Associação Académica de Coimbra, Rugby is one of the leading teams of rugby union in Portugal.Julia Wilkinson, John King Lonely Planet Portugal 2003 -- Page 324 "Académica is the name of Coimbra's second-division football team and its first-division rugby team, both of which play at the Estadio Municipal" It is currently one of Portugal's top 8 clubs and plays in the Super Bock above the 1st Division. The club is one of the most successful of the sports sections of the Associação Académica de Coimbra, and is based at the same Estadio Municipal as the fully independent football team.
The club was founded in 1936 and won the Campeonato Português de Rugby in 1977, 1979, 1997 and 2004, and the Portuguese Rugby Cup in 1974, 1980, 1990, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 2018.
Honors Campeonato Nacional Honra/Super Bock: Winner (4): 1976/77, 1978/79, 1996/97, 2003/04 Taça de Portugal de Rugby: Winner (7): 1973/74, 1979/80, 1989/90, 1994/95, 1995/96, 1996/97, 2017/18 Supertaça de Portugal de Rugby: Winner (2): 1988, 1996 Taça Ibérica: Winner (1): 1997/98
Squad 2023/24 According to Portuguese Rugby Federation
+The Académica squad for the 2023–24 TOP 10 seasonProps Alexandre Alves Mzo Buthelezi André Gonçalves Afonso Machado João Claúdio Dos Santos
Hookers
João Mateus Santiago Bonavento João Aguiar Guilherme Coelho
Locks
Matheus Wolf Diogo Paixão Santos Sérgio Duarte Franco Artur Lima Gonçalo Costa Daniel Almeida Rafael Espirito SantoBackrow Ntokozo Vidima Genaro Fissore João Tavares Edmundo Ferreira Francisco Curica Antonio Salgueiro Gonçalo Breda Miguel André
Scrum-halves
Tomás Cornejo Silvio Costa
Fly-halves
Geronimo Boccazzi Blake RixonCentres Moisés Duque Marcus Arrindell Francisco Migueis Gonçalo Ramos
Wingers
João Diogo Silva João Dinis Rodrigo Barradas Afonso Monteiro João Cunha António Costa
Fullbacks
Nuno Cardoso Joaquim Couto Tiago Pintão(c) denotes the team captain, Bold denotes internationally capped players.
References
External links
AAC Secção de Rugby (official website)