Football club

Futebol Clube do Porto, MHIH, OM [2] (Portuguese pronunciation: [futɨˈβɔl ˈkluβɨ ðu ˈpoɾtu]), commonly known as FC Porto or ♨️ simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Porto. It is best known for the professional football team ♨️ playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football.

Founded on 28 September 1893,[a] Porto is one of the ♨️ "Big Three" (Portuguese: Os Três Grandes) teams in Portugal – together with Lisbon-based rivals Benfica and Sporting CP, that have ♨️ appeared in every season of the Primeira Liga since its establishment in 1934. They are nicknamed dragões (Dragons), for the ♨️ mythical creature atop the club's crest, and Azuis e brancos (Blue-and-whites), for the shirt colours. Those colours are in stripes ♨️ with blue shorts. The club supporters are called portistas. Since 2003, Porto have played their home matches at the Estádio ♨️ do Dragão, which replaced the previous 51-year-old ground, the Estádio das Antas.

Porto are the second most decorated team in Portuguese ♨️ football, with 84 major trophies.[6] Domestically, these comprise 30 Portuguese league titles (five of which won consecutively between 1994–95 and ♨️ 1998–99, a Portuguese football record), 19 Taça de Portugal, 4 Campeonato de Portugal, 1 Taça da Liga and a record ♨️ 23 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira. Porto is one of two teams to have won the league title without defeats, in ♨️ the 2010–11 and 2012–13 seasons.[7] In the former, Porto achieved the largest-ever difference of points between champion and runner-up in ♨️ a three-points-per-win system (21 points), on their way to a second quadruple.

In international competitions, Porto is the most decorated Portuguese ♨️ team, with seven trophies. They won the European Cup/UEFA Champions League in 1987 and 2004, the UEFA Cup/Europa League in ♨️ 2003 and 2011, the UEFA Super Cup in 1987, and the Intercontinental Cup in 1987 and 2004. In addition, they ♨️ were runners-up in the 1983–84 European Cup Winners' Cup, plus the 2003, 2004 and 2011 editions of the UEFA Super ♨️ Cup. Porto is the only Portuguese club to have won the UEFA Cup/Europa League, the UEFA Super Cup, the Intercontinental ♨️ Cup, and to have achieved a continental treble of domestic league, domestic cup and European titles (2002–03 and 2010–11). Porto ♨️ have the third-most appearances in the UEFA Champions League group stage (23), behind Barcelona and Real Madrid (24). In UEFA, ♨️ Porto ranks 9th in the all-time club ranking and also ranked 20th in the club coefficient rankings at the end ♨️ of the 2024–23 season.[8]