Sporting Clube Olhanense (), commonly known as Olhanense, is a Portuguese sports club from Olhão, Algarve.

Its football team was founded on 27 April 1912 and currently plays in the Algarve Football Association First Division, the fifth tier of Portuguese football. It holds home matches at the 5,661-spectator capacity Estádio José Arcanjo.

Olhanense won the Campeonato de Portugal (now Taça de Portugal) in 1924, their most prestigious honour in history. They most recently played in the Primeira Liga in 2014 and the second tier in 2017.

History Founded on 27 April 1912, it became the branch number 4 of Sporting Clube de Portugal (Sporting CP).

Olhanense's earliest major honour was winning the 1923–24 Campeonato de Portugal (now Taça de Portugal), the largest football cup competition in Portugal. It also became the first team from the Algarve region to reach the top level of Portuguese football, after winning the Algarve Football Association in 1941. Among its achievements was a fourth-place finish in the 1945–46 season. In 1951, after ten consecutive seasons, the club returned to the second division.

Following this descent, the team only returned to the top flight for five seasons in the rest of the 20th century – three in the early 1960s and two in the mid-1970s – at time when rivals Farense and Portimonense had their most successful years. Managed by former Portugal international defender Jorge Costa, the team returned to the Primeira Liga as champions of the 2008–09 Liga de Honra by defeating Gondomar 1–0.

After five years in the top flight, Olhanense were relegated in May 2014 by finishing last in a season in which they had three managers. The result left the Algarve without a top-flight team. Three years later, the team finished last in the LigaPro, therefore falling out of the professional leagues for the first time in 13 years. For the first half of 2021, former Netherlands international Edgar Davids was the manager. The team missed out on promotion to the new Liga 3 that year, thus falling into the fourth tier. The 2022–23 season ended with relegation to the Algarve FA's First Division, a first such descent.

Rivalries The club has rivalries with fellow Algarve clubs Farense and Portimonense.

Players

First-team squad

Notable players

Greg Nwokolo José Ribeiro

Honours

Domestic honours Campeonato de Portugal Winners: 1923–24 Taça de Portugal Runners-up: 1944–45 Segunda Liga Winners: 2008–09 Segunda Divisão Winners: 1935–36, 1940–41, 2003–04 Terceira Divisão Winners: 1969–70 AF Algarve First Division Winners (16): 1921–22, 1923–24, 1924–25, 1925–26, 1926–27, 1930–31, 1932–33, 1938–39, 1939–40, 1940–41, 1941–42, 1942–43, 1943–44, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47

Personnel honours LPFP Breakthrough Coach of the Year 2008–09: Jorge Costa SJPF Young Player of the Month André Castro: September 2009, January 2010, February 2010 Wilson Eduardo: September 2011 André Pinto: November 2011 Salvador Agra: March 2012

League and cup history Season League Cup NotesTier1941–42 18226214428314Quarterfinals1942–43518828444818Last 161943–445181026653422Last 161944–45618648414116Final1945–464221318653927Last 16Best classification ever1946–4762611411697326Not held1947–4811265714486617Last 321948–4972610412515524Last 321949–509268810485724Not held1950–51 14267316317717Last 16Relegated...1961–62 182686123341221962–6382677122938211963–64 13262816205712Relegated...1973–74 1113086163569221974–75 15306519417017Relegated...+1996–97 3734148123436501997–9813341014104742445th round1998–99434151365134584th round1999–00638171385734642000–0111381314114544532001–021238139164044482nd round2002–0310381413116050552nd round2003–04 13826847729863rd roundPromoted2004–05 2934111112323144Last 1282005–0653413138412852Last 642006–079301010102931404th round2007–0853012993333455th round2008–09 13018485232583rd roundPromoted2009–10 11330514113146293rd round2010–111130713102434345th round2011–128309129363839Quarterfinals2012–131430510152642254th round2013–14 163066182149244th roundRelegated2014–15 216461316175156553rd round2015–168461912154239693rd round2016–17 224277284583284th roundRelegated2017–18 333018484230583rd round2018–1953419696832631st round2019–2012517625719572nd round2020–2132612682921421st round2021–22 4526111053729434th round2022–23 132652191850173rd roundRelegated

Managerial history

Júlio Costa (1923–1925) Cassiano (1936–1940) Cassiano (1944–1945) Cassiano (1948–1949) Pepe Lopez (1950–1951) Armando Martins (1953–1954) Javier Mascaró (1954–1955) Rafael Pineda (1955–1956) José João (1957–1958) Joaquim Paulo (1958–1959) Artur Quaresma (1959–1960) Cassiano (1960–1961) Francisco André (1961) Chinita (1961–1962) Casaca (1962) Joaquim Paulo (1962–63) Armando Carneiro (1963) Chinita (1963–1964) Ruperto Garcia (1963–1964) Iosif Fabian (1964–1965) José Mendes (1964–1965) Severiano Correia (1965–1967) Genê (1967) Veríssimo Alves (1967–1968) Ruperto Garcia (1968–1969) Osvaldo Silva (1969–71) Orlando Ramín (1971–1972) Artur Santos (1972–1973) Jim López (1973) Manuel de Oliveira (1973–1974) Joaquim Paulo (1974) Gonzalito (1974–1975) Alexandrino (1975) Marçal (1975–1976) Basora (1976) Milton Trinidad (1976–1977) János Hrotkó (1976–1977) Miguel Vinuesa (1977–1978) Carlos Sério (1978) János Hrotkó (1978–1979) Hélder Pereira (1979–1980) Miguel Vinuesa (1980) Júlio Amador (1980) Carlos Silva (1980–1984) Mário Lino (1984–1985) Manuel Cajuda(1985–1987) Álvaro Carolino (1987–1988) José Dinis (1988) Manuel Cajuda (1988–1989) Mário Wilson (1989–1990) Pedro Gomes (1990) Ademir Vieira (1990) Benvindo Assis (1990–1991) Ricardo Formosinho (1991) José Rocha (1991) Alberto Vivas (1991–1992) Ricardo Formosinho (1992) Carlos Silva (1992) Ademir Vieira (1992–1993) Stoycho Mladenov (1993–96) Fernando Mendes (1996) Plamen Lipenski (1996–1997) Zinho (1997) Manuel Balela (1997–99) Floris Schaap (1999–2000) Fanã (2000) Pitico (2000–2001) Horácio Gonçalves (2001) Vítor Urbano (2001–Mar, 2003) Rui Gorriz (Mar, 2003 – May 18, 2003) Paulo Sérgio (July 1, 2003 – May 16, 2006) Manuel Balela (July 15, 2006 – Oct 24, 2006) Álvaro Magalhães (Oct 24, 2006 – Dec 28, 2007) Diamantino Miranda (Jan 1, 2008 – May 26, 2008) Jorge Costa (June 16, 2008 – May 9, 2010) Daúto Faquirá (June 4, 2010 – Dec 30, 2011) Sérgio Conceição (Jan 2, 2012 – Jan 7, 2013) Manuel Cajuda (Jan 8, 2013 – May 1, 2013) Bruno Saraiva (May 1, 2013 – June 29, 2013) Abel Xavier (July 6, 2013 – Oct 28, 2013) Paulo Alves (Oct 29, 2013 – Jan 7, 2014) Giuseppe Galderisi (Jan 7, 2014 – July 7, 2014) Toni Conceição (July 7, 2014 – Oct 8, 2014) Jorge Paixão (Oct 8, 2014 – Feb 2, 2015) Cristiano Bacci (Feb 2, 2015 – Oct 27, 2016) Bruno Baltazar (Oct 28, 2016 – Feb 6, 2017) Bruno Saraiva (Feb 8, 2017 – Nov, 2017) Nilton Terroso (Nov 22, 2017 – June, 2018) Ivo Soares (July, 2018 – Feb, 2019) Vasco Faísca (Feb 5, 2019 – Dec 26, 2019) Bruno Ribeiro (Dec 31, 2019 – Feb 24, 2020) Filipe Moreira (Feb 25, 2020 – June 30, 2020) José Carvalho Araújo (July 9, 2020 – Dec 29, 2020) Edgar Davids (Jan 4, 2021 – Jul 19, 2021) Carlo Perrone (Jul 24, 2021 – Apr 20, 2022) Jorge Dias Viegas (Apr 20, 2022 – Nov 8, 2022) Hélio Pinto (Nov 8, 2022 – Present)

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