Associação Desportiva de Fafe is a Portuguese

Portugal

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 football club from Fafe, northern Portugal. Founded in 1958, it currently plays in the Portuguese Fourth Division

Portuguese Third Division

The Terceira Divisão Portuguesa is the fourth level of the Portuguese football league system. The Third Division was initially the third level of the Portuguese pyramid but with the creation of the Liga de Honra in 1990–91, it became the fourth level...

, holding home games at Parque Municipal dos Desportos de Fafe

Parque Municipal dos Desportos de Fafe

Parque Municipal dos Desportos de Fafe is a multi-use stadium in Fafe, Portugal. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of AD Fafe. The stadium is able to hold 8,000 people. They built this stadium for the city for sport in 1968 and uses for AD Fafe to get into...

, with a capacity of 8,000.

It was the first professional club of former S.L. Benfica and Portugal

Portugal national football team

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 great Rui Costa

Rui Costa

Rui Manuel César Costa, OIH is a former Portuguese football player and current Director of Football for Sport Lisboa e Benfica. An attacking midfielder also capable of playing as a deep-seated defensive midfielder, he most recently played for Portuguese club Benfica...

, on loan.

History

AD Fafe were founded in 1958 and constructed a bigger improved stadium ten years later. During this time the club grew better, successively moving up divisions. Just as the club was celebrating its 30th anniversary, it achieved a first ever first division

Portuguese Liga

The Primeira Liga , formerly called Primeira Divisão, currently named Liga ZON Sagres after their main sponsors, is the top professional association football division of the Portuguese football league system...

 promotion after finishing runner-up in the second division

Liga de Honra

The Liga de Honra , known for sponsorship reasons as the Liga Orangina, is the Portuguese second level football league. It was formerly called Segunda Divisão and Segunda Divisão de Honra . When the LPFP took control of the two nationwide levels, it was renamed Segunda Liga, before renaming it...

, in 1987–88.

In the subsequent top flight campaign, Fafe finished 16th and was immediately relegated, but did manage a shock 0–0 draw at F.C. Porto. In 1990–91's second division, the club managed to sign 18-year old Rui Costa

Rui Costa

Rui Manuel César Costa, OIH is a former Portuguese football player and current Director of Football for Sport Lisboa e Benfica. An attacking midfielder also capable of playing as a deep-seated defensive midfielder, he most recently played for Portuguese club Benfica...

 (on loan from S.L. Benfica), whom managed 38 games with 6 goals before "returning home".

The next few years were tough because Fafe dropped down two divisions in a couple of years, managing promotion from the fourth level

Portuguese Third Division

The Terceira Divisão Portuguesa is the fourth level of the Portuguese football league system. The Third Division was initially the third level of the Portuguese pyramid but with the creation of the Liga de Honra in 1990–91, it became the fourth level...

 to the third

Portuguese Second Division

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 in 1996, where they remained for over a decade. In 2007–08, under manager

Coach (sport)

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 Carlos Condeço, it finished 11th.

Current squad

Notable players

Rui Costa

Rui Costa

Rui Manuel César Costa, OIH is a former Portuguese football player and current Director of Football for Sport Lisboa e Benfica. An attacking midfielder also capable of playing as a deep-seated defensive midfielder, he most recently played for Portuguese club Benfica...

 Ricardo Fernandes

Ricardo Manuel da Silva Fernandes

Ricardo Manuel da Silva Fernandes is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Moreirense F.C. as a central defender.-Football career:...

 Flávio Meireles

Flávio Meireles

Flávio Miguel Magalhães Sousa Meireles is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a defensive midfielder....

 Paulo Jorge

Paulo Jorge Carreira Nunes

Paulo Jorge Carreira Nunes , known as Paulo Jorge, is a retired Angolan-born Portuguese footballer who played as a goalkeeper.-Football career:...

 Vítor Hugo

Vítor Hugo da Costa Ferreira

Vítor Hugo da Costa Ferreira or simply Vítor Hugo is a Portuguese football player currently playing for C.D. Trofense.-External links:...

 Alex Nuno Claro

Nuno Claro

Nuno Claro Simões Coimbra , known as Claro, is a Portuguese footballer who plays CFR Cluj in the Romanian first division, as a goalkeeper.-Football career:...

 Orlando

Rui Orlando Ribeiro Santos Neto

Rui Orlando Ribeiro Santos Neto , simply Orlando, is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Académica de Coimbra in the Portuguese first division, as a central defender.-Football career:...

Stadium

Parque Municipal dos Desportos de Fafe is a multi-use stadium. It is currently used mostly for football matches, having been built in 1968.

League and Cup history

Season		Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Notes
1988-1989	1H	16	38	9	14	15	16	29	32
2007-2008	2HA	11	30	9	5	12	11	30	32

External links

• Official website