FC Porto

2009–10 season
Manager	Jesualdo Ferreira
Chairman	Pinto da Costa
Liga Sagres	3rd
Millenium Cup	Third Round
Carlsberg Cup	2nd Group Stage
Super Cup	Winners
Champions League	Group Stage
Top goalscorer	League: Falcao (7) All: Falcao (8)
Home colours Away colours

The 2009-10 season is Futebol Clube do Porto's 76th season in the Portuguese Liga, officially known as the Liga Sagres for sponsorship reasons. Porto won their 4th consecutive title last season and will be aiming to match their national record of winning five titles in a row. They are also the current Portuguese Cup holders after beating Paços de Ferreira 1-0 last season at the Estádio do Jamor

Contents 1 Club 1.1 Technical Staff 1.2 Medical Staff 1.3 Board of Directors 1.4 Kit 1.5 Other Information 2 Squad 2.1 Players 2.2 Transfers 2.2.1 In 2.2.2 Out 2.2.3 Loan out 3 Statistics 3.1 Squad Stats 3.2 Disciplinary record 3.3 Start Formations 3.4 Starting 11 4 Pre-season 4.1 Fixtures 4.2 Peace Cup 5 Overall 6 Super Cup 7 Liga Sagres 7.1 Table 7.2 Results 7.3 Matches 8 UEFA Champions League 8.1 Group stage 9 Millenium Cup 9.1 Third Round 9.2 Fourth Round 10 External links

[edit] Club

[edit] Technical Staff Position Staff Head Coach Jesualdo Ferreira Assistant Coach José Gomes João Pinto Rui Barros Goalkeeping Coach Wil Coort Last updated: 19 June Source: FCPorto.pt

[edit] Medical Staff Position Staff Doctor José Carlos Esteves Nelson Puga Nurse José Mário Eduardo Braga José Luís Physioterapist Ângelo Castro Last updated: 19 June Source: FCPorto.pt

[edit] Board of Directors Position Staff President Pinto da Costa Vice-President Reinaldo Teles Chief Administrative Adelino Caldeira Chief Executive Antero Henrique Chief Financial Fernando Gomes Last updated: 23 July Source: FC Porto.pt

[edit] Kit

Supplier: Nike
Sponsor: tmn, meo, Super Bock

Home

Away

Gk Home

Gk Away

Last updated: 20 July 2009.
Source: FCPorto.pt

[edit] Other Information

Public Affairs	Rui Cerqueira
Club Ambassador	Vítor Baía
Ground (capacity and dimensions)	Estádio do Dragão (50,818 / 105m x 68m)

[edit] Squad

[edit] Players

As of July 27, 2009.

No. Position Player 1 GK Helton 2 DF Bruno Alves (captain) 3 MF Raul Meireles 6 MF Freddy Guarín 7 MF Fernando Belluschi 8 MF Diego Valeri 9 FW Falcao 10 MF Cristian Rodríguez 11 MF Mariano González 12 FW Hulk 13 DF Jorge Fucile 14 DF Rolando 15 DF Álvaro Pereira

No. Position Player 16 DF Maicon 17 FW Silvestre Varela 18 DF Nuno André Coelho 19 FW Ernesto Farías 20 MF Tomás Costa 21 DF Cristian Săpunaru 22 DF Miguel Lopes 24 GK Beto 25 MF Fernando 26 MF Sebastián Prediguer 29 FW Orlando Sá 33 GK Nuno

[edit] Transfers

[edit] In

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee
1 July 2009	DF	Miguel Lopes	Rio Ave	€600,000 (50%)
1 July 2009	FW	Silvestre Varela	Estrela da Amadora	Free
1 July 2009	FW	Orlando Sá	Braga	Undisclosed
1 July 2009	DF	Maicon	Nacional	€1.1M
1 July 2009	DF	Álvaro Pereira	CFR Cluj	€4.5M (80%)
1 July 2009	GK	Beto	Leixões	€750,000
6 July 2009	MF	Fernando Belluschi	Olympiacos	€5M (50%)
15 July 2009	FW	Falcao	River Plate	€3.93M (60%)
15 July 2009	MF	Diego Valeri	Lanús	€2.3M (loan)
23 July 2009	MF	Sebastián Prediguer	Colón	€3.3M

Total spending: ▼ €21.5M

[edit] Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee
6 July 2008	MF	Paulo Assunção	Atlético Madrid	€3.5M
30 June 2009	MF	Diego	Juventus	€250,000 (1%)
30 June 2009	MF	Paulo Machado	Toulouse	€3.5M
30 June 2009	DF	Pedro Emanuel	Unattached	Retired
30 June 2009	MF	Tarik Sektioui	Ajman Club	Free
30 June 2009	MF	Lucho González	Marseille	€18M (€6M bonus)
7 July 2009	FW	Lisandro López	Lyon	€24M (€4M bonus)
11 July 2009	MF	Bruno Gama	Rio Ave	Free
11 July 2009	MF	Vieirinha	PAOK	€300,000
15 July 2009	MF	Ibson	Spartak Moscow	€5M
17 July 2009	GK	Ruca	Marítimo	Free
18 July 2009	DF	Aly Cissokho	Lyon	€15M
22 July 2009	MF	Przemysław Kaźmierczak	Vitória de Setúbal	Free
4 August 2009	DF	João Paulo	Le Mans	€1.5M
18 August 2009	FW	Ivanildo	Portimonense	Free
24 August 2009	FW	Adriano	Braga	Free

Total income: ▲ €71.05M

[edit] Loan out

Date From	Date To	Pos.	Name	Moving To
1 July 2009	30 June 2010	FW	Rui Pedro	Gil Vicente
6 July 2009	30 June 2010	DF	Tengarrinha	Olhanense
6 July 2009	30 June 2010	MF	Hugo Ventura	Olhanense
6 July 2009	30 June 2010	MF	André Castro	Olhanense
6 July 2009	30 June 2010	FW	Rabiola	Olhanense
7 July 2009	30 June 2010	DF	André Pinto	Vitória de Setúbal
10 July 2009	30 June 2010	DF	Nuno Coelho	Villarreal
10 July 2009	30 June 2010	MF	Candeias	Recreativo de Huelva
16 July 2009	30 June 2010	MF	Hélder Barbosa	Vitória de Setúbal
20 July 2009	30 June 2010	MF	Pelé	Valladolid
22 July 2009	30 June 2010	FW	Wason Rentería	Atlético Mineiro
22 July 2009	30 June 2010	MF	Claudio Pitbull	Marítimo
25 July 2009	30 June 2010	DF	Milan Stepanov	Málaga
17 August 2009	30 June 2010	DF	Nelson Benítez	Leixões

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Squad Stats

Last updated on November 24 2009.

No.	Nat.	Position	Player	Total		Liga Sagres		Champions League		Millenium Cup		Carlsberg Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1		GK	Helton	13	-10	10+0	-8	3+0	-2	0+0	0	0+0	0
2		DF	Bruno Alves	13	1	10+0	1	3+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
3		MF	Raul Meireles	13	0	10+0	0	3+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
6		MF	Freddy Guarín	8	0	2+3	0	1+2	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
7		MF	Fernando Belluschi	8	0	7+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
8		MF	Diego Valeri	6	0	0+4	0	0+1	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
9		FW	Falcao	13	8	8+2	7	2+1	1	0+0	0	0+0	0
10		MF	Cristian Rodríguez	9	1	2+4	1	2+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
11		MF	Mariano González	12	1	7+1	1	3+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
12		FW	Hulk	12	5	8+0	1	3+0	2	1+0	2	0+0	0
13		DF	Jorge Fucile	10	1	8+0	1	2+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
14		DF	Rolando	13	3	10+0	2	3+0	1	0+0	0	0+0	0
15		DF	Álvaro Pereira	13	0	10+0	0	3+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
16		DF	Maicon	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
17		FW	Silvestre Varela	6	2	4+1	2	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
18		DF	Nuno André Coelho	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
19		FW	Ernesto Farías	12	6	2+7	4	0+2	0	1+0	2	0+0	0
20		MF	Tomás Costa	6	0	0+5	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
21		DF	Cristian Săpunaru	5	0	3+1	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
22		DF	Miguel Lopes	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
24		GK	Beto	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
25		MF	Fernando	14	0	10+0	0	3+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
26		MF	Prediguer	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
29		FW	Orlando Sá	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
33		GK	Nuno	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0

[edit] Disciplinary record

Last updated on 24 November

Position	Nation	Number	Name	Liga Sagres		Champions League		Millenium Cup		Carlsberg Cup		Total
FW		12	Hulk	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1
MF		11	Mariano	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
MF		3	Raul Meireles	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
DF		15	Álvaro Pereira	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
MF		25	Fernando	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	3	1
FW		9	Falcao	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
DF		2	Bruno Alves	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
DF		13	Jorge Fucile	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
MF		20	Tomas Costa	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
MF		6	Freddy Guarín	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
GK		1	Helton	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
DF		1	Cristian Săpunaru	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
			TOTALS	20	1	3	2	0	0	0	0	23	3

[edit] Start Formations

Qnt	Formation	Match(es)
12	4-3-3	1-10 Liga Sagres, 1-3 UEFA Champions League, 1 Millenium Cup

Last updated: 24 November
Source: Match reports in Competitive matches
Only competitive matches.

[edit] Starting 11

N P Nat. Name GS Notes 1 GK BRA Helton 13 13 DF URU Fucile 11 2 DF POR Bruno Alves 13 14 DF POR Rolando 13 15 DF URU Á. Pereira 13 25 MF BRA Fernando 14 3 MF POR R. Meireles 13 7 MF ARG Belluschi 8 12 FW BRA Hulk 12 9 FW COL Falcao 10 11 FW ARG Mariano 10

Helton Fucile Bruno Alves Rolando Á. Pereira R. Meireles Fernando Belluschi Falcao Mariano Hulk

Last updated: 2009-11-24
Source: Squad stats and Start formations.
Only competitive matches.
Using the most used start formation.
Ordered by position on pitch (from back right to front left).

[edit] Pre-season

[edit] Fixtures

Game	Date	Competition	Venue	Opponent	Result F–A	Attendance	Man of the Match
1	11 July	Friendly	CTFD PortoGaia	Tourizense	3-1	0	Hulk
2	15 July	Friendly	Municipal de Aveiro	Leixões	3-1	13 032	Hulk
3	18 July	Friendly	Estádio do Dragão	Monaco	3-0	38 211	Álvaro Pereira
4	23 July	Friendly	Municipal de Albufeira	Dinamo Bucureşti	1-0	6000	Varela
5	27 July	Peace Cup	Nuevo Colombino	Lyon	0-2		Hulk
6	29 July	Peace Cup	Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán	Beşiktaş	0-0
7	31 July	Peace Cup	La Rosaleda	Aston Villa	1-2
8	9 August	Super Cup	Municipal de Aveiro	Paços de Ferreira	2-0	15722	Farías

[edit] Peace Cup

Group

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Porto	2	1	1	0	2	0	2	4
Beşiktaş	2	0	2	0	1	1	0	2
Lyon	2	0	1	1	1	3	-2	1

27 July 2009 22:30 GMT	Lyon	0 – 2	Porto	Estadio Nuevo Colombino, Huelva Referee: Eduardo Iturralde González
		Report	Hulk  8'  76'

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29 July 2009 22:30 GMT	Beşiktaş	0 – 0	Porto	Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, Seville Referee: Michail Koukoulakis

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Semi Final

31 July 2009 19:30 GMT	Porto	1–2	Aston Villa	La Rosaleda, Málaga Referee: Michail Koukoulakis
	Hulk  90' (pen.)	Report	Heskey  14' Sidwell  37'

[edit] Overall

Competition	Started round	Current position / round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
Super Cup	—	—	Winners	9 August
Liga Sagres	—	3rd		13 August	9 May
UEFA Champions League	Group stage	Group stage		15 September
Millenium Cup	Third Round	Fourth Round		17 October
Carlsberg Cup	—	—

Last updated: 28 October
Source: Competitions' Wikipedia articles.

[edit] Super Cup

       See also: Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira

9 August 2009 20:45 GMT	Porto	2-0	Paços de Ferreira	Municipal de Aveiro, Aveiro Attendance: 15722 Referee: Jorge Sousa
	Farías  59' Bruno Alves  89'	Report

[edit] Liga Sagres

[edit] Table

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	Sporting de Braga	10	8	1	1	15	5	+10	25	2010–11 UEFA Champions League Group stage	BRA 2–0 BEN
2	Benfica	10	8	1	1	31	7	+24	25	2010–11 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
3	Porto	10	6	2	2	19	8	+11	20	2010–11 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round
4	Nacional	10	5	2	3	14	17	−3	17	2010–11 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round
5	Marítimo	10	4	3	3	14	11	+3	15

Updated to games played on pre-season
Source: lpfp.pt
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th goal difference; 6th goals scored.
The winner of the Cup of Portugal 2009–10 will earn a place in the play-off round of the UEFA Europa League.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (Q) = Qualified to respective phase of tournament; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Head-to-Head: used when two or more teams need the head-to-head rules to break a tie.

[edit] Results

Summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
10	6	2	2	19	8	+11	20	4	1	0	12	4	+8	2	1	2	7	4	+3

Last updated: 24 November
Source: Liga Sagres

By Round

Round	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	D	W	W	W	L	W	W	W	D	L
Position	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3

Last updated: 24 November.
Source: Matches
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Lose; W = Win; P = Postponed.

[edit] Matches

16 August 2009 18:00 GMT	Paços de Ferreira	1 – 1	Porto	Estádio da Mata Real, Paços de Ferreira Attendance: 4,654 Referee: Carlos Xistra
	Fucile  11' (o.g.) Danielson 53' William 56'	(Report)	Hulk  17', 55' Falcao  79' Mariano 90'

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23 August 2009 20:15 GMT	Porto	3 – 0	Nacional	Estádio do Dragão, Porto Attendance: 40,309 Referee: João Ferreira
	R. Meireles 21' Falcao  68' (pen.) Rolando  78' Rodríguez  86'	(Report)	Oliveira  40', 64' Cléber  64' Patacas 64'

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29 August 2009 21:15 GMT	Naval	1 – 3	Porto	Estádio Municipal José Bento Pessoa, Figueira da Foz Attendance: 4,261 Referee: Elmano Santos
	Ouattara 65' Rolando  75' (o.g.)	(Report)	Falcao  8' Varela  61' Farías  77'

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12 September 2009 19:00 GMT	Porto	4 – 1	Leixões	Estádio do Dragão, Porto Attendance: 38,117 Referee: Vasco Santos
	Varela  20' Hulk  23' (pen.) Fernando 28' Rolando  32' Falcao  41'	(Report)	Laranjeiro 22' Hugo Morais 23' Faioli 52' Pouga  76'

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21 September 2009 21:15 GMT	Braga	1 – 0	Porto	Estádio AXA, Braga Attendance: 17,215 Referee: Pedro Proença
	Mossoro 36' João Pereira 45' Alan  69' Matheus 82'	(Report)	Falcao 26' Hulk 28'

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26 September 2009 19:15 GMT	Porto	1 – 0	Sporting	Estádio do Dragão, Porto Attendance: 46,511 Referee: Duarte Gomes
	Falcao  3' R. Meireles 12' Bruno Alves 56' Fucile 65' Costa 78'	(Report)	Miguel Veloso  26', 90+2' Anderson Polga  34', 52' Abel 36'

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4 October 2009 20:15 GMT	Olhanense	0 – 3	Porto	Estádio José Arcanjo, Olhão Attendance: 7,987 Referee: Pedro Henriques
	Rui Duarte 52' Guga 78'	(Report)	Falcao  13' Á. Pereira 37' Bruno Alves  45' Guarín 78' Falcao  84'

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25 October 2009 20:15 GMT	Porto	3 – 2	Académica	Estádio do Dragão, Porto Attendance: 29,209 Referee: Hugo Miguel
	Mariano Gonzalez  64' Bruno Alves 66' Farias  67', 81'	(Report)	Nuno Coelho 70' Miguel Pedro  76' Berger 86' Sougou  90+2'

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30 October 2009 20:15 GMT	Porto	1 – 1	Belenenses	Estádio do Dragão, Porto Attendance: 31,819 Referee: Olegário Benquerença
	Farias  62' Bruno Alves 74'	(Report)	[Rodrigo José Lima dos Santos

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11 November 2009 18:00GMT	Maritimo	1 – 0	Porto	Estádio dos Barreiros, Funchal Attendance: 4,900 Referee: Paulo Baptista
	Rolando  29 o.g.' Baba Diawara 56' Roberto Souza 90+1'	(Report)	Mariano Gonzalez  64' Cristian Săpunaru 73' Alvaro Pereira 75' Tomas Costa 85'

[edit] UEFA Champions League

[edit] Group stage

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Chelsea	4	4	0	0	6	0	+6	12
Porto	4	3	0	1	4	2	+2	9
APOEL	4	0	1	2	1	3	−2	2
Atlético Madrid	4	0	1	2	0	6	−6	2

15 September 2009 19:45 GMT	Chelsea	1 - 0	Porto	Stamford Bridge, London Attendance: 41,597 Referee: Konrad Plautz
	Essien 15' Malouda 18' Anelka  48'	(Report)	Fernando  78', 90'

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30 September 2009 20:45	Porto	2 – 0	Atlético Madrid	Estádio do Dragão, Porto Attendance: 37,609 Referee: Nicola Rizzoli (Italy)
	Falcao  75' Rolando  82'	(Report)	Assunção 36' Perea 48'

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21 October 2009 20:45	Porto	2 – 1	APOEL	Estádio do Dragão, Porto Attendance: 31,212 Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)
	Hulk  33', 48' (pen.) Mariano Gonzalez  73' Helton 90+1'	Report	Pereira  22' (o.g.) Satsias 23' Grnčarov 36' Mário Breska 55' Joost Broerse 81'

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3 November 2009 20:45	APOEL	0 – 1	Porto	GSP Stadium, Nicosia Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)
	Charalambides 51' Elia 52' Hélio Pinto 74'		Falcao  83' Alvaro Pereira 86'

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25 November 2009 20:45	Porto	0 – 1	Chelsea	Estádio do Dragão, Porto Referee: Jonas Eriksson (Sweden)
	Fernando 51' Raul Meireles 79'		Ballack 58' Anelka  69'

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8 December 2009 20:45	Atlético Madrid	v	Porto	Vicente Calderón Stadium, Madrid

[edit] Millenium Cup

[edit] Third Round

17 October 2009 20:15 GMT	Porto	4 – 0	Sertanense	Estádio do Dragão, Porto Attendance: 30,000 Referee: João Capela
	Hulk  5', 87' Farias  10' (pen.), 39'	(Report)

[edit] Fourth Round

21 November 2009 14:30 GMT	Oliveirense	–	Porto	Estádio Carlos Osório, Oliveira de Azeméis Referee: Bruno Paixão
		[ (Report)]

[edit] External links

• FC Porto official website
• UEFA Champions League
• Portal dos Dragões
• Social networking for FC Porto fans
• FCPorto-videos.net

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