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Full name
  
Futebol Clube do Porto

Head coach
  
Ricardo Costa

2015–16
  
3rd

President
  
Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa

Founded
  
1928

Capacity
  
2,200

League
  
Andebol 1

Arena
  
Dragão Caixa

Location
  
Porto, Portugal

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The FC Porto handball team is the senior representative of the handball section of FC Porto, a Portuguese sports club based in Porto. The team competes in the Andebol 1, the top-tier domestic league, and plays its home matches at the Dragão Caixa arena.

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The current head coach is former club player and captain Ricardo Costa, who replaced six-time champion Serbian coach Ljubomir Obradović in the beginning of the 2015–16 season.

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History

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The section started in 1932 with a field handball (eleven-a-side) team, which played competitive matches until 1974–75, when the discipline was discontinued in favour of the current seven-a-side handball. In this period, the club won 37 regional league titles and 29 national league titles.

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In 1951 the club established the handball section whose team won the Portuguese league for the first time in the 1953–54 season, having increased that tally with a further eight titles by 1968.

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Porto endured a 31-year drought before winning the national league again in the 1998–99 season. In the 2014–15 season, the team secured their seventh consecutive league title, establishing a national handball record. In the previous season, the team also debuted in the EHF Champions League group stage, after overcoming the qualification tournament for the first time in five consecutive attempts.

Honours

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The club is one of the most successful in domestic competitions, holding the record for the most league, league cup, and super cup titles.

Domestic

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  • Portuguese Handball First Division: 20 (record)
  • 1953–54, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1967–68, 1998–99, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15
  • Portuguese Handball Cup: 7
  • 1975–76, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1993–94, 2005–06, 2006–07
  • Portuguese Handball League Cup: 3 (record)
  • 2003–04, 2004–05, 2007–08
  • Portuguese Handball Super Cup: 6 (shared record)
  • 1994–95, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2009–10, 2013–14

    • International

  • Limburgse Handbal Dagen: 2
  • 2009, 2012
  • Torneio Internacional de Gaia: 2
  • 2015, 2016

    • Players and staff

    The following players and staff compose the squad for the 2016–17 season:

    Staff members

  • Head coach: Ricardo Costa
  • Assistant coach: Luís Graça
  • Physical coach: Tiago Cadete
  • Goalkepper coach: Telmo Ferreira
  • Doctor: Eduardo Coelho
  • Physiotherapist: António Santos
  • Physiotherapist: Rúben Castro

    • References

    FC Porto (handball) Wikipedia
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