C.F. União de Coimbra

Portuguese sports club

Football club

União de Coimbra

Full name

Clube de Futebol União de Coimbra

Founded

1919, June 2

Ground

Campo da Arregaça,
Coimbra

Capacity

1500

Chairman

Fernando Soares

Manager

Tiago Felgar

League

Campeonato de Portugal
Taça de Portugal

Home colours

Away colours

Clube União 1919, usually known as União de Coimbra (Portuguese pronunciation: [uniˈɐ̃w dɨ kuˈĩbɾɐ]), is a sports club in the city of Coimbra, Portugal. The club was founded on June 2, 1919 and has a large array of sports departments which includes football, futsal, basketball, aikido, volleyball and swimming.

The main football team of União de Coimbra played one single season in the Portuguese First Division in 1972-1973, among big clubs like FC Porto, Benfica and Sporting Clube de Portugal. However this season coincided with hometown big club Académica de Coimbra being in Segunda Divisão as a result of being relegated the previous season, so a top division Coimbra derby never took place.^[1]

In 2016, due to legal reasons related with the club's financial distress and subsequent reorganization after its bankruptcy, the club was forced to change its name to Clube União 1919.^[2] The main men's football team currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal. It played in the Estádio Municipal Sérgio Conceição, in Taveiro, Coimbra, which was named after the football player Sérgio Conceição and has 2500 seats.

Football: league history

The club has a single presence at the top level of Portuguese football.^{[citation needed]}

Season		Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Notes
1972–1973	1D	14	30	5	7	18	22	54	17	relegated
1992–93	3	1	34	21	13	0	62	15	55	Promoted

In popular culture

Bruno Aleixo, a fictional character, popular in Portugal and Brazil, created by the comedy group GANA is a supporter of União de Coimbra.

Honours

Campeão Nacional 2ªDiv.: 1
Campeão Nacional 3ªDiv.: 1
Campeão Distrital da Associação de Futebol de Coimbra: 1
Winner of the Taça da Associação de Futebol de Coimbra: 1

References

^ "União de Coimbra. Há 50 anos, daquela única vez..." Jornal SOL (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-06.
^ Mascarenhas, Américo Sarmento (2016-04-13). "União de Coimbra muda de nome para mudar de vida". Jornal Tornado (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-02-04.