Vitória Sport Clube is a Portuguese sports club in the city of Guimarães, where different sports are practiced. This article is about its professional basketball section, whose senior men's and women's teams compete respectively in the Portuguese Basketball League, the top level of the sport in Portugal, and in the Second Basketball Division, the third competition in Portugal.
The teams, from youth to senior level, train and play their games in the Vimaranense Unit Sports Pavilion, which is located in the Vitória SC Academy.
History Vitória's men's basketball team, founded in 2004, came about as a continuation of the project of another club, called "Basquetebol Clube de Guimarães", founded in 1993, with its managers moving to Vitória de Guimarães, namely Pedro Guerreiro and António Lourenço, leading the club to consolidate its position in the LPB, the top level, since 2008/09 and consequently to win several national titles in the seasons that followed.
Women's basketball team was founded a year later for the 2005/06 season, and after 11 years it won its first First Division National Championship title. In the following seasons, already in the elite of women's basketball, Vitória managed to constantly fight for the top spots and play in some cup finals, feats led by teams made up of players from Vitória's training centre.
However, in 2022 Vitória SC announced that it would not register the women's basketball team in the LFB (basketball's elite) as a first step towards the reformulation of the sport's tiers based on the development of young athletes from the academy, leading to the women's team having to start again in the third tier.
Men's achievements Proliga: 1 2006/07 Portuguese Basketball Cup: 2 2007/08, 2012/13 António Pratas Trophy: 1 2010 Total Trophies: 4 Nationals
Players Current roster
Notable players
José Vilhena Miguel Cardoso Ivan Almeida Joel Almeida
Other notable players Sergio Correia Nebojsa Pavlovic Antonio Neto Luis Lima Maris Gulbis Nikola Tadić André Bessa Carlos Areias Cláudio Fonseca João Balseiro José Silva Litos Cardoso Miguel Cardoso Paulo Cunha Ricardo Monteiro Alex Oriakhi Brandon Brown Kevin Martin Tony Meier Zahir Porter Nolan Richardson Willie Taylor Jake Van Tubbergen Ije Nwankwo
Season by season SeasonTierLeagueProLigaPortuguese CupPortuguese SupercupLeague CupAntónio Pratas Trophy2004/0524th round2005/0621/8 Final2006/072Winner1/8 Final2007/082FinalistWinner2008/0916th1/8 FinalFinalist2009/1014th1/2 Final1/4 FinalWinner2010/1114th1/2 Final4th round2011/1218th1/8 Final 2012/13 1 5th Winner 2013/14 1 2nd 1/2 Final Finalist1/2 Final 2014/15 1 2nd1/2 FinalFinalist 2015/16 1 8th1/2 Final 2016/17 1 3rd1/2 Final1/4 Final2017/1815th1/8 Final1/2 Final2018/1919th1/8 Final2019/2015th1/2 Final2020/2118th1/4 Final2021/22110th1/2 Final2022/2319th1/8 Final2023/2417th1/4 FinalGroup stage2024/2518th1/4 FinalGroup stage2025/2619th1/8 FinalGroup stage
Women's achievements National Champions of the 1st Division: 1
2016/17
Vice Champions of the Portuguese Cup
2018/19, 2020/21
Total Trophies: 1 Nationals
References
External links Official website Eurobasket.com – Team profile