Portugal Sport History

A brief summary

Organization of SportOrganization of Sport

The structure of sport in Portugal is organized as follows:

• Athletes• ClubsSport Associations - example-

footballSport Federations - football-

examplePOC –Portuguese Olympic

Committee

Clubs and AssociationsClubs and Associations

The athletes join themselves in clubs to practice a certain modality against others clubs from the same region.

Each country region has an association composed by several clubs who compete between themselves in the championship (Football Association from Beja organizes the Distrital Football Championship from Beja).

Associations and Associations and FederationsFederationsEach modality Federation is

composed by several Associations existing in Portugal. For example, the Portuguese Football Federation is composed by all country associations.

The Portuguese Olimpic Committe (POC) is shaped by all sportive associations who exists all over the country.

Olympic Committee Portuguese

• The Olimpic Committe is the maximum organ from Sport in Portugal

• Nowadays we have 64 sport federations joined to the POC as base elements from which 30 are olimpic sports (athletics, basketball, judo, swimming and so)

• We also have the Superior Sport Council which has consultive functions

Major achievementsMajor achievements• Football and athletics are the

modalities where we have better results in portuguese sport, but we also have others who can reach some good results like hockey, judo, equestrian, canoeing, sailling and triatlo.

• In athletics, Carlos Lopes, Rosa Mota, Nelson Évora and Fernanda Ribeiro were olimpic champions amoung other titles they reached.

Carlos Lopes:◦1976 (Montreal) – silver medal (athletics 10000 m)◦1984 (Los Angeles) – gold medal (athletics

marathon)Rosa Mota:

◦1984 (Los Angeles) –bronze medal (athletics marathon)

◦1988 (Seul) – gold medal (athletics marathon)Nelson Évora:

◦2008 (Pequim) – gold medal (athletics triple jump)Fernanda Ribeiro:

◦1996 (Atlanta) – gold medal (athletics 10000m)

Carlos Lopes

Rosa Mota

Nelson ÉvoraFernanda Ribeiro

Portuguese National Football Portuguese National Football TeamTeam

World Championship FIFA – 3rd place (1966)European Championship UEFA –2nd place

(2004)World Under-20 – 1st place (1989 and 1991)

Sport Lisboa e Benfica

• The most popular and important club of Portugal with more than 220,000 members and millions of fans.

• Champions League: – 1st place (1960/61 and 1961/62)– 2nd place (in 5 years)

• UEFA Cup / Europa League: - 2nd place (1982/83 and 2012/13)

Champions League: ◦ 1st place (1986/87 and 2003/04)

UEFA Cup / Europa League: - 1st place (2002/03 and 2010/11)