Futebol Clube do Porto B, commonly known as Porto B, is a Portuguese professional

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team, which serves as the reserve side of

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. They compete in the

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, the second division of Portuguese football, and play their home matches at the

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main pitch. As a reserve side, the team cannot compete in the same division as their senior team, thus being ineligible for promotion to the

Primeira Liga The Primeira Liga (), also known as Liga Portugal Betclic for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Portugal and the highest level of the Portuguese football league system. Organised and supervised by the Liga ...

. In addition, they cannot participate in other domestic cup competitions, such as the

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and

Taça da Liga The Taça da Liga (), known outside Portugal as Portuguese League Cup, is an annual club football competition organised by the Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional (LPFP) for teams competing in the top two tiers of Portuguese football – the ...

. Domestically, Porto B are the first and only reserve side to have won the second division title, after a successful campaign in the 2015–16 season. Internationally, the team is the record holder of the

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competition, after two wins in the 2016–17 and 2017–18 editions.

History

Revival

Prior to the end of the 2011–12 season, seven

clubs announced their interest in creating a B team to fill the six vacancies available in for the

2012–13 Segunda Liga The 2012–13 Segunda Liga was the 23rd season of the second-tier of football in Portugal. This season marked a series of changes in the league overall. The league's name was changed back to Segunda Liga from the previous Liga de Honra. A total o ...

season. Six of these clubs were selected to have their B teams take part in the competition: Benfica,

Braga Braga (; ) is a cities of Portugal, city and a Municipalities of Portugal, municipality, capital of the northwestern Portugal, Portuguese Braga (district), district of Braga and of the historical and cultural Minho Province. Braga Municipality ...

, Marítimo, Porto,

Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries,

, and

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. The

LPFP The Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional (English: Portuguese Professional Football League), also known by its acronym LPFP, is a governing body that manages professional football club competitions in Portugal. It was founded in 1978 as Liga Po ...

, which governs professional football in Portugal, announced that for B teams to compete in the 2012–13 Segunda Liga they would have to pay a fee of €50,000. In addition, the LPFP would also require teams to follow new rules regarding player selection, such as having a minimum of ten players formed at the club's academy and with an age requirement of 15–21 years old, with a maximum of three players above 23 years old allowed. The LPFP also decided that B teams were ineligible to compete in cup competitions, as well as gaining promotion to the Primeira Liga due to the possibility of playing against the senior team. In late May 2012, it was officially announced that the B teams of six Primeira Liga clubs would compete in the 2012–13 Segunda Liga. This decision resulted in an expansion of the number of teams from 16 to 22, and the number of matches from 30 to 42. In 2013–14 the side, led for most of the season by Luís Castro, finished as runners-up but were ineligible for promotion. Two years later, with Castro back in charge and André Silva scoring 14 times, the team won the league by five points.

Players

Current squad

Out on loan

Staff

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Paulinho Santos João Paulo Maio dos Santos (born 21 November 1970), commonly known as Paulinho Santos, is a Portuguese former footballer who played mainly as a defensive midfielder. He spent 11 years of his professional career with Porto, playing in several ...

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Paulo Teixeira
Ricardo Vasconcelos , -

Seasons and managers statistics

League performance record

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Hélder Barbosa Hélder Jorge Leal Rodrigues Barbosa (born 25 May 1987) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a left winger. He amassed Primeira Liga totals of 148 matches and 19 goals, mainly for Braga (three seasons) and Académica (t ...

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Frédéric Maciel Frédéric Ferreira Maciel (born 15 March 1994) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a winger for First Professional Football League club CSKA 1948. Club career Born in Grenoble, France of Portuguese descent, Maciel joined FC ...

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Danny Namaso Daniel Namaso Edi-Mesumbe Loader (born 28 August 2000) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Primeira Liga club Porto. Born in England, he plays for the Cameroon national team. Club career Reading Namaso was born in Reading, ...

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Managerial statistics

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António Folha António José dos Santos Folha (born 21 May 1971) is a Portuguese retired professional footballer who played mostly as a winger, currently a manager. He amassed Primeira Liga totals of 227 matches and 22 goals over 12 seasons, mainly in repr ...

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Rui Barros Rui Gil Soares de Barros (born 24 November 1965) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder, currently a manager. He played with success in Portugal (at Porto), Italy – at Juventus – and France (two ...

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Honours

Domestic

* Segunda Liga **Winners (1): 2015–16 **Runners-up (1): 2013–14

European

**Winners (2): 2016–17, 2017–18 **Runners-up (1): 2014–15

Others

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**Winners (1):

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

References

External links

*
Club Profile
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