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GD Chaves
Full name	Grupo Desportivo de Chaves
Founded	1949
Ground	Estádio Municipal de Chaves, Chaves; (Capacity: 22,000)
Chairman	Marcelo Delgado
Manager	Leonardo Jardim
League	Liga de Honra
2008–09	Série A, 1st (Runner-up in playoff final, Promoted)
Home colours	Away colours

Grupo Desportivo de Chaves, commonly known as just Chaves, is a Portuguese football club from Chaves currently playing in the Liga de Honra. They were founded in 1949 and currently play at Estádio Municipal de Chaves with a capacity of 19,000 one of the biggest in the Liga de Honra. Their home kit is red and blue striped t-shirt with blue shorts and socks and the away kit is all white. Their current president is Mário Carneiro and their current manager is Ricardo Formosinho and in the 2007/08 they finished 4th just missing out on promotion to the Liga de Honra. GD Chaves have been in the Portuguese First Division 13 times and have done expectionally well finishing 5th in the 1989/90 season which was their best ever finish. They went to Europe in the 1987/88 season where they played in the UEFA Cup where they beat the Romanian team Universitatea Craiova in the first round but lost in the next round to Hungarian team Budapest Honvéd. Their current stadium, Estádio Municipal de Chaves, normally hosts the national teams youth games and rarely the senior national team; however, the stadium is famous because it held the debut of Cristiano Ronaldo for the senior national team.

[edit] History

Grupo Desportivo de Chaves was founded on the 27 September 1949 and is one of the most experienced teams in the Portuguese Second Division, not just because of its old culture, but also many years in the top-flight Portuguese Liga, doing quite well and playing in European tournaments, such as the UEFA Cup. Their best ever finish was in the Portuguese Liga when they finished in fifth place twice in 1986–87 and 1989–90, where in the 1986–87 season, they had fantastic results, beating Portuguese giants Sporting Clube de Portugal 2–1 at home in a memorable night at the Estádio Municipal de Chaves stadium. After those fantastic seasons, they finished sixth, seventh, and ninth before getting relegated in the 1992–93 season to the Liga de Honra. They returned for another few seasons but got relegated again to the Liga de Honra until 2007, where they eventually got relegated to the Portuguese Second Division: Série A. In the previous season of 2007–08, they finished in fourth place just missing out on promotion.

After a series of great results in 2008–09 that granted the team the lead of Série A, Chaves finally achieved promotion to the second-flight Liga de Honra with an aggregate win, 1–0 over Penafiel, the winner of the Portuguese Second Division: Série B in a semi-final playoff. In the playoff final, it was between Chaves and Fátima, in which both were guaranteed promotion to the Liga de Honra and the final was to determine the champion of the Second Division. Fátima won the match 2–1 and were rewarded with champions of the Second Division for the 2008–09 season as Chaves became runners-up for the season and will play in the Liga de Honra for the 2009–10 season.

[edit] Stadium

Estádio Municipal de Chaves is a multi-use stadium in Chaves. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of GD Chaves. The stadium is able to hold 22,000 people. The stadium normally holds the national teams youth games and also some U-21 games and also the senior team but rarely. This stadium is famous because it is where Cristiano Ronaldo made his senior international debut.

[edit] Current Squad

No.	Position	Player
2	DF	Danilo
4	DF	Ricardo Rocha
6	DF	Nélson
7	FW	Vitor Silva
8	MF	Flávio Ígor
10	MF	José Pinto
11	DF	Samson
14	MF	Castanheira
15	FW	Clemente
16	FW	Capuco
18	MF	Bruno Magalhães

No.	Position	Player
19	DF	Vítor Pereira
21	FW	Mbaye Diop
23	DF	Eduardo
26	MF	Siaka Bamba
30	DF	Lameirão
44	DF	Heslley
48	GK	Daniel Casaleiro
69	FW	Cássio
77	MF	João Fernandes
78	GK	Rui Rego

[edit] Summer Transfers 2009–10

In

João Fernandes - Gondomar
Flávio Ígor - Tirsense
Zé Luís - Vianense
Vítor Silva - Gondomar
Cássio Batista - Valdevez

Out

Marco Aurélio - Operário

[edit] Notable former players

[edit] Notable former managers

[edit] Backroom staff

Leonardo Jardim - Manager
António Vieira - Assistant Manager
Carlos Pires - Goalkeeper Coach
Miguel Moita - Fitness Coach
João Ribeiro - Doctor
Gualter - Nurse
Francisco - Nurse
José Luís - Kitman
Marcos Barroco - Secretary
António Ramos - Office of Communication and Information
Hernâni Teixeira - Vice Chairman
António Vidal - Vice Chairman
Carlos Alves - Vice Chairman
Gilberto Ferreira - Vice Chairman
Jorge Campo Grande - Vice Chairman
Artur Dias - Vice Chairman
Marcelo Delgado - Chairman

[edit] Club Anthem

O Desportivo de Chaves
Saibam bem toda a gente
Supera os maiores entraves
Para caminhar na frente

Os longos anos de Vida
São louros que arrecadou
A luta franca e renhida
Que o Povo sempre aclamou

Vamos rapazes ganhar
Com o calor desta Malta
O jogo que pode dar
A vitória que nos falta

Somos de Chaves Unidos
Como Valentes Serranos
Jamais seremos vencidos
Porque somos Transmontanos

O Desportivo de Chaves
Meu clube prazenteiro
Joga sempre como sabe
E serás sempre o Primeiro

Trago o teu nome no peito
E na Alma o teu guiar
Por isso te vejo eleito
Verdadeiro Campeão

[edit] Europe

UEFA Cup 1987–88
16/09 Universitatea Craiova 2–3 Chaves
30/09 Chaves 3–1 Universitatea Craiova
24/10 Chaves 1–2 Budapest Honvéd
04/11 Budapest Honvéd 3–1 Chaves

[edit] League and cup history

The football section has 13 presences at the top level of Portuguese football. Its best position was two fifth place finished, in the 1986–87 and 1989–90 seasons, the first earning Chaves its only presence in the European cups.

Season		Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Portuguese Cup	Europe	Notes
1985–86	1D	6	30	11	7	12	28	38	29
1986–87	1D	5	30	13	7	10	39	38	33
1987–88	1D	7	38	13	14	11	51	31	40		Round 2
1988–89	1D	13	38	12	10	16	37	41	34
1989–90	1D	5	34	12	14	8	38	38	38
1990–91	1D	8	38	10	14	14	49	52	34
1991–92	1D	9	34	10	10	14	36	45	30
1992–93	1D	18	34	4	8	22	34	61	16			Relegated
1993–94	2H	3	34	19	7	8	44	25	45			Promoted
1994–95	1D	14	34	10	7	17	33	49	27
1995–96	1D	15	34	9	7	8	38	56	34
1996–97	1D	10	34	12	10	12	39	45	46
1997–98	1D	16	34	10	5	19	31	55	35
1998–99	1D	17	34	5	10	19	39	70	25
1999–00	2H	12	34	11	11	12	46	45	44
2000–01	2H	12	34	9	14	11	48	44	41
2001–02	2H	5	34	16	4	14	52	44	52
2002–03	2H	7	34	12	11	11	44	41	47
2003–04	2H	10	34	11	11	12	37	45	44
2004–05	2H	17	34	9	10	15	24	38	37
2005–06	2H	8	34	13	11	10	40	36	50	Round 2
2006–07	2H	16	30	3	7	20	16	43	16	Round 3		Relegated
2007–08	2HA	4	26	12	8	6	4	17	44	Round 3

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