Sporting Clube de Braga B, commonly known as Sporting de Braga B or just Braga B, is a Portuguese

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team. It is the

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of S.C. Braga. Reserve teams in Portugal play in the same league system as the senior team, rather than in a reserve team league. However, they cannot play in the same division as their senior team, therefore Braga B is ineligible for promotion to the

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and also cannot play in the

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and

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. SC Braga had a B team until the 2005–06 season where it played in the

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. Prior to the end of the 2005–06 season, it was announced that Braga B would fold from the Portuguese league system along with the B teams of Benfica, Porto and Sporting. The club refounded itself in the 2012–13 season, when a new set of rules regarding B teams was introduced in Portuguese football system. For 2012–13 season, another five B Teams, alongside Braga B, where refounded and established themselves in Segunda Liga. Braga B plays its home games at the Estádio Primeiro de Maio, which holds a capacity of 30,000. It inherited the stadium from the senior team who left there in 2003 following the construction of the

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History

Revival

Prior to the end of the 2011–12 football season in Portugal, seven clubs in the

announced there interest in constructing a B team to fill the six vacant places available to compete in the Segunda Liga for the 2012–13 season. Of those seven, the six clubs which were selected to take part in the competition were the B teams of Benfica,

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, Marítimo and Vitória de Guimarães. The Portuguese League for Professional Football (LPFP), which organizes the professional football tiers in Portugal, announced that for the clubs to compete in 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 ...

, they would have to pay a €50,000 fee. In addition, the LPFP would also require the clubs to follow new rules regarding player selection in which each 'B' team must have a squad of a minimum of ten players who were developed at the club's academy. The LPFP also went on to say that the clubs are unable to compete in cup competitions as well as gaining promotion due to the possibility of playing the senior team. Each 'B' team may have three players above 23 years old. In late May 2012, it was officially announced that the six

clubs' B teams would compete in the 2012–13 Segunda Liga which would increase the number of teams in the league from 16 to 22 as well as increasing the number of games needed to play in one season from 30 games to 42 games.

Players

Current squad

Results history

Notable former players

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* Emídio Rafael * Hélder Sousa * Jorge Humberto * Luisinho *

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* Nuno Fonseca * Paulo Jorge *

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* Ricardo Rocha * Zé Gomes * Michael Curcija * William Soares * Manoel Lemes * Narcisse Yameogo * Jon Paul * Puma * Zé Luís * Luís Asué * Cícero Semedo * Abiodun Agunbiade *

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Managerial history

* Toni Conceição (July 1999– June 2002) * António Caldas (June 2002– November 2002) * Toni Conceição (November 2002– December 2002) * António Caldas (December 2002– October 2005) * Micael Sequeira (October 2005– June 2006) * Artur Jorge (May 2012– October 2012) *

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(October 2012– May 2013) * José Alberto Costa (June 2013– February 2014) * Bruno Pereira (February 2014– June 2014) * Fernando Pereira (June 2014– February 2015) * Abel Ferreira (February 2015– April 2017) * João Aroso (April 2017– January 2018) * Wender Said (January 2018– February 2019) * Rui Santos (February 2019– September 2019) *

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(September 2019– December 2019) *

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(December 2019– June 2021) * Artur Jorge (June 2021– May 2022) * Custódio Castro (May 2022– )

References

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