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Dragão Arena
The Dragão Arena (formerly named Dragão Caixa for sponsorship reasons) is an indoor arena located in Porto, Portugal, that houses the basketball, handball and roller hockey teams of FC Porto. It was inaugurated on 23 April 2009 and has a capacity of 2,179 spectators. The construction project was done in partnership with Portuguese state-owned bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos, which secured the naming rights for a period of 10 years. The arena was designed by Manuel Salgado, the architect of the Estádio do Dragão The Estádio do Dragão (; ') is an all-seater football stadium in Porto, Portugal, and the home ground of FC Porto since 2003. It has a seating capacity of 50,033, making it the third-largest football stadium in Portugal. Designed by Portugue .... It was projected to house the club's basketball, handball and roller hockey teams under the same roof for the first time since 2001, when the previous ground – Pavilhão Americo de Sá – was demolished ahead of the st ...
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Estádio Do Dragão
The Estádio do Dragão (; ') is an all-seater football stadium in Porto, Portugal, and the home ground of FC Porto since 2003. It has a seating capacity of 50,033, making it the third-largest football stadium in Portugal. Designed by Portuguese architect Manuel Salgado, the stadium was constructed to replace Porto's former ground, the Estádio das Antas, along with becoming one of the host venues for the UEFA Euro 2004 final tournament. The inauguration took place on 16 November 2003 with a friendly match against Barcelona, setting an attendance record of 52,000 spectators. A UEFA category four stadium, it has held several international club and national team competition matches, including the 2019 UEFA Nations League Final and 2021 UEFA Champions League Final. The stadium is one of the potential venues for the 2030 FIFA World Cup which Portugal will co-host along with Morocco and Spain. Construction and inauguration Construction works began in late 2001, and were complet ...
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Porto
Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire concelho, municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropolitan area, with an estimated population of just 248,769 people in a municipality with only . Porto's urban area has around 1,319,151 people (2025) in an area of ,Demographia: World Urban Areas
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making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a global city with a Gamma + rating from the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Located along the Douro River estuary in northern Portugal, Porto is one of the oldest European centers and ...
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FC Porto
Futebol Clube do Porto, Order of Prince Henry, MHIH, Order of Merit (Portugal), OM (), commonly known as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Porto. It is best known for the professional association football, football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football league system, Portuguese football. Founded on 28 September 1893, Porto is one of the "Big Three (Portugal), Big Three" (Portuguese: ''Os Três Grandes'') teams in Portugal – together with Lisbon-based O Clássico, rivals Benfica and FC Porto–Sporting CP rivalry, Sporting CP, that have appeared in every season of the Primeira Liga since its establishment in 1934. They are nicknamed ''dragões'' (Dragons), for the mythical creature atop the club's crest, and ''Azuis e brancos'' (Blue-and-whites), for the shirt colours. Those colours are in stripes with blue shorts. The club supporters are called ''portistas''. Since 2003, Porto have played their ho ...
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FC Porto (basketball)
Futebol Clube do Porto (), commonly referred to as FC Porto, or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional basketball team based in Porto. Created in 1926, it is the senior representative side of the basketball section of multi-sports club FC Porto. The team competes domestically in the Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol (LPB) and internationally in FIBA Europe competitions, such as the Champions League and the FIBA Europe Cup. The team plays its home matches at the Dragão Arena, alongside the club's handball and roller hockey teams, and is managed by Portuguese head coach and former club player Fernando Sá since 2022. History Foundation The introduction of the sport in Portugal took place in 1913, and thirteen years later in 1926 a group of partners of the club decided to create a basketball team. António Sanches, António Marta and Daniel Barbosa drove the idea, having them joined by Gabriel Batista and A. Cabral to complete the team. The second place in the ''Cup António Ca ...
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FC Porto (handball)
Futebol Clube do Porto (), commonly referred to as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional handball team based in Porto. Created in 1932, it is the senior representative side of the handball section of sports club FC Porto. The team competes domestically in the top-tier league Portuguese Handball First Division, Andebol 1 and internationally in European Handball Federation club competitions. Home matches are played at the Dragão Arena, alongside the men's FC Porto (basketball), basketball and FC Porto (roller hockey), roller hockey, and women's volleyball teams. The current head coach is former Swedish international Magnus Andersson (handballer), Magnus Andersson, who returned to the club after a one-season break, having held the job from 2018 to 2023. History The section started in 1932 with a field handball (eleven-a-side) team, which played competitive matches until 1974–75, when it was discontinued in favour of handball, seven-a-side handball. During this p ...
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FC Porto (roller Hockey)
Futebol Clube do Porto (), commonly referred to as FC Porto (or FC Porto Fidelidade, for sponsorship purposes), or simply Porto, is a professional roller hockey team based in Porto, Portugal. They compete in the Portuguese First Division, the top-tier league in the country, and dispute their home matches at the Dragão Arena. In domestic competitions, they won 25 league titles (ten of which, conquered consecutively between the 2001–02 and 2010–11 seasons, a Portuguese roller hockey record), 19 Portuguese Cups, 23 Portuguese Super Cups and two Portuguese Elite Cups. At international level, the team won three WSE Champions League titles, two WSE Cups, two CERH Cup Winners' Cups, two WSE Continental Cups and one Intercontinental Cup. Current squad Squad for the 2024–25 season: Technical staff Technical staff for the 2024–25 season: Honours Domestic competitions * Portuguese First Division :Winners (25) – record: 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986– ...
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Indoor Arena
An arena is a large enclosed venue, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theatre, Music, musical performances or Sport, sporting events. It comprises a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators, and may be covered by a roof. The key feature of an arena is that the event space is the lowest point, allowing maximum visibility. Arenas are usually designed to accommodate a multitude of spectators. Background The word derives from Latin ', a particularly fine-grained sand that covered the floor of ancient arenas such as the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, to absorb blood.. The term ''arena'' is sometimes used as a synonym for a very large venue such as Pasadena's Rose Bowl stadium, Rose Bowl, but such a facility is typically called a ''stadium''. The use of one term over the other has mostly to do with the type of event. Football (be it Association football, association, Rugby football, rugby, Gridiron football, gridiron, Australian ...
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Caixa Geral De Depósitos
Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD) () is a Portugal, Portuguese state-owned banking corporation, and the largest bank in Portugal, established in Lisbon in 1876. CGD now has presence in 23 countries spanning four continents through branches, representative offices or direct equity interests in local financial institutions. CGD is the largest Portuguese financial group, with the highest domestic market shares in key areas such as customer deposits, loans and advances to customers, mortgages, insurance, mutual funds and real estate leasing (11.4%). Based on assets, it ranks 109 in terms of the world's major banks. CGD is the 69th largest European bank. CGD has been designated as a Significant Institution since the entry into force of European Banking Supervision in late 2014, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank. History *1876 — Caixa Geral de Depósitos was founded under the aegis of the Junta de Crédito Público. *1880 — Caixa Económica ...
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Jornal De Notícias
(; ; shortened to JN) is a Portuguese daily national newspaper, one of the oldest in Portugal. History and profile ''JN'' was founded in Porto and was first published on 21 June 1888. It was one of two Portuguese newspapers published in Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ... during the colonial rule. The other was '' Diário Popular''. ''JN'' has since become one of the most popular newspapers, especially after the Carnation Revolution. Following the Carnation revolution, ''JN'' was nationalized and later privatized in the early 1990s. Then the paper and '' Diário de Notícias'' were sold to the Lusomundo group. In 2005 the Controlinveste group bought papers. Both papers are now owned by Global Media Group, which was named Controlinveste Media until Jan ...
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Indoor Arenas In Portugal
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Sports Venues In Porto
Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a particular sport can vary from hundreds of people to a single individual. Sport competitions may use a team or single person format, and may be open, allowing a broad range of participants, or closed, restricting participation to specific groups or those invited. Competitions may allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure there is only one winner. They also may be arranged in a tournament format, producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs. Sport is generally recognised as system of activities based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity, with major competitions admitt ...
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