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| Full name | Sporting Clube Olhanense | ||
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| Nickname | Leões de Olhão (Lions of Olhão) | ||
| Founded | 27 April 1912; 113 years ago (27 April 1912) | ||
| Ground | Estádio José Arcanjo | ||
| Capacity | 5,661 | ||
| Chairman | Isidoro Sousa | ||
| Manager | Miguel Serôdio | ||
| League | Algarve FAFirst Division | ||
| 2022–23 | Campeonato de Portugal, 13th of 14 | ||
| Website | www | ||
Sporting Clube Olhanense (Portuguese pronunciation:[sɨˈpɔɾtĩˈkluβɨɔʎɐˈnẽsɨ]), commonly known asOlhanense, is a Portuguesesports club fromOlhão,Algarve.
Itsfootball team was founded on 27 April 1912 and currently plays in theAlgarve Football AssociationFirst Division, the fifth tier of Portuguese football. It holds home matches at the 5,661-spectator capacityEstádio José Arcanjo.
Olhanense won theCampeonato de Portugal (now Taça de Portugal) in 1924, their most prestigious honour in history. They most recently played in thePrimeira Liga in 2014 and thesecond tier in 2017.
Founded on 27 April 1912, it became the branch number 4 ofSporting Clube de Portugal (Sporting CP).[1]
Olhanense's earliest major honour was winning the 1923–24Campeonato de Portugal (now Taça de Portugal), the largest football cup competition in Portugal. It also became the first team from the Algarve region to reach thetop level of Portuguese football, after winning theAlgarve Football Association in 1941. Among its achievements was a fourth-place finish in the1945–46 season. In 1951, after ten consecutive seasons, the club returned to thesecond division.
Following this descent, the team only returned to the top flight for five seasons in the rest of the 20th century – three in the early 1960s and two in the mid-1970s – at time when rivalsFarense andPortimonense had their most successful years. Managed by formerPortugal international defenderJorge Costa, the team returned to the Primeira Liga as champions of the2008–09 Liga de Honra by defeatingGondomar 1–0.[2]
After five years in the top flight, Olhanense were relegated in May 2014 by finishing last in a season in which they had three managers. The result left the Algarve without a top-flight team.[3] Three years later, the team finished last in the LigaPro, therefore falling out of the professional leagues for the first time in 13 years.[4] For the first half of 2021, formerNetherlands internationalEdgar Davids was the manager.[5] The team missed out on promotion to the newLiga 3 that year, thus falling into the fourth tier.[6] The2022–23 season ended with relegation to the Algarve FA'sFirst Division, a first such descent.[7]
The club has rivalries with fellow Algarve clubsFarense andPortimonense.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
As of 16 November 2023[update][15][16]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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| Season | League | Cup | Notes | ||||||||
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| Tier | Pos | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | |||
| 1941–42 | 1 | 8 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 42 | 83 | 14 | Quarterfinals | |
| 1942–43 | 5 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 44 | 48 | 18 | Last 16 | ||
| 1943–44 | 5 | 18 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 65 | 34 | 22 | Last 16 | ||
| 1944–45 | 6 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 41 | 41 | 16 | Final | ||
| 1945–46 | 4 | 22 | 13 | 1 | 8 | 65 | 39 | 27 | Last 16 | Best classification ever | |
| 1946–47 | 6 | 26 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 69 | 73 | 26 | Not held | ||
| 1947–48 | 11 | 26 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 48 | 66 | 17 | Last 32 | ||
| 1948–49 | 7 | 26 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 51 | 55 | 24 | Last 32 | ||
| 1949–50 | 9 | 26 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 48 | 57 | 24 | Not held | ||
| 1950–51 | ↓14 | 26 | 7 | 3 | 16 | 31 | 77 | 17 | Last 16 | Relegated | |
| ... | |||||||||||
| 1961–62 | 1 | 8 | 26 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 33 | 41 | 22 | ||
| 1962–63 | 8 | 26 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 29 | 38 | 21 | |||
| 1963–64 | ↓13 | 26 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 20 | 57 | 12 | Relegated | ||
| ... | |||||||||||
| 1973–74 | 1 | 11 | 30 | 8 | 6 | 16 | 35 | 69 | 22 | ||
| 1974–75 | ↓15 | 30 | 6 | 5 | 19 | 41 | 70 | 17 | Relegated | ||
| ...+ | |||||||||||
| 1996–97 | 3 | 7 | 34 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 34 | 36 | 50 | ||
| 1997–98 | 13 | 34 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 47 | 42 | 44 | 5th round | ||
| 1998–99 | 4 | 34 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 51 | 34 | 58 | 4th round | ||
| 1999–00 | 6 | 38 | 17 | 13 | 8 | 57 | 34 | 64 | |||
| 2000–01 | 11 | 38 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 45 | 44 | 53 | |||
| 2001–02 | 12 | 38 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 40 | 44 | 48 | 2nd round | ||
| 2002–03 | 10 | 38 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 60 | 50 | 55 | 2nd round | ||
| 2003–04 | ↑1 | 38 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 77 | 29 | 86 | 3rd round | Promoted | |
| 2004–05 | 2 | 9 | 34 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 32 | 31 | 44 | Last 128 | |
| 2005–06 | 5 | 34 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 41 | 28 | 52 | Last 64 | ||
| 2006–07 | 9 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 29 | 31 | 40 | 4th round | ||
| 2007–08 | 5 | 30 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 33 | 33 | 45 | 5th round | ||
| 2008–09 | ↑1 | 30 | 18 | 4 | 8 | 52 | 32 | 58 | 3rd round | Promoted | |
| 2009–10 | 1 | 13 | 30 | 5 | 14 | 11 | 31 | 46 | 29 | 3rd round | |
| 2010–11 | 11 | 30 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 24 | 34 | 34 | 5th round | ||
| 2011–12 | 8 | 30 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 36 | 38 | 39 | Quarterfinals | ||
| 2012–13 | 14 | 30 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 26 | 42 | 25 | 4th round | ||
| 2013–14 | ↓16 | 30 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 21 | 49 | 24 | 4th round | Relegated | |
| 2014–15 | 2 | 16 | 46 | 13 | 16 | 17 | 51 | 56 | 55 | 3rd round | |
| 2015–16 | 8 | 46 | 19 | 12 | 15 | 42 | 39 | 69 | 3rd round | ||
| 2016–17 | ↓22 | 42 | 7 | 7 | 28 | 45 | 83 | 28 | 4th round | Relegated | |
| 2017–18 | 3 | 3 | 30 | 18 | 4 | 8 | 42 | 30 | 58 | 3rd round | |
| 2018–19 | 5 | 34 | 19 | 6 | 9 | 68 | 32 | 63 | 1st round | ||
| 2019–20 | 1 | 25 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 57 | 19 | 57 | 2nd round | ||
| 2020–21 | 3 | 26 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 29 | 21 | 42 | 1st round | ||
| 2021–22 | 4 | 5 | 26 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 37 | 29 | 43 | 4th round | |
| 2022–23 | ↓13 | 26 | 5 | 2 | 19 | 18 | 50 | 17 | 3rd round | Relegated | |