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S.C. Lusitânia

S.C. Lusitânia

Portuguese association football club

The Sport Clube Lusitânia (commonly shortened to S.C. Lusitânia) is a sports club located in Angra do Heroísmo on the island of Terceira, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. Besides a football department, the club also has a basketball department that has played in the top level of the Portuguese men's basketball league system.

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History

In 1922, a group of enthusiastic footballers met in the Recreio dos Artistas, and founded the Sport Clube Lusitânia, naming it for the airplane of the same name, used by Portuguese trans-Atlantic flight pioneers Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral. It became the delegation number 14 of Sporting Clube de Portugal (Sporting CP).[1][2]

Their highest achievement is reaching the semifinals of the Taça de Portugal in 1964. They had defeated Ferroviário Lourenço Marques in the quarterfinals, the highest a Portuguese colony club ever reached in the Portuguese Cup (and only because the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar allowed them to play as a means of demonstrating that Portugal's African possessions were provinces and not colonies). The headquarters of the club is in the historic manorhouse of Dona Violante do Canto.[1]

Current squad

As of 12 April 2023

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

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Basketball team

The men's basketball team is part of the Portuguese Basketball League (LCB).[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "História – Sport Club Lusitânia" (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  2. [2]
    "História e projeto: eis o passado recente do centenário Lusitânia :: zerozero.pt". www.zerozero.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  3. [3]
    www.basquetebol.sclusitania.com/ Archived 2007-01-01 at the Wayback Machine


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