Ground | Estádio do Dragão, Porto | ||
| Capacity | 50,399[1] | ||
| President | Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa | ||
| Coach | Vítor Pereira | ||
| League | Primeira Liga | ||
| 2011–12 | Primeira Liga, 1st | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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Futebol Clube do Porto (Portuguese pronunciation: [futebɔɫ ˈklube du ˈpoɾtu]), also known as FC Porto or Porto, is a multisports club based in Porto, Portugal, best known for its professional football team. Their home ground is the Estádio do Dragão (English: Dragon Stadium), which in 2003 replaced the old ground from 1952, the Estádio das Antas.
Founded in 28 September 1893 by a wine merchant, the club was one of the founding members of the Primeira Liga in 1933, and is one of three clubs, alongside historical rivals Benfica and Sporting (the "Big Three", Portuguese: Três Grandes), to never have been relegated from the top tier of Portuguese football.
Porto have won 26 Primeira Liga titles, 16 Portuguese Cups, 18 Portuguese Supercups (record holder) and 4 editions of the defunct Campeonato de Portugal (joint-record holder), with only Benfica having more league (32) and cup titles (24). A 19-year league title drought between 1958–59 and 1977–78 contrasts with the 18 championships won by the club since current president Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa took office in 1982. This period includes a record series of five consecutive Primeira Liga titles between 1994–95 and 1998–99, and the second time that a Portuguese team completed a 30-match season without any defeat, when Porto won the 2010–11 league with a 27–3–0 record.
Currently the most successful Portuguese club, with a total of 71 titles, Porto is also the most successful in international competitions, having won two European Cup/UEFA Champions League, two UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League, one UEFA Super Cup, and two Intercontinental Cup trophies. They also finished runners-up in the 1984 Cup Winners' Cup and in the 2003, 2004 and 2011 UEFA Super Cup finals. In 2003, the club achieved its first continental treble after winning league, domestic cup and UEFA Cup titles; this feat was repeated in 2011, making Porto the first football club to win two continental trebles.
- ^ "UEFA Champions League Statistics Handbook – Part 9: Clubs (continued)" (PDF). uefa.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 3 April 2012.