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S.C. Braga B

Portuguese association football reserve team

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fullname	Sporting Clube de Braga B
clubname	Braga B
upright	0.7
founded	1999–2006, 2012–
ground	Estádio Amélia Morais
capacity	2,500
nickname	Os Arcebispos (The Archbishops)
Os Arsenalistas (The Arsenalists)
Os Guerreiros do Minho (The Minho Warriors)
short name	Braga B
chrtitle	President
chairman	António Salvador
mgrtitle	Manager
manager	Simão Freitas
league	Liga 3
season	2025–26
position	Liga 3 Serie A, 5th (First stage)
Relegation series, 1st (Second stage)
website
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Os Arsenalistas (The Arsenalists) Os Guerreiros do Minho (The Minho Warriors) Relegation series, 1st (Second stage) Sporting Clube de Braga B, commonly known as Sporting de Braga B or just Braga B, is a Portuguese football team. It is the reserve team of S.C. Braga. Reserve teams in Portugal play in the same league system as the senior team, rather than in a reserve team league. However, they cannot play in the same division as their senior team, therefore Braga B is ineligible for promotion to the Primeira Liga and also cannot play in the Taça de Portugal and Taça da Liga.

SC Braga had a B team until the 2005–06 season where it played in the Portuguese Second Division. Prior to the end of the 2005–06 season, it was announced that Braga B would fold from the Portuguese league system along with the B teams of Benfica, Porto and Sporting. The club refounded itself in the 2012–13 season, when a new set of rules regarding B teams was introduced in Portuguese football system. For 2012–13 season, another five B Teams, alongside Braga B, where refounded and established themselves in Segunda Liga.

SC Braga B plays its home games at the new 2,500-capacity Estádio Amélia Morais, which opened in 2025. This change resulted in the abandonment of the old and outdated Estádio Primeiro de Maio, where it had played until then, after inheriting it from the main team, which abandoned it in 2003 following the construction of the Estádio Municipal de Braga.

History

Revival

Prior to the end of the 2011–12 football season in Portugal, seven clubs in the Primeira Liga announced there interest in constructing a B team to fill the six vacant places available to compete in the Segunda Liga for the 2012–13 season. Of those seven, the six clubs which were selected to take part in the competition were the B teams of Benfica, Porto, Sporting CP, Braga, Marítimo and Vitória de Guimarães, for being the best ranked in the 2011-12 Primeira Liga.

The Portuguese League for Professional Football (LPFP), which organizes the professional football tiers in Portugal, announced that for the clubs to compete in the 2012–13 Segunda Liga, they would have to pay a €50,000 fee. In addition, the LPFP would also require the clubs to follow new rules regarding player selection in which each 'B' team must have a squad of a minimum of ten players who were developed at the club's academy. The LPFP also went on to say that the clubs are unable to compete in cup competitions as well as gaining promotion due to the possibility of playing the senior team. Each 'B' team may have three players above 23 years old.

In late May 2012, it was officially announced that the six Primeira Liga clubs' B teams would compete in the 2012–13 Segunda Liga which would increase the number of teams in the league from 16 to 22 as well as increasing the number of games needed to play in one season from 30 games to 42 games.

Players

Current squad

Results history

II – II Liga; 2ª B – 2nd Division B/Campeonato Nacional; LI – Liga Intercalar;

Notable former players

POR Eduardo
POR Emídio Rafael
POR Hélder Sousa
POR Jorge Humberto
POR Luisinho
POR Marco Silva
POR Nuno Fonseca
POR Paulo Jorge
POR Pedro Queirós
POR Ricardo Rocha
POR Zé Gomes
Australia Michael Curcija
BRA William Soares
BRA Manoel Lemes
Burkina Faso Narcisse Yameogo
Canada Jon Paul
CPV Puma
CPV Zé Luís
EQG Luis Asué
Guinea-Bissau Cícero Semedo
NGA Abiodun Agunbiade
NGA Elderson Echiéjilé

Managerial history

POR Toni Conceição (July 1999– June 2002)
POR António Caldas (June 2002– November 2002)
POR Toni Conceição (November 2002– December 2002)
POR António Caldas (December 2002– October 2005)
POR Micael Sequeira (October 2005– June 2006)
POR Artur Jorge (May 2012– October 2012)
POR Toni (October 2012– May 2013)
POR José Alberto Costa (June 2013– February 2014)
POR Bruno Pereira (February 2014– June 2014)
POR Fernando Pereira (June 2014– February 2015)
POR Abel Ferreira (February 2015– April 2017)
POR João Aroso (April 2017– January 2018)
BRA Wender Said (January 2018– February 2019)
POR Rui Santos (February 2019– September 2019)
POR Ruben Amorim (September 2019– December 2019)
POR Vasco Faísca (December 2019– June 2021)
POR Artur Jorge (June 2021– May 2022)
POR Custódio Castro (May 2022– )

References

"Braga B - TheSportsDB.com".
(19 May 2006). "O fim das equipas B". [[Record (Portuguese newspaper).
(11 June 2006). "Fim da equipa B exige redefinição estrutural". [[Record (Portuguese newspaper).
"SC Braga inaugurou Estádio Amélia Morais".
(17 February 2012). "Sete clubes interessados nas seis vagas para equipas B". Relvado.
(28 May 2012). "Equipas B de FC Porto, Benfica e Sporting confirmadas". Relvado.
(21 May 2012). "Equipas B custam 50 mil euros de inscrição". [[O Jogo]].
(28 May 2012). "Liga: seis clubes inscreveram a equipa "B"". Mais Futebol.

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