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Futebol Clube do Porto |
- Futebol Clube do Porto, MHIH, OM (Portuguese pronunciation: [futɨˈβɔl ˈkluβ(ɨ) ðu ˈpoɾtu]), commonly known as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Porto.
- It is best known for the professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football.
- Founded on 28 September 1893, Porto is one of the "Big Three" (Portuguese: Os Três Grandes) teams in Portugal – together with Lisbon-based rivals Benfica and Sporting CP, that have appeared in every season of the Primeira Liga since its establishment in 1934.
- They are nicknamed Dragões (Dragons), for the mythical creature atop the club's crest, and Azuis e brancos (Blue-and-whites), for the shirt colours.
- Those colours are in stripes with blue shorts.
- The club supporters are called portistas.
- Since 2003, Porto have played their home matches at the Estádio do Dragão, which replaced the previous 51-year-old ground, the Estádio das Antas.
- Porto is the second most decorated team in Portugal, with 81 major trophies, of which 74 were achieved in domestic competitions.
- These comprise 30 Primeira Liga titles (five of which were won consecutively between 1994–95 and 1998–99, a Portuguese football record), 18 Taça de Portugal, 4 Campeonato de Portugal, and a record 22 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira.
- Porto is the second team in Portuguese league history to have won a title without any defeat (2010–11), repeating the feat in 2012–13.
- In the former, Porto achieved the largest-ever difference of points between champion and runner-up in a three-points-per-win system (21 points), on their way to a second quadruple.
- In international competitions, Porto is the most decorated Portuguese team, with seven trophies.
- They won the European Cup/UEFA Champions League in 1987 and 2004, the UEFA Cup/Europa League in 2003 and 2011, the UEFA Super Cup in 1987, and the Intercontinental Cup in 1987 and 2004.
- In addition, they were runners-up in the 1983–84 European Cup Winners' Cup, the 2003, 2004 and 2011 editions of the UEFA Super Cup.
- Porto is the only Portuguese club to have won the UEFA Cup/Europa League, the UEFA Super Cup, the Intercontinental Cup, and to have achieved a continental treble of domestic league, domestic cup and European titles (2002–03 and 2010–11).
- Porto have the third-most appearances in the UEFA Champions League group stage (23), behind Barcelona and Real Madrid (24).
- At the end of the 2021–22 season, Porto ranked 16th in the UEFA club coefficient ranking.
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