C.F. OS BELENENSES

'Clube de Futebol «Os Belenenses»', usually known simply as 'Belenenses' (pron. ), founded in 1919, is one of the leading Portuguese sports clubs. It is based in the Belém quarter of Lisboa, hence the club name, which translates as "The Belem-ers".
The main activities of the club are football, handball, basketball, futsal, athletics, and rugby. The club has won major national championships in all these sports, but remains best known for its original activity, football. They have won the Portuguese Liga once (1945/1946), the only team, together with Boavista FC, to do so outside the Big Three: (FC Porto, Sporting CP and SL Benfica).
When the Portuguese Liga started Beleneneses was one of Portugal's "Big four". It was the first club to compete in the UEFA Cup in an exciting 3-3 draw with Hibernian(at the time one of Scotland's biggest teams) at the Estádio do Restelo in Belem.
Like many Portuguese clubs, fanclubes can be found in Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Belgium and Canada.
In Portugal the club is the 4th most popular after SL Benfica, Sporting Clube de Portugal and FC Porto in number of socios (Socios are paying supporters).
In 1933 the club was the most successful in Portugal with the most titles and Cups.
In the Portuguese Cup 2007 fans from Switzerland, Canada, United States, and several Portuguese cities were at the Estadio Nacional in Lisboa to see the final against Sporting CP where they lost 1-0.
Belenenses have also beaten some of the world best. Most notably a 3-0 win against Real Madrid FC in the dominate Real Madrid era of the 1950's aswell as wins against Valencia CF, FC Barcelona and Lyon.

Contents

Football

Famous players

Honours

UEFA Cup (formerly known as Inter-Cities Fairs Cup)

Cup Winner's Cup

Current Squad

Trivia

League and cup history

Basketball

Futsal

Handball

External links

Football

The 2005/2006 season saw the football team finishing fourth from bottom, which would mean relegation for the team. However, the team won a subsequent appeal that sent Gil Vicente F.C. down instead. With this reprieve, the team played in the top level of Portuguese football again, for the 69th of 73 seasons - the team with most presences at top level after the Big Three. This reprieve allowed them to finish fifth in the league, giving them access to the UEFA Cup.
The club has also played in the European Cup as well as the UEFA Cup, in the UEFA Cup 1987-88 season the club played powerhouse FC Barcelona in the first leg they lost 2-0 in the Camp Nou but won 1-0 in Lisbon at the Estadio do Restelo with Bulgarian international Stoycho Mladenov scored. Other European games were against Bayer 04 Leverkusen in a 1-0 win.

Famous players

★ Dariusz Adamczuk

★ Borislav Mikhailov

★ Stoycho Mladenov

★ Anders Andersson

★ Félix Mourinho

★ Matateu

★ Tomislav Ivković

★ Pedro Pelé

★ Emerson Moisés Costa

★ Fernando Chalana

★ Pepe (1920s)

★ José Rui

Honours

★ Portuguese League Champions - 1945/46

★ Champions of Portugal (prior to creation of modern league) - 1926/27, 1928/29, 1932/33

★ Portuguese Cup Winners - 1941/42, 1959/60, 1988/89

★ Portuguese 2nd Division Champions - 1983/84

★ Lisbon Championship Winners - 1925/26, 1928/29, 1929/30, 1930/31, 1943/44, 1945/46

★ Lisbon Honour Cup Winners - 9 times

★ Group Winners of UEFA Intertoto Cup 1974/75

UEFA Cup (formerly known as Inter-Cities Fairs Cup)

Season	Team1	Team2	Result1	Result2	Result3
1961/62	Hibernian	3-3	3-0
1962/63	Barcelona	1-1	1-1	2-3
1963/64	Trešnjevka Zagreb	0-2	1-2
1963/64	A.S. Roma	2-1	1-0
1964/65	Shelbourne F.C.	1-1	0-0	1-2
1973/74	W. Wanderers	0-2	1-2
1976/77	Barcelona	2-2	2-3
1987/88	Barcelona	2-0	0-1
1988/89	Bayer Leverkusen	0-1	0-1
1988/89	Velež Mostar	0-0	0-0	4-3 (pen.)
2007-08	Bayern Munich

Cup Winner's Cup

Season	Team1	Team2	Result1	Result2
1989/90	Monaco	1-1	0-3

Current Squad

Trivia

C.F. Os Belenenses played the inaugural football match at the Santiago Bernabeu on December 14, 1947, against Real Madrid.

League and cup history

Season		Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe		Notes
1934-1935	CL	'4'	14	8	2	4	45	20	'18'
1935-1936	CL	'4'	14	7	3	4	28	22	'17'
1936-1937	CL	'2'	14	11	1	2	46	17	'23'
1937-1938	CL	'5'	14	5	0	9	29	28	'10'
1938-1939	1D	'4'	14	6	1	7	38	29	'13'	quarter-final
1939-1940	1D	'3'	18	11	3	4	58	21	'25'	final
1940-1941	1D	'3'	14	9	1	4	59	22	'19'	final
1941-1942	1D	'3'	22	12	6	4	66	32	'30'	winner
1942-1943	1D	'3'	18	14	0	4	78	20	'28'	quarter-final
1943-1944	1D	'6'	18	9	3	6	41	32	'21'	quarter-final
1944-1945	1D	'3'	18	13	1	4	72	29	'27'	quarter-final
1945-1946	1D	'1'	22	18	2	2	74	24	'38'	last 16			best classification ever
1946-1947	1D	'4'	26	14	5	7	66	31	'33'	''not held''
1947-1948	1D	'3'	26	16	5	5	76	30	'37'	final
1948-1949	1D	'3'	26	16	3	7	68	36	'35'	last 16
1949-1950	1D	'4'	26	10	7	9	36	41	'27'	''not held''
1950-1951	1D	'9'	26	10	4	12	45	48	'24'	semi-final
1951-1952	1D	'4'	26	14	8	4	60	28	'36'
1952-1953	1D	'3'	26	15	6	5	60	29	'36'
1953-1954	1D	'4'	26	13	5	8	43	39	'31'	semi-final
1954-1955	1D	'2'	26	17	5	4	63	28	'39'		LAT	4th place
1955-1956	1D	'3'	26	16	5	5	67	25	'37'	semi-final
1956-1957	1D	'3'	26	13	7	6	74	50	'33'
1957-1958	1D	'4'	26	12	4	10	54	42	'28'
1958-1959	1D	'3'	26	16	6	4	65	27	'38'
1959-1960	1D	'3'	26	15	6	5	58	25	'36'	winner
1960-1961	1D	'5'	26	12	4	10	45	37	'28'	semi-final
1961-1962	1D	'5'	26	12	7	7	51	35	'31'	semi-final	FC	1st round
1962-1963	1D	'4'	26	16	4	6	47	30	'36'	semi-final	FC	1st round
1963-1964	1D	'6'	26	12	6	8	46	36	'30'		FC	2nd round
1964-1965	1D	'8'	26	12	2	12	39	40	'26'		FC	1st round
1965-1966	1D	'7'	26	9	7	10	28	29	'25'
1966-1967	1D	'11'	26	7	6	13	26	34	'20'
1967-1968	1D	'7'	26	10	5	11	38	40	'25'
1968-1969	1D	'8'	26	8	10	8	31	33	'26'
1969-1970	1D	'7'	26	9	5	12	23	34	'23'	semi-final
1970-1971	1D	'7'	26	7	8	11	20	27	'22'
1971-1972	1D	'7'	30	11	7	12	35	33	'29'	semi-final
1972-1973	1D	'2'	30	14	12	4	53	30	'40'
1973-1974	1D	'5'	30	17	6	7	56	34	'40'		UC	1st round
1974-1975	1D	'6'	30	14	7	9	45	37	'35'	semi-final
1975-1976	1D	'3'	30	16	8	6	45	28	'40'
1976-1977	1D	'10'	30	7	12	11	29	40	'26'		UC	1st round
1977-1978	1D	'5'	30	14	8	8	25	21	'36'
1978-1979	1D	'8'	30	10	9	11	47	43	'29'
1979-1980	1D	'5'	30	13	8	9	33	38	'34'
1980-1981	1D	'11'	30	8	10	12	24	39	'26'	semi-final
1981-1982	1D	'15'	30	5	10	15	28	48	'20'				relegated
1982-1983	2D	'?'	?	?	?	?	?	?	'?'
1983-1984	2D	'?'	?	?	?	?	?	?	'?'				promoted
1984-1985	1D	'6'	30	11	8	11	40	46	'30'
1985-1986	1D	'8'	30	7	14	9	27	30	'28'	final
1986-1987	1D	'6'	30	13	4	13	52	40	'30'
1987-1988	1D	'3'	38	18	12	8	52	38	'48'		UC	1st round
1988-1989	1D	'7'	38	13	14	11	44	35	'40'	winner	UC	2nd round
1989-1990	1D	'6'	34	16	4	14	32	33	'36'	semi-final	CWC	1st round
1990-1991	1D	'19'	38	10	9	19	27	38	'29'				relegated
1991-1992	2H	'2'	34	19	10	5	53	25	'48'				promoted
1992-1993	1D	'7'	34	11	12	11	42	40	'34'
1993-1994	1D	'13'	34	12	6	16	39	51	'30'
1994-1995	1D	'12'	34	10	7	17	30	39	'27'
1995-1996	1D	'6'	34	14	9	1	53	33	'51'
1996-1997	1D	'13'	34	10	10	14	37	50	'40'	last 32
1997-1998	1D	'18'	34	5	9	20	22	52	'24'	last 64			relegated
1998-1999	2H	'2'	34	17	10	7	55	28	'61'				promoted
1999-2000	1D	'12'	34	9	13	12	36	38	'40'	last 64
2000-2001	1D	'7'	34	14	10	10	43	36	'52'	last 32
2001-2002	1D	'5'	34	17	6	11	54	44	'57'	last 16
2002-2003	1D	'9'	34	11	10	13	47	48	'43'	last 32
2003-2004	1D	'15'	34	8	11	15	35	54	'35'	semi-final
2004-2005	1D	'9'	34	13	7	14	38	34	'46'	quarter-final
2005-2006	1D	'15'	34	11	6	17	40	42	'39'	last 64
2006-2007	1D	'5'	30	15	4	11	36	29	'49'	final

'CL'=Campeonato da Liga (winners weren't considered Portuguese champions); '1D'=First Division/League
'2D'=Second Division/League; '2H'=Liga de Honra
'CWC'=Cup Winner's Cup; 'UC'=UEFA Cup
'FC'=Fairs Cup; 'LAT'=Latin Cup

Basketball

Main articles: CF Belenenses (basketball)

Futsal

Main articles: CF Belenenses (futsal)

Handball

Main articles: CF Belenenses (handball)

External links

★ Official website (in Portuguese).

★ CF Belenenses

★ Blog do Belenenses

★ Canto Azul ao Sul

★ Armada Azul

★ Daily Portuguese futebol news, discussion, stats, images, and more in English