S.C. Olhanense

History

Founded on 27 April 1912, it became the branch number 4 of Sporting Clube de Portugal (Sporting CP).

Olhanense's earliest major honour was winning the 1923–24 Campeonato 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 the top level of Portuguese football, after winning the Algarve Football Association in 1941. Among its achievements was a fourth-place finish in the 1945–46 season. In 1951, after ten consecutive seasons, the club returned to the second 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 rivals Farense and Portimonense had their most successful years. Managed by former Portugal international defender Jorge Costa, the team returned to the Primeira Liga as champions of the 2008–09 Liga de Honra by defeating Gondomar 1–0.

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. Three years later, the team finished last in the LigaPro, therefore falling out of the professional leagues for the first time in 13 years. For the first half of 2021, former Netherlands international Edgar Davids was the manager. The team missed out on promotion to the new Liga 3 that year, thus falling into the fourth tier. The 2022–23 season ended with relegation to the Algarve FA's First Division, a first such descent.

Rivalries

The club has rivalries with fellow Algarve clubs Farense and Portimonense.

Players

First-team squad

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Former Players

NGAINA Greg Nwokolo (2009 - 2010)

Honours

Domestic honours

• Campeonato de Portugal
  • Winners: 1923–24
• Taça de Portugal
  • Runners-up: 1944–45
• Segunda Liga
  • Winners: 2008–09
• Segunda Divisão
  • Winners: 1935–36, 1940–41, 2003–04
• Terceira Divisão
  • Winners: 1969–70
• AF Algarve First Division
  • Winners (16): 1921–22, 1923–24, 1924–25, 1925–26, 1926–27, 1930–31, 1932–33, 1938–39, 1939–40, 1940–41, 1941–42, 1942–43, 1943–44, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47

Personnel honours

• LPFP Breakthrough Coach of the Year
  • 2008–09: Jorge Costa
• SJPF Young Player of the Month
  • André Castro: September 2009, January 2010, February 2010
  • Wilson Eduardo: September 2011
  • André Pinto: November 2011
  • Salvador Agra: March 2012

League and cup history

Managerial history

• POR Júlio Costa (1923–1925)
• POR Cassiano (1936–1940)
• POR Cassiano (1944–1945)
• POR Cassiano (1948–1949)
• ESP Pepe Lopez (1950–1951)
• POR Armando Martins (1953–1954)
• CHI Javier Mascaró (1954–1955)
• ESP Rafael Pineda (1955–1956)
• POR José João (1957–1958)
• POR Joaquim Paulo (1958–1959)
• POR Artur Quaresma (1959–1960)
• POR Cassiano (1960–1961)
• POR Francisco André (1961)
• POR Chinita (1961–1962)
• POR Casaca (1962)
• POR Joaquim Paulo (1962–63)
• POR Armando Carneiro (1963)
• POR Chinita (1963–1964)
• ESP Ruperto Garcia (1963–1964)
• ROU Iosif Fabian (1964–1965)
• POR José Mendes (1964–1965)
• POR Severiano Correia (1965–1967)
• BRA Genê (1967)
• POR Veríssimo Alves (1967–1968)
• ESP Ruperto Garcia (1968–1969)
• BRA Osvaldo Silva (1969–71)
• POR Orlando Ramín (1971–1972)
• POR Artur Santos (1972–1973)
• ARG Jim López (1973)
• POR Manuel de Oliveira (1973–1974)
• POR Joaquim Paulo (1974)
• ARG Gonzalito (1974–1975)
• POR Alexandrino (1975)
• ANG Marçal (1975–1976)
• POR Basora (1976)
• URU Milton Trinidad (1976–1977)
• HUN János Hrotkó (1976–1977)
• ESP Miguel Vinuesa (1977–1978)
• POR Carlos Sério (1978)
• HUN János Hrotkó (1978–1979)
• POR Hélder Pereira (1979–1980)
• ESP Miguel Vinuesa (1980)
• POR Júlio Amador (1980)
• POR Carlos Silva (1980–1984)
• POR Mário Lino (1984–1985)
• POR Manuel Cajuda(1985–1987)
• POR Álvaro Carolino (1987–1988)
• POR José Dinis (1988)
• POR Manuel Cajuda (1988–1989)
• MOZ Mário Wilson (1989–1990)
• POR Pedro Gomes (1990)
• BRA Ademir Vieira (1990)
• POR Benvindo Assis (1990–1991)
• POR Ricardo Formosinho (1991)
• POR José Rocha (1991)
• POR Alberto Vivas (1991–1992)
• POR Ricardo Formosinho (1992)
• POR Carlos Silva (1992)
• BRA Ademir Vieira (1992–1993)
• BUL Stoycho Mladenov (1993–96)
• POR Fernando Mendes (1996)
• BUL Plamen Lipenski (1996–1997)
• BRA Zinho (1997)
• POR Manuel Balela (1997–99)
• NED Floris Schaap (1999–2000)
• POR Fanã (2000)
• POR Pitico (2000–2001)
• POR Horácio Gonçalves (2001)
• POR Vítor Urbano (2001–Mar, 2003)
• POR Rui Gorriz (Mar, 2003 – May 18, 2003)
• POR Paulo Sérgio (July 1, 2003 – May 16, 2006)
• POR Manuel Balela (July 15, 2006 – Oct 24, 2006)
• POR Álvaro Magalhães (Oct 24, 2006 – Dec 28, 2007)
• POR Diamantino Miranda (Jan 1, 2008 – May 26, 2008)
• POR Jorge Costa (June 16, 2008 – May 9, 2010)
• MOZ Daúto Faquirá (June 4, 2010 – Dec 30, 2011)
• POR Sérgio Conceição (Jan 2, 2012 – Jan 7, 2013)
• POR Manuel Cajuda (Jan 8, 2013 – May 1, 2013)
• POR Bruno Saraiva (May 1, 2013 – June 29, 2013)
• POR Abel Xavier (July 6, 2013 – Oct 28, 2013)
• POR Paulo Alves (Oct 29, 2013 – Jan 7, 2014)
• ITA Giuseppe Galderisi (Jan 7, 2014 – July 7, 2014)
• POR Toni Conceição (July 7, 2014 – Oct 8, 2014)
• POR Jorge Paixão (Oct 8, 2014 – Feb 2, 2015)
• ITA Cristiano Bacci (Feb 2, 2015 – Oct 27, 2016)
• POR Bruno Baltazar (Oct 28, 2016 – Feb 6, 2017)
• POR Bruno Saraiva (Feb 8, 2017 – Nov, 2017)
• POR Nilton Terroso (Nov 22, 2017 – June, 2018)
• POR Ivo Soares (July, 2018 – Feb, 2019)
• POR Vasco Faísca (Feb 5, 2019 – Dec 26, 2019)
• POR Bruno Ribeiro (Dec 31, 2019 – Feb 24, 2020)
• POR Filipe Moreira (Feb 25, 2020 – June 30, 2020)
• POR José Carvalho Araújo (July 9, 2020 – Dec 29, 2020)
• NED Edgar Davids (Jan 4, 2021 – Jul 19, 2021)
• ITA Carlo Perrone (Jul 24, 2021 – Apr 20, 2022)
• POR Jorge Dias Viegas (Apr 20, 2022 – Nov 8, 2022)
• POR Hélio Pinto (Nov 8, 2022 – Present)

References

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