Os Açorianos CD Santa Clara
Portugal · Founded: 1921
CD Santa Clara is a Portuguese professional football club from Ponta Delgada on São Miguel, the largest island of the Azores, founded in 1921. It plays at the Estádio de São Miguel, which holds about 12,500 spectators, and is known as Os Açorianos (The Azoreans). It is the most successful club from the archipelago.
Santa Clara first reached the Primeira Liga in 1999 and has since moved several times between the top two divisions. Its long trips to and from mainland Portugal have always been part of the club's identity.
Santa Clara's sixth place in 2020–21 took it into the first edition of the UEFA Europa Conference League in 2021–22, making it the first Azorean club to play in a UEFA club competition proper. It beat Shkupi and Olimpija Ljubljana before Partizan knocked it out in the play-off round.