About Portimonense SC

Portimonense Sporting Clube is a Portuguese football club from Portimão, the second largest city of the Algarve, founded on 14 August 1914. Playing in black and white at the Estádio Municipal de Portimão, the club is the main sporting institution of the city and also fields teams in other sports such as basketball.

Portimonense enjoyed its best period in the 1980s, when it spent the whole decade in the Portuguese top flight. Its fifth-place finish in 1984–85, which included goalless home draws with Benfica and Sporting, earned the club its only European appearance in the 1985–86 UEFA Cup, where it was eliminated in the first round by Partizan. The club also reached the semi-finals of the Taça de Portugal in 1983, 1987 and 1988.

In the 1990s and 2000s Portimonense mostly played in the second tier. It returned to the Primeira Liga in 2010 and again in 2017 under coach Vítor Oliveira, and has since moved between the first and second divisions of Portuguese football.