C.S. MARíTIMO

'Club Sport Marítimo', or just 'Marítimo' (pron. , locally []), is a Portuguese sports club best-known for its football team that plays in the Estádio dos Barreiros in Funchal, Madeira Islands. They are the biggest club on the island of Madeira, overshadowing their neighbours from the Choupana Hills district, CD Nacional.
Their most recent foray into European competition came in 2004-05, when Gustavo Manduca's calm finish gave them a 1-0 lead after the first leg of the UEFA Cup first-round tie against Rangers F.C.. They went out on penalties after a tense second leg, but still maintain a formidable home record against European opposition, beating the heavyweights Leeds United F.C. whilst said club were in their heyday.
Marítimo are now regarded as one of the top 6 or 7 clubs in Portugal, and are widely known throughout the Portuguese speaking world, in countries such as Brazil, Angola and Mozambique. The club's reserve team, C.S. Marítimo B, compete in the Portuguese Second Division.

Contents

Origins

Rivalries

Fans

Stadium

Championships

Players

First Team Squad

Squad changes during 2007/08 season

Notable former players

Former managers

League and Cup History

Other sports

Handball

Volleyball

See also

External links

Origins

Founded on September 20, 1910 as ''Club Português de Sport Marítimo'', by Cândido Fernandes de Gouveia, the club adopted the red and green colours of the new Republican flag of Portugal, so as to distinguish themselves from rivals Club Sports da Madeira, who used the blue and white colours of the old Monarchy flag. The name ''Marítimo'', meaning Maritime in English, was used to reflect the fact that many of the team's players were workers of the nearby Funchal docks, a prominent employer at the time.
The first ever match for Marítimo was a 2-1 win against Santa Clara, a select team comprised of workers of Western Telegraph Company, and soon after began playing teams of sailors from visiting British ships. José Rodrigues Barrinhas, an old fashioned attacking centre-half, made a name for himself in these games and in matches against the rivals CS Madeira.
The club also has a big fans base in Venezuela with sister club 'Club Sport Marítimo de Venezuela' becoming Champions on several occasions from Caracas, Venezuela. The club was founded in 1959 by Portuguese immigrants living in Caracas, who based their new club on their favourite team from back home, CS Marítimo from the island of Madeira, who today compete in the Superliga. Even today, strong ties are kept between both clubs and their supporters from either side of the Atlantic ocean.

Rivalries

Marítimo's rivals are Nacional da Madeira. The Madeira derby is often associated with the clubs' followers' differing culture and way of life. The fans of Nacional da Madeira, being of a higher socio-economic status than those of Marítimo, were mainly lobbyists for the commercial expansion of Madeira, but the working class Marítimo followers were keen to preserve Madeira. This only exacerbates the ill-feeling between the clubs, which is made even more tense by the fact that controversial regional governor Alberto João Jardim is a self-confessed fan of Marítimo.
The rivalry heightened when Portuguese starlet Cristiano Ronaldo declined an offer from Marítimo in favour of Nacional Madeira, where his godfather was a member of the board.
Other rivalries are the Azores against Madeira derby where C.D. Santa Clara of Ponta Delgada the capital of the Azores share a fierce rivalry against Madeira teams, including C.D. Nacional and even more intensely against ''C.S. Maritimo'' where Politics also takes part in the Madeira and Azores derby with Madeira's controversial regional governor Alberto João Jardim being a self-confessed C.S. Marítimo supporter and also because of the heated relationship with the two regional governors, whilst the Azores regional governor, Carlos César is a self confessed Santa Clara fan.

Fans

Marítimo are known throughout the Portuguese speaking world and have significant fan bases in the former Portuguese colonies of Brazil, Angola and Cape Verde, as well as areas of North West USA, Canada, the United Kingdom (Specifically Jersey and London), South Africa and Venezuela.
Closer to home, the club has a proud reputation of being one of the most supported clubs in Portugal after the Big three, and the most popular club on their home island of Madeira, outranking local rivals Nacional and União. The club has over 35,000 registered members (''sócios'') and two predominant groups of Ultras, the ''Esquadrão Maritimista'' and the ''Ultras Templários'', the bigger and more infamous of the two.

Stadium

Previously playing at the Campo do Almirante Reis until they moved out in 1957, Marítimo currently play their home games at the Estádio dos Barreiros, the municipality stadium of Funchal. Although uniquely picturesque, the stadium is rapidly ageing despite numerous facelifts over the years and, for the best part of a decade, the club has sought after an alternative site for a new stadium.
Prior to their October 2006 betandwin.com Liga clash against Naval 1º de Maio, the club announced that construction would begin on the brand-new 10,000 all-seated Estádio do Marítimo in the nearby Praia Formosa area of West Funchal. Although some concern has been expressed of the distance from the current stadium and the centre of Funchal (Located in the 'tourist zone' of the city), the brand new stadium on the outskirts of the city is well connected to Funchal's motorway network.
It washoped that the stadium ould be completed in time for the start of the 2008/09 season, however various set-backs, including a political war with the local government have lead to little progress towards the construction of the new stadium.

Championships

★ Champion of Portugal in 1925/26 (''See: Campeonato de Portugal'')

★ Portuguese Cup Finals in 1994/95 and 2000/01

★ UEFA Cup presences: 1993/94, 1994/95, 1998/99, 2001/02 and 2003/04

★ Winner of Second Division - Southern Zone: 1976/77, 1981/82 and 1984/85

★ 35 times Regional Championship Winner of the Madeira Regional Football Association

★ First appearance in the Portuguese First Division: 1973/74

Players

First Team Squad

''As of August 31, 2007:''

Squad changes during 2007/08 season

'In:'

★ 'Antoine van der Linden' - From ''FC Groningen''

★ 'Bruno Fogaça' - From ''Skoda Xanthi''

★ 'Edder Pérez' - On loan from ''Caracas FC''

★ 'Bruno' - From ''Nacional da Madeira''

★ 'Ricardo Esteves' - From ''Reggina''

★ 'Ediglê' - On loan from ''Internacional''

★ 'Fahel' - Loan return from ''Paços de Ferreira''

★ 'Fábio Felício' - From ''FC Rubin Kazan''

★ 'Alejandro Faurlin' - From ''Atlético Nacional''

★ 'Márcio Mossoró' - From ''Internacional''

★ 'Marcelo Boeck' - From ''Internacional''

★ 'Ariza Makukula' - On loan from ''Sevilla FC''
'Out:'

★ 'Collins Mbesuma' - Loan return to ''Portsmouth''

★ 'Diogo Valente' - Loan return to ''FC Porto''

★ 'Ricardo Ferreira' - Released

★ 'Zé Gomes' - On loan to ''Konyaspor''

★ 'Neca' - On loan to ''Konyaspor''

★ 'Milton do Ó' - To ''Trofense''

★ 'Mancuso' - On loan to ''Belenenses''

★ 'Martin Prest' - Released

★ 'Alex von Schwedler' - Released

★ 'Fahel' - To ''Beira-Mar''

★ 'Marcelo Lipatin' - To ''Nacional da Madeira''

★ 'Arvid Smit' - To ''Willem II Tilburg''

★ 'Moukouri' - Released

★ 'Filipe Oliveira' - To ''Leixões''

★ 'Darl Douglas' - To ''Willem II Tilburg''

Notable former players

★ Paulo Alves ★ Jorge Costa ★ Danny ★ Carlos Jorge ★ Daniel Kenedy ★ Nuno Morais ★ Pinga ★ Janota Ramos ★ José Ramos ★ Fernando Santos

★ Tonel ★ Nuno Valente ★ Carlos Chaínho ★ Rui Manuel Marques ★ Alan ★ Sérginho ★ Christian Correa Dionisio ★ Léo Lima ★ Gustavo Manduca ★ Toninho Metralha

★ Pepe ★ Souza ★ Krum Bibishkov ★ Ilian Iliev ★ Fernando Aguiar ★ Alex Bunbury ★ Tarik Sektioui ★ Mitchell van der Gaag ★ Andrej Komac ★ Collins Mbesuma

See also: ''

Former managers

★ Paulo Autuori de Mello (1991-1995)

★ Augusto Inácio (1997-1999)

★ Nelo Vingada (1999-2003)

★ Anatoliy Byshovets (2003)

★ Manuel Cajuda (2003-2004)

★ Mariano Barreto (2004-2005)

★ Rui Rodrigues (2005)

★ Paulo Bonamigo (2005-2006)

★ Ulisses Morais (2006-2007)

★ Alberto Pazos (2007)
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League and Cup History

As of the 2006/2007 season, the club has 27 presences at the top level of Portuguese football, where it has been continuously since the 1985-1986 season. Best classification ever was three 5th places.

Season		Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe		Notes
1977-1978	1D	'12'	30	8	7	15	22	45	'23'
1978-1979	1D	'10'	30	11	5	14	36	37	'27'
1979-1980	1D	'11'	30	9	8	13	25	37	'26'
1980-1981	1D	'15'	30	7	9	14	33	46	'23'				relegated
1981-1982	2DS	'?'	?	?	?	?	?	?	'?'				promoted
1982-1983	1D	'14'	30	8	9	13	26	38	'25'				relegated
1983-1984	2DS	'?'	?	?	?	?	?	?	'?'
1984-1985	2DS	'?'	?	?	?	?	?	?	'?'				promoted
1985-1986	1D	'12'	30	8	6	16	26	50	'22'
1986-1987	1D	'12'	30	9	7	14	34	49	'25'
1987-1988	1D	'9'	38	11	17	10	36	37	'39'
1988-1989	1D	'12'	38	10	15	13	40	41	'35'
1989-1990	1D	'10'	34	7	15	12	25	38	'29'
1990-1991	1D	'10'	38	12	10	16	37	48	'34'
1991-1992	1D	'7'	34	12	11	11	40	38	'35'
1992-1993	1D	'5'	34	15	7	12	56	48	'37'		UC	2nd round
1993-1994	1D	'5'	34	13	12	9	45	40	'38'		UC	1st round
1994-1995	1D	'7'	34	12	11	11	41	45	'35'	final
1995-1996	1D	'9'	34	12	7	5	39	53	'43'
1996-1997	1D	'8'	34	13	8	13	39	38	'47'
1997-1998	1D	'5'	34	16	8	10	44	35	'56'
1998-1999	1D	'10'	34	10	11	13	44	45	'41'	quarter-final	UC	1st round
1999-2000	1D	'6'	34	13	11	10	42	36	'50'
2000-2001	1D	'11'	34	12	7	15	34	37	'43'	final
2001-2002	1D	'6'	34	17	5	12	48	35	'56'	semi-final	UC	2nd round
2002-2003	1D	'7'	34	13	5	16	36	48	'44'
2003-2004	1D	'6'	34	12	12	10	35	33	'48'
2004-2005	1D	'7'	34	12	13	9	39	32	'49'		UC	1st round
2005-2006	1D	'10'	34	10	14	10	38	37	'44'	quarter-final
2006-2007	1D	'12'	30	8	8	14	30	44	'32'	4th round

Other sports

Like many other Portuguese clubs, Marítimo operates several sports teams outside of the football team. Although they are most recognisably successful in professional volleyball (See C.S. Marítimo (volleyball)), the club also field a prominent handball team (See C.S. Marítimo (handball)) and a National Championship winning women's basketball. Other sports groups within the organisation include athletics, figure skating, fishing, futsal, karate, kart racing, rallying, rhythmic gymnastics, roller hockey, rugby and swimming.

Handball

Main articles: C.S. Marítimo (handball)

Volleyball

Main articles: C.S. Marítimo (volleyball)

See also

★ C.S. Marítimo B

★ C.S. Marítimo de Venezuela

★ C.S. Marítimo (handball)

★ C.S. Maritimo (volleyball)

External links

★ http://www.csmaritimo.pt - Official Site

★ http://www.csmaritimo-online.com - Unofficial Fórum

★ http://www.vivamaritimo.tk Unofficial - Site in English