The Estádio do Dragão (Dragon Stadium) is one of the most sofisticated and modern venues in europe. No other stadium conquered so many admirors during Euro 2004. During the 2003/04 season, the stadium staged many fantastic games which lead FC Porto to its fantastic victory in the 2004 UEFA Champions League. The Dragon Stadium has a total capacity of 52000.

Honours

No other Portuguese club enjoys the international reputation of FC Porto. Its international honours are quite impressive: 1 UEFA Champions League (2004), 1 European Champions Cup (1987), 1 UEFA Cup (2003), 1 European SuperCup (1988) and 2 Intercontinental Cups (1987, 2004). The «Dragons» have also played the final of the UEFA Cup Winners Cup in 1984.

Its international prestige was also consolidated by winning several prestigious tournaments, such as Juan Gamper, Teresa Herrera, Ciudad de Sevilla/EXPO-92, Thailand Premier Cup, Rotterdam Tournament, among others.

Since its foundation, in 1893, FC Porto has also conquered 23 national championships, 13 Portuguese Cups and 15 Portuguese SuperCups.

Famous players

Some of the famous players that contributed for the greatness of the club are: Pinga, Pedroto, Hernâni, Cubillas, Oliveira, Fernando Gomes, João Pinto, Mlynarczyk, Madjer, Futre, Frasco, Branco, Vítor Baía, Sérgio Conceição, Domingos, Drulovic, Jardel, Deco, Paulo Ferreira, Ricardo Carvalho, Alenitchev, Maniche, Mc Carthy, Derlei, Costinha, Bosingwa, Pepe, Quaresma, Anderson, Lisandro Lopez and Lucho Gonzalez.

Player Awards

Deco - UEFA Player of the Year 2004
Deco - 2nd place in France Football's European Player 2004
Madjer - African Player of the Year 1987
Futre - 2nd place in France Football's European Player 1987
Gomes - France Football's Golden Shoe in 82/83, 83/84
Jardel - France Football's Golden Shoe in 98/99

Famous coaches

Artur Jorge, Tomislav Ivic, Bobby Robson, António Oliveira, Fernando Santos and José Mourinho.

Our president

Pinto da Costa is our president for more than 20 years. He's one of the most sucessfull club presidents in the world.

The team

FC Porto is currently coached by Jesualdo Ferreira. Jesualdo led the team to its 3rd consecutive title. The team should have qualified at least to the 1/4 finals in Champions League, but lost to Schalke on penalties.

No other team in the world made so much money transfering its players. Last year, Anderson (Man United) and Pepe (Real Madrid) were transfered for more than 60 million euros. This year, Bosingwa (Chelsea) and Quaresma (Inter) were transfered for more than 50 million euros. There are a lot of new players, and it will take some time to build a very competitive team.

FC Porto 2009/10

FC Porto has been playing in 4-3-3, with this team: Helton; Fucile, Bruno Alves, Rolando, Alvaro Pereira; Fernando, Raul Meireles, Belluschi; Mariano Gonzalez, Rodriguez and Hulk.

Other players to watch: Beto, Miguel Lopes, Maicon, Prediger, Varela, Valeri and Radamel Falcao.

Did you know that...

...Vítor Baía has the best trophy record in the world? The all-time best Portuguese goalkeeper played for FC Porto and Barcelona, and conquered many national and international trophies - a total of 31. Vítor Baía didn't suffer any goals for 1191 minutes (7th best record in the world).

...FC Porto has one the best 15 records in the world without loosing a championship game (between 22/10/94 and 24/03/96).

...Anderson holds the record of best transfer (to Manchester United, for 31.5 million euros).

...FC Porto holds the record of five consecutive Portuguese leagues (94-95 to 99-00).

...FC Porto played more than 250 games in continental and intercontinental competitions.

...FC Porto is one of the clubs with more appearances in UEFA Champions League.

...only 8 clubs in Europe have conquered more international trophies than FC Porto (Real, AC Milan, Ajax, Barcelona, Liverpool, Juventus, Bayern and Inter).

...the average attendance at the Dragon Stadium is approximately 38000, since its inauguration in November 2003.

Here's a list of «victims» of our football through the years: Lyon, Barcelona, Koln, Manchester United, AC Milan, Roma, Rangers, Celtic, Aberdeen, Ajax, Kiev, Bayern, Penarol, Valencia, Anderlecht, Werder Bremen, Lazio, Marseille, Deportivo Coruna, CSKA Moscow, Hamburg and Atletico Madrid.