F.C. Alverca

Alverca

Full name	Futebol Clube de Alverca
Founded	1 September 1939; 85 years ago (1939-09-01)
Ground	Complexo Desportivo FC Alverca, Alverca do Ribatejo, Portugal
Capacity	7,705
Chairman	Fernando Orge Vinícius Júnior
Manager	Custódio Castro
League	Liga Portugal
2024–25	Liga Portugal 2, 2nd of 18 (promoted)
Home colours Away colours

Futebol Clube de Alverca is a Portuguese football club based in Alverca do Ribatejo, Vila Franca de Xira. The team currently play in the Liga Portugal, the top tier of Portuguese football.

History

F.C. Alverca was founded on 1 September 1939.

After many decades in the lower levels of Portuguese football, Alverca was promoted to the top level in 1998, and played there in four of the next five editions, also coming back for 2003–04, which also ended in relegation; during most of this time, the club acted as feeder club to S.L. Benfica. Alverca played one more year in level two, before folding for financial reasons, in 2005.

In 2006, Alverca re-formed, beginning at regional level in the Lisbon Football Association's District Leagues, and being promoted in 2007–08 to the first division of that category.

In 2017–18, Alverca won promotion back to the national level, as district champions.^[1] On 17 October 2019, Alverca won 2–0 in the third round of the Taça de Portugal against Big Three club Sporting CP, becoming only the second third-tier club in history to knock them out the cup; the other was F.C. Tirsense in 1948.^[2] Fellow Primeira Liga club Rio Ave F.C. beat Alverca by a single goal in the next round.^[3] Alex Apolinário, scorer of the first goal in the win over Sporting, died in January 2021 days after collapsing in a match for Alverca.^[4]

In February 2025, Vinícius Júnior and his partners became co-owners of the club, acquiring between 70% and 80% of its shares for roughly €8 million to €10 million.^[5][6]

In May 2025, Alverca got their back-to-back promotion to Liga Portugal.

Stadium

The club's home venue is the 7,705 capacity Complexo Desportivo do FC Alverca.

Players

Current squad

As of 30 July 2025

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  BRA Mateus (on loan from Palmeiras) 2 FW  MAR Nabil Touaizi 4 DF  BRA Naves (on loan from Palmeiras) 5 DF  ESP Sergi Gómez 6 MF  CIV Davy Gui 7 FW  BRA Léo Chú 8 MF  BRA Amorim 9 FW  SRB Marko Milovanović (on loan from Almería) 10 FW  POR Chiquinho 11 FW  BEL Cédric Nuozzi 12 DF  NGA Isaac James 13 GK  POR André Gomes (on loan from Benfica) 14 DF  FRA Steven Baseya 15 DF  BRA Ikker Julian 16 MF  ESP Tomás Mendes (on loan from Alavés) 17 FW  ESP Júnior Mendes 19 FW  POR Tiago Leite

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 MF  GHA Sabit Abdulai 22 DF  POR Gonçalo Esteves (on loan from Udinese) 23 GK  POR André Paulo 25 FW  CIV Stéphane Diarra 28 MF  COL Gian Cabezas 30 MF  MTN Abderrahmane Soumare 33 DF  FRA Bastien Meupiyou 34 DF  BRA Talisca 37 DF  BRA Kauan 77 FW  BRA Felipe Lima 78 DF  SEN Lamine Ndiaye 88 MF  POR Diogo Martins 91 FW  BRA Sandro Lima — DF  POR Francisco Chissumba (on loan from Braga) — GK  BRA Cristian — MF  BRA Caio Rosa — DF  BRA João Douglas

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  BRA João Bravim (at União de Leiria until 30 June 2026)

Honours

• Liga Portugal 2
  • Runners-up (1): 2024-25
• Liga 3
  • Champions (1): 2023-24

League and cup history

Season		Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Notes
1995–96	2H	13	34	12	8	14	28	38	44
1996–97	2H	15	34	9	13	12	31	30	40
1997–98	2H	3	34	19	5	10	64	35	62		Promoted
1998–99	1D	15	34	8	11	15	36	50	35	last 16
1999–00	1D	11	34	11	8	15	39	48	41
2000–01	1D	12	34	12	7	15	45	52	43
2001–02	1D	18	34	7	6	21	39	67	27		Relegated
2002–03	2H	2	34	16	12	6	47	24	60		Promoted
2003–04	1D	16	34	10	5	19	33	49	35		Relegated
2004–05	2H	13	34	11	6	17	26	38	39		Folded

References

1. "Alverca: reergue-se o mítico da EN10. Com lama e uma incrível história de vida" [Alverca: the legendary club from the EN10 re-emerges. With mud and an incredible life story] (in Portuguese). Bancada. 4 June 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
2. "Sporting: há 70 anos que não se via uma coisa assim" [Sporting: it's been 70 years since something like this happened] (in Portuguese). TVI 24. 18 October 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
3. "Alverca dá luta mas sai da taça" [Alverca put up a fight but go out the cup] (in Portuguese). Voz Ribatejana. 24 November 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
4. Grez, Matias (8 January 2021). "Football player Alex Apolinario dies aged 24". CNN. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
5. "Vinicius Júnior vai comprar a SAD do Alverca". Record (in Portuguese). 2025-01-10. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
6. Fuentenebro, Pablo M. (2025-03-17). "Vinicius compra un club en Portugal". AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 March 2025.

External links

• Official website (in Portuguese)