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Clube de Futebol Estrela da Amadora (pron.
Pronunciation

"Pronunciation" refers to the way a word or a language is usually spoken, or the manner in which someone utters a word. If someone said to have "correct pronunciation," then it refers to both within a particular dialect....
 ), sometimes refer to as just Estrela, is a Portuguese
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
 sports club
Sports club

A sports club, athletics club or sports association is an eclectic institution oriented to multiple sports, which fields many teams and in several sports, working under the same umbrella organization....
 (prominently football
Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....
) based on Amadora
Amadora

Amadora is a city and a Municipalities of Portugal in Portugal, in the northwest of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. The city and municipality population is 175,872 in eleven freguesias ....
, northwest of Lisbon
Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
. While never a contender to the place of third most important club in the Lisbon Football Association, Estrela da Amadora (which is translated to "Amadora Star") won a Cup of Portugal
Cup of Portugal

The Portuguese Cup or, more correctly, Cup of Portugal is the Portugal national football competition on a knock-out-basis. From the 2008 season the cup is sponsored by the Portuguese biggest private bank Millennium BCP....
 in 1990 and one Portuguese Second Division of Honour title in 1992-93. Within their 12 completed seasons at top flight football, their best season was in the 1997-98, when they finished seventh.






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Clube de Futebol Estrela da Amadora (pron.
Pronunciation

"Pronunciation" refers to the way a word or a language is usually spoken, or the manner in which someone utters a word. If someone said to have "correct pronunciation," then it refers to both within a particular dialect....
 ), sometimes refer to as just Estrela, is a Portuguese
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
 sports club
Sports club

A sports club, athletics club or sports association is an eclectic institution oriented to multiple sports, which fields many teams and in several sports, working under the same umbrella organization....
 (prominently football
Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....
) based on Amadora
Amadora

Amadora is a city and a Municipalities of Portugal in Portugal, in the northwest of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. The city and municipality population is 175,872 in eleven freguesias ....
, northwest of Lisbon
Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
. While never a contender to the place of third most important club in the Lisbon Football Association, Estrela da Amadora (which is translated to "Amadora Star") won a Cup of Portugal
Cup of Portugal

The Portuguese Cup or, more correctly, Cup of Portugal is the Portugal national football competition on a knock-out-basis. From the 2008 season the cup is sponsored by the Portuguese biggest private bank Millennium BCP....
 in 1990 and one Portuguese Second Division of Honour title in 1992-93. Within their 12 completed seasons at top flight football, their best season was in the 1997-98, when they finished seventh. Estrela has participated in the Cup Winners' Cup in 1990 reaching the 2nd stage.

Current Squad


Notable Former Players

  • Paulo Bento
    Paulo Bento

    Paulo Jorge Gomes Bento , , is a former Portugal football , who played as a defensive midfielder. He is currently the manager of Sporting Clube de Portugal....
  • Abel Xavier
    Abel Xavier

    Abel Lu?s da Silva Costa Xavier, Pronunciation , is a professional associationer who last played for Los Angeles Galaxy, and is also a former international for Portuguese national football team....
  • Miguel
    Miguel Monteiro

    Miguel , full name Lu?s Miguel Brito Garcia Monteiro, Order of Infante D. Henrique, , is a Portugal football defender , currently playing for Valencia CF....
  • Jorge Andrade
    Jorge Andrade

    Jorge Manuel Almeida Gomes de Andrade , Order of Infante D. Henrique, is a Portugal football defender , currently a free agent....
  • Nélson
    Nelson Pereira

    N?lson Alexandre Gomes Pereira, known as N?lson , is a Portugal football goalkeeper, currently playing for C.F. Estrela da Amadora....
  • Tiago Gomes
    Tiago Filipe Figueiras Gomes

    Tiago Filipe Figueiras Gomes is a Portugal football Midfielder who currently plays for FC Steaua Bucuresti on loan from Portugal team C.F. Estrela da Amadora....
  • Rui Duarte
  • José António Calado
    José António Calado

    Jos? Ant?nio Calado da Silva, Calado , is a Portugal football midfielder, currently playing for AEP Paphos FC in the Cypriot First Division....
  • Carlos Chaínho
    Carlos Chaínho

    Carlos Narciso Cha?nho is a Portugal football of Angola descent, currently playing for Shahin Bushehr F.C. as a defensive midfielder....
  • António Semedo
    António Semedo

    Ant?nio Paulo Sanches Semedo is a Portugal soccer who currently plays for FC Steaua Bucuresti. He plays on the winger or second striker, and is nicknamed "The Panther"....
  • Álvaro Magalhães
    Álvaro Magalhães

    ?lvaro Monteiro de Magalh?es born in Lamego on 3 January,1961, better known as ?lvaro, is a former soccer player who played for Acad?mica Coimbra OAF, SL Benfica and Estrela da Amadora....
  • Silvestre Varela
    Silvestre Varela

    Silvestre Manuel Gon?alves Varela is a Portugal soccer in the Forward position, who currently plays for C.F. Estrela da Amadora in Portuguese Liga....
  • António Mendonça
    António Mendonça

    Ant?nio Manuel Viana Mendon?a, or simply known as Mendon?a , is an Angolan football midfielder. He plays for C.F. Estrela da Amadora.He is a member of the Angola national football team, and was called up to the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the African Cup of Nations 2006 in Egypt....
  • Maximiliano Estévez
  • Celsinho
    Celso Luís Honorato Júnior

    Celso Lu?s Honorato J?nior is a Brazil football known as Celsinho. He currently plays for C.F. Estrela da Amadora.He began his career in his native Brazil with Associa??o Portuguesa de Desportos, where he was always compared to Ronaldinho Ga?cho, due to his long and curly hair and amazing technical skills....
  • Fernando
    Fernando Francisco Reges

    Fernando full name Fernando Francisco Reges is a Brazilian Football player. He currently plays for F.C. Porto.He signed a 5-year contract in summer 2007, but immediately on loan to C.F....
  • Roberto Assis
    Roberto Assis

    Roberto de Assis Moreira is the brother, manager, agent and adviser of Brazilian footballer Ronaldinho. Although Assis is known predominantly for his intelligent managing of better known and more illustrious younger brother Ronaldinho's career, he himself was a budding football talent in his youth....
  • Tomislav Ivkovic
    Tomislav Ivkovic

    Tomislav Ivkovic is a retired Croatian football goalkeeper who also played in 38 international matches for the Yugoslavia national football team between 1983 and 1991....
  • Anthony da Silva
  • Moses Sakyi
    Moses Sakyi

    Moses Sakyi is a Ghana national football team international football er who plays for S.C. Olhanense. He is a central Striker....
  • Richard Daddy Owobokiri
  • Leonson Lewis
    Leonson Lewis

    Leonson Lewis is a football coach and former player from Trinidad and Tobago. The striker got 30 caps and scored 21 goals for the Trinidad and Tobago national football team between 1988 and 1996 ....
  • Luis Aguiar
    Luis Bernardo Aguiar

    Lu?s Bernardo Aguiar Burgos is an Uruguay soccer currently playing as an attacking midfielder for Sporting Clube de Braga, in the Portuguese Liga....

Former Coaches

  • Lito Vidigal
    José Carlos Fernandes Vidigal

    Jos? Carlos Fernandes Vidigal , aka Lito, is a former Angolan football , and the current coach of Portimonense Sporting Clube, in Liga Vitalis....
  • Daúto Faquirá
    Daúto Faquirá

    Da?to Xaharmame Amade Faquir?, born 26 December 1965, is a football manager from Mozambique and has trained last as manager of Vit?ria FC....
  • António da Conceição
  • Miguel Quaresma
  • Jorge Jesus
    Jorge Jesus

    Jorge Jesus born on July 24, 1954 in Amadora, Portugal is a portuguese Manager , currently at the helm of Portuguese club SC Braga. He has taken Braga to the UEFA Cup and beat the British team Portsmouth 3-0 and lost to AC Milan 1-0....
  • Carlos Brito
    Carlos Brito

    Carlos Alfredo de Brito, Order of Infante D. Henrique is a Portugal politician. He joined the illegal Portuguese Communist Party during the fascist New State regime , by whom he was imprisoned....


Honours

  • Liga de Honra
    Liga de Honra

    The Liga Vitalis in English language: Vitalis League), is the Portugal Portuguese football competitions association football competition. It was formerly called Segunda Divis?o and Segunda Divis?o de Honra ....
     1993
  • Portuguese Cup 1990

Kit

The Estrela kit is white with the shirt split with three colours (hence the nickname 'the tricolours').The left side is red, the middle is white and the right side green, with the shorts and socks white. Estrela is sponsored by Portuguese brand Tepa and Cofidis
Cofidis

Cofidis is a France company, one of the Otto Group's financial services providers.Founded in 1982 by 3 Suisses International in cooperation with Cetelem, Cofidis specializes in the consumer credit business of the 3_Suisses....
.

Facts

  • Estrela has 6500 registered paying supporters, a lot for a club with a small stadium.
  • In 2005 they decided to change the club's kit to traditional white copying the badge and taking away the old red, green and white striped kit.
  • The club have won the Liga de Honra
    Liga de Honra

    The Liga Vitalis in English language: Vitalis League), is the Portugal Portuguese football competitions association football competition. It was formerly called Segunda Divis?o and Segunda Divis?o de Honra ....
     once, in 1993.
  • Their best ever finish was 7th in the 1997/98 season.

Europe

  • Cup Winners' Cup 1990/91
  • 19/09 Estrela Amadora 1-1 Neuchâtel Xamax
    Neuchâtel Xamax

    Neuch?tel Xamax Football Club is a Switzerland football club, based in Neuch?tel. It was founded in 1970 as a merger between FC Cantonal and FC Xamax ....
  • 03/10 Neuchâtel Xamax
    Neuchâtel Xamax

    Neuch?tel Xamax Football Club is a Switzerland football club, based in Neuch?tel. It was founded in 1970 as a merger between FC Cantonal and FC Xamax ....
     1-1 Estrela Amadora
  • 24/10 RFC Liège 2-0 Estrela Amadora
  • 07/11 Estrela Amadora 1-0 RFC Liège

League And Cup History

The club is currently in its 14th presence at the top level of Portuguese football.

Season Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA PPortuguese CupNotes
1988-19891D838131312334139   
1989-19901D133410816353428Winner 
1990-19911D183891415374632   
1991-19922H1134101311303533   
1992-19932H13417143592848  Promoted
1993-19941D93491510393633   
1994-19951D153461414274026   
1995-19961D1134743355035   
1996-19971D934121111393847   
1997-19981D73414812424150  Best Classification Ever
1998-19991D834111211334045   
1999-20001D83410159403545   
2000-20011D18344723305719  Relegated
2001-20022H4341699443857   
2002-20032H33415127423257  Promoted
2003-20041D18344525227417  Relegated
2004-20052H3341798473060Semi FinalPromoted
2005-20061D93412913313345 Round 6 
2006-20071D10309813233635 Round 4 


External Links

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