Clube de Futebol Canelas 2010, commonly known as CF Canelas 2010 or simply Canelas 2010, is a Portuguese professional

football club In association football, a football club (or association football club, alternatively soccer club) is a sports club that acts as an entity through which association football teams organise their sporting activities. The club can exist either as ...

, based in Canelas,

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, in the

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. In the season 23/24 Canelas 2010 was relegated to the Campeonato de Portugal. In July 2024 Canelas 2010 announced that it will not participate in the Portuguese Championship for not having been able to ensure the minimum conditions to participate in the competition. As for the season 24/25 Canelas 2010 will compete in the Serie 1 Distrital of the AF Porto.

History

The club was founded on 6 February 1966 as the ''Canelas Gaia Futebol Clube'', named after Canelas, a town in

, where the team's stadium is located. Canelas Gaia Futebol Clube became dormant in the 2005–06 season, due to financial problems. The club was refounded on 28 April 2010 as ''CF Canelas 2010'', following a restructuring of the club's finances and management. In the 2016–17 season, CF Canelas 2010 became notable for a run of victories by forfeit in the Porto Divisão de Elite Série 1 when the other teams in the league refused to play them due to allegations of Canelas using violence and intimidation against players and officials, with some Canelas players linked to

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ultras. Canelas were eventually promoted to the Campeonato de Portugal that season, only to be relegated the following season. However, Canelas were again promoted to the Campeonato de Portugal in 2018–19 and have since remained in the third tier, which became the Liga 3 in 2021–22. In 2019, Canelas qualified for the

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, the premier

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, for the first time in its history.

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became the official sponsor of CF Canelas in 2020, following the club's acquisition by

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Players

References

External links

Official Facebook page
{{Liga 3 (Portugal) Football clubs in Portugal Association football clubs established in 1966 1966 establishments in Portugal Sport in Vila Nova de Gaia