Associação Desportiva de Machico, or simply Machico, is a sports club based in the city of
Machico
Machico () is a municipality, parish and city in the southeast part of the island of Madeira Island, Madeira, in the Autonomous Region of Madeira. The easternmost municipality on the island, it is also the third-most populous area with a populati ...
, on the
Portuguese island of
Madeira
Madeira ( ; ), officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira (), is an autonomous Regions of Portugal, autonomous region of Portugal. It is an archipelago situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, in the region of Macaronesia, just under north of ...
.
They are notable mainly for their professional
volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
team (''See:
A.D. Machico (volleyball)'') and for their
Second Division
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semi-professional
football
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team, who play their home games at the brand-new 3,300-seat capacity
Estádio Municipal do Machico. The club also compete in other sports at amateur level in
futsal
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,
karate
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and
swimming
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.
Honours
*
AF Madeira Championship: 3
**1975–76, 1989–90, 2023–24
*
AF Madeira Cup: 2
** 1972–73, 1998–99
See also
*
A.D. Machico (volleyball)
External links
* (in Portuguese)
UltrasTricolor official website(in Portuguese)
Football clubs in Portugal
Sports clubs and teams established in 1969
Sport in Madeira
1969 establishments in Portugal
Machico
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