Sporting Clube de Macau
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| Founded | 1926 |
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| Ground | Campo de Futebol da UCTM & Estádio Campo Desportivo |
| Capacity | 1,684 & 16,272 |
| Chairman | António Conceição Júnior |
| Manager | João Maria Pegado |
| League | Liga de Elite |
| 2016 | 3rd |
Sporting Clube de Macau (Chinese: 士砵亭) is a Macanese football club. It was founded in 1926 and is the 25th branch of Sporting Clube de Portugal.
The club commemorated its 90th Anniversary in 2016.
The Macau Sporting Club was one of the most dynamic branches "unconscionable" in the East. Membership at Sporting Clube de Portugal, with No. 25, was the 22 September 1926.'s direction was then constituted by Henrique Nolasco da Silva (President), Francisco Borralho (secretary), Angelo Rosary (treasurer), with alternates were Dr. Horacio Carvalho, Pedro Pereira Leite, and Mário Ribeiro.
Among its past Presidents, there were athletes such as António Conceição, the first Macanese athlete to become Portuguese National Champion of 5x80 meters velocity relay races in 1928 and 1930.
He would return to Macau in the late 1930s and would be Macau team coach and in 1951 become President of Sporting Clube de Macau. In this position, he would send Augusto Rocha and Joaquim Pacheco to his beloved Sporting, where they would be selected for the Portuguese national team.
The Macau Sporting Club was reactivated a first time in 1951 after a certain period of erasure, by António Conceição, Adelino Serra, Major Acacio Cabrera Henriques, and Mario Abreu, among others.
In the 1960s Eduardo Atraca played for Sporting Clube de Macau and in the 1980s he would become the President of the Club. Sporting became champion of Macau.
In the 1990s it was the turn of Fernando Lopes to be President of Sporting Clube de Macau leading the team to become champion of Macau.
The Macau Sporting had in the 80s, when the club was chaired by Eduardo Atraca, a great football team. It was this club that reached the Sporting players like Rock . Club members, including two of reactivating the Macau Sporting Club in 1951 and two presidents of the club, and the son of António Conceição, António Conceição Júnior.
After that, the vicissitudes of life led to the club once again stay asleep for more than 20 years.
On 4 June 2008, António Conceição Júnior set the challenge of reviving the Branch no. # 25 of Sporting Clube de Portugal, a way to honor the memory of his father, the António da Conceição.
One of the first projects undertaken was the identification of Sportinguistas the territory of Macao Special Administrative Region and. Working at cruising speed, the 25 November 2008 held a historic Extraordinary General Meeting, as was a truly important step in reactivation of the branch, where it proceeded to the admission of new partners and marking of elections to the governing bodies .
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