C.D. Santa Clara
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| Full name | Clube Desportivo Santa Clara | ||
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| Founded | 1921 | ||
| Ground | Estádio de São Miguel, Ponta Delgada (Capacity: 15,277) |
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| Chairman |  Cruz Marques |
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| Manager |  Vítor Pereira |
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| League | Liga de Honra | ||
| 2007-08 | Liga de Honra, 10th | ||
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Clube Desportivo Santa Clara is an Portuguese football club from Ponta Delgada, Azores. To date, it is the only club from the Azores to have competed in the top division of the Portuguese Liga, although they currently compete in the Liga de Honra.
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[edit] Overview
Among its most famous players are Paulo Figueiredo, Clayton, Lito Vidigal and Jorge Ribeiro. Pedro Pauleta was a youth player at the club.
Santa Clara is one of the only teams from the Azores area to participate in the Portuguese Liga: due to the geographic area of the Azores, Santa Clara's rivals are Nacional and Marítimo, both from Madeira Island. Matches against teams from Madeira prove to be very heated affairs, with both sets of fans segregated and heightened security required.
Santa Clara play in the Estádio de São Miguel (In English, The Stadium of Saint Michael) in Ponta Delgada, the largest city in the Azores.
The club also shares lesser rivalries with Vizela and Trofense
The club also qualified for the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 2002, where they crushed and ran riot against Armenia club Shirak.
The current club captain is Nuno Sociedade.
The clubs most successful manager was Manuel José Tavares Fernandes a former Portugal International. Fernandes was the first manager to take Santa Clara to the First Division, where he was praised in the Azores.
Santa Clara's current kit manufactuer is Macron and their sponsors are Açoreana Seguros. Over the past years it's been roumered that Lotto, Umbro are interested in manfactuaring their new kits.
The club also played in the old Estádio da Luz, as Benfica's last official match before a new stadium was built in Lisbon for UEFA Euro 2004 in which Portugal hosted. The attendance of that game was close to 50,000.
Recently, Paulo Sérgio, coach of Santa Clara, was sacked after losing a 1st place lead by midseason. With only 7 games left until the end of the season, the club lay in 10th place and have failed to get promoted.
[edit] Madeira & Azores Rivalry
Prior to Marítimo's October 2006 betandwin.com Liga clash against Naval 1º de Maio, Marítimo and fellow Madeira rivals Nacional announced that construction would begin on the brand-new 10,000 all-seated Estádio do Madeira in the nearby Praia Formosa area of Funchal. After Portuguese press released this statement, officials in the Azores also prompted for a brand new stadium in the Azores for Santa Clara, where Santa Clara and Portugal would play in. So far Madeira's new stadium is in the works but Santa Clara's new stadium is now being looked at, but President Cruz says he will only consider it when Santa Clara get promoted into the Superliga.
During the 1990's the lack of funds going into Santa Clara where noticeable as the club fell from the First Division and sank deeply into the 2nd. It was this period that also saw the Azores and Madeira derby grow even stronger as Nacional and Marítimo fans would sing "O Barco Açoriano Está no Fundo" (translated as: "the Azorean boat has just sank to the bottom"), but in recent times, President Cruz Marques has been investing more time and money into the club such as into the ever growing talent of Rúben Rodrigues and players such as talented keeper João Botelho. The club is a favourite in the Liga de Honra to get promoted for the current season.
Politics also takes part in the Madeira and Azores derby with Madeira's controversial regional governor, Alberto João Jardim, being a self-confessed Marítimo supporter and also because of the heated relationship with the two regional governors. On the opposite end, Azores regional governor, Carlos César, is a Santa Clara fan.
The derby even competes with each other using players as Madeira's most famous footballer, being Cristiano Ronaldo, who played for Madeira club Nacional and currently plays for Manchester United, and the Azores had prolific striker and all-time leading scorer for Portugal, Pauleta, who played for Santa Clara. This only exacerbates the ill-feeling between the clubs and the two islands.
[edit] Current Squad
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[edit] Notable Former Players
- Pedro Pauleta
- Jorge Ribeiro
- Ricardo Sousa
- Nuno Sociedade
Klevis Dalipi
Figueiredo- Kali
Clayton- George
Faysal El Idrissi
István Vincze
Toñito
[edit] League and cup history
The club has spent three seasons at the top level of Portuguese football.
| Season | Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Cup | Notes |
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| 1982-1983 | 3D | 7 | 30 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 42 | 39 | 30 | 2nd round | |
| 1983-1984 | 3D | 7 | 30 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 38 | 32 | 31 | 2nd round | |
| 1984-1985 | 3D | 10 | 30 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 32 | 26 | 28 | 2nd round | |
| 1985-1986 | 3D | 4 | 30 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 34 | 20 | 36 | 2nd round | |
| 1986-1987 | 3D | 2 | 30 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 54 | 29 | 40 | 1st round | promoted |
| 1987-1988 | 2B | 20 | 38 | 5 | 13 | 20 | 19 | 51 | 23 | 3rd round | relegated |
| 1988-1989 | 3D | 10 | 34 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 35 | 32 | 35 | 2nd round | |
| 1989-1990 | 3D | 1 | 34 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 54 | 41 | 45 | 2nd round | promoted |
| 1990-1991 | 2B | 14 | 34 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 40 | 56 | 33 | 1st round | relegated |
| 1991-1992 | 3D | 5 | 34 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 55 | 34 | 39 | 2nd round | |
| 1992-1993 | 3D | 14 | 34 | 8 | 14 | 12 | 27 | 40 | 30 | 1st round | |
| 1993-1994 | 3D | 13 | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 28 | 52 | 29 | 1st round | |
| 1994-1995 | 3D | 18 | 34 | 3 | 9 | 22 | 20 | 70 | 15 | 1st round | |
| 1995-1996 | 3D | 1 | 26 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 48 | 15 | 55 | 1st round | promoted |
| 1996-1997 | 2B | 2 | 34 | 19 | 6 | 9 | 67 | 36 | 63 | 3rd round | |
| 1997-1998 | 2B | 1 | 34 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 60 | 31 | 65 | 4th round | promoted |
| 1998-1999 | 2H | 3 | 34 | 13 | 13 | 7 | 53 | 37 | 55 | 5th round | promoted |
| 1999-2000 | 1D | 18 | 34 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 35 | 50 | 31 | 5th round | relegated |
| 2000-2001 | 2H | 1 | 34 | 20 | 7 | 7 | 60 | 37 | 67 | 3rd round | promoted |
| 2001-2002 | 1D | 14 | 34 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 32 | 46 | 37 | 5th round | Record for Highest League Placing |
| 2002-2003 | 1D | 17 | 34 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 39 | 54 | 35 | 5th round | relegated |
| 2003-2004 | 2H | 13 | 34 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 41 | 44 | 42 | 3rd round | |
| 2004-2005 | 2H | 15 | 34 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 39 | 49 | 39 | 4th round | |
| 2005-2006 | 2H | 6 | 34 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 45 | 32 | 51 | 4th round | |
| 2006-2007 | 2H | 4 | 30 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 34 | 31 | 50 | 4th round | |
| 2007-2008 | 2H | 10 | 30 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 31 | 50 | 37 | 4th round |
[edit] Europe
- UEFA Intertoto Cup 2002/03
- 22/06 Santa Clara 2-0 Shirak
- 29/06 Shirak 3-3 Santa Clara
- 07/07 Teplice 5-1 Santa Clara
- 13/07 Santa Clara 1-4 Teplice
[edit] External links
- CD Santa Clara official site (Portuguese)
- Non-official blog (Portuguese)
- Talk about Portuguese futebol in EnglishPfutbol.com
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