About SC Salgueiros

Sport Comércio e Salgueiros is a Portuguese multi-sports club from the parish of Paranhos in Porto, founded on 8 December 1911 as Sport Grupo e Salgueiros by a group of friends inspired by a match between Porto and Benfica. It chose red shirts to stand apart from its city rivals, became Sport Porto e Salgueiros in 1916–17 and, after joining forces with Sport Comércio in 1920, took its present name.

For decades Salgueiros was a mainstay of the Portuguese second division, with occasional seasons in the top flight. From the early 1980s it established itself in the Primeira Liga, and a strong 1990–91 league season earned the club its only European campaign, in the 1991–92 UEFA Cup, where it lost to Cannes on penalties in the first round. Its home was the Estádio Engenheiro Vidal Pinheiro.

In the 2000s the club fell into a deep financial crisis, lost its stadium and was administratively relegated in 2005. Salgueiros continues in the lower leagues of Portuguese football, playing at the Complexo Desportivo de Campanhã.