Football club
Futebol Clube do Porto, MHIH, OM [2] (Portuguese pronunciation: [futɨˈβɔl ˈkluβɨ ðu ˈpoɾtu]), commonly known as FC Porto or 🔑 simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Porto. It is best known for the professional football team 🔑 playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football.
Founded on 28 September 1893,[a] Porto is one of the 🔑 "Big Three" (Portuguese: Os Três Grandes) teams in Portugal – together with Lisbon-based rivals Benfica and Sporting CP, that have 🔑 appeared in every season of the Primeira Liga since its establishment in 1934. They are nicknamed dragões (Dragons), for the 🔑 mythical creature atop the club's crest, and Azuis e brancos (Blue-and-whites), for the shirt colours. Those colours are in stripes 🔑 with blue shorts. The club supporters are called portistas. Since 2003, Porto have played their home matches at the Estádio 🔑 do Dragão, which replaced the previous 51-year-old ground, the Estádio das Antas.
Porto are the second most decorated team in Portuguese 🔑 football, with 84 major trophies.[6] Domestically, these comprise 30 Portuguese league titles (five of which won consecutively between 1994–95 and 🔑 1998–99, a Portuguese football record), 19 Taça de Portugal, 4 Campeonato de Portugal, 1 Taça da Liga and a record 🔑 23 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira. Porto is one of two teams to have won the league title without defeats, in 🔑 the 2010–11 and 2012–13 seasons.[7] In the former, Porto achieved the largest-ever difference of points between champion and runner-up in 🔑 a three-points-per-win system (21 points), on their way to a second quadruple.
In international competitions, Porto is the most decorated Portuguese 🔑 team, with seven trophies. They won the European Cup/UEFA Champions League in 1987 and 2004, the UEFA Cup/Europa League in 🔑 2003 and 2011, the UEFA Super Cup in 1987, and the Intercontinental Cup in 1987 and 2004. In addition, they 🔑 were runners-up in the 1983–84 European Cup Winners' Cup, plus the 2003, 2004 and 2011 editions of the UEFA Super 🔑 Cup. Porto is the only Portuguese club to have won the UEFA Cup/Europa League, the UEFA Super Cup, the Intercontinental 🔑 Cup, and to have achieved a continental treble of domestic league, domestic cup and European titles (2002–03 and 2010–11). Porto 🔑 have the third-most appearances in the UEFA Champions League group stage (23), behind Barcelona and Real Madrid (24). In UEFA, 🔑 Porto ranks 9th in the all-time club ranking and also ranked 20th in the club coefficient rankings at the end 🔑 of the 2024–23 season.[8]
A "Caja", como é conhecida, era uma das companhias de cassino mais conhecidas do país, e um das mais ricas 🍌 do mundo.
Sua fortuna caiu em mais de 70% em 1987, depois que a crise financeira de 1989 teve de ser 🍌 superada.
Desde então foi adquirida por uma companhia de produção cinematográfica chinesa, a "Wolli Holdings".
Em 2007 foi fundada uma holding, a 🍌 "Caja", juntamente com inúmeras outras empresas.
Em 2009 foi anunciado que o "Boxofone" seria o novo nome da companhia.